Thursday, February 24, 2011

China Mojo Group Photo

Fine looking group of people [Photo: Rob Williams]

So this is it, only 8 more days until we leave for China! wooohooo!

Friday, February 18, 2011

How does this Chinese magician control these fishies??



Chinese magician Fu Yandong is under fire from Animal rights activists for a trick where he "controls" the six gold fish by simply waving his hands above them and having them do various formations. The Animal rights activist said that "Fu had likely fed the fish magnets--or implanted them in the fish--so they could be dragged around their tank from underneath"

Fu Yandong was suppose to appear on television again to repeat the trick and reveal his secret, but that ended up being canceled.

So now we'll never know....So how is he doing this???? [Boing Boing]

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

China Pre-Trip Multi-media sample and questions

1. Which media environments and technologies/applications/platforms will I use in documenting and telling the story of my China trip?

I will be using my dslr camera to make some kind of photo journal and post it on this blog and flickr.

2. What equipment/gear will I need to bring to capture my stories?

I will be bringing my Canon Rebel xsi and my MacBook Pro for taking and editing  photos and I will be  sharing it on flickr and my blog.

3. How will I capture and "bottle" my stories while traveling in China?

I’m not sure if I want to photograph something specific, I haven’t really thought about it. Maybe make a photo journal on the food there, or just random snap shots of interesting things I will see such as the architecture. I was thinking about bringing my toy lion Deriquemshaw and Emily is going to bring her fish Pablo and have them be in every snapshot or something, and make a blog called “The Adventures of Deriquemshaw & Pablo”RETURNS HOME jk (hah they were both made in China). That’s just an idea. This is something I still need to think about, but I want to capture the people and the culture, so maybe a combination of all the things I just said above. Emily and I also want to make daily video diaries using photobooth.
Meet Deriquemshaw (Pronounced: Der-ick-em-shaw)
Photo: Sarah Prak


4. Please provide a "sample example" of your multimedia approach here.
This is an Asian boy named Thomson
Photo: Sarah Prak