Progress

Well, things have changed a bit in the last couple of weeks, unfortunately. It appears as if "Keeping Up With The Joneses" is, at least for the moment, on the back burner. We have just hit a brick wall. There was a huge flood in Mississippi back in the '40's that apparently wiped out all of their records, so at this point we have learned that Curtis's grandfather was born in Virginia but we have been unable to figure out and confirm where exactly, which leaves us with not a lot of options. I don't plan on just trashing the movie, I still very much want to finish it, but unfortunately doing it in four months appears to be much too ambitious. We are continuing to dig and I do plan on finishing this project at some point, but it won't be for this class. Perhaps giving ourselves more time is better anyways, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad about it.

As a result of canning that project, I've had to come up with some other projects. The first is a website that I designed. My original plan was to go to Detroit to do a photo shoot with the DJ that I mentioned in my earlier post. Then, the first weekend of spring break my wife's grandmother died and that went out the window. So, same idea, new subject. I instead built a site for Komain, the same artist I shot the earlier video for. It's a five page site right now and is close to being finished. I did the photography, design and coding myself. Here's a look at the cover page:

I've also began work on a series of posters I am designing. I am an avid follower of politics, mostly national, but I always feel like there is no candidate or party that truly represents my beliefs. I am definitely a moderate, as I am more conservative fiscally and militarily but I am more liberal in my social beliefs. A lot of people fall only on one side or the other, and I always found that interesting, because some of the beliefs that each side holds contradict each other, so I have decided to create some graphical representations of those contradictions. The first one, which you will see below, is called "Pro-Life?". I just don't understand how someone can be pro-life/pro-death penalty or pro-choice/anti-death penalty. It seems logical that one would fall on the side of Life or Death, period. At any rate, here is the piece I am working on for that:

I have another idea for this series that I will discuss with Prof. Souther, presumably today in class. Thanks for reading.

Keeping Up

I will be showing some of my progress today in class, and it is probably better viewed than explained, but there has been progress. I have the intro put together, there may be a few changes but it's close, and I also have Curtis Sr.'s interview cut together. All in all I think they look decent. However, I am for the first time a bit worried about completing this project on the timetable given. To be on schedule we have to be traveling somewhere down south next week over spring break. As of this writing we don't have the kind of information we would need to go. That could definitely change, and hopefully it does, but we shall see. I have also locked in my next project, which will be a website for DJ No Sleep, a radio DJ in Detroit. He used to be a DJ here in the South Bend area on 95.7FM. It will be a 3-5 page site for which I will do everything, from the photography and graphics to the coding.