I’m beginning to realize exactly what blogging means. It is different for each individual. In class today we reviewed many very different blogs– some strictly informative, a form of newsfeed; others are much more journal-like and describe their lives and schedules; while others are attempting to change the world, change things they dont believe can occur by putting their cause in a newspaper. Blogging, in fact, allows for the writer to insist that the reader enters their world. I end this semester with a greater understanding and appreciation for these internet writers.
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rachelpierson
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Care*
Recently, I have been lucky enough to intern for the CNN Chicago Bureau where I’ve had an amazing experience. I was able to work with producers, photojournalists, assignment editors, bureau chiefs, and reporters. I helped develop and produce stories, collect man on street interviews (MOS), and produce reporter live shots. I logged tapes, organized feeding of tape, willingly and happily answered phones, investigated possible stories, and organized the CNN video library. I was a runner for the Presidential Election and attended President Elect Obama’s Press Conference. I am more than grateful for the entire experience.
Embedded video from CNN Video
This video was the first televised news hologram done with Wolf Blitzer and Jessica Yellin. Yellin was stationed in Grant Park (Chicago) with the CNN Express Bus. I did not get to help with this project, but I was happy to be apart of the team when CNN made history.Embedded video from CNN Video
This video is a package by reporter, Susan Roesgen. My job for this package was to pull video tape from the CNN library which they would use in this package. Also I was sent out to Skokie with photojournalist, Chris Davis, to interview the rabbi for this package. Susan gave me a general set of questions and I took it from there. Once the interview was done, I had to pick out three SOT’s (sound bytes) that I felt were newsworthy for Susan’s package. Chris and I quickly feed the tape to Atlanta where the package was successfully edited in time for air.Embedded video from CNN Video
This video is an interview with Wolf Blitzer and Robert Gibbs, Obama Senior Advisor. Gibbs was stationed in the CNN/MSNBC Pool room at the Hyatt in Chicago. I was able to help with these interviews all day to make sure they went smooth.Embedded video from CNN Video
CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux reports in Chicago. This is another example of what I was able to help out with.I was stationed with Fuzz Hogan, CNN Chicago’s Bureau Chief, and Stephanie Kotuby, Senior Editorial Producer for The Situation Room, for most of the Election Coverage. Hogan and Kotuby were able to blog their experience throughout the CNN Election Coverage.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/cnn-staff-so-close-yet-so-far-from-obama/#more-28463
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/gutierrez-and-jackson-pass-on-daley.html
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laurenmctigue
Here’s some footage of the crowd outside Grant Park on election day that Charlotte and I shot. Enjoy!
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Phil
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygddTpNG0EA%5DI sat down with a DePaul student who explained to me why she voted the way she did.
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Milan
For many it has just begun. The realization that Barack Obama, the 44th President Elect will soon take office and with him the hopes and dreams of a nation.
While it seems that the fight for the White House as ended in victory for an overwhelm
ing amount of voters who flocked to polls this election, a new battele is starting. Proposition 8 which would once again ban same sex marriage in California has added a late come fire to a freshly finalized presidential race.Although both former candidates steered clear of the touchy topic I can help but see similarities and hypocrisy riddled full withihn the situation. The ban passed in California was also due to an overwhelming voter turnout.
A vote that came from a predominantly Black and Latino demographic poll statistics dictate. How ironic. Just as the civil liberties of one group seem to be coming into fulfillment with the anniversary of Martin Luther King just past, that those of another group are thwarted by an impressive, previously non-existent voting group. Minorities.
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Chels
I just returned from Knox College, known for their academics and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. Though it was post election, I was so amazed at the lack of political paraphernalia. This is a self-proclaimed liberal school that actively protested a Q & A with Donald Rumsfeld. This is a school where conservative views are greatly opposed, and the only sign of victory in this historic election was the cover of their school newspaper.
The Knox College newspaper
So in an effort to uncover the strong political opinion of this school, I went around campus with my camera.
Their Union Board
A strong voting reminder
Knox College Democrats Board
So this small town, holds this great collegiate environment, where occasionally political activism is promoted. I’ve been down in Galesburg enough to understand the political undertones of this university. To see that the only expression of excitement for an Obama win was on the cover of their weekly newspaper, I was disappointed.
Maybe it’s being in a city where day after day we see headline after headline that essentially forces us to choose and then stand proud. It’s a constant conversation piece in Chicago, and in Galesburg, its avoided to keep the calm.
I appreciate my opportunity to be in Chicago during this time more because of seeing the atmosphere here. We were vigilantly reminded to vote. We were forced to understand why we believe what we do. And we were the first row in the theater of Election night. We waited in long lines, and no matter which side of the aisle our vote went to. I am proud that my only memories of this night will not come from the “I Voted” sticker I received walking out of the voting booth.
A Knox student's memento
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rachelpierson
The long nights of homework and extending hours of practice have finally caught up to me. We started practice last night at 5 pm. About 30 min into the practice, I started feeling light-headed and queezy. Being a Division I athlete, I decided to fight through it and continue with practice. 2.5 hours later, I was laying on the floor of the training room, surrounded by police officers and paramedics. My hands, face, neck, and feet were numb and completely white. I was having trouble seeing and couldn’t catch my breathe. This was after I had already blacked-out and nearly fell off a training room bed I was laying on, and before I arrived at the emergency room. I was there until 12:30 am and then spent all of today with doctors and trainers, only to find out that I was severly dehydrated and lacking some nutritional necessities. Like the doctor told me:: “It’s all bound to catch up to you”
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Charlotte
The Chanel Mobile Art Exhibit closed Sunday, Nov 9 after its two-week display in Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. The exhibition is a collection of artwork which chronicles the history of the quilted handbag with a 30-minute audio tour of the art.Lines for the exhibit were up to 4.5 hours long, according to one of the Chanel reps, dressed in head-to-toe Chanel jumpsuits. The shortest wait time, he said was about 2.5 hours toward the end of the exhibit’s life in central park.
The entire site, according to the New York Magazine Web site covered 2,297 square meters and required three weeks to assemble, and cost $400,000, paid to the Central Park Conservancy. The exhibit was free to all and included world-renowned artists’ contributions.
According to Carol Vogel’s article in the New York Times, the genesis for the project was the handbag’s 50th anniversary in 2005, when Chanel designer, Karl Lagerfeld, issued a new version of the purse.
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mstoffel
So the Lawrence Arms wrote “A Guided Tour of Chicago” about ten years ago about the homeless population in Chicago. I went out and shot some footage at the locations mentioned, to give you a feel of what they’re talking about, only problem is I didn’t encounter one homeless person all day (except the guy in my alley who did not want to be filmed). Since the Northside has been largely white for so long, and the gentrifying happened just slow enough, it’s hard to notice how much the area has changed since the late nineties. Other things to note, there’s no longer a 7-11 on Walton and State, but there is a ton of new construction and the former White Hen in Boystown is now a 7-11 (as they all are).
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He shuffled up a pair of surfer slippers and an old tweed blazer
Asked you for a quarter and you looked the other way
He leaned up against the tow zone sign and just in time for you to avert your eyes,
Said good morning sir. have a nice day.
She wears four wool winter hats all year round and mumbles and sometimes screams
He wears a coat made of burlap sacks and sits in parking lots, never asking anyone for anything
He’s the old black guy with the shopping cart
She’s the old lady with the bright blue sweat pants
They’re the two young white squatter kids with dirty undershirts and rotten teeth
He’s the guy who hangs out underneath the overpass shouting curse words at passing motorists,
Or the guy who passed in my alley, who drank until his life made any sense
He’s the hustler on the train. or his four accomplices, living on three tattered playing cards and slight hand
He’s Darron in front of 7-11 on Walton and State
She’s Babs up and down on Belmont right by the train
He’s Buddy and his wife in Uptown, by the Aragon
He’s Andy selling Streetwise at the White Hen in Boystown
He was Ed from the Southside who gave me cigarettes and hope at Walgreens on Belden and Clark
Where inspiration dies alone
Yeah, these are the people in your neighborhood
They’re the people you don’t see when you’re walking down the street
They’re the people you don’t see each day
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Pari Cruz
Chinatown Gateway
I ran out really quickly to Chinatown this afternoon, and i mean quickly because it was FREEZING!!! But, it was great. I have lived here my entire life and have only been there once! Crazy, right? But i figured i could get in one more post this weekend, so i jumped on the red line and got there in no time. If you take the red line, you get off at the Cermak/Chinatown stop. If you can’t remember, just look out the train windows, you couldn’t miss it unless you were really spaced out. The entrance to Chinatown is marked with a huge gateway. I’ve never been to China, but i can imagine that although it may not be exactly like the country itself, it definitely has pieces of it. As i walked around, i was surprised by all the little shops they have. Although much of what we buy here is already made in China, the stuff they had in these stores was actually Chinese. In the stores i walked in and around they had giant paper umbrellas, swords, decorations, zodiac calendars, decorations, sculptures, and tons of cute trinkets, toys, shoes, etc… Pretty much anything that could catch your eye was there. I wanted to buy one of everything!!!
What’s nice about Chinatown was that it had everything for tourists and lovers
Storefront in Chinatown
of Chinese culture alike, but it really caters to the Chinese community. In case you didn’t know, we have the third largest Chinatown in the U.S. Not only does Chinatown have gift shops, and restaurants, and bakeries, but it has a lot of services that cater to the Chinese community, like grocery stores stocked full of their unique spices and vegetables and medicine stores. It also, as i mentioned, has plenty for tourists and others interested in their culture, such as language courses, agencies that help with traveling abroad, and I even saw some Chinese etiquette classes that teach people living/studying/going abroad how to properly act around the people in China. There are murals, including the famous Chinatown mural depicting the history of Chinese immigrants, and the Chinese-American museum of Chicago, which, sadly, has been closed for renovation due to a recent fire. But even so, i was able to walk around and enjoy the other sights. Not only that, but i ate way too much fried rice and pot stickers, so good… I walked away from Chinatown with a full belly, origami paper in my bag, and for dessert later i bought a moon cake. I hesitated whether it was too pretty to eat at first, but i got hungry on the train ride home. 🙂 I think that this is definitely one of the neighborhoods to visit if you’re ever in Chicago. And if you live here, then what are you waiting for?
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