Margo Uhrman (Week 4)

During my final week on project, I continued to supervise the activity room and provide activities for the kids on the floor. As a special treat to all patients and staff, Dairy Queen donated ice cream to the hospital. Most of the ice cream was on a truck next to the building but oreo blizzards were brought to the bottom floor of Rainbows so that patients who are not allowed outside could go and collect their ice cream. I brought a few patients down to get ice cream and brought more ice cream upstairs for patients who were not allowed to leave their rooms. One of the kids I brought down to get ice cream ran all around the room playing hide and seek as we waited for the ice cream to arrive.
On my final day, we had a special art project on the floor. Someone recently donated a bunch of wooden picture frames so many of the kids decorated them with feathers, shells, foam pieces, glitter, and more. One little boy decided to make presents and cards for his three siblings and his parents. We spent most of the afternoon creating different presents for his whole family.
I loved working on my project and was able to give back and have a great time for the entire month.

Week 3 Omar

Hey, my project's going pretty well. I submitted my completed remix for Kaskade's Dynasty, which can be found here on Beatportal (or here on Soundcloud if you would like to comment on it) and is open to be voted for from June 1-June 15 for Beatportal's contest! (You need to register for an account at Beatport.com to vote). I am continuing work on my other, more experimental project of mutilating sounds. Not quite done yet, but I'll post progress on that one later. I'll be playing some of my music both at the project presentation, and at Coffeehouse that night. Sweet :)

I've definitely taken a lot out of the project--regardless of how that remix does (it's style is much different than I normally do) I feel like I have a new creative technique under my belt to exploit, and I've gained a lot of perspective in why I make music--not just to have funky beats that everyone can dance to, but to explore interesting concepts as well. My prior works weren't necessarily that extraordinary or experimental, but they latched onto themes and melodies that contained irregularities, dissonant chords, and twisted melodies that kept people interested. The usual banging dance tracks aren't cutting it for me anymore--I'm seriously thinking about the stuff I listen to much more now, and so my interests within this month have shifted toward much more minimal styles than I ever had before. (Existentialism and Maleficence are the two pieces I did at the start of project that exemplify my workflow before project started--well produced, and with some interesting ideas, but not necessarily uniformly interesting or shockingly fresh. I'll probably move toward more conventional styles after the project, but I'll incorporate more interesting and intelligent ideas in my future work. This project doesn't just end now--it's going to be ongoing, perhaps for many, many years to come :))

Rounding third and heading home

Yes, Maya and everyone - keep blogging at least until you've done three - more if you feel like it.  I've enjoyed reading everyone's entries.

Final project presentations are 1 week from Friday.  You should be organizing your thoughts NOW for your final report and getting some ideas for your presentation.  I hope you will be more creative than a boring old powerpoint.  That is so yawwwwwnnnnnnny.  Make yours crisp, short, specific, and appealing.  If you have advice for the juniors who will be listening to your presentation, be sure to share it.

Doc M.

The Indians (Week 3)

The last week with the Indians has been a good one, as we have continued working in the distribution center and working during games during the last homestand. During games we were doing a variety of tasks, including running souvenir stands at Progressive Field, running the speedpitch radar gun thing, or shadowing the merchandising directors and seeing how they keep every stand in the ballpark running smoothly. We worked Friday and Saturday night's games against the Cincinnati Reds and yesterday's game against the Chicago White Sox. During the Reds series, we worked a new souvenir stand that the director of merchandising set up in Heritage Park selling various classic Indians gear. The White Sox game was fun, but also slightly difficult due to the fact it was Kids Day at the ballpark. This meant that there were 10,000 screaming little kids at Progressive Field an hour before we even got there, which was also an hour before the gates even opened. This also meant that I had a headache by the eighth inning. Regardless, it was still a very good experience to work the games, and it was fun to see many of the White Sox players in the tunnel by the clubhouse prior to the game. We look forward to our last week with the Indians, and especially to the all-you-can-eat Terrace Club buffet lunch tomorrow.

Week 4 (by Maya)

Hi everybody. I'm not sure if we're still supposed to keep posting blogs every week now that we've had our midproject meeting? But, heck, I might as well...

So by Week 4 I'm feeling distinctly fed up with the library, especially now that it's super sunny and 80 degrees outside every day (I'd much rather sunbathe!, though that in itself might also be a bad idea because I am also distinctly pale...). Anyways:

I'm getting down to the last couple of photographs now. There's this one photo that's really making me annoyed. It shows 6 people sitting at a desk, signing a contract. What's making me annoyed is that I know exactly what is going on in the photo & have identified 5 of the 6 people with reasonable accuracy, but I can't figure out who the 6th guy is!! Ugh. If I don't figure out the 6th guy's identity soon, I'll just identify the people that I can & mention in the caption that the 6th guy is unidentified...

For those random pictures that only show a room with chairs and sofas, I just had to caption them as "A room with chairs and sofas, possibly the interior of a hotel, at the Great Lakes Exposition" and then just gave a bit of background on the Exposition in the description field, since that was really the best I could do.

Usually there are lots of people around in Special Collections, since lots of undergrads and grad students work here, but it seems to be nearly empty this week (perhaps they are all sunbathing?), so there isn't even anybody much to talk to around here, which definitely adds to my boredom with the library... So overall I've enjoyed my senior project & the topic of my senior project, but I will definitely not feel sad to leave once it's over!

Hope everybody's having a good time! & See ya soon! :)

Oops...

I forgot to post the pic but it's not letting me! :(

Elizabeth's Week Three

Here’s a review of last week:

Last week Mrs. Hermann drove us all around Cleveland—we saw some pretty run-down areas that I have never seen before. But, we also saw some beautiful places: on Wednesday, May 19th, we went to Bratenahl to meet a client at her house. The house was gorgeous; it was a mansion that backed right up to Lake Erie. The Bratenahl community is surrounded by some pretty rough areas, but once you get to Bratenahl the environment entirely changes. The client is celebrating her 25th anniversary, 50th birthday, and the 100th year of her house. The party is in the middle of the summer, and it will be very extravagant, with ice sculptures and lots of flowers and great food. When we went there we met with the caterer to go over some initial ideas.

On Friday, I went with Mrs. Hermann to OfficeMax to go supply shopping for a client. She wanted to create a presentation folder different from what she’s done in the past. Early this week, Chelsea sorted through over 1,000 event pictures to create a photo collage to put on the cover of a folder we bought. It will be used for the MetroHealth Proposal. While Chelsea worked on the photo collage, I wrote the concept and idea part of the proposal. For this part, I looked through some of MetroHealth’s promotional materials to get a feel for the hospital’s vision and mission statement. In the proposal, I had to relate the idea for the party to MetroHealth’s purpose.