Reverend Wright and Media Censorship! : Jared as Multimedia Instructor

Killing a Work of Art
This is a tough one. A couple of years ago I worked with Rita Montlack on an installation called Found in a Crowd. The work was in two parts. First we captured people in various emotional states and then we projected their faces animating on a large display. When the event was over I put just the happy faces in a modified version of the installation online at: http://foundinacrowd.com/ This begs the question - what exactly IS the installation. At the event the display was a large projector and a window covered in wax paper. That wax paper held no meaning or value and it was easy to throw away. The box on the other hand -

Castle Hunting & Research
Castle Hunting People often ask why I call what I do Castle Hunting. While exploring Ireland in 2003 I happened upon many unmarked ruins. Quite often the GPS would report the street as “unnamed country road”, I would have no idea of what town I was in and even worse it was not uncommon for the locals to just refer to it as the local ruin without having any idea of its name or history. In order to avoid this type or frustration I try to keep very good notes to help me on the trip and allow me to further investigate when I return home. Of the 95 castles I visited during my 2004 trip to France I was able to record the names of 94 of them. The one that

New Media Literacy Course!
I am posting this flyer around campus for my New Media Literacy SAGES seminar. Figured my off campus friends might want to see it!

The Saga of My Brakes
A few months ago my Subaru needed a brake job. As you know brakes can be very expensive and anything on the Subaru seems to cost more money. I have helped put brakes on a car before and even once did it solo and I figured - what the hell - save a few bucks and spend a few hours. I went out and get the needed parts - pads, rotors, grease, brake parts cleaner. I also went out and got some better tools - nothing like a set of good wrenches or a nice jack and some jack stands to help. The front brake job went - OK. I got stuck on a few bolts (and YES I used various forms of penetrating oil - everyone always asks this) but after much fussing and fighting I was able

Tom and Jared - Enter a Video Contest
OK so here is the deal. Doritos is having a "Crash The Superbowl" contest and looking for the best commercials. They choose the best 6 (who each get $25,000 and a week long trip to Florida) and then the public votes the 6 down to 3. The 3 selected then get shown DURING the superbowl. If the USA today poll picks the commercial as first place the entrant gets $1,000,000, second $600,000, third, $400,000. If all three top spots are Doritos commercials then each gets an additional $1,000,000! OK - so Tom and I put together 2 commercials (a third involving Tom and some outtakes just kind of emerged). Here they are: "The Wish" "The Fall"