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Living in New York City
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New York City is a city full of hassles, but why do so many people call this city full of inconveniences their home?
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Assignment 10, Mar. 12
Flash Draft - Event Coverage
Union Square Park is constantly bustling—performers, commuters and tourists are what keep the square alive. Performers entice tourists to their spectacles and commuters steer clear of the crowds as they head towards the Subway. Four days a week, the Union Square Greenmarket opens up shop, inviting the park’s visitors to get a taste of New York.
The rain on Saturday, March 2 did not discourage any of the market’s customers from stocking up on produce and baked goods. People crowded the sea of white tents in search of the freshest apples, eggs and poultry from the New York State area. Vendors come as far as Berks County, Pennsylvania, like Furnace Creek Farm, to participate in this world famous farmers market.
As you walk through the crowd, vendors invite you to visit their tents with a friendly smile—there’s no loud, old school bartering that you may find on Canal Street a few neighborhoods south of Union Square. Farmers, fishers, bakers, vintners and artisans proudly sell customers their merchandise.
Moms and dads pushed strollers full of their cargo—children and vegetables alike. Frequents of the market stopped to talk with vendors about the weather and the crop the farmers brought into the city. The winter weather does not stop the market from offering its best business. One woman told the farmers at Locust Grove Fruit Farm, from Milton, New York, how impressed she was with the spread of Pink Lady, Macintosh and Rome apples they brought to Union Square on this cold and rainy Saturday.
The Greenmarket invites newcomers to join their community and the many services they offer. On the East side of the square, volunteers collect food scraps for compost and textiles for recycling. At the Greenmarket Info Tent, EBT and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) users are encouraged to participate in business as well. For every $5 spent in EBT and SNAP, a $2 “Health Buck” coupon is rewarded to be spent on the fresh fruit and vegetables for sale at the market. It’s a community that wants all of its members to keep coming back for more.
A number of the bakeries offer gluten free and vegan treats. Body & Soul Bakeshop only sells at farmers market throughout Manhattan, and their vegan chocolate chip cookies are the size of a human face, which makes for a great treat to snack on as you shop. Off the Wheat Sweets sells a gluten free pound cakes and KETO diet friendly loaves.
And, if you’ve already done your grocery shopping for the week, there are still a number of vendors that sell items other than food. Hickory Ledges Distillery comes all the way from Canton, Connecticut to sell their moonshine. Catskill Merino sells wool yarn handmade at their small farm in the Catskill region of New York. Lavender by the Bay hails from East Marion, New York with their range of artisanal soaps, bath salts and aromatherapy products.
The Union Square Greenmarket has something for everyone. No matter the weather, it’s open all year on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M.
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Hard lede: The Union Square Greenmarket is a long-established year-long farmers market that brings local goods to New Yorkers four days a week. On Saturday, March 2, vendors lined the North and West sides of Union Square Park in the as the rain began to drizzle.
Soft lede: Manhattan was dreary on Saturday, March 2, as rain drizzled down from the sky. But the weather did not stop New Yorkers from going about their weekend routines. Vendors of the Union Square Greenmarket lined the North and West sides of Union Square Park as customers flooded their tents.
Scene-setter lede: Union Square Park is constantly bustling—performers, commuters and tourists are what keep the square alive. Performers entice tourists to their spectacles and commuters steer clear of the crowds as they head towards the Subway. Four days a week, the Union Square Greenmarket opens up shop, inviting the park’s visitors to get a taste of New York.
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Nut graf: “House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel confirmed that text of the resolution would come out within an hour. Multiple members suggested it would be the broader resolution condemning hate speech but language is still being worked out.”
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Data Assignment, Mar. 6
Women’s Pockets are Inferior by Jan Diehm & Amber Thomas
3 questions for the data
Why were the brands of jeans sampled selected?
Were the everyday items used to test the pocket sizes also average size (like the average size of a pen)?
Which pocket had the largest volume?
3 questions for humans
Why were brands that only make women’s jeans tested?
Why were both skinny and straight jeans tested?
Does this skew the data/does it make the testing inconsistent?
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Assignment 9, Mar. 4
Event coverage - Union Square Greenmarket, Sat. Mar 2
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Interview revision, Feb. 28
There are two types of people living in New York City: those who were born in New York and those who were born to live in New York. Millions of people flock to Manhattan to live and grow amongst like-minded people.
“Coming here and seeing people that agree with me, I’m like, “Woooah,’” says Brooke Quast, a nineteen year-old student from Louisiana who moved to New York in chase of her dreams. Quast studies Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. In high school, she began working in the media department at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), where she took her elective credits her senior year of homeschooling.
“My dream when I was little was NYU, until The New School,” Quast said, sitting at the kitchen table in her dorm while digging into a bowl of pasta. “I quickly read up [on The New School] and I was like, ‘Holy shit, this school’s made for me.’”
Majoring in media always seemed like a “longshot” to Quast, but once she began studying at NOCCA, the idea became less daunting. NOCCA taught her that becoming “some big Hollywood producer” is not the only career path for media studies majors.
“I can do writings about [media]. I can do production work and stuff like that and I learned that at NOCCA,” she said. “That was what really interested me about media.”
To an outsider, a media major sounds like a million things crammed into one curriculum—and it is. Media majors study film and audio production while also learning how to edit video and create motion graphics. At Lang the major combines culture into the curriculum. Quast explained that she studies the impact that media has on society. In Intro to Screen Studies, she studies society’s response to films, while also learning about the techniques used in the films.
“It’s studying films from around the world and our reactions to the films and learning about the techniques used in the films, too,” she said. A similar approach is taken in Intro to Media Studies. “Right now we’re in the beginning stages,” she said. They are reading works from philosophers—but not ancient ones! The theories are written by “people from the 1930s” and touch upon how media impacted their daily lives.
The courses in the Culture and Media department of Lang teach students about the cultural shifts that media produces, specifically throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Students make connections between the intake of media in both the present and the past, like the 1910s, when the modern telephone emerged. The department also provides students with the tools needed to create their own projects. In her first semester, Quast learned about technique and editing in Media Toolkit. For one project, students were challenged to a “found film project.”
“We had to take clips from other things and make a new project,” Quast said. For her project she looked to popular teenage films and their fashions.
“I did a fake runway and did the films in order.” She studied the change in “it-girl” fashion over the years, using clips from blockbusters such as “Clueless,” “Heathers,” “Mean Girls” and “Bratz.” Quast’s project “showed the difference between how much style has changed throughout the years.”
Just as fashion trends change, Quast’s environment has changed, too. She said there are notable differences between her native New Orleans and New York City.
“They both have personalities,” Quast said of the two cities she calls home. “New Orleans is more calm. It’s not so fast paced. It’s much more close-knit.” She has not noticed a lack of “Southern hospitality,” but has found there are different ways of treating people on the street in the two cities. She remembers a time when she made eye-contact with a stranger on the street in New York. “They give you a weird look. I’m like, ‘I’m just gonna keep my head down.’” In New Orleans, she would have smiled at them and said hello.
But don’t be fooled—she loves the people here. “You know, it’s just a different vibe here,” she said, in a voice reminiscent of Cher Horowitz, it-girl of “Clueless” and star of Quast’s found film project. “It’s just very different from where I grew up.”
Louisiana is a Conservative state and Quast recalls being outspoken about her political beliefs while living there. She feels a sense of relief now that she’s surrounded by like-minded people. At home in Louisiana, she fought with people over politics, and she misses it.
“I’m going to be honest, I miss it a little bit, just cause it was a lot of fun,” she said with a laugh. “Now I can’t do that. I have to fight with people over dumb things.”
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Assignment 8, Feb. 21
Flash Draft - The Interview
There are two types of people living in New York City: those who were born in New York and those who were born to live in New York. Millions of people flock to Manhattan to live and grow amongst like-minded people.
“Coming here and seeing people that agree with me, I’m like, ‘Woooah,’” says Brooke Quast, a nineteen year-old student from Louisiana who moved to New York in chase of her dreams.
Quast studies Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. She got involved with media studies in high school at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), where she took her elective credits her senior year of homeschooling.
“My dream when I was little was NYU, until The New School,” Quast said. “I quickly read up [on The New School] and I was like, ‘Holy shit, this school’s made for me.’”
Studying media always seemed like a “longshot” to Quast, but once she began studying at NOCCA, her goals started to align. NOCCA taught her that becoming “some big Hollywood producer” does not have to be the end goal when one studies media and its impact on culture.
“I can do writings about [media]. I can do production work and stuff like that and I learned that at NOCCA,” she said. “That was what really interested me about media.”
To an outsider, media sounds like a million things crammed into one major—and it is. Media majors study film and audio production while also learning how to edit video and create motion graphics. At Lang the major also combines culture into the curriculum, which Quast explained is the impact that media has on society. In her Intro to Screen Studies class, she studies society’s response to films, while also learning about technique in depth.
“It’s studying films from around the world and our reactions to the films and learning about the techniques used in the films, too,” she said. A similar approach is taken in Intro to Media Studies. “Right now we’re in the beginning stages, reading philosophers, but not ancient, like people from the 1930s and their writings about technology of their age.”
The courses in the Culture and Media department of Lang teach students about the change seen throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Students make connections between the intake of media in modern times and times when media first began impacting populations, like the 1930s and the creation of the telephone. In her first semester, Quast took Media Toolkit, which taught students how to edit. For one project, students were challenged to a “found film project.”
“We had to take clips from other things and make a new project,” Quast said. For her project she looked to popular films. “It was evolution of teenage fashion. I did like a fake runway and did the films in order.” She studied the change in fashion over the years, using clips from blockbusters such as “Clueless,” “Heathers,” “Mean Girls” and “Bratz.” Quast’s project “showed the difference between how much style has changed throughout the years.”
Just how style changes, Quast has noticed how her environment has changed from the New Orleans suburbs to New York.
“They both have personalities,” Quast said of the two cities she calls home. “New Orleans is more calm. It’s not so fast paced. It’s much more close-knit.” While she has not noticed a lack of “Southern hospitality,” she has noticed how people treat each other differently here in New York. She remembers a time when she made eye-contact with a stranger on the street in New York. “They give you a weird look. I’m like, ‘I’m just gonna keep my head down.’” But in New Orleans, she would have smiled at them and said hello.
But don’t be confused—she loves the people here. “You know, it’s just a different vibe here,” she said, mocking the voice of a Valley Girl. “It’s just very different from where I grew up.”
Louisiana is a Conservative state. Quast recalls being very outspoken about her beliefs while living there and feels a sense of relief now that she lives in a place full of like-minded people. She was used to fighting with people over politics, and she misses it. “I’m going to be honest, I miss it a little bit, just cause it was a lot of fun,” she said with a laugh. “Now I can’t do that. I have to fight with people over dumb things.”
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The 2020 Presidential campaign is just beginning and social media is already impacting it. POLITICO investigates the use of fake accounts and bots to sway voters. The article also discusses data found by Guardians.ai, a cyber security agency, which has targeted three of the Democratic candidates: O’Rourke, Warren and Harris. These fake social media accounts hope to infiltrate the Democratic Party and “Divide the Left.” Social media is a powerful propaganda tool and should be used to impact the election in a positive way—not one that skews political parties.
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Assignment 7, Feb. 19
Interview Transcript
Orange: Quotes– your favorites (threads to build your piece) Yellow: Clarity (I’m confused, help me out) Green: Follow-ups (I’m curious, tell me more!) Pink: Facts (how do we know this? Source? too good to be true - ie, fact-checking needed) Blue: Observation (what is the person wearing, how is she talking? how does she walk? etc)
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“The memorable State of the Union addresses are largely memorable because they occurred at times of great upheaval, not because the speeches were any good.”
Harry Cheadle makes a good argument in this Vice opinion piece. The SOTU isn’t even a presidential job requirement—it’s just a chance for the president to speak to the people. And Trump seems to speak to the American public more than enough on Twitter.
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Assignment 3, Jan. 31
Design Texts reflection
Don Norman begins “The Design of Everyday Things” with a contradiction: the complexity of simplicity. Complexity of simple things is something I have never thought about and the example is a great approach to design. My relationship with design is pretty minimal; for the most part, I am the user, not the designer. Norman presents ideas that have me thinking in a new way about the products I use every day. Now I am more aware of the microwave’s beep and the toaster’s lights and why they have been designed into each appliance. Bruno Munari provokes similar thoughts in “What is a Designer?” A designer is a “planner with an aesthetic sense” (Munari 30), something which I can relate to my own life. I consider myself a planner; I plan my days, essays and the clothes I put on in the morning. Munari also argues that a designer is “the artist of today” (32) who works to communicate with the consumers of his or her product. Norman implies the same idea; there is a challenge that designers must overcome in order to produce the best product—it must be profitable, it must sell and it must satisfy the customer. To effectively do this, the designer must “use the principles of human-centered design to produce positive results, products that enhance lives and add to our pleasure and enjoyment” (Norman 36).
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