February 2012
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MAS S61 assignment #3
MAS S61 assignment #1: media diet
This semester, I am taking Ethan Zuckerman’s class News and Participatory Media at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media. For our first assignment, we had to keep a log of our media consumption for a week. This is my media diet for the week of February 8-14, 2012.
Who Says Colombians are All Drug Traffickers?
What I’ll remember the most about the experience working in Bogota is the kindness and generosity of everyone I met in Colombia. For this G-Lab class, one of our final deliverables is to come up with a poster to showcase the work we did for our G-Lab client Oruga Touching Dreams. In the process of trying to figure out what to put on our poster last week, we decided to check with Oruga Touching...
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How Botero is Relevant to Oruga
This morning, our G-Lab team went to the Museo Botero to visit an exhibit by Fernando Botero. The self-anointed “the most Colombian of Colombian artists” is known his unique style of depicting human figures, animals and objects with an exaggerated corpulence to not only celebrate the life within them but also mock their role in the world. Fernando Botero didn’t develop his own style until he was...