As casual as you want, but keep in mind that your grandma can read your blog. And the big bad copyright men.
What are we supposed to notice?
Relations.
Blog like you post to Instagram.
Why five posts a week?
Technological resistance. Turn it into a habit. Second nature. Get into the habit of noticing and documenting, a la the name and aim of the studio. Do it all the time, embed it.
What is expected in the blogs?
Idea starters: pick a sentence/word from the reading and write about it. Take a photo of something. Scale doesn’t matter.
5 posts on topic.
A blog post should be self-sufficient, cinematic: like a single shot, not a long take.
Can we have blog time in class after different discussions?
An enthusiastic yes.
About class or our lives?
The best do both. Give life context to your writing.
Intrinsic motivation: the strongest motivator.
A return to the finite quality of media. Stories end because the media we put them on have an end.
If our media doesn’t have an ending, do our stories need to end?
Rushkoff – games: players replace readers.
How to read:
Slow it down, go around the sticky bits, mark the parts and bring them to class for routine unsticking.
The reading/playing music analogy has merit of course, but notes in a song are a different breed to words in a book. About big concepts.
Understand the reading before taking notes. If you don’t understand, your notes won’t reflect which parts matter. Don’t stop because you’re stuck. Reread.
