If there was anything that stood out to me in this week’s lecture on sound, it would have to be the concept of ‘hearing vs listening’. Hearing is involuntary, we can’t decide what sounds we hear (with the exception of wearing earphones and listening to music), because even if you’re driving on an empty road […]
Read more "But Listen To Me Though"Should we consider the friends we meet on social media like the friends we see on a day-to-day basis? Not really — to some extent. I say ‘not really’ instead of ‘no’ because I feel like that’s too strong and definitive as an answer. And I can already feel that I’m going to write an […]
Read more "Let’s Catch Up"In our Cinema Studies screening this week, we were introduced to experimental films. For a person who has never watched experimental films before and has always been into narrative films, this was all so new and weird to me. The first film we watched was Ballet Mecanique and about halfway through it, I literally said […]
Read more "Try This"Is being unmediated what makes you more authentic? How do we remain authentic in a world where most of our experiences are now mediated? My answer to the first question is no — to some extent. And to the second one, I’ll get to that. In this day and age, I think being ‘authentic’ isn’t […]
Read more "It’s Authentic, Check The Label"How does one word hold such great power in impacting people’s lives? From Orientation alone, we’ve been advised to get to know each other since we’re all going to be together for the next couple of years. So we might as well be friends, right? I suppose this was reiterated again in our first week […]
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