Amorae’s bio (circa early 2007)
Amorae did not join the class until week two, so she did not do the “bio” assignment from week one. This is her bio from an earlier class, circa spring 2007).
Howdy, my name is Amorae; I’m nineteen and an undergraduate junior in the ATEC program. I like exploring the different ATEC fields but my true interest lies in film.
My interest for film developed in high school when I started filming and producing DVDs for soccer teams. I also started filming school events and teacher’s weddings. So my ideal career would be in the film industry. I’m not quite sure of the exact path because I haven’t really narrowed down my interests yet; I like filming, editing, producing authored DVDs, and my interest in special effects is growing. I’ve always thought that Hollywood is where I wanted to end up but I’m not too sure now. Basically I’m just hoping to explore some different media areas outside of film while I build up some experience. I really want to try to start making my own movies since most of what I’ve done until now hasn’t had a lot to do with film-making. Once I graduate from here I want to go to UNT to study Radio, Television, and Film.
As for traditional media, I occasionally read magazines like Videomaker and Filmaker.
And for new media, both Videomaker and Filmmaker have blogs that I occasionally check out and I regularly utilize Facebook.
Alex’s bio
My name is Salvador Lepe, but everyone calls me Alex because my middle
name is Alejandro. I’m in this class because I need some upper level
ATEC hours and it came highly reccomended by my friend Laura. She
said that as long as I did my work I’d really enjoy the class.
I’m taking this and ATEC 3325 at the same time and from both I’d
really like to hone a way to put myself out in a digital form to
develop my work mostly with photography by having others look at it
and give me their honest opinions the anonymity of the internet
allows.
I’ve got accounts in BlogSpot, WordPress, Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, so
on, and so forth, but I tend to not use them. Even before these
things got as big as they have been, I’ve kinda looked at friends on
my AIM buddy list that have an away message that lets you know what
they’re doing at all times witha crooked, confused look. I tend to
be pretty private amongst strangers, but very open amidst friends, but
I haven’t reached a point with an online community where I feel
comfortable enough with those I’m digitally interacting with to be
entirely open with them.
The most I ever kept up with an online network was during the last
couple of years I was in high school through a site called
Stickfight.net. The owner of the site opened a forum and all of the
people I played online rock-paper-scissors with I became casual online
friends with.
When I grow up I’d like to be a photographer. I guess that’s my pipe
dream, but the way I see it there are always two ends to a pipe, the
way you look into it, and where you come out the other side. I hope
to find a real inspiration that will lead me out to the light at the
end of the pipe and not down the sewage way.
I’m really into ultimate frisbee, but right now my most pertinent
interest is the rehabilitation of my surgically repaired knee. I
don’t really play video games too much but I’m still really interested
in the medium as a whole and enjoy seeing the industry expand. I’m
desperately trying to save up money to buy a digital SLR so I can get
back to my love of photography I had back when I had a tiny VGA
Panasonic and I would take an average of 100 pictures a day.
Being an amateur only holds you back as much as you let it. One way
to look at it is if people really let the fact that they’re not too
experienced at something hold them back the internet as a whole would
not be what it is today.
Rebecca’s bio
My name is Rebecca Brooks. Born in Texas, but my family moved around a lot so I’m used to living semi-nomadically. I am a Sculpture major at Texas Woman’s University, and will hopefully be graduating with a BFA this semester. I taking this class, for several reasons, first to check out UTD’s ATEC program, but mostly to catch up on, and see how technology can influence my art making. I tend to resist mass technology with the idea, similar to Andrew Keen’s, that if every average Jo/e can access it, the result will be average ideas. However, my faith in humanity is on the rise, and I’m reinterpreting the internet, and digital technologies as an endless well of inspiration. That said, I hope learn in this class how to better understand and use web technologies as a tool. In the technological sense, I have limited experience with Social Networks, and until this class I hadn’t heard the term New Media, and Social Media. I don’t participate in many online communities. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, only general goals. I’d like make a living by employing my creative ideas. I’d love to work with video and sound, but my blue collar side would love to construct with metal and wood. My interest are broad ranging from construction of real materials to a forays into the conceptual realm. Most of my work, however, deals with perception and emotion; following the idea that man is the measure of all things. I tend to think that talent is less important than passion, and professional experience is less important than professionalism. Knowing that there is someone more experienced and more talented then me, I try to determine what I can add. I’m considered an amateur, and I would say, yes I’m less talented, but that doesn’t mean I have less potential, less drive, or any less of a contribution.
Alicia’s Bio
My name is Alicia Arroyo-Jaime, and I am an Arts and Performance student. I am currently taking this class because Kyle Kondas recommended it, we discussed different classes and he suggested that i should take this class. My plans for the future are to continue working at the company where i am, I have been workint there for 3 years, I am involved in graphic design, photography and i am now learning video editing I am working on a documentary about illegal immigrants in the United States, i have been working on this project
all summer, and hopefully by mid-september i will be done shooting this project. I would like to eventually just spend my time photographing, and traveling around the world to make a much bigger portfolio.
Adrian’s Bio
Bio
My name is Adrian Meza and I am and Junior ATEC major. I am in this class because I am focusing on web design and think that it is good to know about Podcast and blogging in order to know the requirements a client would want for a blog site or how to start one up. I am interested in video and hope to create new way to present information to internet users. I have read blogs and know people who have written them and I have subsribed to a Podcast but that is as far do them myself I have not. I want to be a Graphic Designer mainly with websites and my interest are drawing, graffiti art and movies. I don’t think amateurs (me) are any less talented, they just haven’t focused on long enough to be noticed which gives me more motivation to step up my work.
