1/24 Ambrose: Upon first glance, content is presented in a fairly common format: a principle or claim is made and various case studies are offered to back up the claim. The use of the anecdotes at the beginning of the chapter was interesting when compared to the research used to…

Hazelwood Episode 09 of Grapple takes you to Hazelwood. It's a neighborhood in Southeast Pittsburgh that's only four miles from…grapplepodcast.atavist.com used to have a lot of activity (churches, bars, stores, banks) white flight (60, 70s), segregated neighborhoods (the black street, white street), post-MLK, unearthed racism/more blatant (ie 2nd ave race riots), trauma in community from institutionalized racism

One of the major challenges for working mom is time. To balance one personal life, work life, and family life while getting enough sleep in a twenty-four hour day is damn near impossible. Having it all might be impossible and leaning in doesn’t work for everyone. I chose to work…

Final presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3iawwblk56rvs4t/pres.pdf?dl=0 final thoughts to come

This map is based primarily upon these couple sources originally provided. The Freakanomics podcast was especially helpful, and this initial round of quick research dispelled a lot of my own previous ideas about the gender pay gap. …

I built the map around the persona of a young single mom working a minimum wage job. I tried to focus on stability in the present and future. …

As part of an increasingly militarized police force in civilian communities, drones become a regular presence in America’s airspace. Originally an object of invisibility, by also doubling as an ice cream truck, drones become objects of hyper visibility, dropping sweet treats to sedate the general public while keeping tabs on…

Phrases/scraps from the past few weeks that have led to this: figure and ground; objects and context pivot point refocus into clarity systems level change accessibility increasingly complex world power and meaning of imagery, identity to understand why things are unseen networks/systems, who owns, who creates? … V1: In an…

I found this process to be a bit awkward. I find that when I look at things or moments, I tend to think about how I might frame it as a photograph. Like this is really a pretty ordinary photo of nothing in particular around a bus stop. I had…