Final: Lynard Skinner in the Caribbean

What's going on? Good question.

Run Time: 1:12

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Interview

I interviewed Brenda Quinn about a book she helped write entitled "The Daughters of Charity at St. Mary's Hospital".
Run Time: 2:44

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Some questions asked:
How did you come about writing your book?
Is the research harder than the actual writing?
What is some of the history of the hospital? 
What's the strategy to writing non-fiction?
How hard is it to write a book?
What went into this book?
What's the strategy to writing non-fiction?

Rant: On the Bandwagon

This is a rant about bandwagon fans in sports, and how to tell if someone is a bandwagon fan.

Run Time 2:08

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For the outside recording, I took the Green line south towards the Airport. I did not go nearly that, as I got off at Humboldt. I did my recording in a doorway off Water Street sort of near Pleasant. I then walked around a bit more and eventually re boarded the bus at Water and Juneau. My indoor recording was done in our very own Mitchell basement.

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Essay 2

The anti-tourist travels very similarly to the drift strategy.  A strategy Daniel Kalder used was picking the most unknown places on a map of Russia to visit.  An anti-tourist is someone who goes on the roads less taken.  Kalder describes an anti-tourist as someone who’s “humble and seeks invsibility” (Kalder).  The anti-tourist doesn’t travel to achieve notoriety or to brag about where they have been, instead they travel for deeper meaning. When talking about commonly visited sites, he says “you just wind up following an almost automatic path.” (Kalder). He says some sites have just been dissected so much that they lose appeal.

            When defining anti-tourism he does state what it isn’t. The idea of the word is not against traveling, it’s against traveling to the same places as everyone else.  He was visiting Russian places that “even in, like, enormous guidebooks they don’t mention these Republics” (Kalder).   By going to these almost invisible places, Kalder learned a great deal about Russian culture and history that he wouldn’t have learned by visiting St. Petersburg or by reading a text book. That’s the beauty of anti-tourism, finding a treasure trove of information and culture in places most people would not even consider looking. I have found times when visiting more remote places can be a better experience, because the story of those places are more unknown, they haven’t been repeated over and over.  Sometimes the road less taken offers more than what meets the eye.

Source:

Kalder, Daniel. Interview. To the Best of Our Knowledge. WPR, Madison. 17 Aug. 2011.

Drift: Flying Towards the Sirens

My drift strategy began by driving downtown and starting wherever there was a parking space open.  After that I did a combination of two things. First, every corner I spontaneously went whichever direction I impulsively selected.  The thing I did more was to go which ever direction the birds went.  I sort of followed the birds that were flying above me.

March 5, 2015. 5:45 pm. On the corner of State St and Market St.
Time- 1:22

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Field Recording: The Icy Beach

This was done right on the beach of Lake Michigan, I sat on some icy rocks on the shore. This was taken Thursday, February 26th around 4:30 pm.

Run time: 0:53 Seconds.

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