Verde Smoke

When people ask me (as they inevitably do when they find out I’m a full time volunteer) why I do VISTA, I often cite the ways it connects me to groups and people that I could have never imagined I could meet doing a regular job.

I’m a bit in shock myself, but yes, I’m starting my own blog. The main reason is to create a home to start documenting ALL my pursuits, not just my CTC VISTA work. In the process of finding just the right samples for the Portfolio section, I stumbled across a video Colin Rhinesmith posted on ACMEBoston.org.

Week 3 - 9/24 Monday – 9am – Student Holiday (really?) I’m on campus even though it’s supposedly a student holiday, and I’m hit with the unique feel of campus when not as many students are on it. It’s very subtle how the inhabitants affect the physical feel of an institutional building. And, it’s interesting how more relaxed I feel and act when the throng of students is breathing through the walls or moving through the hallways. Obviously the light has more freedom too. The light not blocked by human bodies or professors putting down the shades or closing doors.

I just finished my first MassIMPACT Spreading the Stories three and 1/2 day digital storytelling train-the-trainer workshop, hosted graciously by Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) and the El Batey Technology Center of the Villa Victoria housing development in the South End of

When I start trying to define “multimedia,” I hope to veer away from simply saying “communicating in lots of ways at the same time.” But the medium itself is often framed not by what it is trying to say, but how it is being said. We as a technologically obsessed society often are distracted by the ways the bells and whistles ring rather than their melody.