iReport

iReport is a pretty unique website, its not that easy of a website to navigate around at first. I really like the whole concept behind it, having the people do the reports and what not, easy way to cover more with less employees. What I dislike the most is defiantly the layout of the site, it gets confusing real quick.

Hornets Nest Soundslide

On a small campus like Lyndon’s, there are limited options for food. The dining hall serves three meals a day, but the food is generally agreed to be of a lesser quality. The Hornet’s Nest, the snack bar here on campus is in the student center on the second floor of Vail. Students pay for their food by using declining balance flex points. These foods tend to be a little better because of the fact that its cooked a little more thoroughly, more so cooked more individualized, versus trying to cook multiple rotisserie chickens, things like that, to serve the hundreds of students that swarm into the Dining hall at once. There are also things like protein bars, candy bars, bags of chips, and even a couple cereal boxes. The Hornets nest doesn’t just serve as a food place though. It has a newly renovated lounge which allows students to use as a place to study, a place to meet other students, and a place to just hang out with the friends they already have. It is a far more mellowed out environment then Steven Dining Hall which is most of the time during meal times, is too chaotic to even hear your own thoughts. The newly renovated Hornet’s Nest has more of a coffee shop kind of place. High tables with high chairs, tables small and round, and a small stage, it’s a generally relaxed feeling place. Before the renovations, the Hornet’s Nest had a very groggy feeling. It had old bench seats, used and abused furniture that looked to be scraped together from renovation around the school. Granted all the activities that occur in the Hornets Nest still occurred before the renovations, it now has a better set up for it, and also a more suitable environment. Lyndon puts on events that also go along with the coffee shop feel like stated before. There are concerts with the local bands, battle of the bands, and events of that nature. The bands that play at these events tend to be quiet, mellow, and relaxed bands, which goes along perfectly with the “coffee shop” concept.

Practice Soundslide

Slideshow about the Hornets Nest at LSC

newsLINC critique

I like the layout of the tabs such as NEK, Vermont, New Hampshire, Weather, Sports, and Special Coverage. It makes the home page real easy to navigate.

What I do not like about it is the way the tabs are set up like once you go into the Vermont tab, that 

articles are laid out one by one, I feel it makes it a little harder to find an specific article, you need to scroll and keep scrolling until you find it, instead of having it laid out with the article title. There’s no “main Vermont” page. 

That’s what I would change also.

Mash up Podcast

Mash up music is a generally new style of music. Mash up music is when an artist takes clips, instrumentals, etc., of a whole bunch of different songs and throws it together into one fluent sounding song. Its rising goes hand and hand with the evolutions of music. In our podcast we talk about DJ Earworm a lot. The reason for that is because he displays perfectly what a mash up can do at its finest. He does this because at the end of every year since 2007, he has released a new “Unites states of Pop” song. It is a mash up of the top 25 songs of the year according to billboard magazine.

Now don’t get me wrong, he isn’t the first and he isn’t the only artist that does mash ups. The philosophy of mash up music has its origins in the cut-up poetry of Jack Kerouac. Early artists used tape splicing and manual editing to create remixes. The remixing of disco was the origin of house music. Soon, though, the hardware available could not match the demand for chopped and rearranged musical elements. Only after computerized software di the art form come into maturity.

Greg Gillis, who goes by “Girl Talk” is greatly accredited for the creation what is now known as mash up. Greg Gillis released his first mash up CD in 2002, called “Secret Diary.” Its very different from what he now puts out because, as a stated before, the change in technology made things a whole lot easier and increased the ability to make mash ups more enjoyable.

Something unique about mash ups is, that if two artists where to take the same handful of songs, the two mash up results that come out would be completely different from each other. This is because the way the mash ups are built. The artists would take different snippets from the same song and find two different places to put it in their track to where they think that it would work better. That is one of the greatest things about mash up music. Beauty is truly in the ears of the creator.

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