This semester I’ve been working on an independent study project that can loosely be described as “impact and effectiveness of digitizing cultural heritage artifacts (namely photos) in creating a broader sense of culture, informedness, and community.” It’s taken many forms over the course of the last few months as I tried to figure out exactly [...]
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PSYCH3470: “The Basics”
February 4, 2009 – 5:10 AM
We learned “the basics” in class on Thursday. 2+ hours of learning about aperture, shutter speed, and the like. It was…well, painful. Our assignment this week consisted of 17 photos that applied the basic principles we’ve learned so far. Nothing major, nothing too challenging except for the lack of running water thanks to the cold [...]
Letters and Numbers
January 27, 2009 – 11:19 PM
My first assignment of the semester was for PSYCH 3470: Psychology of Visual Communications. We were tasked with capturing 9 photos: 4 letters (2 in the built world, 2 in the natural world), 4 letters (2 built, 2 natural) and 1 photo in which something was camouflaged. More than anything I was excited to have [...]
about me
Forever-Digital is a look inside the life and mind of Jenn Vargas, a 22 year old web geek and photographer who just graduated from Cornell University in May '09 with a BA in Information Science. She's a dreamer, a doer, and a chronically early procrastinator. She just got back from backpacking through Europe and soon will be taking a one-way trip to San Francisco to start her job at Yahoo!.
