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June 23, 2004
Jonny Goldstein Update
A few people have asked me for Jonny Goldstein updates, so here's the scoop: I just graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. I am now working a seven week gig in Winston Salem, North Carolina, at a place called the Governor's School. The Governor's School is a residential summer program, provided free of cost, to outstanding high school students. The students focus in particular areas in the arts or academics and then work interdisciplinarily with students who are working in other subjects. The focus is on contemporary thinking and issues, the more recent the better. The Governor's School is fairly mind bending for many of these kids who have gone through the test-heavy, rote learning oriented NC public schools until now.
My roles are multiple: I am the audiovisual coordinator, teach a class about self, community, and morality, lead optional seminars, and give performances.
Seminar topics I am considering include "juggling for non jugglers," "artificial intelligence," "situated software," "memory techniques," and "thought mapping."
In the coming year, I will be back in New York City performing, developing a longer one man show, teaching art and animation, consulting with individuals and organizations on project development, and helping found a New York City Wearable Computing Interest Group.
Posted by Jonny at 01:33 PM | Comments (9)
June 14, 2004
Progress Report
For all de masses:
It's going alright. No disasters. Everyone seems pretty content w/the job I'm doing so far. I'm happy to say that I do have a fair bit to contribute here. I learned a lot working in the AV department at NYU---more than I realized. Much of this is just how to organize an AV department.
Anyway, I have done 5 assemblies and one movie lecture in two days---for the most part by myself. In 48 hours, things will slow down for me alot. Til then, peace and AV love.
Posted by Jonny at 08:49 PM | Comments (0)
June 09, 2004
Down South
I've fallen into the South and I can't get up. Not only am I lodged deep in the bowels of North Carolina until the end of July, I am living in the midst of a 200 year old Moravian Christian tourist trap-village, kind of like old Williamsburg, but...not. It's in the old part of Winston-Salem, the tobacco capital of the world, which is a small city surrounding a huge schlong shaped skyscraper. A city where a no simple idea can be expressed in less than 15 meandering sentences.
And you know what? I kind of like it.
Posted by Jonny at 09:53 PM | Comments (0)
So tired, so good.
All this talking about masks and roles at Governor's School makes me think about how I use this blog. I want it for me, but I also am into other people seeing it. But since it's for other people as well as myself, I feel constrained about how free to be. I'm into documenting my creative process and I'm also into sharing that with interested people. But if my audience is just myself, I can be much freer, less self conscious. What masks do I feel compelled to wear in the different cases?
On another front, I'm sick of doing all this AV stuff, at least for tonight. It's just my sleep deficit I think. I was up until 2AM doing administrative work. I never realized how long it takes to make a freaking form. Of course I had to make 8 different ones.
Stumbled through today's gauntlet of meetings. 1)All staff 2) Kyle and Rebecca 3)Area III 4)Convocation.
Got a little taste of hanging out w/the youth tonight w/the TACs over pizza. Gave me a taste of what at least some of the kids will be like. Smart, well read, steeped in expensive cultural gravy. Kind of what some of these kids will be like in a few years.
That How Marcel Proust Can Change Your life is influencing my thinking a little. Especially prominant in my thoughts: How he took care not to push his own thoughts and biography out into conversations. He focused on the other person, drew them out, flattered them, made them feel important. It's kind of nice. It's nice to hear about someone who is not into impressing other people.
Of course, then he would create characters in his fiction using thinly disguised versions of his friends as characters, often times showing them in a less than flattering light. Mmmmmm.
Posted by Jonny at 08:56 PM | Comments (0)
June 07, 2004
Down in North Carolina
Been down here for a week now. It's nice. Weird, but nice. Tobacco factories, lush flora, lots of Protestants. Weird all the stereotypes I carry around in my head. I've got a job teaching and coordinating AV stuff at the Governor's School of North Carolina, a summer mind twister for select public school kids of this fine state.
Posted by Jonny at 10:14 PM | Comments (0)