{"id":573883867,"date":"2012-09-11T23:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883867"},"modified":"2012-09-16T19:47:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:47:52","slug":"how-turtles-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/how-turtles-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"How turtles talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I taught a class on Associated Press style and on visual journalism this afternoon. I showed the students this video:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/player\/embed.php?id=e5056656bcd0ff439363&#038;w=640&#038;h=475&amp;lang=none\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I use it a lot. It is very touching and incredibly moving. It is relatable. It has a lot of great production elements, video and photographs. Color and black and white. It tells a story from beginning to end. There is music, which I see as a mileage may vary kind of thing. I don&#8217;t think it is really necessary, but it is clear where they are going with it. <\/p>\n<p>The best parts are where the producers interject in the story and where they are smart enough to stay out of the way. There&#8217;s an art to that.<\/p>\n<p>We watched this <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/multimedia\/2008\/10\/manira_steve\/index.html\">unembeddable slideshow<\/a> from NPR, too.  In it we meet Steve Campbell and his Iraqi bride as they negotiate the day to day struggle to make a life for themselves in Missouri. Natural sound, coordination of the audio and the visual, and the <em>everydayness<\/em> just make an interesting story. <\/p>\n<p>We tend to overlook those sometimes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Therapy this evening<\/strong>, pushing small weights up and down, or left and right as the circumstance required. Rode a bit on a bike. Cleaned up, had dinner, went back into the office.  <\/p>\n<p>Tonight the student-journalists at the Crimson are putting their first paper of the year to bed. We start the school year a bit later than most, and we&#8217;re a weekly, so it feels like a late beginning, but we&#8217;ve used most of the time well. <\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to learn, we have a young staff this year, but they are all eager to do good work, and that&#8217;s the key. Also, having fun. They introduced me to <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/weknowmemes.com\/2012\/08\/ermahgerd-mershed-perderders\/\">mershed perderders<\/a> which, approaching midnight, was funnier than it should have been. I did not know turtles have such poor diction.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the students get to see the fruits of their labors. Just as exciting as the first night of layout is the unheralded first critique of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I taught a class on Associated Press style and on visual journalism this afternoon. I showed the students this video: I use it a lot. It is very touching and incredibly moving. It is relatable. It has a lot of great production elements, video and photographs. Color and black and white. It tells a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,7,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","category-samford","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883868,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883867\/revisions\/573883868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}