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Since I go to play basketball three to four times a week, I chose to document my entire trip to the RPAC, beginning in my room at my house, all the way up to walking into the gym. The typical sounds I hear include my car doors opening and closing, the engine starting, the turn style into the RPAC, and, most noticeably, the squeaking of basketball shoes on the hardwood.

I decided to transform my trip to the RPAC into a road trip for Ohio State’s men’s basketball team, again from the locker room all the way to the opposing team’s court. My piece gives a feeling of toughness, and willingness to face the adversity of an opposing team’s home court advantage. I mostly made overt decisions on my piece, although my sound clips were altered by simply picking random alterations and sticking with one I liked. I am satisfied about using garage band, and learning how to separate sound from video on a Mac. I didn’t particularly enjoy editing sound clips since it was so difficult to decide what alterations were good for my project. 

Blog 9 Carver Response

I really enjoyed reading this story of the man and the blind man drawing a cathedral together. I loved the ending, how the man kept his eyes close just because he felt like he should, showing how everyone needs to put themselves in someone else's shoes every once in awhile, and realize that anything is possible, even helping a blind man see. I also loved how the man's impression of blind people as a whole was drastically changed. He realized that not all blind people are helpless, and that some of them can do amazing things. The religious reference was slightly confusing, but I would interpret it as some sort of divine intervention, with the blind man serving as a life-changing example for the man.