WRIT340

The last few weeks I have focused a lot on recruiting for a job this summer, so I guess I'll use these three paragraphs to to reflect on what I would tell younger me before going through this process.  1. Applying is not enough. This is probably the most important thing to know. Connections, and creating a network is honestly as important as Marshall students make it seem (yes, I am not a Marshall student, and yes I have made fun of Marshall students for only talking about their network). But the opportunities that actually follow through are ones where you have not only applied to the job but ones where you connected with employees on LinkedIn asking for a coffee chat leading up to some sort of internal referral. When it comes to making connections, its also okay to be that annoying kid who wont stop emailing (I would say that triple emailing is definitely more than enough though.)  2. No time is better than now. I spent a lot of time not applying because I wanted to perfect ...

I am enjoying this book much more than I expected. A lot of the time when I read books and there are comments like 'witty' or 'extraordinarily funny', I don't laugh at all. Maybe that is because the humor is 'too sophisticated' but I believe that it is hard to make writing that funny. Especially without pacing, body language, facial expressions etc. However, reading Brian's autobiography I find myself laughing quite a bit. It goes without saying that his life story is incredibly interesting, and while sometimes the events he recalls in his writing are simply so absurd you just have to laugh, it's his reflections on what happened, the way he delivers his opinions, and side comments that is just hilarious.  This is one of the only autobiographies I've ever read. I used to think that reading about other people's lives can in no way help me navigate through mine, but after reading some of this book, I realize how wrong I was. Me and Brian have ab...

No need to fear, AI is here. How AI is changing the creative industry and, more importantly, why this is a good thing.  When my dad first sent me a Facebook link to view ‘computer-generated art’ I thought he was bluffing. It was an artwork posted on Opensea, being sold as an NFT for 0.5ETH. That’s worth a whole lot. How, I thought to myself, could something made by a cosmputer be worth so much, and, more importantly, what the f*** am I going to do? As a design major who, essentially, will make a living off of creating content (such as graphics, illustrations, and posters) it is scary to see that artificial intelligence can do exactly that but better. Not long after the NFT gold rush do we see the AI craze. ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion - are all computer programs that generate content from images to whole essays. The possibilities are endless. And while it may seem like this new technology signals the fall of creatives alike -painters, illustrators, graphic designer...

  The first few pages I've read were a really easy read. Forewird by Frank Rich - gave a good summary of what to expect in the book. Praised Brain Cox and his accomplishments, his mindset towards his work, and how he carries himself. I enjoyed the way that this foreword was written.  Brain Cox's book starts off with a small anecdote about his encounter with Steven Seagal. It was really disarming, kind of took Brian Cox off the pedestal, made him seem more approachable. It also gave us insight into how he approaches his acting practice - made me really excited to read the rest of the book.