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Final Reflection: Shawn Stephens

Posted on December 10, 2018

Shengjie Wu Shengjie does a really great job of prefacing the interview with all the information that you need without anything extra; he gives us the interviewer’s name, the interviewee’s name and profession, and what they’re going to be discussing … Continue reading →

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Oral History: Shawn Stephens

Posted on November 29, 2018

It was easy talking to Mei, but I could’ve done a better job of listening fully until she had finished answering, and then responding to her answers. I think that makes the difference between a good interviewer and a bad … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 1, 2018

The biggest concept from Understanding Comics that inspired my comic was closure. Closure was the most interesting concept from the book to me, since it’s such a complex topic. Closure is present in every form of media we consume, and good … Continue reading →

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Shawn Stephens – Blog #4

Posted on October 9, 2018

Comics are having a harder and harder time finding their place among modern media. Just like McCloud points out on page 65, “In film, closure takes place continuously– twenty-four times per second, in fact– as our minds, aided by the … Continue reading →

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Shawn Stephens – Digital Collage

Posted on October 3, 2018

I based my piece off of a photo I found in the WSU photo archive. I immediately loved the photo when I saw it; the way the students are framed, the way some stick out of the crowd higher than … Continue reading →

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Blog 2: History of Collage & Photomontage – Shawn Stephens

Posted on September 7, 2018

Mathieu Borel takes vintage photos and fractures them, then arranges them in multiple ways to create a single cohesive image. It’s really interesting to me that he is able to take just a single photograph and make it into a … Continue reading →

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Technological Artifact: Shawn Stephens

Posted on August 29, 2018

My Wacom tablet is solid, dependable and smooth to use. No matter where I take it or what happens to it, it always gets the job done. A lot of tablets or drawing boards these days cost a lot and … Continue reading →

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