Hello everyone,

I'm Brian. I am a Junior Comm major. I recently moved back to the area from NYC, where I lived for four years. i come from a theater background meaning I went to school for acting, at The North Carolina School Of The Arts. I have worked in theater professionally off and on in Philadelphia and New York. Most recently I was in two films in a Ny film festival called The Flywheel film fest. http://www.theworldsfirstloopablefilm.com/ In Ny I had a day job as a teaching asst/ tutor for writing and english at The Borough Of Manhattan Community College which I really loved. Currently I teach acting, beginner and intermediate, theater and on camera to kids mostly 9-13 yrs old, but I am also directing a one woman show about Amelia Earhart,a great challenge.Mass media does completely affect my everyday life, but I don't like being a slave to it, sometimes I even go on a media fast. I have a real love/hate relationship with mass media to the point where sometimes I just irrationally deactivate my facebook or myspace, but at the same time I just started up on Twitter, and by the way I don't get it, twitter that is. What I bring to Mass Media knowledge is a love as much as a hate which has made me become more objective,and that is something I want to use more, so it is something I want to explore in the class, because I can tend toward being interpretive, so I'd like to learn to be objective too. I also have performance background as well as writing, directing and teaching. I also play guitar and have been in short lived disastrous band formations ever since high school playing Velvet Underground covers. My latest was an R.E.M. cover band for which I was told to affect "stipisms". I'm working on a screenplay of the experience because it was so painful. In reflection one of my happiest times was living in Woodstock Ny doing theater, before email, before text, before facebook, and I seem to think I was happier, so I guess I'm secretly a hippy at heart too. One thing about media and entertainment that excites me the most is collaboration and process, working together in collaboration. I look forward to finding out what my media diet is, and soaking up what media learning I can. p.s. The picture is of CuChulainn,a kick ass Mythical Irish hero. The videos are of the band Fleet Foxes, and the other is a short film from the festival I was in.