Here's our radio commercial for Vermont99 that we performed during class:

I'm Katie Beers. I'm a second year communications major from Bangor, Maine, which got its fifteen minutes of fame from The Way We Get By, a documentary about a group of senior citizens who greet the troops coming back from Iraq at the Bangor International Airport. Check out the trailer below.




Over break I saw Avatar in 3D which was awesome, but I also read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boynne and then watched the movie. It was interesting to see the story translated into film.

I like that all the technology of our 21st century media culture allows us to easily contact people from all over the world at any time.

But I also hate the fact that language often gets butchered in many computer mediated communication channels, and worry that humans are becoming too reliant on technology.

Clearly I'm not the only one who feels this way, since many other artists have created similar, and often humorous, cartoons that can be seen at cartoonstock.

I'm not quite sure what I want to do professionally yet, most likely something involving writing or journalism, but that's all I've figured out so far.