Anth319.L90 & L91 LAB

Hi, everybody.  We’re excited to let everyone know that our Flickr account is ready to go, and YouTube is not far behind.  We wanted to ask each of you if you care comfortable sharing any of your images or video on these sites to show what we’re all doing in the class and the Center for Expressive Culture.

I know most of you have given us written permission to use your materials in class, but since this is a little more public we’re officially asking again.

If you are willing to share your wonderful work on Flickr and YouTube,  could you please leave a comment on this post us letting us know?  Thanks!

- Joey

Hi Everyone:

For those of you who have asked me to recommend a Mac Laptop with the best price/best capabilities for multimedia applications I have compiled the specifications and included them below with a few additional notes about memory, external data storage, and video adapters.

The recommendation is for a White MacBook Laptop with a Firewire port from the College of Charleston Apple Store.  The total cost is $1239 (currently the amount qualifies for free shipping).  Please note that this model is the only MacBook that has a firewire port built in as a standard.  I do not recommend purchasing any other MacBook at this time.  DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE SPECIFICATIONS HERE

If you want to upgrade your laptop memory to 4GB (instead of 2GB) you can buy it from Apple for around $90.00 when you purchase your machine or you can use the Mac System Scanner from Crucial when you find that your memory needs have changed.

Additionally, if you ever plan to project your laptop or connect it a VGA monitor, you need to purchase the Apple Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter. I have included the adapter in the recommended specifications.  You will use this adapter to connect your MacBook to a standard analog monitor, projector, or LCD that has VGA video cable.  All the Smart Classrooms on the College of Charleston campus use this specific connector.

The adapter looks like this:

People often throw them away or lose them because they don’t know what they are for.  Mac video adapters are NOT GENERIC and only fit certain machines.  Make sure to keep your adapter in a safe place that you can find again when you need it:)

I also recommend that you purchase a Firewire MyBook external drive, particularly if you plan to continue working on multimedia/video projects using iMovie.  The Firewire drive can be used to store and edit your video projects instead of using valuable hard drive space. These drives can also be daisy chained (connected to an additional drive) if you need to increase the amount of storage for your video data. Firewire MyBook drives range in size and price and can be purchased from most office supply/electronics companies like Office Depot and Best Buy.  They are also available from sites like Amazon.com.

Please note that a USB drive will not work for this – the drive must be a Firewire drive if you intend to use it as project storage for iMovie projects.  Additionally, you will need to reformat the drive as a HFS Journaled drive. (For those who must know “why” it is because iMovie will run into a file size limit of 2GB per single file which causes problems with video editing since the files are often larger than this.  The restriction is from the NTFS file system (in other words Microsoft/PC) that the drive was originally formatted with.)

To Reformat The External Drive to HFS Journaled:

• Go to your Applications folder -> open the Utilities folder
• Open Disk utility
• Select your external hard drive in the listing on the left side of the application window.  If you haven’t plugged your external drive, do so now.
• There will be four or five tabs on the middle screen -> First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore. 
  Click on Partition.
• Select one Partition, give your hard drive a new name, and select Mac HFS (Journaled)
• Select Options and choose GUID Partition Table (this is for Intel-Based Macs)
• Click Apply
• Close Disk Utility when complete.  Your drive is now ready.
  

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Joey

• To Login to the Apple Store click: http://store.apple.com/1-800-780-5009/WebObjects/EducationIndividual.woa/9864008/wo/p4EWL2lfRtHz3JDYvykjJYES1QR/0.0.26.9.5.7.1
  
• Select MacBook from $949.00
  

• Select THE WHITE 13-INCH MACBOOK! THIS IS THE ONLY MACBOOK WITH FIREWIRE
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• Configure your MacBook with the following:
  

  Specifications

• 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM – 2×1GB
• 250GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Keyboard (English) / User’s Guide
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• Apple Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter
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• AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook/MacBook Air – Auto-enroll
• DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE SPECIFICATIONS HERE
  
  
• Add your MacBook to the Cart and Checkout.  Currently the amount qualifies for free shipping.
  

Hey~

Joey and I were talking in lab tonight and she mentioned that students who have a valid school account can get Windows Office 2007 for a really reasonable price.  In stores Windows office is around 600 dollars give or take, but through the link below students can get it for around sixty dollars.  So spread the word…

Christina

Taikoza, a Japanese Taiko drum percussion group will be performing this Saturday April 18^th at the Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting Street at 7PM.

Drawing from Japan’s rich tradition of music and performance, Taikoza uses a variety of traditional instruments. In addition to drums of assorted sizes, Taikoza also incorporates the shakuhachi, and the fue (both bamboo flutes) as they perform this traditional Japanese art form.  Taikoza has extensively toured North America as well as having performed in Europe and Asia.

The performance is scheduled for 7 PM and admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children. For more information about Taikoza you can visit their website at http://www.taikoza.com/

Anybody have a portable hard drive I can borrow?

S.Catoe(sgcatoe@edisto.cofc.edu)

Thanks!

“The Greater Park Circle Film Society educates the Lowcountry public on all aspects of media arts. In so doing, the Society presents films not generally shown in local mainstream commercial theaters as well as related educational programs. Films, notably independent films, documentaries, and shorts, representing the themes of “humanitas” (coined by Cicero to define the “good person”) and “communitas” (feeling of social equality, solidarity & togetherness), will be shown at the Olde Village Talking Picture House. The Hills Have Thighs will be showing on April 4″