Friday, May 10, 2013
Self-proclaimed “professional student” Opal Leung posts instructional videos for those in her particularly precarious situation.
Jamaica Plain is home to a variety of people, but the neighborhood is hopping with students. Undergraduates, graduates, law students, medical students, art students, whatever you study, Jamaica Plain has a home for you. One thing most students have in common is living on a minimal income. One resident who lives somewhere between Doyle's and Franklin Park has a Youtube channel devoted to helping those who live with modest means. Opal Leung is “The Poor Student.” She is working on a PhD in organizational behavior at Bentley University, and this is on top of the multiple degrees she holds already. Videos on her channel involve cheap techniques for cooking and transportation, and affords her public with a glimpse into the life of…a poor …
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
“Ben & Eric” explores the relationship between two friends - a man and a live puppet.
Ben and Eric are your every day, run-of-the-mill Jamaica Plain roommates. They go to art openings, parties and bars. They hang out together and look for single women to chat with. There’s one difference between this pair and most others, however: Ben is a puppet. Friends Pam Severns and Eric Mearns created ”Ben & Eric”, a web series which highlights the exploits of Eric and his living puppet roommate Ben. Severns wrote in to Jamaica Plain Patch about the origin of the series, and how the pair attempts to keep puppets in comedy. Jamaica Plain Patch: So who controls the puppet? Pam Severns: Me! I'm the puppeteer. It's pretty interesting to figure out how to get a faceless puppet to express himself without using any dialogue or facial …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
After being hacked last Friday, BPDNews.com came back online at about 2 a.m. this morning.
With rapper KRS-One’s now all-too-familiar “Sound of Da Police” music video intermittently popping up, Boston Police officers satirically discuss the “emotional trauma” they felt after the police department’s website, BPDNews.com, was hacked last Friday, in a light-hearted, video comeback of sorts at the hacking group “Anonymous.” “Normally, I sleep pretty well, but since the site went down, I haven’t slept a wink,” one officer says with a straight face in the YouTube video that was posted on the department’s Facebook page at 11 p.m. Wednesday. Another officer claims to have heard news of the hacking at – where else – Dunkin’ Donuts. A serious-voiced narrator also chimes in: “In the days after the hacking, fans of the page struggled to …
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William Dawes
7:04 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Excellent. This will go along well with our puppet based Presidency, which also explores the relationship between two friends - the Government and the Banking/Corporate power brokers. more ›