Replying to Brats

This topic submitted by Erica Govich (govichea@muohio.edu) on 1/26/03. Additions were last made on Saturday, March 1, 2003. Section: Garrison/Green

I really like your film idea alot. I think that it is a very creative and unique way to do the project. I also believe that it gives you the whole "Interdisciplinary Feel" for the project, mixing in the social and cultural aspects of music, art and film with the scientific aspects of the creek in general. When I was reading the Graf article I thought about ideas for your project. In the section that states we are now in an era that "includes preservation and resoration, requires approaches based on broad synthesis and on concepts that embody broad perspectives rather than mechanistic, limiting viewpoints", I thought about the idea of your grassroots activism section. I think that the activism fits in nicely with the rest of your piece, and the ideas of using so many visuals in your project, such as the film and artwork, will give the audience anything but a limited viewpoint (Graf, 163). Graf also goes on to state that "Rather than deal with absolutes of 'natural' and 'artificial', researchers and policy makers should view American rivers as hybrid features with variying amounts of human influence on their forms and processes" (Graf, 174). I believe that by looking at the creek through such a close perspective of the culture and native art and music, it will intensify the naturalness of the environment and the creek, rather than anything artificial that has been constructed recently in regards to the creek. I think that if you indeed pull this project off, you will be super cool forever.

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