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 LND Landscaping spends every snowy morning on the road keeping their costumers happy.

The plow truck drivers are out by two each and every morning. During the plow season the drivers have to not only plow, but salt and shovel too.

Snowy mornings are not fun for all drivers. The driver in this video, Mason Kuhn, also works at the company's shop that is open five days a week.

 Mason, is the head Technician at State Street Gulf. Some days he has to leave his house at midnight, plow until eight in the morning than go into the shop. If the storm is big enough he than has to go back out and plow after he gets out of work at six.

Many people think that it is easy to be a plow driver but when you work for a small company that also runs a shop you are out all the time.

Work in the winter can add up to seventy hours a week. But the plow drivers love the pay checks.

Final Project Link

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Final Project Proposal

For our final project we plan on interviewing students about one specific teacher at Lyndon State. We are going to get their opinion on the teacher and than have them write down one word that they would use to describe them. With that one word we are going to make a word cloud. With the interviews we are planning on doing a video project. Depending on the responses of the interviews will determine if we also use a podcast. We also plan on having a writing component to it as well. We have not decided what each team member will be doing for the project. We know that we will conduct the interviews together. When we figure out how the interviews go we will figure out who will complete each step of the project.

Video Idea

I plan on following a plow driver for a morning when they go out to plow. I don't plan on using an interview because I am going to use a lot of natural sound. I will be following my boyfriend around and his company for a day so I will not be able to interview him but if someone else is willing to talk I will. The interview part will be up in the air until the day it happens. I plan on using my camera to shoot everything. I will be getting the footage over Thanksgiving break.

Dorian McGowan

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Dorian McGowan has a love for art. The artist worked here at Lyndon State College at a professor for many years. And some say that he was the one that started the art program here. Dorian is not just a drawer; he is also a painter, sculptor, garbage picker and bargain finder. When he creates art he uses the things he finds to create the art around. But, Dorian’s love is drawing people’s faces. He says even the ugliest person has something beautiful about them and that is what he makes known in his art. Dorian loves looking at people’s eyes and ears, and says that has a lot to do with beauty. Mr. McGowan has been an artist all of his life. He remembers being a little kid and climbing up in his grandmother’s oversized chair to draw with her. We asked him if his grandmother was an artist as well, he said, “No, No she was not,” with a chuckle. He said that once he got really good his grandmother said she was not going to draw with him anymore because he was too good. So he stopped being good at drawing because he wanted his grandmother to draw with him. Dorian does not like photographs, even though some would argue that it was true art. He thinks that too many pictures are taken these days and they don’t capture the special things. That’s why Dorian’s family photos are drawings he has done. They hang on his wall at his home. The drawings include his late wife, children and grandchildren. His grandchildren are some of the most important things in Dorian’s life. And like his grandmother did he also create art with his grandchildren. In Dorian’s latest showing at the library in town he has the King and Queen Sliver Chins. These were named this way because in one of his bargain runs he would these silver pieces he thought would look great as chins. Him and his grandson worked on these pieces together and even wrote a story to accompany them. Dorian enjoys when his grandchild want to help him with his art because he believes they are all artists as well.

iReport

I had never been on the CNN iReport page until I had to for Dan's class. It is interesting to see the different stories that are put up on the website. CNN offers to give you a tour around the site which was good for me because I had no idea what I was doing. At first I looked at the pictures from Halloween night. They were great pictures but I wanted a story. there may have been a story but I could not find one. CNN ireport reminded me of pintrest The welcome page says you can like your favorites and connect with new people, well I do this on enough social media sites I don't need another page to do that on. The welcome page also allows you to join a group. When I think of CNN I think of the news not a way to find people that are like me. As of right now I am not really a fan of CNN iReport, maybe some day in the future it will grow on me.

Sound Slides Project

We plan on interviewing Dorian for our sound-slide-project. Dorian is a professor who draws student’s portraits and displays them in the theater lobby. He and his sketches are a well-known fixture at Lyndon State. Many students and have been the subject of his art. It is our understanding is that he has been at the college for many years and therefor would have plenty to say. For images we would photograph the portraits, parts of his process (easels, pencils, clipboards etc.) and if possible, Dorian sketching. We would like to record some nat sound of shuffling papers, pencil on paper, and other art preparations. Of course our main sound will be the interview. We our most interested in his process. How does he choose his subjects? What his favorite part of sketching? What about his other work? Does he work with other mediums? How did he begin sketching portraits and why does he continue? We also hope to get sounds bytes about interesting stories over the years. Who are some of his favorite subjects? The most rewarding experiences he has had with his art? Of course for all this to happen we first need to find him but once we do it should be all down hill from there.