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A New School MA student attempting to express something honest and real via writing, photography, design and video All content is under licensed property of dasha kova.

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You may be in the past, but these words still linger on and serve a purpose in my day-to-day.

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05.01.16

coffee shop monologues

“Why I dance? One of my teachers once described it like a boyfriend. It's like a long long term boyfriend, that you know you're going to be with forever but sometimes you need a break or you need to be separated...but you always come back to each other because you know it'll always be there." 

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I really wish I'd gone to film school but I'm already at uni doing a different degree. I have such a passion for filmmaking but just don't know how to do it well and every type of course is so expensive. That being said, if you had to recommend a masters in any branch of filmmaking, which one would it be? I love shooting the film and editing it the most. Your videos are beautiful and inspire me to keep making.

You definetly don’t need to go to film school to become a filmmaker. I went because it kind of made sense and I wanted to grow up. It’s probably important to take note that some of the biggest directors never went to film school. Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson come to mind, Scorsese too I think. I can’t give much advice because I’m still working it out but try and put some time aside to shoot and make things. Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed Boogie Nights as his debut. Tarantino quit his job at a VHS rental shop to make Reservoir Dogs. Scorcese was a struggling drug addict when he started directing. None of them had experience but they all threw themselves into something and look where it got them.

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Convergence Confessions:

An interview series based on readings from Henry Jenkins’s Convergence Culture

We interviewed ten individuals from the media studies program at The New School in New York; most graduate, some undergraduate and even a teenager, who is still in high school. The intention is to develop a stronger grasp and understanding of individual experience with convergence thinking, as well as organic and honest observations of how the relationship between convergence culture, participatory culture, and collective intelligence has shaped and shifted global cultures. In conclusion, we ask: what’s next? What is the future of convergence culture?

“Call me old-fashioned. The other week I wanted to buy a cell phone - you know, to make phone calls. I didn’t want a video camera, a still camera, a Web access device, an mp3 player, or a game system [...] I didn’t want the electronic equivalent of a Swiss army knife.”

- Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture 

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The 24 Hour Digital Detox

Where we unplug from technology for a day in order to reconnect with everything around us.

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Experimented with shots of random imagery to demonstrate that suggestive content can be made present from the unlikeliest of objects and scenarios (some less subtle than others).

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I have a thing for neon lights and hideout coffee shops. (at Spreadhouse)

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You lot are way too impressive for me. Came to see some fancy friends work their magic on their Parsons photoshoot. (at Parsons School of Design)

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suggestive

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Welcome to my local farmer's market.

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Walked away with a kale baby: the freshest most delicious looking curly kale that's basically as big as me.

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I don't always have the time to source out organic or local options but when I do, I go a little produce crazy. Bring out all the totes!!! I'm stocking up for winter...

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Outtake from a day at the MoMA (2)

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Outtake from a day at the MoMA (1)