Fun+with+Emo+and+Punk+Rock

FUN WITH PUNK ROCK AND EMO! Dmitri Tcherbadji: So far the sole member, his relevant **skills** are __web design__ (taking web-design courses at UTM, also has some experience building them for others), __media development__ (has helped producing couple amateur movies, has recorded amateur song demos), __programming__ (actionscript, aloto),  __research__ (working for Sandra Trehub and Bill Thompson at UTM as Research Assistant, music perception). The main objective is to challenge the definition of “underground”, “special”, and also questionable “emotional” state (just because songs are about love, or loss it does not make them any more emotional, jazz songs are more emotional since the music conveys actual emotions through complex chords and melodies). The intended audience would be people who are looking are about to form their musical tastes, or looking for something new; hopefully this will clarify to them what is really meant by “emo” or “punk”, note, we are not trying to prevent people listening to that music, it’s a question of taste, but we really hope that those who do, listen to it because they simply like it, not because it’s different or emotional. Content will be multimedia presentation, most likely in we-site format, interactive. Obviously there will be videos, pictures, maybe even some games… There are four weeks to complete this project, this weekend is busy for me, during the week I either work at one of my jobs or at school, so it will happen during 3 following weekends. Weekend 1 will consist of collection of media and brainstorming, weekend 2 will be creation of the website, multimedia content. Weekend 3 will be troubleshooting of the website content and write-up, general analysis and double-checking. The images below are some ideas of cultural jamming, but it could be done much much much more better, that’s why I’m inspired to do so.
 * Group Resume**
 * Rules and responsibilities:** Dmitri, so far is responsible to have everything done, he’s not complaining and not asking for extra marks either.
 * Fun with Punk Rock and Emo:** Those two genres are widely advertised as “underground” and “different”, but they are part of wide-spread pop-culture. We shall jam it!