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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014

UHSA, CHUM partnership UMD focuses on O’Neil Apartments goes

MMAD

Motion capture studio combines diverse disciplines BY MAKAILA MILLER Staff Reporter

The Steve O’Neil Apartments last week, located on West Fourth Street. The apartments are dedicated to Duluth residents who have faced homelessness. MELISSA PETERSON/STATESMAN

UMD’s Honor Student Association has reached out to the community in a new manner this year. With the hopes of impacting the hunger issues in Duluth, the UMD Student Association has connected with the CHUM. CHUM is a Duluth organization affiliated with helping the homeless and hunger concerns throughout the city. It began in 1973 and has worked with meeting the basic needs of low-income families. Lee Stuart, executive director of CHUM, refrains from using the word homeless as an adjective to describe a person. “A person is not homeless; they are a person who has faced homelessness,” Stuart said. “This organization is dedicated to helping families who have faced homelessness meet their basic needs and get back up on their feet.” Over the summer, UMD’s Honor Student Association requested a partnership with CHUM. Ryan Goei, Honors Program director, knew Stuart

BY AISLING DOHENY Staff Reporter

from previous volunteer experiences ing months. that Honors has had with CHUM. Currently, the CHUM website has The Honors Program requires a cer- a link that allows the public to donate tain amount of volunteer money to the site to purinvolvement for students, chase furniture and other and many have chosen to necessities to complete the The students, collaborate with CHUM apartments. Students in the in the past. Honors Student Associathough, wanted “The students, though, something different. tion are fundraising to help. wanted something difTheir aim is to raise an We wanted to make amount of $10,000 by Dec. ferent,” Goei said. “We wanted to make some- something our thing. 15. All funds will go to the thing our thing.” Steve O’Neil Apartments. -Ryan Goei on UHSA’s When the Honors StuCampaigning began two dent Association con- collaboration with CHUM weeks ago and $2,000 has tacted CHUM, Stuart been raised. Kevin Hughes, had the perfect project in president of Honors, feels mind. optimistic that the goal is CHUM is in the process of build- achievable. ing the Steve O’Neil Apartments, a “We’ve done so much in just a week complex dedicated to Duluth residents and a half,” Hughes said. “I think we who are, or have been, homeless for can do it.” an extended period of time. CHUM There is talk of the Honors Student invited honors students to help with the Association holding a bake sale in project, where they will spend a great Kirby in the next few weeks. However, portion of their volunteer hours fur- Hughes, Stuart and Goei all stress that nishing the apartments, working the the program could use campus-wide grounds of the apartments, and helping see O’NEIL, A3 the residents move in during the com-

A poet who knows it

What does Gollum, “Avatar,” “The Avengers,” MIT and UMD all have in common? A motion-capture studio. The Motion and Media Across Disciplines lab is a 3D motioncapture and high-definition video production studio near the Ven Den that provides interdisciplinary collaboration and research opportunities for the professors of UMD, as well as their students. Equipped with 12 Icon motioncapture cameras, three high-definition video cameras, a green screen infinity wall and a sound studio, the MMAD lab serves as a space for those interested in animation, acting, exercise science, theatre, audio recording and computer science to come together. Not often do people come across this unusual overlap of life science and art in the focus of a studio according to Lisa Fitzpatrick, director of the MMAD lab and Viz lab. Fitzpatrick served as the main initiator of the studio. Fitzpatrick mainly focuses her work on keeping ahead of new emerging technology and future trends, along with considering how people can collaborate to make things happen. “The MMAD lab is a research space enabling people from different disciplines to come together to solve problems and create beautiful work,” Fitzpatrick said. In 2011 Fitzpatrick, along with a team of five other UMD professors, was awarded a Research Infrastructure Investment Initiative grant from the University of Minnesota to create the motion capture lab that see MMAD, A3

laboration between artists. Once a piece is uploaded, others can contribute to and build on it, either by editing someone’s writing, animating someone’s drawing, adding different filters to a photograph or remixing someone’s song. The original versions stay along with the new, and everyone gets credit. BY MAKAILA MILLER “It’s an outlet where people can be creative and Staff Reporter work with others and bounce ideas for projects off each other,” Welch said. In January, UMD senior Erin Welch will receive a Welch jotted down her poem in five minutes to check for $300 signed by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt. go along with an illustration titled “The Mountain Two years ago Erin Welch, graphic design major, Wept.” submitted a 19-word poem to HitRecord, an online “The website is a fun way for people to feel comproduction company directed by Joseph Gordon- fortable to get their stuff out there and seen by a big Levitt. HitRecord is driven solely by the love of cre- community of like-minded people who won’t judge or ating art. Welch thought nothing of it. Two months criticize them,” Welch said. “It’s an open place where ago, she received a notification that her poem was you can send stuff out and someone can tweak it and published in “Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 3,” you can see the progress.” a small book of art and short stories that was released After the artists have finished tossing ideas back on Nov. 3. and forth, the teamwork begins to build up to a final In 2010, Gordon-Levitt created the HitRecord product. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and 13 others act as website as a place where anyone could create an curators who pull together different collaborations Erin Welch poses with the book her poem is account and submit their work, whether it’s music, and decide which ones to publish and produce in published in. Welch’s poem was selected by illustrations, books, short films or photographs. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. ALEX GANEEV/STATESMAN The main purpose of the website is to promote colsee WELCH, A3

UMD senior’s poem was published in a book produced by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and 13 others

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