ethnosnacker: Pune Day 3 Just after lunch
Lots of stray dogs around the campus. Who are givenplenty of love by the students.Suntanning statues.A stunning campus, whether you are into the post moderniststyle or not.It's been a morning of...
View Articleethnosnacker: Pune Day 3 evening
It was an interesting afternoon of tweaking observations so they made sense and generating insight statements. We spent the final hour of the day writing a brief which included an orientation list,...
View Articleethnosnacker: Pune Day 4 afternoon
The teams debriefed each other just before noon and are now rushing against the clock to:Get their films edited to 3 minutes maximum lengthEnsure they are adding to their films when presentingMake up...
View Articleethnosnacker: Pune Morning day 5
I'm the fat one in the middle.I must admit to being a little anxious this morning when the students were followed into class by 4 or 5 lecturers and heads of department curious to see the results of...
View Articleethnosnacker: Railways station ethnography - can you see what my students saw...
Here is the first of a bunch of films I will be sharing with you. They were made by a team of students from my ethnography week at DSK Pune Industrial Design School.This exploration included the...
View Articleethnosnacker: The work of a cobbler
Another one of my masterclass teams conducted a day of filming with various cobblers in Pune. Note this film has no sound because they were narrating it and pointing out sequences themselves.Broadly,...
View Articleethnosnacker: Vantage points and the real question
I'd like to share with you a simple exercise I take students through. Or anyone who cares to listen, frankly.Here goes the exercise:Every morning I walk into the bathroom to brush my teeth. One...
View Articleethnosnacker: The hidden lives of ordinary things
I wanted you to read about it here first.Which is why I have rushed it to print with not much commentary. But it looks fantastic, and the little that I have read, I love.Enjoy!
View Articleethnosnacker: I'm crazy about street photography
Here is a fantastic series of images which are beautifully narrated. Anyone who conducts video ethnography, even though these are still images, must watch and learn something about 'adding meaning'....
View Articleethnosnacker: I am the antithesis of an entrepreneur
Someone once called me an entrepreneur who can never sit still. In fact I can not only sit or even lie still for extended periods with a laptop on my chest. I also have never had the funds that are...
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