This inter­ac­tive mul­ti­me­dia project was devel­oped as part of the intro­duc­tory mul­ti­me­dia series at Port­land Com­mu­nity Col­lege, includ­ing project design, graph­ics pro­duc­tion, audio and video edit­ing, pro­gram­ming, test­ing, and evaluation.

I have a kind of fas­ci­na­tion for found objects, all the unex­pected things we come across on our way from here to there, and this project was a way to share that. “There is a romance in lost objects, I think,” a char­ac­ter in a Joyce Carol Oates story reports, “like aban­doned houses, junked cars—objects once valu­able and cher­ished, now own­er­less.” A romance and then the pro­found dis­ap­point­ment of torn receipts and banal lists, of things one might expect to find in the gut­ter. Oth­er­wise the rare gem could not be pulled tri­umphantly from so much detritus.

Soft­ware: Adobe Pho­to­shop, Macro­me­dia Direc­tor, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Illus­tra­tor, Son­ic­Stage Mas­ter­ing Stu­dio, Nero WaveEd­i­tor