If I Were Your Teacher in 1964

Posted on Tuesday 10 July 2007 by cherylcolan
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I’ve been archiving all my old backup discs, making their contents searchable with disclib. I put the 148th disc in today and found these recordings of myself as 1964 elementary school teacher.

They were recorded and mixed in 2001 for a film I made for the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park by the incomparable Emil Miller of PHX Sound Labs. Basically they open and close an orientation video that automatically starts when you walk into the exhibit. You’re supposed to sit down in the “schoolroom” and watch the film before going into the exhibition. At the end of the first recording you would hear a projector start up and the movie starts. When the movie ends, the second recording plays and you leave school and enter a replica of a 1964 Phoenix living room. You’re a kid again.

I just had to share these recordings. Can you imagine me doing this? I barely can, and I was there.

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4 Responses to If I Were Your Teacher in 1964

  1. Brian McQuay says:
    Wednesday 11 July 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Sorry its off topic but did you ever get the myspace reposting plugin working? I saw that you had the same problems I had with it and was curious if you fixed them or scrapped the plugin. Thanks.

  2. Walker says:
    Thursday 12 July 2007 at 4:25 pm

    Wow, that’s trippy! I can just picture with the old horn-rimmed glasses.

  3. Cheryl Colan says:
    Monday 16 July 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Walker! I haven’t heard from you in a million years! Hooray!

  4. Cheryl Colan says:
    Wednesday 18 July 2007 at 12:10 pm

    Brian,

    FYI the MySpace Crossposter plugin does seem to work. It’s strange though. The plugin will not activate via the Plugins area of the admin panel. But I verified that it worked by turning on its “verbose” option and hitting it directly with the browser. It did post my most recent entry.

    So what I did is leave the plugin on my server and copy URL to its main php file and paste it in as one of the services to ping when I publish. Do that in the Options > Writing area of your admin panel. Now whenever I post something, my blog pings the plugin’s PHP file (which works whether or not the plugin is activated) and a notification goes into my MySpace blog. It’s worked twice now without me pinging it manually so I’m pretty certain this is the solution.

    If I’m not clear in this post I’m happy to answer questions.

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