Stories by Lucy Perkins
Experts share tips on how to vlog
BY LUCY PERKINS
Video blogging isn't so difficult when YouTube Partners are showing you the ropes. Tips dictated to Lucy Perkins by Tyler Oakley, Dan Brown and Chellie Carr.
Project for Awesome: Linking philanthropy with new media
BY LUCY PERKINS
Positive online interaction through events like Project for Awesome are made possible through YouTube by its very nature, giving viewers (whether they consider themselves to be Nerdfighters or not) the opportunity to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
The Statement
Is this real life?: YouTube turns the personal into public
- Teresa Mathew/Daily
BY LUCY PERKINS
Though many people see YouTube as a virtual hub where they can find music videos and watch that one idiot majorly wipe out on a skateboard ramp, the Nerdfighters view YouTube as a community. Channels, schedules and videos are full of inside jokes. Comments come from familiar usernames. “Instead of being made of cells and body stuff, Nerdfighters are made of awesome,” said LSA freshman David Dolsen.
Life after the Michigan Marching Band
- File Photo/Daily
BY LUCY PERKINS
Directly beneath the maize ‘M’ sewn on the left chest plate of his Michigan Marching Band uniform, a tattooed block ‘M’ is inked on the left pectoral of TJ Wolfgram, a senior in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
The three University alumni who helped make 'A Christmas Story' a musical
- Courtesy of Teresa Siavrakas
BY LUCY PERKINS
The trials and tribulations of an all-American Christmas take the audience for a wild holiday ride through the musical stylings of 2007 ‘U’ alums Justin Paul and Benj Pasek and the musical direction of 2003 alum Ian Eisendrath.
the B-Side
Written Wit: A tale of two humor publications
- Anna Schulte/Daily
BY LUCY PERKINS
The Every Three Weekly and The Gargoyle are the two student humor publications on campus. Though the two humor publications coexist, they don’t always see eye-to-eye.
Michigan-based, Ethiopia-inspired duo bring folk tunes to The Ark
- Adam Glanzman/Daily
BY LUCY PERKINS
Seth and May spent three weeks in Ethiopia last January in a collaborative project with On the Ground, a nonprofit group that raises money to aid sustainable development in farming regions worldwide.
The Statement
Women on Wheels: Rolling into Ann Arbor's roller derby scene
- Courtsey of Farzin Montazersadgh and Andrew Potter
BY LUCY PERKINS
On the shiny wood rink, painted lines gleam and direct a swarm of fishnets, leopard print kneepads and neon roller skates in continuous circles. The sound of a whistle commands skaters to jump or stop – a warm-up to practice skills essential for the team to win a game.
There's a student-generated app for that
- Courtesy of Apoorva Bansal
BY LUCY PERKINS
Some students at the University don’t take their mobile phones for granted, because they know what it’s like to make an app — from start to finish.
Dreamy, ethereal Vienna Teng to grace the Power Center
- Courtesy of Vienna Teng
BY LUCY PERKINS
In class she introduces herself as Cynthia Yih Shih, but onstage she’s known as Vienna Teng. Tonight, Shih will transform from student to singer at the Power Center in one of her few performances scheduled this semester.
