Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Cyd
As you enter the Whittemore Arena you might notice how grand of a place it is and how nice it looks. You then would draw your attention to the ice surface and depending on the day, you might watch a practice or a game. However, in the basement of the rink sits a small closet with concrete walls no windows and just a drain in the ground. This is where you can find Cyd.
Cyd is the housekeeper at the Whittemore Center Arena. She is short and scruffy with long grey hair hiding under a UNH Hockey hat. According to Cyd, “At UNH I’ve been since 1991 but I came to the Whittemore Center in 1999”. In these last thirteen years Cyd has perfected cleaning the large scale Arena.
For Cyd, her day starts early. She says, “I come in at 5 and I start in the Intermediate level cleaning the offices”. She then continues on to the rink level and cleans all of the locker rooms, benches and hallways. After she is done with that at around nine she has students who come in to help her. Jason Roach, a football player at UNH comes in everyday for four hours to clean the concourse sweeping and mopping the floors as well as cleaning the stands.
The large arena is a lot for Cyd to clean alone and the recent economy and budget cuts has not helped her. “I used to have another full time house keeper here with me but because of the outsourcing at UNH and the shortness of help she had to go to the dorms” explained Cyd. Cyd relies on athletes to help her clean throughout the week and to keep the large Arena in order.
Cyd’s life outside of housekeeping is filled with family and fun. When she gets out of work at around one, she usually drives to one of her daughter’s houses to visit her grandkids and help them out. Other than that cyd explained that she is “three classes short from an associate’s degree in art”. In addition to enjoying art she also is a softball umpire, ad avid skier and enjoyed hanging out in downtown Durham at Scoprs bar where she also cleans the bathrooms on Saturdays.
One of Cyd’s favorite activities is to scrap junk medal. With her job in housekeeper she is able to find a lot of junk in the trash which she turns into decorations. Cyd’s daughter is also an avid junk collector and someday Cyd wishes to open a junk store with furniture and miscellaneous items that are refurbished into art or daily use items. One example Cyd explained was, her and her daughter “found an old bathroom sink and turned it into a bath feeder”. They also turned an old bed into a flower bed. Cyd enjoys mixing her love of scraping junk, passion for art and yard work to make each of her daughter’s houses look unique and beautiful.
Cyd’s raspy voice and tough demeanor leads to a kind a caring women who loves people and students and truly in the job because she loves it. When asked her favorite thing to do, Cyd responded with “floors. I could do floors all day. Sweeping, buffing, mopping anything ill do it. I love to do floors”.
Cyd is the housekeeper at the Whittemore Center Arena. She is short and scruffy with long grey hair hiding under a UNH Hockey hat. According to Cyd, “At UNH I’ve been since 1991 but I came to the Whittemore Center in 1999”. In these last thirteen years Cyd has perfected cleaning the large scale Arena.
For Cyd, her day starts early. She says, “I come in at 5 and I start in the Intermediate level cleaning the offices”. She then continues on to the rink level and cleans all of the locker rooms, benches and hallways. After she is done with that at around nine she has students who come in to help her. Jason Roach, a football player at UNH comes in everyday for four hours to clean the concourse sweeping and mopping the floors as well as cleaning the stands.
The large arena is a lot for Cyd to clean alone and the recent economy and budget cuts has not helped her. “I used to have another full time house keeper here with me but because of the outsourcing at UNH and the shortness of help she had to go to the dorms” explained Cyd. Cyd relies on athletes to help her clean throughout the week and to keep the large Arena in order.
Cyd’s life outside of housekeeping is filled with family and fun. When she gets out of work at around one, she usually drives to one of her daughter’s houses to visit her grandkids and help them out. Other than that cyd explained that she is “three classes short from an associate’s degree in art”. In addition to enjoying art she also is a softball umpire, ad avid skier and enjoyed hanging out in downtown Durham at Scoprs bar where she also cleans the bathrooms on Saturdays.
One of Cyd’s favorite activities is to scrap junk medal. With her job in housekeeper she is able to find a lot of junk in the trash which she turns into decorations. Cyd’s daughter is also an avid junk collector and someday Cyd wishes to open a junk store with furniture and miscellaneous items that are refurbished into art or daily use items. One example Cyd explained was, her and her daughter “found an old bathroom sink and turned it into a bath feeder”. They also turned an old bed into a flower bed. Cyd enjoys mixing her love of scraping junk, passion for art and yard work to make each of her daughter’s houses look unique and beautiful.
Cyd’s raspy voice and tough demeanor leads to a kind a caring women who loves people and students and truly in the job because she loves it. When asked her favorite thing to do, Cyd responded with “floors. I could do floors all day. Sweeping, buffing, mopping anything ill do it. I love to do floors”.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Style
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#
I like how in these pieces, he mixes interviews with pictures and I really like the black and white style. I feel that my topics might be deep and the black and white pictures mixed with the voices would really captivate the dark side. I would want to mix color into my story by way of the happier times that the people interviewed would talk about.
I like how in these pieces, he mixes interviews with pictures and I really like the black and white style. I feel that my topics might be deep and the black and white pictures mixed with the voices would really captivate the dark side. I would want to mix color into my story by way of the happier times that the people interviewed would talk about.
Three Ideas
1. Homeless Shelter or Homeless People
- I think this would be good to have a look into their world and their daily schedule. I would mix interviews with just footage of their daily lives adding in pieces of music that depicts their feelings and tones the ups and the downs
2. Batter Women's Shelter
- I also would want to captivate the struggles these women face but also show how strong they have become from it. I think domestic violence is an important topic in todays culture and the women that face domestic violence deserve to have their story told.
3. Eating Disorders
- For young college age students this is a serious issue. The need and want that the media places on thinness drives young women espeically to take drastic measures. I could mix real world expereiences with pictures and clips from the media.
- I think this would be good to have a look into their world and their daily schedule. I would mix interviews with just footage of their daily lives adding in pieces of music that depicts their feelings and tones the ups and the downs
2. Batter Women's Shelter
- I also would want to captivate the struggles these women face but also show how strong they have become from it. I think domestic violence is an important topic in todays culture and the women that face domestic violence deserve to have their story told.
3. Eating Disorders
- For young college age students this is a serious issue. The need and want that the media places on thinness drives young women espeically to take drastic measures. I could mix real world expereiences with pictures and clips from the media.
Friday, February 10, 2012
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