This is an enhanced podcast about The Toddler Machine by the artist Heather Freeman. This enhanced podcast is unique because it's a conversation between two girls. In this podcast these two girls talk about the artwork The Toddler Machine. They talk about not only Freeman statement but also about they think.
In the middle of the podcast the girls do some research on The Toddler Machine. They find out what the piece is about and what it is made of.
The videos I collected are from my family's farm located in Old Fort, Ohio. We like to call our homestead and farm, Stacy Farms. My father, Douglas Stacy, is the self employed farmer that operates the farm with the help of my brother and I. I have been helping my father on the farm ever since I have been able to help, beginning in the sixth grade. Living and working on a family farm has taught me about responsibility, discipline, hard work, and commitment. These reasons are my I choose to take videos of Stacy Farms, because I want to show others what my background is and how it has developed me.
How I showed these aspects was through videos of me giving the 40 head of cattle we raise a straw bale. (This chore I do quite often.) I showed the process I take every time I must complete this task. Getting the skid loader out of the barn, picking up the bale, cutting the strings on the bale, flipping the bale over with the skid loader, and then spreading it around with a pitch fork. As I was filming I did not run into any problems, however I had no idea how these videos were going to form an interesting podcast, but it did...
Some of the things that attracted me to film were the cattle themselves (running, walking, breathing, etc), the noise of the skid loader, the work of taking the strings off the bale, and the work I had to do spreading the bale around. These actions attracted me because I wanted to show others what I do when working on the farm.
After I collected these videos I manipulated them into a factual video about agriculture in Ohio, cattle production, and family farm operations. I selected true agriculture facts and posted them throughout the video. Instead of a voice recording, I wanted to do text. That way when viewers read the quotes they will be able to get the full effect with the sounds from the farm in the background.
