brian connors manke

Hive Portraits

Biography

Dana Lynne Rogers is a freelance photographer based in Lexington, KY. A soon to be graduate of University of Kentucky's Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrated Strategic Communications with an emphasis of the Creative path. For the past two years, as a student, she has worked for the A&S Hive Media Team as an in house Photographer. In order to establish an intercultural understanding of UK and the Shanghai University in China, she was chosen to travel with the University's selected students and professors to Shanghai to document the Appalachian Symposium event at the American Studies Center on Shanghai University's campus. She also freelances for the UK's College of Fine Arts, in photographing their theatre department's main stage plays. In her free time, she volunteers for the film photography lab on campus, as well as for a chapter called Students Helping Honduras for the non-profit organization, Central American Children's Institute. She has also worked with UK A&S Hive video production team for the passed two years, filming events and using Final Cut Pro 7 to edit. As well as photographing in china for Hive, she also created videos.

 

Some of her personal photography:

http://danarogers.blogspot.com/

www.danascamera.com

 

Some of her videos:

http://vimeo.com/46362896

http://vimeo.com/45931830

 

Submitted by dlro223 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:49 am

Last week the creative content/social media functional team of Hive, presented work-flow to other Hive team members. The podcasters created a demo interview featuring Christain Ecker called “On the Spot.” The social media writers showed their interactive pages created through facebook, twitter etc. connected to the A&S page. And to show what I do in terms of photography here at A&S, I took portraits of all Hive team members at the meeting in yearbook style! Brian and I provided everyone with funky clothes from our closets and everyone had a lot of fun, because the creative content/social media team has a lot of fun doing what they do.

 

I have chosen the best dressed out of our portraits at the meeting, your prize is pride. Here you go…

1. Brian Connors Manke

2. Dustin Mays

3. Luyi Su

4. Adrian Booker

5. Scott Horn

6. Cheyenne Hohman

7. Christina Buckner

 

 

 

The Hive: Creative Content and Social Media with Brian Connors Manke

The Hive is the College of Arts and Sciences' newly unified team of both creative and technical services, which provides A&S with support on web and print media projects, public relations, and computing and informational services. We sat down with Brian Connors Manke to discuss his role in The Hive as the Assistant Director of Communications and Creative Content and the Functional Team Lead of the Creative Content and Social Media Team.

Natalie Baxter at Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute

In summer 2011, Arts & Sciences Video Production team member Natalie Baxter traveled to Whitesburg, Ky to help teach Appalshop interns how to create documentary style short films about the Appalachian region. The program, Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), has interns ages 14 to 21 that live in the surrounding Appalachian Kentucky counties. Filmed by: Dana Rogers, Brian Connors Manke, and Noah Adler Edited by: Dana Rogers

The Visuals of Video

Submitted by brconn2 on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 02:51 pm

I dig musician/songwriter Bill Callahan. He's been at it for a long time - working under the "Smog" moniker for many moons before shedding that skin and performing under his own name for the past few years. He's run the gamut from lo-fi home recording (long before GarageBand) to his current, more polished sheen. "America!" from his new album Apocalypse is filled with great imagery of a nation past and present - shifting gears from name dropping some of his songwriting heroes, to pop-culture references to war and the political. 

Just watched the video and it really struck me with its lyrical style and amazing visuals - separately unique, but also equal to Callahan's songwriting. It's the kind of piece that I hope that the talented people here at A&S can explore making - a great example of blending cool illustration/animation with narrative. Not only complemeting it, but enhancing it to new heights. It's pretty inspiring stuff - to me at least. Major props to the team behind this - Okay Mountain/Dave Bryant. 

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