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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.

Changes at MSOE – A snapshot of the old and the (very) new

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Walking back to my office from the scholarship luncheon today (a really nice event where MSOE scholarship sponsors and recipients get to meet over a meal), I noticed the old Blatz Brewing Company logo atop MSOE’s Alumni Partnership Center. The … Continue reading →

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The impact of “small” differences

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

I happened to look up as I was walking into the Red Arrow Starbucks this morning, and I saw a photo. I took a couple pictures but can’t decide which of these I like best. They’re practically the same, just … Continue reading →

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Gaining clarity from a second look around

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

So about three weeks ago I posted this photo: One of the things I liked about it was the crisscrossed bands of shadows across the lawn. I assumed it came from the sun shining through the mall of trees on … Continue reading →

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Subsequent staircase thoughts on black and white

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Yesterday Karen commented that she liked the black-and-white quality of the middle staircase photo. And that was really interesting to me, because even though it looked black and white, it was actually a color photo. Something about the way light … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the Staircase

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Coming upstairs just now from my department meeting, I really liked the patterns of shadow and light on the staircase. Took a few quick pictures, natch 🙂 I think I like the photo in the middle best, mostly because in … Continue reading →

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Top Down

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

I took this photo of our birch tree this week on a sunny early evening as I arrived home from work. Trees die from the top down, something I learned from the arborist years ago when our birch tree was … Continue reading →

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What’s in a tagline (Part 2): Changing my blog’s identity AGAIN

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Welcome to KatherineWikoff.com, version 3.0. Today marks the launch of a new tagline for my blog’s “identity,” and I think I’ve FINALLY found something that fits. Version 1.0 Starting out in 2012, I subtitled my blog “Ideas on creativity, innovation, … Continue reading →

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A “Ha-Ha” Aha

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

In reading a book recently, I came across a reference to something I’d never heard of before: a “ha-ha.” This turned out to be a fun little piece of landscape trivia to learn about. A ha-ha is a feature of … Continue reading →

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Some follow-up thoughts on light

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Probably the one thing that fascinates me most about photography is the way light makes or breaks an image. Here are three pictures taken on different days this week. I took the first photo, which I posted yesterday, a few … Continue reading →

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Green lawn, white building, angled shadows, caged “works” (and thoughts on blogging)

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Something about the bright sunlight and the white building, the slanted shadows and the lush green grass, and finally the caged meters and pipes caught my eye as I was walking down the hill to Starbucks a few days ago. … Continue reading →

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