I don’t usually listen to punk rock, so when Rich Stremme’s songs were playing while we were drawing our graffiti, it was my first time listening to punk rock in a couple of years. I did not connect with the music or beats when listening, so I tuned it out while drawing, expecting not to be interested in his presentation. I was surprised when it was a Zoom presentation since I believed Rich would be there in person. In my opinion, all the technical difficulties made his presentation hard to follow and connect to. I did, however, enjoy listening to his experience with punk rock. I liked his discussion about zines, essentially small magazine pages intended to share a message to the public, and it was how punk rock artists spread their name. I have done a lot of graphic design work, making posters, campaigns, and websites, so it was interesting to hear about zines and how punk rock artists made their following. I thought it was crazy some of the lengths people went to because of punk rock, like how someone killed another person after getting kicked out of a rock show, and it showed me how passionate people were about punk rock back then. Rich’s presentation, although through Zoom, was easier to connect to because of the in-class items we could see, like the album covers being passed around the class, and I found them to teach me a bit more about the history of punk rock, which I liked. Although I don’t connect with punk rock music, it was interesting to hear about punk rock’s history and its specific terms like zines, which I think opened my eyes to punk rock.

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