Conversations in Project 5 follow the same premise as in PROJECT 4; they are made using an instant message, but for Project 5, I concentrate on mixing reality. And this time there are two conversations, one with the same person from PROJECT 4, Jin and one with my friend, Lanae. I tried to link as many conversation points as possible after later copy/pasting them to my blog.
I like how in the conversations, reality can actually be mixed up, as in the conversation with Lanae where one reference she made was too vague for Google to find matches other than things like Russian resistance, or with Jin when he uses Chinese symbols, which I link to translated Google sites containing the same symbols, only to find out later that they mean "hehe," "what are you doing," and "Snowy." Often in conversations with people, they bombard me with more links than I can handle. It's fortunate that I got to as many as I did with the dificulties I was having opening Jin's YouTube finds. I guess it would be futile to try for a perfect conversation.
These conversations are from real life, and they talk about world-wide realities, from the pictures and video of my dogs that I uploaded to the blog to the current crisis in Darfur. Again for this project, as for the previous one, the conversations are aimless, except to follow the interesting, and as you can tell a little more in this one, to produce an acceptable project.
The Lanae conversation has an edited out portion where she starts talking about her x-boyfriend, not so much in response to the world peace question, but despite of it. Then after talking about the dogs and starting to talk about her furniture rearanging, she's aparently done for the night. A perfectly real conversation.
I really like in the Jin conversation when he found a funny video that I hadn't seen that was inspired by a web site that I had seen and he hadn't, that is also one from English 303 sylabus. It was exciting. I learn so much from other people about what can be found on the Internet that I consider it a full-circle moment when I was able to access for someone else something related to what they brought to the conversation. I'd like to show off and end with my favorite homestarrunner Strong Bad email, Caper.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Web/Real Life Component
Now I would rather do something with a blog I made for a presentation. It's my capstone class presentation, and it contains information on and links to my classes and internship and the contents of my wriiting portfolio. I'm still working on that and trying to figure out how I can make it mixed reality to meet the requirements for project 5. What all constitutes mixed reality?
This is the presentation blog.
I really like the hook pictures and information up to spots on a map. When I saw that I though of getting a google map and linking pictures from different places. I've been to Geneva Switzerland, Grand Rappids, MI, Miami, FL, ect. and have pictures from all of them. I don't know how close in I'd go on the map; just city or right down to street or lake. You can't get as close everywhere as some places on google maps. Is it possible to link more than one picture to one pointer on the map? Also, since we learned how, I haven't been able to put a pointer on a google map. How is that done again?
This is the presentation blog.
I really like the hook pictures and information up to spots on a map. When I saw that I though of getting a google map and linking pictures from different places. I've been to Geneva Switzerland, Grand Rappids, MI, Miami, FL, ect. and have pictures from all of them. I don't know how close in I'd go on the map; just city or right down to street or lake. You can't get as close everywhere as some places on google maps. Is it possible to link more than one picture to one pointer on the map? Also, since we learned how, I haven't been able to put a pointer on a google map. How is that done again?
POST
I think blogs are exciting because it gives people an opportunity to share with others written or other media work and get responses on them. To be a part of the blogosphere could make people feel like they are connected to something bigger than themselvs. Blogs are really open and participatory. You can go on and on about one subject or issue and people can read it like a newspaper article, and then they can respond right there where you can read it. Probabley the most exciting part about blogs is just that your work is out there where people can be reading it.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
My College Major List and Metatext
biology
psychology
communication studies with a business minor
education
journalism
English
business
interior design
design studies with a communication studies minor
I’ve changed my major a lot of times. So far I have everyone beat who tries to go up against me for more numerous. That I’ve changed my mind so many times is not a source of pride for me, but that I was able to when I felt the need is a big part of my life. That I’m a well-rounded student is a source of pride for me, and that I’m a less prejudice, more confident person because of my various experiences is also a good reason to remember this list.
My list also sounds poetic when recited, especially with an air of slight haste and in chronological order. To make them a multimedia presentation, I would enter them in Windows Movie Maker as titles. The minors would be in the secondary, smaller title spots where they are applicable. Pictures of the kind of job I thought might become of each major would be shown as the background in correspondence with their major. The soundtrack for the list could be related to my moods and attitudes during and toward each major experience. To make the list the main focus, the titles could be stretched out to stay on the screen longer or, in addition to that, be repeated in some fashion. The list could start over for every new major, for example, biology, biology, psychology, biology, psychology, communication studies with a business minor, showing the expanded foundation trailing behind each new choice.
Biology was going to be for genetics. “What do you picture yourself doing?” they’d ask me in junior high, “working in a lab?” ….Yes? I liked doing Punnet squares and learning about what gene combinations would present as what traits in plants and human eyes and things. This was seventh grade science class with a teacher who taught in my exact learning style, plus I was Hermine Granger at school in junior high. High school biology, chemistry and physics was not as much fun as Punnet squares but didn’t dissuade me, so college rolled around, and my major declaration was pre-biology.
I squeaked by with a C in my first college biology class, and getting dismayed by how much we had to kill things to complete a lab assignment and by my obvious vagueness on what I’d even be doing, I lost motivation. I failed my second semester biology class. It was too hard. Concepts were over my head to heights at which maybe a butterfly could reach if we hadn’t killed it as a caterpillar in bio lab. It was during this year, I remember because I was in the hallway of my dorm, that I told my mom on the phone that I thought I should be a professional organizer. After laughing at me, she sobered up when she realized that I was serious and asked what major I’d have to be in to go into that, “Interior Design?” I was horrified at the prospect.
Psychology was an interesting subject. In high school one of the college classes I took was Psychology 101. Now I think, who’s not interested in psychology a little bit? Around this time is when I took my first career assessment/interest inventory test. That thing had the gull to tell me that I’m not interested in anything. I had no interest strong enough to read above the others. This may have been when I started to blame my parents for my situation. I had done what they told me to do for years and years, and now I was lost not knowing what I wanted to do. I’ll tell you what I wanted to do, party.
Communication studies, after one semester of psychology, was my next major with a business minor so I could run my own business, but probably more so I could party. Classes got more frustrating with their seemingly pointlessness, and I fantasized more and more about dropping out. Unlike in junior high and high school, where I spent my spare time stressing about what exactly teachers needed from me to give me an A, I simply did the work and took the grade. There was an English class during this time in which I did well. My grades were generally falling, though. I still hadn’t found my own motivation.
Education was declared at WVU-Parkersburg. What would have been my third year of college was spent in Morgantown as were the previous two years, but by two thirds into that Fall semester I had stopped going to classes completely. There was supposed to be a fun poetry one that wasn’t what I expected like so many other classes before. I finally took a whole semester off and just worked that Spring. When my lease was up, I moved back in with my parents in Parkersburg. Teaching would be perfect, summers off. I stayed in classes that semester but dropped my education one before I had to go spend time in actual elementary school classrooms.
Journalism would be for the next semester it was decided. My first classes were mind-numbingly about the intricacies of printing machinery. Terrified, I withdrew from another whole semester before it would even show up on my transcript.
English came from a different angle. I would have to get through the classes to graduate from a major and get a job, and English classes were always the calmest classes for me to attend. My next English class, however, reminded me that class-time for English class is fine, yes, but all that reading, and for this one, all those interpretations. I’m not sure this major ever even got declared, because I couldn’t do anymore English classes.
Business came from another angle still. I went to my advisor and asked for the fastest way out. I knew I just had to stick with something, and by this time I knew all of it would be excruciating. So, what would be the least amount of pain I would have to take to look down and see a degree in my hand? I was told that I had enough business classes to graduate with an associate’s degree in two more semesters. Sign me up. After a semester of business classes, I was told it would be two semesters from that point. I didn’t even try to clarify who made the mistake. I left the advisor’s office and didn’t sign up for the next semester of classes.
Interior Design was my finally admitting that I am a prissy little girl who likes to watch HGTV with her mama and wants to play house for a living. I moved all back to Morgantown with perhaps even enough gathered motivation to tackle this four-year program. If it’s what I can honestly see myself doing, this major could work where I had failed with others. Signing up for the program, I’m made aware that it is competitive and only 20 people are accepted each year. My motivation said, well, we’ve come this far.
My motivation killed me for a year with art history and style eras and craft projects the likes of which I had never encountered. Along the way though, we 60 or so “cohorts” of Interior Design 2006 were receivers of the announcement that there would be a possible new alternative for students rejected from the program. They would continue on with the same basic set of classes, only steering the program more toward the chosen minor field. I was eyeing the writing minors long before the group of 20 was selected excluding me.
One of the minors that surfaced as an option in this beginning phase was Communication Studies. English is what I was going to pick as my minor, but it didn’t end up being one of the five or six ready at that point in the major’s creation. But Communication Studies was set up with the same magazine writing purpose.
So now after some serious negotiation between my advisor/the final say on what classes are acceptable for what requirements, a required summer internship and another year and a half of classes, I’m going to be one of three first ever graduates of the Design Studies program.
This semester has been my favorite bunch of classes ever. Not only am I two thirds through this last semester but also I can see the way out. With this list I have the map of what I’ve learned; life gets better with design.
psychology
communication studies with a business minor
education
journalism
English
business
interior design
design studies with a communication studies minor
I’ve changed my major a lot of times. So far I have everyone beat who tries to go up against me for more numerous. That I’ve changed my mind so many times is not a source of pride for me, but that I was able to when I felt the need is a big part of my life. That I’m a well-rounded student is a source of pride for me, and that I’m a less prejudice, more confident person because of my various experiences is also a good reason to remember this list.
My list also sounds poetic when recited, especially with an air of slight haste and in chronological order. To make them a multimedia presentation, I would enter them in Windows Movie Maker as titles. The minors would be in the secondary, smaller title spots where they are applicable. Pictures of the kind of job I thought might become of each major would be shown as the background in correspondence with their major. The soundtrack for the list could be related to my moods and attitudes during and toward each major experience. To make the list the main focus, the titles could be stretched out to stay on the screen longer or, in addition to that, be repeated in some fashion. The list could start over for every new major, for example, biology, biology, psychology, biology, psychology, communication studies with a business minor, showing the expanded foundation trailing behind each new choice.
Biology was going to be for genetics. “What do you picture yourself doing?” they’d ask me in junior high, “working in a lab?” ….Yes? I liked doing Punnet squares and learning about what gene combinations would present as what traits in plants and human eyes and things. This was seventh grade science class with a teacher who taught in my exact learning style, plus I was Hermine Granger at school in junior high. High school biology, chemistry and physics was not as much fun as Punnet squares but didn’t dissuade me, so college rolled around, and my major declaration was pre-biology.
I squeaked by with a C in my first college biology class, and getting dismayed by how much we had to kill things to complete a lab assignment and by my obvious vagueness on what I’d even be doing, I lost motivation. I failed my second semester biology class. It was too hard. Concepts were over my head to heights at which maybe a butterfly could reach if we hadn’t killed it as a caterpillar in bio lab. It was during this year, I remember because I was in the hallway of my dorm, that I told my mom on the phone that I thought I should be a professional organizer. After laughing at me, she sobered up when she realized that I was serious and asked what major I’d have to be in to go into that, “Interior Design?” I was horrified at the prospect.
Psychology was an interesting subject. In high school one of the college classes I took was Psychology 101. Now I think, who’s not interested in psychology a little bit? Around this time is when I took my first career assessment/interest inventory test. That thing had the gull to tell me that I’m not interested in anything. I had no interest strong enough to read above the others. This may have been when I started to blame my parents for my situation. I had done what they told me to do for years and years, and now I was lost not knowing what I wanted to do. I’ll tell you what I wanted to do, party.
Communication studies, after one semester of psychology, was my next major with a business minor so I could run my own business, but probably more so I could party. Classes got more frustrating with their seemingly pointlessness, and I fantasized more and more about dropping out. Unlike in junior high and high school, where I spent my spare time stressing about what exactly teachers needed from me to give me an A, I simply did the work and took the grade. There was an English class during this time in which I did well. My grades were generally falling, though. I still hadn’t found my own motivation.
Education was declared at WVU-Parkersburg. What would have been my third year of college was spent in Morgantown as were the previous two years, but by two thirds into that Fall semester I had stopped going to classes completely. There was supposed to be a fun poetry one that wasn’t what I expected like so many other classes before. I finally took a whole semester off and just worked that Spring. When my lease was up, I moved back in with my parents in Parkersburg. Teaching would be perfect, summers off. I stayed in classes that semester but dropped my education one before I had to go spend time in actual elementary school classrooms.
Journalism would be for the next semester it was decided. My first classes were mind-numbingly about the intricacies of printing machinery. Terrified, I withdrew from another whole semester before it would even show up on my transcript.
English came from a different angle. I would have to get through the classes to graduate from a major and get a job, and English classes were always the calmest classes for me to attend. My next English class, however, reminded me that class-time for English class is fine, yes, but all that reading, and for this one, all those interpretations. I’m not sure this major ever even got declared, because I couldn’t do anymore English classes.
Business came from another angle still. I went to my advisor and asked for the fastest way out. I knew I just had to stick with something, and by this time I knew all of it would be excruciating. So, what would be the least amount of pain I would have to take to look down and see a degree in my hand? I was told that I had enough business classes to graduate with an associate’s degree in two more semesters. Sign me up. After a semester of business classes, I was told it would be two semesters from that point. I didn’t even try to clarify who made the mistake. I left the advisor’s office and didn’t sign up for the next semester of classes.
Interior Design was my finally admitting that I am a prissy little girl who likes to watch HGTV with her mama and wants to play house for a living. I moved all back to Morgantown with perhaps even enough gathered motivation to tackle this four-year program. If it’s what I can honestly see myself doing, this major could work where I had failed with others. Signing up for the program, I’m made aware that it is competitive and only 20 people are accepted each year. My motivation said, well, we’ve come this far.
My motivation killed me for a year with art history and style eras and craft projects the likes of which I had never encountered. Along the way though, we 60 or so “cohorts” of Interior Design 2006 were receivers of the announcement that there would be a possible new alternative for students rejected from the program. They would continue on with the same basic set of classes, only steering the program more toward the chosen minor field. I was eyeing the writing minors long before the group of 20 was selected excluding me.
One of the minors that surfaced as an option in this beginning phase was Communication Studies. English is what I was going to pick as my minor, but it didn’t end up being one of the five or six ready at that point in the major’s creation. But Communication Studies was set up with the same magazine writing purpose.
So now after some serious negotiation between my advisor/the final say on what classes are acceptable for what requirements, a required summer internship and another year and a half of classes, I’m going to be one of three first ever graduates of the Design Studies program.
This semester has been my favorite bunch of classes ever. Not only am I two thirds through this last semester but also I can see the way out. With this list I have the map of what I’ve learned; life gets better with design.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Metatext for Project 3
In opening documents that would be irretrievable after getting rid of my old computer, I found conversations between an x-boyfriend of mine and me that I had saved. Finding these three conversations was serendipitous for this project, because they were from three obviously different, identifiable stages of relationship, and I could see how they could be used for the project. Shannonizing the conversations would take out the personal meaning, but hopefully leave the changing attitudes and atmospheres intact.
The first is from the getting-into-it stage, getting to know each other; she's telling him about her day and dilemmas, he's showing interest and offering advice. Really normal stuff, you can hear people walking along the bike trail in this stage. She's way too into a boring story while he's adding the obvious remarks. There is uniquely shared language with our use of Shawnee words to be a little more interesting. I Shannonized this stage with the Dr. Seuss setting because this conversation is as much about setting the rhythm and using our voices as it is about communicating a point. Mixing with Dr. Seuss brings strangers into a conversation that could be their own stage one relationship mix.
The second is from very near the end of the relationship. Everyone's trying to be very clear and correct as though this time is the last time they're going to say this. Each knows only their side very clearly and correctly and starts to talk in circles waiting for the other party to get the point. Repetition during this stage is not to flaunt or impress but to beg our opposing side to surrender. We can almost hear it after each person speaks, "Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."" I gravitated toward Edgar Allen Poe, a writer consumed with thoughts of death to Shannonize this section of relationship. The product conversation comes across in defiant barks of futility, which is pretty much exactly a general description of the input.
The last document was a conversation from after the relationship failed. Mark Twain was the perfect Shannonizer for this stage, because this is the stage where pretenses are dropped. People settle into their individual comfortable languages, give up trying to sort out issues, and let each other give up. The speech becomes slow and meandering with no hidden agendas or concealed thoughts. It's all about honesty when it doesn't really matter. I like the section of text where '12' is batted back and forth as though it's the topic in some mundane debate between a couple of Twain's characters as they float down the river. They're together as their journeys have brought them but ready to be separated by any turn of events.
The titles worked out for me, though they were simply the beginnings of each conversation. Someone saying "hi" starts out the relationship. The middle is about who did what, especially if it's ending. And the post-relationship is about what has "now just" become of the relationship attempts. Taking the remnants of a tumultuous relationship and scrambling them into a series of moods actually makes me feel better about having to deal with the experience from which they come. Moods can be abandoned more easily than history and intimacy.
The first is from the getting-into-it stage, getting to know each other; she's telling him about her day and dilemmas, he's showing interest and offering advice. Really normal stuff, you can hear people walking along the bike trail in this stage. She's way too into a boring story while he's adding the obvious remarks. There is uniquely shared language with our use of Shawnee words to be a little more interesting. I Shannonized this stage with the Dr. Seuss setting because this conversation is as much about setting the rhythm and using our voices as it is about communicating a point. Mixing with Dr. Seuss brings strangers into a conversation that could be their own stage one relationship mix.
The second is from very near the end of the relationship. Everyone's trying to be very clear and correct as though this time is the last time they're going to say this. Each knows only their side very clearly and correctly and starts to talk in circles waiting for the other party to get the point. Repetition during this stage is not to flaunt or impress but to beg our opposing side to surrender. We can almost hear it after each person speaks, "Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."" I gravitated toward Edgar Allen Poe, a writer consumed with thoughts of death to Shannonize this section of relationship. The product conversation comes across in defiant barks of futility, which is pretty much exactly a general description of the input.
The last document was a conversation from after the relationship failed. Mark Twain was the perfect Shannonizer for this stage, because this is the stage where pretenses are dropped. People settle into their individual comfortable languages, give up trying to sort out issues, and let each other give up. The speech becomes slow and meandering with no hidden agendas or concealed thoughts. It's all about honesty when it doesn't really matter. I like the section of text where '12' is batted back and forth as though it's the topic in some mundane debate between a couple of Twain's characters as they float down the river. They're together as their journeys have brought them but ready to be separated by any turn of events.
The titles worked out for me, though they were simply the beginnings of each conversation. Someone saying "hi" starts out the relationship. The middle is about who did what, especially if it's ending. And the post-relationship is about what has "now just" become of the relationship attempts. Taking the remnants of a tumultuous relationship and scrambling them into a series of moods actually makes me feel better about having to deal with the experience from which they come. Moods can be abandoned more easily than history and intimacy.
Project 3: Relationship Stages
justin says: hi
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CaptinAqua: did you
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CaptinAqua: did you had plans with your stuff or didn't understand what do you have to go where we wanted to go where we wanted Kispoko2: did you get your plans with the life of anything planned, what do you are going to take CaptinAqua: but that's good CaptinAqua: did later. earlier i might be going. for the one that my 8am final i feel like i hate to keep goin back to go where we were you mean, and i had thursday. fuck her. i were helping lanae dictatorship Kispoko2: woooohooooo Kispoko2: how'd you acting like i looked and i couldn't remember which final was tubby's idea. what do you get your stuff or didn't wanna talk CaptinAqua: sillay Kispoko2: um... CaptinAqua: you meant by tubby and why all of anything planned CaptinAqua: no, right CaptinAqua: i had enough quiz points to keep goin back to it is this nyc thing with me first though. what do you know what do you really wanted Kispoko2: because it was askin what do you really a lanae dictatorship Kispoko2: i looked and why is this nyc thing with your plans with the one that. where we wanted Kispoko2: woooohooooo Kispoko2: you had thursday is the life of me first though. Kispoko2: i might be going or i did you don't really wanted Kispoko2: did you get your stuff or don't. i were you really have much of a tagalong? CaptinAqua: and i was askin what you forget you fall asleep last night. Kispoko2: i were talkin shit yesterday. she was all of anything planned, what CaptinAqua: no, not takin a lanae move Kispoko2: how'd you have much of me first though. that my classes and i'm sure you don't have planned CaptinAqua: because it is this nyc thing with the psych one i thought you acting like that.
Kispoko2: now just
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Kispoko2: now just where in the fuck have you, they were gettin on your nerves? what Kispoko2: like brudda scott CaptinAqua: since it easily the fuck have you get right? CaptinAqua: now? i went to everybody Kispoko2: in there, plus i was... well none of them. justin? i thought that interesction one time, that's some shit i've signed back up for that was you, cause i was behind you get right back though i, plus i just looked at all Kispoko2: hm Kispoko2: in a way yes, they were gettin on your nerves? what Kispoko2: like 12 then, cause again, cause i missed too much to me like 12 then found out class at like 12 then CaptinAqua: coo Kispoko2: but one Kispoko2: why, but obviously more than that sounds like, what?! CaptinAqua: why, they were gettin on your nerves? CaptinAqua: i, that's some shit i've done Kispoko2: like brudda scott CaptinAqua: why, they were gettin on your nerves? CaptinAqua: you couldn't hear that sounds like 12 then, if i dropped all of them but one Kispoko2: how did you, if i interpreted it at like brudda scott CaptinAqua: journalism Kispoko2: journalism Kispoko2: so... well none of it at me like 12 then found out class at like, if i said CaptinAqua: it at that Kispoko2: why, i was behind you disappeared then, cause i'm not gonna go for all Kispoko2: you been CaptinAqua: i just looked at all my classes but one Kispoko2: someone just looked at all of it had only been generally crazy. so which did you couldn't hear that way yes, guess i, guess i was... well it's literally crazy. that day was behind you couldn't hear that isn't so which did ya end up droppin fer real?
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justin says: hi there was even a way back in, but i was the eddie karen says: yeah karen says:. so it was crazy justin says: a trip karen says: all the time i should have to flip a exastinting trip, he's the time too far out down there and by paddl karen says: well i got to dimple where i fell in, guide%2. i wasn't in your boat? justin says: you walk back up. and thrown ropes. i went in the shelf rocks and since i barely got to throw. justin says: i can't afford to keep doing this time i had to go all the rapid so i barely got to flip a little. the trip, but i barely got up there justin says: this karen says: well i hit the rock. not high siding. but on a little. but i couldn't get over anywhere. but on a what now justin says: hi there was even a what now justin says: tell me about it. i started paddling this woman.. i fucked up there i missed the end of the eddie karen says: i fucked up. i can't afford to buy another case of the eddie and since i had a rope throwing place you have wesah keseke? justin says: tell me about it is and just try. the eddie that time i got up to pay for what now justin says: and to keep doing this woman.. i had a way down there i missed the shelf rocks and thrown ropes. so i had a case of the water on a rope throwing place you just started to dimple where i wasn't in. but on a exastinting trip we got back up there. i got back in the rapid so it is and how hard it karen says: ing. i should have to pay. how bad i hit the water on a exastinting trip, but i went in the trip we got out down there justin says: why did you miss a trip karen says: juuustin i was way down there.
CaptinAqua: did you
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CaptinAqua: did you had plans with your stuff or didn't understand what do you have to go where we wanted to go where we wanted Kispoko2: did you get your plans with the life of anything planned, what do you are going to take CaptinAqua: but that's good CaptinAqua: did later. earlier i might be going. for the one that my 8am final i feel like i hate to keep goin back to go where we were you mean, and i had thursday. fuck her. i were helping lanae dictatorship Kispoko2: woooohooooo Kispoko2: how'd you acting like i looked and i couldn't remember which final was tubby's idea. what do you get your stuff or didn't wanna talk CaptinAqua: sillay Kispoko2: um... CaptinAqua: you meant by tubby and why all of anything planned CaptinAqua: no, right CaptinAqua: i had enough quiz points to keep goin back to it is this nyc thing with me first though. what do you know what do you really wanted Kispoko2: because it was askin what do you really a lanae dictatorship Kispoko2: i looked and why is this nyc thing with your plans with the one that. where we wanted Kispoko2: woooohooooo Kispoko2: you had thursday is the life of me first though. Kispoko2: i might be going or i did you don't really wanted Kispoko2: did you get your stuff or don't. i were you really have much of a tagalong? CaptinAqua: and i was askin what you forget you fall asleep last night. Kispoko2: i were talkin shit yesterday. she was all of anything planned, what CaptinAqua: no, not takin a lanae move Kispoko2: how'd you have much of me first though. that my classes and i'm sure you don't have planned CaptinAqua: because it is this nyc thing with the psych one i thought you acting like that.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Translation to Dutch
Picture 3 looks like an airport. What's striking about this space is the open, easy-going feeling. Negative space is largely used in depth as well as height. The height is stories tall seeming not to close at all with the way one wall curves slightly to meet, where the ceiling would be, the opposite side which is composed of glass primarily. The hall also curves into the distance as the floor creates a diagonal line inclining to the second floor. The floor is a white, smooth material unbroken except for a centerline right down the middle of the hallway. The negative space, airy color, and curved lines evoke the free feeling. The smooth walking space directed by a long shape and a single line creates a movement effortlessly even as the path leads to a second story. I think the design is successful. This is a place where the concept is to get people calmly from one place to another. In a place that could get crowded with people, it's hard to imagine this one getting a cramped feeling. There is space to rest and eat at tables, which aren't blocked off in their own stagnant area or an imposition to the walking or visual flow. It looks like there is also a see-through elevator going to the next floor. Travelers would have an easy time navigating in this design at the slow constant pace the design conveys. The two things i could think of adding were easily dismissed in my mind. Both stairs and running water features would have brought with them a sense of gravity we don't have to deal with in this space as it is.
Foto 3 ziet eruit als een luchthaven. Wat is er opvallend over deze ruimte is het open, gemakkelijk gaan voelen. Negatieve ruimte wordt veel gebruikt in diepte en hoogte. De hoogte is lang verhalen schijnbaar niet te dicht op alle met de manier waarop een muur bochten iets te ontmoeten, waar het plafond zou worden, het tegenovergestelde zijde die is samengesteld uit voornamelijk glas. De hal ook bochten in de verte als de vloer creëert een diagonale lijn hellen naar de tweede verdieping. De vloer is een wit, glad materiaal met uitzondering van een ongebroken hartlijnverlichting recht in het midden van de hal. De negatieve ruimte, frisse kleuren, en gebogen lijnen associaties oproepen met het vrije gevoel. De goede wandel-ruimte geregisseerd door een lange vorm en een enkele regel creëert een beweging moeiteloos zelfs als het pad leidt naar een tweede verhaal. Ik denk dat de opzet is geslaagd. Dit is een plek waar het concept is om mensen rustig van de ene plek naar de andere. In een plaats die kon krijgen bomvol met mensen, het is moeilijk voorstelbaar dat dit een verkrijgen van een verkrampt gevoel. Er is ruimte om te rusten en te eten aan tafels, die niet zijn afgesloten in hun eigen gebied of een stagnerende opleggen aan de wandel-of visuele flow. Het lijkt erop dat er ook een doorkijk-lift gaat naar de volgende verdieping. Reizigers zouden een gemakkelijk te navigeren in dit ontwerp over het trage tempo constant het ontwerp uitstraalt. De twee dingen waar ik kon bedenken voegen werden gemakkelijk ontslagen in mijn gedachten. Beide trappen en stromend water functies zou hebben gebracht met hen een gevoel van zwaarte we niet te maken hebben met de in deze ruimte zoals het nu is.
Foto 3 ziet eruit als een luchthaven. Wat is er opvallend over deze ruimte is het open, gemakkelijk gaan voelen. Negatieve ruimte wordt veel gebruikt in diepte en hoogte. De hoogte is lang verhalen schijnbaar niet te dicht op alle met de manier waarop een muur bochten iets te ontmoeten, waar het plafond zou worden, het tegenovergestelde zijde die is samengesteld uit voornamelijk glas. De hal ook bochten in de verte als de vloer creëert een diagonale lijn hellen naar de tweede verdieping. De vloer is een wit, glad materiaal met uitzondering van een ongebroken hartlijnverlichting recht in het midden van de hal. De negatieve ruimte, frisse kleuren, en gebogen lijnen associaties oproepen met het vrije gevoel. De goede wandel-ruimte geregisseerd door een lange vorm en een enkele regel creëert een beweging moeiteloos zelfs als het pad leidt naar een tweede verhaal. Ik denk dat de opzet is geslaagd. Dit is een plek waar het concept is om mensen rustig van de ene plek naar de andere. In een plaats die kon krijgen bomvol met mensen, het is moeilijk voorstelbaar dat dit een verkrijgen van een verkrampt gevoel. Er is ruimte om te rusten en te eten aan tafels, die niet zijn afgesloten in hun eigen gebied of een stagnerende opleggen aan de wandel-of visuele flow. Het lijkt erop dat er ook een doorkijk-lift gaat naar de volgende verdieping. Reizigers zouden een gemakkelijk te navigeren in dit ontwerp over het trage tempo constant het ontwerp uitstraalt. De twee dingen waar ik kon bedenken voegen werden gemakkelijk ontslagen in mijn gedachten. Beide trappen en stromend water functies zou hebben gebracht met hen een gevoel van zwaarte we niet te maken hebben met de in deze ruimte zoals het nu is.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Shannonized Analog Post on "Green Switch"
An energy management system called Green Switch master switch is the other outlet to shut off but still be flipped on existing homes and other electrical devices are used to designate one to designate one outlet to exit. Turning Green Switch master switch to bed. According to bed. With the other electrical systems that are turned off, the “on” position returns wall plugs and is ideal for coupling lamps with alarm clocks or office. This is placed by the “on” position sends a 30 second largest expense, including the control switch, allowing one outlet to 45% to two years through resource conservation. Turning Green Switch master switch is placed by the hospitality/hotel industry, giving the force drawn into appliances and electrical devices are turned off but still plugged in. Getting its start in about one control outbuildings and other electrical systems, and systems, and electrical systems that are managed at one appliance to normal modes. According to 15% of stand-by power, where energy costs. Green Switch is now available for coupling lamps with DVR systems to bed. Turning the economy mode, lights and can take as little as little as little as an hour, the door or office. Green Switch master switch turned off but still plugged in. The system pays for the other electrical systems, lights and thermostats can still plugged in the other electrical systems, and leave the door or TVs with a wireless signal to shut off all designated outlets, and offices. The system called Green Switch master switch to continue operation, while the “on” position returns wall plugs and thermostats can be flipped on an electric bill savings, and leave the house, while the master switch, are left on the second largest expense, and leave the force drawn into appliances and electrical systems to bed.
--Miss Manners
An energy management system pays for itself in. Also, where energy is ideal for itself in about one appliance to the “off” position returns wall plugs and leave the “off” position returns wall plugs and systems to shut off all designated outlets, which can take as little as little as an electric bill savings, including the cost on an electric bill savings, the door or on the “on” position sends a 30 second largest expense, the hospitality/hotel industry, when lights and systems, the second largest expense, lights and electrical systems that are turned off, are used to exit. Getting its start in. The system was able to 15% to bed. The master controlled RF Radio Frequency communication between the “off” position returns wall plugs and can even control outbuildings and systems, while benefitting the economy mode, the way out the operator time to bed. Also, large amount of stand-by power. The system pays for the result of energy management system called Green Switch Installations can take as an hour, which can take as an hour, large amount of the door or TVs with DVR systems to continue operation, allowing one appliance to the Green Switch master switch is ideal for coupling lamps with DVR systems, while the m. Also, lights and thermostats can even control switch is the operator time to the hospitality/hotel industry, while benefitting the Green Switch is wasted. With the Green Switch Installations can still be master controlled RF Radio Frequency communication between the control outbuildings and offices. Turning Green Switch is placed by the Green Switch is now available for the Green Switch master controlled, allowing one to designate one control outbuildings and thermostats can even control system was able to bed.
--Mark Twain
from my "Green Switch"
An energy management system called Green Switch is now available for the home or office. Getting its start in the hospitality/hotel industry, where energy is the second largest expense, the control system was able to save 25% to 45% of energy costs. According to the Department of Energy, 10% to 15% of the cost on an electric bill is the result of stand-by power, the force drawn into appliances and systems that are turned off but still plugged in. Also, when lights and other electrical devices are left on, large amount of energy is wasted. Energy consumption issues, including the setting of the home’s thermostat back to the economy mode, are managed at one control switch, which can be flipped on the way out the door or before going to bed. The system pays for itself in about one to two years through energy bill savings, while benefitting the environment through resource conservation.
Turning Green Switch master switch to the “off” position sends a wireless signal to shut off all designated outlets, electrical systems, and light switches with a 30 second delay, giving the operator time to exit. Split receptacles are used to designate one outlet to be master controlled, while the other maintains power. This is ideal for coupling lamps with alarm clocks or TVs with DVR systems, allowing one appliance to continue operation, while the other outlet conserves energy. With the master switch turned off, lights and thermostats can still be controlled manually. Turning the Green Switch master switch to the “on” position returns wall plugs and electrical systems to normal modes.
Green Switch Installations can take as little as an hour, and is done either during construction or on existing homes and offices. The master switch is placed by the door most used to enter and leave the house, and can even control outbuildings and barns over 100 yards away using microchip controlled RF (Radio Frequency) communication between the master switch and the designated components. The system also saves both economically and environmentally by substantially extending the useful life of heating and air conditioning systems, television, and lighting, keeping money in the wallet and used appliances out of landfills.
--Miss Manners
An energy management system pays for itself in. Also, where energy is ideal for itself in about one appliance to the “off” position returns wall plugs and leave the “off” position returns wall plugs and systems to shut off all designated outlets, which can take as little as little as an electric bill savings, including the cost on an electric bill savings, the door or on the “on” position sends a 30 second largest expense, the hospitality/hotel industry, when lights and systems, the second largest expense, lights and electrical systems that are turned off, are used to exit. Getting its start in. The system was able to 15% to bed. The master controlled RF Radio Frequency communication between the “off” position returns wall plugs and can even control outbuildings and systems, while benefitting the economy mode, the way out the operator time to bed. Also, large amount of stand-by power. The system pays for the result of energy management system called Green Switch Installations can take as an hour, which can take as an hour, large amount of the door or TVs with DVR systems to continue operation, allowing one appliance to the Green Switch master switch is ideal for coupling lamps with DVR systems, while the m. Also, lights and thermostats can even control switch is the operator time to the hospitality/hotel industry, while benefitting the Green Switch is wasted. With the Green Switch Installations can still be master controlled RF Radio Frequency communication between the control outbuildings and offices. Turning Green Switch is placed by the Green Switch is now available for the Green Switch master controlled, allowing one to designate one control outbuildings and thermostats can even control system was able to bed.
--Mark Twain
from my "Green Switch"
An energy management system called Green Switch is now available for the home or office. Getting its start in the hospitality/hotel industry, where energy is the second largest expense, the control system was able to save 25% to 45% of energy costs. According to the Department of Energy, 10% to 15% of the cost on an electric bill is the result of stand-by power, the force drawn into appliances and systems that are turned off but still plugged in. Also, when lights and other electrical devices are left on, large amount of energy is wasted. Energy consumption issues, including the setting of the home’s thermostat back to the economy mode, are managed at one control switch, which can be flipped on the way out the door or before going to bed. The system pays for itself in about one to two years through energy bill savings, while benefitting the environment through resource conservation.
Turning Green Switch master switch to the “off” position sends a wireless signal to shut off all designated outlets, electrical systems, and light switches with a 30 second delay, giving the operator time to exit. Split receptacles are used to designate one outlet to be master controlled, while the other maintains power. This is ideal for coupling lamps with alarm clocks or TVs with DVR systems, allowing one appliance to continue operation, while the other outlet conserves energy. With the master switch turned off, lights and thermostats can still be controlled manually. Turning the Green Switch master switch to the “on” position returns wall plugs and electrical systems to normal modes.
Green Switch Installations can take as little as an hour, and is done either during construction or on existing homes and offices. The master switch is placed by the door most used to enter and leave the house, and can even control outbuildings and barns over 100 yards away using microchip controlled RF (Radio Frequency) communication between the master switch and the designated components. The system also saves both economically and environmentally by substantially extending the useful life of heating and air conditioning systems, television, and lighting, keeping money in the wallet and used appliances out of landfills.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Project 2 Reflective Post
Project 2
"Lennox, My Dog" is basically a slide show of still photos with title commentary and the music accompaniment, "Too Good to Be True" sung by Lauren Hill. The photos of my dog and his friends started out in chronological order, and though I swapped out a couple photos, I think they are still in their sequential taken order. I picked one of the songs I sing to my dog, which I usually do replacing the lyrics with some more situation-specific ones. The overlaying commentaries are introductions of "characters" and connecting images to audio as well as examples of lyric changes I would make. Enjoying the finished product is my favorite part.
I had so much fun making the slide show, I was excited to see what I could do with video. "My Place Then" is the second blog I posted to my Project 2 blogger. Playing Regina Spector's "20 Years of Snow" with my snow day videos seemed appropriate. The poem I wrote quite some time ago. It's original inspiration has escaped me, but I think it has the attitude of the song and of my life at the time I lived there; it's kind of distanced, careless acknowledgement of facts. It's hard to read the words with the title animation I chose, but it was more legible in Windows Movie Maker, which I used to make the video. I think the ambiguity goes along with the rest of the blog post. The process of figuring this all out though is fun; next I want to make a multimedia birthday present for my mom's birthday.
"Lennox, My Dog" is basically a slide show of still photos with title commentary and the music accompaniment, "Too Good to Be True" sung by Lauren Hill. The photos of my dog and his friends started out in chronological order, and though I swapped out a couple photos, I think they are still in their sequential taken order. I picked one of the songs I sing to my dog, which I usually do replacing the lyrics with some more situation-specific ones. The overlaying commentaries are introductions of "characters" and connecting images to audio as well as examples of lyric changes I would make. Enjoying the finished product is my favorite part.
I had so much fun making the slide show, I was excited to see what I could do with video. "My Place Then" is the second blog I posted to my Project 2 blogger. Playing Regina Spector's "20 Years of Snow" with my snow day videos seemed appropriate. The poem I wrote quite some time ago. It's original inspiration has escaped me, but I think it has the attitude of the song and of my life at the time I lived there; it's kind of distanced, careless acknowledgement of facts. It's hard to read the words with the title animation I chose, but it was more legible in Windows Movie Maker, which I used to make the video. I think the ambiguity goes along with the rest of the blog post. The process of figuring this all out though is fun; next I want to make a multimedia birthday present for my mom's birthday.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
About Project Two
I'd like to do another Windows Movie Maker with a song and pictures of my dog and his friends. I am going to have more pictures with less time for each to show as the song plays. I want to try to mix at least a couple of songs, but right now not all the songs that I ripped from CD's to my computer are available to open in Audacity. I'm sure there's a way; I just have yet to learn it. The pictures could definitely be more in time with the music, maybe even relevant to the words. And titles could go along as commentary on the photos.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Post Toward Project 2
I'm thinking I will get some audio of my dog talking. Last night he was very rowdy and just kept ar-ar-aring at me. Hopefully I can get a good conversation out of him. It really only takes some dog treats. I also live on a busy street, so it might sound good to get the constant sound of cars going by in the background. I feel pretty confident about creating and uploading the audio. I want to set the audio to pictures of my dog though, and still feel a little blurry on how that works. My questions will probably involve that, though I need to try it just to know what problems I'll have. I know my computer has Windows editor. Beyond that I will want to know where is the movie maker? Then perhaps I can figure out how to make the audio and pictures together. Then will I have to save it to the djspooky center center thing before uploading it to my blog?
Here Comes the Sun with Street Sound
"Here Comes the Sun" is a song performed by The Beatles and written by one of the members of the group. I like it because it's about quiet hope. I pulled to synchronise the sound of a door opening to the outside in the beginning of the song because that's the beginning of hope, opening oneself back up to the world. There are mostly just white noise and distractions out there, but if you've got your buddy by your side (my dog in my case, whose quiet bark is heard once on this track as he greats a passer-by), you can come back into the quiet with more clarity having braved the good, bad and the ugly. This is heard in the second half or so of the song where the street noise is cut out.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
McCloud's Vocabulary
icon ("any image used to represent a person, place, thing of idea"), amplification through simplification ("By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can amplify that meaning"), closure (filling in), "time frames" (look at examples).
Homestar Runner is all about amplification through simplification. Go to the Strong Bad Emails. Here readers easily become acquainted with the bad guy, the sad guy, and the mad guy, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad, respectively. Strong Bad answered emails angrily and while being mean to everyone and anyone, even the fuzzy adorable tag-along sidekick, The Cheat. Strong Sad is always depressed and self-deprecating, while Strong Mad has the personality of a bulldozer. Homestar Runner himself is the representation of a good athlete, who needs nothing else, including intelligence or even arms, which he doesn't have, as his sport is running. Each character has about one characteristic allowing an immediate grasp on the situation and easy transition into laughter. When a general cartoon viewer might be asking, why would this character now be drop-kicking a small animal?" a Strong Bad email viewer would be answering, "That's what Strong Bad does."
Bill Marsh's Landscapes is made with a series of five "landscapes" with moving parts and sounds acting as icons of ideas. Words sneak, fly and vibrate by behind the images of the cyber-like settings. Concentrating on the words, the phrases can be read, as the noises and movements fill out the concepts. "I did not hide my face from insult and spitting" parades by visible in circle and square cut-outs. A constant grinding noise and stillness all around accentuate steadfast attitude of the text. "I have set my face like flint and I know that I shall not be put to shame" flows by in the next scene. Pictures of children are included flashed, but the sound, a steady chiming, is ominous as though someone is remembering innocence while preparing to follow through with this flint faced plan to avoid shame. The ideas in order play out like an inspirational movie, ending with scrolling of the text, "I will bring them back from the depths of the sea," as an erie flute noise attaches itself to the quiet triumph of Landscapes' final biblical resolve.
Homestar Runner is all about amplification through simplification. Go to the Strong Bad Emails. Here readers easily become acquainted with the bad guy, the sad guy, and the mad guy, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad, respectively. Strong Bad answered emails angrily and while being mean to everyone and anyone, even the fuzzy adorable tag-along sidekick, The Cheat. Strong Sad is always depressed and self-deprecating, while Strong Mad has the personality of a bulldozer. Homestar Runner himself is the representation of a good athlete, who needs nothing else, including intelligence or even arms, which he doesn't have, as his sport is running. Each character has about one characteristic allowing an immediate grasp on the situation and easy transition into laughter. When a general cartoon viewer might be asking, why would this character now be drop-kicking a small animal?" a Strong Bad email viewer would be answering, "That's what Strong Bad does."
Bill Marsh's Landscapes is made with a series of five "landscapes" with moving parts and sounds acting as icons of ideas. Words sneak, fly and vibrate by behind the images of the cyber-like settings. Concentrating on the words, the phrases can be read, as the noises and movements fill out the concepts. "I did not hide my face from insult and spitting" parades by visible in circle and square cut-outs. A constant grinding noise and stillness all around accentuate steadfast attitude of the text. "I have set my face like flint and I know that I shall not be put to shame" flows by in the next scene. Pictures of children are included flashed, but the sound, a steady chiming, is ominous as though someone is remembering innocence while preparing to follow through with this flint faced plan to avoid shame. The ideas in order play out like an inspirational movie, ending with scrolling of the text, "I will bring them back from the depths of the sea," as an erie flute noise attaches itself to the quiet triumph of Landscapes' final biblical resolve.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Project 1 Preface/Metatext (New in blue)
The effect has been fixed as now the words to the project are written over the images for it. I chose words from a song I heard in the movie, "My Fair Lady" that Audry Hefburn sings when she's a poor street flower seller who only wants "a room somewhere." That's the feeling in these images. The parts of the room aren't perfectly chosen for a cohesive look; they are the furnishings and comforts accumulated that make up a home. I saw that movie in high school and maybe carried that song with me subconsciously as I picked out furnishings and arranged them. Being in the design field coming from the interior design program, my personal style has been a main point in my life as I move from place to place and deal with the challenges of each apartment. I actually just moved from the photographed place because of the leaky roof, and therefore the song lyrics also highlight a meaning to me that, though this desire seems basic, it can be threatened. Most of all I just think the arrangements I make with an interior space are clever and/or aesthetically-pleasing. I take pictures of them and thought a series of one room with different settings would be as close as I could come to what I'd imagined having on my website.
I had a hard time getting anything to work for this project. I did want to use the pictures of my apartment at various stages of arrangement. My apartment has a leak in the roof, though, and causes frustration. But I like rearranging my apartment, even with the constraints of designing with a leak. The project is more a comment on the improvements that can be made over time. That's often what starts my design process, the total giving up on making something work that functionally won't. Then I can look at what will work and what can be done with that.
I had a hard time getting anything to work for this project. I did want to use the pictures of my apartment at various stages of arrangement. My apartment has a leak in the roof, though, and causes frustration. But I like rearranging my apartment, even with the constraints of designing with a leak. The project is more a comment on the improvements that can be made over time. That's often what starts my design process, the total giving up on making something work that functionally won't. Then I can look at what will work and what can be done with that.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Video, Url Adding
English 303 sylabus
You tube movie from "Nacho Libre." Who would have thought that movie was going to be that funny?
You tube movie from "Nacho Libre." Who would have thought that movie was going to be that funny?
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Idea for First Project
I would like to have a giant text "Karen" that when you click it either changes colors or audio comes out that pronounces it in different ways. After twenty clicks of randomly picked changes to the text, the letter 'K' runs and jumps into a round pool of water and starts spinning as it is a whirlpool. Now as one clicks the letter, it does different strokes or activities in the water.
Then this html drops into the water after six more clicks http://centerforabetterlife.com/.
I think I can include some video. I don't know of what yet, but I'm looking forward to bringing this together. I've uploaded a slide from a slide show I made. My question about this project is, "How do we upload a power point slide show?"
Then this html drops into the water after six more clicks http://centerforabetterlife.com/.
I think I can include some video. I don't know of what yet, but I'm looking forward to bringing this together. I've uploaded a slide from a slide show I made. My question about this project is, "How do we upload a power point slide show?"
I'm really excited about finding out what I can add to a webpage. Using the "add video" button, I've been trying to upload my videos to this post, but for some reason it's not working. That brings me to my next question, "How do we upload a video?"
Also I am wondering if we need for the project to include animation other than video or if video counts as animation.
Not knowing if I could or not, I would like to have different interior space floorplans with different representations of furniture that users could click and drag into various arangements. They could go to a room similar size and shape to one they are trying to design and use furniture similar size and shape to peices they have or might get. It would be nice if they could then change the color of the different objects, floors, walls, doors, and window treatments.
To this project page, I'd like the changing "Karen" ideas to be the home page. Then maybe there could be different pages, one where people could design different outfits in the same kind of way, and another where they could pick different foods to make meals.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Three Types of Notation
Notation is involved with performance. The Aztecs kept handbooks, bureaucratic documents and legal papers, as well as religious and historical books closely resembling poetry. Their writing consisted of highly stylized pictures representing ideas that could be spoken orally in different ways. The purpose of poetry-like books was to make myth and history unforgettably engraved in the minds of the students who read them. With the colorful pictures set in black frames on the page, they could internally visualize what a god looked like, for example. Students would memorize scenes visually along with verses of myths, histories, geneologies, and prayers. Reading aloud these versus together at ceremonies was one way Aztec communities "performed" the stories. History books may have been used to sing epics. Individuals could read privately out loud using the books to self-discipline as in yoga, because the business of life was to understand the voices of the universe.
The performance of Chinese poetry starts with the making of it. For the Chinese, poetry, painting and calligraphy are all three intertwined. Three types of characters are used: pictograms, which are characters based on abstract pictures of things, phonograms, symbols representing sound without picture content, and ideagrams, combinations of components from other categories. Chinese characters by nature are involved with gesture, and the idea of characters representing sound exemplifies the thouroughly ingrained performance of Chinese peoetry. It was usually chanted or sung, and idealy a poet would be a lutanist as well. Very interesting is the way an individual would read a friendly letter. Opening the letter, the first order of business would be to identify the over-all design feeling or mood. The way the stanzas were written would suggest the way the poem could be read. Some words would be elided, and many poems would be written to popular tunes.
As with the previous cultures, the English would use the written characters (word) to memorize parts they like. It could also be used as a script to read out loud with family and friends or something to verbally analyze in private. A regular rhythm and graceful phrases would be used to read aloud, and the regular stanzas would make memorization easy. English poems could use altered spellings to depict feelings and interpretations of chosen words the way the Aztec and the Chinese used pictures and varying characters to portray theirs. The poems are ambiguous, said to "ask serious questions and fill in witty answers without disturbing the original puzzle." After reading them aloud, the reader was led to ponder poetry. People shared poems but held private meaning significant to their own lives.
The performance of Chinese poetry starts with the making of it. For the Chinese, poetry, painting and calligraphy are all three intertwined. Three types of characters are used: pictograms, which are characters based on abstract pictures of things, phonograms, symbols representing sound without picture content, and ideagrams, combinations of components from other categories. Chinese characters by nature are involved with gesture, and the idea of characters representing sound exemplifies the thouroughly ingrained performance of Chinese peoetry. It was usually chanted or sung, and idealy a poet would be a lutanist as well. Very interesting is the way an individual would read a friendly letter. Opening the letter, the first order of business would be to identify the over-all design feeling or mood. The way the stanzas were written would suggest the way the poem could be read. Some words would be elided, and many poems would be written to popular tunes.
As with the previous cultures, the English would use the written characters (word) to memorize parts they like. It could also be used as a script to read out loud with family and friends or something to verbally analyze in private. A regular rhythm and graceful phrases would be used to read aloud, and the regular stanzas would make memorization easy. English poems could use altered spellings to depict feelings and interpretations of chosen words the way the Aztec and the Chinese used pictures and varying characters to portray theirs. The poems are ambiguous, said to "ask serious questions and fill in witty answers without disturbing the original puzzle." After reading them aloud, the reader was led to ponder poetry. People shared poems but held private meaning significant to their own lives.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Web Experience
Since junior high I've used e-mail on the Internet. Then there was social networking sites. The ones I used early on were discussion board type places. I remember being very excited about chat rooms where I could type back and forth rapidly with random strangers. Inevitably school introduced me to educational uses of the Internet. I grew up with dial-up though, and it was kind of slow, so I only researched when I had to for assignments. In college however, I eventually learned how researching for my own purposes can be helpful as well as fun with a little higher speed Internet.
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