I'm Not Looking

When I was younger my da always used to be the story teller of the family. He would tell stories about being a skilled soccer player or being the best in his class as a way of inspiring me anmd my little sister. One of the main stories he told me was maybe his craziest xsstory. When I was younger I was a little bit of problem child, just a little bit. I didn't get in too mucgh trouble, but I was no anglel. After I got in trouble my father told me a story about how he threw pencils and things at a teacher with his friends once when he was younger. the morale of the story was that he was a little bad hisslef back in the day , but because he was smart he didn;t get into too much trouble. From then in I was pretty good, but if I got inrouble itwas loked over a bit because of the story my father told me.

How does this electronic space refashion its predecessor? How does it claim to improve on print's ability to make our thoughts visible and to constit

Online print makes for a way of being more creative and expressing how we feel through fonts and colors. The electronic space gives more freedom particularly because of the designs or the things around it. With the prezis it calls for the audience to be more alert with every change and the way it is ordered can give you more of a rush or a wake up. Online writing like prezis can be arranged in a non linear fashion and the use of the electronic space emphasizes this.

Writing Space. Intorduction.

Jay David Bolter's "Writing Space" introduction briefly talked about the development of writing over time. The evolution of text from physical books to electronic books is discussed as being a way of "refashioning the writing space." While electronic books are becoming something is frequently seen, there still is an appreciation for physical text and most author would rather have their works published in a physical book than have their book on the internet. At the end of the introduction section Bolter talks about the writing space expanding to many things besides just print. I agree with Bolter on the the writing space becoming all forms of writing in sorts and it becoming pretty much every arena of writing.

Taylor Mali

Watching Taylor Mali bring expression to his words through movement and watching the words on the scream just doesn't compare. I have more of an appreciation for Taylor Mali's performance. The way he moves and just his whole image brings forth a feeling that watching/reading words can not express. While I understand the use of the reading words and why it is cool, I believe that Mali's expressions and movement and his ability to act out his speech is way cooler.

Response to Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl

I am beyond a little confused to be honest. I read the whole thing and I will now try to decipher two of the sections from Shelley Jackson's "Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl".

Body Not Whole

This first part sets kind of sets up the whole stitch work of the whole article. At the beginning of this section Shelley Jackson writes about how the body is not really connected. I am not completely sure of what she was getting at, but from what I take from it she was relating it to writing in the way that things are mot all connected to begin with. When Jackson says "The body is not even experienced as whole. We never see it all, we can't feel our liver working or messages shuttling through our spine", I believe she is talking about how writing on a whole is still in small parts and how they can be read separability.

Boundary Play

This section of beings by saying, "We don't think what we think we think." What Shelley Jackson is saying is similar to when a mind changes what you read to make it correct. The boundaries of our mind need to be expanded so we can have more margin for change when it naturally occurs. I guess that we write what makes sense , maybe, because in a way don't think what we think.

The Problem Describing Trees

Robert Hass' "The Problem Describing Trees" begins with a rather stereotypical approach to a normal poem. The first two lines read, "The aspen glitters in the wind
And that delights us." As Hass goes on he continues to describe the trees in the wind in August, but then he hits a sang. His poem literally rejects itself when it says "No." Hass shows that he has hit a snag of sorts and decides that sometimes a poem needs to disenchant us.

4 Letter Word Project, Blue

For this project I decided to go with blue. I used blue in a more literal sense and decided to argue that blue is the underlying color of the universe. Through images of the sky, nature, technology, experiences and an eerie song I was able to create a visual argument that supported my thesis. I used onetruemedia.com to create the video montage and I would have to buy my video to upload it or even share a link.

3 Images form Chel White's video that moved me

Cher White's video was simply put, fun. The short dark comedy of the video produced a lot of images that lasted in my mind.

1. The scrambling eyes
The scrambling eyes stuck with me for some odd reason. I can't really put much of a reason behind it. I would say it represents observation when you are trying to come up with something good to write.

2. The hands doing jumping-jacks
Writing can be such a strenuous exercise sometimes. This really stuck out to me because I can find truth in the fact that sometimes my hand literally hurts and other times I need to take a break from the exercise of thinking.

3. The thoughts in a hole
The image of the thoughts going into a hole in the ground is something I can really relate to. Sometimes I try to write a screenplay and decide that this needs to be discarded and I dig up a mental hole and suppress them forever. The image of purposefully suppressing thoughts that are not useful or that you consider flops is just very real to me.

My sentence with no GPS

A sentence starts out like a person driving a car not fully decided on where he/she wants to go. He has no GPS and has decided to go ahead and jump behind the wheel. The driver has may get lost and may end up turning around, but hopefully the driver will continue to drive until he reaches a desirable destination. Whether the driver is on his way to a his final destination or if he is heading back to a previous point of interest he will see some new attractions on the way.

Is this equation correct? Text > Sound

Because I really can't remember when text messaging became so key I do not find it so odd that text is more prevalent than sound in relation to the phone. I feel that sound is more powerful than the text message and creates a more personal relationship than the use of text messaging. Today's form of communication have become less personal. With the all the technology at hand that make everything easy, why not communicate without actually having to pick up the phone? It is only to be expected that as we go forward into the future, watching Facebook take over the world, we will become a less interactive people.

On a more personal front I guess I like texting more because it gives me the ability to ignore or put people on hold without any interaction. It also gives me the ability to be more clever than I actually am. At least 55% of the witty things I say in response to people probably wouldn't have been vocalized. Text messaging is a way of becoming a more suave person without the hassle of actually being suave. It isn't lying though, it is just more the preference for a lot of people.

An argument can be made saying that texting creates a more shared experience between people. Texting can allow people to share little things when they can not make a phone call. Things your professor just said or if you want to keep things down while communicating a message, you should go towards a text. It's no surprise that texting has become the more prevalent use of the phone, we are making it personal to be impersonal.

I Read Billy Collins' Mind

Because Billy Collins' is a pretty big person and has a lot of fans, so he does not have time to answer all of the questions that have been directed at him on these blogs. So as a favor to Mr. Collins I decided that I would answer a few questions for him. After watching Mr. Collins' video I was able to read his mind and come up with a few responses.

1. Was the purpose of the poem for a laugh, or something deeper? From "What's The Word?: Haley's Magnificent Blog of Wonders" aka Haley's Blog

The purpose of the poem was partly for a laugh, but was also partially a commentary on the symbolism of the original author. Veering away from the rather stereotypical nature of most poems Billy Collins decided to not go all "lovey dovey". I was once told that people make rules for art forms and it is the people who take risks in the most tremendous ways who are seen. Billy Collins just wanted to change the rather systematic poem that he had read.

2. How was this helping the original poem? From "Emergency Bowtie" aka Theodore's Blog

The original poem was boring and just another overly-affectionate poem. There was no freedom and there is probably a stasis for all of the poems from the original author. Billy Collins made the audience laugh and made for a more entertaining poetry reading. The comparisons drawn in the "revised" poem are an improvement in the comedic elements and left the normal realm of romantic poetry.

3. Do you think the person who originally made the poem thinks yours is better? From "Stefania's Ramblings" aka Stefania's Blog

The original author knows that this is a better poem. I am not saying that this was just a throw away poem, nut it is not originally creative. He likes it and thinks it was clever and was honored to have Billy Collins turn his love poem into a funny poem.