Thursday, March 31, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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.

Friday, March 18, 2011

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.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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.

Monday, March 14, 2011

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.