Final Project Metatext.

So I made a movie preview for the story from project 4. I kinda wanted to make it have an eighties feel to it. I remember seeing on tv where they didn't use video as much but still pictures. I didn't take the pictures myself as it was really hard to get everyone together to dress up and take pictures etc. etc. Another reason why I steered away from video, with work and my other classes I had no time. So I tried to make best with what I had. With the help of my roommate we used audacity to record news reports which actually told more of the story, they would have played along with the music and pictures. Unfortunately after downloading the plug in to export from audacity and recording it refused to export the recordings. I am not sure what happened but I think my computer was on the verge of collapse, I may have a virus, or some technical problem happened that I have no idea how to diagnose let alone fix. So there goes the real time part of my project out the window, I know my grade will be hurt by it. I tried.

I picked the music to add a little mystery and intensity to it. I do like how the preview doesn't tell you too much information it's mysterious kind of like the plot. I like the pictures I found, they really match the characters. Overall I am happy with the preview but it would have been sooooo much better with the news reports playing in the background. I had fun and I know my grade will suffer as I didn't completely meet the requirements.

Final Project....finally!!

And more project 5 thoughts.

So I think I may have a workable idea for project 5. I want to take my story from project 4 and make a movie trailer out of it. I would use windows movie maker and audacity. I may borrow a video camera and take video myself or borrow videos from online but definitely make voice recording for it. It pulls on the every day as we all see tons of movie previews every time we watch television and most of us watch movies regularly. I hope this fits the requirements because I am kinda excited about making it.

If there are any ideas how to expand on this or programs/sites that would be helpful please let me know.

More thoughts on project #5

So I'm still not sure where I am going to go for project 5. I think it's just going to take a little brain storming as I think I understand what the requirements are now. I'll probably(hopefully) figure things out over thanksgiving break and get it started. I think it will be a fun project once I figure out what I am going to do. I guess we'll see how it goes...

Blogs

I honestly rarely read blogs. It usually is the effect of boredom, mostly when looking on myspace. I think they are so important today because people can reach a much broader audience with their writing. They can keep it more private and only let certain people obtain it or they can make it public. Their feelings, art, or general thoughts can be posted and responded to; I think this gives some people a therapautic effect as they can get things off their chest.
I think blogs are very cooperative. The writer has to make it public, readers have to actually read it, and they have to leave the comments if permitted.

Beginning thoughts on project 5

I am honestly really lost on what to do for project 5. The only idea I have come up with is a little rough and I don't know where to take it. I think I might want to use google maps and somehow make a game with it but I really have no clue how to start or where to take it. Any ideas would be helpful. I guess I'll collaborate with other people to make it more in depth...but I don't know because I don't know what I'm doing yet. I guess it will come to me and unfold itself I just hope it does soon.

Project #4 metatext

So I changed what I was going to do a little. Instead of having everyone write just a sentence using each word I really wanted it to morph into a narrative. So I set up the scene for everyone(five friends) and issued everyone a character. They had to write me their alibi. With each character I had 4-5 items from my list that I wrote for response #6 and they had to incorporate each into the story. I didn't let any one see each others alibi as I wanted it to be a surprise who actually did it. I really pushed for them to write whatever came to their head and I just kinda hoped that it all worked out in the end.

All of the characters turned out to be very crooked except sticky. With the friend I had playing his character I figured he wouldn't be very scandalous and I think it adds to the overall balance of the story. I'm happy with what everyone gave me and I did only minor editing as they all understood what was going on pretty well which is what I had hoped for. Noone minded helping me with this and they all though it was actually fun, I guess because they were open to basically write whatever they wanted and they were all anonymous except to me. Everyone played and added to the scandals really well which made it more interesting and worked well with the end result I wanted.

In the end I didn't reveal who actually did it as I would like the reader to guess themselves. My guess would be that it was Karen who actually thought Boris was Karl as she caught Mimi making out with him after work. Mimi was having an affair with Boris as he was hoping to marry her to become a citizen. This works as Mimi and Karl's alibis don't completely match up at the end and Karen was at the bar until closing as well. Jerry is just a generally shady guy and Karl and Sticky have solid alibis. I'd like to see what other people would conclude. I think this could make a pretty humorous movie that could be based around everyone's alibis, I feel like I've watched one like this already but I can't think of what it is. Overall this was a fun project and I'm happy with the results.

Project #4

The Russian's Last Night.

So here is the scoop: There was a murder last night. Some guy named Boris was shot, low caliber Novelist from Russia only been in the country six months. Took place at this dive called Sticky's Bar and Crab Shack, apparently their motto is "The only place in town you can get crabs 'til 2am". The body was found in the dumpster behind the bar this morning by the owner Sticky himself. We have five suspects in custody.

Sticky- owner of the place, dwarf with a lisp.
Mimi- Sticky's cousin,part time waitress at the joint and stripper at the Pink Pussycat about a mile down the street, definitely not the girl next door type.
Karl- Mimi's boyfriend, extremely jealous, 45 year old Real Estate Agent, Wanted in 3 states under Former name Joseph Wilcox.
Karen- Bartender, resident Bull dyke, former Roller Derby Champion-banned from the sport for being too aggressive(didn't know that was possible), apparently has crush on Mimi and has threatened Karl numerous instances.
Jerry- Trucker, just passing through, small body stature, glasses, on his way to California.

As it was a slow night at Sticky's these were the only people at the bar last night. We have received alibis from all five...

Mimi: I was working at Sticky's until closing last night. After we closed I refilled the mints on the bar and cleaned up the dirty plates from the tables. I went into the Kitchen and found Karl then we talked for a few minutes then I gave him a blow job and then continued with my work. I worked on the entree and dessert list for the next day and finally went over the guest checks for the night and went home with Karl at about 3:45 am.

Karl: Most partners in a relationship with jealousy issues are notorious for infidelity. I am no different. Last night I hired a prostitute after leaving Mimi at the bar. Though I might be a jealous and overbearing boyfriend it is only because of my own guilt and insecurity. I entered the brothel and was taken back to a room prepared for me. Being that I have a food fetish, I requested that the area be set up like a kitchen. I find few things as satisfying as throwing a filthy whore onto a tray full of carefully prepared appetizers as she uses a cheese grater to fulfill my sadistic fantasies. I had paid in advance for a four hour session. Only when I am in the arms of a strange woman on a tray table does the mundane life of real estate escape my mind and I feel free.

Sticky: I wath at my publithers. I'm writing a book on being a dwarf in todayth thothiety.We were picking out coverths. I think the brown book will look better than the blue. I left the bar at about 6:30 after thith drunk bitch threw her glath half way acroth the bar at thith guy. She got ithe and Coke everywhere. After our meeting I went to the thtore to pick up thome more paper. I have a great idea for my nektht book. Picture this: "Dwarfth owning thier own Buthineth". Thpeaking of which can I borrow your pen, I need to write thome notesth.

Jerry: Yeah I was at Sticky's last night. They have those stupid crab shaped coasters. What a fucking slum. You know that they sell water in a wine bottle there? The drinks are so watered down it's like scotch at a cheap seaside wedding. the only thing worse than the drinks is the people in that shit hole. And to be honest, I ain't surprised that someone got axed there. I seen the guy you're talking about. He was probably some sort of vile street scum doing some business under the table part-time. But I ain't got no reason to kill him. I left Sticky's early because something didn't settle right in my stomach. I remember puking in the shitter while someone was getting sucked off in the next stall. I headed back to my truck around 9:15 and stayed there all night sleeping. I don't have time to waste. I have to get to Californ-i-a for a settlement with my ex-wife. That woman drinks so much that wine glasses litter her living room like red plastic cups at a frat house. I hope she doesn't impale herself on a glass stem before I get to that bitch.

Karen: I was behind the soda machine before working necking with Mimi dreading the task at hand when I saw a strange man with a million straws in his hand throwing them into the wall. I was shocked so I went to work set up menus and trays and ate an entire crab I named Karl Jr. After work I went home and took care of some business with a picture of Mimi on the computer. Then I sat on my porcelain throne dropping the new Cosby kid Karl off at the pool.

Who did it?

More thoughts on project #4

So I am having friends over tonight and I am going to give them each a word, well actually more than one each, and have them write the first sentence that comes to their mind with the word in it. I don't think I will have any problems putting this all together unless they just refuse to do it which I doubt they will. I'm curious to see where it will go from there because I have no idea what they are going to write, which makes it interesting for me. I will not edit their writing but only add between the lines to bring it all together. I am hoping it will morph into a story, something silly or lighthearted but it's not completely up to me and I am not going to prompt them into any kind of emotions. I am kinda excited to see what happens it could become so many things, I just hope I am right about it going smoothly once I get everyone together.

My thoughts on Project 4

I have a lot of ideas for my list that I posted for Tuesday. I want to give each word to someone and have them write the first sentence that comes to their mind. I think it will bring personally what each person thinks when they see each word which would be different from me or anyone else. It will bring different perspectives and different moods and feelings to each word. I want to collaborate all of these into a narrative, maybe use pictures. This may lead to something a little chaotic but I think it will be interesting. I do not plan on editing their parts at all as I think it would take away from the point. I'm curious to see what happens. I'm thinking I could ask for responses on the web but I want to make sure I get them back and wouldn't know where to start really so for now I think I'll just stay using friends and people I know.

Not sure how this could be scandalous...

I really can't think of a title yet...

Response #6 (metatext)

So my list is basically what I do at work. I am a server(obviously) and I don't really think about what I do at work anymore it is such a habit. I decided to give it a little thought and thought it might be interesting for my list. It's very simple but it's all the steps I take when waiting on a table not in actions but in things I see as I see them or utilize them.
I am not really sure how I could use this for project four but maybe I could turn it into a story, maybe give each word to someone and have them use it in a sentence and see what it creates when put together. It could atleast be a start, I'll see where it goes.

Response #6

-coasters
-wine bottle
-table
-people
-wine glasses
-brown book
-pen
-paper
-glasses
-ice
-soda machine
-tray
-straws
-table
-menus
-computer
-large tray
-appetizers
-tray stand
-cheese grater
-refills
-large tray
-entrees
-tray stand
-cheese grater
-refills
-dirty plates
-dessert
-check
-mints

Thinking about project 4

For project 4 I am interested in getting some friends together or even co-workers and writing a narrative. I have done this before and it always has really interesting results. As far as personal and everyday I am not sure where I want to go with that yet. Scandalous could be interesting if i find the right people to help me. Overall I want to play off what the others write and them to play off each other.

Project 3 Metatext

I found this project to be alot of fun. I got to change things I had written and just play around and see what came out of it. Although I used two things that were written with strict guidelines I think they resulted in interesting products.

For the first part I used part of a research paper I had written for English 384. I had to take a comic book and compare it to the theories of the assigned authors from class. I chose the issue of The Amazing Spiderman that was dedicated to the World Trade Center buildings collapsing on 9/11. The original paper talked about the racism experienced at the time and the comics reaction to it. It was dry and straight to the point since it was a research paper for class. Since the subject dealt a lot with hatred and tragedy I thought that using the Shannonizer to edit it with Hunter S. Thompson would bring more intensity to it then to counter it by having Dr. Seuss edit it. I really like the tone it ended up with, a little bit of silly sarcasm. My favorite line is "This is LSD" which can be saying in a way it's crazy. I think it brings much more meaning to the original subject like how it repeats "in recent years we serve hot dogs", hot dogs are usually referred to as American food as part of culture. A lot has changed after 9/11. The silliness almost captures the seriousness of the subject and I think it makes it more interesting.

For the second part I used a saved file on the computer at school which was just a gold quiz for someones class. Since golf is more reserved as a proper sport, quiet and sober, I thought it would be funny to use the redneck dialectizer. Golf is definitely not connected with what people consider redneck the way nascar and budweiser are so I think it gives it a humorous appeal. It serves to lighten up a perspective on a very uptight sport. My favorite part was question 5 which you would think would be worded differently for the original quiz but wasn't, it fit well.

Finally for the third part I used the cut up spell check idea to write a story. I basically wrote whatever came to my head which was ridiculous anyway without making sure I spelled things right, I just kept typing. I clicked on all the misspelled words and picked randomly at the suggestions. After I did that I took the new story and used google to translate it from English-Bulgarian-Dutch-Ukrainian. When i copied the story into the text box for my blog I used spell check prompts again. The result is interesting, the story became one of her and the birds going into the cave and not just her. My favorite line is "This Anteater waited for their friends to join the tea party, proteins and genotype", a strange mix for a party but adds to the strangeness. Overall I think it added a darker tone to it and surprising lines that make you want to make sense of them.

Project 3...part 3

Story written with cut up spell check then translated through 4 languages:

She believes a good set of the same day she went in demoralizing way. The birds were alive with joy, and she was ashamed of feeling as bad as they did. Sunday at the time and was feeling bad now, just how to throw her a pity party. It was good that they want to feel better. Half of her self-disgust and display life Santayana only thread that I forgot to look dangerous rabbits were on the horizon. Secondly, that the time Come spaying attention in the yeses and bit her brain. She did not die because they threw him out of it and run, but it went on the road, they came inches in the middle of his escape from the forest, hips, and in the body. Finally they found a cave, where they fled in two escaped heavy rain, which began shattered open wounds. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the cave was finally abandoned. This Anteater waited for their friends to join the tea party, proteins and genotype. As these interesting creatures in the forest. She was impressed at first, but then fell to freeze its damage from rabbits. In the Anteater was brazened because it is so in love tea parties, and he does not want anything to slow. Because he was pushing then have been adapted for other animals to go with his friends arrived and persuaded him against it. She refused to help her because they also pestered on rabbits exile who lives in the forest. They decided to name the mother owl, who lived nearby, and they came. At first glance, a girl who saw it as isocyanate's, since most people. In order to ensure that they are still alive at raccoon said it hit in the head, legs and stomach, that if he moved. He did it and there was no movement, so that all negotiations officer died, and it would be good fertilizer for their crops, it is that summer soon. In proteins rubbed his hands together just thinking about all those beautiful flowers rotting flesh will do. When she awoke from the beginning and corporatism tea against the protein perspective of the cave. In the Anteater angry and threw his arms attaints pubescent animals, and ultimately she was dead. End.

Project 3...part 2

The Redneck Golf Quiz

1)Whut in tarnation is th' maximum number of clubs wif which a player may start a roun'? 14

2) Th' United States Go'f Associashun was fo'med in whut year? 1894

3) Water hazards is defined by whut colo' stakes o' lines? Lateral hazards marked wif red stakes an' regular hazards marked w/ yeller

4) Whut in tarnation is th' penalty fo' hittin' a ball outta boun's? 1 stroke

5) A warnin' shouted t'ennyone in danger of bein' hit by th' ball? Fo'e!

6) Who won th' 1999 U. S. Open Championship? Payne Stewart

7) Name th' four majo' championships in professhunal go'f. Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA Championship

8) When hittin' a shot outta th' san' trap is yo' allered t'hit th' san' when takin' a prackice swin'? No

9) Who won th' four events yo' listed in quesshun 7 in th' 2008 season? US Open- Tiger woods, Masters- Trevo' Immelman, British Open- Padraig Harrin'ton, PGA Championship- Padraig Harrin'ton

10) Whut in tarnation city is th' Masters tournament held at? Augesta, Geo'gia

Project 3...part 1

Essay edited by Hunter S. Thompson reedited by Dr. Seuss

The ideologies shared by the sharpest knife with me in their point. Red fish, sir, the crash is chewing! What a sleeve? How much longer the Goo-Goose is LSD. Gooey goo for chewy chewing! What a clam or convince others of a star, the crash is chewing. Gooey goo for chewy chewing. Their protests of a bottle with heads in the moon, in a bottle with a hamburger with paddles and Thing Two! This is LSD. “In recent years we rebuild.” This is chewing! I do tricks with a giddy, the dark. And cheese! That's what that Zummers call zumming! What a giddy, and the dark. Red fish, sun, we serve hot dogs, in the Goo-Goose, they cut all kinds of holes in the Ballantine Ale now, 2001 catastrophic events happened that means the big ones! This is accompanied by the United States in a taco in this white stuff on fifty hippo-heimers backs! This is accompanied by what he grabbed a taco in the street with heads in the crash is LSD. They clearly narrate their plumbing, so I do not like pickled limburger cheese! This is your head? Let's do not like plumbers. Thank goodness I'm a hamburger with no good.. “In recent years we serve hot dogs, Middle Eastern people have been tribalized and Thing One fish, blue fish, they cut all. “In recent years we serve hot dogs, no conscience and ham or convince others of high that Goo-Goose is chewing. “In recent years we serve hot dogs, and the big ones! Oh dear! It is no sleep and their plumbing, and they buy a sleeve? Act natural, the light of unification. Suddenly the light of a star, blue fish, with me on the light of Spiderman, no good.. They smell like this trick, funny things are instigated by the dark.

Beginning of project 3

Essay edited by Hunter S. Thompson:

The ideologies shared by what kind of holes in the Ballantine Ale now, Middle Eastern people now believed or convince others of Spiderman, so I said nothing: No. Would they cut all kinds of unification. “In recent years we rebuild.” This is LSD. They clearly narrate their standing beliefs that means the United States in our security and hatred. “In recent years we recover…One as the United States was irrelevant because they buy a sleeve? Act natural, 2001 catastrophic events happened that means the bathtub, the country. The purpose of different races, no sleep and hurt Americans of shock and factionalized by every single citizen but they can be the citizens of excessive consumption of the closing statements of 2001 Marvel Comics released issue number 36 of high that means the street with me in this white stuff on the background and they cut all the suicide bombers as Osama Bin Laden and beat me on September 11, Middle Eastern people that means the middle. Their protests of American people are instigated by what he dare to leave fast, sun, a thousand casual unkindnesses” they cut all the crash is accompanied by what kind of their point. “In recent years we rebuild.” This is accompanied by what he grabbed a giddy, and my arm is your bedroom window and sliced it hard to act normal, I stated earlier after the morning with no sleep and factionalized by people have been tribalized and their legitimacy but to suck a taco in the greatest threats to suck a sleeve? How much longer the big ones! This is accompanied by what he shouted suddenly disappeared... then suddenly. Suddenly the sharpest knife with a hamburger with no conscience and sucked out our anger.

google ad libs

I ate * for breakfast:

I ate Pumpkin Pie for breakfast! Heh, that sounds like when somebody thinks they 're a big tough guy and they're all, "I eat squirts like you for breakfast!

I * in the dark:

Dec 12, 2007 ... I am cute! You try to escape my cuteness by turning out the lights! I fool you! I glow in the dark! YOU CANNOT ESCAPE KITTY'S CUTENESS!

George Bush quote dialectized.

Cockney:

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk -- that's one of the bloody reasons I asked yer ter turn off the bleedin' TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got an 'angover. The question is 'ow long will it sober up and not try ter do all these fancy financial instruments."

Redneck:

"Thar's no quesshun about it. Wall Street got drunk -- thass one of th' reasons ah axed yo' t'turn off th' TV cameras -- it got drunk an' now it's got a hangovah. Th' quesshun is how long will it sober up an' not try t'do all these fancy financial instroomnts."

Original quote:

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk -- that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments."

Quote from George Bush translated through 6 languages.

This was translated from English-Finnish-Czech-Greek-Hindi-Norwegian-English

The people of Louisiana "that across the country, much prayer - a prayer for those who live upside down to find out what is needed. And I am one of them. "

Original Quote:

"The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer -- prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them."

Text mixing.

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My text Shannonized.

Death is closer

as edited byHunter S. Thompson
Death is closer and I'll kill somebody! Don't try to where life wants to act normal, zombie drunk and behave like wild animals in silence not enough just listening to take the blame! But when? Act natural, totally incapable of grapefruit and closer every type of high that goes by never promises happiness for a motorcycle. I think would be happy but every second. You drive at six in any direction, unable to act normal, quavering sort of craziness now...

Reflection on project 2.

First of all here is a link to project 2
This was a very frustrating project for me. My first idea about getting my friend to narrate for me didn't work out for reasons out of my control. Compile this on top of getting sick. I felt like this left me with nothing to work with when I should have had more already done. Anyway, life goes on I got it done and posted it to my other blog. I'm pretty happy with the end result especially since I feel like it was sort of a last ditch effort. The video player on my blog is kinda small compared to what I used to play it on my computer so the words are small and hard to read. Maybe there is a solution to this that I don't know about besides changing the video. I feel like I put in alot of time for only about a minute and a half of video. Overall I didn't have any major problems using the programs and compiling it once I got started and I look forward to the next project and having ideas that work out.

Thoughts on project 2

For this project I plan to use a recording of one of my friends to vocalize the words.

I want to have pictures that dissolve into each other and certain words emphasized. I'll probably get the pictures off of google pics. I'm not sure if I am going to use music or not but it is a possibility, I just don't want to overpower the ideas with too much going on. I've also thought about a few sound effects that i may add. It's something that I think I will have to start and see where it takes me with my ideas.

I haven't written the text yet but I have a few ideas where I want to go with it and basically I want my friend reading it. I'll use audacity for the sounds, hopefully my computer will be able to record the sound well enough.

New blog link

new blog

Response #3

In the Cape by J.R. Carpenter a concept that McCloud talks about; closure, is demonstrated in this work. It starts even in the first frame transition. The reader is not told or shown how they physically got to their grandmother’s house but closure explains how it happened. It could be a car, train, plane, or even bicycle; it’s up to the reader. Amplification through simplification is also used and in the first frame as well (or the last depending on which direction you read it). The grandmother’s house is not shown with a photo or extremely detailed picture, just a generic drawing. And in the sixth frame there is a very elementary drawing of a map with emphasis on the simple lines on it.

Again in Landscapes the concept of Amplification through simplification is used for the pictures. Buildings are drawn with simple geometric shapes. Lines and circles are used to make flags, trees, and even the weather. There doesn’t need to be any more details to give the reader enough information to see exactly what is trying to be shown. There is then enough time to look at the writing and the pictures inserted into work which hold the real messages. They are emphasized by the simplicity. There are no time frames in the pictures; they are very random only connected by a concept. McCloud refers to this as his fifth transition, aspect to aspect. There is no time sequence but an idea or mood or even place is set in the readers mind.

Though neither of these is in the typical comic format they both follow the ideas demonstrated by McCloud. I guess that makes these ideas even more universal and versatile.

Project 1 Final Post.

When I started thinking about this project I thought that the end result would have much more animation than what it ended up with, which was none. I knew it would be very easy to find numerous of the pictures that I wanted to use and I was very happy with what I found. I would have liked to have found uses for more of them but I chose what I thought were the most influential. I only used part of the poem I had written. For this project I think the words needed to be kept at a minimum or it would have been overwhelming, especially with the subject I chose. Animation would have also added too much. I staggered the lines to enhance some of the confusion and lost feelings that the subject would have felt. The size of the letters also served to add emotion and notation. The larger sized lines would serve to show the reader to exaggerate them as well as the title is shown across the bottom very large.

I am very interested in the feelings associated with the Vietnam War. It’s a very dramatic, tragic, and interesting time and I liked having a chance to creatively express this. I also didn’t want to only express the views from a stand point of being an American even though the poem is written from that viewpoint. That is why the main picture is of Vietnamese children being followed almost pushed by soldiers.

Overall I am happy with this project, I liked using different elements to portray a message.

Sample powerpoint for class.

Plans for my first project

For my project I plan on using a poem that I wrote last semester for English 111/Intro to Creative Writing. It is my favorite poem from the semester and is about the war in Vietnam. To me it is very visual and I want to use that aspect of it to utilize a creative way to portray it. I definitely want to bring to attention issues related to the war that I did not directly say in the poem. I either want to use pictures that show many of the intense issues surrounded the time, both from the war front and from home. Another idea I have is to make bold or capitalize certain letters to form a message within the poem that tells another story or give the reader more information. I want the finished project to capture some of the underlying problems/issues that the soldiers as well as the civilians faced. Another idea I have for this project is to use pictures that sympathize with the Vietnamese side since the poem is actually written from an American perspective. When I wrote the poem and when people have read it the ideas are very one sided and I think the other side is of as much importance even though myself and others may not understand or be able to relate to them. I think that many of us see situations like this very one sided, which is natural, and I'd like to bring to attention to the other side. I will have to find very distinct images and wordings that will stick out and make my message clear without overpowering the original message of the poem. I do not have any pictures myself so if I do go that route I will have to find some online or from a book and I am sure I will find plenty either way.
Do I have the right idea for what we are supposed to do for the project? Is there anything I am missing as far as the requirements?

Response #1

In the article Notation and the Art of Reading by Karl Young the idea that kinesthesia and notation need to go hand in hand is explored using examples of different cultures and time periods.

One of the first types of notation he discusses dates back to the era of the Aztecs. He called them preliterate because they used books filled with images instead of words to instill the information in their memories. These books could be used to read privately as from religious books or publicly like the reading of epics. Both of these would require the use of kinesthetics as they would be either sung or read aloud. Unlike many other peoples the Aztecs did not use this form of notation to learn but to deepen already instilled knowledge.

A second type of notation discussed in the article came from the Chinese around 810A.D. They would write and paint poems not just on paper but on cliffs and buildings as well. This artwork would be read by many people who would even travel lengthy distances to view the poetry that would mesh with the landscape. This is a good example of how writing does not have to be done only on flat surfaces.

A third example explored was the use of manuscripts in 17th century England. The penmanship of these did not compare to that of Chinese calligraphy but the quill pens used still added expression and even emotion to the text. Reading these required some skill and even at times theatrical gestures. Simple movement of the mouth into words would not suffice in satisfying the author’s intentions and would simply lose most if not all of the depth of the content. When someone was reading a poem from a manuscript or other source they would often times incorporate some type of musical accompaniment, a practice shared with the Chinese and Aztecs. Poems were rehearsed and memorized and not a simple or quick task.

Being Online Autobiography

I grew up in a time where most technology was availabe. I did get to witness the spawn of c.d.s, cell phones, and the internet as well as the death of cassette tapes and vhs. My very first memories of using the web begin after high school, I graduated in 1998. I remember how slow it was but it was not frustrating like it is today because it was brand new technology. We only had dial up then. For the next few years I used it as a way to keep in touch with friends, I owe much of my quick typing skills to the countless late night instant messaging. Eventually I discovered ebay and other ways to shop online. Today I do have a facebook as well as myspace account but rarely use them and mostly use the web to pay bills, for school work, or random times I need information for something. I do not write on the web very often as I like to keep a great deal of my life private, at least from the whole world. Overall I like the internet, I find it very useful especially for school and work.