Thoughts on 4th project

I'm still unsure if I will just begin a story for people to add to, or write the complete story and just have them comment. It will be through my blog. I will just start with my email list, ask them to send it on, and make sure they have a deadline. I'm still unsure of what the narrative will be, but I am hopeful it will be passed on and added to readily. I really don't have any ideas on the personal or scandalous yet, let alone a title!

Response 6

DVD's next to my TV
Elizabeth
Elizabeth the Golden Age
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpier Old Men
Sybil
The Hours
Cold Mountain
The Others
On Golden Pond
Woman of the Year
Notes on A Scandal
Thelma and Louise
Misery
Crash
Harold and Maude
The Wizard of Oz
The Color Purple
The Gift
Monster
Fried Green Tomatoes
Shawshank Redemption
Training Day
Steel Magnolias
Monster-in-Law
Young Frankenstein
Me, Myself, and IreneSilence of the Lambs
The Glass Menagerie
Kill Bill 1 and 2
Pans Labryinth
Transamerica

project 4 ideas

This project sounds pretty fun. I definitely want to do something that I can get my friends involved in. Maybe some kind of story or something. I'll have to think about what kind of story to go with, but I'll encourage them to send it around and see how big it can get.

metatext project 3

The first two entries were twists on Edgar Allen Poes, The Raven. I used Google collage to provide a sonnet of Poe's Raven, and the second entry was a translation project of Poe's Raven that was translated four times. The final entry was an earlier classroom project where I submitted my own writing and used the cut-it-up method.

The sonnet has nothing to do with the poem, but instead seems like random hits from a directory. The sonnet makes absolutely no sense.

The translation project came out a little better. After being translated four times it doesn't sound the same, nor does it make any sense, but the tone of the piece still seems to be there (maybe by my own implication). New words emerged in the final english translation and seems for some words the process was never quite able to be completed, such as j' it reflectiu.

The cut-it-up project left little essence of the original piece, but you could still get a general idea of what the original piece was about. It makes you wonder about the randomization of words by how they are cut up and thrown around. Another thing I noticed with this cut-it-up project is how your mind and eyes are trained to fix or fill in how your words should be. As I was reading allowed, I was correcting the slightly altered words without even trying to.

Project 3

Google Collage a Sonnet of The Raven

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Translation Project:
I began with a few paragraphs from Poe's the Raven:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -Only this, and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -This it is, and nothing more."

Translated to Dutch, French, Portuguese and back to English

A time to the one shady midnight, time j' it reflectiu, weak and it tired, more d' they one quaint and the curious volume to forget l' overlevering, pendant that j' it has strained suddenly, almost somnolant, came to deduct, to leave of quelqu' one to be exacto to devagar that it corresponds to my door of chamber. " ; ' ; The Tis one or another visitor, " ; J' it murmured, " ; deducting to my door from chamber - only this, and nothing more." ;

Ah, I remember clearly the shady one in December, and each separate agonisante slag had been manufactured its ghost on the floor. J' it desired the new day impatiently; - vainly would have wanted to loan to me to mine boekensurcease of sadness - attriste for lost Lenore - for rare and rapariga deaquilo shining the angels call each time more Lenore - anónimo stops here.

E to bruir uncertain sad end each to purper excited curtain me - full me with verschrikkingen fantastic n' it has felt never previously; In way that now, still to the punishment of my heart, I met that it repeats, " ; ' ; The Tis one or another visitor to request entered to my door of chamber - one or another recent visitor to request entered to my door of chamber; - C' it n' it is, and nothing more." ;


I used the cut-it-up method on one of my english papers. I like how this makes you think about the random use of words.
original:

Death of a Flying Preservationist by Valerie Phillips. Do you ever wonder about the insects around you? Do you ever wonder what their day is like? Do you ever wonder if they are as annoyed by us as we are them? Do you wonder if their day-to-day routine is as stressful as yours? Well, you should. Insects may annoy you, birds may charm you with their song, but we should all be collectively concerned with what we are facing. The birds and the bees and other pollinators are dying off, and scientists around the world are baffled and alarmed. When the birds, the bees and the bats have disappeared, so to will flowers, trees, vegetables and fruits. In addition alfalfa, clover and other hay sources that beef and dairy cattle consume, to place meat and milk on the table, will impact the availability of food sources most people take for granted. Pollinators are critical for preserving healthy populations of ecosystems, agricultural crops and vegetable gardens. Worldwide approximately 80 percent of plants grown for food, beverages, and medicine need pollinators in order to transfer pollen between flowers for successful seed and fruit production.
cut-it-up version
eservationist by Valerie Phillips Do youDeath of a Flying Prhe insects around you? Do you ever wonde ever wonder about tlike? Do you ever wonder if they are as r what their day is are them? Do you wonder if their day-to-annoyed by us as we ressful as yours? Well, you should. Inseday routine is as stirds may charm you with their song, but cts may annoy you, blectively concerned with what we are facwe should all be colhe bees and other pollinators are dying ing. The birds and taround the world are baffled and alarmedoff, and scientists e bees and the bats have disappeared, so. When the birds, thees, vegetables and fruits. In addition to will flowers, trother hay sources that beef and dairy caalfalfa, clover and ce meat and milk on the table, will impattle consume, to plaof food sources most people take for gract the availability e critical for preserving healthy populanted. Pollinators ar agricultural crops and vegetable gardentions of ecosystems,mately 80 percent of plants grown for fos. Worldwide approxiedicine need pollinators in order to traod, beverages, and m flowers for successful seed and fruit pnsfer pollen betweenits apparent lack of marquee appeal, a droduction.

translation project

I began with a few paragraphs from Poe's the Raven:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more."

Translated to Dutch, French, Portuguese and back to English quite a change! :
A time to the one shady midnight, time j' it reflectiu, weak and it tired, more d' they one quaint and the curious volume to forget l' overlevering, pendant that j' it has strained suddenly, almost somnolant, came to deduct, to leave of quelqu' one to be exacto to devagar that it corresponds to my door of chamber. " ; ' ; The Tis one or another visitor, " ; J' it murmured, " ; deducting to my door from chamber - only this, and nothing more." ; Ah, I remember clearly the shady one in December, and each separate agonisante slag had been manufactured its ghost on the floor. J' it desired the new day impatiently; - vainly would have wanted to loan to me to mine boekensurcease of sadness - attriste for lost Lenore - for rare and rapariga deaquilo shining the angels call each time more Lenore - anónimo stops here. E to bruir uncertain sad end each to purper excited curtain me - full me with verschrikkingen fantastic n' it has felt never previously; In way that now, still to the punishment of my heart, I met that it repeats, " ; ' ; The Tis one or another visitor to request entered to my door of chamber - one or another recent visitor to request entered to my door of chamber; - C' it n' it is, and nothing more." ;

Response 5

I used the cut-it-up method on one of my english papers. I like how this makes you think about the random use of words.


eservationist by Valerie Phillips Do youDeath of a Flying Prhe insects around you? Do you ever wonde ever wonder about tlike? Do you ever wonder if they are as r what their day is are them? Do you wonder if their day-to-annoyed by us as we ressful as yours? Well, you should. Inseday routine is as stirds may charm you with their song, but cts may annoy you, blectively concerned with what we are facwe should all be colhe bees and other pollinators are dying ing. The birds and taround the world are baffled and alarmedoff, and scientists e bees and the bats have disappeared, so. When the birds, thees, vegetables and fruits. In addition to will flowers, trother hay sources that beef and dairy caalfalfa, clover and ce meat and milk on the table, will impattle consume, to plaof food sources most people take for gract the availability e critical for preserving healthy populanted. Pollinators ar agricultural crops and vegetable gardentions of ecosystems,mately 80 percent of plants grown for fos. Worldwide approxiedicine need pollinators in order to traod, beverages, and m flowers for successful seed and fruit pnsfer pollen betweenits apparent lack of marquee appeal, a droduction. “Despite populations is one form of global changecline in pollinatorcredible potential to alter the shape ane that actually has strial ecosystems,”

Project 2

Here is a link to Project 2 . I ended up changing the music and idea of the rough that I had. All photos in finished project are mine, except 2, from a trip toIreland in 2004.