Writ Photo Essay Sorry the last slide is not supposed to be where it is at, but without messing up the entire format by trying to move it (I tried at least 10 different times), so I apologize for that. At this point, after having struggled for nearly 2 hours trying to embed this bastard, I am just going to go with what I have now...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wiki-leaks at it again
So I just came across this article detailing a multi-national trade agreement between nations that represent over 40% of the worlds gross domestic product. Wiki-leaks procured a 95 page tidbit from the trade agreement and published it for the entire world to see. It is amazing that something like Wiki-leaks can bring previously unknown secrets to the light of those in the world. I have often thought about the vast scope of ignorance that citizens are kept in within this country, the secrets this government has from us… I know that sounds a bit like "Who really shot JFK" but at the same time, the pure genius gathered by our government and utilized into differing protracted uses certainly turns our country into the tip of the iceberg…what secrets are buried beneath tons of concrete and dirt? My Aunt who works for the government told me of weather programs developed by our government that can essentially control weather patterns and storms… I, like any skeptical person, was like "whatever, sure sure sure" but then she showed me some documents and reports and I did a little 180 to be more like "holy shit thats scary insane!"
Ignorance is best left to bliss, but what bliss can last with the fragile shell of ignorance futilely attempting to protect it…? here is that article on the TPP
Ignorance is best left to bliss, but what bliss can last with the fragile shell of ignorance futilely attempting to protect it…? here is that article on the TPP
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants
Expressly delivered via the world wide web, I find the factualisms connected with human integration towards more interconnectedness within society's cliques, groups, and communities, have been developing for hundreds of years--if not thousands--towards a more effective and streamlined system that brings millions together with little hassle at all. That is one thing that stand out distinctly to me in this week's topics of the web and videos on the web, along with gaming, is that the amount of effort and planning that goes into sharing discourse to a certain selected or desired community has decreased by maximum levels. No more does it take three weeks to be prepared for a lesson you want to share with a sold out crowd at some venue (don't ask me what crowd sells out for lessons) you can prepare and share a video online in half the time, even quicker if you are tech savvy and prepared. Not only does the internet connect discourses globally, but it makes it so much easier for anyone to share what they have, or think they have, of importance for the world.
Something that seems to be of similar merit is the recent story of the fifteen year old boy that has made break through efforts in the cure for cancer. He needed resources to complete his experiment so he went to a renowned scientist through the internet to ask to use his resources and lab...now millions of people have the possibility to be saved. The interconnected communities found among the internet can largely change the world for the better, of course this is not black and white, the grey area contains both positive and negative side-effects within discourse communities. For instance you have communities like BBC but reversely you then have communities like Al Jazeera which largely contain discourse related towards global terrorism. Like any innovation there are the positive and negatives that will rear their heads in different ways.
Much like Dash's idea that those that see further than others are standing on the shoulders of giants, our giant is the collective modal data that incorporates our discourse communities and our golden egg is the revolutionary ideas that continue to evolve and develop further the idea of a more connected world that morphs and evolves off of the ideas and sundry techniques that captivate, motivate, and invigorate the world we live in today.
light
crowd
desire
interconnected systems
standing on the shoulders of giants
schools connected by internet not geographical location
Something that seems to be of similar merit is the recent story of the fifteen year old boy that has made break through efforts in the cure for cancer. He needed resources to complete his experiment so he went to a renowned scientist through the internet to ask to use his resources and lab...now millions of people have the possibility to be saved. The interconnected communities found among the internet can largely change the world for the better, of course this is not black and white, the grey area contains both positive and negative side-effects within discourse communities. For instance you have communities like BBC but reversely you then have communities like Al Jazeera which largely contain discourse related towards global terrorism. Like any innovation there are the positive and negatives that will rear their heads in different ways.
Much like Dash's idea that those that see further than others are standing on the shoulders of giants, our giant is the collective modal data that incorporates our discourse communities and our golden egg is the revolutionary ideas that continue to evolve and develop further the idea of a more connected world that morphs and evolves off of the ideas and sundry techniques that captivate, motivate, and invigorate the world we live in today.
light
crowd
desire
interconnected systems
standing on the shoulders of giants
schools connected by internet not geographical location
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Cause it takes a real man to write….right?
Aghhh…..ughhhh…..ohhh yeahhhh… see that!? Uhh just pumped those words up on to the screen, like a manly man man man. So I would be a little untrustworthy if I said that I was completely enveloped by those articles and video. Wysocki's Sticky Embrace of Beauty was interesting in context, but felt like more of a continued expounding of previous articles that we have read that deal with "the original" writer, yet focuses more inherently on the question of discourse viewed with an aspect of beauty that transcends analogous discourse, warping it closer to a digital canvas of limitless possibilities.
OH but Jamieson's article was a touch more in sync to help add a new element to the role of discourse that we have covered over the semester. The tin stereotypes that are labeled upon gender roles are current and hold some semblance of sway nearly every where in the world, yet as far as writing and the community of discourse is concerned should women have a more diverse and nonlinear approach to completing a piece of discourse? Well of course, and they do, and they write some freaking amazing things… the rationalization that women are "delicate, emotional, noncompetitive, and nurturing," at least to me, seems completely true--minus the "noncompetitive" haha thats just funny. But women are delicate…in semblance to men mind you, they are emotional and nurturing… and hell thats part of the reason we (men) love them. Now wait.. I am not being sexist. I argue that these attributes lend to women creating a more complex pieces of discourse, not the opposite. Now when it does come to tone and speech deliverance of a written discourse, men perhaps hold an edge with deeper and heavier speech delivery...yet as ying and yang, men and women hold a varied set of rhetorical weapons. Each have socially assigned roles that permit, encapsulate, and deny certain wants and expected deliverances.
Jamieson talks of the evolving discourse of women and how it is more acceptable for a woman to show her true intelligence, of course if I was a woman reading his article, whew, I would be pissed at the examples of male ignorance and engorged egos. Great writers come in all shapes and sizes, some are kids, some are old people, some are men, and some are women....neat but real stuff. It's the human nature of jealousy to degrade and disavow that which we fear will upset a "normal" balance of social conformation.
Difference between:
Stopping and holding the sight- I believe what Wysocki was getting at in her essay, the difference between stopping and holding the sight, has to do with her idea of "naturalized text" holding it's true identity. When what is contained within the text, the pure raw form of what is trying to be expressed through discourse will stop the reader in their tracks and hold them with a distinctly relevant or "beautiful" piece of text, yet while they understand the use of, or theory of use of, eye pleasing aesthetics, arrangements, the reason that it has stopped them is because it is deemed to be "disembodied" from the text, providing a jarring halt for the reader. As for holding the reader, it is close to opposite of stopping the reader, it shows visually beautiful aesthetics that embody the text's voice and hold the reader to true form of the "naturalized text".....and never mind I totally missed the jist of these differences.... reciprocal text allows the reader to employ and inject their own form of beauty into the form of the text. "Just another step into the bullshit theory of textual analysis" (Aaron Plowman) which I hold dear to my heart.
OH but Jamieson's article was a touch more in sync to help add a new element to the role of discourse that we have covered over the semester. The tin stereotypes that are labeled upon gender roles are current and hold some semblance of sway nearly every where in the world, yet as far as writing and the community of discourse is concerned should women have a more diverse and nonlinear approach to completing a piece of discourse? Well of course, and they do, and they write some freaking amazing things… the rationalization that women are "delicate, emotional, noncompetitive, and nurturing," at least to me, seems completely true--minus the "noncompetitive" haha thats just funny. But women are delicate…in semblance to men mind you, they are emotional and nurturing… and hell thats part of the reason we (men) love them. Now wait.. I am not being sexist. I argue that these attributes lend to women creating a more complex pieces of discourse, not the opposite. Now when it does come to tone and speech deliverance of a written discourse, men perhaps hold an edge with deeper and heavier speech delivery...yet as ying and yang, men and women hold a varied set of rhetorical weapons. Each have socially assigned roles that permit, encapsulate, and deny certain wants and expected deliverances.
Jamieson talks of the evolving discourse of women and how it is more acceptable for a woman to show her true intelligence, of course if I was a woman reading his article, whew, I would be pissed at the examples of male ignorance and engorged egos. Great writers come in all shapes and sizes, some are kids, some are old people, some are men, and some are women....neat but real stuff. It's the human nature of jealousy to degrade and disavow that which we fear will upset a "normal" balance of social conformation.
Difference between:
Stopping and holding the sight- I believe what Wysocki was getting at in her essay, the difference between stopping and holding the sight, has to do with her idea of "naturalized text" holding it's true identity. When what is contained within the text, the pure raw form of what is trying to be expressed through discourse will stop the reader in their tracks and hold them with a distinctly relevant or "beautiful" piece of text, yet while they understand the use of, or theory of use of, eye pleasing aesthetics, arrangements, the reason that it has stopped them is because it is deemed to be "disembodied" from the text, providing a jarring halt for the reader. As for holding the reader, it is close to opposite of stopping the reader, it shows visually beautiful aesthetics that embody the text's voice and hold the reader to true form of the "naturalized text".....and never mind I totally missed the jist of these differences.... reciprocal text allows the reader to employ and inject their own form of beauty into the form of the text. "Just another step into the bullshit theory of textual analysis" (Aaron Plowman) which I hold dear to my heart.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Wiki Wacky Kohl et al
"You're such a Kohl et al!" Ha sorry I just couldn't resist...dumb dumb dumb I know.
The articles by Johnson-Eilola and Kohl et al were a great pairing; one dealing with where text comes from and how it is received, perceived, and integrated, while the other deals with "a freely expandable collection of interlinked 'Web' pages" (Kohl et al 2). But in accordance to Johnson-Eilola, "we live in a time of contradiction and contingency" so we delight in this delicious parable of articles. It's funny to think about the history of certain discourses, certain words, and certain influences; what reserved collection of thoughts did I have to phrase that, and this, (and these) words? Much like one of the first articles we read for this class dealing with the originality of text, and how there really is no original text, the Johnson-Eilola article delves and then expounds on that issue. Writing an "original" piece seems to be an insurmountable task to writers living in the world we do today, moreover, academic writing is in such a rubric that the chance for a truly "original piece is nearly non-existent. For me, music seems to be in the same category of being hard-pressed to create a piece that is truly original. You hear so many people saying that with five or ten chords you can play nearly any song on the guitar; unearthing the question if music and writing can be more closely linked than they all ready are? Is there five or ten steps that each writer can use to write almost any piece of discourse? Can altering those steps bring the ability to the writer to create vastly different sounding discourses? I pose that question to all of you: What steps in writing would take the place of chords to a guitar to music? Here is a video of singer/songwriter David Gray talking about his writing process for his acclaimed music.
The articles by Johnson-Eilola and Kohl et al were a great pairing; one dealing with where text comes from and how it is received, perceived, and integrated, while the other deals with "a freely expandable collection of interlinked 'Web' pages" (Kohl et al 2). But in accordance to Johnson-Eilola, "we live in a time of contradiction and contingency" so we delight in this delicious parable of articles. It's funny to think about the history of certain discourses, certain words, and certain influences; what reserved collection of thoughts did I have to phrase that, and this, (and these) words? Much like one of the first articles we read for this class dealing with the originality of text, and how there really is no original text, the Johnson-Eilola article delves and then expounds on that issue. Writing an "original" piece seems to be an insurmountable task to writers living in the world we do today, moreover, academic writing is in such a rubric that the chance for a truly "original piece is nearly non-existent. For me, music seems to be in the same category of being hard-pressed to create a piece that is truly original. You hear so many people saying that with five or ten chords you can play nearly any song on the guitar; unearthing the question if music and writing can be more closely linked than they all ready are? Is there five or ten steps that each writer can use to write almost any piece of discourse? Can altering those steps bring the ability to the writer to create vastly different sounding discourses? I pose that question to all of you: What steps in writing would take the place of chords to a guitar to music? Here is a video of singer/songwriter David Gray talking about his writing process for his acclaimed music.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Infographic
The website where I created my Infographic would not embed on here, no matter what paths I explored. Just some tidbits from the last FIFA World Cup in South Africa so you can all be savvy for when the next World Cup comes this summer!
Click on the hypertext above to view my Infographic
Click on the hypertext above to view my Infographic
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