Sunday, May 6, 2012
Not only is Macy's sister trying to fix up her father's old lake house but all the change seems to be take all of her dad out of everything he was part of, everything left of him. She explains to Wes she quit running to work on being perfect after her father died of a heart attack while on a run that she was supposed to be part of. She finds out he has a dark past, been to juvie, criminal kind of a past. This all change when his mother died and he had to start caring for his little brother. He also began to express himself with art. He started welding beautiful piece, pieces Macy's sister was a fan of. Wes and Macy also have in common a relationship on hold. Wes has a girl in rehab and Macy has a guy in brain camp. Soon they will have more in common then they tought.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Reading log
As continues with the catering job she finds it is the best way to forget about her worries or a couple hours and just let go and have fun. As Macy continues t stick to her schedule, she never goes out with the other workers after for night of fun, however, one night she decides to go out. As her and the girls get ready, Macy finds herself in an uncomfortable position, just as she is ready to leave, she stops and lets the other girls take control and for the first time ever, trust somebody. As she let her hair down she relaxes at a party with the rest of the catering crew. Over a couple beers she spills her whole love life out to the girls and they instantly bond. She also bonds with Wes over a simple game of truth, slowly finding bits of info about him as she shares hings with him she has never told anybody before, like he reason she quit running.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Reading Log
With Macy's new job she has broken out of her old routine and created a new one, still completing all of her tasks but with less time to worry or stress out at home alone. Her mother has little time of rest either, realestate is losing its business due to the low economy and with a new town house project she is busier then ever. Like things couldn't get worse her sister has come to town and wants to add something even bigger to both of their plates, she wants to finish up the old lake house that their father loved so dearly. The change isn't the best for Macy, that was her dad, it still smelled like him and his old running shoes were still by the door, like he had never died at all.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Note #4
End of Summer
An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.
I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones
Amaded, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.
Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was forever over.
Already the iron door of the North
Clangs open: birds,leaves,snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.
In Stanley Kunitz's poem, End of Summer, the author speaks harshly of the end of summer by using melancholy diction along with a lyrical tone that creates the scene for the reader and gives a feeling of first hand experience. Stanley is clearly devastated at the fact that summer is over and describes the coming of a new season as "a cruel wind". It seems that summer is everything and the thought of it coming to an end also makes him feel as if his life is too over "that part of my life was forever over." As the author explain more of his situation it seems as if the whole thing is one big room, as if the seasonal comings and going were just door ways you had to pass through, like it or not. As "the iron door of the North clangs open: birds, leaves, snows order their populations forth, and a cruel wind blows", Stanley explains the room's door clanging open, a dreary way of saying the approaching winter is here. The seasonal birds are ordered forth along with leaves and snows, almost against their will, if they had one.
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.
I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones
Amaded, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.
Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was forever over.
Already the iron door of the North
Clangs open: birds,leaves,snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.
In Stanley Kunitz's poem, End of Summer, the author speaks harshly of the end of summer by using melancholy diction along with a lyrical tone that creates the scene for the reader and gives a feeling of first hand experience. Stanley is clearly devastated at the fact that summer is over and describes the coming of a new season as "a cruel wind". It seems that summer is everything and the thought of it coming to an end also makes him feel as if his life is too over "that part of my life was forever over." As the author explain more of his situation it seems as if the whole thing is one big room, as if the seasonal comings and going were just door ways you had to pass through, like it or not. As "the iron door of the North clangs open: birds, leaves, snows order their populations forth, and a cruel wind blows", Stanley explains the room's door clanging open, a dreary way of saying the approaching winter is here. The seasonal birds are ordered forth along with leaves and snows, almost against their will, if they had one.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Reading Log
After Macy spontaneously joins the Wish catering team she seems to break away from reality for the short time her mind is on the job rather than her relationship with Jason, her mother's distance from her, or the dreaded job at the library. This small break in the routine is fixable however, and after catering she simply goes home to practice SAT words instead of going out with the rest of the crew. The new job has also allowed Macy to make some new friends. Monica is quiet, clumsy, and slow but is more in depth then she looks on the outside. Bert, Delia's nephew, is a chubbier kid with a big heart and a new drivers license. Kristy is Monica's younger sister, a blond peppy girl with fabulous fashion as well as scars she can't cover up. Wes is a handsome guy, all girls go crazy for him, except Macy. Wes is Bert's older brother and after their mother died Wes gave up his bad boy streak to become a real man to be looked up to. With Macy becoming closer with all her friends her routine is about to change.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Note #3
The grasses in the field have toppled,
and in places it seems that a large, now
absent, animal must have passed the night.
The hay will right itself if the day
turns dry. I miss you steadily, painfully.
None of your blustering entrances
or exits, doors, swinging wildly
on their hinges, or your huge unconscious
sighs when you read something sad,
like Henry Adams's letters from Japan,
where he travelled after Clover died.
Everything blooming bows down in the rain:
white Irises, red Peonies; and the Poppies
with their black and secret centers
lie shattered on the lawn.
The poet, Jane Kenyon, gives a praise to the summer rains through refrences to other literature but also through clever diction and comparisons of personal experience. She does this with first hand feelings like "I miss you steadily, painfully"as if she had seen it with her own eyes, she describes the rain as a majestic unconscious, something "everything blooming bows down too" as they should because with out it they would all wither and die. She is almost speaking for the plants and the summer season around her like the Lorax. Although her opening statement is rather disheartning toward rain as it causes "grasses to topple" her mood brightens as if the sounds of the rain had given her joy and now that it is gone has left a painful emptiness.
and in places it seems that a large, now
absent, animal must have passed the night.
The hay will right itself if the day
turns dry. I miss you steadily, painfully.
None of your blustering entrances
or exits, doors, swinging wildly
on their hinges, or your huge unconscious
sighs when you read something sad,
like Henry Adams's letters from Japan,
where he travelled after Clover died.
Everything blooming bows down in the rain:
white Irises, red Peonies; and the Poppies
with their black and secret centers
lie shattered on the lawn.
The poet, Jane Kenyon, gives a praise to the summer rains through refrences to other literature but also through clever diction and comparisons of personal experience. She does this with first hand feelings like "I miss you steadily, painfully"as if she had seen it with her own eyes, she describes the rain as a majestic unconscious, something "everything blooming bows down too" as they should because with out it they would all wither and die. She is almost speaking for the plants and the summer season around her like the Lorax. Although her opening statement is rather disheartning toward rain as it causes "grasses to topple" her mood brightens as if the sounds of the rain had given her joy and now that it is gone has left a painful emptiness.
Note #2 - Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M526tFIaWcw
The first summer scene of the Notebook when Noah first sets his sights on Allie at the carnivel is when summer itsself is portrayed through the characters. The actors are typical highschoolers, living it up in the summer with friends, free spirited and care free. Fin, Noah's right hand man, sees the way Noah looks at Allie for the first time, saying she is here for the summer with her family. This almost explains Allie as the season, saying she has come but nothing is perminent and however only temporary. Later in the movie we find she is only temporary, she comes with the season and leaves with it. The way the actors act towards eachother at first shows a chilling harsh reality of rejection, as if the season is conveyed through Allie not only in a temporary come and go kind of way but also describes her as a tease toward Noah, just like the first months of summer and last months of spring play with the minds of many students giving us just a taste of the nice weather we want but then taking it away just like that. Just like that Allie is gone and Noah had only those short months, just like summer is only two short months.
The first summer scene of the Notebook when Noah first sets his sights on Allie at the carnivel is when summer itsself is portrayed through the characters. The actors are typical highschoolers, living it up in the summer with friends, free spirited and care free. Fin, Noah's right hand man, sees the way Noah looks at Allie for the first time, saying she is here for the summer with her family. This almost explains Allie as the season, saying she has come but nothing is perminent and however only temporary. Later in the movie we find she is only temporary, she comes with the season and leaves with it. The way the actors act towards eachother at first shows a chilling harsh reality of rejection, as if the season is conveyed through Allie not only in a temporary come and go kind of way but also describes her as a tease toward Noah, just like the first months of summer and last months of spring play with the minds of many students giving us just a taste of the nice weather we want but then taking it away just like that. Just like that Allie is gone and Noah had only those short months, just like summer is only two short months.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Reading Log
Macy's summer is very scheduled, right down to the T. She has her routine and she doesn't fray from it. She wakes up, goes to the library, eats alone, comes home, does laundry, and SAT prep, all in all she doesn't ever go out and do anything fun. This continues until the day she breaks down and shows some weakness in her email to Jason, her brainiac boyfriend. At the end of the email she signs, I love you. Something most couples say after a year of dating like Macy and Jason. He responds with concern that she isn't as focused on her library job as she should be, as he was and tells her they need a break. After reading this Macy drives, she drives around town to escape the thought of responding and the quiet house she no longer felt was home. As she drive through town she spots the Wish catering that had earlier been to one of her mother's parties, the same catering company who also offered her a job, being spontaneous in the moment, she fallows the van to a house and approaches Delia, the owner. In a bit of a frantic mode, Delia keeps her promise that Macy could have a job and Macy starts that minute. With a little bit of change in her life, more is to come but not in the way Macy expects and it will cause Macy to come back to reality.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Exercise #3
Reviews:
1. Just Like That
2. Someone Like You
3. Along for the Ride
1. The main character is first described with their tragedy almost defined by what bad has happened to them.
2. The opening exposition is always very broad and gives enough information but still leaves you wanting more. 3. The resolving end to their tragedy is usually brought too by a guy because of the genre.
4. The middle action of the book is never illustrated in great detail but the little hints of information we do get is suspenseful and still leaves room for a twist and further evaluation.
1. Just Like That
2. Someone Like You
3. Along for the Ride
1. The main character is first described with their tragedy almost defined by what bad has happened to them.
2. The opening exposition is always very broad and gives enough information but still leaves you wanting more. 3. The resolving end to their tragedy is usually brought too by a guy because of the genre.
4. The middle action of the book is never illustrated in great detail but the little hints of information we do get is suspenseful and still leaves room for a twist and further evaluation.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Reading log
Macy is really having a rough time, not only with her fathers recent death but the unspoken "what ifs" going through her mind. What if she had woken up when he told her to to run with him, what if I could have saved him, what if he wasn't alone.
At one of her mother's parties this is expressed in a great deal due too the fact that she finds she is still the girls know as "the girl whose dad died." She is also experiencing an epidemic what she calls, the face. The face she gets from everybody that says, poor thing, I'm sorry, and worst of all I feel bad for you. Something she gets on a daily basis from everybody except her boyfriend, who is now MIA, due to brain camp.
These of course don't help, especially when she starts her first morning off at the library. The two snooty girls, who "know" they're better then her, sure act like it. They are used to the smart guy who has all the answers and don't want to spend much time helping out Macy. Confused and hurt, she eats lunch alone for the afternoon.
At one of her mother's parties this is expressed in a great deal due too the fact that she finds she is still the girls know as "the girl whose dad died." She is also experiencing an epidemic what she calls, the face. The face she gets from everybody that says, poor thing, I'm sorry, and worst of all I feel bad for you. Something she gets on a daily basis from everybody except her boyfriend, who is now MIA, due to brain camp.
These of course don't help, especially when she starts her first morning off at the library. The two snooty girls, who "know" they're better then her, sure act like it. They are used to the smart guy who has all the answers and don't want to spend much time helping out Macy. Confused and hurt, she eats lunch alone for the afternoon.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Anthology note #1
Summer
And it grows, the vain
summer,
even for us with our
bright green sins:
behold the dry guest,
the wind,
as it stirs up quarrels
among magnolia boughs
and plays its serene
tune on
the prows of all the leaves—
and then is gone,
leaving the leaves
still there,
the tree still green, but breaking
the heart of the air.
In Carlo Betocchi's poem, Summer, he writes of the summer with a poetic purpose while the childlike simplicity contrasts greatly with the increasing shine of Betocchi’s diction. The way he compares the summer to the wind shows a true personal experience while also giving such a great amount of meticulous detail in the way "the wind stirs up quarrels among Mongolia boughs." Carlo uses the wind as an example of how summer vainly blows through and rustles and moves everything, then, just like that, it is gone, with everything just as it was. Just like the short months of summer it is there and just like that, gone, as if nothing had happened at all...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Exercise 2
2. "...because her little sister will NOT shut up she will NOT shut up SHE WILL NOT SHUT UP and Roberta is about to BASH her little sister's HEAD IN IF SHE DOES NOT SHUT UP."
3. she captures the vision of a knee-slapping, hog-hauling, red-neck get-together.
3. Lynda uses lyrical words and is poetic.
All the possibilities of internity
3. she captures the vision of a knee-slapping, hog-hauling, red-neck get-together.
3. Lynda uses lyrical words and is poetic.
All the possibilities of internity
Monday, March 19, 2012
Exercise 1
Annie Proulx's, "The Mud Below", Proulx portrays a "little okie town" with intensity and poeticism using figurative language that suggests an innocence behind the dangers of such a sport as bull riding. "Inside a metal chute" gives a chaotic touch to the style while evoking a sense of innocence by naming the bull "Little Kisses." This is quickly shunned away by the foreshadowing of the danger soon to come as he "slapps his face forcefully, bringing adreneline roses to his cheeks." The weather described as "sultury" suggests a stressful, sweaty event often cause by terror and apprehension. In contrast to the feeling throughout stadium and by the rider, the readiness and fearlessness of the rider contradicts all thoughts of quiting before it is too late or giving up all together.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Anthology: theme statement
I am choosing to work around the theme of summer for my anthropology book. It is coming up soon and also my favorite season. This is a season where there is so much to do and a lot of fun to be had, but also has a lot of mixed emotions between the nice weather and the irritating mosquitos.
There are a few poems i have found and plan on using in my book, however, there are many summer scenes and songs I think I might also include.
One movie scene I am considering is from the movie The Sandlot. This movie depicts the stereotypical summer scene because of the mischief and added heat of the movie that makes it feel school free and fun.
Another aspect of summer I was going to use was the song Barefoot Blue Jean Night by Jake Owen. The big country fan I am, this song brings all kinds of memories of summer. As he sings about singing by campfires, having fun with friends, and of course being around the water, summer is a clear subject in this song. This summer atmosphere of these poems, songs, and movies are enough to use in my book with a clear aspect of summer.
There are a few poems i have found and plan on using in my book, however, there are many summer scenes and songs I think I might also include.
One movie scene I am considering is from the movie The Sandlot. This movie depicts the stereotypical summer scene because of the mischief and added heat of the movie that makes it feel school free and fun.
Another aspect of summer I was going to use was the song Barefoot Blue Jean Night by Jake Owen. The big country fan I am, this song brings all kinds of memories of summer. As he sings about singing by campfires, having fun with friends, and of course being around the water, summer is a clear subject in this song. This summer atmosphere of these poems, songs, and movies are enough to use in my book with a clear aspect of summer.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Reading log
A new book I'm currently reading is called The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. This is a perfect chic lit book. It starts off all about boys, summer, and the troubles of a teen girl. Macy, the main character, is about to lead a pretty boring summer, not only has her father recently died but now her brainy-ac boyfriend is leaving her for brain camp, he is the top of his class with his GPA, leader of student council, and tons of AP classes. She is an average girl whose summer consists of working at the library, SAT vocabulary drills, and the rest of her time will be spent with her mother in a silent grief shared over the death of her father. The current page I'm on doesn't tell us yet but from reading the back we know Macy's summer won't be as lame as she thinks and some things will show up from her past to suprise her.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Reading Log
-Read at least two different books
-Try to read books with more meaning and deeper thoughts by the author
-Try to read genres other then chic lit
-Read at least 15 minutes every night
-Try to read books with more meaning and deeper thoughts by the author
-Try to read genres other then chic lit
-Read at least 15 minutes every night
Friday, February 24, 2012
Submission #4: Collection of Analytical Pieces
Vivor Soñar Leer: The radical range of color schemes, discombobulating object scale, unusual item combination, and drastic angling of geometric shapes combine to form a divine harmony in the middle of a flustering discord.
Wicked Lovely:The two metals hit creating a searing screech on every connection. All the movements are taking with grace and dignity appearing like a well choreographed dance. The two fight not like enemies but dance partners. The music and Will and Jacks facial expression add an extreme intensity to the whole scene.
The not so analytical:
"And by me playing that sport it allowed me to gather numerous of friendships that are partially still intact in high school."
"The game is for the artist and the racer in all players. Like modern pieces of art, cars are designed to look cool as they go around corners at fast speeds."
Wicked Lovely:The two metals hit creating a searing screech on every connection. All the movements are taking with grace and dignity appearing like a well choreographed dance. The two fight not like enemies but dance partners. The music and Will and Jacks facial expression add an extreme intensity to the whole scene.
The not so analytical:
"And by me playing that sport it allowed me to gather numerous of friendships that are partially still intact in high school."
"The game is for the artist and the racer in all players. Like modern pieces of art, cars are designed to look cool as they go around corners at fast speeds."
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Just Like That...
As Hanna Meets the girls at the park, they go back to her house to catch up and eat. They talk for hours on end as any longtime teen make-up friendship session goes. The girls will graduate soon and grad parties are coming up and as they plan on going to friends parties Hanna is reminded she too will have to be the center of attention, something she isn't so used to.
As family fills the room and friends of her mom's Hanna stays inside and avoids conversation. As the girls get ready to leave for other parties, her mother gets the mail, and nicely invites the mail man in for a drink. As Hanna walks away she can tell something isn't right in her mom's eyes, and for good reason. The note Hanna had sent her long lost grandmother was replied to and now in a nice envelope in her mother's hands. As Hanna reads the note too herself, as her mother had requested, she notices Lydia, her grandmother, never once mentions her mother. At this point Hanna isn't going anywhere to deal with graduation. In the note another thing is mentioned, the fact that Hanna had sent her a picture she had drawn of her mother, Dancing at Fifty.
The book's last chapter is four years later, we find out Hanna had been traveling, Barcelona, Rhode Island, and is now living in Chicago. She has quit art school and is now going to DePaul for theater design. Her mother has moved to Toronto with Charles, now her husband. As Hanna gets off a bus in the middle of a blizzard she walks to her apartment where she lives alone with a cat. She sees an ad for a new gig playing at a local club, the star? Sylvia Callahan, Aerin's alias. She decides to go despite the weather and when she goes she wears Will's old hat. Her and Aerin catch up, they put four years into 20 minutes and Hanna find Aerin too has been traveling. New York and Tuscon and every once in a while does a gig or two at a club. Aerin crashes with Hanna and as they stop by the store for food Aerin makes a call to Will and leaves a voice mail, now 19 years old with a full ride for baseball to USC. When they reach Hanna's apartment Will calls back, Hanna hunkers down and they start talking Aerin falls in love with her cat, she asks what it's name is and as Hanna starts the conversation with Will she replies, "Jailbait."
As family fills the room and friends of her mom's Hanna stays inside and avoids conversation. As the girls get ready to leave for other parties, her mother gets the mail, and nicely invites the mail man in for a drink. As Hanna walks away she can tell something isn't right in her mom's eyes, and for good reason. The note Hanna had sent her long lost grandmother was replied to and now in a nice envelope in her mother's hands. As Hanna reads the note too herself, as her mother had requested, she notices Lydia, her grandmother, never once mentions her mother. At this point Hanna isn't going anywhere to deal with graduation. In the note another thing is mentioned, the fact that Hanna had sent her a picture she had drawn of her mother, Dancing at Fifty.
The book's last chapter is four years later, we find out Hanna had been traveling, Barcelona, Rhode Island, and is now living in Chicago. She has quit art school and is now going to DePaul for theater design. Her mother has moved to Toronto with Charles, now her husband. As Hanna gets off a bus in the middle of a blizzard she walks to her apartment where she lives alone with a cat. She sees an ad for a new gig playing at a local club, the star? Sylvia Callahan, Aerin's alias. She decides to go despite the weather and when she goes she wears Will's old hat. Her and Aerin catch up, they put four years into 20 minutes and Hanna find Aerin too has been traveling. New York and Tuscon and every once in a while does a gig or two at a club. Aerin crashes with Hanna and as they stop by the store for food Aerin makes a call to Will and leaves a voice mail, now 19 years old with a full ride for baseball to USC. When they reach Hanna's apartment Will calls back, Hanna hunkers down and they start talking Aerin falls in love with her cat, she asks what it's name is and as Hanna starts the conversation with Will she replies, "Jailbait."
Interpretive Response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Facebok Parenting is a post by an average father, dressed like a cowboy and clearly out in the country, this Chuck Norris look alike is a very angry man. There is a simple setting that really underscores the angered disappointment in his style and tone in the way he explains his situation. As he smokes a cigarette the author speaks angrily. He has a wooden chair set up in the middle of a field, something you wouldn't be surprised to see on a beach or relaxing porch; rather it sits lonely in the midst of dead grass and a far off highway with trucks and cars rushing by is the only background sound. The effects of the setting really give you a sense of an unhappy narrator, not to mention the grey and cloudy day really gives the post a foreshadowing effect.
This is an 8 minute video really worth watching, he goes on a rant about Facebook. Not only Facebook but his daughter that has really pushed his buttons. The anger in this man's voice is soon defined when he explains as to why he is making the video. This father's purpose is to embarrass his daughter that has disappointed him to the breaking point. She had not only made a public post on Facebook about how much she hates her daily responsibilities, parents, etc. but she had done it twice. The plot really turns when he explains she had asked him to fix her laptop. He had put timeless hours and $140 in her new software only to find this Facebook post. The stupidity of his daughter is emphasized when we learn her father is an IT guy, computers are his life. Her immaturity is brought out when he reads off some of the complaints, like doing her laundry, making her bed, and sweeping the floors. This father is outraged by his daughters behavior and the humiliation she has brought him. When she did it the first time she was grounded, this punishment would be different. This time her father's extreme side was shown as he took out his 45 pistol and shot her laptop seven times, the end is short with a simple "Have a good day Y'all" from the father, an unexpected joyful end to such an angry post.
Facebok Parenting is a post by an average father, dressed like a cowboy and clearly out in the country, this Chuck Norris look alike is a very angry man. There is a simple setting that really underscores the angered disappointment in his style and tone in the way he explains his situation. As he smokes a cigarette the author speaks angrily. He has a wooden chair set up in the middle of a field, something you wouldn't be surprised to see on a beach or relaxing porch; rather it sits lonely in the midst of dead grass and a far off highway with trucks and cars rushing by is the only background sound. The effects of the setting really give you a sense of an unhappy narrator, not to mention the grey and cloudy day really gives the post a foreshadowing effect.
This is an 8 minute video really worth watching, he goes on a rant about Facebook. Not only Facebook but his daughter that has really pushed his buttons. The anger in this man's voice is soon defined when he explains as to why he is making the video. This father's purpose is to embarrass his daughter that has disappointed him to the breaking point. She had not only made a public post on Facebook about how much she hates her daily responsibilities, parents, etc. but she had done it twice. The plot really turns when he explains she had asked him to fix her laptop. He had put timeless hours and $140 in her new software only to find this Facebook post. The stupidity of his daughter is emphasized when we learn her father is an IT guy, computers are his life. Her immaturity is brought out when he reads off some of the complaints, like doing her laundry, making her bed, and sweeping the floors. This father is outraged by his daughters behavior and the humiliation she has brought him. When she did it the first time she was grounded, this punishment would be different. This time her father's extreme side was shown as he took out his 45 pistol and shot her laptop seven times, the end is short with a simple "Have a good day Y'all" from the father, an unexpected joyful end to such an angry post.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Short list #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU
This is a YouTube post my mom showed me...
A video recently uploaded to YouTube really shows the affect of Facebook and parenting. Not only did this girl dis on her parents on Facebook but she will learn to regret that decision. As an IT guy, this dad found a post on Facebook while fixing his daughters laptop, not only was she being incredibly disrespectful but she had done it before. This father describes his intense disappointment and acknowledges all of his daughters complaints including her chores, homework, and all the hard work she does. He has one solution for this problem, he will not only take away her Facebook, phone, and laptop but he grounds her, makes her pay for the new software he put on her computer, and shoots the laptop 7 times with his 45...good punishment if you ask me, she will probably learn to quit taking things for granted!
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/will-adler
This is a YouTube post my mom showed me...
A video recently uploaded to YouTube really shows the affect of Facebook and parenting. Not only did this girl dis on her parents on Facebook but she will learn to regret that decision. As an IT guy, this dad found a post on Facebook while fixing his daughters laptop, not only was she being incredibly disrespectful but she had done it before. This father describes his intense disappointment and acknowledges all of his daughters complaints including her chores, homework, and all the hard work she does. He has one solution for this problem, he will not only take away her Facebook, phone, and laptop but he grounds her, makes her pay for the new software he put on her computer, and shoots the laptop 7 times with his 45...good punishment if you ask me, she will probably learn to quit taking things for granted!
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/will-adler
In this collection of photos, Will Adler, creates a connection to the most unconnected objects. You wouldn't think anything could be similar between a donkey and a child but in the photographs presented in his collection, even the most unruly eye can see it. The way he makes the connection is not through color or what is in the picture but instead its presence and shape. Will Adler uses 11 photos and two by two the last one seems to connect to the first one is some sort of way and with their being an odd number of photos it seems to be a never ending circle of pictures, the most recent being related to the last some how. The pictures are simple yet so much is shown with in them.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2718-qiu-yang
In this collection of photos the clean and crisp pictures show a difference in similarity. As in the picture above there is an active look to the ice cream, a not so healthy food. The picture with the apple, however, has a sloppy slob look to a seemingly healthy food. Polar opposites to what the picture shows and what the picture is showing with the action of the person.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2718-qiu-yang
In this collection of photos the clean and crisp pictures show a difference in similarity. As in the picture above there is an active look to the ice cream, a not so healthy food. The picture with the apple, however, has a sloppy slob look to a seemingly healthy food. Polar opposites to what the picture shows and what the picture is showing with the action of the person.
Submission #3: Middle School
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/449/middle-school
The fearful lives of students and teachers within the walls of a middle school is anything but false. These are rough times and it seems there is a similar reaction across America to how horrible it really is.
"Life isn’t fair", something we are always told when we were are young, is something middle school really sums it up for us all. The podcast, Middle School, highlights the rough times, rumors, and life itself inside the walls of a middle school. Going to middle school from elementary school can be hard, awkward stages, cliques, and the fear of not fitting is a constant worry of most kids. Something as simple as a school dance seems to bring nothing but fear and stress. When you're at the bottom as a sixth grader, things are even worse. Most sixth graders are still young and do not want to dance with the opposite sex. When you reach seventh and eighth grade things change, not only the rules but the way you dance and "friends" aren't being as friendly. The students all willingly go for fear of missing out, getting there there is a constant worry of how to dance and who to dance with and stressing about if you will get made fun of or not. Middle School really shows how an enjoyable event can really go bad.
In this podcast the students aren't the only unhappy prisoners of middle school. The experience, however, of both teachers and students is unusually similar. Teachers never felt fulfilled in the lessons they taught and students live in constant fear of their fellow peers and “friends”. It seemed the Middle School podcast really summed middle school up for everybody; it was not fun and was not fair. Teachers wasted their time teaching something they didn't feel ever sunk in and students are constantly fighting to fit into the rest of the kids. High school, however, is the light at the end of the tunnel, it seems everybody "chills out" and doesn't seem to worry about what everybody else is wearing, what they look like, or where they live; we all just get along.
"Life isn’t fair", something we are always told when we were are young, is something middle school really sums it up for us all. The podcast, Middle School, highlights the rough times, rumors, and life itself inside the walls of a middle school. Going to middle school from elementary school can be hard, awkward stages, cliques, and the fear of not fitting is a constant worry of most kids. Something as simple as a school dance seems to bring nothing but fear and stress. When you're at the bottom as a sixth grader, things are even worse. Most sixth graders are still young and do not want to dance with the opposite sex. When you reach seventh and eighth grade things change, not only the rules but the way you dance and "friends" aren't being as friendly. The students all willingly go for fear of missing out, getting there there is a constant worry of how to dance and who to dance with and stressing about if you will get made fun of or not. Middle School really shows how an enjoyable event can really go bad.
In this podcast the students aren't the only unhappy prisoners of middle school. The experience, however, of both teachers and students is unusually similar. Teachers never felt fulfilled in the lessons they taught and students live in constant fear of their fellow peers and “friends”. It seemed the Middle School podcast really summed middle school up for everybody; it was not fun and was not fair. Teachers wasted their time teaching something they didn't feel ever sunk in and students are constantly fighting to fit into the rest of the kids. High school, however, is the light at the end of the tunnel, it seems everybody "chills out" and doesn't seem to worry about what everybody else is wearing, what they look like, or where they live; we all just get along.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Just Like That...
We are getting into the final moments of the book and I feel it is really starting to slow down...After Hanna had dropped off Aerin at her grandmother's house, her ride home was rough. She had kissed Will good-bye and went home with regret and a feeling of disappointment in herself due to the fact that she put Aerin in such a situation. Just as she was passing the lake she noticed a large group of people crowded by news reporters and firemen. She knew she couldn't handle the information from the lake so she kept driving. When she got home the house was empty and she was held up only by her own thoughts, she took three minutes to think things over and made her way down to the lake to find out what was going on.
As she approached the lake the crowd had grown larger and the tow truck was backed up to the water, finally the ATV was being pulled from the water from that fateful night in which two teens had perished at the unshared knowledge of Hanna. As she cried on the bench, most brushed it off as and emotional teen but as the news reporter approached Hanna panicked. She knew the reporter saw a story behind her hurt eyes not just a sad girl. Hanna had to react quickly and she did the only thing she could think of. She pulled out her phone and made a call. The reporter could see she was distracted and Hanna hoped she wouldn't ask her any questions, it worked. As the reporter grew impatient, she walked away and Hanna was in the clear but the call she had made went out to her ex- best friend Kelsey. No sooner then the call was ended Kelsey and Maura showed up to the park to meet Hanna.
Just as the girls showed up the tow truck pulled away and the crowd thinned out significantly. Hanna had noticed a small group of people still talking and knew who they must have been, the parents. They were smiling and laughing and Hanna had seen the closure in their pain. She walked up to the couple and had introduced herself. The mother didn't recognize her and Hanna said she was a friend of a friend. She told the parents she was the last to see them on the lake that night and she told her they were nothing but happy and with a smile on her face the mother of the dead teen smiled and thanked Hanna...
As she approached the lake the crowd had grown larger and the tow truck was backed up to the water, finally the ATV was being pulled from the water from that fateful night in which two teens had perished at the unshared knowledge of Hanna. As she cried on the bench, most brushed it off as and emotional teen but as the news reporter approached Hanna panicked. She knew the reporter saw a story behind her hurt eyes not just a sad girl. Hanna had to react quickly and she did the only thing she could think of. She pulled out her phone and made a call. The reporter could see she was distracted and Hanna hoped she wouldn't ask her any questions, it worked. As the reporter grew impatient, she walked away and Hanna was in the clear but the call she had made went out to her ex- best friend Kelsey. No sooner then the call was ended Kelsey and Maura showed up to the park to meet Hanna.
Just as the girls showed up the tow truck pulled away and the crowd thinned out significantly. Hanna had noticed a small group of people still talking and knew who they must have been, the parents. They were smiling and laughing and Hanna had seen the closure in their pain. She walked up to the couple and had introduced herself. The mother didn't recognize her and Hanna said she was a friend of a friend. She told the parents she was the last to see them on the lake that night and she told her they were nothing but happy and with a smile on her face the mother of the dead teen smiled and thanked Hanna...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Podcast Response: Middle School
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/449/middle-school
When we are young we are always told life isn’t fair but middle school really sums it up for us. The podcast, Middle School, highlights the rough times, rumors, and life itself inside the walls of a middle school. Going to middle school from elementary school can be hard, awkward stages, cliques, and the fear of not fitting is a constant worry of most kids. The experience, however, of both teachers and students is unusually similar. Teachers never felt fulfilled in the lessons they taught and students live in constant fear of their fellow peers and “friends”. It seemed the Middle School podcast really summed middle school up for everybody; it was not fun and was not fair. Teachers wasted their time teaching something they didn't feel ever sunk in and students constantly fighting to fit into the rest of the kids. High school, however, is the light at the end of the tunnel, it seems everybody "chills out" and doesn't seem to worry about what everybody else is wearing, what they look like, or where they live ; we all just get along.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Just Like That...
A connection to family is something everybody cherishes but when it is broken and unknown answers is all we want. In this case Will's family is still wondering about the mother that walked out on his dad, the famed congressmen, is she alive? Does she want to reconnect?
Although Beth had told Hanna he grandmother was dead and there was no use looking Hanna couldn't help herself. She walked the 17A area a couple times a week looking for that mysterious woman she had seen so many times at Mark's congregational meetings. It came as a shock one day when she had finally found her. Hanna had just stopped in the Zip's Kwik Trip for Altoids and a lottery ticket when she saw her. She fallowed the women and her friend back into the store. She had thought of what to say so she approached cautiously. As she stumbled for words she told the women she was an art student and was drawing portraits of people at different stages of life. They had quickly recognized her. They had seen her at the meetings before and they didn't buy it when she told them she volunteered to serve food there. She had offered the women $10 an hour so she could draw them and they agreed and they went to the coffee shop.
As Hanna set up the scene she sat adjacent to the women and after two hours their picture done in crayola crayon was finished. Nan wasn't impressed and said she had somewhere to be and Hanna payed her, the other lady however was astonished at Hanna's talent and as Hanna drove her home she offered a copy and said she would bring it by later. A week later Hanna had redone the crayola portrait in pastels, put the two pictures in a frame for the women, and delivered them to Sue's house. Although Nan acted as if she wasn't impressed, Sue said she would be. Nan was gone at the time but they went and put the picture up in her apartment anyway. As they did so Hanna noticed a picture on the table next to Nan's chair, it was Mark.
Hanna e-mailed Will that day and after two days of suspension he finally replied. She went to his house and Aerin answered the door. Both his parents were out of town and she was "babysitting" As Will and Hanna were about to leave Aerin decided to tag along. They watched as Nana walked into her apartment and they fallowed suit. As Aerin knocked on the door Nan was expecting them. She had heard about Hanna's findings and had news to tell. Jill, their grandmother was a good friend of Nan's, a good friend considering Jill was batting for both teams, if you know what I mean. Jill and her were in love but just like Jill ran out on Mark she too had ran out on Nan. It wasn't until 5 years ago she had found out she was dead. As a bartender Jill had to defend herself one night and was put into Tennessee lockup. Two weeks in her apendix burst, she didn't die though the jail gave her a bad blood transfussion and she was left with Hepititus, slowly it killed her liver.
Nan had heard about Aerins car accident and how she had killed her three band mates, she brought it up and irritated Will called Nan a bitch, but not before they could see something they never have before, a picture of their father as a kid. Aerin was hurt and Hanna drove them both back to their grandparents house. Aerin planned on going to stay with some family friends and Will feared she might not return one day...
Although Beth had told Hanna he grandmother was dead and there was no use looking Hanna couldn't help herself. She walked the 17A area a couple times a week looking for that mysterious woman she had seen so many times at Mark's congregational meetings. It came as a shock one day when she had finally found her. Hanna had just stopped in the Zip's Kwik Trip for Altoids and a lottery ticket when she saw her. She fallowed the women and her friend back into the store. She had thought of what to say so she approached cautiously. As she stumbled for words she told the women she was an art student and was drawing portraits of people at different stages of life. They had quickly recognized her. They had seen her at the meetings before and they didn't buy it when she told them she volunteered to serve food there. She had offered the women $10 an hour so she could draw them and they agreed and they went to the coffee shop.
As Hanna set up the scene she sat adjacent to the women and after two hours their picture done in crayola crayon was finished. Nan wasn't impressed and said she had somewhere to be and Hanna payed her, the other lady however was astonished at Hanna's talent and as Hanna drove her home she offered a copy and said she would bring it by later. A week later Hanna had redone the crayola portrait in pastels, put the two pictures in a frame for the women, and delivered them to Sue's house. Although Nan acted as if she wasn't impressed, Sue said she would be. Nan was gone at the time but they went and put the picture up in her apartment anyway. As they did so Hanna noticed a picture on the table next to Nan's chair, it was Mark.
Hanna e-mailed Will that day and after two days of suspension he finally replied. She went to his house and Aerin answered the door. Both his parents were out of town and she was "babysitting" As Will and Hanna were about to leave Aerin decided to tag along. They watched as Nana walked into her apartment and they fallowed suit. As Aerin knocked on the door Nan was expecting them. She had heard about Hanna's findings and had news to tell. Jill, their grandmother was a good friend of Nan's, a good friend considering Jill was batting for both teams, if you know what I mean. Jill and her were in love but just like Jill ran out on Mark she too had ran out on Nan. It wasn't until 5 years ago she had found out she was dead. As a bartender Jill had to defend herself one night and was put into Tennessee lockup. Two weeks in her apendix burst, she didn't die though the jail gave her a bad blood transfussion and she was left with Hepititus, slowly it killed her liver.
Nan had heard about Aerins car accident and how she had killed her three band mates, she brought it up and irritated Will called Nan a bitch, but not before they could see something they never have before, a picture of their father as a kid. Aerin was hurt and Hanna drove them both back to their grandparents house. Aerin planned on going to stay with some family friends and Will feared she might not return one day...
Interpretive Response
In Massimo Vitali's photo, The Beach Scene, he is able to capture the cluttered cheerfulness of the everyday, common day at the beach. Massimo Vitali is a celebrated Italian photographer a.k.a "Master of the beach scene". His ability to capture scenes on beaches all over Italy is truly amazing. The way he is capable of capturing something so simple and put so much meaning behind it is an ineffable talent. His pictures show the common goal of everyone on the beach, to have fun, while also showing a sense of individuality and synchronization on the certain beach activities. Some are soaking up the rays while some are in the water but the cluttered individuality all makes sense in his pictures. The kids frolic in the shallows as most kids do, while parents watch or read under the sanctity of the beach umbrella. The gifted portrayal of Vitali’s picture taking ability suggests loneliness and wanting to belong, he wants just as bad to be down there on the beach and in the water with the rest of the people.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Short list #2
@The90sLife
Most Homestead kids grew up in the 90's, I myself was born in 1994 and there's just something different about how kids grow-up now as to how kids grew-up then. From the cartoons and the clothes to the stupid things we said, it was a different era and things aren't exactly changing for the better. @The90'sLife is a fellow Tweeter and if you happen to fallow him you'll see they are bringing it all back. The tweets aren't deep in thought or incredibly artistic but the simplicity of the tweets and comedy of the pictures is enough to remind anybody who grew-up in the 90's of their childhood. It's something only our generation could understand and they are simply bringing it all back, simpler times, and giving us a reminder of what most are all about to leave and how we are about enter the real world.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/massimo-vitali
Massimo Vitali is a celebrated Italian photographer a.k.a master of the beach scene. His ability to capture scenes on beaches all over Italy is truly amazing. His pictures show the common goal of everyone on the beach, to have fun, while also showing a sense of individuality on the certain beach activities. Some are tanning some are in the water but the cluttered individuality all makes sense in his pictures.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2718-qiu-yang
In this collection of photos the clean and crisp pictures show a difference in similarity. As in the picture above there is an active look to the ice cream, a not so healthy food. The picture with the apple, however, has a sloppy slob look to a seemingly healthy food. Polar opposites to what the picture shows and what the picture is showing with the action of the person.
Sub #1 comments
"I've come to the conclusion that if I had to pick one website, I would pick The Burning House. By the title, I'm sure you could guess what the website is about.These people submit a picture of the items they would carry with them, along with a list, their name, and where they're from. Most of these people claim that they would take their cameras, phones, some old vintage clothes or sunglasses, or their laptops. Personally, if I posted on this website, my dog, phone, and blanket and probably a few good books would be in the picture. When someone asks another person what they would bring, the normal answer is "my phone, computer, camera, clothes, etc." But if you put some thought into this, your answer may be different. I'd bring what is most important to me, like I said earlier, my dog. He'd be the first thing I'd try to save(:"
In this post the person gives great thought about the topic they have chosen. The analytical side of this post, however is not the best. This person wrote about their ideas and what they thought the average person would bring with them in the case that their house was burning down. To better analyze this topic the author should have put more inferences and descriptions as to why people bring what they do in the case of a fire filled house. Maybe even describe the feelings of a person in that situation. They have a great main idea just not enough description or inferences.
In this post the person gives great thought about the topic they have chosen. The analytical side of this post, however is not the best. This person wrote about their ideas and what they thought the average person would bring with them in the case that their house was burning down. To better analyze this topic the author should have put more inferences and descriptions as to why people bring what they do in the case of a fire filled house. Maybe even describe the feelings of a person in that situation. They have a great main idea just not enough description or inferences.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Just Like That...
As a large snow storm approaches in early March many people of Minnesota aren't worried but when the snow really starts to pile up it becomes a problem. Hanna works in the swim wear section at the mall and as kids and moms become cooped up more and more people flood into the store. Not only is she running ramped for new sizes because of all the over feasting for the holidays but she runs into Beth, Will's sister. She also saw Will there trying on a tie for another one of his Dad's meetings, they ask Hanna’s opinion, very awkward situation! As she suggested a blue tie, they invited her to his dad’s meeting and she politely agreed. Her and Will would serve the dinner to guests there to watch.
When they got to the meeting hall Will had asked Hanna to look for the lady she had previously see at Marks other meeting, she declined but when she was serving food and got a glimpse of the lady leaving she couldn’t help herself, she ran after her. They made small talk but nothing too great, nothing to confirm her identity. As Beth shows up she scolds Hanna and Will for believing their “dead” grandmother is alive.
When she heads back home she wakes up on the fallowing Sunday, Charles, her mom’s boyfriend, is there, it is supposed to be their day but considering the snow he spent the night. As she eats her breakfast she looks outside to see Will shoveling their walk.
Later in the afternoon as she is on her work break she texts an old friend, Cate, to hang out. Bad news, they are all hanging out at Maura’s house tonight. She and Cate eventually meet up at the coffee shop anyway and as she approaches she sees Maura and Kelsey waiting with Cate, ambushed. She turns around and goes home but she can see their car in her drive way so to waste time she goes to the lake, thinking about the teens who died she walks out onto the ice and all she can think about is how cold and scared they were…
When they got to the meeting hall Will had asked Hanna to look for the lady she had previously see at Marks other meeting, she declined but when she was serving food and got a glimpse of the lady leaving she couldn’t help herself, she ran after her. They made small talk but nothing too great, nothing to confirm her identity. As Beth shows up she scolds Hanna and Will for believing their “dead” grandmother is alive.
When she heads back home she wakes up on the fallowing Sunday, Charles, her mom’s boyfriend, is there, it is supposed to be their day but considering the snow he spent the night. As she eats her breakfast she looks outside to see Will shoveling their walk.
Later in the afternoon as she is on her work break she texts an old friend, Cate, to hang out. Bad news, they are all hanging out at Maura’s house tonight. She and Cate eventually meet up at the coffee shop anyway and as she approaches she sees Maura and Kelsey waiting with Cate, ambushed. She turns around and goes home but she can see their car in her drive way so to waste time she goes to the lake, thinking about the teens who died she walks out onto the ice and all she can think about is how cold and scared they were…
Hello World
In the chaotic organization of Christopher Baker’s Hello World, the listeners can really connect with the world of YouTube. There is a captivating sense of similarity in a collection of individuals simply speaking out. YouTube is a website full of talent, flops, and feelings. Billions of people have posted videos to YouTube just to get their voice heard. In Christopher Baker's, Hello World; he shares all the YouTube videos where people share their feelings and express their thoughts, most have a lot to say. He combines all the small videos onto one picture and plays them all at the same time. As they play all at once a blur of voices enters the ear. You can't tell who is saying what and by listening to their voices and the expression of their words, little by little it becomes a sort of frenzied music.
By posting to YouTube, your posts are succumbed to the review of others. People will judge and dislike what you say, but not with Hello World. The thought of judging somebody for their words doesn't once come to mind. By not being able to see the person that is speaking, most can't judge on their appearance and connect it to what they are saying. Nobody can reject a person’s thought because of what they look like or where they are. By mixing it all up in a concoction of video, all you can do is listen; a goal most posters are just trying to achieve.
By posting to YouTube, your posts are succumbed to the review of others. People will judge and dislike what you say, but not with Hello World. The thought of judging somebody for their words doesn't once come to mind. By not being able to see the person that is speaking, most can't judge on their appearance and connect it to what they are saying. Nobody can reject a person’s thought because of what they look like or where they are. By mixing it all up in a concoction of video, all you can do is listen; a goal most posters are just trying to achieve.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Just Like That...
Ten years of friendship blown apart. Two kids dead. Sex with a fourteen year old boy.
The ending of this story is anything but closing. As Hanna arrives at Will's Dad's meeting, as a congressman Mark has several meetings a week. Their she sees a mysterious older women, clearly flustered about something. When she meets up with Will's sisters Aerin and Beth at the meeting she encounters Will for the first time since the drama between him and her went down, awkward to say the least. Hanna decides to go out with Will's sisters for a night of dancing at a club just out of town to listen to a new band that has come highly recommended by Aerin. As the three girls sit and sip their drinks three guys approach. Aerin accepts an alias, hoping nobody will recognize the troubled rock star. She was an icon in the music world, until after her and her band hit the top of the ratings and a drunken mistake and a split second leave her the only survivor and also the one at fault. The girls dance all night with the guys as the center of attention on the dance floor but all Hanna has on her mind is that older woman she saw at Mark's meeting earlier that day. She asked the girls about their grandmother only to find she is supposedly dead. This causes Hanna tor reflect on her own family, a mere two people, and how her Grandmother had walked out on her mother when she was only three years old. When Hanna got home she looked at the only three picture she had of her Grandmother. She researched her all night to find she was living somewhere in Spain. This was good news and Hanna promptly sent a letter to her hoping for a response. Hanna had fallen in love that night, in love with another family...
The ending of this story is anything but closing. As Hanna arrives at Will's Dad's meeting, as a congressman Mark has several meetings a week. Their she sees a mysterious older women, clearly flustered about something. When she meets up with Will's sisters Aerin and Beth at the meeting she encounters Will for the first time since the drama between him and her went down, awkward to say the least. Hanna decides to go out with Will's sisters for a night of dancing at a club just out of town to listen to a new band that has come highly recommended by Aerin. As the three girls sit and sip their drinks three guys approach. Aerin accepts an alias, hoping nobody will recognize the troubled rock star. She was an icon in the music world, until after her and her band hit the top of the ratings and a drunken mistake and a split second leave her the only survivor and also the one at fault. The girls dance all night with the guys as the center of attention on the dance floor but all Hanna has on her mind is that older woman she saw at Mark's meeting earlier that day. She asked the girls about their grandmother only to find she is supposedly dead. This causes Hanna tor reflect on her own family, a mere two people, and how her Grandmother had walked out on her mother when she was only three years old. When Hanna got home she looked at the only three picture she had of her Grandmother. She researched her all night to find she was living somewhere in Spain. This was good news and Hanna promptly sent a letter to her hoping for a response. Hanna had fallen in love that night, in love with another family...
Week 5: Top Links
Most interesting links:
http://redlightedmovies.blogspot.com/
-http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://rushingrivers123.blogspot.com/
-http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-trips-2012/
http://pagenotfounderror404.blogspot.com/
-http://www.blogger.com/profile/09609242884573542091
http://redlightedmovies.blogspot.com/
-http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://rushingrivers123.blogspot.com/
-http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-trips-2012/
http://pagenotfounderror404.blogspot.com/
-http://www.blogger.com/profile/09609242884573542091
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Short list
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1. Neighborhood Watch. In the many acts of this American Life, Neighborhood Watch, the protective sanctity of a neighborhood is a special net of what seems to be distant family members to an outsider but in fact are regular people all looking out for each other. These people live in a microcosm of a neighborhood and feel the need to protect and secure not only their own safety but the safety of others. In this podcast neighbors can rely on other neighbors with incredible requests, like caring for their children after they have died. Even a simple neighborhood watch has saved lives, like when a post man noticed a near deadly assault. Things aren't so serious, however, once the neighbors start to crack down on the science of a forever neighborhood plague, dog poo.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/will-adler
2. In this collection of photos, Will Adler, creates a connection to the most unconnected objects. You wouldn't think anything could be similar between a donkey and a child but in the photographs presented in his collection, even the most unruly eye can see it. The way he makes the connection is not through color or what is in the picture but instead its presence and shape. Will Adler uses 11 photos and two by two the last one seems to connect to the first one is some sort of way and with their being an odd number of photos it seems to be a never ending circle of pictures, the most recent being related to the last some how. The pictures are simple yet so much is shown with in them.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/whats-on/christopher-baker-hello-world
3. YouTube is a website full of talent, flops, and feelings. Billions of people have posted videos to YouTube and in Christopher Baker's, Hello World, he shares all the YouTube videos where people share their feelings, most have a lot to say. He combines all the small videos onto one picture and as they play all at once a blur of voices enters the ear. You can't tell who is saying what and by listening to the diction little by little the fact of judging doesn't once come to mind. By not being able to see the person, most can't judge on their appearance and connect it to what they are saying so by mixing it all up in a concoction of video, all you can do is listen. A goal most posters are just trying to achieve.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Shout out to the Bloggies in the Blogging World!
A shout out to other blogger! I thought Vivir, Sonar, Leer was the best made blog so far; what a cool background and writing style they have going! The blog just looks cool not to mention all the post, this person goes into great detail in their posts and the description leaves you feeling like you have read what they have. Also another blog I thought was cool was Wicked Lovely. The way their title matches the background of smokey purple and black made it so much cooler. Their posts are deep and the book they are reading seems really cool. Each blogger also had great posts about their books as well as Dead Poets Society, however, the blogger with the best Dead Poets Society post was definitely There is Nothing in the World but the Mind Itself. This post was longer then most and quoted the film many times but what I thought was most intriguing was the detail. The little details in their blog is everything everybody else seemed to over look and not notice but the blogger did and described what they thought was the meaning behind it all which gave another point of veiw then the rest.
http://vivirsonarleer.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-i-thought-i-would-never-read.html?showComment=1327067717174#c7224787574627437456
http://kaleidoscopicgeneration.blogspot.com/2012/01/analyzing-dead-poets-society-1989-film.html?showComment=1327067658500#c3602069601706402795
http://sinclair-wickedlovely.blogspot.com/2012/01/dead-poets-society.html#comment-form
http://vivirsonarleer.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-i-thought-i-would-never-read.html?showComment=1327067717174#c7224787574627437456
http://kaleidoscopicgeneration.blogspot.com/2012/01/analyzing-dead-poets-society-1989-film.html?showComment=1327067658500#c3602069601706402795
http://sinclair-wickedlovely.blogspot.com/2012/01/dead-poets-society.html#comment-form
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Just Like That...
Well the theme of this book is really representing its title in a good way. Just Like That is a central theme in this book because Hanna is learning that "just like that" things can change. Hook-ups become break-ups, friends become foes and life becomes death in an instant. In the next 100 pages things really get turned upside down for Hanna. As her friends try to console her over her ending friendship/ hook-up with Will, information is left to slip between the cracks of trust. Hanna's friendship with Maura and Kelsey has lasted over ten years without a break but things are slowly about to crumble with them. After her friends find out Will has a famous, rouge, rock star sister and that Hanna was the last to talk with the teens who fell through the ice and died things get heated. There was a simple phrase, "talk and you die", something the three girls knew was never to be broken but when drugs and alcohol get involved everything slips out. Maura slips it to her boyfriend one night after a few too many shots and a few to many hits. His big mouth gets it around the whole school and beyond and when Hanna is approached at a party and ridiculed for starting a vicious rumor she is sent over board. She sits the girls down and they all try to avoid the elephant in the room, somebody has talked and now they will die. Maura confesses to telling her boyfriend and Hanna is enraged. The fallowing week she skips Monday and Tuesday, however, Wednesday when she goes to school Hanna can sense the two girls are keeping something from her. When Hanna confronts them Kelsey admits to kissing Spencer, Hanna's ex-boyfriend, while they were still dating and realizes he was never upset about the break-up but rather at the fact that he had thought Hanna knew he cheated.
Hanna is so full of emotion she goes to see her counsoler, she has asked for drop out forms and being 18 and enough credits to graduate, she can do so. After a week she realizes she is suddenly out of the loop when party invites go out and she isn't on the list but that isn't her main concern, she is a working girl now. Her mom is consensual with her decision because she says that "sometimes school just isn't the place to be", kind of like Aerin Walker, Will's Rock star sister with a dark past.
Hanna is so full of emotion she goes to see her counsoler, she has asked for drop out forms and being 18 and enough credits to graduate, she can do so. After a week she realizes she is suddenly out of the loop when party invites go out and she isn't on the list but that isn't her main concern, she is a working girl now. Her mom is consensual with her decision because she says that "sometimes school just isn't the place to be", kind of like Aerin Walker, Will's Rock star sister with a dark past.
Dead Poets Society
In Peter Weir's 1989 film, Dead Poets Society, the military like structure and wide range of ages in the boys depicts Welton's motto of tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence. The ideal image on the walls meeting the incoming boys implies a stern and sophisticated schooling system but the emotion from the boys that do not want to attend says otherwise. In the church like building where the meeting is held the "light of knowledge" is highly prized by the elders and parents but the students seem to be more worried about impressing and meeting the cut. As the bagpipes play and the boys march in with the flags, it seems to be more like a rush for a fraternity but rather in a more proper manner. This contrasts the more playful and joking manner of the boys once the ceremony is over and they are back with their friends where they do not have to worry about impressing the dean. The school's name and its reputation for being the best boarding school in America has put pressure on the boys and emphasized education more then anything but in reality just made them more crafty in their teenage boy ways.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Just Like That...
Night Hawks
Elements of Genre:
-setting
-character
-actions
-style
-color
-center focus
-outer focus
-lines
-flow
Observations:
-nice couple in diner
-night time
-hunched over man
-creepy, dark and sad looking
-nobody else in town with them
-all having a drink of coffee
-the mysterious man has his back to us
-dull colors
-name of the diner is "Phillies", assuming in the city
-no door to diner, appear to be locked in
-the mysterious man looks upset with himself or by somebody
-picture focus is the diner, outside is dark
-the light on the inside makes it look safe
In Edward Hopper's picture "Night Hawks" there is an inventive use of color as well as character and focus to create unique observational pieces.
Monday, January 9, 2012
My Reading History
To be blatantly honest I can never remember a time in my childhood where I loved to sit down and read. All throughout my childhood I was always moving and never stood still. The last thing I wanted to do was sit in a quiet room and stare at a book all day, I always wanted to be outside or playing with friends. I can remember in first grade when we were starting chapter books we would have forty five minutes of quiet reading. I was the kid who read for 10 minutes then stared out the window for the rest of the time waiting for it to be over. It seemed like hours. All I could think about was getting to recess or what was for lunch that day or what we were going to make in art that day. I could read just fine, the problem was I just didn’t want to. My mom would always push me to read but she had a free-willed child on her hands that had to go fishing with her dad or swing on the swing set with the neighbor kids.
Once I reached fifth and sixth grade I did start to read more. The books I read were always non-fiction My America books, they weren’t the longest but the non-fiction history interested me. This didn’t last long however because I was finally doing something with all those tumbling classes I took throughout my childhood. I had joined an All-star cheer team and had also made the cut for my middle school cheer squad. With homework and practices after school, I had stopped most reading. I cheered for these teams up until this year when I quit my high school cheer team. During high school, unless the books were for school, I never really read much. Only if the English class had an interesting book would I read it anyway. The only two I have read for school all the way through are The Book Thief and To Kill a Mockingbird. These novels were interesting and so I made time to sit down and read them. I’m not use to reading every night or on weekends but I think now that I’m in a situation where I can choose the book and how much of it I read, I will do more reading on my free time.
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