metaphors, terms, concepts used in creating the computer interface (desktop, office, scrolling, etc.).
Publisher
Illustrator
Photoshop
post
compose
create
document
trash/recycle bin
wallpaper
putting your computer to sleep
memory
surfing... the web
chatting
e-mail
mouse
comment
virus
draft
control, alt, delete
home
insert
Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Social sites blog
While Alissa and Matt were describing the two writing prompts, I was thinking about some of the things I would put should I create a Facebook II profile.. and I could not think of anything that isn't already in my profile.
My musical interests? I have everything that I like, from Vampire Weekend and Kanye West to Van Morrison and Otis Redding.. and then there's Spice Girls and Hanson.
Books that I like to read? Well, there's some Hemingway and Tolstoy, but I made sure not to forget about my teen series that I am addicted to--Gossip Girl.
Oh, and I was sure to not forget about that in my "TV" section. Actually, it's right up front. In all caps.
GOSSIP GIRL. I am obsessed. And I am not ashamed to write it. Sure, I have tons of work and everyone knows that I get an average of two hours of sleep a night, but I sure do take an hour out of my week to watch Gossip Girl every time it is on TV.
Basically, I'm not really afraid ...
I'm finishing this after class.
My musical interests? I have everything that I like, from Vampire Weekend and Kanye West to Van Morrison and Otis Redding.. and then there's Spice Girls and Hanson.
Books that I like to read? Well, there's some Hemingway and Tolstoy, but I made sure not to forget about my teen series that I am addicted to--Gossip Girl.
Oh, and I was sure to not forget about that in my "TV" section. Actually, it's right up front. In all caps.
GOSSIP GIRL. I am obsessed. And I am not ashamed to write it. Sure, I have tons of work and everyone knows that I get an average of two hours of sleep a night, but I sure do take an hour out of my week to watch Gossip Girl every time it is on TV.
Basically, I'm not really afraid ...
I'm finishing this after class.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Carnival & shaped poetry.
I have already blogged about this project because I enjoyed it so much. It was not an actual poem that I used, but rather a quote that has always guided me.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
--Henry David Thoreau.
I decided to take this quote and replicate it multiple times across the screen. Because the quote is very personal to me, I used a color scheme that represents what I like. The shapes that I chose for the project are shapes that I tend to be drawn to.
This piece of shaped poetry was an attempt of mine to create “Carnival” using computer technology as opposed to a typewriter. It obviously did not turn out too great, but it was my first shot, and now I would love to create something similar to “Carnival” using a typewriter. To me, McCaffery’s work looks like a map of sorts, and I would love to take that idea to create another piece of shaped poetry.
My understanding of shaped poetry changed because while creating “Foundations,” I realized that in every piece of work, every step taken to create the final product is meaningful. Deciding to move the piece of paper or a certain set of words means something to the creator. Every piece of the art symbolizes the relationship that the artist has to the words, and that in itself is an important idea to realize.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
--Henry David Thoreau.
I decided to take this quote and replicate it multiple times across the screen. Because the quote is very personal to me, I used a color scheme that represents what I like. The shapes that I chose for the project are shapes that I tend to be drawn to.
This piece of shaped poetry was an attempt of mine to create “Carnival” using computer technology as opposed to a typewriter. It obviously did not turn out too great, but it was my first shot, and now I would love to create something similar to “Carnival” using a typewriter. To me, McCaffery’s work looks like a map of sorts, and I would love to take that idea to create another piece of shaped poetry.
My understanding of shaped poetry changed because while creating “Foundations,” I realized that in every piece of work, every step taken to create the final product is meaningful. Deciding to move the piece of paper or a certain set of words means something to the creator. Every piece of the art symbolizes the relationship that the artist has to the words, and that in itself is an important idea to realize.
Merry Happy
Watching me like you never watch no one
He lets you figure out what the change is
I'll be posting articles regularly on the Sun site
Then figure out how you can apply its findings
change the emphasis on your to do list
you think God gives
I don't think God gives very good financial advice
this frustrating paradox
How long do you think that baby would last?
the Spirit of truth
Repeat it after me, BIOTCH!
I come in the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit!
How is this guy not the new Bubb Rubb?
If you're paying $4000 per hour
I'm sure a lot of you here have already seen the famous
You may not post new threads
He lets you figure out what the change is
I'll be posting articles regularly on the Sun site
Then figure out how you can apply its findings
change the emphasis on your to do list
you think God gives
I don't think God gives very good financial advice
this frustrating paradox
How long do you think that baby would last?
the Spirit of truth
Repeat it after me, BIOTCH!
I come in the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit!
How is this guy not the new Bubb Rubb?
If you're paying $4000 per hour
I'm sure a lot of you here have already seen the famous
You may not post new threads
Flarf & Spoetry
Honestly, I dismissed the ideas of “flarf” and “spoetry” before I even knew what they were just because they are called “flarf” and “spoetry.” Now, I realize that this is not fair, but I have always been the type to judge a book by its cover. I mean, I always give most things a chance, but I do make the initial judgement. Upon reading up on these two ideas, I have decided that they are actually really fun and amazing. Trying to make sense of any of these poems is pretty ridiculous, but when two key phrases are used just right, it is so easy to have a clever match.
I think the appeal of these two forms of poetry (for me personally) come from the fact that they are so easy to create. Whether or not they are clever does not concern me because this is a type of poetry that I can actually create. Me, Janice Leary, the girl who always hated the poetry section of high school English because 1) I cannot write poetry to save my life, and 2) I think poetry is meant to be read and analyzed personally, not in front of an entire class amidst multiple arguments, can finally create poetry and not feel pressured to have a deeper meaning behind the words. AND—I can actually have fun with it. It’s like a no pressure kind of poetry, like writing in a diary. I have not actually tried to create spoetry, as I do not receive too many spam e-mails now with all of these spam blockers, but it looks like it would be pretty hilarious to create.
The creation of flarf and spoetry reminds me of the story-creating activities of elementary and middle school, where we would write down one line, fold the paper up so the next person could not read what we wrote, and then pass the paper down so that every student would contribute a line to the story. I am not exactly sure if that is the way that it was done, but it has something to do with everyone making up a line of the story. I know that there are a few icebreaker activities like this, as well. They always end up with hilarious stories like, “Stephanie wore her dinosaur boxers to the moon during piano lessons,” or something silly like that.. which actually reminds me of mad libs.
I find Gary Sullivan’s story entertaining. The fact that Poetry.com would feature anything and then go on to contact him about a coffee table book of poetry from the website is absolutely hilarious. It reminds me of this photo that I submitted to something like Photography.com. I just entered a photo in for a $1,000 scholarship, and now I receive e-mails constantly about how I have won “Best Photographer of the Year” for this stupid website. If Sullivan started this movement just by creating a phony submission to Poetry.com, I wonder what will be created in the future.
I think the appeal of these two forms of poetry (for me personally) come from the fact that they are so easy to create. Whether or not they are clever does not concern me because this is a type of poetry that I can actually create. Me, Janice Leary, the girl who always hated the poetry section of high school English because 1) I cannot write poetry to save my life, and 2) I think poetry is meant to be read and analyzed personally, not in front of an entire class amidst multiple arguments, can finally create poetry and not feel pressured to have a deeper meaning behind the words. AND—I can actually have fun with it. It’s like a no pressure kind of poetry, like writing in a diary. I have not actually tried to create spoetry, as I do not receive too many spam e-mails now with all of these spam blockers, but it looks like it would be pretty hilarious to create.
The creation of flarf and spoetry reminds me of the story-creating activities of elementary and middle school, where we would write down one line, fold the paper up so the next person could not read what we wrote, and then pass the paper down so that every student would contribute a line to the story. I am not exactly sure if that is the way that it was done, but it has something to do with everyone making up a line of the story. I know that there are a few icebreaker activities like this, as well. They always end up with hilarious stories like, “Stephanie wore her dinosaur boxers to the moon during piano lessons,” or something silly like that.. which actually reminds me of mad libs.
I find Gary Sullivan’s story entertaining. The fact that Poetry.com would feature anything and then go on to contact him about a coffee table book of poetry from the website is absolutely hilarious. It reminds me of this photo that I submitted to something like Photography.com. I just entered a photo in for a $1,000 scholarship, and now I receive e-mails constantly about how I have won “Best Photographer of the Year” for this stupid website. If Sullivan started this movement just by creating a phony submission to Poetry.com, I wonder what will be created in the future.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Visual text project.
Well, of course I had a problem with this project because there is no way I would ever be able to create something as amazing as "Carnival." I truly enjoyed looking at the panels and I only wish I could create something like that.
Going into this project, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I thought I'd open up Illustrator and create something even though I had never really done it before. I literally spent three hours teaching myself how to do different techniques, most of which did not actually end up on the final project because I just did not have enough time to complete anything that I started.. but I do know that now I want CS3 so that I can gradually work on creating something like what Steve McCaffery made.
I really have no way of describing what I created. I took my favorite quote (Thoreau) and replicated it a million times. I downloaded a brush that I really liked and decorated the page a bit. I decreased the opacity to most of the text so that it wouldn't look entirely too busy.. it still looks busy, but I feel that the less bold the color is, the more it works together.
I put some elements in a bolder opacity so that they would stick out. The quote was in one part very bold so that the viewer would know exactly what was being replicated. I took the word "foundation" and made that bigger and a different font in a few places because I felt that it was a strong word (and a really big part of the quote).
The shapes really do not have a meaning. I suppose this was my favorite quote, I wanted to choose some shapes that I like.. the Victorian-esque shapes and I have decorated my room with are my favorite & go along perfectly with my favorite quote.. and the colors are one of my favorite color combinations, as well, so I guess you could say that I just created something that I would like, using "Carnival" as my inspiration.
(The colors were also influenced by "Carnival.")
To me, "Carnival" looks like a map to me, with all the different textures signifying different types of land, like moutains, water, etc. I really enjoyed it :D
Going into this project, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I thought I'd open up Illustrator and create something even though I had never really done it before. I literally spent three hours teaching myself how to do different techniques, most of which did not actually end up on the final project because I just did not have enough time to complete anything that I started.. but I do know that now I want CS3 so that I can gradually work on creating something like what Steve McCaffery made.
I really have no way of describing what I created. I took my favorite quote (Thoreau) and replicated it a million times. I downloaded a brush that I really liked and decorated the page a bit. I decreased the opacity to most of the text so that it wouldn't look entirely too busy.. it still looks busy, but I feel that the less bold the color is, the more it works together.
I put some elements in a bolder opacity so that they would stick out. The quote was in one part very bold so that the viewer would know exactly what was being replicated. I took the word "foundation" and made that bigger and a different font in a few places because I felt that it was a strong word (and a really big part of the quote).
The shapes really do not have a meaning. I suppose this was my favorite quote, I wanted to choose some shapes that I like.. the Victorian-esque shapes and I have decorated my room with are my favorite & go along perfectly with my favorite quote.. and the colors are one of my favorite color combinations, as well, so I guess you could say that I just created something that I would like, using "Carnival" as my inspiration.
(The colors were also influenced by "Carnival.")
To me, "Carnival" looks like a map to me, with all the different textures signifying different types of land, like moutains, water, etc. I really enjoyed it :D
Monday, March 3, 2008
News assignment
Like many of his fellow Americans, James Downey was a bit surprised to see Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, satirically protesting the treatment she has received from the news media.
Down the hall and around the corner, Michelle Gay teaches 26 fourth-grade girls. The boys like being on their own, they say, because girls don’t appreciate their jokes and think boys are too messy, and are also scared of snakes.
The experience with Cerezyme and other biological drugs defies conventional wisdom on drug marketing, which holds that blockbuster drugs — generating revenues of a billion dollars a year or more — are generally those that can be sold to vast numbers of people.
“It tells you that you might have articulated something that was vaguely out there, but had yet to be stated in a comedy form,” he said in a telephone interview. “Some things make you laugh because they’re funny, and other things, the effect is: ‘Hey, that’s right. That makes sense.’ ”
“To say: ‘Why don’t you use more colors? Why don’t you put someone in the vehicle?’ is as discouraging as if you say to Emily, ‘Well, this is nice, but why don’t you have one of them kick the other one — give us some action.’ ”
This is hard to take, given that the federal government did much of the scientific work that led to development of the drug and provided contract money that got the company started.
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/arts/television/03down.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02teenfilmwe.html
Down the hall and around the corner, Michelle Gay teaches 26 fourth-grade girls. The boys like being on their own, they say, because girls don’t appreciate their jokes and think boys are too messy, and are also scared of snakes.
The experience with Cerezyme and other biological drugs defies conventional wisdom on drug marketing, which holds that blockbuster drugs — generating revenues of a billion dollars a year or more — are generally those that can be sold to vast numbers of people.
“It tells you that you might have articulated something that was vaguely out there, but had yet to be stated in a comedy form,” he said in a telephone interview. “Some things make you laugh because they’re funny, and other things, the effect is: ‘Hey, that’s right. That makes sense.’ ”
“To say: ‘Why don’t you use more colors? Why don’t you put someone in the vehicle?’ is as discouraging as if you say to Emily, ‘Well, this is nice, but why don’t you have one of them kick the other one — give us some action.’ ”
This is hard to take, given that the federal government did much of the scientific work that led to development of the drug and provided contract money that got the company started.
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/arts/television/03down.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02teenfilmwe.html
Blogworthy
In this time period, I feel that truth is not something that comes easily. This has created what seems like a cloud of skepticism that seems to fall over everyone, and I see it most while working with the newspaper. Yes, there are a few reporters who have ruined things for the journalists who do make truth their only purpose for writing, but people have seemed to forget that it is because of journalists that our country knows as much about our government as it does.
With the increase of new technology that is gradually diminishing any sense of privacy that still exists, I believe that the typewriter does symbolize a simpler time where words were used to inform rather than to incriminate. Typewriters do evoke a sense of nostalgia, and therefore a sense of trust.
Personally, I remember viewing a movie about Watergate in middle school. The journalists then used typewriters, and even though Nixon’s people often referred to those at The Washington Post as ‘shoddy journalists,’ we know now that they were the opposite of shoddy. They used typewriters to uncover the truth about the President of our country, and I believe that typewriters are often used to depict these situations, causing our minds think of typewriters as symbols of truth.
With the increase of new technology that is gradually diminishing any sense of privacy that still exists, I believe that the typewriter does symbolize a simpler time where words were used to inform rather than to incriminate. Typewriters do evoke a sense of nostalgia, and therefore a sense of trust.
Personally, I remember viewing a movie about Watergate in middle school. The journalists then used typewriters, and even though Nixon’s people often referred to those at The Washington Post as ‘shoddy journalists,’ we know now that they were the opposite of shoddy. They used typewriters to uncover the truth about the President of our country, and I believe that typewriters are often used to depict these situations, causing our minds think of typewriters as symbols of truth.
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