I really enjoyed Kelly Kreis's remix project entitled "Changes". Not only did she use quotes from one of my favorite mind-screwers - I mean authors -, she also "cut them up" and "pasted" them into scenery in a way that made me reconsider the approach I had taken for my own project.
In her explanation of the project, Kreis echoes something that I came to realize as well while creating my own remix:
"...through the simple act of cutting up a sentence you can [create] new ideas and new phrases, each one dealing with how we change and how we are perceived."
Hiding the phrases in the pictures could help draw more attention to the words. This contradicted my reasoning behind not including pictures with my poems to keep them the center of attention.
It has inspired me to try using some pictures to accent my poems. If I use the right pictures and placement of the poems, I think that it might help to make my own project stronger.
I also thought that the water and the flowers helped strengthen Kreis's presentation. The symbolism emphasized the words as much as the pictures themselves.
In short, she had a lot of awesome ideas that were executed really well.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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I have a lot of my own loose artwork and creative writing works sitting around unconnected to each other. I would love to find a way to connect them all, so I am definitely going to include as much of my own work as possible in this project.
However, I'd feel like I was cheating if I just used my own work. I could use more practice searching the web for other people's works that I enjoy.
I have been playing with the idea of finding other works that are similar to my own works. This way, I can make two separate remix projects and then splice them together for one ultimate re-mixture.
It would be a pretty awesome way of connecting myself to the rest of the world and immersing myself into this cool new"ish" online culture.
Here is a link to a small taste of my artwork:
http://ziggygoblin.deviantart.com/
They're from a few years ago, and they aren't the greatest examples, but they're something. I also created the two images that I have posted on this blog (the eye and the funky green-blue tornado-like picture) as well as the large picture of myself on the main homepage of my website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ajone8
All right, and here are some silly little creative writing examples from a class I took in high school. I'm not a big fan of poetry but "sense poems" just brought something out in me:
Auditory
Flip of a Page
Baby thunder rumbling
With soft crinkles.
Finger-printed words
Whispering softly
The next line
Of a story.
Gustatory
Dancing with Peaches
Lips soaked with
Slippery flavor puddles
Of fruity flesh.
Sweet juice pockets
Sliced clean along teeth.
Tongue tripping
Over explosions of flavor.
Olfactory
Bad Breath
Foul rotting pods
Escaping into once clean air,
Infecting the norm,
Invading nostrils,
Testing politeness
Of a passerby.
Visual
Shelter for My Love
Smooth strands
Clinging to my fingers
Curl to thick wisps
Above pink ears.
A reddish gold field
Swaying with my hand,
My fingertips acting
As the wind.
His masculine face
Cradles to my chest in refuge,
As Mother Nature
Runs her fingertips
Harshly over my own body.
Tactile
One Last Hug
My hand held
By your gentle touch,
Fingers intertwining
Brushing each other’s
In a knuckled pattern.
Your eyes
Capture mine.
Soon our cheeks
Rub together softly
In this cold night air.
My tears tickle us both
As I break away.
One last hug…
And then goodbye.
However, I'd feel like I was cheating if I just used my own work. I could use more practice searching the web for other people's works that I enjoy.
I have been playing with the idea of finding other works that are similar to my own works. This way, I can make two separate remix projects and then splice them together for one ultimate re-mixture.
It would be a pretty awesome way of connecting myself to the rest of the world and immersing myself into this cool new"ish" online culture.
Here is a link to a small taste of my artwork:
http://ziggygoblin.deviantart.com/
They're from a few years ago, and they aren't the greatest examples, but they're something. I also created the two images that I have posted on this blog (the eye and the funky green-blue tornado-like picture) as well as the large picture of myself on the main homepage of my website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ajone8
All right, and here are some silly little creative writing examples from a class I took in high school. I'm not a big fan of poetry but "sense poems" just brought something out in me:
Auditory
Flip of a Page
Baby thunder rumbling
With soft crinkles.
Finger-printed words
Whispering softly
The next line
Of a story.
Gustatory
Dancing with Peaches
Lips soaked with
Slippery flavor puddles
Of fruity flesh.
Sweet juice pockets
Sliced clean along teeth.
Tongue tripping
Over explosions of flavor.
Olfactory
Bad Breath
Foul rotting pods
Escaping into once clean air,
Infecting the norm,
Invading nostrils,
Testing politeness
Of a passerby.
Visual
Shelter for My Love
Smooth strands
Clinging to my fingers
Curl to thick wisps
Above pink ears.
A reddish gold field
Swaying with my hand,
My fingertips acting
As the wind.
His masculine face
Cradles to my chest in refuge,
As Mother Nature
Runs her fingertips
Harshly over my own body.
Tactile
One Last Hug
My hand held
By your gentle touch,
Fingers intertwining
Brushing each other’s
In a knuckled pattern.
Your eyes
Capture mine.
Soon our cheeks
Rub together softly
In this cold night air.
My tears tickle us both
As I break away.
One last hug…
And then goodbye.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
|23\/13\/\/ 0|= "Landscapes"
http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/marsh__landscapes.html
Plain and Simple: I found this particular piece captivating because of its bright colors.
Is it art or literature?
As a quick disclaimer, I do recognize the fact that there is some overlap between the two categories and that art, literature and everything in between and outside of those circles such as music can be grouped under the category of Fine Arts.
That said, I do not consider "Landscapes" a work of literature so much as a work of art. To me, the difference between Literature and Art is very simple. If you enjoy something because it is clearly beautiful to the senses of touch and sight, then it is a work of art. However, if you enjoy something because of images it provokes you to see in your mind through words written or heard, it is literature.
This is an awesome concept to me because by those definitions, a blind person can only directly enjoy art through touch (and even that depends on whether a person considers touch a genuine determining factor in some art, because if it is not, then it should be a whole different category altogether, like smell.)
Words can, however, be used as art. For example, they may not make sense as words, but they do contribute as patterns to an overall conceptualization of the image an artist is trying to display.
"Landscapes" does use both the medium of art and the medium of literature to display its messages. The artist/writer, Bill Marsh, describes his piece like this: "Landscapes presents five animated canvases which together comprise a dreamscape of anarchic play, urban order, and media saturation. Each landscape pairs a short Biblical proverb with a series of images taken from street protests, multimedia conferences, Hollywood films, and other private and public sites. The proverb in each of the landscapes scrolls on a loop across the screen and is "locked" in position behind a viewing portal. To read the proverb is to make do with the fractured characters visible through small holes in the portal."
Because of the mixed media used throughout this piece, I think that "Landscapes" is an excellent example of the many techniques an individual can use in order to create "Electronic Literature."
Plain and Simple: I found this particular piece captivating because of its bright colors.
Is it art or literature?
As a quick disclaimer, I do recognize the fact that there is some overlap between the two categories and that art, literature and everything in between and outside of those circles such as music can be grouped under the category of Fine Arts.
That said, I do not consider "Landscapes" a work of literature so much as a work of art. To me, the difference between Literature and Art is very simple. If you enjoy something because it is clearly beautiful to the senses of touch and sight, then it is a work of art. However, if you enjoy something because of images it provokes you to see in your mind through words written or heard, it is literature.
This is an awesome concept to me because by those definitions, a blind person can only directly enjoy art through touch (and even that depends on whether a person considers touch a genuine determining factor in some art, because if it is not, then it should be a whole different category altogether, like smell.)
Words can, however, be used as art. For example, they may not make sense as words, but they do contribute as patterns to an overall conceptualization of the image an artist is trying to display.
"Landscapes" does use both the medium of art and the medium of literature to display its messages. The artist/writer, Bill Marsh, describes his piece like this: "Landscapes presents five animated canvases which together comprise a dreamscape of anarchic play, urban order, and media saturation. Each landscape pairs a short Biblical proverb with a series of images taken from street protests, multimedia conferences, Hollywood films, and other private and public sites. The proverb in each of the landscapes scrolls on a loop across the screen and is "locked" in position behind a viewing portal. To read the proverb is to make do with the fractured characters visible through small holes in the portal."
Because of the mixed media used throughout this piece, I think that "Landscapes" is an excellent example of the many techniques an individual can use in order to create "Electronic Literature."
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