Blog post 1

It is weird writing this first blog at the end of the semester in a feeble attempt to gain points to salvage any possible grade. You dont think about about how big your role is in everything that you do. I realized that I am involved in many communities. My family, my friends, work, rugby, fraternity, church, best friends, tallahassee as a whole, or even ocala, maybe even best friends would be another community, and my role at FSU. As we have progressed through the semester, I was so caught up with who I am and what I was doing in order to make it, somewhere along the way I forgot what it was to be a classmate. I think the communtity of a classmate is one that is often overlooked. Looking back I realize that we play so many roles in life, and being a classmate is one that is so complex. As if being stuffed into rooms with peers whom come from all walks of life isnt akward enough, we worry about what these strangers will think, and how they will portray us, or if the cute girl on the other side of the room will say hi or if you need to initiate the contact. I think sometimes we are so caught up with ourselves in the classroom enviroment we forget how we effect everyone else, through our judgements and beliefs. Looking back I wish I would have gotten more involved in this community and allowed the interactions to shape me more. Even as I traveled obliviously to and from this english class, I have had many accounts that have changed me. Workshopping and getting input on papers, working with others in order to complete a group project, and just making friends or aquaintences. It is funny that when someone is faced with a bad situation it causes one to reflect and realize how important we are in every community that we involve ourselves in on purpose or by chance. I know now that when people come together trying to accomplish a common goal it brings people closer and if anything they are more willing to accept your impefections and differences rather the presecute you for them. I have made many friends in class and I hope they can say the same about me. Being a classmate involves a lot of commitment inside and outside of the classroom. It just goes to show you all of our activities are meaningful and we should embrace all of them and reflect on them not only to understand them but to appreciate the complexities of every day life.

composition

that picture is tight. to the link i couldnt really tell wat was going on, then i started to scroll around and the one picture had words anthat were different websites. The link is not only a compositon it is a work of modern age art, which is kind of hard to think of a website as art however it is a whole world. it has links with information about generative poetry. i think that link was unbelievable

A bigger meaning

Many of there are pictures or words used as symbolism. In a sense if you read It out it is like a composition. It depends on how you look in to it. Pictures and words placed in different places and positions give it more meaning and often represent something bigger than that picture or text. A picture is worth a thousand words and I would assume 1000 words is a composition so why can’t a picture be. Many of the symbolism is describing more than what appears in front of the eye. I personally like/take interest to the ones with words in different places and position at angles to show different things.

Not In the Typical Way

When I first went to the link Jen gave us, I was really confused as to what it all meant. I saw it as a piece of art, of random ideas with a similar theme, but I had no idea how that could be considered literature. I found it interesting when I actually figured out you have to click the links. This type of reading is exactly like the internet reading that was addressed in the article we were suppose to read for last class. It was not consistent reading. You had to go back to the main page, and click to a new link, read, go back to the main page, ect. When I think of literature I think of sitting down with a book or article and reading. I have not thought of compositional reading as clicking between websites and reading. After reading some of the links and finding the connection between all of them, I have changed my mind and thought that this could be considered literature. All the links are of people expressing themselves with both words and pictures and that is the whole definition of literature; it is just not what I am used to.

all the little pictures are movie!

It is an electronic library of pictures I think. Yeah this is a composition because what really is a composition it is stuff you compose something you put together or form together so yes these pictures are compositions that website is a composition. I am confused as by what each picture means or why it is even there. I like reading the authors description of their piece. Oh wait those are title page things. Ok I get it now you click on the picture and then begin and you read the… Oh! It moves ok ok wow the landscape one scares me. Alright now that I figured out what is actually going on this is a very interesting way of putting words. I like the faith one because the words fall out of the sky as if divine and the words make a poem. It is cool how they use images and almost like scripts on some to tell stories or poems. Some of them even are like moves I like the one inanimate Alice in china. That was a suspenseful move with like sub titles, I would have let her have a dog. All these take words and sounds and put them with images and make some very cool combinations and stories.

Imagine that.

Not to seem hostile, but to all of the posts that involved "new and more exciting way of reading!", what happened to your imagination? A book paints a picture, but it is YOUR picture. With this sort of text based media, the artist/author/whatever you want to call it, is creating everything for you.

If I wanted a picture, I would have painted. If I wanted to see things, I would have wrote.

Surf it, Scroll it, Pose it, Click it

Cool!!!!! Call me childish but this is my type of composition. This cite isn’t your typical composition or literature, but with a few extra clicks you can see how it relates. Through the use of vibrant colors and hyperlinks, what appears to be a huge, random collage actually has meaning. For some reason as soon as I stared at the screen I knew to scroll over and click the individual boxes. The main white box toward the bottom right corner acts as a table of content almost. When you scroll over a small box, the title and author appear in the big box. Clicking a box leads you to its own private page strictly about that topic. This is a fun, interactive composition rather then a plain text one. I personally like it, the colors, the links and the layout itself is just so different you don’t expect it to be all about literature. We automatically assume literature is going to be plain and dry, print on paper but this really shows how technology has changed the meaning of literature of the years. From this site we can see how the use of colorful photos completely through off our minds. Maybe we are guilty of stereotyping literature? I think so. Don’t get me wrong, the purpose of it is still boring… learn about literature. Which, obviously, as we come to the end of our semester is played out but at least it got me to look at it a lot longer then I would have if it were traditional text. As childish as it may sound or be the excitement of change, visuals and interaction makes a huge difference on attention spans and interest in general. I like it and I think it would be really cool to use for future classes.