Friday, December 7, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Revision.
Upon first glance through the first 5 pages or so, I hated the dry syntax. It's as if a love sick girl was writing fan fiction from the 1890's. I had yet to see how this pertained to anything we would need to learn about revision.
However, upon later reading she talks about how the work you create sounds foreign, even alien, when reading it again. That we must separate ourselves from the oddity of our own writing, and make the edits that are logical and without any sort of relativity or partial judgement to the paper. For if we do, we are harming ourselves as writers. And it's to this contention that she derives the point of what revision is. How can we remain impartial but change partial pieces of our paper? Does a whole new draft constitute it's own existence by "improving" off of a previous?
In my opinion an artist must be true to himself, for when his art is put up for the world to see he will reap criticism regardless of how flawless the product. As long as the artist remains steadfast, and stands for what he believes in, never faltering on his own creation's ability, will he ever be a true artist. Each public work is a design that cannot be undone once published. To revise or redo or redraft in my opinion only waters down the original message, the original feelings and emotions poured into the paper or video or picture or art, and weakens what the you at that moment felt and created.
As for sake of academia, revision and redrafting in necessary. Most of us didn't come to school to be artists and have to suffer with this sort of repetition. Maybe it is for the best and creates a more scholarly paper, but who am I to pass judgement as more than a normal student in a general writing class.
However, upon later reading she talks about how the work you create sounds foreign, even alien, when reading it again. That we must separate ourselves from the oddity of our own writing, and make the edits that are logical and without any sort of relativity or partial judgement to the paper. For if we do, we are harming ourselves as writers. And it's to this contention that she derives the point of what revision is. How can we remain impartial but change partial pieces of our paper? Does a whole new draft constitute it's own existence by "improving" off of a previous?
In my opinion an artist must be true to himself, for when his art is put up for the world to see he will reap criticism regardless of how flawless the product. As long as the artist remains steadfast, and stands for what he believes in, never faltering on his own creation's ability, will he ever be a true artist. Each public work is a design that cannot be undone once published. To revise or redo or redraft in my opinion only waters down the original message, the original feelings and emotions poured into the paper or video or picture or art, and weakens what the you at that moment felt and created.
As for sake of academia, revision and redrafting in necessary. Most of us didn't come to school to be artists and have to suffer with this sort of repetition. Maybe it is for the best and creates a more scholarly paper, but who am I to pass judgement as more than a normal student in a general writing class.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The election and the fifth of november.
Two very important dates came up in the past few days. The election is important for obvious reasons. However no one knew what happened on the fifth of november or its significance.
Remember remember the fifth of November,
The gun powder treason and plot.
I see no reason,
the gun powder treason,
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes Day (the fifth of november) is a holiday about the early rebellion against unjust government. This is important because of internet group Anonymous has used it as a rally cap for activists around the world to unify under. Some of the things they did on this Guy Fawkes day is they marched on parliment like in the movie V for Vendetta. They also brought down online banking site Paypal. This was all in an attempt to gain recognition across the world for the political gains. And honestly it worked, wether or not you agree with the group, theyre amassing power.
Remember remember the fifth of November,
The gun powder treason and plot.
I see no reason,
the gun powder treason,
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes Day (the fifth of november) is a holiday about the early rebellion against unjust government. This is important because of internet group Anonymous has used it as a rally cap for activists around the world to unify under. Some of the things they did on this Guy Fawkes day is they marched on parliment like in the movie V for Vendetta. They also brought down online banking site Paypal. This was all in an attempt to gain recognition across the world for the political gains. And honestly it worked, wether or not you agree with the group, theyre amassing power.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Shake Weights: The funniest thing to happen since puns
Honestly the funniest thing since the South Park episode where they used the shake weight. I laughed for a solid 5 minutes after seeing this. But theres one thing the marketing genius who made this ad remembered: Sex sells.
Oh sex doesn't sell you say? Go to literally any other ad about personal well being and try to not find a sexual induendo. Joke is you can't, because secretly your inner 12 year old is laughing so hard he just wet his pants.
This walks the path between sex selling and next-to-prostitution so closely I can almost gaurentee that at least 5% of shake weights income have been made by college guys buying this either for "the lols" or for a "significant other they want to get in shape." The shake weight seems like it'd be a pledge thing for the "I pretened to have a sense of humor" frat. But its obvious that this is not meant for girls, I would hate to see the work out machine where they have a model trying to sell a piece of work out equipment to a bunch of women using a sexual induenedo as out there as this one.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
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