I created a video version of the Art of Response by Audre Lorde. I was confused about what i should do to make a movie i was going to just use clips and make it but I didn’t even know what i would need for the clip or would they even have it. So instead i drew out most of it, which is why it looks so funky. I called it the magic mirror because i go the idea off of snow white the the magic mirror which will give you the answer of any question. But instead of one answer I decided to show multiple answers in rapid session, which shows the different response people could have or make.
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Digital Essay
Digital Essay
It’s a digital essay, the term is a bit off putting a digital essay. What do you have to do to make one it turns out there are many ways to make it. Now to choose which one of these options is a bit difficult. I’m still debating on how to do it now that I know i’m doing it on the poem The Wound by Tom Sleigh. Which is a bit dark, so it’s easy to imagine whats happening or have a visual image in your head while reading it.
I’ll make my choice once I see Luke Waltzer presentation and when I start writing my paper and coming up with my thesis until then, I’ll keep thinking about what works best and what I can do to make the project.
Reading Stein
What is it like to read Gertrude Stein, it’s different that’s for sure. I’ve never read anything even remotely close to how Gertrude Stein’s style of writing. Is it intimidating I’m not sure, I know it’s confusing but that’s about it. The wordings are a bit off… I know I hear her voice in my head when I’m reading it, especially after I’ve heard her read “If I’ve told him” three times in a row. Not for the beginning of the poem I’ve read maybe, but once the wording started to get a bit iffy I started hearing her voice in my head. It was a bit disconcerting. Well either way it was fun to read about her.
What a Werid Day
It’s odd, I’m reading through the readings again and still the only one that really captures my attention is The Art of Response. Maybe because I like to listen to people and what they say are interesting, or at least they way they word the answer or question. It’s like you don’t want to really lie but you also don’t want to tell them the whole truth, so you say it in a way that is ambiguous and let them interpret it the way they want. Here’s a poem I wrote in the middle of class while reading it.
The First answer is Quick
The Second was hesitant
The Third Looked
The Fourth Laughed
The Fifth walked Away
The Sixth wrote
The Seventh Argued
The Eighth answered the Question with a Question
The Ninth and Tenth held hands and kissed
The Eleventh sighed and Dug
The twelfth joined a charity
The Thirteenth said No
The fourteenth wondered the streets looking
The Fifteenth Smiled and Changed the Question.
Freud – Repetition
Freud say’s that when a child feels or sees something that makes him uncomfortable, the child would than create a game to release the fear, or anger in a way. I can understand this as a child you copy things that you see, because you think it’s normal. Turning something that seems to happen daily, that upsets you, into a watered down version of it into a game. It probably makes it easier for him to handle it in real life, makes it simpler. But what i don’t understand is doesn’t he get bored. Because it is a repetition your doing the same thing over and over, again but the end result would never change, not even the process of it happening. Isn’t one of the reason why you play a game is because it’s different every time. For example a card game every time you shuffle the cards the cards that you receive are going to be different there for it’s going to be a different version of the game every time.
Yet this child could play this game every time without fail, and still find it fun to play. Because why play it if it isn’t fun, than it’ll just be a chore, and who does chores just because they want to. No they do it because they have to. So it makes me wonder is he doing it because it’s fun or is he doing it because he has to? So it’ll get easier every time he see’s the toy disappear and reappear, so it’ll get easier every time he see’s his mother leave him alone for a while.
PS. if my grammar is really bad it’s only because its really late at night and i just want to finish this.
Book 7 Response Paper
Is it possible to know we’re missing something from our lives if, we have never heard of it, never knew what it was, or how it felt. Is it possible to know that there is a better life than the one we are currently living if we know nothing more than what is in front of us? In Book Seven by Plato he often referrers to the “allegory of the cave” where several in are living in an underground chamber, where they all have been shackled up without the ability to move, or turn. They have been living there with no sunlight and the only light they have are from the flickers of the fire above them, casting shadows of any movement. Now the men that live in this cave have been there all their lives, they know nothing else but the shadows and the darkness. For them this is their home, the only place they know of.
Having never lived in a place where there was only darkness, shadows, and flickering fires. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would feel at home in a place like that. But that’s only because I’ve lived in a place where there’s sun, color, bright lights, and the ability to move where and when I want. So my question is can we want, crave something we don’t know exist, something that has never even entered our minds. Can we still think that if those men were too be freed and shown the sunlight would they appreciate it or would they curse us for showing them a bright light that’ll blind them?