In this article there are 4 pictures of people in dramatic settings.
One shows a woman and three men at a wedding looking up.
The other shows a man bleeding from his head as the paramedics clean his wound.
The third shows a man in a restauraunt that a car crashed into.
The last one shows a perfectly healthy woman in a decapitated car laughing.
Seeing
1.a.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Projecting Gender
"A Beaut of a Shiner"
by Jane Slaughter
A woman ran into a street sign and got a black eye. Naturally most people who see her think her boyfriend or husband hit her.
Seeing
1a. She uses the word, "battered" that help her joking demeanor. It's not exactly a violent word, but rather a word that can be used to describe accidents which sound more innocent.
1b. I think the word "battered" works for me. I don't take her too seriously because of the word and it's a funny word that kinda sounds like the word Batter, that cooking stuff.
1c. Spousal violence also doesn't immediately come to mind because I get reminded of this word describing people in car accidents.
1d. The tone shifts to a more serious one when she mentions, "avoid admitting how nasty it is in Real Life." The word "avoid" itself is a mind prickling word that everyone has painfully dealt with, including the memories of the reasons they avoid something. That word, and admitting are both painful experiences everyone has faced once in their lifetime so I believe the joke naturally ends as soon as the word "avoid" comes into place as well as the other words, "Real Life" that echo in our ears.
2a. I don't think the remainder of the piece supports her claim in the begining with the passage when she says she's sorry to see her shiner go because she admits to how defensive she has gotten to the question of how she got it. She even mentions how her and her man's reputation is gonna be shot. However, she opens up a little bit at the end of the last paragraph willing to share a part of her story to how she got it, so in a little way she is kinda helping her perception.
by Jane Slaughter
A woman ran into a street sign and got a black eye. Naturally most people who see her think her boyfriend or husband hit her.
Seeing
1a. She uses the word, "battered" that help her joking demeanor. It's not exactly a violent word, but rather a word that can be used to describe accidents which sound more innocent.
1b. I think the word "battered" works for me. I don't take her too seriously because of the word and it's a funny word that kinda sounds like the word Batter, that cooking stuff.
1c. Spousal violence also doesn't immediately come to mind because I get reminded of this word describing people in car accidents.
1d. The tone shifts to a more serious one when she mentions, "avoid admitting how nasty it is in Real Life." The word "avoid" itself is a mind prickling word that everyone has painfully dealt with, including the memories of the reasons they avoid something. That word, and admitting are both painful experiences everyone has faced once in their lifetime so I believe the joke naturally ends as soon as the word "avoid" comes into place as well as the other words, "Real Life" that echo in our ears.
2a. I don't think the remainder of the piece supports her claim in the begining with the passage when she says she's sorry to see her shiner go because she admits to how defensive she has gotten to the question of how she got it. She even mentions how her and her man's reputation is gonna be shot. However, she opens up a little bit at the end of the last paragraph willing to share a part of her story to how she got it, so in a little way she is kinda helping her perception.
Projecting Gender
"How to write a catchy beer ad"
by Chris Ballard
Seeing
A man, Chris Ballard, wrote a "jingle" for a beer add with beautiful models, a real band, and humor.
1a. He put a little humor into it, making the singer of the song sound drunk, repeating one rhyme twice which, comically reminded girls (watching) of their dumb drunk boyfriends, which helped them relate to the song that made them feel they are a participant. I also think he made it accessible because he made it into a catchy song so people can go online and get it or buy the soundtrack at stores.
1b. I don't think all of them were aware of the commercials intent. Most may think they are trying to sell sex, others think alcohol or beer. But there are some that go for the actual song. So I say, yea it did intend to sell, but I don't think it was just beer that got sold.
1c. Maybe if they ad a catchy hip-hop song with the commercial for the young adult audience. Or maybe if they ditch the sexy parts and put in something funnier, like the bud wiser frogs did. Their fraises were catchy, and they were popular for a while, so it worked!
According to Ballard, how would you feel knowing there were more than thirty vocal and instrumental takes as well as editing?
2a. Well it does change the way I think about it in a way that, they cared so much to make us (the viewer ) feel related to the whole add. I mean it makes us feel special and thought of in a way. Almost as if the creator had a vision in his mind and wanted to share it with us. It also tells us that the creator may even have had fun with it. I admire most work people put in things just to please there viewer, it gives off a good impression on their add.
by Chris Ballard
Seeing
A man, Chris Ballard, wrote a "jingle" for a beer add with beautiful models, a real band, and humor.
1a. He put a little humor into it, making the singer of the song sound drunk, repeating one rhyme twice which, comically reminded girls (watching) of their dumb drunk boyfriends, which helped them relate to the song that made them feel they are a participant. I also think he made it accessible because he made it into a catchy song so people can go online and get it or buy the soundtrack at stores.
1b. I don't think all of them were aware of the commercials intent. Most may think they are trying to sell sex, others think alcohol or beer. But there are some that go for the actual song. So I say, yea it did intend to sell, but I don't think it was just beer that got sold.
1c. Maybe if they ad a catchy hip-hop song with the commercial for the young adult audience. Or maybe if they ditch the sexy parts and put in something funnier, like the bud wiser frogs did. Their fraises were catchy, and they were popular for a while, so it worked!
According to Ballard, how would you feel knowing there were more than thirty vocal and instrumental takes as well as editing?
2a. Well it does change the way I think about it in a way that, they cared so much to make us (the viewer ) feel related to the whole add. I mean it makes us feel special and thought of in a way. Almost as if the creator had a vision in his mind and wanted to share it with us. It also tells us that the creator may even have had fun with it. I admire most work people put in things just to please there viewer, it gives off a good impression on their add.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Comming To Terms With Place
From the Article: "Homeplace"
by Scott Russell Sanders
seeing
Scott Russell explaines in his passage that people don't value the places that they are in and should spend alot more time in them to absorb the art, beauty, or memories that come along with them.
1a. Answer: He strategists by using three examples to tell his point
a. He uses history as an example of immigrants coming to America and forcing the natives to learn their religion
b. He uses the views of the novelist, Salman Rushdie, who happened to be a native Indian from India. Salman brings up the ideas that, "people root themselves in ideas rather than places."
c. Scott also uses his point of view on the idea by telling his audience what he thinks of his home town ground known to him as a series of nested rings.
1b. Answer:
a. Scott defines being settled or settling as someone who has had a chance of making a durable home for themselves, their descendants, and the fellow creatures.
b. He describes as being an inhabitant as someone who ceases to migrate , pays attention to his/her environment, and respects where they are.
c. He believes that people who place themselves in places are likelier to know and care for their places than people who root themselves in ideas.
1c. Answer:
a. He uses the factors like... how they put in their strength and effort to keep up their home, how they worked hard to make rent to live in there, how they grew their own crops/gardens so others can cherish it, and how unique their home was.
b. The nature of the effectiveness is a subtle yet "straight to the point" one. He used a range of examples that give you a simplified way of bringing out his point. I can feel exactly what he is trying to say because of the emotional and true examples he gives. Both sources, coming from an Indian immigrant author and the history of Spanish conquest.
If the Spanish were to take time and understand their fellow Native Americans, they would find out how civil and happy they were believing in their own beliefs and living their own lives. And maybe they could have learned something important from the Native Americans that could help them find the same happiness.
2a. Garry Larson made the cartoon; "The Far Side," showing a man and woman driving up a road that says, "Entering the Middle" as the woman holds the map to "Nowhere." There is a comment on the bottom of the picture from one of the characters in his comic that say, "Well, this is just going from bad to worse."
a. Answer: This comment relates to Sanders's essay because if reflects on the idea he brings up about people who migrate and how unimportant the place may seem they travel in because of the time they don't put into making memories out of it.
b. Answer: Those people who are rooted or placed down in one place are more likely to KNOW it and CARE for it. Unlike the two, "un-rooted" people in the picture on the go, yet lost.
c. Answer: He was stating to the extent that just because you are on the road doesn't mean that you are always in a better place. So the sign and verse have a great link to Sanders's belief of the average "on the go American."
by Scott Russell Sanders
seeing
Scott Russell explaines in his passage that people don't value the places that they are in and should spend alot more time in them to absorb the art, beauty, or memories that come along with them.
1a. Answer: He strategists by using three examples to tell his point
a. He uses history as an example of immigrants coming to America and forcing the natives to learn their religion
b. He uses the views of the novelist, Salman Rushdie, who happened to be a native Indian from India. Salman brings up the ideas that, "people root themselves in ideas rather than places."
c. Scott also uses his point of view on the idea by telling his audience what he thinks of his home town ground known to him as a series of nested rings.
1b. Answer:
a. Scott defines being settled or settling as someone who has had a chance of making a durable home for themselves, their descendants, and the fellow creatures.
b. He describes as being an inhabitant as someone who ceases to migrate , pays attention to his/her environment, and respects where they are.
c. He believes that people who place themselves in places are likelier to know and care for their places than people who root themselves in ideas.
1c. Answer:
a. He uses the factors like... how they put in their strength and effort to keep up their home, how they worked hard to make rent to live in there, how they grew their own crops/gardens so others can cherish it, and how unique their home was.
b. The nature of the effectiveness is a subtle yet "straight to the point" one. He used a range of examples that give you a simplified way of bringing out his point. I can feel exactly what he is trying to say because of the emotional and true examples he gives. Both sources, coming from an Indian immigrant author and the history of Spanish conquest.
If the Spanish were to take time and understand their fellow Native Americans, they would find out how civil and happy they were believing in their own beliefs and living their own lives. And maybe they could have learned something important from the Native Americans that could help them find the same happiness.
2a. Garry Larson made the cartoon; "The Far Side," showing a man and woman driving up a road that says, "Entering the Middle" as the woman holds the map to "Nowhere." There is a comment on the bottom of the picture from one of the characters in his comic that say, "Well, this is just going from bad to worse."
a. Answer: This comment relates to Sanders's essay because if reflects on the idea he brings up about people who migrate and how unimportant the place may seem they travel in because of the time they don't put into making memories out of it.
b. Answer: Those people who are rooted or placed down in one place are more likely to KNOW it and CARE for it. Unlike the two, "un-rooted" people in the picture on the go, yet lost.
c. Answer: He was stating to the extent that just because you are on the road doesn't mean that you are always in a better place. So the sign and verse have a great link to Sanders's belief of the average "on the go American."
Monday, January 19, 2009
My Homework on Chapter 1
Exercise on page 7
Inferences I can draw about Mark Peterson's photograph (page 7) based on my observations:
I might draw maybe how ugly the town or city is so people will notice it, then maybe want to do something about it.
If I were to make a drawing about it based on a text I created I think I would add a bit more color and maybe draw the person who lives there.
Observing the poem "My Place" by David Ignaow
In my mind I see a single, yet hard working man with a comfortable home.
For the second poem, I picture another man in a higher position than the last...posibly a sales representative, but whoever he is he is wonderful at speaking and gains success from it.
Inferences I can draw about Mark Peterson's photograph (page 7) based on my observations:
I might draw maybe how ugly the town or city is so people will notice it, then maybe want to do something about it.
If I were to make a drawing about it based on a text I created I think I would add a bit more color and maybe draw the person who lives there.
Observing the poem "My Place" by David Ignaow
In my mind I see a single, yet hard working man with a comfortable home.
For the second poem, I picture another man in a higher position than the last...posibly a sales representative, but whoever he is he is wonderful at speaking and gains success from it.
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