The Clueless Glogger

Atleast I got somewhere…

kad21 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:20:43 +0000

“I cannot imagine becoming jaded to life, because I know of those limitless corners, with their limitless views.” -Kay Redfield Jamison

I know exactly where to go with this quote, but my exhausted and scattered thoughts are mixing together like a million different types of spices being pushed through a tea strainer. My vivid experiences and collection of views are forming continuously and uncontrollably into a powerful cup of tea. When I reach out to take a sip of the tempting aroma, the cup willfully shatters into an infinite and an unrecognizable amount of pieces. I am now paralyzed and unable to pick up the overwhelming pieces to cup the precious emotions in my hands. Even if I could feel just one piece, I would know that they do exist. I know that they will be lost once again until I am willing to give my mind another shot at breaking through my currently numb brain. I’m used to this cycle; but I have always wondered if I will ever be able to feel at least one emotion constantly, one that would make me feel safe and never abandoned?

Compost: Birkerts & Patchwork Girl

kad21 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:19:42 +0000

With books, they have a beginning and an end, and are easily followed line after line. The words are sequentially printed in ink and all look the same. When you pick up a book to see if it interests you, you flip through the pages and pretty much see the same thing. To know what the book is about you read the similar looking pages to get a similar meaning out of them.

As I read Patchwork Girl, I have learned that there is no beginning, middle, or end. It is filled with imagination and confusion that either excites the reader or frustrates them. It is something new to a reader because the meaning isn’t written line by line, you have to piece it together yourself to make meaning.

Birkerts I think would like Patchwork Girl for its content because he states that “Knowledge…is not a straight forward matter of access…” Experiencing PG’s installation to reading multiple links was all difficult to figure out, but I realized that it’s the best way for me to learn because I am making meaning out of my readings. Birkerts also mentions that knowledge is “about the creation and expansion of meaningful contexts.” PG, I think, helped create a new form for a book by spreading out the meaningful links to make the reader piece the links together to create a concept.

When I read PG, I feel like I go into an isolated world. Sometimes I read it in the library with many people, or others I read it in my dorm and either way I feel like I focus so much on reading, taking notes, clicking to the next link, and repeating. It’s like reading for me and I think if Birkerts read some sections in his book, then he would love PG for its meaning, but still feeling sucked into the repetitive process of turning to the next page.

Birkerts-Corrupted

kad21 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:10:25 +0000

While I was sitting in class, alert of the discussions around me, my burning body kept reminding me to lie down. Aside from my discomfort, the main agreement was, Birkerts is afraid our generation will lose the dependence of reading a book, to the new obsession of the internet. In my mind as class was going on, I was completely confused with how he thought that we were going to lose ourselves through the internet and wondering why my body is giving me such strong alerts. I kept asking questions, like how old is he and does he have a mental disorder? And I kept thinking to myself, why can’t my neck balance and why were my legs so uncomfortable just resting on the floor? To me it sounded like he had a distorted view of change, while I nervously thought I shouldn’t be feeling like this.
During class, I let these intriguing questions linger in my head for the moment because I knew that when class was over, I would have to begin my journey back to the third floor of Minta Martin. As time kept ticking away, my lingering questions of confusion about Birkerts needed an immediate answer. Also lingering in my mind, was figuring how I can get out my chair smoothly, walk up and down the endless amount of steps and hills, and make it into my dorm without falling. When I opened my locked dorm, I slid off my backpack and collapsed onto my bed. My body felt like I had just ran a marathon without doing any kind of preparation.
From my strenuous day of walking back to back from building to building to go to all of my classes, once my head hit my pillow I had no physical power to sit at my computer, so I was forced to take a nap, which ruined my plans. When I awoke, my body felt the same discomfort but I told myself, “Katie, you slept for five hours, it’s time to study!” Discovered from my sleeping, I’ve decided that Birkerts is mentally abnormal, like with my abnormal physical symptoms. The problem is that he doesn’t see that he needs to accept change is continuous, and I do, I want to be able to not be out of breath by standing up straight.
Strictly based on his own experiences with reading, Birkerts is afraid our generation will not depend on books anymore, which means they will quickly go extinct. When he would read as a kid he went to an “other” place to shield the real world which he created magic from in which he could continue out of the book. At the beginning stages of his reading, Birkerts called himself a dreamer. He mentions being sensitive to deaths in books and crying while not grasping why the world did not stop for his tragedy.
Birkerts then quickly goes into how he is not sensitive anymore and moves on into how he relates reading as a drug. His father saw reading as a feminine thing to do, unlike getting your hands dirty and working. His father scolded his acts of daintiness and his mother comforted because she saw his pain. Birkerts perceived his father viewing him as being a “mama’s boy,” which made his love affair with reading difficult. He knew that never reading again was impossible for him to do, so he discovered a hidden way to feed his addiction by reading secretively at night.
He mentions in his book, The Gutenberg Elegies, “The monitor light is always blinking; we are always potentially on-line.” When he was a child, he was always thinking about his books, and he would always pick up where he left off to continue his meaningful journey.

Birkerts’ traumas of not understanding why the world doesn’t feel his pain when he would read, to his father seeing him as emotional, disrupted his lack of sense of self early on in his life. His way of coping with his father’s lack of understanding, scared him to cover up his “mistake” of reading in public to a distorted view of reading with no one knowing what he’s thinking, doing, and feeling. This stage of Birkerts’ addiction with reading, allowed him be isolated from his stressors and feel such power just by interpreting what he is reading page by page.
His current terror of books falling off of the face of the earth and the internet taking over the world is distorted, just like how he felt as a kid when reading a book dangerously at night. With addicts, change is the worst thing in the world, and will make them perceive outrageous things that no one else can grasp.
It’s like a doctor threatening to take away the addicts’ drug and never letting them use their drug again. The user will be resistant and out of control because they don’t want to go through the painful detoxification and they are in terror of never feeling their high again. For Birkerts, his drug is his book and he is afraid that the internet will make all books disappear. He is resistant to reading a book online and doesn’t even give it a chance. He is letting himself fall deeper into his addiction as the internet is helping the world learn and communicate, while also backing up and saving everyone’s ideas.

Compost: To get me thinking…

kad21 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:06:59 +0000

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Language: continuously evolving as the environment changes around us, how we pronounce words is gradual, how we talk to a friend vs someone we barely know or how we talk to a teacher vs a doctor, language has emotions what we hear makes us laugh, cry, angry, anything,

Writing: communicating what we think, feel, discovered onto something to document it. once remembered in brain and told to various audiences, but the story changed each time. then creation of letters to form words and eventually invented books, which were fun, new and exciting, but also helpful because once books are published they are unchanged until the author decides something needs to be added and makes a new books or changes around the first. Today the internet is like both a story being told around an audience, but also you can save your ideas.

Technology: paper, printing press, ink, binding a book, commas, colons, punctuation, book. Internet, continuously adding new things that will be saved, but chatting instantly to a friend is usually not saved, unless wanted. posts to help people through illnesses to reading what an critic thinks about any kind of subject. books eventually unbind and pages tear just like computers crashing, if context is saved on the internet you can just buy a new computer and still be able to access it. with books there are plenty and if your book gets damaged you can buy a new one or read it online. paper on word not yet saved and power goes out, lost everything. having a back up is good.

Compost:EGO(logical)- STITCH(unconstructed): Sew Numb BITCH(impure): Gone Crazy

kad21 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:25:35 +0000

Composting: clumps or chunks of productive information that I keep adding to so I can create my blog-a lot of thoughts that my not all be used but they help me get an understanding to increase my chance of the reader understanding my work; a guideline. Shelley Jackson’s Storyspace is a compost, it never ends, like the brain, it never stops unless there is damage and she does not have damage to the brain
- - – - = = . . . : :—–
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that has been recognized throughout recorded history. It affects about 1 percent of Americans.
People with schizophrenia may hear voices other people don’t hear or they may believe that others are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These experiences are terrifying and can cause fearfulness, withdrawal, or extreme agitation. People with schizophrenia may not make sense when they talk, may sit for hours without moving or talking much, or may seem perfectly fine until they talk about what they are really thinking. Because many people with schizophrenia have difficulty holding a job or caring for themselves, the burden on their families and society is significant as well.
Schizophrenics= mainly women, wonder if what [I’m saying is true], people are afraid of them, they cannot keep jobs which hurts their families economically, stressful, known as Crazy
Shelley= fantasy and reality: wishes she had some qualities of her girl. Reality, trying to find who she is; is that how I am? Cries, In life Shelley wishes she could be what she invisioned, but no one lives up to their ultimate ideal, “feminine complaints” get husband nervous and walks away, wants to experience more
Girl Monster=scars: Shelley feels connected with monster, they are sectors in a patterned swatch quilt, the new tough growth is hot with emotion and sensation that they share
She’s Crazy, Is a normal phrase
Complex= mind and brain work together to cluster related senses to form a memory or experience; gives meaning, if you don’t want to go deep down inside you to find out who you are then you are not open to share your facts and you don’t trust how you can find them aka too disorganized don’t know how it works aka storyspace,
I could go on forever, but there are not enough hours in the day to explain the never ending and always meaningful stitches

Controversial: doesn’t have a start or an end you just gather memories [do you remember your first memory? You don’t it’s made up with what your loved ones informed you about, too young to remember; unable]- haven’t learned to how to process meaning. Good writing is perceived as linear you can’t go from A to B to C; not logical. Make example my cat to I like flowers to my toe hurts. Unmatched colors being different races, thought beauty
Masculine=control, permanent world and solid and stable, logic, Ego, direct, easy to understand how people want people to perceive them, writing has no emotion.
Feminine= Lose control, start off with not having meaning, formless, shapeless, unstructured, don’t cover up a mistake, it could be important later, a word or thought scares you go into detail to find the meaning, contaminated, mixed, tainted, infected, poisoned [impure], multiple thoughts, thoughts hard to pin down to make an easy logic. How to make meaning and remember an experience, cluster of ideas, or a word from seeing hearing tasting smelling aka how the brain works.
Each new time you sit to write, to write well you must remember that this sitting is a new journey with no developed maps, un-mappable, invisible, (have no expectations or worries or doubts of good or bad writing); just know it’s physical: thoughts are faster than what we can put down onto paper, when you write you physically can’t catch every word. A lot of experience or thought your font changes it may be harder to read and the lines are slurred together. You may be unable to think of something so your letters are neat, but few.
When you write your first thoughts let yourself go and don’t stop because it’s not important to get control of rereading to understand what you’re saying, if you write the wrong thing leave it; don’t hide y. If something scares you or is unprotected, stripped, exposed like a word focus on that single word to release the energies powerful meaning/ experience. Don’t stop at the great emotions like crying, don’t make yourself stop crying fight through the tears to get to the point of why that sentence made you cry
Complexity
Simplicity: the brain is always taking senses in and stores them in related sections to pull out when an event is triggered by a thought; writing is never perfect so accept it so you won’t feel bad when someone doesn’t like it. Writing stabilizes after you experience
Stitch, Bitch- husband telling her to stop being emotional and to physically do something so he commands and controls her and to the point says…
Shelley Jackson wrote a controversial hypertext titled Patchwork Girl. This type of hypertext is controversial because many readers feel frustrated with its complexity and they automatically destroy their vision of the simplicity and meaning of writing. I encode this technologically advanced book as a world turned right-side up from a permanent brain disorder called schizophrenia. Schizophrenics experience continuous hears non-existent voices of peoples controlling their thoughts and plans to harm them, which create continuous torment of severe terror, isolation, or disturbance.
A book so automatic turning the pages following the orders of the lines that always remain the same, with PG no knows about it; where it begins or ends [follow writing and life rules of being open to the new, don’t judge it just accept it. May be hard to grasp because adolescent college students are at difference stages of their lives, some are open to change and accept that it is always happening, others block out change if they don’t like it so they don’t have to accept that they are not becoming their ideal. Want to be a bio major but failed bio, so they don’t tell their parents because they think their dreams are crushed. They are unable to accept that they let not studying occur.
A book is what you were introduced to learn how to read so with PG you have to learn a new way to read.

“It is amazing that when you give those voices [feelings of frustration] writing space, [to express the fight within] their complaining quickly gets boring and you get sick of them.”
PG is exploring your boundaries of accepting new ways to read and learn, there are no boundaries to the hypertext, you read for 30mins and you just explore where you hop from link to link and patch the 30 minutes of evidence together. It’s like freshman year at college you accept the change, some better than others, and you learn how to study, write, read, be on your own, ect. And by the end of the year you have learned how to overcome bad roommates and mature as a person. And you repeat that three more times. In class I struggle to keep my mouth shut because I want to share what I have learned from this experience of being open minded to continuous learning. I accept the others frustration, that I overcame, but now I tune out the complaints or I ague in my head with what they are saying with my basic meanings of PG.
Together the Brain and mind are complex, but we unconsciously let them take in new things that come our way. These are stored if important and meaningful to our experiences. Floating around in similar cluster and as we begin to write, the unconscious related clusters begin to flow out onto paper, some words stand out so we give them details and extreme emotions. Eventually from the garbage you write and the worthy ones you take pride in, the abundance will flourish into a stable human being.
Beginning of my experience:
“To be linked to the chain of existence and events, yes, but bond by it? No, I forge my own links, I am building my own monstrous chain and as time goes on, perhaps, it will begin to resemble rather a web.”
Ex: accurate view of good writing; word to meaning to many more experiences, loose bc not structured on how you get to them, feminine: she wants to be independent, wants to feel many new strong emotions. Stitches own black thread meaning to her, put thought and emotions into making her happy,
Sewed not so permanent so when the girl gets angry her face begins to unhinges, frightens Shelley, but she knows her manic will stop and she will help her.
Stitch: a single word or idea that links to a meaning and it repeats, some words have more meaning than others. Goes in different pathways to get to sections so they can be best remebered
Bitch: dehumanization,
Bitch relates to Crazy: both commonly used out of ignorance. A part of our culture. Both looked down upon, not accepting. Each have two different meanings the inhumane ones are used mainly with our culture…. Controversial: people perceive them differently even though they have obvious distinctions. Use it out of lack of respect or knowledge
Ex: Girl to Girl- That Bitch makes me do all the work.
Guy to Girl- She’s my Bitch
Ex: Girl to Girl- She just did a flip! That’s crazy
Guy to girl- She dances freaky crazy
Ex: female dog
Ex: The incepting public: She’s scares me! She is crazy
Or together: that crazy bitch: in a hateful way. That bitch is crazy.
The dotted line-hop, People experience the cycles of the highs and lows of life that teach us how to control our thoughts. Because of composting from garbage [accept] writing develops and stabilizes. Potential to change makes a trail of meaning and keeps making an infinite amount of trails LTM storages is unlimitless.
Quilt and Stitch: Shelley stitched with black thread that she saw as words that she saw as writing the seams or scars [joined together from two skins or patterned cloth] new strong growth. When caressed Shelley felt her stitched seams that she worked hard and and grew attachment to. Making the patchwork girl she grew attached because she made it into something she will never be which she learns to accept. Memories, like bits of patterned cloth not all kept like Frankenstein’s. Black thread stands out against the shades of skins. Scars important they divide different sectors that have different skins touch senses and pains. Patches easily seen new boarders old used skin. Stitches very powerful they are created from the recovery of two single used skins or lives. When fully healed, the sense of touch is sensitive, but it’s tough because it covers such pain. Saying bitch with stitch means they are easly spotted recognized but as they absorb that hurt, they feel pain from the unaccepted. As they get used to being the bitch the scars are strengthened and they accept or numb this label. Label; identity; low class= accept that’s what known for but doesn’t let it get to her PG because at first, yes. But cycles of learning made her realize who she is and the stitches grow stronger as she gets more experiences….

An Open-minded Change of Heart

kad21 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:19:04 +0000

With my first experience of attempting to read Patchwork Girl, I willingly gave up after 15 mins of trying to figure out how to read the story in order. It angered me because I thought I was accidently clicking the wrong links because they were going into random and confusing paths. So after Friday’s class I decided to have an open mind with the new expirence of accepting chaos.

I came up with a plan that helps me cope with my feeling of overwhelming disorder whenever I click on a random link. The plan is simple, I choose the “outline view” that makes me feel I have a clean and organizing view to help me choose the first major link. From that major link, I am lead to a small link. After reading the small link I click on the “links” tab to be led to the choice to further my learning’s with a new lexia. I know that I am learning from random links, but at the same time it makes me feel organized that I have an order to my madness.

This plan makes me feel like a detective because I only allow myself to view one window at a time, which blinds my vision of what the other main links are in the outline. Traveling to the next link is completely new to me, which forces me to keep traveling because I need to gather enough information for me to understand what is going on. Similar to how a dective has to find clues to solve his case, and as they find more clues they understand why something happened, who was involved, how it happened, where the scene was and what caused the case. Detectives are clueless to the case but as they gather information gradually, they piece the gathered information to conclude their case. With me, I journey chaotically from link to link, learning more about the story Patchwork Girl.

With this hypertext, it is hard for me to stay on track when I am trying to put my thoughts together with what I have just learned from my lexias because there is so much content. What Patchwork Girl lacks is technology for this technological time. Today, bookmarking links are limitless, but with Patchwork Girl book marking is limited. It doesn’t make sense to me, because the content and purpose for this new electronic technology is made to be continuous, while the technology aspect isn’t continuing to make new advances. I wonder why someone has not installed new technologies in PG?

Resulted from technology, the dotted line is significant in Patchwork Girl for its potential of forming a line. The dotted in PG line gives chance for change and freedom to imagine all day but, but a dotted line is also continuous and in pieces gives a path. This is significant because the technology in PG goes off to random lexias but still links together to create a story. With the girl monster, she is like a dotted line because she is not tightly sewn together, but she has potential to change into a being with great personality from her freedom to bounce from any topic of learning based on her new experiences.

As I have learned from Hayles, women authors are not respected like male authors at that time. Woman were thought to sew quilts not to write, which is perceived as feminism. Shelley who sewed her monster related her sewing to writing. “I had sewed her until black letters [she wrote] blurred stitches and I began to feel that I was sewing a great quilt.” This shows that women are emotional, another form of feminism. Both quilting and emotion from creating her monster Shelley oddly, for that time, relates her feminism to writing, which is perceived only for men to succeed at.

Finally Paper #3

kad21 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:50:22 +0000

A Frightening Remediated Success

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote her story in hopes of her novel being worthy enough for her reader. When Shelley dreamt of her horror story and when she awoke the next morning, she was filled with automatic fear and intense emotions. Her response from her nightmare was exactly what she wanted her reader to feel from her novel. With Shelley’s success from her novel, Hollywood remediated her novel into a well-known and legendary film. Hollywood’s Frankenstein film revived the novel while keeping Shelley’s hopes in mind, but with a few technical enhancements. To make sure the viewer would be in automatic fear and experience a rollercoaster of emotions, Hollywood in 1994 primarily interpreted the strong bond between Victor Frankenstein and his sister Elizabeth. Throughout the film, Victor’s and Elizabeth’s bond develops with each new and terrifying life challenge. From the viewer watching this bond, they feel intense emotions from the powerful sounds of music playing in the background, the emotion or fear from the actor’s voices, and the significance of color shown in every scene. The film’s remediation of Frankenstein in 1994 and Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, complement each other because they are both worthy and famous pieces of technology that make their audience feel terror and automatic emotions.

The remediation of the Frankenstein story concentrates on the strong love bond shared between Victor Frankenstein and his sister, Elizabeth. Their bond began when Victor’s father brought home his new sister Elizabeth, who had just lost both her parents. Victor’s caring and loving parents made him into someone like them, so his dad told him to take care of his sister forever and to always love her. Victor and Elizabeth sealed their bond with a hand shake for a lifetime of acceptance. As their hand shake of meaning stayed strong, their relationship re birthed into an intimate love. By Victor’s graduation, they both realized that this love they shared should be more than a hand shake, but more of a lifelong title of husband and wife. On their wedding night after the two lovers finally got married, Victor made a promise he couldn’t keep. Victor promised to create a love partner for the monster he created, which he never accomplished before his wedding night. This broken promise angered the monster who kept his promise of killing Victor’s only love, Elizabeth. Victor’s last resort of never seeing the monster again was to create a she monster, pieced from cut off body parts of Victor’s deceased wife, and Justine, another close related victim. When the monster’s she monster came to life, Victor realized that he was in love with her and that the she monster reminded him of Elizabeth. This re birth of their relationship separated them because she was more attracted to the monster. The creation of the she monster brought great fear and aroused intense emotions in the viewer because the she monster was sewed from different body parts making it fearful to look at and brought sorrowful emotions for Victor because the she monster left him. The viewer could not feel these emotions from of the intense bond between Victor and Elizabeth without the sight of color or the lack of it, the roller coaster sounds of background music, and the intense pitches in the actor’s voices.

In order to comprehend or judge a film, you must use your senses of hearing and sight. With one sense, you are able to hear the tone of voice from the actor and you are able to judge if they are happy, sad, or scared. While Elizabeth was writing a love letter to Victor, she spoke aloud as she wrote her letter. Her voice was pleasant because she was writing a love letter to her missed loved one, which made her miss him and love him even more. This scene was short in time, because it wasn’t that important. When you are reading a novel, this short scene may take up several pages because the author has to explain in words where she is at, what she is saying, and the emotions of character. Another reason why hearing is important for a film is because when a scene is playing back ground music, the music makes the viewer comprehend that a scary or a happy part in the movie is coming, which will automatically change the viewer’s reactions and feelings. At Victor’s graduation party, everyone is dancing to the joyful piano music and Victor and Elizabeth finally kiss, when suddenly it sourly stops and chaos erupts. The piano music made the viewer happy that everything was going well; when the music changed for the worse, the viewer automatically went into panic mode. Background music foretells what is going to happen in the next scene within seconds, but with a novel a scene changes sometimes without notice in the next paragraph or is clearly shown by making a new chapter.

Having the other sense of sight, the viewer must be able to see the film, but they must be able to understand why certain hues or colors are used. Dark colors shown, make you think of a bad and scary scene; light and pretty colors that are shown create a happy and peaceful scene. From a scene shown in the film Frankenstein, Elizabeth is running away from Victor because he won’t leave his studies that are far away from their home to marry her. While she is running there is a crowd of people exterminating out of the town due to disease. The town’s people, the road and all of the buildings are in a gray scale, while Elizabeth, who is feeling passionately betrayed, wears a scarlet red cloak. She is meant to stand out so the viewer knows that she is not like everyone else in the scurrying crowd. She is not running away from disease but someone she strongly loves. Elizabeth’s emotion for scurry, of heart break is completely different than the rest of the town’s fear of death. Her passionate love for Victor resembles why her cloak is scarlet red. This example of strong and dull color use shows that instead of describing printed words onto paper to get the message across, a film has to use color to catch the viewer’s eye quickly and obviously for the meaning of the scene to be valuable. Because of hearing and sight, the remediation of Frankenstein successfully resembles the novel’s purpose of communicating fear and strong emotions.

In Hollywood, the director has to create a film for the public who are interested to view such entertainment and who are willing to spend their money. When a director decides to re create a novel into a film, they have struggles to make enough money off of the public, and if they should reference the novel word for word or to resemble the purpose of the novel. With the remediation of Frankenstein in 1994, Shelley’s hopes for her book were perfectly portrayed in this film, with the addition of a love story to interest more viewers. Printed in ink at the beginning of her story, Shelley expressed her hopes for her terrifying novel to remain worthy of its name and hoped that her audience would feel similar emotions that she felt when she awoke from her nightmare. Shown in the remediated film from 1994, Frankenstein first begins rolling the tape with Shelley’s hopes projected in print on the screen, while the narrator is reinforcing the novel’s same purpose into ear catching audio. The film succeeded at her printed purpose because her story is still being remediated into films today, which makes the film and novel worthy of their name because every age knows what Frankenstein is. The monster is a famous icon; which every little kid whines to be him for Halloween or has colored his face from a page in a coloring book that his parents got him for his birthday. The great fright that she wanted to be interpreted is enhanced even more precisely. With film, the viewer can see and hear the fright and emotion of her idea. With Shelley’s printed novel, her audience is forced to perceive her text by making up visions of her ideas in their minds. This success that Shelley hoped for has evolved from a dream, into a novel, remediated into multiple films and into a famous name.

What I Need To Work On: Making sure my examples are fit for the topic, using grammar properly, and better structure of sentences.

What I Thought I Did Well On: I thought I had enough to write about; I liked my topic because I thought it was a different way to view the paper.

A Very Upset Old Fashioned Reader

kad21 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:17:59 +0000

Before starting Patchwork Girl, I thought there was going to be sound, images, and sentences of what I was hearing through my ear phones. I was let down when I finally downloaded the CD and confusingly discovered that there was no sound just links beyond links of disorder and unknown beginnings and endings.

With my first experience of Patchwork Girl, I gave up after 15 minutes trying listen to the CD, when sound is not even included on it. During those first chaotic minutes, I was stressed out because I felt as if I was not going anywhere, lacking productive and efficient reading.

Since numbered pages are non existent and disorganized windows are, I have to learn and adapt to this reading experience while accepting not being able to keep my old fashioned way of order, organization and ease of reading.

With this reading, I have learned to expect nothing and to just go with the flow of the links. I learned to not get upset with the unknown because, it is what it is.

When I explore the links in the future, I will be open minded to what link I am randomly shown in each window, and I will allow the orderly Outline, link me to out of order windows.

Alomost A Frightening Remediated Success

kad21 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:46:59 +0000

A Frightening Remediated Success

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote her story in hopes of her novel being worthy enough for her reader. When Shelley dreamt of her horror story and when she awoke the next morning, she was filled with automatic fear and intense emotions. Her response from her nightmare was exactly what she wanted her reader to feel from her novel. With Shelley’s success from her novel, Hollywood remediated her novel into a well-known and legendary film. Hollywood’s Frankenstein film, rebirth or revival of the novel, kept Shelley’s hopes in mind, but with a few technical enhancements. To make sure the viewer would be in automatic fear and experience a rollercoaster of emotions; Hollywood in 1994 primarily interpreted the strong bond between Victor Frankenstein and his sister Elizabeth. Throughout the film, Victor’s and Elizabeth’s bond revives with each new and terrifying life challenges. From the viewer watching this bond, they feel intense emotions from the powerful sounds of music playing in the background, the emotion or fear from the actor’s voices, and the significance of color shown in every scene. The film’s remediation of Frankenstein in 1994 from Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, complements each other because they are both worthy and famous pieces of technology that makes their audience feel terror and automatic emotions.

The remediation of the Frankenstein story, concentrates on the strong love bond shared between Victor Frankenstein and his sister, Elizabeth. Their bond began when Victor’s father brought home his new sister Elizabeth who had just lost both her parents. Victor’s caring and loving parents made him into someone like them, so his dad told him to take care of his sister forever and to always love her. They sealed their bond with a hand shake for a lifetime of acceptance. As their hand shake of meaning stayed strong, their relationship re birthed into an intimate love. By Victor’s graduation, they both realized that this love they shared should be more than a hand shake, but more of a lifelong title of husband and wife. On their wedding night after the two lovers finally got married, Victor made a promise he couldn’t keep. The promise he made with the monster he created, was to create a love partner for the monster, which Victor never accomplished before his own wedding night. This broken promise angered the monster into keeping his promise of killing Victor’s only love, Elizabeth. Victor’s last resort of never seeing the monster again was to create a she monster, pieced from Victor’s deceased wife, and Justine, another close related victim. When the monster’s she monster came to life, Victor realized that he was in love with her and that the she monster reminded him of Elizabeth. This re birth of their relationship was forced to separate them because she was more attracted to the monster. From a hand shake that was forced apart, brought great fear for the viewer and aroused intense emotions in the viewer. With this primary remediation, the viewer could not feel these emotions without the sight of color or the lack of it, the roller coaster sounds of background music, and the intense pitches in the actor’s voices.

In order to comprehend or judge a film, you must use your senses of hearing and sight. With one sense, you are able to hear the tone of voice from the actor and you are able to judge if they are happy, sad, or scared. While Elizabeth was writing a love letter to Victor, she spoke aloud as she wrote her letter. Her voice was pleasant because she was writing a love letter to her missed loved one, which made her miss him and love him even more. This scene was short in time, because it wasn’t that important. When you are reading a novel, this short scene may take up several pages because the author has to explain in words; where she is at, what she is saying, and the emotions of character. Another reason why hearing shows importance for a film, is because when a scene is playing back ground music, the music makes the viewer comprehend that a scary or a happy part in the movie is coming, which will automatically change the viewers reactions and feelings. At Victor’s graduation party, everyone is dancing to the joyful piano music, when suddenly it sourly stops and chaos erupts. The piano music made the viewer happy that everything was going well, when the music changed for the worse, the viewer automatically went into panic mode. Background music foretells what is going to happen in the next scene within seconds, but with a novel a scene changes sometimes without notice in the next paragraph or is clearly shown by making a new chapter.

Having the other sense of sight, the viewer must be able to see the film, but they must be able to understand why certain hues or colors are used. Dark colors shown, make you think of a bad and scary scene, light and pretty colors that are shown, create a happy and peaceful scene. From a scene shown in the film Frankenstein, Elizabeth is running away from Victor because he won’t leave his studies that are far away from their home to marry her. While she is running there is a crowd of people exterminating out of the town due to disease. The town’s people, the road and all of the buildings are in a gray scale, while Elizabeth who is feeling passionately betrayed to, wears a scarlet red cloak. She is meant to stand out so the viewer knows that she is not like everyone else in the scurrying crowd. She is not running away from disease but someone she strongly loves. Elizabeth’s emotion for scurry, of heart break is completely different than the rest of the town’s fear of death. Her passionate love for Victor resembles why her cloak is scarlet red. This example of strong and dull color use shows, that instead of describing printed words onto paper to get the message across, a film has to use color to catch the viewer’s eye quickly and obviously for the meaning of the scene to be valuable. Making sure that these two senses are properly displayed in the remediation of Frankenstein successfully resembles the novel’s purpose.

In Hollywood, the director has to create a film for the public who are interested to view such entertainment and who are willing to spend their money. When a director decides to re create a novel into a film, they have struggles to make enough money off of the public, and if they should reference the novel word for word or to resemble the purpose of the novel. With the remediation of Frankenstein in 1994, Shelley’s hopes for her book were perfectly portrayed in this film, with the addition of a love story to interest more viewers. Printed in ink, at the beginning of her story, Shelley expressed her hopes for her terrifying novel to remain worthy of its name and hoped that her audience would feel similar emotions that she felt when she awoke from her nightmare. Shown in the remediated film from 1994, Frankenstein first begins rolling the tape with Shelley’s hopes projected in print on the screen, while the narrator is reinforcing the novel’s same purpose into ear catching audio. The film succeeded at her printed purpose because her story is still being remediated into films today, which makes the film and novel worthy of their name because every age knows what Frankenstein is. The monster is a famous icon; which every little kid whines to be him for Halloween or has colored his face from a page in a coloring book that his parents got him for his birthday. The great fright that she wanted to be interpreted is enhanced even more precisely. With film, the viewer can see and hear the fright and emotion of her idea. With Shelley’s printed novel, her audience is forced to perceive her text by making up visions of her ideas in their minds. This success that Shelley hoped for has evolved from a dream, into a novel, remediated into multiple films and into a famous name.

Perplexed Writing Machines

kad21 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:55:10 +0000

So far in reading Writing Machines, I have realized that I am clueless when it comes to the electronic environment. I have read and re-read the chapter on Dislexia to Perplexia and i am still unable to grasp the concepts of bi.narrative communication, hyperlobal, ontological and the rest of the complex meanings of the electronic environment. As I read these chapters with new and to me made up words, I begin to just skim and miss the meaning of things because I am still confused about a hyperlobal. I wonder why someone would take the time to go into such detailed descriptions on the importance of writing and the electronic age?

The only idea I have come up with was inspired after I read Experiencing Artist’s Books. I understood this thesis because artist books are pieces of beauty that trigger the reader’s mind to discover why this abstract way of reading is significant. Artist books are significant because they may reveal a new way of reading; like being able to have the same book, flip it to the back and read a completely new story. I understand how the idea of artist books relates to electronic textuality. Electronic textuality and artist books are both thought to be interpreted as physical artifacts. Artist books are unlike regular books in the vision that they are decorated and flashy while regular books are only composed of paper and binding. With electronic technology the scientists know everything about the computer programs, but they do not have interest in making the web page into a fun an exciting artwork to look at and analyze. For some reason I can only understand this book if she compares a book with the confusing techno concepts.

I have more interest in reading and dealing with books, then with trying to learn and understand electronic textuality. Books to me are simple things while technology is a downward spiral of equations. Although face to face, like a book’s beautiful cover or a cool website I see that they a both pyshical artifacts.