accessibility

I'm posting this video for two specific reasons. First, we're going to discuss accessibility and our audio/video projects this week; second, it's Disabilities Awareness Week here at TTU (for more information see http://www.depts.ttu.edu/students/sds/DAW10.asp).

cut-up (from class)

When life gives you lemons
JOIN THE PARTY
Spectacular showdown!
Stars are going
gone*
Surprised?
living in denial
JOY!
original comedy
OK! or not OK!
How I lost...
Secrets.
Not all love notes are written
IN REHAB.
we worship
THE STORM
oops.
romance -
proven to boost happiness
TOMORROW
pays.


The cut-up project, for me, was interesting. I have done it before without realizing that it was an actual technique. This is the example of the cut-up I did while in class. It turned out kind of humorous. There doesnt seem to be any particular underlying meaning and is quite random. I did not feel as though I was taking another persons work when creating this project. These are simply words or phrases that anyone could have put together. If I had taken parts of longer articles as opposed to just the titles maybe I would feel more need to cite where I got the pieces from. If anything, the cut-up pieces sparked ideas within myself on how to take different meaning of different words in different contexts.
Although this project was very out of my element in the fact that it had to be completely random and I was not to purposely place things in specific places I still enjoyed it. It was something different from the typical writing assignements that are often given in composition courses. Thanks for that Dr. Booher :)

Women's Studies Conference

The Women's Studies Program at TTU is presenting a free all-day colloquium on Gender & Gender Identity on 29 Friday 2010, at the TTU Student Union Building.

From the website:

The purpose of the colloquium is to highlight feminist research on gender and gender identity. Topics include gender and media, gender and political activism, cultural construction of gender, and psychology of sex roles.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

2010 Call for Papers & Full Panels

Registration for the colloquium will be available on the morning of the event begining at 8:30 a.m. Pre-registraion is encouraged but not required. 

Please print and fill out the registration form. Forms may be sent to the following address:

TTU Women's Studies Program
Attn: Tricia Earl
PO Box 2009
Lubbock, TX. 79409-2009

Colloquium Schedule 
(All session are located in the Senate RM, First Floor, South Entrance):
8:30 a.m. - Registration
8:45 a.m. - Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Session I
10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. - Session II
12:00 p.m. Break for lunch on your own (see Student Union ground level)
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Session III

Note: Proof of attendance will be provided to those students attending the colloquium for course credit.

Please contact the Women's Studies office for more details at (806) 742-4335 or email us at womens.studies@ttu.edu

Cut-Up Project

Going into the “cut-up” project made me extremely nervous. This emotion is usually absent from my thoughts when writing a paper, but a combination of factors constructed an anxiety that I haven’t felt in years. First off, I always seem to catch a common cold during the climax of each semester. This catching of course is onset by its own set of factors that include stress, lack of sleep, and the joining together of students who are carriers, and ones that are not. Inevitably my immune system is over worked and that common cold turns into an infection of some sort. Cause, I get really sick; effect, I miss class. It just so happened that I missed the majority of the classes that explained this project in more detail. Secondly, the project was pushed back to October 14th, right after fall break. At first this made me really happy when I heard the announcement. Who does homework on a holiday though, I don’t. I enjoyed my break as much as I could, and that meant school did not enter my head at all. This brings me to the last factor of why I became nervous on this project. I will not hide the fact that I am a procrastinator, and I admit that I do it all the time. Although the combination of these three factors made me very nervous, I still had fun with this project. I used Introductions from three books that I am currently reading to develop my own introduction to a fictional book of mine. My project came out very well in my opinion. It seemed to have an easy flow that I did not anticipate. I have to say I was amused at what was developed.

Cut-up Project :)

I loved the idea of getting to do this and then reflecting on what I came up with or what everyone else came up with. Just like everyone else, I was very tempted to put funny words together to make it a weird, but interesting story. However, I didn't, and I still came up with a pretty decent collage of words and phrases that created somewhat of a new meaning. Maybe not as well as what I had hoped though. The one I did in class will not be the one I will use for my final project. I am hoping to re-try it for my final project, but this time with more of a variety of magazine genres and possibly sources other than magazines. But all in all, I absolutely love doing things like this. It really struck me how much this project resembles the Manifesto video we watched. I was really in awe the first day of class when we watched that clip and they showed how The Verve's song Bittersweet Symphony traced all the way back to a bluegrass/folk singer from forever ago. I guess I knew of that kind of stuff happening and that it is out there, but the way that they put it together, meshing the songs into one another and showing how they stole a sound from each, really interested me. That is another reason I found the cut-up project so interesting because it is doing the same process, just in a different form.

It makes you realize that our entire world is just one big cut-up project!! :-p

Cut up

I really enjoyed this project. Maybe I just like cutting stuff up though. I wasn't nervous about cutting up others works because once it is cut up and rearranged then it is no longer the original, and therefor not copying. I was sorely tempted to arrange the words in orders I thought would be interesting. But my random arrangements turned out pretty good. I think however that I should have cut up larger chunks of text to use instead of individual words. I think then it would have been easier to have some kind of cohesiveness or flow in the final product.

CuT-uP BloG

I have to say so myself, making this project made me feel like I was stealing form someone. I used many New York Times articles/titles/headings and using someone elses work kind made me nervous. I mean it was the NY Tiimes. Those people could catch you more than anyone.

The pieces of atricles and the titles of articles that I used were from articles that have nothing concerning the meaning I created by using them. The little cut up that I made is about a breakup, or love affair between two people. While the articles that I cut from were about InVirto Fertilization, Monet's Art back in Paris, and The first "miracle" drug, Insulin.

I feel that I'm a creative person and this project (although I had to fight my own creative urge) was an awesome way to think out of the box. I loved this because it was a nice way to breakup the rest of my other assignments from other classes. I used as a timeout period. I enjoyed this project very much.

Cut-Up

To be perfectly honest, I was definitely one of the people who was made uncomfortable by the process of cutting up magazines, and then putting word together into sentences, but doing all of that without any sort of plan or order. Definitely made me uncomfortable.

I had to stop myself several times while we were working in class and just re-jumble up the words I'd cut out because sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously, I started putting the words in groupings to try and make some sense out of them.

Despite how uncomfortable it made me, I actually really enjoyed the assignment, both the one we did in class and the final cut-up project, because they both forced me to be uncomfortable in the process of creating something that didn't really make sense, but that I needed to make sense of after the fact. I very much enjoyed it!

Cut-Up Reflection

My feelings on the project was actually pretty varied. When I heard about it at first, I thought, "Oh cool, we get to get all these texts and I guess make some sort of purposeful collage out of it." But when we were told to not purposefully make any sense out of it -- that we ought to leave it all up to spontaneity and randomness -- I was kind of incredulous. What I ended up doing was clipping pieces of random pages from a book and inserting them in within paragraphs of another book. The results were varied -- sometimes they make no sense, other times they flow rather nicely. I think what's interesting is how some new "words" are randomly created out of the process. Some of the pieces turned out almost poetic and cryptic at the same time so I thought that was really cool.

cut up

This assignment was very different to me, but i really enjoyed the process. It was a nice change of pace from all of the normal assignments I have to do in classes. I wish more classes had projects such as this.

Cut-up

Though I have never encountered a project like this one, I have really enjoyed it. I never thought I could see some many new and creative ideas out of clipping in a Cosmo magazine. It was hard not to put things in order and try to make sense out of them in the beginning. But, after a few attempts to do that, I simply mixed them all together and let them fall on a page. I kept the clippings where they landed and finished the assignment. It came out better than I had expected it and worked in many different ways considering meaning and interpretation.

cut-up!

This is such a very weird way to concoct new ideas in print, film & other media. Burroughs' being a pioneer in this whole ordeal isn't all that surprising; it brings sense to the film I have seen on his work Naked Lunch, where things seem to be so intricately eccentric. Hell, this may even be how he concocted the setting for the story, Interzone. My cut-up project in class did generate some interesting sentences and quirky thoughts; however, seeing everyone perform in class gave me a newer perspective on where I may go with the final cut-up project. Titles I think can create new thoughts together, though its going to be a challenge to try and not put things together so that they sound syntactically and semantically correct. Where this concept is going, I have no idea. But I'm liking it.

CUT UP TECHNIQUE

Initially when i looked deeper into the cut up technique i was intrigued. i found it interesting in that it's simple, you take old works, randomly take them apart and make something completely new. With me being the person that I am i struggle with this technique greatly. I have a very hard time just throwing things together and trying not to make sense of them. I always want for my work to be coherent. i don't think that the cut up method is a technique that works for everyone. either way it's a lot of fun!

Cut Up Reflection

The cut up method is a cool way to create something new out of something old and approved. Although this technique is neat, I believe that it should be viewed as plagiarism. Like in the remix manifesto video, the lady who worked for copyright said that you can't be creative with someone else's work. I also think that since everyone uses someone else's ideas to come up with their own, we as the community are trying to come up with reasons to make this okay.


The in class project was fun! I really enjoyed spontaneously cutting phrases and taping them together. This was a good way to get all the students involved in the project. Amazingly everyone's cut up that we heard in class sounded good. Of course they did not flow, but the arrangement of small phrases seemed almost poetic.

Cut-up

I think that the cut-up method is a interesting way to make a reading different then the normal plain jane readings. Actually sitting down and trying to make my own cut-up, it is hard not to care that it might not make complete sense. I am so use to my papers to flow smoothly, putting the cut-up together makes me feel that I am doing it wrong but I know in my head that its not supposed to make sense. I tried to read my cut-up out loud and I have had to read it slowly because if I dont I stumble. I do like how some of the pieces fit perfectly making it sound better then the original, then it can have the opposite effect and not make sense. I hope that I will be able to get pass the fact that my cut-up will not make sense, I will just have to try and forget everything that I have ever learned about writing. After watching RiP! A Remix Manifesto, I think that the music mash-ups are way better sounding then the written mash-ups. It made me think that we could all go to jail for making out cut-ups, I'm sure we are violating several copyrights. I think that this cut-up project is a great break from having to write boring papers about things that do not interest me. This project has givin me free reign for what I write about.

Cut-Up Technique

I find the cut-up method to be a refreshing way to look at English and a fun class activity. It's a practice in creativity, when our daily focus is on a structured style of writing, especially for us as students. I feel that we lose our sense of creativeness having to follow the same guidelines over and over in writing and that this is a simple and fast way to get us back to thinking outside the box. Many say this method isn't creative at all, that you're just plagiarizing, not creating anything new, but I beg to differ. Yes the act itself may not be that creative as it is supposed to be an unintentional choice and placement of words, but what makes it a practice in creativity is the interpretation. That is where something new can be created from existing works. Everybody can interpret something different, especially if it's more poetic in style, and that it was brings out someones creativeness. It is also present in the process of word choice no matter how subconscious it might be, the person next to you would not choose the exact same paragraph or word you chose, it's all based on someones preferences.

In my poetry class last year we used the cut-up method in groups to create something new. It was definitely more of a challenge working in groups than individually and we had the intent of picking certain words, not that they collaborated with the rest of the groups when first chosen, but it still was a practice in creativity and writing. I think it's something everybody should at least try once before they have an opinion on it. I find it to be both fun and interesting, especially as I am one to cut out titles and bigger fonts and arrange them in a more poetic fashion, which leaves open so many things to be understood.