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.