Thoughts on Project 4

As of right now I am not 100% sure where I want my focus to be. I made a list for last class but I don't really know how to incorporate these things in to any sort of educational project for this class. After reading over some other peoples' lists in class I had some good ideas. I really liked Vanessa and Megan's ideas.

Megan's idea was to categorize people and collect data based on the type of clothing that other people are wearing...and the type of brand names that they wear. This has always been something I thought was interesting from middle school on. The way people form cliques in middle school based on what type of clothes you wear was fascinating to me as a middle school student.

Vanessa's list was a list of books on her second shelf. I liked how random it was, and am interested in seeing where she takes it. I thought about doing a list similar to this, but not exactly like it. Maybe a list of DVD's on my third shelf? What we understand as entertainment would be an interesting way.

UPDATE

As we talked more I thought that using my original idea of the hateful voicemails that I receive from my friends when I am not available would be a good idea. I wasn't sure how to use it but I think showcasing the severe anxiety that my friends have when they feel out of contact with me is hilarious. I even thought about taking next week and literally not even answering my cell phone. Only communicating with people via writing on a piece of paper or texting/instant messaging. I think the core of this project would really be the fact that no one would know what's going on. Knowing my friends they would be in absolute hysteria.

If anything not answering my phone for a week would be a weight off of my shoulders. Cell phones are definitely necessary these days but there are some days where I really just wish no one would call me or that I didn't have to have a phone. I like the idea of being out of touch every once in a while.

Once I weigh my options and make sure there are no severe ramifications to doing such a thing, I will start next week by either not answering my phone once, or simply not talking to anyone and just texting or instant messaging.

My List

Things I Hate:
Annoying voice mails
hateful e-mails
Bad WiFi connections
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Dell or Gateway Computers
Ignorant Adults
McCain
Morgantown when it's cold

Things I Love:
Nice voice mails
Nice e-mails
T1 Connections
Mac OS X
My MacBook Pro
Kids
Obama
Traveling
Sunny weather
Italy


Not sure how I am going to incorporate these elemetns in to a project. Maybe using music to the text to portray the feelings I have. Things I love: positive major chords; Things I hate: negative minor chords. I am still developing my idea right now.

Project 4 Thoughts

The first thing that I thought of when I read this prompt to list things that you hate would be to collect all of the voice mails that I have received from people who are pissed off that they couldn't get through to me. This is mainly my close friends who think that I am just sleeping at the wrong times or intentionally ignoring them for some reason or another. I have saved 5 or 6 different voice mails with the intention of making some sort of video to showcase the type of harassment that I get when I don't answer my own phone. I am going to test and instigate some people to leave me these kind of voice mails without telling them what I want to do. Hopefully, I will come up with some great material for this project.

Project 3 - Paradoxical Texts

Amy Winehouse - Rehab by God

They tried to make thess swear by the mend It's not just think I'm fine He's tried to make thess swear by the mend It's just need a shot glass They tried to rehab but I ain't got seventy days Cause there's nothing There's nothing There's nothing you think you, it was very good. But if my son, yeah baby so I ain't got no, I'm gonna spend ten weeks have done basely. Thou shalt not gonna, no other gods before Israel. Thou shalt have hardened his man-servant, and this me go, and die. Thou shalt have everyone think you think I'm fine He's tried to make me go, my son of his servants. Thou shalt not take the God of blood according to make thess swear by the avenger of Judah have dried They tried to my people, no other gods before me. Thou shalt not just til these tears have dried They tried to my baby, I won't go, no, flee thou after my daddy thinks I'm gonna lose my bone and the mend It's just need a pomegranate split open, nor his heart, and if the mend It's just ooh I my brother unto him guiltless. Why should this me. Arise, nor his maid-servant. Now therefore thy temples are like a friend I'm gonna, I come back you'll know I can't learn from Mr Hathaway I just my daddy thinks I'm gonna, and the earth, thy womb, clothed in a wife for the God in the border of the LORD came mightily upon him, my son of Egypt; am I delivered thee, this dead dog curse my pride It's not gonna spend ten weeks have done so I delivered thee? The men of heaven! And the time go to these tears have hardened his clothes, no Yes I've been black but when I ain't got seventy days Cause there's nothing you, no other gods before Israel.

The Preamble by Dr. Seuss

We the People of the light of peppermint cucumber sausage-paste butter! And cheese! Now look! And when tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle in a shame! I bet. Take a more perfect Union, sir. Do you chew, funny things are everywhere. Say! It is no good.. Oh dear! Oh dear! It is fun to wink and secure the common defence, in Order to ourselves and that Goo-Goose, promote the wondrous-smelling stacks!

Kanye West - Big Brother by Miss Manners

My big brother Who was not require you feel why it Carleen told somebody you full permission to believe that you should of perfume, a steep hole And I'm at a perfectly polite exchange this shit...... Ya know I get my mentor Now let him another chance pass by other demands. Ya know the mall Coping iceberg and in my mind he could change your life With all these beats I had them hoes at a flow it entirely possible that diamond remix I felt was not injured. Ya know I wanna know the kiss, only proper mealtime activity is why it entirely possible that your hands Fresh off to topics of the hard knock life tour Sell out Party at bay, should give him hear it a mouth with food in it would yell out or pretend to develop passionate attachments by revealing a chance to spit it Carleen told you feel why don't you may cause. Yet Miss Manners is why it a bottle of known. Miss Manners trusts that you feel why I inspired me that diamond remix I could smell um People never known. Ya know the rule. Ya know is why don't want your friends back a free throw I guess beanies style was that diamond remix I could have been a mouth with food in my mentor And them hoes at your friends back room He would bob his head and forget bearing grudges. Miss Manners prefers to be immodest to be nice. Ya know he help me out Party at your heart? So this shit...... Ya know the lady that was momentarily distracted by Back in my mind I'm off to endure it Carleen told somebody else that's where the tendency to be nice. Ya know the city,Rockafella chain Never be nice. Ya know the tendency to develop passionate attachments by the top and go I was thinking a few words from your wedding.

Metatext

My vision for this project didn't seem to come about until the last class when we workshopped some other pieces. I was still a bit lost with what I wanted to do but after talking about the Rihanna lyrics I posted by the word of God with other members of the class, I got a clear understanding on what I wanted to do. I looked at the Shannonizer options to see what were potential algorithmic translations. Three stuck out to me. God, Dr. Seuss, and Miss Manners. I wanted to take those three characterizations and find a text that would basically be the complete opposite of each. I also wanted to incorporate music lyrics in to it somehow, because to me, music lyrics can be very powerful.


Beginning with God, I thought of one of my top 5 favorite artists of all time: Amy Winehouse. This poor girl has the talent to become a legend in the history of music, but becuase of an unfortunate and public addiction to drugs, we as fans just have to sit back and pray that she survives another day. I have always been a fan of Amy's song "Rehab," and decided to Shannonize it by the word of God in an attempt to showcase the paradoxical elements of Amy Winehouse and God. I think it worked really well.

The second text that I used was the Preamble to the United States Constitution. This election season has really hit home for me. Though I voted in 2004, I was still a bit young, and wasn't as interested in the issues surrounding my future. This election season has been cartoonish and at times childish. I thought that Shannonizing the Preamble to the Constitution with Dr. Seuss would showcase the paradoxical value of the fact that this is our Constitution, yet at times we look at the politics of our country as means of humor or entertainment. Again, I think this turned out exactly how I had hoped.

The last text that I used were the lyrics of Kanye West's song "Big Brother." I like Kanye West's music, but don't really care too much for him as a person. There was a recent video that surfaced online and eventually on the news of him grabbing a paparazzo's camera and slamming it to the ground thus shattering it in to a million pieces. In the words of Stephanie Tanner from Full House, "How rude!" I couldn't think of a more rude, egotistical person to put in to the Shannonizer with the Miss Manners setting than Kanye West. His most arrogant song, "Big Brother" focuses on how he rose to fame and how "Big brother saw me at the bottom of the totem, Now I'm at the top and everybody on the scrotum." Hilariously arrogant and pompous, I think some of the Kanye West's lyrics from Miss Manners worked out great for this particular project.

The Preamble by Dr. Seuss

I am still thinking about what I want to write but here is another idea that came to mind: using Dr. Seuss to explain the preamble of the U.S. Constitution!

We the People of the light of peppermint cucumber sausage-paste butter! And cheese! Now look! And when tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle in a shame! I bet. Take a more perfect Union, sir. Do you chew, funny things are everywhere. Say! It is no good.. Oh dear! Oh dear! It is fun to wink and secure the common defence, in Order to ourselves and that Goo-Goose, promote the wondrous-smelling stacks!

As usual I have workshopped with a few people in the class and have come up with some interesting ideas. I think by this project I need to be striving for something a bit more complex than copy, paste, click button. I am considering using some of the text in to a video in a way that we used text in the last project. I seem to thrive and feel most comfortable with video editing.

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Google Sonnet - john thrasher

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That didn't happen, but here is the result when I typed in my name.

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Rihanna - Umbrella: Shannonized

So I thought that taking lyrics of a popular song and Shannonzing it using the tool that was shown in class known as "The Shannonizer" would be a clever way to do this algorithmic text.

Who could forget the extremely popular song "Umbrella" by Rihanna. It was very famous during the summer of 2007 and even won some Grammys I believe.

I decided to take the following excerpt and Shannonize it under the word of God.

Here are the original lyrics of the song that I used:

When there's sunshine, we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella

Here is what Shannonizer created by the word of God:

"When there's sunshine. Now that it's raining more than ever Know that is thy feet, we'll shine together Told you I'll be here forever Said I'll be put to these ordinances; then the manslayer shall surely be a pomegranate split open, and the land which ye inhabit, we'll still have each other gods before Israel."

I was going to use a rap because it would seem very polarized compared to the word of God, but couldn't find one that worked very well.