"Like You Know" - Taylor Mali ....My response

     I viewed both of Taylor Mali's videos for his poem. The first one with him actually in it was good, but I didn't enjoy it because the timing was off. The audio was a couple seconds behind the visual so I got annoyed. The second video with the text was exceptionally great. I loved all the angles and designs the text created. It was also nice to be able to read the poem and hear it at the same time instead of just listening. I enjoyed the poem itself though. I thought it was very funny and sarcastic but also true.

Inkshedding

"Everything at once: You're not where you think you are."

- If you read hypertext, the writing is very sparatic and its difficult to find your place as a whole since the original and reference mix together and can often be difficult for a reader to pinpoint.

- Both original  thoughts and hypertext that is being used as a reference within the text is given to the reader. The reader can get lost upon these words and think they are reading things which they are not.

- The reader can believe what they read makes sense but in reality they don't understand the work at all and become lost in the wrong place. Shelley herself writes in a confusing way that can make a person get lost.

What is this "Stitch Bitch" talking about!?

     I want to start off my response by stating that I did not like this article at all. I found Shelley Jackson to be annoying since she seemed to be rambling. Her article was talking about a body one second and hypertext the next. I felt bored as I read this and it seemed like a waste of time, because I gained nothing from this article. Although I understood most of what she was trying to tell the reader, I did not see why a body and hypertext needed to try to be included together.
     The first section I want to discuss was "The Feminine". I understand how something or someone may not be who they say they are, but why is the "banished body" or the hypertext feminine. I know that she is telling the reader that there are different aspects to recognizing good and bad writing, but the way she compares them is odd. "Bad writing is a build-up of clutter or crud". Really? I'm aware that bad writing containes ideas and sentences that are sparatic or do not belong. But why doesn't she give an example or say it how I said it? She needs to identify this "crud".
     In Jackson's section "Against History", she states "it's not how they say it was". That quote definitely makes sense of some articles about history. Some people may make it seems more or less than it really was. Then she starts to talk about hypertext again. "I see no reason why hypertext can't serve up an experience of satisfying closure not drastically different from that of reading a long and complicated novel, though it will do it differently." But instead of building upon this idea, she goes back into how someone may live their life. What? Why can't she concentrate on one idea or at least make a strong connection between the two.
     I'm not sure if anyone else really enjoyed this article, but I did not. Maybe like Jackson said in her article, I got lost through it or rejected it for some reason or another. Maybe I didn't really give it the chance to the be enjoyed.

Hubris at Zunzal (Where does this poem reject it's own existence)

     I think that Jones "rejection" occurs in the beginning of the poem. He begins by setting a beautiful scene, but quickly switches to the image of language. I feel as though he rejected the scene by not completing how it looks. From a readers point of view, I started off engaged in the imagery of the poem. When he quickly switched images, I was taken by surprise. I wanted to be told more about the scene so I could develope a much more clear image.

My Four Letter Word...HAIL

For my project I used one true media. Unfortunately I can not post the link to my project, because one true media will not let me.

     My four-letter word was hail. I chose hail, because there are many different ideas that came to mind. My argument is that hail is a word that can be used for "good" or "bad". I used my project as more than an argument. I really wanted to make an impact on the audience. I chose to put the "good" images for hail in the beginning of the video with Bach's Ave Marie playing in the background. These images included: Virgin Mary, Hail Mary Pass, and people bowing. I did this to mellow out the audience so they would not expect what is to come. Half-way through the video, I switched the music to a song by the band As I Lay Dying and displayed "bad" images for the word "hail". These images included: storms, Hitler, and damaged cars. I wanted to show people how fast meanings can be changed, and how words have more than one meaning.

Three Imagines From The Video

1. Lips. 

      - The lips stuck out to me in the video and I remembered them till the end. I like the Rock Horror Picture Show, so when I saw the lips I made that connection. I think the purpose of the lips in the video was to have the audience focus on what is being said. If the rest of the body was present, the audience may have gotten distracted. By only seeing the lips, the audience is forced to focus on the lip movement and what is being said.

2. Sandwich.

     - The spiraling effect of the ingredients for the sandwich stuck out to me. The same ingredients repeating over and over again caused me to remember them. I do not think there was a significance for the sandwich ingredients besides the fact the author mentioned eating a sandwich.

3. Authors names at the end.

     - The authors names at the end were a very nice touch. I found it to be inspiring as well as intimidating. Many of the names displayed were admirable authors and great role models. It was intimidating because as a writer the names make you feel as though you will never be great like them.

A sentence starts out like....

     A sentence starts out like a runner at the starting line anticipating the signal to move. Once started, a sentence takes off like the runner who's only thought is to go. A sentence as well as a runner intends to win  by making sense to the reader. If the reader can interpret the sentence, then the sentence wins.