Journal Topic 10/22

In spirit of having the laptop in class, I'm doing my journal online. So far the stupidest question I've received is what is your favorite movie and why. I think this is a dumb question because although a person's taste in media is something to look at it, I don't think that it is something to judge while trying to get into college. A favorite movie could be an escape from reality, or a remembrance of childhood. i dont think that there is enough merit to judge someone.

Cake wars

We out here. 

Hamlet 2

It was told serpent killed the king 

Claduis seduced getrude 

She was in on it 

King was sleeping in orchid 

Poison was put in his ear 

Ghost told hamlet to avenge his murder 

Leave his mom to heaven but kill Claudius 

I have sworn it 

Hamlet swore he would erase Claudius from the history 

Hamlet makes horatio and Marcellus swear multiple times not to say anything 

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy 

The time is out of joint: O cursed spite 

That ever I was born to set it right

Hamlet one

vocab 6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust

brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age;something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

gauche - adj. lacking social polish

rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

conundrum - noun a difficult problem

anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment

churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly;rude and boorish

precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices;extremely steep; done with very great haste and without due deliberations

Everything is a remix

Remix started with hip hop 

Taking something old and adding on or changing the image

Creativity used to be divine. 

Now it is a heightened achievement. 

Romanticism was the new wave of changing 

Lightbulb is the center image for creativity. 

Most ideas are a collaboration of sprawling thoughts and ideas. 

Genius are expected to be different from the normal. 

How do we create?

3 elements: copying transformation and combine. 

Everything in our society, in all aspects have started with something old and transformed it into something old. 

Typewriter although it was a new invention it was called the literally piano because it was the closest thing to it which was used as a model to design it. 

Combinations are another way of remixing. 

Einsteins e=Mc2 

Star Wars is the Monomyth 

Used similar scenes from previous movies and adapted them to science fiction film. 

Canterbury TalesII what a character

The cook is an interesting chap. He seems to be very looked down upon by Chaucer. The cook, or Perkins, display very selfish and outlandish qualities about himself. His sense of entitlement resembles that of a teenager. However, the cook is not a teenager but an apprentice. He is supposed to be very grateful and humble that he was given such a great opportunity. However, he is more involved with gambling and partying. He has no respect for his master and uses his funds in order to continue with his lavish lifestyle. His wife owns a store as a front in order to provide for their family. The store however, is a front for her prostitution business. This character displays the darker side of human nature and the danger of consumption of yourself.

character study 1

As I sat there reading my acceptance letter into Harvard, I couldn't help but think of the incredible trials that I went through in order to get to this moment. The long grueling workload in the past four years has all payed off in this moment. It then sunk in that I was about to leave everything that I have ever known. I realized that I would not only be leaving my family, but also the California coast, the only home i've ever known. As I pack my bags, I know that my entire life has led me to this moment, the start to my journey.

Tale of a Canterbury Tale

The cook was interesting story. It starts with the cook being an apprentice with very out of the ordinary personality traits for someone in his status. An apprentice should be grateful and humble for the opportunity but this cook is constant gambling and drinking. He takes advantage of his masters money and spends it all in order to fuel his gambling needs. `his self entitlement led to his wife to become a prostitute in order to support her and him.

Canterbury Tales 1

Bede

• Time where most people were illiterate. 
• Written documents were rare. 
• characterized many cities, castles, long days
• Latin was the unifying language. 

Canterbury Tales

• a series of stories that make up a larger story about a pilgrimage to Canterbury. 
• each story is told through a different characters perspective. 
• Characters vary from all social statuses ranging from aristocracy to peasants. 
• Tales are filled with contradicting personalities with roles in the society 
• The Knight was very honorable and heroic
• his son was very like him
• the monk was ironically fat as they were supposed to live in poverty
• the merchant was knowledgeable but in debt. He was portrayed as a very honorable man. 
• the cook was a very arrogant, pompous, selfish man
• the lower class was described with mostly indirect characterization. 
• The doctor was knowledgeable but was in it for the money. he wasn't religious as the bible frowned upon science. 
• These stories told the irony in society in the way that societies expectations were lived down through the dark side of human nature. 

Phonar

Phonar is photography narrative 

It's about habits. 

Thinking through doing 

Habits define us. We can inherit habits

The system is someone else's solution to a problem. 

Systems don't want us to think for ourselves 

The photograph is about the expierence

The crowd has taken the voice from the individual 

 difference between the image and photograph 

Photograph is circular. We just crop them. 

If you want to change the world you have to start describing it differently. 

Perspective separates the individual from the crowd 

Transmedia story is told over various platforms 

The challenge is to be heard. 

vocab 4

obsequious - adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

beatitude - noun one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); a state of supreme happiness. 

bete noire - noun a detested person

bode - verb indicate by signs 

dank - adj. unpleasantly cool and humid

ecumenical - adj. of worldwide scope or applicability; concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions

fervid - adj. extremely hot; characterized by intense emotion

fetid - adj. offensively malodorous

gargantuan - adj. of great mass; huge and bulky

heyday - noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

incubus - noun a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; someone who depresses or worries others; a situation resembling a terrifying dream

infrastructure - noun the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; the basic structure or features of a system or organization 

inveigle - verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

kudos - noun an expression of approval and commendation

lagniappe - noun a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)

prolix - adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length

protege - noun a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

prototype - noun a standard or typical example 

sycophant - noun a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

tautology - noun useless repetition; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true

truckle - noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed; verb yield to out of weakness; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering