Mix Tape Experience

For my mix tape project, I decided to make a mix cd for my best friend, Kandi. We've been friends since we were four years old. Our first meeting was in preschool. Today we still remain best friends. I just thought I make a cd for her letting her know how much I love her. At the same time reminding her how much our times spent together meant to me. So here's the track list of my mix cd.





1. Anytime You Need a Friend...............................mariah carey


2. That's What Friends are For..............................dionne warwick


3. Girls Just Want to Have Fun.............................cyndi lauper


4. Thank You For Being a Friend..........................andrew gold


5. You've Got a Friend in Me.................................toy story soundtrack


6. Dancing Queen.....................................................abba


7. A Friend Like You...............................................geoff moore


8. Public Affair.........................................................jessica simpson


9. I'll Stand by You.................................................pretenders


10. Graduation........................................................vitamin c


11. Wind Beneath My Wings.................................bette middler



(song #10 Graduation [friends forever])

DJ SPOOKY

Paul Miller presents his book, Rhythm Science, in a totally new fashion. I was a tad bit confuse with language mainly because of his different style of writing though it's very "creative". This different style of approaching readers is very fascinating. I find the hole in the middle to be mysterious. It serves a purpose but yet I'm still trying to understand or find a interpretation of Miller's intention of the hole in the middle. Along with that, the green pages of illustration. The playboy bunny seems to be repetitive. What's the significance of this bunny?

The language that he wrote in made me have this image in my head. In this image he is on stage with his turn table and remixing his musics/free styles. To me the music/free styles are the words in his books. This reminded me of my friend who is does some dj-ing and free styling. The techniques of speaking are similar.

Over all, though it's rather confusing of a read, it's interesting in the sense that it's completely different from other literatures that I've encountered in the pass.

Sampling Experience

I found the Sampling Expeience quite interesting. It gave us a chance to bring about our own creativity by using other people's creativity into our own. At first, I was stubbling on what I was going to use or how I was going to make an arguement with images available on the web. It took me a while to come up with what I did. I just put together a collage/poster of various pictures of famous arts (writers/books, musicians, paintings) with a title "authorship".
To make the same arguement with my own images, I did the same. Again I put together images that I've taken over the years. These images are similar to the ones I found on the net, rather they are ordinary people or objects that I'm related to. I found second image to be a little difficult to attempt. Even though I already had the pictures for myself, it was hard to make a similar arguement as the first sampling.
But overall, I did take away a lesson learned. To me, I think creativity is unlimited. Anything could be creative just like our collages that we made for this sampling experience.

Creativity

After class last week in the writing center, I'm still a little confused about what I'm going to use for my visual displays for the sampling project. It's quite complicated to say what authorship means and what is creativity. For me, basically almost everything is creative ranging from fashion to music to the film industry to literature and everything else in between or beyond that. I sort of have a basic idea of what I want to use for my two visuals, so I'll be spending my weekend digging through my photo album and taking more images for this project.

Free Culture vs. Permission Culture

In reading Lessig's book, I found it to be interesting how the whole world of copyright/piracy started. I found the introduction to be quite amusing about the "indifinte space/air" was considered property and no one could trespass. It even went about to court in regards to this. Besides that, what I struck me was the case of Mickey Mouse and the Walt Disney coporation. I never even thought about how Disney had borrowed other ideas and remade it into theirs.

In class on Monday, we discussed the first couple chapters of Lessig's "Free Culture". There's this questioning of what is considered today to be a free culture or a permission culture. I agree with Lessig's argument of Permission Culture. Today, we are in a world where when we want to create something we have to recieve full permission from that of the powerful in order to do so. We live in a world where it is considered a "free culture" but due to the world of media it prevents of from this free culture with the back up of laws and policy, in which, therefore, we call it "permission culture". Not just in the media world but also lies within educational system. Whatever is taken from someone else's ideas or thoughts you must give credit to them. Even taking one simple sentence could lead to terrible consequences. So, I do agree that this world have shift from a culture that was once considered "free" to now "permission".

Plagiarism Experience

It is unsual that a college instructor would have his class plagiarize a paper as 10% of the final grade. Lucky for us, we were given the opportunity to do so. Well, not really lucky. It was not very pleasing to do such thing. On the other hand, it was quite an interesting experience with a lesson learned. Whoever thinks that plagiarizing was easy is definitely wrong. I found this experience to be quite complicated. The difficulty of this project was trying to blend in the voice of yourself and at the same time the voice you're plagiarizing to make them both sound the same.
The tricky part of the experience was trying to plagiarize and fool your classmates of what was and was not plagiarize. I was hard for me to weave in the words of another into mine to sound like me. Who ever read my paper, well, you definitely know that I'm not a good plagiarizer. I would be caught within the first couple sentences. That's why I don't plagiarize.

Ghostwriting Experince

For the ghostwriting project, I decided to write a college application essay prompt for a friend of mine whom I've known since 8th grade. My friend, after graduating highschool, decided not to further his education. Instead, he bounce from job to job not being able to keep a stable career. So you can say, he and I are two completely different person. This is the main reason why I chose him to be the victim of my project.

What I found most difficult in this project was trying to imitate the voice of my friend. Because he had not been in schools for years, his recollection of how to write an essay was blurry. I asked him why he wanted to go back to school. He gave me his reasons. I put them onto the paper. When I was finished, I asked him to give some feedbacks. This was process wasn't very successful. Since he hasn't been in school, he didn't have much opinion but rather mostly agree. It was difficult at this point because I didn't know if the paper sounded like me or like him. I had to push him more to help me out. In the end there was improvements.

I found this project to be interesting at the same time a helpful learning experience for both my friend and of course myself. My friend learned how to write a college essay prompt. I learned how to be a ghostwriter.