Daily Create 09/20/12: Graffiti in London, Image
Graffiti in London
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The Shapes of Stories
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll has long been deemed one of the most chaotic and whimsical texts in literature. However, Carroll intended Wonderland to possess juxtaposing degrees of both chaos and order. Carroll, true name Charles Dodgson, was actually a celebrated Oxford mathematician and wrote Wonderland as a rejection of the introduction of new radical theories to the Carroll’s strict and calculated world of Victorian mathematics. The story of Alice’s journey through Wonderland seems to be confusing where up is down and down is up. The shape, according to Kurt Vonnegut’s suggestions could be construed as “Which Way is Up?” where “this story has lifeless ambiguity that keeps us... -
Daily Create 09/16/12: Giraffe in Real Life, Image
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Daily Create 09/10/12: Grumpy Kids at Prior Park, Image
So when we were studying abroad in England, the Wilde Bunch (we were in an Oscar Wilde seminar, clever?) posed for a lot of pictures…at times we got grumpy! This is atop Prior Park in Bath, England. A gorgeous place, truly amazing. -
Week 2: Summary
Another week done! This week was all about making my blog a little bit more official. Luckily I had started this last week because I had gotten all sorts of hyped about the class. Essentially the idea was to customize my blog to make it reflect me as an individual, or at least in my eyes, that is what I wanted it to do. Also, I wanted it to reflect the class as well and my goals for the class as well as maintain a professional atmosphere since I have worked on blogs and websites before. Now, I chose the name “Wise Fish Good Porpoise” for my blog with the... -
Creative Commons: What is it?
So I was introduced to Flickr actually last semester in ProfessoMcCarthy’s Lit. Journal class where you design and run your own online literary journal. In creating our own website essentially, my teammates and I sometimes needed more than just the artwork that we were provided by our contributors to spice up our site. This lead us to the wonderful Creative Commons section of Flickr. Here is what Creative Commons has to say about itself: Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to...
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