Foodie Feministe

Here is our website!

-Liz & Clare

Link to Woman's VS. Man's Magazine

Here is the link to our project website.
Hope you enjoy it!

Our group members: Kayla & Nicole.

Link to (UN)DATEABLE

Here's a link to our site - (UN)DATEABLE - http://un-dateable.blogspot.com/

-Sam, Allison, and Samantha (SASsy)

here is the link to our blog http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard

This is a link to our group's project on wordpress.

hey yall! This is the link to our AWESOME website!!



http://sites.google.com/site/mensdirtylittlesecret/



---Stacy Nicole Bridget Annie

Hey, here is the link to our group project blog!!!!

this week's schedule

Schedule for week of May 24th: (In Ellis 18/ lab)

Monday, May 24th
1. As a group/pair work on these discussion questions. Post your answers to the discussion board thread on blackboard (I'll show you in class) by tomorrow. (25 minutes)

• If you were to sum up what you think this book has to say about private/personal/public writing what is it? Please give page numbers of some relevant panels.

• If you were to sum up what you think this book has to say about the body, what would it be? Page numbers again, please.

• How do writing, the body, and gender all interact in this memoir?

• How do you feel the visuals are working in this memoir?

• What other passages/topics stuck out to you?

• How would you relate this memoir to the other books we've read in class?

2. Spend the second half of class working on your projects.

Tuesday May 25th
1. Work on above questions and posting to discussion forum.
2. Work on project.

Wednesday May 26th
1. Discuss Fun Home in class (25 minutes)
2. Work on projects

Thursday May 27th
Work on group projects/mapping projects and ask me questions.

All of these images I have chosen represent some form of the key words covered in our course material. I choose to illustrate the body, relationships, make-up, the "writer" and barbie. When I looked at the image of Demi Moore with absolutely have nothing on but paint. I love Demi Moore but I feel her image future perpetuates that idea of the perfect body. I like the way relationships where presented as well as the writer. I feel as though these where true forms of these words. And if you all have noticed the real "barbies" I have in my picture. These women are beautiful and look like they have no flaws but I'm sure you all recall the video of the dove evolution commercial how much a computer can change your appearance is amazing.

Next Unit

The Next Unit
Here is the first part of our next unit's assignment. Start this today:

1. Harris p. 38; Follow an internet conversation (blog, listserv, chat room on particular subject...). Observe for 1 week and take notes following guidelines in Harris (however many pp. it takes of informal notes).

2. Search the internet for visual representations of the key terms for our class and post them with some commentary on your personal blog. We'll discuss why tomorrow.


Today, turn in your assignments, and start reading Skim. I will post the McCloud reading later today or early tomorrow, so that we will be ready to discuss it Thu. Tomorrow have your blog ready with images, and have begun Skim. We'll discuss our nest unit and the assignments for the end of the quarter as well as your blogs. You may leave class after giving me your folder, and get to searching the internet.

Cover songs and remixes

I think it would be useful to think about our cover song assignment in terms of "cover songs," "appropriations" and "remixes." No one brought in any remixes, but they are another way of forwarding a text, almost like quoting in print, because it is in a context which is your own, but may contain the actual original instrumentations and voices from the song being remixed. Tehn cover songs are a different level of using someone's song because you reperform it, sometimes quite differently than the original, essentially taking someone's idea and making it your own, but citing it as a cover, so still giving attribution to the originator. This is like using the interllectual ideas of someone in your own writing, but citing that you got the idea from them, and possibly quoting or paraphrasing them. Another issue that came up in class discussion is appropriation, where an artist steals a song, or even kind of music/singing/instrumentation and makes it their own as if they are the originator. Here you can think of the influence blues had on rock and roll and some songs that were redone by white artists and that subsequently became associated with that artist and not the African American artist who actually was the originator.

Covering and remixing are in a way signs of respect, right? We love this musuc and we want to try it on, or we want to adapt it to our ideas and situations. Appropriations may also begin out of a love for a music, but it essentially steals. This is more akin to plaigiarism.

So when I think of covers, the first song I usually think of is the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" and the cover by Devo. So I'm including them, as well as a Britney Spears cover of it and an Aretha Franklin cover of it and a remix by DJ Pageheaven. Also is a version of it by the Residents, which came out just after the Stones' version, and became popular int he punk movement.

I wanted to include the Ed Sullivan show version, but I can't embed it. You can look it up on Youtube. Here's a 1997 live version:



Here's Devo:



And The Residents:



Britney:



Aretha:



And DJ Pageheaven remix:

just (dance) another one for fun...

hey guys!

so last week we had to pick two covers of the same song and say how they were different in meaning, style, lyrics, etc. after class, i realized that i should have picked this song. What do you guys think? One is Lady Gaga, and the other is a children's chorus (now famous due to oprah and perez hilton) for singing pop songs and keeping kids out of trouble. :)

Enjoy...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0FPZolbYns

(^ps 22 chorus)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Abk1jAONjw

(^lady gaga)

Happy End of Week

Hello everyone,

I plan to respond to all your blogs this weekend. I haven't forgotten you. Many of them are going very well so far. This weekend you are working on the biography of a classmate through interviewing someone. So you have a lot to write already and I'll only ask for a little post on your blog: Please write a bit about what you noticed in the movie of Bridget Jones versus the book. How did the director "forward" the book into the movie? Was it successful? Post your reactions/criticisms/favorite parts.

Something to consider you may also respond to (or respond to instead of the above): The novel used to be considered a "feminine" form of writing: silly in comparison to science or history or philosophy. Jane Austen first published Pride and Prejudice in 1813, and it was extremely popular. Helen Fielding based Bridget Jones's Diary on this novel, which Austen described in a letter to her sister as:

The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants [i.e. needs] shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story: an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparté, or anything that would form a contrast and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style

My question to you, especially if you have seen or read Pride and Prejudice is how is this being "forwarded" into Bridget Jones's Diary (movie and book)? AND how is it all gendered? If we no longer think of the novel as inherently "feminine" or "specious nonsense," how did Fielding still accomplish the same feeling (if you think she did) in her novel?

Here's one way I see:


By the way, this is Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice.

Please remember that you should be responding int he comments section on your group members' blogs. Catch up on that this weekend, please.

Oh, I have a poem up on my personal class blog that you might find interesting too.

Private Versus Public Writing

I feel that private writing is something you do for yourself and have the liberty to share it with whoever you wish. But I feel that with public writing is something that you want people to see and can be any way you it to be just as private writing. I think that personal and public writing have a the personality of the writer no matter what the piece is about.

Blogging notes

I've enjoyed your comments on public/personal/private writing. Here are some of your quotes:

When I write something public I write using bigger words and I spell check like crazy, because I want people to read my work and be impressed with my ideas and me.

secrets. personally, i LOVE a good secret. i share most anything with my best friend. but for some people, there are certain things that they cannot share with anyone.

PS- notice the lack of capital letters and formal sentences in this post? yeah...my own rules.

Now Bridget Jones's Diary was written to be read by lots of people so it is public.

I feel like when you write in something private you are more likely to truly share your feelings. If you're writing on something that's public, like this blog, I think it is a little harder to open up and share.

This is my very first post to this blog! (Key word: "this" - I have two other blogs...)

Private writing, on the other hand, would be writing that is solely for your own purposes. This differs from personal writing in that is not meant for anyone to read other than yourself; personal writing can be public writing.

This blog is personal and public. While the general public will view it, it is largely my opinion.

I'd like to ask a new question which is related: What do you picture when you think of a "writer"?

Is it this?


This?


Or this?


Please note on your personal blogs, make sure you have enabled your comments in the "settings" tab. Also make sure you have made the blog available for our class members to view.

See you soon.
You can make your response to this posting part of your weekly post on your blog or a comment on the class blog. On the schedule, I have asked you to please compare the two articles you brought to class this week and any insights you have about them. Please do this on your personal blog.

Howdy!

My name is Bridget and I am a plant biology major! Here is my blog! http://bridgeterinclark.blogspot.com/

Hello!

Hello my name is Sarah I am a social work major and a psych minor and here is the link to my blog

Hey guys my name is Meredith. Im a communications major. Here is a link to my blog!

Will.i.am

Hello! This is Will. One of the two guys in this class. I'm a music major. It's pretty cool. Here's a link to my blog.

Hooray for Blogs!

Hi guys! My name is Annie and I can't wait to start blogging!

Here is the link to my blog.

Hello! My name is Hannah and I am a contributing author to this blog. I am a marine biology major. Here's a link to my blog. Enjoy!

Hi everyone! I'm Stacy and I'm 20 years young. I'm from Fremont, Ohio and my major is Speech Language Pathology. I am one of the contributors to this blog. Here is a link to my page. Enjoy!

Hey guys!

Hey guys! I'm Allison, I'm 21, and from Cincinnati. I'm a Music Ed major, but am going to be changing that to Women's Studies here soon....

My blog is here.

Hi~ I'm Nicole.

HELLO everyone~ I'm Nicole, from China.
I don't know why people all think I'm Japanese...Even Chinese and Japanese think I'm Japanese... So, every time I introduce myself, I will add "from China" behind my name...
I'm so glad to meet you here. Here is my blog address. Please feel free to visit my blog~ You are more than welcome to leave comments too~!
Have fun~!

Hello

Hey my name is Dana and I am on the class blog.

Hey guys I'm Kayla. I'm a junior Communications major. Check out my blog, here!

Hi Everyone!!!

I'm Nicole, Im a Junior Hearing Speech and Language Major, with a minor in Plant Biology, Long Story! You can find my blog here

I'm Samantha

I am Samantha Elliott. I am a second year commuter to the OU Athens campus and going to live on campus next year. I work at the College Bookstore and love my job. My future career is going to be math education and I've had some experience with kids in my scope of future teaching by coaching my old high school softball team.
My favorite food is Lorobis Pizza from Gallipoli, Ohio. I have a huge cookie cutter collection. I love playing fetch with my dog, Sheila. I loved reading Twilight, but I didn't like the others so much.

Hi
I'm Kerri and am now a part of the class blog. Here is a link to my blog

Helloooooo!

Hi, all! I'm Sam, an author of this blog.

Click here to view my personal blog for this class!

-stb

Liz!

Hi, my name is Liz and I am one of the contributors to this blog. I'm a junior sociology major with a minor in psychology. My individual blog for this class can be found here.

Hey all, my name is Brit (I'm a contributing author to the "Blogging the Body/Text" blog). I am a junior and a Sociology-Criminology major here at O.U. Here is a link to my own blog.

Welcome the class blog, readers! I'm Clare, one of the wonderful authors of this blog. Please give my personal blog a look when you get the opportunity.

Introduce yourselves!

Hi everyone,
I've invited all members of my class to be authors on this blog (if you haven't gotten an email inviting you, let me know asap), so now you can introduce yourselves on here! You also now have a blogger account and can start your own blog. Your first assignment blogging is an introduction. Try adding different media to your post (videos, pictures, hyperlinks). Also, please spend a paragraph discussing how you conceive of personal, private, and public writing (Feel free to include your insights from the Tompkins reading or from Bridget Jones).

Welcome to the Class Blog

I don't have much to say to you yet, but welcome! I'll add to this blog as we go along, and we will link your personal blogs to this in the blogroll area. This will be a forum for discussion in and out of class. Enjoy!