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)