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Te asfixias el alma en la esquina de un adiós. Y el músculo más fuerte es tu punto débil. Que delata lo que late, y bombea como sierra eléctrica tomando lágrimas de rehén.

—Lucas Hugo Guerra

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"ii"

This work was amazing in so many ways, it really captured the essence of fading memories as the image and sounds appear and slowly blurs into the main dotted image that also seems to fade and come back. I navigated through this poem by following the paths that were offered when you clicked the right side symbol. then when i had gone through that certain path of dots individually i played them simultaneously and in a way all the dots had a connection with each other. There was a lot of reference to nature in the images and specially to water, and I can only guess but I associated water and memories by comparing memories with waves, waves comes and goes, some are strong others not so, but the are always there even if you don't realize it.

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"Thoughts Go"

This poem left my thinking on the word play it utilizes and the images it generates. I followed the professor's suggestion on how to interact with the poem and i can only say it is really interesting what D. Knoebel is trying to do here with this poem. When I finally read them both simultaneously the second time I couldn't help myself on thinking and making the connection of these brief thoughts with the wedge of geese that you visualize from the stanza disappearing over the trees, like thoughts that come and goes. It is like you notice them but at the same time your not sure if what you saw was really what you think you saw.

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"Ah"

Well this work was very simple yet very interesting. The surface is plain and you only see what you need to see. The blank background makes you concentrate on the string of letters, words, and phrases that are side scrolling on the screen. It's a very linear work, but when the "ah, oh, la" appears they form somewhat of a double helix pattern that seemed really interesting to me, and then it goes back to things Einstein said. As i was reading this work and encountered the dividing path with the "ah's" and the other with the "oh's", and the "ah" sounded like when you realize something that you didn't know, meanwhile the "oh" to me sounded to what you would say when you make a mistake.

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"Saul"

Well this poem was about a man who seems to be tired of his life, because of the way he acts and is portrayed. When he is with other people he acts as if he cares what they are saying but he really doesn't give a damn. in his good days he would put some Jazz music and play the bongos. He also seems to be trying to escape reality by not wanting to awake from his dream. he argues a lot with his wife and say awful words to her, then he goes to dream again the he is with another woman.

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Concrete Poetry

Reading concrete poetry in these couple of works has been fun and entertaining, watching as the words and sentences move from a corner of the screen to the other, scrolling up and down, or as they pop up in a blank screen just like if they were dancing on the screen. The images of the words/letters link together to convey a larger image or meaning to the entire poem. it was really surprising how these authors used the tech they had at hand and created these awesome works. my favorite of these works was Anipoemas by Ana Maria Uribe because her poems resembles mostly theme about nature and are really lively with all the animation and sounds.

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Presentation & Essay on Kate Pullinger

This is the link to the presentation on Kate Pullinger made by Juliette and myself.

http://www.slideshare.net/Nerowolf7/kate-pullinger-12934778

This is the link to the Essay #2 on Kate Pullinger and some of her digital works.

http://www.slideshare.net/Nerowolf7/kate-pullinger-essay

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l(a by E. E. Cummings

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"Invictus" By William Ernest Henley

"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scrolls, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

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The Last Performance by Judd Morrissey

"The Last Performance" is a collaborative writing project that is segmented in basically three parts: "The Dance" which starts as a cluster of words that change to form a circular shaped poem and the it burst and swirls clockwise, scrambling the word order. This part was somewhat annoying and hard to read because the poem is in constant change and motion. The second part of the project is called "The Performance Space" and it is composed of a few images and then you go to a circle with six nodes and each node takes you to a different poem in the dome. "The Dome" is the third part of "The Last Performance", and is intended to resemble the cupola of buildings such as the Hagia Sophia, when I looked at it the first time it resembled to me a starry night sky. "The Dome" is really interesting because you can respond to the poems already there and that response will become part of the dome. This project is quite unique because it is in constant growth and change. An interesting thing to check out is the video at the main page because it is of a performance of the project.

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Waterfall of words

Well the “Taroko Gorge” is a really something well thought out, how it keeps going on and on making  up these poem like stanzas that if you keep on reading you will find in them some rhythm and rime. The name of this poem “Taroko Gorge” I must assume comes from the waterfall in China by the same name, because this poem resembles a cascade of words and phrases that flow upstream endlessly. It was really fun letting it run and seeing with what it came up. I left it running for about five hour to see if it ran out of word or got to a stop but it didn’t so I had to close it. Sometimes it repeated word and sometimes phrases but it never that I remember repeated a stanza or for that matter more than two lines. I really liked the poems and how we tried to find it meaning even though it didn’t have any, they just were a bunch of non-sense words.

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Muds...

Muds. Well I discovered that they frustrate me. It is not that I dislike the concept or the game in itself; it is rather the little details that bother me. The first thing that annoyed me was having to keep scrolling up and down when I was reading something and some one came and started posting stuff and I'd get lost. Also I didn't like when I got lost or stuck somewhere and didn't know what or where to go.The one the really pissed me off was that after I had spend almost an hour creating my character the damn server closes the game or something like that and couldn’t log on anymore to that game. After trying about half a dozen different games I stayed at a Tolkien based one. The name of the game am currently playing is called Beleriand and is based on the earlier stories by Tolkien like The Silmarillions and The Lays of Beleriand, which take place on an early middle-earth known as the First Age. I chose to be a man and went to the city of Gondolin. I have looked around here and there but haven’t done anything mayor. Before starting the game it took me thru an extensive newbie guide thru the rules of the games and a tutorial which took almost an hour. I think that I will keep playing a little longer just to see if my opinion on the game and on muds on general improve of I get even more frustrated.

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My Adventure in Zork

The game was different from what I’m accustomed to play and it was entertaining to say the least. The commands are simple and you can visualize your surrounding because it only tells you the essential things. I really like the responses when I typed something wrong or that choice wasn’t able. I got a bit frustrated sometimes because I got lost in the woods and couldn’t get out but eventually got to the white house. Inside the house I looked around and mess with things and then went up the dark staircase and got lost or something that it took me back to the start, the I went inside again and killed myself with the sword (*had to do itJ), which took me again to the start so I decided to look around the house and found that I was at the Great Canyon and soon after I ended the game. Something that I didn’t like was that you couldn’t scroll down to see your previous actions but that didn’t ruin my fun.

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Responce to "Diagram Series 6"

Well I will start off with saying that I didn’t understand this piece of literature. The interface is kind of a good concept and got it, but what I didn’t get was what I was reading. To me it was a bunch of words put together without a coherent meaning to it. I read the whole thing twice now and still don’t understand it so I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow for the professor to shed some light about the story. Maybe then, when I re-read it I will be able to make some sense out of it.

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Always present death

Well the first time I read the story "I Have Said Nothing" by J. Yellowlees Douglas I just kept going forward in straight succession ‘til I reached “The End” and left it there because I had thought that the story had ended. But then as I went and read it a second time I read more carefully the instructions and when I got to the end of the first story I took the fork in the path sort to say and it took me to another point in the story. The way I read it was that the first thing you know is that a woman named Sherry is dead, then it took me to a scene in an ambulance where it told me that she was hit by a car and describes what impact had in her anatomy, until I reached the end. Then the fork took me to a morgue where the bodies of two women who died in the accident are to be cremated. The mother and the father of these two girls are hospitalized but will live. In the third part at the accident from the perspective of a passenger, and he sees people standing around and watching so he shouts at them somewhat angrily. Now we are back at an ambulance but from the patients’ perspective, who knows he is bleeding to death, and can see and hear the paramedics trying to keep him alive and saying his dying. In the fourth and final part he starts pondering in thought about death. How death is always around us in our everyday life and we just take it as normal, this quote from the story really made me think about it; “Death was life's silent partner, no more than that, and we took its presence for granted in everything we watched.” I really liked the stories and how they intertwined with each other, although I had to read it a couple of time to fully understand it.

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My day with some strangers

You’re looking for your cousin Jess when out of the blue you find yourself hanging out with some strangers who were Jess’s housemates. You start at the house were you meet Polly, Kate and Ned. Then you accompany them to a rally, a pub, back to the house, to a party, then a club and finally back to the house again. You spend the whole day with these people and they never ask you your name but refer to you as Jess cousin, and none would tell you why Jess left or anything of the sort. The last hyperlink leaves you guessing who is that in the picture, is it Jess leaving, returning, or could it be you, the cousin, moving in to the house. That last image keeps your mind formulating different endings to the story.