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More pictures from our mixed media and experimental story telling class. Students picked images and added their own text, a la Lichtenstein. Click here to see the first part.
Pictured here is work by Emily Mack and Katherine Weber, in that order.
Six Word Summaries, Part Two
We wrote some six word summaries of books and movies today, as a writing exercise. Here are some of them! Click here to see Part 1.
The Great Gatsby
Beauty, money, happiness. Choose any two.
–Surabhi
The Outsiders
Hood rats will be hood rats.
–Emily
Key and Peele
Key and Peele are stupid women.
–Rahchel
Atlas Shrugged
Selfish person justifies selfish acts successfully.
–Max
Gossip Girl
Spoilt brats can’t suspect, get punk’d.
–Casey
Inception
What?What?What?What?Wait… What?
–L
Shadow Falls
Supernatural hormonal teens doing stupid shit.
–Toni
Mean Girls
Girl hit by bus. World rejoices.
–Max
The Hunger Games
The kids’ version of Battle Royale.
–Joanna
Percy Jackson
You’re demigod! Mission: Don’t get killed.
–Katie
The Fault in Our Stars
Race to see who dies first.
-Lily
Another project from the Experiment Writing Format lecture! Students went around the saiclibrary looking for interesting images to repurpose and add text to, à la Roy Lichtenstein. They made copies of the images and added their own handwritten text, or replaced existing text. Pictured here are some sample results!
In the order of the album, works by Emily Mack, L Tousignant, Max Leahy and Rahchel Leach.
Six Word Summaries
As a part of our experimental story telling format class, we did a writing exercise in which students wrote six word summaries of their favorite books/stories. Here are some of the results!
TMZ News/Twilight
Kristen Stewart lies. Cheats on Pattinson.
– Rahchel
The Merchant of Venice
Disguised fiancé needed: save gay friend.
–Katie
Les Mis
Who am I? You’re dead probably.
–L
The Importance Of Being Earnest
I’m Earnest. Wait, no.Wait, YEAH!
–Max
Citizen Kane
He gets fat at the end.
–Emily
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Courage the coward, the smart one.
–Rahchel
Captain America:Winter Soldier
Like 50 first dates. But dangerous.
–L
Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian’s evil gay painters are magic.
–Max
Nate's mouth opened to respond as her door closed, but nothing came but a dry exhale. Uncertain as to whether she had wanted him to come over or not, he stood on his porch for a moment before forthrightly walking to her door and knocking. His lungs were seemingly permanently clogged with guilt thicker than tar, so it was difficult for him to speak when her half-bewildered face appearead at the door. "I'm Nate, from up north, and I have a story to tell you." She allowed him to enter, sit in her living room, and he silenced the buzz of prepared lines in his head so he could cough, slowly, the horrid memories out of his lungs into the air where the words were suspended, undulating like smoke from a funeral pyre.
Surabhi strongly believes in change of venue as a means of finding inspiration. Today, the class met at the beautiful Flaxman Library (@saiclibrary) for a discussion on experimental and mixed media storytelling formats, discussing everything from comics and graphic novels to twitter essays and text message stories. Pictured here is a quick shot of the room and of course, the Chris Ware Building Stories table, a perfect example for experimental story telling formats. Those green walls are perfect for an early morning class, too!
On Wednesday, we made this amazing whiteboard scatter cloud of all our favorite pieces of science and fantasy fiction and the political or social issues they deal with, proving that genre fiction can do pretty much everything. The prompt for this discussion was Ursula K. Le Guin's beautifully feminist story, Sur. Genre fiction is often overlooked as serious fiction despite its powers to hold up a mirror to our world, and hence becomes an issue well worth discussing.
The next morning, Nate postponed going outside to get the paper. When he did go out, he was hopelessly paranoid. Just before he could close the door to his house he saw a woman about his age standing in her doorway next door, looking bemused at him. She smirked and asked his name. Nate had rehearsed his answers in his head for days now, but upon having to use the answers he stuttered. "N-n-nate. From up north."
"Well, Nate from up north," she said. "I'm Cathy from here. Welcome. Perhaps we could swap stories. Ponder life. My husband and kids say I do that well, anyway." She then disappeared into her house.
"You have to leave," says Robin, her voice calm but tight. "Alex, you have to get out of the state right now."
Alex's eyes, half-hidden by the mail slot, narrow with confusion. "Is this some new form of booty-calling?"
"Something is coming," Robin blurts out. "I don't understand why it's coming for you, but I know it's my fault."
Nate closed his eyes and leaned against the chair. How much he wanted to be freed of sin and scream out to the heavens. He thought about his wife and imagined her wrapping her arms around him providing him with the comfort he was deprived of. Her gentle arms seem to come to life and shield him from the truth. He slowly drifted to sleep.
Perks of being at SAIC: Sometimes the class gets to sit in front of Masterworks and just write. It really is a privilege to be able to sit amidst such staggeringly beautiful art and create more!
Continuing the Monet undercurrent from the class discussion of Monet Refuses The Operation, the class visited the Impressionists gallery at the AIC and did some free writing.
Today in #WhiteboardWisdom: We discussed an eclectic mix of poems, from the more classical and descriptive Lisel Mueller to the performances of Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye all the way to the contemporary beat poetry of Tim Minchin. While some mourned having to study iambic pentameters and welcomed the simplicity in language, others reveled in the joy of connecting with a performance. Cheers to verse and language!
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
P.B. Shelley
Story One/Two update
New readers and visitors to the blog may notice streams or paragraphs of seemingly unrelated text on here. Those paragraphs are basically updates from the Story One/Two Project which the class is working on over the span of this week. For more details, you can click the tabs above and follow the story from beginning to where it stands right now. Happy reading folks!
When they'd offered him such a big action role, his agent had been ecstatic. Investigators ruled that it wasn't my fault, I didn't know I'd grabbed the real gun the prop guy had been using to make the model instead of the fake one before filming. The boom of the bullet was sickening and I couldn't even tell what blood was real and what was fake. The smell gave it away though. Magazine covers and news reels still replay the nauseating scene over and over, and wonder where it is I've disappeared to.
Robin’s fingers became suddenly arthritic as she gingerly pressed the doorbell.
“Hi Robin,” he said in a voice like smoke behind the copper door.
“I think we’ll talk through the mail slot,” She said through the narrow opening, her speech like spun cotton candy.
He knelt down to be parallel with her drunken eyes, “a bit unorthodox.”
The secret Robin harbored clawed up her throat with jagged fingernails to be confessed.
Nate was happy that he didn’t have to answer questions. But although it was hard for him to start over, in a way it was good for him, he thought. You only live once they always say, might as well start again. It was an opportunity to get it right, get it better. In his head, when he looked at the velvet night, it brought back memories and flashbacks of what happened. He tried to convince himself it was a dream; he wishes it were a dream. To him, it was too real to be... really real.