#graphic texts

[sn3ak]

Have you ever felt this?

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Week 10 (11/12): Galerie de Difformite (Part 2)

This my writing responses are from a single line that I wrote about being impressed by the amount of people that have participated in doing exercises related to the book.

Just because I'm maybe not excited to participate in it. The gallery of people participating is actually really impressive. I think any graphic designer today would kill to have the level of involvement and engagement with their int he same way people are responding and creating material. Even if these forms don't prescribe to contemporary status quo of "cool". The fact that people are accessing and completing these assignments is whats most important.

Also if one begins to truly interact with the book you may begin question doing these things. Is it more fun to think of the act of what you might do in the case of what its suggesting and leave it open ended so that if you arrive or flip to this page and read the prompt again you can channel a new idea. Or do you commit to it fully and carry it and cement that page in time. Depending on what you do you may alter the book as whole so that one can never really access the information in the same way ever again. This is both great and problematic depending on if you prefer to repeatedly access it over time if you seek finality.

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Week 6 (10/15): Points of View

What remains

I found this set of eclectic 3 readings to be pretty interesting. Diaristic photos of even the most mundane things have an interesting way of storytelling and communicating. These paired with the fact that they share a significance of her meeting with her mother allow use to create an internal dialogue and perhaps project our own familial experiences in the instances of these photos and create and interplay with the words she is providing us.

The House of Illness.

The images in house of illness. Something immediately put me in the headspace of when they give those spiders different drugs and they show what kind of webs they make, and then I went to that artist that took different drugs and made self portraits of himself and what those looked like under the influence. But after you get the buzzed article allure you understand this is what goes on inside someones head maybe isn't entirely there, and that and once you begin to dissect and unpack what that means and juxtapose that with someone just being "creative" perhaps you are capable of appreciating ones own sanity a little bit more.

Pictures and Early Words

The simple typographic gestures with the notations are enough to hold your interest at-least for a little while. When reading you begin give emphasis and precident over other words that also have similar gestures and begin to create a sense of hierarchy and perhaps 2nd meanings and question perhaps purpose of one over the other. For example long appearing twice but it stretched out and stacked one time and another time it only marked with a pen.

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Reading Response Fun Home / 10-1-2014

If Alison Bechdel has taught us anything. Its ok to sort of hate your family and love them at the same time. That in most case mundane family things can be warped to make them be as cool as you want as long as you pitch them as thats sort of how you remember them. All half jokes aside. Fun home is a decent read and a interesting way to recall history. And for someone such as Alison who perhaps a very important part of making sense of her past and finding ways to give meaning and create justifications for things that had maybe been in question her life... This project was an important part in clarifying those things. Aside from that my favorite part from Fun Home is perhaps her play between intentional and non-intentional humor. Some of the moves textually and visually are witty. That are bit sardonic mixed with a certain nod and wink gesture to them. One of my favorite examples of that is when she is on the bed and she is on the phone with her parents and if she's been reading any good books and the books she have been reading have been more or less "radical" in nature and clearly indicative of the scene with her and her gf as well as her current state of mind. But also the line who embalms the undertaker when he dies.

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I don't remember what assignment this was for.

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fear exercise

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poem assignment from 10/8

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If I'm texting you

Do not leave your phone some where/ with someone unless you don't mind people reading the dirtiest texts ever.