Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Curation 4
Okay I am done with my curation and I have more than doubled the requirements. I wish Pinterest had more space to write descriptions though. I have added folders for getting exercise in sneaky ways called get sneaky, one for music and motivation and another for tips and tricks which would be like ways to get more water and healthy food into your diet. I am so glad I used Pinterest and I really liked this project overall. A great end to the school year.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Citation 3
So I moved my project to pintrest and I am so glad I did. I can clearly define my categories and make folders that are easy to see. Unlike the wix template I was using that used tabs at the top of the page. Clicking on words is tiny and difficult and on pintrest you click on a picture to the folder. So far I have a folder for videos, links, checklists and Friday yoga. I will probably add more folders and add to the 25 pins I have already.
Curation 2
So far I have 7 posts on my wix website but it is taking too long and I have too many options that I do not really want. I am really considering switching over to pintrest since I know very well how to use it. Using this website builder or the first time on this project was not the smartest thing to do because I want it to look good and be understandable and if I cannot understand it myself then I cannot expect anyone to understand it either.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Curation One
Creating this website is taking more time than I thought. Because there are so many details, I am wanting to be that much more particular. It takes longer and longer when I see something that isn't quite right or isn't in the perfect position, isn't the right shade, or those colors don't work well enough together. It is interesting to see how much work really goes into a website. I've never really thought about that before but web designers must make all kinds of bank.
For now I am just focusing on the websites look even though I have added a few posts, but more will be up soon!
For now I am just focusing on the websites look even though I have added a few posts, but more will be up soon!
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Metacognition: Mashup Process
Since I have done a mashup before, I decided to follow the steps I did it with last time. My steps were basically to pick a topic and look for passages, quotes, poems any piece that could connect to my major theme.The theme I picked was solitude and I researched some quotes I have heard but did not know who said them, and a book I am currently reading, which is Oliver Wilde's Dorian Gray. I did not intend to use it but there were things I read in the beginning of the book that really stuck and were pushing to get used in this assignment.
I first pieced together all the excerpts, quotes and all together in a way that would make sense and decided to use the reflections as connectors in places that did not have a smooth enough transition, or did not go into as much depth as I wanted. These were the most flexible pieces I had to work with because the sentences and thoughts were not fully developed so I had room to tweak to the direction I needed in the mashup. I kept rearranging things in the end and cut out others because I had more than necessary and they just did not seem to fit right.
I first pieced together all the excerpts, quotes and all together in a way that would make sense and decided to use the reflections as connectors in places that did not have a smooth enough transition, or did not go into as much depth as I wanted. These were the most flexible pieces I had to work with because the sentences and thoughts were not fully developed so I had room to tweak to the direction I needed in the mashup. I kept rearranging things in the end and cut out others because I had more than necessary and they just did not seem to fit right.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
One) can acquire everything in solitude except character.
2)
one
l
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3)
4)Only your inner most feelings in your quietest hour perhaps answer...
5)Questions we ask ourselves in the middle of the day that we are too busy to stay with, and we move on with our to-do lists while somewhere else in the world...
6)The extraordinary circumstances of a solitary and helpless childhood...are so different so complicated, surrendered to so many influences at the same time so cut off from all real connection with life where a vice enters it and one may not simply call it a vice.
7)For the creator must
be a world for himself after this to send it to yourself and your solitude...
8)He never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing he considers of any importance is whether tone believes it oneself. Now the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants or desires or his prejudices.
9)
10)The creator is alone, because the creation is his. It is made of his influences and his acquaintances but nobody can create for the creator. That is the product of solitude.
11)Sculptures, paintings, books and all pieces of art are created alone, in solitude. They are the product of struggle and the comforter of loneliness. Independence is difficult and almost unbearable, which builds true grit, and that is what pushes through the coming moments of sadness and changes...character is not formed here, it is solidified through solitude.
12) To appreciate the importance of fitting every human soul for independent action, think for a moment of the immeasurable solitude of self. We come into the world alone, unlike all who have gone before us; we leave it alone under circumstances peculiar to ourselves. No mortal ever has been, no mortal over will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. There can never again be just such environments as make up the infancy, youth and manhood of this one. Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. No one has ever found two blades of ribbon grass alike, and no one will never find two human beings alike. Seeing, then, what must be the infinite diversity in human, character, we can in a measure appreciate the loss to a nation when any large class of the people in uneducated and unrepresented in the government. We ask for the complete development of every individual, first, for his own benefit and happiness. In fitting out an army we give each soldier his own knapsack, arms, powder, his blanket, cup, knife, fork and spoon. We provide alike for all their individual necessities, then each man bears his own burden.
13)It seems to me that almost all our sadness are moments of tension which we feel as paralysis because we no longer here are astonished emotions living because we're alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us
14)I may as well be on vacation when sad, because it is as if I do not exist. Not to the people around me, but to myself. The feeling makes me believe that I am not home, I am somewhere far away, alone.
15)When I leave town, I never tell people where I am going. If I did I would lose all my pleasure...
16)...of being lost. Being lost creates space for those tough questions that I want to ask but have not the time. The question that presses me...
17)most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I?
18)It is a silly habit, dare I say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life...
19)...[Because] as a traveler approaches this place from any direction, he moves more and more slowly. His heartbeats grow farther apart, his breathing slackens, his temperature drops, his thoughts diminish, until he reaches dead center and stops.
20)...and in that moment, he asks himself what to do. The questioner must come up with the answer, as he feels the pressure of his own question and the pressure of his own impatience for an answer. In that moment...
21)...just the wish that you may find in yourself enough patience sure and enough simplicity to have faith that you may game or more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude other people. and as for the rest let life happen to you
22)As it happens for everyone else, each searching for the best of something, the richest, the fastest, the smartest, the prettiest.
23)Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to thing, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!
24)Like aliens, perfectly alien, but...
25) ...have you ever given any thought to the fact that you are a Martian yourself?
It is obviously unlikely that you will ever stumble upon a creature from another planet. We do not even know that there is life on other planets. But you might stumble upon yourself one day. You might suddenly stop short and see yourself in a completely new light. On just such a walk in the woods. I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature.
You feel as if you are waking from an enchanted slumber. Who am I? you ask. You know that you are stumbling around on a planet in the universe. But what is the universe?
If you discover yourself in this manner you will have discovered something as mysterious as the Martian we just mentioned. You will not only have seen a being from outer space. You will feel deep down that you are yourself an extraordinary being.
26)
27) You asked me if you have asked others before this you compare them with other poems and you're upset when certain editors reject your work
1)Stendhal
2)E.E. Cummings Packet poem #1
3)Photography, David Olkarny. " L'art De Tomber Dans La Solitude." Flickr. Yahoo!, 01 June 2011. Web. 15 Apr. 2013.
4)Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet. Mitchell, 1984
5) Original
6)Rilke ()
8)
9)
10) Original
11) Original
12) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speech
13) Rilke (83)
14) Original
15) Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Penguin, 2010. Print.16)
17) Rilke (6)
18) Wilde (8)
19)Einstein's Dreams
20)
21) Rilke (101)
22) Original
23) Wilde (7)
24) Original
25)Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. (8)
26)
27) Rilke (5)
one
l
iness
3)
4)Only your inner most feelings in your quietest hour perhaps answer...
5)Questions we ask ourselves in the middle of the day that we are too busy to stay with, and we move on with our to-do lists while somewhere else in the world...
6)The extraordinary circumstances of a solitary and helpless childhood...are so different so complicated, surrendered to so many influences at the same time so cut off from all real connection with life where a vice enters it and one may not simply call it a vice.
7)For the creator must
be a world for himself after this to send it to yourself and your solitude...
8)He never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing he considers of any importance is whether tone believes it oneself. Now the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants or desires or his prejudices.
9)
10)The creator is alone, because the creation is his. It is made of his influences and his acquaintances but nobody can create for the creator. That is the product of solitude.
11)Sculptures, paintings, books and all pieces of art are created alone, in solitude. They are the product of struggle and the comforter of loneliness. Independence is difficult and almost unbearable, which builds true grit, and that is what pushes through the coming moments of sadness and changes...character is not formed here, it is solidified through solitude.
12) To appreciate the importance of fitting every human soul for independent action, think for a moment of the immeasurable solitude of self. We come into the world alone, unlike all who have gone before us; we leave it alone under circumstances peculiar to ourselves. No mortal ever has been, no mortal over will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. There can never again be just such environments as make up the infancy, youth and manhood of this one. Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. No one has ever found two blades of ribbon grass alike, and no one will never find two human beings alike. Seeing, then, what must be the infinite diversity in human, character, we can in a measure appreciate the loss to a nation when any large class of the people in uneducated and unrepresented in the government. We ask for the complete development of every individual, first, for his own benefit and happiness. In fitting out an army we give each soldier his own knapsack, arms, powder, his blanket, cup, knife, fork and spoon. We provide alike for all their individual necessities, then each man bears his own burden.
13)It seems to me that almost all our sadness are moments of tension which we feel as paralysis because we no longer here are astonished emotions living because we're alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us
14)I may as well be on vacation when sad, because it is as if I do not exist. Not to the people around me, but to myself. The feeling makes me believe that I am not home, I am somewhere far away, alone.
15)When I leave town, I never tell people where I am going. If I did I would lose all my pleasure...
16)...of being lost. Being lost creates space for those tough questions that I want to ask but have not the time. The question that presses me...
17)most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I?
18)It is a silly habit, dare I say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life...
19)...[Because] as a traveler approaches this place from any direction, he moves more and more slowly. His heartbeats grow farther apart, his breathing slackens, his temperature drops, his thoughts diminish, until he reaches dead center and stops.
20)...and in that moment, he asks himself what to do. The questioner must come up with the answer, as he feels the pressure of his own question and the pressure of his own impatience for an answer. In that moment...
21)...just the wish that you may find in yourself enough patience sure and enough simplicity to have faith that you may game or more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude other people. and as for the rest let life happen to you
22)As it happens for everyone else, each searching for the best of something, the richest, the fastest, the smartest, the prettiest.
23)Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to thing, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!
24)Like aliens, perfectly alien, but...
25) ...have you ever given any thought to the fact that you are a Martian yourself?
It is obviously unlikely that you will ever stumble upon a creature from another planet. We do not even know that there is life on other planets. But you might stumble upon yourself one day. You might suddenly stop short and see yourself in a completely new light. On just such a walk in the woods. I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature.
You feel as if you are waking from an enchanted slumber. Who am I? you ask. You know that you are stumbling around on a planet in the universe. But what is the universe?
If you discover yourself in this manner you will have discovered something as mysterious as the Martian we just mentioned. You will not only have seen a being from outer space. You will feel deep down that you are yourself an extraordinary being.
26)
27) You asked me if you have asked others before this you compare them with other poems and you're upset when certain editors reject your work
1)Stendhal
2)E.E. Cummings Packet poem #1
3)Photography, David Olkarny. " L'art De Tomber Dans La Solitude." Flickr. Yahoo!, 01 June 2011. Web. 15 Apr. 2013.
4)Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet. Mitchell, 1984
5) Original
6)Rilke ()
"Stock Photo - Fine Art." 123RF Stock Photos. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2013.
8)
9)
10) Original
11) Original
12) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speech
13) Rilke (83)
14) Original
15) Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Penguin, 2010. Print.16)
17) Rilke (6)
18) Wilde (8)
19)Einstein's Dreams
20)
21) Rilke (101)
22) Original
23) Wilde (7)
25)Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. (8)
26)
27) Rilke (5)
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Best of Week:A Memory Through Rose Colored Glasses
What interested me the most this week ironically took up the smallest section of the Postmodernism and Modernism outline. That was the memory section. The concept of memories has always fascinated me as cliche as that sounds. The Modernism side was easier to understand. It is said that at our final moments, our whole lives flash before our eyes, that is all memory at work. It is also said that to be happy, make more memories, not more money because in the end, who can take a diamond necklace, or a one of a kind watch? Those things are stripped of their worth and become as common as dust.
The above begins to outline Proust's idea that "life of memory is the only chance of meaning." Think about it; what else makes us happier than making happy memories. One moment has a ripple effect when turned into a memory. The moment itself makes you smile once, but the memory makes you smile countless more times. Without those replays, I cannot imagine life, or at least a good life.
The Postmodernism side was somewhat more complicated. Some concepts came easy, the others I had to pause on and try to shift my perspective to be able to fit the idea. The memory section, was not easy for me to understand as the Modernism version was. This version said that "we are within memory; memory is not within us." More often than not, we view memory as internal, as personal, and as a possession. I guess this is the reason it took me a while to understand the second part of the quote. When I thought about it, I thought of how history is so like memory. Our memory is like our textbooks. Both contain the past and already my memory of writing this very sentence is already formed. It is history. By this logic, one could argue that there is no present, only a past and a future because every second passed is the past and every second to come is the future.
The above begins to outline Proust's idea that "life of memory is the only chance of meaning." Think about it; what else makes us happier than making happy memories. One moment has a ripple effect when turned into a memory. The moment itself makes you smile once, but the memory makes you smile countless more times. Without those replays, I cannot imagine life, or at least a good life.
The Postmodernism side was somewhat more complicated. Some concepts came easy, the others I had to pause on and try to shift my perspective to be able to fit the idea. The memory section, was not easy for me to understand as the Modernism version was. This version said that "we are within memory; memory is not within us." More often than not, we view memory as internal, as personal, and as a possession. I guess this is the reason it took me a while to understand the second part of the quote. When I thought about it, I thought of how history is so like memory. Our memory is like our textbooks. Both contain the past and already my memory of writing this very sentence is already formed. It is history. By this logic, one could argue that there is no present, only a past and a future because every second passed is the past and every second to come is the future.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Tenacity Matters
Why is it that some college dropouts, even high school dropouts end up way more successful than the average college or high school graduate? Is it luck or connections? Who's to say it isn't both?
In reality, the fact is that those people have a thing called tenacity. It is needed to achieve what one wants no matter how difficult it it may be. I've been thinking about why some obviously bright students get such dim grades? Are they just unlucky or they have all the wrong teachers? No. These low results are because there is nothing to work for, there are no goals set. A person could be the most tenacious one you will ever meet, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at their report cards.
Report cards are sterile; they are impersonal indistinguishable, and cursory. Ask anyone, what can you tell me about a person from their transcript? Besides what electives they took and a number on a scale, it is nothing. No wonder colleges ask for a personal essay. Some students get into a university because of that essay, because percentiles, ranks and GPA's have nothing but numbers to offer. Colleges want a good fit for them, and the factor that decides that, is not a number on a scale, it is the essay. Those great essays that stick out are written by those tenacious people because they want to go to that college. Since they had a set goal in mind, it didn't matter that their GPA wasn't as high as the average accepted student at that college, and it didn't matter that their ACT or SAT scores weren't quite up there, their essay was exemplary.
The bottom line is that these people need something of value to work towards. A set bar to push, a purpose. Otherwise, isn't it like endlessly going through motions that just get more and more arid each time through?Having tenacity means that a want becomes a need, and obstacles are merely bumps in the road to that need.
In reality, the fact is that those people have a thing called tenacity. It is needed to achieve what one wants no matter how difficult it it may be. I've been thinking about why some obviously bright students get such dim grades? Are they just unlucky or they have all the wrong teachers? No. These low results are because there is nothing to work for, there are no goals set. A person could be the most tenacious one you will ever meet, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at their report cards.
Report cards are sterile; they are impersonal indistinguishable, and cursory. Ask anyone, what can you tell me about a person from their transcript? Besides what electives they took and a number on a scale, it is nothing. No wonder colleges ask for a personal essay. Some students get into a university because of that essay, because percentiles, ranks and GPA's have nothing but numbers to offer. Colleges want a good fit for them, and the factor that decides that, is not a number on a scale, it is the essay. Those great essays that stick out are written by those tenacious people because they want to go to that college. Since they had a set goal in mind, it didn't matter that their GPA wasn't as high as the average accepted student at that college, and it didn't matter that their ACT or SAT scores weren't quite up there, their essay was exemplary.
The bottom line is that these people need something of value to work towards. A set bar to push, a purpose. Otherwise, isn't it like endlessly going through motions that just get more and more arid each time through?Having tenacity means that a want becomes a need, and obstacles are merely bumps in the road to that need.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Rachel M + Justine G
Rachel M
Again and again. It is official that the similarity of our thought processes have gone past eerie. I always find many of my own thoughts in Rachel's writing, and vice-versa. It is interesting how she develops the thoughts that have occurred to both of us because I do not always end up in the same exact direction. After all, we are not the same person and we have both been influenced differently yet we have similar thought patterns. Very interesting..
Rachel I love how you and I unconsciously vibe off of each other. It seems that in every blog one of us writes, the other has thought about the same things in similar ways. I have thought about how in middle school we were riding it out until graduation and high school the same way. Now that the end is near I am thinking about the next "end" instead of the much closer "beginning". And about the theory of time bending back on itself and forming a continuous circle, the fact that everything from history to fashion to behavior repeats itself continuously is proof that you and Einstein are right.
Justine G
I see Justine six out of seven days of the week regularly and her blogs continue to surprise me. We have talked about just over a million and a half things yet I keep reading more and more new thoughts and opinions that I have not heard from her. Reading these blogs, I get to know her better which is something I did not think very possible since we know each other so well already. I guess we are both just full of surprises :D
To add on to your system theory, not only do we keep it going, we created it for ourselves which makes it that much harder to change it. Admitting that the world that has been created for us is flawed is difficult because it is going against the status quo. No matter how hard some people fight not to conform, in the end they do because it is human nature to do so. Conformity breeds familiarity which makes us feel secure. I guess we would rather keep going in an imperfect world than to start searching for a new reality for ourselves.
Again and again. It is official that the similarity of our thought processes have gone past eerie. I always find many of my own thoughts in Rachel's writing, and vice-versa. It is interesting how she develops the thoughts that have occurred to both of us because I do not always end up in the same exact direction. After all, we are not the same person and we have both been influenced differently yet we have similar thought patterns. Very interesting..
Rachel I love how you and I unconsciously vibe off of each other. It seems that in every blog one of us writes, the other has thought about the same things in similar ways. I have thought about how in middle school we were riding it out until graduation and high school the same way. Now that the end is near I am thinking about the next "end" instead of the much closer "beginning". And about the theory of time bending back on itself and forming a continuous circle, the fact that everything from history to fashion to behavior repeats itself continuously is proof that you and Einstein are right.
Justine G
I see Justine six out of seven days of the week regularly and her blogs continue to surprise me. We have talked about just over a million and a half things yet I keep reading more and more new thoughts and opinions that I have not heard from her. Reading these blogs, I get to know her better which is something I did not think very possible since we know each other so well already. I guess we are both just full of surprises :D
To add on to your system theory, not only do we keep it going, we created it for ourselves which makes it that much harder to change it. Admitting that the world that has been created for us is flawed is difficult because it is going against the status quo. No matter how hard some people fight not to conform, in the end they do because it is human nature to do so. Conformity breeds familiarity which makes us feel secure. I guess we would rather keep going in an imperfect world than to start searching for a new reality for ourselves.
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