Sharing is Caring it can be Fun

When reading "Database and the Essay" all I could think about was the English language, or any for the matter.  If we didn't understand that we have to share English and the way it's used we wouldn't have much or anything.  What if someone could own the letter "S"?  Doesn't matter the font.  or if someone owned the sound "Ssssssssss"?  We'd be screwed.  But what happens when we really screw one person over from "remixes"?  James Brown's drummer Clyde Stubblefield is the most sampled drummer in rap and hip-hop music but he doesn't get anything for being the best.

It was also really interesting to me how there isn't a way in which we teach to write with or using intertexuality.  How are we supposed to say anything new without knowing how to speak and knowing what has been said?  How are we supposed to improve physics if we are islands?  What if Isaac Newton's work wasn't available for everyone?  What if the Qur'an or the Bible wasn't available or Harry Potter?  At what point do things become truly public?  And how do we deal/care about homage and compensation?  Is there an equaling value to it?  Does the elite fall a little?

Corn Lord

Broken Heart?

O YEAH! IT'S SATURDAY!

So there’s this font you’re looking at right now.  How important is it?  Can or does it somehow help my cause, in its visual presentation and message?  It’s really the question of “Why this there?”  I’d like to research my how text effects/affects it’s audience by its visual qualities and the methods in which marketing/campaigning is most effective to the purpose. 

I want to take a look around at fonts on event posters and fonts on local small business and differences between them.  There is a staggering amount of information just on Main Street, always.  The cool thing about event posters is their have a known life expectancy from the moment they are printed but a small business sign can really have both, a business card, or whatever type of a more permanent display of name that may be on the building…but should that text be uniform on the business card?  And I also have to be careful because what about a place like The Ellen?  They have a business sign that is an event poster but it is very blocky and bold while they also have business cards and additional event posters that are more dispensable, similar to a local band poster.  That’s a lot. 

I guess I would try to present it in a printable version that could also be viewed online?  Maybe have and actual band poster or two in the physical version and use a scroll in an electronic version of display?  Possibly be able to add audio?  I don’t really know if this is a good idea.  I hope I can get some help from you.

4:05 a,m,

            The story of my thing came from the original story of my thing.  At first I was confused at how to begin:  “Make a point”.  I had an internal “Awwww shit” momement.  What do I do with this?  Ok random assignment—that means music…

            But now what?  I sat down with a riff I liked, and then played all the parts.  Started with the drums—not my thang for you drummers out there but after 45 minutes I finally got the track.  No video.  Got the guitar and bass no problem.  No video.  I RECORDED ENTIRELY on GRAGEBAND and COMPUTER MICROPHONE.  Ha!  What an idiot. 

“Well I guess I was in a garage”. 

Placing the mic in different spots and changing the timbre and sustain of my instruments was vital to recording because of lack of audio controls and mic quality.  I could use my Wah Pedal for the chorus and ended up having to record multiple guitar tracks to deal with the transitions of the song and deal with the primitiveness of my materials (note primitive doesn’t mean simple…at least for me) for recording.  Everything sounds tiny, trebly, and somewhat flat. 

But I did this all on my own, striving for something along the lines of a Steve Albini approach, but clearly failing with the drum takes.  The money, equipment and software, and education that it takes to actually be able to produce even on an amateur level is extraordinary.  But most people have phones right?  Quality is a sass…Sometimes.  It can pay to know some people with gear and experience. 

Wait remember?  MAKE A POINT.  At first I wanted to make a video that showed me running for the whole time with a pen, as fast as I could, in one long clip to a piece of manuscript paper and finish the last note on it.  I procrastinated, and felt pretty nervous, so under pressure I made a video about bacon and it calmed me down.  I just let me do what I would do to make this thing a real thing.  Bacon, music, carnival style, weird wired and stoned in the garage.  But I did start with an original story, but this is what there is now!

If I could do anything differently I’d want to work with my friends.  Same humor, weirdness.  Sometimes I work well under stress.  I always say at the end of a project start sooner. 

I know I’d rather just make some one laugh, than smart stuff out or what not.

As a thinker I think I should do more of these things.


i swear my computer says four ahyehm.

Sex and Gender in Oral and Written Language

When reading Jamieson all I could think about was sex and gender, and how essentially and sex can use either gender forms of communication in language.  The masculine being described as logical, task-orientated, strong, effective, and to the point while feminine characteristics of communication tend to be emotionally expressive, residing in the "heart", and soft in nature.  Any boundary made will be bounded over... I think.  So I began to imagine some type of spectrum containing the masculine and feminine qualities of communication on either side, and the particular combinations of the two in between to understand the usefulness its variations may produce for different social situations.  But there's a lot of culture out there stifling its potential.  Simple things as "boys don't cry", or "you throw like a girl".  

Another thing that grabbed my attention was the way in which sexes differ in the timbre of voice.  High pitched voices are feminine while lower voices are masculine.  I couldn't help but think of middle school band and how girls play the flute or clarinet, both softer spoken and higher pitched instruments, while boys play the tuba or trombone, low, loud and brassy (ALL GENERALIZATIONS).  However, there were some mixtures of sexes in the saxophones, trumpets, and french horns.  (There was one female trombonist and one male clarinetist).  What I find interesting here is that these particular instruments, some in which contain different voices of instrument such as the tenor sax compared to alto, have a wide range of voice and ability to change the shape of the sound from a high growl to a low soft wave (SAX).  Or from insane brightness and loudness (TRUMPETS) to small sustained whisper.  But what i guess i find even cooler is that music has an ability to portray emotions and/or stories through communication that can be easily identified as feminine or masculine, and the range at which any composer of any form of gender can express or show a wide range of emotion from the masculine or feminine.  Does this mean music is feminine in nature because it is expressive mostly, even if it is a war chant? It's also strange how "Ode to Joy" is played at some remarkable events in humanity whether they seem atrocious or beneficial to society.  

Just some thought...peace

THE PIG