What you are doing---
In light of the month, and because Monday is V-day, your subject will be "love" and/or "Valentine's Day." What you need to do is create something (image, images, whatever) that represents this word/holiday BUT you must do so in a non-traditional way (this means I don't want the Hallmark version). This subject is broad, and you should respond to it as such---I want you to be creative so do not be cliche, in other words, think outside the box for this assignment.
You can't use images you find on the web, so you can't simply copy and paste something into a word and call it done. You need to create, design, and work with your own stuff. You can use words, but images should also be a part of this journal. Make sure you can open the image b/c if I can't you won't get credit.
Additionally, I want a 5 sentence (or more) explanation for your creation: how/why does this represent an untraditional version of "love" and/or "Valentine's Day"(be specific), how/why is it uncliche, and where does knowledge fit in with this type of assignment (was knowledge created, explored, re-envisioned)?
**Please respond to ALL questions.
This is due by Friday, February 11.
Have fun with the journal and because you have don't have to read anything in addition to this...I expect big things. ;-)
http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/037aae09d8
ReplyDeleteMy vuvox is something represents and signifies love in my opinion, very much. People normally join community service groups for a variety of different reasons. Some people join because they have to for reprocussions of being in trouble, some people do just for there resume, and some people join because their parents make them get more involved in the community and their university. However, there are those people who join for the pure reason of love and caring to help other people who are less fortunate than we are. Sometimes, when people join these organizations they never expect to build friendships, or go into the environment truly caring about other people. I believe that love can develop from the relationships with the people in the club, the people you work with, and most of all the love of helping other people is created. I am a member of C.H.I.C.S here at FSU, and it is one of the best ways to get involved with this school we all (hopefully) love, help others, and build long lasting relationships. It reflects on what we have been learning, because we have been learning about remediation and rebuilding off of other things. I believe doing community service helps build a better everything.
Alex - loved your view on all of this! It's so true, we don't realize all of the nontraditional ways of love. We should!
http://ama09g.glogster.com/ama09g-love/
ReplyDeleteI decided to create a glog to accurately portray my image. I put my untraditional depiction of love (A piece of art tat my friend created) in the center of pictures and quotes and pictures that are completely cliché depictions of love. I am using this middle picture for my assignment because I feel it is an appropriate yet non-traditional portrayal of love. As you can see, the figures in the dark space, such as the birds, chair and most of the girl, are all in black and white, whereas the figures, the birds that is, in the light of the window are in bright colors. If we interpret the lit area as love, then the picture displays the feelings of love as an illumination of feelings and the dark space as loneliness and solitude. It’s “uncliche” because black is a very harsh color and when you relate it to being alone, it gives off an ultra-depressing feel. Also, the birds depicted look like crows, which is another thing not normally associated with the beauty and mood of being in love. Knowledge fits in with this type of assignment because it forces us to think of depictions of love that are out of the box. We can relate this practice to composing and even remediation because we need to find mediums and composing/speaking practices that may be new or not necessarily normal to convey our message to our audience.
http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/037aa31162
ReplyDeleteThis is a collage that I created in Vuvox. As you can see, rather than highlighting the cliché traditions of Valentine's Day I revealed the negatives of this "holiday". Valentine's Day, originally a romantic day named after Saint Valentine, has turned into a commercialized chore. Couples come together and celebrate something that should be celebrated daily. I understand that this one day marks the precipice of love in a year, but the commercialization of the "holiday" could produce a false sense of love. Are Valentine's Day celebrators in "true love" or are they simply under the zombie-like trance of this commercialized occasion?
http://ericfish.glogster.com/wepodigitaljournal/
ReplyDeleteMy Glogster represents an untraditional version of love and valentine's day because rather than focusing on the cliches of valentine's day about material gifts or traditional romance, I chose to look at the different types of love in our lives that add so much to them, like love for our families, countries, our personal passions, and for other people. I think it is uncliche because our focus around valentine's day is always strictly about romantic love, and I tried to focus on the other important roles in our lives that different kinds of love fill. I wanted to go against our tendency to overlook what a wide spread and important force love is. I think that knowledge in this assignment was explored more than created, and was also re-envisioned a little bit. Mostly I tried to explore the breadth of the word love and all the things it can really make us feel strongly about. However, I think there was a bit of re-envisioning in the sense that I was trying to alter the cliched way we think about valentine's day.
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ReplyDeleteClick above to see the image I created on glogster. I think this represents a realistic vision of Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is always depicted as the cliche- love, hearts, roses, happy, carefree and yes those feelings do occur. However I think Valentine's Day is bitter and sweet. It is lovely for those who are in love, and lonely for those who aren't. It is a painful memory after a break up or a sweet memory for a lasting relationship. Overall I think love as a whole is bittersweet. I went about this thinking of Valentine's Day and love in a traditional sense, it is bright, warm, and lovely. After a break up or for those who are lonely, it is dark, cold and bitter. I think the duality of love is important for a balance, and one should always keep in mind the image I have at the bottom, "Don't Stop Believing."
http://amandasax.glogster.com/upside-down-valentines/
ReplyDeleteThis glog represents an untraditional version of love because it is portrayed in an upside down way. When I took the pictures, I took them in sequential order of “girl meets boy”. But, I showed the last picture first and the first picture last, so if you look at if from the bottom up it looks like a traditional valentines story of the guy seeing the girl and going over to her to ask her on a date. But, since I started with the last picture first, I gave it a twist. They’re already together and really the girl just wants to be left alone while the guy wants to go play his game. I don’t know if that makes any sense or not. And I’m not sure what is meant by how this knowledge fits in with this assignment. But, my glog is uncliched because it is the exact opposite of what would be considered “cliché”. I turned the story upside down and “recreated” your typical love story.
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ReplyDeleteThis glog represents how amazingly lovely friendship can be, especially when you break up with your boyfriend! It's uncliche because no one ever turns to their friend and says "Happy Valentines Day, I love you!" but this year my good friend Sam is my valentine! I created this glog using pictures of me and my friends to show how you can love your friends more than you can love a significant other. They won't ever break up with you for no good reason or try to pretend to their other friends that youre not together! If you can't tell, I recently broke up with my boyfriend. It sucks but instead of being sad and mopey on valentines day I can celebrate my new friends and have a great time! Eff romantic love!!!!
http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/037b20147b
ReplyDeleteFor my creation on love I made a vuvox about my family. This in itself may appear to be cliche but my family has been the most stable love relationship in my life. I am blessed to have a brother and a sister that will be my best friends for the rest of my life and two parents who I actually do consider my best friends. I have yet to find that person that makes all those cliche quotes, true in my eyes. But my family truly understands me and every time i see them I am reminded of how much we truly love each other.
Most people think of valentines day as only the love from a significant other, but i feel like the love that I receive unconditionally from my family day in and day out is so much more rare and special to me than any boyfriend ever could. This is what makes my love for my family uncliche.
I feel like my knowledge of love has been changing ever since I was little. I think everyone's has. It is reformed as we go through our first relationships, best friends, and hardships. I personally have come full circle to realizing that my family is all that matters to me. I am thankful that they are my best friends and people who I love and who love me.
http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/037b2d9b2a
ReplyDeleteI created a vuvox collage of my friends and family. It's not ciche because V-day is usually about romantic love, to me, it's about celebrating all kinds of love. My family is very diverse. I'm not even directly related to some of my siblings, but we have grown to love each other through everything. We aren't a traditional family because my parents are very young.
There are a lot of ways to love and a lot of ways to show love. Sometimes it is to do something extraordinary like building a house with Habitat for Humanity, sometimes it is buying a gift for someone on Valentine’s Day, and sometimes it means always being there for the one you love. No matter which kind of love it might be, it is always nice when those people show their love to the world. On social networking pages we see people showing pictures and writing little notes to the ones they love. For my image I created a collage of different people I know and the way they show their affection through social networking. There is a picture of my friend Annie and her boyfriend proudly sharing their relationship to the world. There is a picture of my mom’s facebook default which is a picture of her, my sister, and myself. There is also a shot of me sending my mom a facebook comment asking her to be my valentine. There is also a picture of my cousin’s drawing that reads “I love Noelle”. None of these images were staged they were all done spontaneously and I think that it is the perfect way to portray publicizing love in the 21 century… Social Networking.
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ReplyDeleteI made my glog about the true affects of Valentines day on a man. Although most Hallmark ads focus on the romantic side of it, they tend to ignore the financial affects of the holiday. Most people would tend to consider this a cynical way to look at love and its most sacred holiday. I still believe that this is merely a realistic approach to it. Although I love my girlfriend and have no problem giving her gifts, there is a real financial total that it has. Because of it I have to take into account how much money I have to spend on food for me and her each month. This as is simply just showing some of the often overlooked aspects of Valentines Day.
I have always loved movies. Romance movies mimic reality, and in return allow the audience to live vicariously through the characters they're watching. I love the emotion watching a great "love" scene evokes. It may make you cry, it may make you laugh, it may make you miss the feeling of love altogether, or it may make you appreciative of the love you have. Either way, romance films never get old to me, no matter how corny. Everyone falls in love at some point, with something or someone. Its a huge part of our life and is all around us. For this assignment, I took my love for movies and found some of my favorite clips that symbolize "love". These clips beautifully display not only the love one can feel for another person, but the love I have for film and its ever lasting effect on my heart.
ReplyDeletehttp://vimeo.com/19820462
http://danimost.glogster.com/valentinesday/
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't personally believe in Valentine's Day, I do believe in a love of music. Music is one of the only things I believe is universally loved, and is probably my one true love in life. The photo is a picture of a friend of a friend and I chose one of my favorite songs to describe the picture through posting a link to the song on the glogster, as well as including a quote from the song in the writing. In my opinion, if love makes the world go round, music brings the world together. My group of closest friends who are some of the people I love the most are very strongly connected through our music and it is partially what ignited our friendship. We're from different parts of the country and all come from different upbringings and backgrounds, and while we each have connections with each other through a number of interests (whether it be fashion, movies, culture, sports, etc), we all connect to each other through our love of music.
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ReplyDeleteI created a glogster to use an image I uploaded to my computer. My friend, actually an ex-boyfriend, painted this picture. It shows two doves with an arrow shot between the two of them, and they are connected because of that arrow. I think this is a dark and original way to represent Valentines Day. Instead of the normal, happy couple, it shows a couple together in death. It shows that sometimes, love is pain and a struggle. I think it was clever because doves generally represent love, but this is love in turmoil. This is the first picture I thought to use because it's up on my wall and I like what it represents. I can also relate to it because I just got out of a relationship that ended badly and I think this may be a good representation of something ending badly. It's almost like Romeo and Juliet in a sense that they are together in death.
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ReplyDeleteOn Picnik, I altered a photo that I found on my computer from a trip to NYC. It's just one cupcake in a box. For me, this definitely represents that Valentine's Day is just another reminder that I don't have a significant other as of right now. In correlation with my Catholic upbringing, I've always been told that I need to be patient and say to God, "Not my will, but yours."My best friend has been able to say that. She says that God is calling her to religious life, and I completely respect that. But that's not what I'm being called to. I don't know what God's will is for me. But as of now, I feel like this cupcake, just sitting alone in a box, Waiting for some hot Red Velvet stud to enter into my life. I'm just trying to have patience and keep God's will for me in perspective. Easier said than done. At the same time, I'm trying to appreciate this time I have to myself. Once another cupcake enters into the picture, I know that box is going to get crowded and I'm going to wish that I'd spent more time appreciating the present.
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ReplyDeleteI'm relatively new to photo bucket, so I decided it would be a great way to convey the type of nontraditional love that I would like to use for this project. Valentine's Day usually signifies a day that should be spent with your significant other, but for that most part that has been commercialized to mean a boyfriend or girlfriend. However, the love shared on between a team or Performance Company, besides that of my parents, has been the strongest love that I’ve ever experienced. For one, it was between a few girls, and the likelihood of us ever liking each other or even getting along was slim to none, but we did. And because of this we were a relatively successful team. Knowledge of how to take an image and manipulate it so that it can be translated into a different purpose is an example of re-purposing or remixing, and it shows that this assignment is an application of those principles.
For my creation on love I created a Vuvox depicting the theme of "Love is Pride." Traditionally, on Valentines day love is depicted between two individuals. Hence "Will you be my Valentine?" and those little heart things with the corny pick up lines. My creation isn't traditional because it depicts a different kind of love, a love not for oneself or another, but a love for being part of something grander than oneself.
ReplyDeleteIn this vuvox you'll find several forms of pride and love. Weather it be flying your country's flag in the air, or fighting against the country's government, these people love what their country represents and are willing to go miles beyond the ordinary to preserve or re-instate what they believe in.
http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/037bc48380
http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/037bc5e573
ReplyDeleteI used vuvox to create a collage with my own personal pictures as well as some images of things that are related to Valentine's Day. The theme of my collage is the meaning of Valentine's Day. What is it about? Do people in love, really in love actually need a holiday to express their feelings, or has the day been been turned into something companies all over capitalize on? This is uncliche because most people have been brainwashed to believe that Valentine's Day is legitimate. They believe all of the flowers, and candy and fancy dates are necessary to define their relationships.
http://zeker.glogster.com/glog-7624-7923/
ReplyDeleteI consider my glog to be not cliché because I tried to put on a darker, not so pretty and perfect side to love that Valentine’s Day always tried to portray. Starting off with the first image, “The mask” is something I created myself in a paint program and I wanted to give the message that love isn’t always this beautiful organized thing in image. Love is choppy and they don’t always fit together perfectly but they can still create a haunting image. The second image, a picture of my best friend and I after my community college graduation. This one was more of an expanding of knowledge. I think everyone has an idea that there are different kinds of love, friendship included and sometimes we need to be reminded of it. The sign (taken from a trip to WWoHP) is a reminder that love can be magical but that magic can be not real or inconstant. The hallmark view of love is that it can be everlasting and that’s certainly not true. Love can tie us down, give us a sense of freedom and at the same time, when neglected or distorted, love of any kind can be a deadly emotion. The images are simple yet they explore the common follies of love.
I used pictures on glogster to create what I feel is an untraditional representation of what most people view as love on Valentine’s Day. My creation is uncliche because it celebrates the purest form of love—friendship, instead of romantic love. I used pictures of some great memories I have: my trip with friends to the mountains, footprints in sand of my best friends and I at the beach, and my reunion with one of my best friends. I also included a photo my boyfriend took of me while I was sleeping with his dog, Buford. I think this is nontraditional love because it isn’t romantic and gushy, but it still shows that love is represented in the little moments of life we usually take for granted. For this project, I re-envisioned my knowledge of love without losing the powerful feeling it creates. My knowledge expanded into the fact that you don’t need chocolate and a romantic dinner on Valentines, but a celebration of love and life with friends.
ReplyDeletehttp://knb10.glogster.com/glog-6638-loveblog/
I used pictures of me and my girlfriend. Basically, stating that Valentine's Day is not a big day (to me). I feel that everyday is Valentine's Day, and that we need to make each other feel SPECIAL everyday of the year, instead of ONE day out of the year.
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