Thursday, November 29, 2007

Mix n' Match

I admit, I was a little confused as to what to do with the cut-up project.

It was innovative. It was unique. It was something I hadn't done before. It was also very weird. I didn't accomplish much during the class in the computer lab. The magazine I brought in was a Sports Illustrated, which was not the best textual source to use due to it's numerous, ill-placed pictures, which unevenly parted the text. Nothing I tried in class was coherent, so I went back and tried again with some other magazines and old text books I had lying around. Using the method of taking half of each page, I did manage to make some coherent lines of text:

Modern day historians did not make committees to serve more than one purpose.
There were some partial exceptions to assign separate tasks to separate officials.
Yeah, although this doesn't exactly make the clearest of sense, it was the most coherent text I could produce.

All in all, I didn't expect much from doing this project, but it is always curious to physically see how language, words, and text can be intertwined and related, even when coming from seemingly different sources. "Such is the beauty of language."

It would have been maybe more beneficial to have spent more time on this, but I think that is something we all can do on our own as well.

1 comment:

madtown chica said...

Wow, you did better than me haha. It really gives you an appreciation for this form of authorship