Pursuing my Passion

                Project 2 for my WEPO class required that I find an assemblage and then remediate it into something new. An assemblage is something that is composed of parts of something else, and can be anything from a painting to a poem. For my project, I decided that I would take a song and turn it into something else, but what song and what new form would I use for this new creation? Ultimately, I decided that I would use not one, but multiple songs sung by Beyoncé for my project. I would then take those songs, analyze them, and use them to give advice to others in the form of a listicle. Here is a link to my final product: faithsiplin.atavist.com/ 5-life-lessons-from-beyonce.                 A common theme on my blog has been writing and composing. I often use my puzzle piece analogy to define these two terms. Composing is a sk...

                On Thursday, I had the opportunity to sit in on a talk by Jody Shipka. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, since this was my first guest lecture that I had attended in college, but I was not disappointed by the experience at all.                 Whenever I read an article or essay for a class I always feel some type of detachment from the author when I am reading their work. I can never really picture the person that devoted their time to an essay as a typical human being like the rest of us. For some reason, I tend to put authors on a higher level than the rest of us. This lecture by Shipka shattered my preconceived notions about authors completely. I realized that the people that author these articles and essays that we read in various courses are just average people that decide to write an article, and make sure that their goal is accomplished. N...

The basis of today’s blog post will be the difference between bare repetition and ethical assemblages. Arola and Arola define bare repetition as performing something the same way that your ancestors did, or in other words, copying someone else without changing their work to create something different. Creative repetition is what they would consider an ethical assemblage; this is when someone takes something that someone else has already done and transforms it into their own version of this original idea. To stick with the recent theme of music and remediation, we will be comparing three different versions of the same song, “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse. Here is a link to the video for Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8 Here is a link to Florence and the Machine’s cover of “Back to Black” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqe35aouiOc Here is a link to Beyoncé and Andre 3000’s version of “Back to Black” https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For project two, I believe that I will be turning a song into a story and creating a book. Since I have decided to choose this as the subject of my project, I believe that my audience would be music lovers. Even though I am turning a song into a story, I think most of the people that would be interested in this book would be the people that are familiar with the audience and the people that follow that artist. However, this remediation would also introduce a new audience, those that do not know the song but read the book, to the artist and song as well. Remixing is extremely common for my primary audience, which would be those that love music and people in the music industry. Often when you people think of remixing that think of a song that has been remixed or music in general. In fact, according to the Everything is a Remix video, remixing originated in the music industry. Since remixing is common in the music industry and common to the audience that I will be targeting my rem...

For my Writing and Editing in Print and Online (WEPO) class, we had a project in which we had to pick one of the selected key words we were presented. Once we picked this key word we had to create an exhibit that would teach a targeted audience about this key word using three different artifacts. When I looked at the key words, I automatically knew that I wanted my project to be centered around the term, “design.” I chose this word because for one, when I think about a design I think of physical objects, like buildings and architecture. I may be the only one that jumps to this image, or I may not be; regardless, I wanted to explore how design and English work together. I wanted my audience to realize that design goes hand in hand with English and how we interpret meanings. I decided I would choose three different poems and analyze the role design plays in their overall effect using an infographic. Here is a link to use to view my project, https://www.canva.com/design/DACip0p93hA/FO...