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Creative Response to Topic

Using detournment in my project could be difficult. I am working with language, music, and texts. Taking the ideas for any of these, and turning them into something that "mocks" the original will take serious creativity. What mocks a dictionary? or music? or texts? Turning something that deals with language, words and reading, and developing it into a visual image is one idea. In terms of anonymity for my project, the idea that all the 'authors' work under an anonymous name could be fun to work with. What if everything posted was directly tied to the person who posted it. Creating a site that shows picture and name identity would mock the idea of the sites I'm working with.

After class presentation..

Now that I have a more clear idea of what detournement is, I realized that my project is based around it. Taking something old and changing it into new. This is the remix idea I am working with. A creative project I could do would be to incorporate remixes of my remixes.. so from Websters to Pandora to ..possibly mixing together "average joes" singing a particular artists music. From text to TFLN to ... texts telling a story by combining them together. From websters to Urban to .. using slang terms in literature writing.

I could take my "remixed" multimedia and take them back to the past or spring them onto what could be coming next. I would have to explore ideas of what would be most accessible to me and which ideas would accommodate my 3 topics best.

Bergamo ROUGH draft essay

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AeN4kohIuWjUZGZwZ3diZm5fMzhmbnhtZmZyeg&hl=en

Project Diagram

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AeN4kohIuWjUZGZwZ3diZm5fMzZmbXhmOHdmeA&hl=en

Reflection Blog for Essay

My thoughts on this essay so far are a little shaky. I have a lot of information on my topic, and a generally clear idea of what my theory is, however, I am a unsure of how to relay the information I have in the best way to support my topic. That will be something I need to work on, organizing the information (diigo bookmarks) I have according to where they will best fit in the paper. I think structure of the paper will be the hardest part for me, but I am starting to organize my ideas according to my slideshow.

Annotated Bookmarks

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AeN4kohIuWjUZGZwZ3diZm5fMzRmcm50ZnRncg&hl=en

Reflection on Theory

So far for my project I am focusing on how old sources are remixed into new sources using media. For example, radio turned into Pandora, Webster's turned into Urban, and text messaging into TFML. By focusing on the change I have viewed numerous ways which these sources differ. One includes, the content itself, how the content is presented, and what type of audience the content attracts. Also, I am paying close attention to the author and audience in each situation. The author is usually the audience, and most times is kept anonymous. I talk about how this has an effect on the site, and on media authorship.