DEEP design

Well, I was actually kind of slow when it came to discovery. I didn't start until after vacation and I started doing the wrong thing. I couldn't quite remember the details of the assignment so I checked the blog and it said found poem. Which in actual poetry jargon is a poem that you find in someone else's work, like a blackout poem. Once I got that straight, though I immediately decided on my poem and what I was going to do. The emotion that I was trying to get acros was pretty simple; my materials gave exactly what I was looking for. After a very short expire mental phase, my project came together without a large distinction between production. I think that my production came put very well, even if it's not quite what I was looking for. I was able to make it without having to go to the store and by wire. Maybe in the future I'll remake it with a smaller gaug wire so that I can make it look more elegant. 

Don't you love how late everyone stays up on Fridays?

Haha. Just kidding, I stress-crashed at 5:30 and slept for 16 hours. So today will be blogging day. 

A little tidbit I saved for after class

In Jacob's 3x3 I saw something that I had bit been expecting at all. I look at the middle sentence and I immediately thought that Evaline could be pregnant. It would explain so much, how desperately she wants to leave with Frank. She's not only craving escape but she needs to be with the father of her child and they need to be married so that she doesn't have to suffer the barrassment of having a child out I wedlock. Then she realizes that her family is more important and that her mother wouldn't want her to run away and steal her child away from its family.

Essay Map

Broken homes shatter

Secret lovers flee

Love has tolls

Broken homes cause more pain than seen, causing freedom to take precedence until love can no longer be given to all. 

Paragraph one: People who still have everyone in their family together don't realize it, but families pulled apart take more pieces with them than is obvious. Each family member takes more and more when they leave until the only person left is in tatters. 

Paragraph two: As almost a rule, if two people are seeing each other in secret they will plan to run away together. Romeo and Juliet did it, my aunt did when her black fiancé infuriated the rest of my family, and even teenagers from Mt Blue have done it. 

Paragraph three: With a double meaning this paragraph would be the longest. Not only does her love for frank nearly pull her away from her family, but her love for her family keeps her from having a life of her own. We've all suffered at the hands of a loved one, whether they intended it or not. 

In conclusion it can be said that Evalune is representative and symbolic of nearly every kind of love possible, even the love of inanimate objects. 

Gender roles in Evaline

I'm actually really surprised that nobody touched on this while we were doing three by threes in class.Tthe only reason it wasn't involved in mine was because I assumed a bunch of people would pick it up but, I noticed super distinct gender roles and Evaline. Like every paragraph had something that was just about a man protecting her or her having to stay home and keep the family together. I'm pretty sure this was a typo but it still helped my brain focus on all of the gender roles. the first word is she and it's all in capitals which I don't think is relevant but still being the first word is obviously has some power. She did have a job which, you know, doesn't fit into the gender roles quite as much as some of the older values that I can see but, still she dusted once a week, she kept the house clean and, tried to keep her family together and even when leaving she's still stuck in that mindset of "she's a woman they are men." she thought she would be treated with respect because she was going to be married. 

The price of my poetry as design project.

Acting your role

 So I was thinking about AP Lit while browsing tumblr (don't be surprised, if it's not an original thought, there's about a 50/50 chance the smart things I'm saying come from tumblr) and I saw this post that said "people who change song lyrics to make them hetero are the worst kind if people" and it got me thinking. Not only do I completely disagree (sexual orientation isn't a choice and no orientation is less than another. Where is the logic in not changing a love song to relate more to yourself?) but it also made me think about what we said about actors and tones changing a role. Well, let's imagine a guy singing Taylor Swift's song You Belong With Me. None of the lyrics are changed, it's all word for word. There are really two options here. Either he's gay or the person the song is written for is. Basically, it's either a guy singing to another guy about how they should be together, or a guy singing to a lesbian about how they should be together. This song couldn't easily be gender-bent easily, anyway. Just changing pronouns it feels like the person the singer is jealous of is a cross dresser and if you try to alter all of it then you mess up the whole melody. So really, it's all a matter of the right person singing the lyrics properly, because too many changes are going to pull the piece apart. 

Branagh Hamlet

I found the characters to be very vivid through the act, however I was a bit confused because I'd read if on my own over break and I felt the characters were a bit different. Exactly like what we spoke of in class I couldn't keep my self from clutching onto the tone of each actor during each line. Here are some of my findings:

Claudius seems just as cold and indifferent as I read him. 

Gertrude seemed far too calm. I feel like she should balance out a bit more with Ophelia. Whereas the queen seems almost cold, Ophelia is a sniveling mess and I pictured her far different. Perhaps it would have gone smoother if the queen was a bit more distressed and Ophelia a bit less. I have a similar feeling when it comes to pollonius. He seemed a bit more impassioned than I expected, but I enjoyed it more, actually I read him as a very cold, conniving, and calculated character. Of course hamlet was absolutely crazy, as was perfectly portrayed by the actor. I'm looking forward to finishing the play so that I can sit down and guiltlessly watch it all. 

3x3 of pretty by Katie Makkai

I hate myself 

Society makes me

You will never

Alternately,

Society is self-mutilating. 

Humans are 3D. 

Now you know. 

3x3 for vacation

Families vacation together. 

Independence requires freedom. 

Everyone loves travel. 

Cast of ye olde Hamlet

Okay so here is my cast for Hamlet. Just know it's not all going to be super professional because some actors I'm just in love with. Also, I cast a lot more characters than we've actually read in the play because I just felt like casting everybody.

The first person I cast was Marcia Harden as Gertrude because I just feel like she's really matronly and nobody's really seeing her do anything regal or royal. She's just done a lot of very stern, religious, mothering roles and I'm curious how that would translate over into her as Queen Gertrude of Denmark.

The second person I cast was Woody Harrelson as Claudius because we know he has experience with being a drunk, thanks to Haymitch and he's good at playing kind of jerk-ish characters that aren't really bad people. Like Claudius, he killed his brother but at the same time he would've been a much better king than Hamlett. Young Hamlet could be because he's actually a decent king and Hamlet is like an emotional wreck; he’s just the classic protagonist for a Shakespeare play.

The third person I cast was Hamlet himself and I cast Chris Hemsworth as Hamlett because he fits the age, first of all, and everyone's age that I have is kind of based off of Chris Hemsworth age because Hamlet is the only one in the play whose age we actually know, so seeing as he's 30 I cast other characters as older or younger than they may seem judging on their difference in age from Hamlett. That's why some of them might seem weird but I cast Chris Hemsworth because you've already seen him as a prince in Thor and I could easily see him playing an emotionally torn kind of just “playing the victim” character who goes a little crazy and tries to avenge his father also like he did in Thor. Even though his father wasn't killed, he kind of avenged the dishonoring of his father.

the next person I cast is a little bit, I just love him as an actor and that's Alan Rickman. I cast him as Polonius because, well, we seen him as a judge in Sweeney Todd and we've seen him as a professor in Harry Potter. He's good at playing authority figures even though Polonius isn't a big authority figure, considering half of the characters are actually royalty but he's still a really important antagonist and the age thing fits because, well, he’s old now, which is a little bit sad but that's okay. He’s just really good at being an awful person on camera and I really think he fits well.

I then casted Norman Reedus as Horatio just because I think he would play really well off of Chris Hemsworth and he is a bit of a tough guy actor. He was already a pretty crazy character in Boondock Saints. He’s played some very loyal characters and I can totally see him telling a story of his friends tragic familial problems after everything is done.

I then casts Moises Arias as Laertes solely because he looks similar to Leah Michelle, who I cast as Ophelia. He even looks like he could be related to Alan Rickman. I really wanted to get the whole family thing kind of together and you can kind of see that Woody Harrelson could be Chris Hemsworth uncle; they look similar enough, and Marcia Harden looks like everybody's mother so that works perfect.

Lea Michelle is good with drama and I think after the kind of soft cushy role that she plays in glee, even though it's emotional, it would be it would be really nice to see her go crazy. Yeah, there’s part of it and the other part is just familial resemblance.

Then I cast James Franco as Fortinbras because the Franco brothers are amazing and he has plenty of experience playing the villain because of Spiderman. He knows how to be emotional, and again, “avenging his father's death” type-characters. I think he fits really well in the character especially opposite some of the other actors that are in here because he seems like such a classic actor to throw in with all of these others that I don't see it going wrong in any way.

Then I cast Christian Bale as Francisco because I wanted Francisco to be a little bit older than Hamlet seeing as the guards all keep referring to him as “Young Hamlet” and things like that so I wanted him to be just a little bit older and it would be kind of funny to see Christian Bale play a semi-minor role in something.

I cast Sean Bean as the ghost because I think he has a really good face for playing a ghost and he has a good look for being royalty. He could easily put on a crown and have a little bit of makeup and some special effects and you look like a ghost. Originally I was looking for a different actor from the Lord of The Rings trilogy which was actually the ghost from Return of The King, however, I think he's an uncredited actor and while looking through the cast I couldn't find him. This was probably because his character doesn't have a name, so yeah, that was difficult but I think Sean Bean is a very good second.

thank you I'm out

Okay, so, soliloquy full of allusion I'm going to make it spoken by guy named Christopher about his love interest whose name is Shauna and about his family because he has to choose between them because let's say, it's the 1920s and she's black and his family is racist and it's all a bunch of crap so, yeah alright. let's go.

lips painted strawberry red haunt me at the dinner table because thoughts of her are against the rules and my family creeps into my mind every time she waves at me on the street. how betrayed they'd feel. Oh, how an angelic woman can be seen as a devil by the color of her skin and how an era of evolution, an era of prosperity can still lead to heartbreak, when all of your money counts for nothing because love counts for everything and there isn't a number of dollars in the world that can buy it and nearing terminal velocity, I see no way to keep from falling but i’m not sure the angels knew the pain of landing quite so hard into a personally prescribed hell. The only place to rest my eyes upon is the sky, so decisive, sliding from sunlight to blackened night each day without pause, I can only feel jealousy.

My heart seems perched on a railroad, neither left nor right has more appeal to it, but continuing my time in between truths and lies will prove to do nothing but destroy me. My soul aches at conundrums collecting in the corners of my mind, with nowhere to go and, yet still, nowhere to be I’m crumbling like london’s bridge. I will find a course that is proper, perhaps with a bit of advice. Yes, that shall be my goal for now; I will find a trustworthy bulwark to teach my what i should do. Maybe I shall ask my brother. No, he’d only have venom towards it. There is nobody to listen to my words, no confidant waiting in the shadows for my need. I shall have to find some other breath to speak, as such I must find somebody to understand. Perhaps it would be safe to find someone through letters. I may write some address  that neither I, nor anyone I know have heard, and get a receptive response. Perchance I’ll find a man who can give me the proper knowledge that I can use as a tool and finally chisel out a decision.