B i g moments.
Small moments.
Moments that define you.
(Too many) that undermine you.
Moments that test your faith
joy
strength
courage
hope.
There are countless senseless moments
which lead to painful moments
and painful moments which end up being
teaching moments.
Life is a constant replication of moments.
it is our continual inner natural disaster - one chaos after another after another.
But it is how you choose to respond to those moments that ultimately shapes you. How you survive, again and again, to continue on restructuring your path and making each moments as new and unconventional as the last.
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules, but by people following the rules.”- Banksy
Is the medium more vital than the message? As Eoin McNamee's, "Resurrection Man," explores that very question, so do I. The overall experience of this semester's blog project has led me to my answer: yes. For each and every blog I analyzed and attempted to comprehend, I found a precedent commonality: the emphasis on textual appearance and necessity placed on the images and videos selected. In every blog, I found varying text sizes, colors, and abstract letter placement. The requirement of a complimenting backdrop also adds to the fact.
ReplyDeleteContextually, my blog project this semester was very existential. Every posting I created focused on an abstract grasp of life and a bit of a vague, yet whimsical outlook on commonly-explored subjects; time, youth and happiness. My medium’s involved a basic style of font, with a soothing backdrop, and pleasant pictures. Content wise, I connected even the titles of each post with the underlying idea of the entire project: “The Spectacular Now,” “The After,” “The In-Between,” “The Fear,” and concluded it with, “Next, Then & Now: A Collection of Moments.” My posting, “The Fear,” contains an unmistakable air of surrealism, as I discuss my innate fear of myself and fixation on fantasy; both of which being used in Andre Bretton’s, “Nadja.”
The most difficult challenge of this project was certainly the interaction with another students’ blog component. To tie in an entirely unrelated idea into your own personal work is unexpectedly met with more than a marginal amount of difficulty. This aspect of the blog entirely showcases intertextuality.
This network of blogs directly relates to text by conveying a sense of message to the readers; like in a text, the author’s true sense of self reveals itself as the journey continues with each turning page.
Hence, this semester’s blog project has been a challenging, albeit enamoring one.