ARCHIVE - Calvin's blog http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/blog/32 en ARCHIVE - Post on Metropolis http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/post-on-metropolis <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">It was an interesting movie and I can now see how it has affected many movies that came after it. Dr. Strangelove is one of the movies that seems to draw a straight line back to Metropolis.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">The doctor in Metropolis has a hand in a black glove that he lost to the creation of the robot.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">In Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove has a black-gloved hand that he has no control over and randomly snaps into the Hitler solute.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Whether this was done out of a sign of respect or if it was done to lampoon Metropolis I’m not sure, but it was defiantly a reference to the older film.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">There are also other links that can be drawn to countless other Sci-fi movies that use (better quality) but essentially the same effects as they used in the libratory.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">When Rotwang was coping Maria the light that covered her body and transferring energy to the robot has been used for years in similar situations.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/post-on-metropolis">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/post-on-metropolis#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:01:39 -0800 Calvin 801 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Corpus, Week 8, #2 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-8-2 <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">         </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">So in Beauty Parlor one of the groups went over Facebook and how it tries to digitally represent a body.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">One of the options that it has is the relationship status option.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">This function has now defiantly one of the steps on courtship.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">A relation ship is not final until it is declared on Facebook.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">And it is officially over when it is taken off.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Its just interesting how important it has become, or at least amongst the younger generations.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">It has even interred into the culture, every so often the term “facebook final”.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Meaning that its something is final once it is posted.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Even beyond just that one function it is a way to catch up on people with out even talking to them.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">It is just interesting how much it is affecting how we interact.</span></span></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-8-2#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:20:22 -0800 Calvin 800 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Corpus, Week 6, #2 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-6-2 <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">         </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">In our conversation this week on Brecht and his method of making the audience uneasy as to get them to think harder on the messages of his pay.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">He does this through having his characters brake out in song and other tricks that disconcert the viewer.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">One of the things that disconcert me when reading the play was the language.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Though the play is set in china, the dialogue is notably British.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Every so often there will be a word or phrase that links in my mind to the British pattern of speech from the early 20<span style="font-size: 12.2222px" class="Apple-style-span">th</span> century.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">The thing is, I’m not sure is this was intentional or, if Brecht just couldn’t be bothered to do the dialogue to mach the setting.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Or did he write that way so the pattern of speech in the play would be easier for his British audience to understand.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">If so, that would be a very anti Brechtion thing to do.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">I jess I just always find it hard to tell when subtle things like that are intentional, especially when it is an older work.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">Because I don’t know how the audience would have responded to it.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">And how the audience responds defines how successful a technique is.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">So I’m still undecided to whether or not the odd chose in dialect in the dialogue was intentional or not.</span></span></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-6-2#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:30:35 -0800 Calvin 799 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Corpus, Week 4, #2 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-4-2 <span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">It felt so odd this week when we did the workshop where we took apart other peoples work and rewrote it as it pleased us.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">All through most of my schooling I was taught and almost reverence for the texts of others, and having that in the back of my mind it was hard for me to rip apart the text I had been given.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">What I had been given was Cock and Bull which is an amusing story about a transvestite.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">By ripping it apart and reassembling it I found that not only had I crated something amusing but I also had a grater understanding of the text.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">It made me to pay attention to every word and the order they where laid down.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">I became vary connected to the fore pages of the story I had been given and did understand it better.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px" class="Apple-style-span">Though it is time consuming I think it will be a strategy I will use more to become closer to what I’m reading.</span></span> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-4-2#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:47:32 -0800 Calvin 798 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Corpus, Week 5, #2 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-5-2 <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">So this week we have been talking about some of the different styles of acting.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">One of the styles is method acting, which is where the actors put themselves in the poison of the character they are playing and tries to play them as accurately as possible.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">This week I was listening to the NPR show This American life, which is a show where they have different, stories often around one theme.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">And this week they had just one story that was about a group of maximum-security prisoners who where pouting on a production of Act 5 of Shakespeare’s famous Hamlet.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">This is an interesting look into character acting because the characters in Hamlet are contemplating committing a murder, and several of the people performing the play actually had murdered someone.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">What a unique insight they must have had into exactly what their characters must be going though. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15px" class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-5-2">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-5-2#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:53:44 -0800 Calvin 797 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Corpus, Week 8, #1 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-8-1 &lt;!--StartFragment--> <p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana"><span>         </span>The thing about this week of the class is, it seems to have glorified the celebrity body instead of looking at them with the contempt they disserve.<span>  </span>I’m just frustrated that in class the tone was more reverential than skeptical.<span>  </span>The discussion seamed to go more in the direction of gossip.<span>  </span>I just don’t understand why we give celebrities so much credit.<span>  </span>I was proud that I didn’t know who most of the celebrities where who we talked about, and if I did know their names I knew none of the other details of their life.<span>  </span>I was also proud that I had never seen a </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: LucidaGrande">Michael </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana">Jackson video before.<span>  </span>I think that speaks well of my character.<span>  </span>My opinion of them is that they are just ridicules people who aren’t that good at what they do, but just have good publicists.<span>  </span>We shouldn’t be giving them more attention and power by talking about them, we should just ignore them and hope they will go away.</span></p> &lt;!--EndFragment--> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-8-1#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:23:42 -0800 Calvin 794 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Corpus, week 4, #1 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-4-1 &lt;!--StartFragment--><p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 15px" class="Apple-style-span">&lt;!--StartFragment--></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana">This week we watched the movie Southern Comfort, which Ithought was a good film even though the production value was low budget.<span>  </span>What struck me particularly was howRobert and company where able to built such close community even it a part ofthe country that is not know for its tolerance.<span>  </span>I assumed that people in the trans community would chouse tomove to a city where the trans community is stronger.<span>  </span>But they didn’t move, they made there own community wherethey lived.<span>  </span>It’s amazing that theynot only lived in a rural aria but that they blended in so well.<span>  </span>I find it incredibly funny that Robertwas even asked to join the KKK.<span> </span>Despite how well they where doing in their own tight group, as soon asRobert needed medical care he was turned down because he was trans.<span>  </span>When Robert is diagnosed with ovariancancer he continually turned down because the doctors don’t want him sitting intheir waiting rooms, they are afraid that the other clients will feeluncomfortable.<span>  </span>Now this is what Idon’t get, if the doctors where just saying that they didn’t want it to lookodd to their other clients, why didn’t Robert just go with someone who dididentify as female?<span>  </span>Then Robertwould have a reason for being there; he would be there to support the femaleidentified person.<span>  </span>Then once theygot behind closed doors they could do the procedure.<span>  </span>I don’t know but it seems like that would have worked as away the doctor could have saved face and Robert could have receivedtreatment.<span>  </span>I don’t know I justcan’t believe that they couldn’t find treatment for him.<span>  </span>Though this is probably not the case,it felt like they could have done more.<span> </span>Even if they had just made the appointment and tolled the doctor oncethey got there that Robert was trans, and had brought the camera.<span>  </span>After being tolled that they where onfilm, and meeting Robert face to face, I bet not nearly as many would haveturned down treatment.<span>  </span>I justcan’t believe that a doctor would not treat some one, regardless of what they looked like.</span></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-4-1">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-corpus-week-4-1#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:20:48 -0800 Calvin 793 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - Here is a link to the Bush Gets A MySpace video, its funny check it out. http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/here-is-a-link-to-the-bush-gets-a-myspace-video-its-funny-check-it-out-0 <p>Hay every one, here it the link to the Bush gets a MySpace videos. It manages to lampoon Bush, Chaney, Carl Rove, Britney Spears, Kevin Federline. I can&#39;t figure out how to make the link a hipper link so just copy it, it should take you to YourDailyMedia.com. </p><p>http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1145188343/President_Bush_Gets_A_Myspace_Profile<br /></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/here-is-a-link-to-the-bush-gets-a-myspace-video-its-funny-check-it-out-0#comment Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:56:33 -0800 Calvin 651 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Coupus, Week 7, #2 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-coupus-week-7-2 &lt;!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Is sci-fi an extension of technology?<span>  </span>And if it is (which is my argument) then shouldn’t we discarded old sci-fi as we discarded old technology.<span>  </span>Old sci-fi is no longer able to give us a glimpse into a possible future or other version of now.<span>  </span>So we should cast it aside and move on looking at what is newly possible.<span>  </span>At the same time is it possible for old sci-fi to become good science based fantasy instead?<span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Are we getting past the point where the prevailing question is no longer what can we do with technology, but are we getting to the point where we are asking what should we do with technology.<span>  </span>When we can make anything, should we?</span></p> &lt;!--EndFragment--> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/e-coupus-week-7-2#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:48:10 -0800 Calvin 554 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody ARCHIVE - e-Coupus, Week 7, #1 http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/how-much-can-we-augment-the-human-body-and-still-be-human &lt;!--StartFragment--> <p style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in" class="MsoNoteLevel1">At what point does the body stop being a human body and become a machine?<span>  </span>The Oxford American Dictionary states that a cyborg is “fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.”<span>  </span>But I disagree with that I consider a cyborg to be and human body that is augmented with electronic components, that enhance its performance.<span>  </span>Which for me begs the question at what point does a body become a machine with organic human components vs. a highly augmented human body?<span>  </span>Should it be done by prestige, so that if<span>  </span>a body is comprised of lets say, 60-70% of synthetic materials, is it then a machine rather than human?<span>  </span>Or should different organs be waited, so still having a human brain worth more points than say a kidney.<span>  </span>I’m not saying that is the best way to do it but it seams that it would be beneficial to come up with some boundaries of how fare we should augment the human body and have it still considered human.</p> &lt;!--EndFragment--> http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody/how-much-can-we-augment-the-human-body-and-still-be-human#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:08:00 -0800 Calvin 550 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/fashioningthebody