Field Study Proposal

How best to present classic Russian poetry to people who do not speak Russia. I will be preparing a short bi-lingual presentation of Russian poems with English language translations. This will involve selecting texts, comparing translations, creating my own translations if possible. I will be reading thru the material on translation in the library on the subject of literary translation. creating an introduction to the reading that will but the material in perspective, learning the art of reciting poetry and memorizing.

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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• H – Week 5 Log January 30, 2013 February 11th x hour – reading x hours – journaling about the relationship between music, notes and my hands x hours – interviewing pianist at a church February 12th 2 hours – derive – take ...

Bachelardian Reverie

Poetry

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Term Paper Abstract

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W is for Winging It

My passion that I am choosing to pursue during our month on is a search for freedom, adventure, and self. And I plan to wing it. I will be hitch-hiking through Washington, Oregon, and California with the goal of reaching Santa Cruz before beginning my return to Olympia. The general path that I’m envisioning is one that goes East from Olympia, down Eastern Oregon and Northeastern California, and across California’s central valley to Santa Cruz and the central coast. On the way back up to Washington I plan to travel along the Pacific coast all the way up to the Olympic Peninsula before completing the home stretch to Olympia. This month-long trip will be a solo one and I’ll be living minimally off of what I bring in my pack and a small amount of cash for groceries and supplies when absolutely needed. My mode of transportation will be mostly a combination of rides from others and walking, although I am open to the idea of taking a bus or two in case something goes wrong. I plan to spend at least 4 days of this journey on a backpacking trip in a wilderness area so much of what I am bringing with me is camping gear (tent, water purifier, lightweight stove, etc). Part of my project will include an internal conversation with Jack Kerouac about his book On the Road and its relation to my experience of being on the road.

I want to feel freedom, to gain a new confidence in myself and what I am capable of. I want to connect further with society, nature, and who I am and to get closer to discovering my place in it all. I want to step out and wing it. I hope to draw from this experience a greater understanding of the world around me as well as the world within myself. All that I am sure of regarding the outcome of this journey is that I will be changed in some way, and that I will have grown.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• W – Week 5 Log March 2, 2013 February 5th (Evergreen campus to Port Townsend, WA) 6 hrs: on the road 3 hrs: reading 1 hr: journaling 1 hr: Bachelardian reverie February 6th (Port Townsend to Port Angeles, WA) 7 hrs: on the road 1 ...
• W – Week 6 Log March 1, 2013 February 10th (Lincoln City to Tugman State Park/Coos Bay, OR) 6 hours: Hitchhiking 2 hours: reading 1 hour: writing 1/2 hour: watching the ocean February 11th (Tugman State Park/Coos Bay to Bandon. OR/Commune)   6 hours: Hitchhiking 1 ...
• W – Week 7 Log February 28, 2013 February 17th (Santa Barbara) 2 hours: reading 1 hour: homework/writing 2 hours: walking on the beach 1 hour: playing music February 18th (Santa Brabara to Santa Cruz, CA) 5 hours: driving back to Santa Cruz 1 hour: ...
• W – Week 8 Log February 27, 2013 February 24th (Davis to The Big Sur, CA) 4 hours: driving 3 hours: hiking 6 miles 1 hour: reading 1 hour: journaling/homework February 25th (The Big Sur, CA) 3 hours: hiking 5 miles 2 hours: reading .5 hours: ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Week 5 Bachelardian Reverie March 4, 2013 “‘There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to  every being, a thought to every name affection and memories to every thought'” (page 31) Wow. ...
• Week 6 Bachelardian Reverie March 3, 2013 Reverie Prompt:  pp 88, 93  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly ...
• Week 7 Bachelardian Reverie March 2, 2013 Reverie Prompt:  pp 139, 141  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “When I read this line by Edmond Vandercammen: ‘My childhood goes back to that wheaten bread,’ ...
• Week 8 Bachelardian Reverie March 1, 2013 “The night dream does not belong to us. It is not our possession. With regards to us, it is an abductor, the most disconcerting of abductors: it abducts our being ...

Poetry

• Week 5 Poetry Out of mind, his father boarded his boat, “The Midnight”, and rode out on the ocean to drown in the darkness. (Drowned)   His mother stood on the rubble of the Twin Towers, as a hundred ...
• Week 6 Poetry (Your) pheromones passed my nostrils and melted all but my skin.   Everything liquid I’m in there somewhere, swimming sinking diving drowning.   And suddenly I am drained and my body is dry and thirsty and I am a fish flopping on a ...
• Week 7 Poetry The passion of the world like gravity tugs at our rags and magnetizes us.   That which makes us tame and unraveled and untame with its limits and its limitlessness   Strange little prince who tugs at my rags and asks me ...
• Week 8 Poetry   God, you’re a vampire sucking my blood. You’re eating me up But… The world’s full of campfires Lights in the night Keep you’re head up   We roam the night with our hands tightly tied In search of a bite to ...
• Other Poetry 1.   To you, the kid’s crazy like stars’ dazzling sentence purple, and flashing internally the moon as punctuation(.)   2.   Bow, Sensei   3.   Earthen lungs, the ground breathes and blows kisses to the dragon in the sky. Bow to this, Sensei   4.   Fog intangible, tangle me until my first taste of ...

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Fall Term Paper Abstract

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During this exploration into the ways children learn, I will be introducing various arts and crafts forms to young children such as Handcraft, experiential art where the children can immerse themselves into projects while using feelings in combination with colors. Current professional texts contributing to my field study are; Reading the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene, The Arts and Human Development by Howard Gardner, The Waldorf Hand Work & Craft Curriculum from www.pyrites.org, and Adhocism by Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver. I want to teach arts and crafts in a way that creates a deep fulfilling communication between each child’s head, heart, and hands that presents the child as a whole. Crafting can be an outlet for people who have trouble expressing their feelings by speaking or writing with words. I am drawn to how the child’s mind develops as one uses his or her strongest learning style. I understand even the strongest learning styles can also be disrupted during times of distress. These learning styles are auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. The arts have been an uplifting practice throughout my own childhood. I want to ultimately share arts and crafts studies within the preschool through elementary age children in an inclusive learning environment with this contract. I have learned how to incorporate experiences from previous college work.

Patience is not something easily found.  The desire is to understand how patience can affect the ambition to pursue goals. During this single Spring quarter of field study in the program, As Poetry Recycles Neurons, the student will incorporate how the program creates a series of guides through the words of various poets and neuroscientists to illuminate a more tactile handle on life’s endeavors. Practices of seminar passes and peer reviews will continue in Monday and Tuesday sessions. During this time of study, the student will enter the realm of consciousness and dig for the origins of patience by reading some poetry and neurological-scientific articles based on patience.  This study will be a branch from a tree developed in the program’s Winter quarter called T is for Therapeutic Child Crafts that involved sharing the craft of origami with others which requires patient practice itself. In a culture moving so fast, patience is not readily obtainable in some cases for some people.  It is will optimism and real time journaling of life activities with others that I, the student, will try to reach and obtain the element of patience so necessary in human development to next have the persistence to create a well-constructed sturdy path to walk upon in life.

Patience is the foundation for accomplishing a task with the highest quality. Crafting, craftsmanship, and creativity rely on patience for one to aspire to greater things and state of mind. This spring portion of my study will focus on the patience necessary for pursuing those aspirations with research about teaching methods, artists’ biographies, and neuropsychology.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• T week 7 logs May 17, 2013 May 13th 3 hours drafting poems, 2 hours core peer session May 14th 5 hours core, 3 hours term paper revisions May 15th 4 hours term paper revisions, 2 hours reading The ...
• T week 6 May 10, 2013 May 8th  2 hours-writing notes calculated poetics 2 hours-reading The Tough Kid Toolbox 1 hour-writing poem drafts 1 hour-posting e-Alphabet work   May 9th 4 hours-piecing origami units together 2 hours-writing reverie May 10th  Posting work
• T week 5 May 10, 2013 T-Week 5 Logs hours April 29th 4 hours-reading The Arts and Human Development 2 hours-core program reading Neuro writing notes 2 hours-core program Monday 1-3 draft work April 30th 7 hours-participating in Tuesday core program 2 ...
• T logs Week 9 May 2, 2013 2 hours term paper revisions 3 hours practicing origami clam folds 1 hour reading 1 hour reviewing photos
• T Week 8 April 21, 2013 2 hours term paper revisions 2 hours editing photos 1 hour reading 1 hour writing reverie
• Work Cited March 17, 2013 Works Cited Gardner, Howard. The Arts and Human Development. New York: Basic, 1994. Print. Gardner, Howard. Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds. Boston, MA: ...
• T-logs February 21, 2013 T-Week 4 Log 22hrs February 1st 4 hours-reading The Arts and Human Development, Waldorf 2 hours-writing poem 3 hours-drawing February 2nd 4 hours-reading The Arts and Human Development 3 hours-drafting activities February 3rd 2 hours-teaching crafts 4 hours-writing notes and ...
• Week 5 Log January 30, 2013 Therapeutic Child Craft Leave a reply February 8th 4 hours – reading 2 hours – journaling about the relationship between the practice of arts and crafts during childhood as well as its influence on ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• T Neuro Reverie 9 May 28, 2013 Siproena Johnson As Poetry Recycles Neurons May.27.13 Neuro Reverie Week 9 Word Count 175   “Emotions course through the veins, engage the heart and the lungs, the bowels and the genitals, the muscles, the skin and ...
• Neuro Reverie w8 May 20, 2013 Siproena Johnson As Poetry Recycles Neurons 5/20/13 Seminar / Reverie week 8 Word Count 242   “It is not only that their arguments need to be located ‘in context’ as the saying goes (Tully 1988, 1993), ...
• T W6 Neuro reverie May 17, 2013 “No doubt for much of our history, these assumptions have been derived from a mixture of folk wisdom, theoretical doctrines, philosophies, and the accumulated experience of those who have exercised ...
• T W7 Neuro reverie May 13, 2013 Taking on Traffic “This is an element in a wider shift in strategies and policies in many societies toward preemption of unwanted incidents, including criminal offences.” (166, Rose, Abi-Rached)   Impatience grows, ...
• T-Reverie 3 February 21, 2013 “It’s time to get up Prena!” “You need to eat before we take you to school.”  Gas stove hums as I travel down the hall.  The chirping clock repeats grandma’s ...

Poetry

• My Patient Friend Siproena Johnson As Poetry Recycles Neurons 5/6/13 Word Count 236   My Patient Friend Waldo looks up lovingly as he lies on my stomach. Day break is coming and he motions for me to wake. This dog can ...
• Lost in Translation Siproena Johnson As Poetry Recycles Neurons 5/6/13 Tuesday Seminar Pass W6 Word Count 197     “No doubt for much of our history, these assumptions have been derived from a mixture of folk wisdom, theoretical doctrines, philosophies, ...
• Fragments of Perception Siproena Johnson As Poetry Recycles Neurons 5/7/13 Word Count 213   Fragments of Perception Skein; a grouping layering of collected frays, Finely textured throughout the length of the plane, Threads found exposed show abrasion has given way, The now ...
• Patience Siproena Johnson As Poetry Recycles Neurons 4/29/13 Seminar week 5 Word Count 200   “He appeared to be proceeding in the direction of the water, but at each line of transition between pavement slabs, he halted ...
• T-poetry observed As They See Me
• T Reverie Siproena Johnson March.5.13 Week 9 Reverie P188 Bachelard “But can’t those times of the speaking world be reborn?  Whoever goes to the bottom of reverie rediscovers natural reverie, a reverie of the original ...
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• Potential Perception Through Child’s Eyes It’s not always easy being a child, no matter how strong you’re loved or much less when unwanted There is often something in the way or literally out of ...
• T-Craft Children drive me to believe in possibilities Take in what exists while seeing what could be Children show me curiosity sustains the person to obtain and reach for new goals Children are more ...
• Time to Learn and Play Trampling of feet, tiny toddler size three shoes Delightfully energetic the child chorus approaches and grows Quickly! Such excitement cannot be suppressed! Giggles, screeches, and yays as the ambush of hugs makes headway ...

Poetry Observed

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Winter

Field Study Proposal

On this one month long feild study titled R is for Ruins, I will be taking an in depth look into what it means to be in a state of ruin or be in ruinicity. This means that I will be taking a good hard look at not only our conventional concept of ruins but I will be looking at society, culture, art, and self as a ruin or in the process of being in ruins. I plan to look at multiple texts but two titles that will be following me will be the book called Urban Wildscapes and another titled Industrial Ruins. I plan to incorporate poetry and artistic mediums in order to convey the ruination of Grays Harbor County, with a few situations or in depth looks into similar cases of ruination.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• R week 8 log March 3, 2013 February 25th 5hrs reading 3hr writing and experimenting with different poetic formats February 26th 5hrs writing 1hr – experimenting with html for presentation 1hr with different freeware for video capture for poetry observed project February 27th 2 hrs ...
• r- Week 7 log February 24, 2013 February 18th 4hrs reading 1hr writing and experimenting with different poetic formats February 19th 5hrs in Aberdeen and Hoquiam +writing notes while there + photography 1hr – Reading and Responding to Seminar Passes 1hr experimenting ...
• R-Log week 6 February 16, 2013 Crystal Muns Week 6 log Feb 11 5 hours reading 3 hours writing Feb 12 6 hours reading 1.5 hashing out thoughts in journal Feb 13 3 hours in Montesano (day time) 1 hour writing 4 hours reading Feb 14 3 hours of ...
• R week 5 log January 30, 2013 February 4th 2 hours – Yoga/peer review @ Evergreen 2 hours – Reading the book Ruins 1 hours – Writing February 5th 3 hours – derive to downtown Aberdeen -taking pictures of old structures along ...
• R – Practice weekly log post January 23, 2013 “If in the late twentieth century, as Lyotard has claimed, architecture and philosophy lie in ruins, leaving us only with the option of a ‘writing of the ruins’ as a kind of ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Week 8 Bachelard —Wheeler Ave. February 27, 2013 Wheeler Ave. Her wooden bones ache with the arthritis of winters countless embraces, snuggled up with the cobwebs and forgotten frames, she’s become lonely in her old age. If you take the time and talk ...
• “A Whole Vanished Universe” -R week 7 Bachalard February 24, 2013 “A Whole Vanished Universe” There is a certain smell that clings to these old places, it isn’t something easily defined by word or rhyme it is something particular to that time. It evokes those ...
• Hope in the Ruins —Bachelardian reverie #2 February 16, 2013 I come from broken buildings all crumpled over in despair. I come from penniless pockets and broken dreams, It’s a hard round world, constant infinity, the you is I, and I is U and we are nowhere ...
• R week 5 Bachelardian Reverie February 9, 2013 Ungendered The Femininity of words, is lost on the trickling of the brook, which can be defiled of lifted up by her opposite.   Scilence! the gender doesn’t matter It’s how you frame the picture, be it by candle and ...

Poetry

• A brief history of Hoquiam and Aberdeen I was looking back and decided that It would be beneficial to post a short history of industry in Hoquiam and Aberdeen, with links to more in depth histories at ...
• Little Nowhere Little Nowhere Some times there is a hope in the rot, Sometimes the roach is just another sign that we’re alive, The frailty of ruined frames draw power from ones own insecurities, Shove it away, Shove ...
• White-Walls Tale I  walk beneath the halls of old and in due time I felt as though the world above was as below, yet I could not see the truth be told past all the gloom ...
• La Vogue’s You’ve come a long way from the pet roaches behind the table there in back, where they hissed in their tank and the scent of damp wood clung to our nostrils. You’ve come a ...
• Heart of Decay These streets are narrow leading me on to the gates of heaven or hell, (It is what you make of it) and decasia slips through the floor boards, trickling onto my toes and pouring into ...

Poetry Observed

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Field Study Proposal

For my Individual Learning Contract (ILC) i will be conducting throughout the month of February a study on the counter-culture of punk and punk music around and in between the Olympia and greater Seattle areas. I will also be studying the start of punk culture, derived from punk music and try to figure out what is so important about this particular culture to these people, why they do the things they do and why they choose to live this sub culture lifestyle. Another piece of immersion in this ILC is that i would like to include is the immersion in the music and lyrics itself, studying various different artists from the 90s to the 2000s and possibly see the changes or similarities between the culture and sound of now and then. What i would hope to experience in this immersion is the link between counter and sub cultures with society, and from that the tie to government, which would (in theory) affect the sub-culture. I am connecting poetry to this ILC by immersing myself in this culture and simply writing about it based on feeling and experience. Punk music is very emotionally evoking music, so i am hoping to feel the music and translate it into poetry.

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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• co – week 8 log March 6, 2013 February 24th 7 hours – Interviewing Tammy and Quinten Butler February 25th 3 hours reading – Hebdige 3 hours – writing term paper 2 hours – listening to music February 26th 1.5 hours – watching “who killed ...
• co- week 7 log February 25, 2013 February 17th 4 hours – reading (Hebdige) 4 hours – listening to music February 18th 4 hours – reading (Debord) 2 hours – taking notes (Debord) February 19th 4 hours – writing poetry February 20th 2 hours – looking for shows 2 hours ...
• co- week 6 log February 18, 2013 February 10th 3 hours – researching Oi! 4 hours – listening to Oi! (The 4- skins, Dropkick Murphys, The Exploited, The Opressed, Mr Floppy, Slaughter and the Dogs, U.S. Chaos) February 11th 4 hours – reading (Biel) 2 ...
• co-week 5 log January 23, 2013 February 3rd 2.5 hours – researching bands and documentaries February 4th 4 hours – reading (Biel) 2 hour – going through highlighted areas and taking notes (Biel) February 5th 5 hours – listening to music ( Bikini Kill, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Choking ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Bachelard Reverie # 4 February 27, 2013   This anarchy runs through my veins, the fibers of my being  secrete rebellion and aspiration for justice. These streets speak to me, evoking an emotion only known as anarchy. Anarchy for order is the way ...
• Bachelard Reverie #3 February 21, 2013 “Attached to an odor memory, a childhood smells good.” (140)   a reverie; a state of being much like daydream or musing.   i was thinking of you. i walked past that empty lot ...
• Co Bachelard Reverie #2 February 13, 2013 “The most virile man, too simply characterized by a strong animus, also has an anima– an anima which can have paradoxical manifestations. In the same way, the most feminine woman also has psychic ...
• Co Bachelard Reverie #1 January 30, 2013  “a word can be a dawn and a sure shelter.” (47) Je Suis La Lune Je suis la lune et j’taime. throughout the night, the night i first caught the light in your ...

Poetry

• I hold no value to you Have we all been morphed into sheep? Waiting in line to be stripped naked, our pink flesh exposed to the cold chill of reality. This makes us more vulnerable, more likely to ...
• Punk Is… Punk is the freedom to write this fucking poem any way I want to, Who are they to try and tell me I can’t? Does it threaten ones sensibilities so much? They’re just ...
• THE PUNK PIT we dance like animals fighting, kicking and screaming in close quarters. the group smells of stale beer and cigarettes and anything else we’re wearing that doesn’t get washed. boots clash on boots and spikes scrape ...
• Unoriginal Genius: Anarchy For The U.K. UNORIGINAL GENIUS: ANARCHY FOR THE U.K. Anarchy for the U.K. Is this the MPLA? or is this the UDA? or is this the IRA? I thought it was the U.K. How many ways to get what ...

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Term Paper Abstract

Fall:

We are always looking for something to gain, but maybe the easiest way to gain what we are looking for is located in all the things that we don’t understand. Knowledge is rich with all the answers to the world. When confronted with something we do not understand we must battle to gain the most knowledge about that subject as we can in order to fully understand it. You must see it from many angles and many perspectives to really truly gain full understanding. In gaining these understandings you will gain the understanding of the world.

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Winter: 

“It was not a genre of music, it was more discontent with how things had flowed and unemployment in the U.K. at that time.” Quinten Butler.

            When looking at the term “Punk” what comes to mind? Is it a fashion? A culture? A type of music? Maybe it’s just the grimy kid sitting on the side of the street smoking a cigarette in a studded vest. When going through an exploration of punk music you begin to realize and understand that it is not just a song, it’s a statement. In every chord there is a story, in every word spoken there is a history. The deeper you get into this type of counter-culture the more you understand what things like Anarchy for the U.K. really mean. Establishment controlling society to the point of forcing the development of this counter-culture is where punk really came from. It wasn’t music; it was a movement against the establishment. 

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