Monthly Archives: January 2005

NEW MEDIA: Re-remediating

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Susan

Spent a semester plus the last couple months getting excited about turning plain text into active graphics and sound.  Just spent a part of the day turning the new media format of weblogging into plain old text.  And punching slots … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Contemporary Poetry

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Susan

Unfortunately, I don’t feel qualified to judge the trends of modern poetry–or fiction, for that matter–but I can say with some confidence, that there is a bit of the Jackson Pollack grand show going on here.  Oh come on, admit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: A Call to the Senses

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Susan

While technology may seem to put us at arm’s length from our fellowman, it literally puts us within arm’s length of the world at large via the internet.  With everything but scent–and that is something a skillful writer can accomplish … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Metaphor

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Susan

The serpent shed its skin and so we too.  Gliding on the soft green tender grasses silently and swift.  It is the quick way to the quest, the guess of what is real, sideways dodging that which dry and crisp … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Deadmistress

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Susan

For our upcoming April Writers Conference, we were fortunate enough to get Dr. Carole B. Shmurak as a speaker.  Dr. Shmurak is the author of Deadmistress, a mystery novel, as well as co-author of a children’s book series following the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Evolution

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Susan

Cold.  Brittle squeaky snow.  Bone white bleached landscape bleached bone white.  Sets cold bones to rattling in their shell of pink muscle, fat and skin.  Lost the insulating hair of the original design, lost the mindset of survival, lost the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & TECHNOLOGY: = Happy

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Susan

Good day.  Happy day.  Managed to maneuver my way through DOS in the old computer to fix it up to a WIN 98 reinstall. Don’t know if that was the problem, but it seemed that the hard drive, which is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Stiff

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Susan

Couldn’t help but peek into Mary Roach’s "Stiff – The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers."  She hooked me right in with this statement in her introduction:  "A book about dead bodies is a conversational curve ball.  It’s all well and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Blogbinders

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Susan

Blogbinders is a web service I heard about through Katey at One Good Bumblebee and I decided to try it for a quick bound journal of the entries I’ve made on New Media.  While I don’t think it’s going to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Duality

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Susan

One of the hardest things for me to reconcile in life, I think, is balance between the worlds of the material and of the mind. If in fact there is a place beyond our given years on earth, and soul … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Philosophy

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Susan

Oh great to be a Greek thinker. Wearing long dress and sandles; sitting, writing, contemplating.  Family fortune replacing need to make a living, civilization not caught up yet to an eight-hour day.  Spouting bits of wisdom based in time sought … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Snow

Posted on January 16, 2005 by Susan

Snow smells like fresh nothing.  It feels wet, and cold and soft, and tastes like cool clean spring water.  It sounds like swooshes and soft plops on cement, and lands without sound on the bush tops.  It looks like white … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Hard day

Posted on January 16, 2005 by Susan

Just seems that things can go from bad to worse in a hurry. Software problems are tougher to fix, I thought, than hardware for me, but I’m stumped. Have been trying all day to fix my dad’s old computer for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: History

Posted on January 16, 2005 by Susan

What a day; lapwarmer (Del), reading material (Suttree, Macromedia Studio Training, Glimmertrain), pesto/garlic wraps ready to be stuffed for lunch, didn’t have to make the trip to my dad’s house, a computer to fix, bills paid, grocery shopping done, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Spinning Wheels

Posted on January 16, 2005 by Susan

Here I am, up to my eyeballs in new media methods, have some of the best software installed, even tried to use a service that supposedly can do it all for me with a simple click of the button (anyone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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