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Post by jay on Jan 6, 2010 18:09:25 GMT
^ that confused the hell out of me. wat?
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Post by newslang on Jan 6, 2010 18:21:21 GMT
haha I'm a BIT confused as well. It was like "fin"-ance as in fin of a fish, as opposed to "fine"-ance. It could be right, but it was still annoying haha
I once had an economics prof who said "echo-nomies" instead of "econ-omies" which also drove me crazy.
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Post by jadeface on Jan 6, 2010 19:10:02 GMT
I was quite average at regular school growing up, but the way I was taught was in my opinion, not education, it was just a really prolonged series of memorising things that they wanted you to learn and then doing tests where you have to recall what you were told and then you got a grade, and mostly it was good and then it made the school look good, even when it wasn't.
The only subjects that you could really think for yourself were Art and to a point, English, but even then you were told exactly how things were to be done, and you were told exactly how to analyse text, so deep down there was total control on that too. I then went to sixth form and I did psychology for a year, which although really interesting to me (and I still read psychology books now) because I could not memorise experiments and names and dates, I did terribly. I did English Language, Literature, and Media as my other subjects and I did fairly well in them, but not amazingly. I didn't feel like it meant I wasn't successful that I didn't get A's though. Maybe it's wrong to think that, but it was still abiding by rules and getting rewarded for it.
When I first went to University I was really interested in how it was much more serious but way more laid back. Baring in mind I was going to a terrible University where the teaching was pretty dire, but actually you were encouraged (to an extent) think for yourself in terms of theory and do your own research without certain books being rammed down your throat. However on this course, my film work became frustrating because I was told exactly how it was acceptable to structure it. And I don't want to make things exactly the same as everyone else. I was being built up to do advertising work and promotional videos. So I transferred to an art course, where I now have total freedom. Lots of people don't get along so well with art courses (some might be different than mine obviously) but it is very self-directed, and if you haven't really experienced being completely told what to do, you might get lazy and not do any work because you're used to being told to. It's perfect for me, though. I like having freedom to create my own ideas and create whatever I want, and back it up with my own research. It's harder work but I find it more rewarding and so far, so good. I screened one of my films in a crit and I wasn't allowed to explain the piece, and everyone commented on it exactly the way I wanted to. So I think all the research I did behind it, on human behaviour and the way I constructed it must have worked. I'm not sure what I will do with this when I graduate, but art is more of a hobby for me I think. But creative things have always excited me, and I think it's the field I will work in. I think as a career I will probably like to do documentation, like filming events work, and also get into working on film sets which I have done quite a bit of now. Who knows. I don't think the Education system here is anywhere near as good as other countries though. But I'm also not sure of what makes 'good' education. I like to be aware of what is happening in the world, but if I spent my whole life reading theories my head would explode.
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Post by Rhiflect on Jan 6, 2010 19:34:10 GMT
Oh that's interesting! How odd!
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Post by sarah on Jan 6, 2010 21:12:23 GMT
HEY GIUTHH IMA NERD AM I COOL YET GIUUTTH I LIKE TO PLEEY VIDEO GAMES
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Jan 6, 2010 21:21:02 GMT
how did you get a photo of my ex
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Post by irrelevant on Jan 6, 2010 21:22:17 GMT
that man can lead me into battle any day.
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Post by sarah on Jan 6, 2010 21:47:43 GMT
i bet he's got loads of hp
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Post by irrelevant on Jan 6, 2010 22:23:02 GMT
agreed. and after training me with his lightsaber prowess, i could return the favor and point out to him how to get in the pants of the LARP wenches and barmaids on the 'hard' setting. with booze being the effective warp zone, of course.
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Post by mimicry on Jan 7, 2010 4:00:41 GMT
A masked bandit leaps onto the road in front of you. He shouts, "Your GP or your HP!"
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Post by irrelevant on Jan 7, 2010 22:22:11 GMT
i think this is the point in a nerd-based conversation where i convince myself that: life is an elaborate illusion, where free will is but a myth, so there is no such thing as personal responsibility.
then never turn off my snes and play video games endlessly until i forget what i am.
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Post by helwin tins on Jan 12, 2010 21:11:03 GMT
I'm currently writing an essay on the extent to which photography helps perpetuate gender sterotypes.
Any ideas?
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Post by mimicry on Jan 12, 2010 21:45:43 GMT
I would think that photography is very good at subverting gender stereotypes-- since photography, due to its mimetic nature, is often viewed as "proof" that something existed. Catherine Opie is a good photographer to look at for that. One of her series (I forget the title, silly me) is interesting because it calls into question one's typical markers of gender. Are these women wearing fake mustaches, or effeminate-looking men who shaved and are wearing fake mustaches? I can't find the best examples, now. Here are some though: As for this one, Self-Portrait, if one didn't know her name and that this was a self-portrait, how could one tell the gender of the sitter? Another good one is a Lyle Ashton Harris series. The one from it I'm thinking of is called "The Sisterhood" or something like that, and it's him with Renee Cox posed like a couple and holding a child. However, he is dressed as the woman and Cox is dressed as the man. It took a little while looking at it to realize. Here is a different one from that series (photobucket might delete it, heh) LAH wasn't just dealing with issues of gender, but of race and sexuality in response to certain issues in the Black community at the time. LAH is on the right, and I think on the left is an edited Renee Cox, but don't take my word for it. Anyway, the point is that since photography is frequently read as proof/reality, artists can subvert gender (specifically visual markings of gender in these examples) in order to discuss gender. And I'm not sure if this actually answers your question.
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Post by sarah on Jan 12, 2010 21:56:57 GMT
write about photos of dickgirls and say NO PHOTOS DO NOT HAVE GENDER STEREOTYPES HOW COULD A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GIRL WITH A DICK MEAN THAT i don't know
i'm sorry that was not of any use but i still think you should write about dickgirls
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Jan 12, 2010 22:21:24 GMT
I don't know sorry, I'm rubbish at this sort of stuff. If I had to do it though I'd write about maybe the Harajuku area in Japan and how the girls have all those different stereotypical 'girly' styles like Gothic/Punk/Sweet Lolita, and do nothing but sit around and let tourists take their photos (maybe perpetuating the 'just sit around and llok pretty' stereotype?) which is how it caught on here and other places (The ganguro girls) so that you now have English schoolgirls influenced by the Japanese schoolgirl's impression of Western schoolgirls, which is getting a bit complicated. I suppose the problem is that although it's facilitated by and in a way dependent on photography (you can buy a book that's purely photographs from FRUiTS in Waterstones) it's quit gimmicky and not especially realistic (although if you look into it there are a lot of worries and negative views with comparisons of Valley girls and spoilt yuppie kids) Sorry that was probably no help Is anyone familiar with Bakhtin/Discourse in the Novel/heteroglossia?
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Post by helwin tins on Jan 12, 2010 22:54:02 GMT
Excellent answers guys! Especially you Sarah, dickgirls is the right answer Seriously though, thanks, the only other person I asked said "Just write the word anal. It's not 1500 words but the relevance will make up for that" +exalt to clare for providing photos i can use
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Post by helwin tins on Jan 13, 2010 0:01:05 GMT
Good point Annabel. I've already done the obvious point of gender stereotypes in advertising, but I didn't think of androgyny in fashion. This essay's becoming a lot easier/more fun!
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Mar 15, 2010 17:55:23 GMT
We did post-structuralism and deconstruction and Derrida and binary systems etc, so like how men define themselves as other than women, but they rely on the presence of women to set themselves against, or how friendship's as much based on exclusivity as it is inclusivity, so to make friends with people you need to have enemies and non-friends and in a way you're just as dependent on those. And in the seminar the leader wanted other examples and someone said darkness and light and then I had those two lines of Accident & Emergency in my head about 'If you never lose how you gonna when you've won/And if it's never dark well how you gonna know the sun' ;D It made it more interesting for me anyway, I know what a boring post this is, just wanted to splurge it.
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Post by mimicry on Mar 15, 2010 23:42:14 GMT
Derrida <3
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Mar 16, 2010 13:52:52 GMT
Would you recommend The Politics Of Friendship?
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