Questions We Can Help You To Answer
Paper instructions:
VIDEO LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egnB3teYiPQ
Writing Your Post/Reviews
You will include on your site three posts that are essentially your responses (in the form of an essay with embedded media and hyperlinks) to an online video or article, in the context of the major key topics of this course (the creation of interactive sound, visual, or text media; performance using digital media; cultural or aesthetic 'pulses' that incorporate or prefigure digital media; emerging technologies, aesthetics, or cultural practices; existing works of art or culture that have impacted contemporary digital media; etc.)
In these posts:
Select one or more videos from OffBook, Idea Channel, BigThink, TED Talks, UBU.com, Nerdwriter, and OpenCulture. These videos should be relevant to the topics in the course and help address major concerns of the topic (see online web resources for sample links and Additional Resources below).
Embed the central video of your post at the top of the page. Copy the 'embed' code on YouTube or Vimeo, and past it within paragraph (<p> </p>) tags on the reviews.html (or reviews2 or reviews3) page.
Summarize what the topic is examining, and provide a context for it.
Summarize (briefly!) your reaction or connection to the material—why you were moved or affected by it, why it meant something to you, or not
Include at least 3 additional live, working links that would help us further understand the topic. Try to find links that are very relevant to the topic, but try to discover new material that’s not already linked in the Course Resources. Material produced by PBS, NPR, or the BBC are usually good places to start. You can include the links separately under the Sidebar part of the page, or you can refer and link to them in the body text.
Include 15-20 really focused tags for the page (and tags need to be rather specific, for example “Lego Art” or “Call of Duty”, not “choice”, “influence”, “newer”, “interesting”, etc.). For now, just include a paragraph at the bottom of the page labeled 'Tags' and list them, separated by commas. If you want to include them in the <head> tag of the page, follow guidelines here (Links to an external site.).
Your review/post should be between 300 – 500 words. Spelling, grammar, and effective writing are taken into account in your grading.
Use the FREE version of Grammarly (https://www.grammarly.com/ (Links to an external site.)) to PROOFREAD your article. You may also want to read your article out loud to a friend or roommate. Between these two methods, you should have near perfect spelling and grammar! (Style and structure are your responsibility—Grammarly doesn't always know what's best here.)
When you've completed your essay, publish/update the page on your Wordpress site, and submit the URL on your Assignment page. Late assignments have 5% reduced from the assignment grade.
Additional Resources
Below are more topics from Nerdwriter and School of Life:
Nerdwriter Art Case Studies (Links to an external site.):
Melancholia: Depression on Film
The Prestige: Hiding in Plain Sight
In Bruges: Morality in Dialogue
Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It’s The Best
Heat: The Perfect Blend of Realism and Style
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: What Dreams Cost
Inside Out: Emotional Theory Comes Alive
Eastern Promises: A Study of Bodies
Breathless: How World War II Changed Cinema
Pan’s Labyrinth: Disobedient Fairy Tale
Hopper’s Nighthawks: Look Through The Window
Ghost In The Shell: Identity in Space
Children of Men: Don’t Ignore The Background
What is The Treachery of Images?
A Serious Man: Can Life Be Understood?
Yeats’s Leda and the Swan: The Power of Poetry
In the Mood For Love: Frames Within Frames
Cezanne’s Large Bathers: Painting Raw Experience
The Death of Socrates: How To Read A Painting
The Wolf of Wall Street: Cinema of Excess
Blade Runner: The Other Side of Modernity
Snowpiercer: The Artist As Historian
Under The Skin: The Pain of Art House Films
Nerdwriter Art Essays: (Links to an external site.)
How Steely Dan Composes A Song
The Serial: From Dickens To Star Wars
How Alfred Hitchcock Blocks A Scene
Ansel Adams: Photography With Intention
Ren & Stimpy: Never The Same Face Twice
How E.E. Cummings Writes A Poem
Lord Of The Rings: How Music Elevates Story
Rihanna’s ‘Work’ Is Not Tropical House
How Art Can Transform The Internet
The Evolution of Batman’s Gotham City
Middle Earth and The Perils of Worldbuilding
Craig Ferguson: A Late Night Revolutionary
The Unique Art of Video Games
Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage
The Mythic Potential of Comic Book Films
Lawrence Durrell: Relativity in Literature
Vlog #53 – Did Shakespeare Invent Love?
Vlog #40 – Cyberpunk
Vlog #37 – 3D Movies
Vlog #28 – Independent Filmmaking
Vlog #26 – Ode to Nightingale
Clark Kent is Superman’s True Identity (V25)
(Links to an external site.)
School Of Life Literature, Philosphy, and Arts: (Links to an external site.)
History of Ideas – Rituals
History of Ideas – Manners
History of Ideas – Failure
History of Ideas – Religion
History of Ideas – French & English Gardens
History of Ideas – Art
History of Ideas – The Renaissance
History of Ideas – Ancient Greece
History of Ideas – Monasticism
History of Ideas – Wabi-sabi
History of Ideas – Love
History of Ideas – Work
History of Ideas – Capitalism
History of Ideas – Romanticism
Literature – Voltaire
Literature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literature – Franz Kafka
Literature – Jane Austen
Literature – Goethe
Literature – Charles Dickens
Literature – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Literature – Leo Tolstoy
Literature – Marcel Proust
Literature – Virginia Woolf
Art/Architecture – Andrea Palladio
Art/Architecture – Dieter Rams
Art/Architecture – Johannes Vermeer
Art/Architecture – Henri Matisse
Art/Architecture – Edward Hopper
Art/Architecture – Caspar David Friedrich
Art/Architecture – Cy Twombly
Art/Architecture – Andy Warhol
What is Art For?
