It's been a while

Started back on this blog because I have had my other classes start blogs on their own for extra credit. As someone who thinks blogs can be put to good use in academia, I think that I need to continue writing now and then on here just to get the feeling back. The problem at this point is finding a topic by which I set a theme with. I am not sure what my purpose here on cyberspace is. So, I will have to see how it goes. One idea is to put it towards poetry and fiction writing, but again I am not sure. I will have to see if putting it on the web might compromise publishing chances, so that I will have to check out. I will get back with you.

Week 16-Final Week

Well, I have finished all three of my poetry montages and they seem to be working all right. Today is the day that we do a dry run in class so hopefully I will be able to present them. I have other ideas for poetry montages that I might try to get together during the break if I get a chance to do some more filming.

Week 15-Slaughterhouse

I was able to go to get permission to film in a slaughter house this week. I tried to go film the butcher at Brookshires but it was a no go. There was too much bureaucratic red tape to get through so I gave up on that. But I called a local slaughterhouse near my hometown and told them that I was doing a school project and they were okay with it. In fact I had a guy show me the ropes by boning a few sides of hog right in front of me, plus show the killing floor to me. They were very nice and informative in showing me this art which is rapidly dying in America today. I plan to go back for another poem which I plan to write call "The Killing Floor" sometime after finals week. They said they could show me killing a beef to go with my poem. However I am not sure at this point if I want to go through with it since I think the point of the poem would be lost in the graphic nature of the content.

Week 14-New Ideas

I have an idea for what I am going to submit for the Celebration of Writing that will happen on May 14, 2009. I also think that I will submit to the Minnesota convention that will be happening in July. It ought to be a lot of fun, plus I can get my poetry out there. My third and final project is going to be my poem "The Butcher". I decided on it just right now in class, and I believe I will get the filming done at Brookshires because they have a butcher shop on the premises. I called them today, and I am going to meet with them tomorrow. The assistant manager who is the butcher seemed to be all right with it. Sylvester is helping me with my audio so that should be up and running with my film as early as next week. I think things are really starting to come together and I could definitely envisioning myself doing a series of poem montages over the working class experience.

Week 13-Technical Difficulties

I got a lot of filming done this weekend at Bowles' station. Got a lot of good shots of the station and the people who work there as well. However I am still having problems putting everything together, technical difficulties if you will. Everytime I think I have it saved it does not show up on my drive and I cannot add them to the material that I already have. I don't why this always happens every week but it screws up my work and I can never get anything completed to form that I like. It is very frustrating. No, strike that. It really pisses me off!

Week 12-Problems with Audio

I am having problems with the audio for my poem montage. For some reason I cannot download from my audio recorder the poem I read aloud. I still have it on my recorder(as I have just checked a moment ago), yet I still could not find it when I was working with audacity last night. That seems to be a big problem with my work; finding the work after I have saved it. I am not sure why it is so hard to find my work, but it has caused me the most problems thus far. And update on my final project, I am going to get some more video for it this weekend while I am home. I have gotten some new ideas and will fill you in on them later. Until then, sayonara!

Week 11-Poem Montage

I finished filming for my montage poem entitled "Grandfather's Shotgun", along with the audio narration of the poem. Now I just have to put the audio with the film and should be set. However, the film is longer than the poem so I might have to cut some of the film in order for them to go together. I am not sure how to do this, but hopefully next week I will have an idea. By the next class period I should have a finished product. It will be kind of rough but I believe it will get my point across.