January 28, 2008
Comics
I really enjoyed reading Scott McCloud's "Writing and Art." It really gave me a new perspective on comics. I always read the comics in the Sunday news growing up, but never really gave much thought to the fact that comics could ever really be something more besides little colorful panels in the newspaper. I never really thought that they could be made into novels, or even have much of a point to them besides to make a quick joke. I never really thought about how ancient cave art, art on tapestries, and other such historical pieces could be considered comics, but if you think about it, they really fit all the criteria necessary for a comic. This makes comics really an integral part of the history of civilization, which I find to be very interesting. I also found the fact that McCloud chose to write an entire essay in comic form. I found it much easier to read essays in this form, because the pictures helped to illustrate the point he was trying to make, and the fact that it was broken up into panels helped to hold my attention more affectively. Overall, I found this essay to be very thought-provoking as to where comics came from and where they are going in the future.
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January 20, 2008
Short Paper 2 reflection
Through writing our first two short papers, I really got a chance to take in how much technology has changed my life. I never realized how much technology has evolved through just the short period of my lifetime. I can remember being very young and having a bulky computer with a small green screen, and the only thing it could really be used for was word processing. Now, with the internet revolution computers are capable of doing things that sounded incredibly far fetched just 15 years ago. Most changes are very favorable, however, in my opinion, since we now have so much information at our fingertips, more work is expected of us. Not to pick on this assignment, but in previous years, there never could have been work due on weekends, and now I consistently have at least two assignments due every weekend. This is not necessarily a bad thing, I mean, we have this technology to do so much more in a short period of time so we might as well use it and not waste it.
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