Writing Britney

Everyone should check out Jane Dark's take on Britney's new album. Thinking and writing about art . . . thinking and writing the world we actually live in . . . thinking and writing with acute critical intelligence. Dig it, OK?

Red Tree

I've read so many great posts from the Red Tree exercise, I wanted to make sure we didn't lose the image. Some really great writing has been popping up in class and online. Keep it coming!

Dazed Glonuts::Life=Art=Freewrite=Things in Traffic

Too much of a coincidence to go unnoted: on the same day that we do the "Overturned Truck Spills Things on Road," I discover that one of ONLY TWO GOOGLE HITS IN THE WHOLE WORLD FOR "DAZED GLONUTS" is someone blogging about donuts lying in traffic. ["I can just picture the poor donuts as they slid onto the road, their little O-shaped mouths screaming," she writes!] Once you get really good at being loose in the writing exercises, you too will enjoy the types of OMNISCIENT SUPERPOWERS I possess to see across the space-time continuum like this.

Big Audio Dynamite...

...with Chantale reading our Exquisite Corpse.

Mr. Dynamite Blogs!

You can check out the voice of, I don't know, the author, the character, or just the plain vibe right here. Whatever it is, it's a good taste of what we're in for with this great novel. The only homework I recommend saving for the weekend is CREATIVE WRITING "homework."

My first post

OK- now that we are all up and running, we can begin blogging about creative writing and art! You should write (at least!) two posts a week, as well as make two comments on posts on your classmates' blogs. This is your opportunity to share ideas, writing, whatever-- about the things we talk about in class, things you read, whatever. YES!- you can post your creative writing.

Don't forget to use ALL the tools at your disposal in the blog/internet world. For example, you can link to leaves and fountains. Not to mention YouTube pieces that critique our assumptions about beauty.

So, taking all three of these pieces of "art" together, the question is this: what value does beauty add to a work of art?