Richard Martirosian (Richpianist@gmail.com) Testing this blog out as well; I was wondering what will happen due monday, should we just have monday's assignment ready for wednesday, or will a new syllabus start on wednesday after labor day? Well, I will get the books and start reading anyway. I want to start reading persepolis! It sounds and looks interesting.
I'm still not sure as to what reading assignment we have to do for this upcoming wednesday. The next assignment that is written is dated for Monday Sept. 8th..so what exactly do I need to do to prepare for the next class? Other than that, this class is going to be great! -Suzy (NYcSweety511@yahoo.com
Annie Dillard’s “Seeing” – pp.108-117 Alfred Leslie’s “Television Moon” – pp. 90-92
This article “Seeing” by Annie Dillard, she expresses about how nature truly reflected under the human eyes. She also discovers people always focus on outer of objects, not inner of objects. In her childhood, she likes to hide pennies under the root of tree for someone to find it. But now, she doesn’t do it anymore. She hides pennies in somewhere with signs of “Surprise Ahead” or “Money This Way” for lucky men to find. She was very excited to guess who would find this free gift from the universe. She explained about dire poverty and healthy poverty which means you have nothing and have nothing to lose. If you got the penny, the penny would bring a lifetime of days. In fact, she used “penny” for symbolized devalue things. As she said “What you see is what you get” in other word, you can know many unseen things throughout you seeing. Between dark and light, she expressed everything is not always what is seems to be. According her study, she found out blind or color blindness patients how to relate everything in the world. They could not see anything, but they could feel the colors and shapes of objects. So she tries to learn how to see in their ways. After then, she explored beauty, power and gentle inner of objects. Annie Dillard was born in 1945. She studied English, Theology and creative writing. She spends her four seasons on living near Tinker Creek. She also took journey with notes about her experiences and thoughts on the beauty of nature. So this article “Seeing” was written by her experiences. During her journey in Tinker Creek, she discovered how to see beauty nature in different ways. The “Television Moon pictures” was made by Alfred Leslie, (The picture’s background is black; there is a TV in the middle and a phone, a pan, a card and red shoes on the top of TV. On the left of TV is a blue sandal. On the right side of TV is a yellow chair) his eyes were sharp for looking many details. His art is an abstract expressionist. He had ever worked in film, and then he came back to art again. In his art contains a moral for somebody thinking. He was born in New York in 1927, he studied in New York. In 1946, he became an artist. After I read this article, I know objects have two different views include inner and outer. I am interested in her writing; she teaches me how to see nature in different ways. In my life, I don’t pay much attention about nature and its beauty. Sometimes, I don’t notice the inside of nature. In other hand, when you really look at something very carefully, you will find something difference between inner and outer of objects. For example, you going to buy apples in supermarket, you find a beautiful apple which it is big, red and smooth. After you eat it, you find the apple is rot. You will fell upset when you know the apple is different than its look. However, I find out the vision of granted is not only way to look at, but understand every moment of it.
Ode to Orange by Isabel Allende -pp. 27-49 “Omayra Sanchez” by Isabel Allende. She wrote a story about Omayra. Omayra was a 13 years old girl who lived in Colombia. Allende had seen her once, but in the picture. When her daughter was sick. She had begun to remember Omayra. Because she said Omayra taught her to accept tragedies and deaths. In fact, Omayra didn’t really teach her. Allende used her imagination to feel what she thinks. She also understood the poverty, death, sickness or failure could not control by human. She didn’t died, she live in everybody’s heart. She is still alive with her spirit in their memories. She encountered the image of Omayra at first time. Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Chile. After her uncle died. She left her country. The beginning of story is a true story. Her daughter named Paula died. This site provided a clear context for Allende’s essay “Omayra Sanchez”. So it is a reason to explain why she deepens feels the death cannot control after she saw Omayra’s pictures. I felt sympathy to her when I finished this story. As she said “…anything that is inexplicable or uncontrollable, like poverty, death, sickness, or failure” I agree with this quote. People can control their money, marriage, business and family. But they cannot control their destinies. In my childhood, I had a best friend. Her family was poor. Every days and nights, they were working all the time. Unfortunately, her mother got sick. I didn’t see her go to class for many days. So I tried to contract her. She told me that her mother was dead. I didn’t have any reactions to her, I just felt disappointment. In this moment, I thought the life time of people were very short. The poverty and sickness would come to you without warming. You could not know what things would happen in the future. The lessons teach me that to treasure my things which I have.
Alfred Leslie “Television Moon” pages 90-92, “ When first confronting the photograph known as Television Moon, my eyes eagerly searched for a large luminous object, an object that would somehow grasp my attention by its appearance and size. However, I found myself doing the complete opposite. I was looking for the moon. I finally found it in the television but my expectations were not fulfilled. The setting was somewhat mysterious, gloomy and pale. The simplicity of the picture somehow dissatisfied me. I began observing the other objects: the sneakers, sandals, chair, telephone and plate. The more I looked and drew my attention to them, the more the simplest objects became alive. I began to see the yellow of the chair pop out as well as the blueness of the sneakers. Then I suddenly saw the moon more sharply, its whiteness and defined curve leaped out of the darkness behind it. Alfred Leslie wanted to show the moon through a nonrealistic sense: through a television. Leslie portrayed a moon other than the large, luminous rock out in space. Because of its simplicity it required me to look deeper into the photo and observe more than just the ordinary. This proves to show that in our daily lives that there is more to the ordinary. Captivating and insightful things can come from the simplest things in our life. What may seem dark and regular may really be something beautiful and extraordinary. Just like the Chair, once I decided to really look and appreciate it, the rusty yellow came alive and drew me to see the sea blue sandals. The colors seemed to make such a beautiful contrast to the dark and pale background, thus displaying in its simplicity, its true beauty and uniqueness. This can tell us that there is light in the darkness. There is hope in the midst of disorder and darkness. That there is a “moon” in the least expected place that will help guide us. Annie Dillard’s “SEEING “pages 108-117 Annie Dillard’s “Seeing” speaks about nature and seeing the things in nature that is not often seen. Like the wind blowing instead of a house across the street or even the insects flying by rather than the tree ahead. Sometimes it is hard to see these things especially when it’s not made a habit or fails to practice being on the lookout for the “utterly common” things that happen around us every day. Trying to see the everyday happenings that many can’t see allows us to see what Dillard mentions the artificial obvious, things that are so hard to see and are almost impossible to see, but do happen around us. Unless we catch our attention to what Is at the moment passing us by, we will not see or observe. Annie Dillard is not saying to see the ordinary differently but look beyond it, in front of it, and to the side. Dillard also portrays a concern: as writers we must be careful of what we see because what we see and observe is what we may ultimately write. If we choice to see the many wonders of the obvious, our writing will then be more creative, filled with many different juices and flavors. Overall Dillard expressed the different ways of seeing; Seeing with a camera, shot by shot or seeing with our own eyes as the camera, our eye lids shuttering, opening, and clicking as we choice them too or even more simply seeing through our minds.
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Richard Martirosian (Richpianist@gmail.com)
Testing this blog out as well; I was wondering what will happen due monday, should we just have monday's assignment ready for wednesday, or will a new syllabus start on wednesday after labor day?
Well, I will get the books and start reading anyway. I want to start reading persepolis! It sounds and looks interesting.
I had the same concern regarding the syllabus. Persepolis does look like an interesting book, I think this class is going to be great.
I'm still not sure as to what reading assignment we have to do for this upcoming wednesday. The next assignment that is written is dated for Monday Sept. 8th..so what exactly do I need to do to prepare for the next class?
Other than that, this class is going to be great!
-Suzy (NYcSweety511@yahoo.com
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Annie Dillard’s “Seeing” – pp.108-117
Alfred Leslie’s “Television Moon” – pp. 90-92
This article “Seeing” by Annie Dillard, she expresses about how nature truly reflected under the human eyes. She also discovers people always focus on outer of objects, not inner of objects. In her childhood, she likes to hide pennies under the root of tree for someone to find it. But now, she doesn’t do it anymore. She hides pennies in somewhere with signs of “Surprise Ahead” or “Money This Way” for lucky men to find. She was very excited to guess who would find this free gift from the universe. She explained about dire poverty and healthy poverty which means you have nothing and have nothing to lose. If you got the penny, the penny would bring a lifetime of days. In fact, she used “penny” for symbolized devalue things. As she said “What you see is what you get” in other word, you can know many unseen things throughout you seeing. Between dark and light, she expressed everything is not always what is seems to be. According her study, she found out blind or color blindness patients how to relate everything in the world. They could not see anything, but they could feel the colors and shapes of objects. So she tries to learn how to see in their ways. After then, she explored beauty, power and gentle inner of objects. Annie Dillard was born in 1945. She studied English, Theology and creative writing. She spends her four seasons on living near Tinker Creek. She also took journey with notes about her experiences and thoughts on the beauty of nature. So this article “Seeing” was written by her experiences. During her journey in Tinker Creek, she discovered how to see beauty nature in different ways.
The “Television Moon pictures” was made by Alfred Leslie, (The picture’s background is black; there is a TV in the middle and a phone, a pan, a card and red shoes on the top of TV. On the left of TV is a blue sandal. On the right side of TV is a yellow chair) his eyes were sharp for looking many details. His art is an abstract expressionist. He had ever worked in film, and then he came back to art again. In his art contains a moral for somebody thinking. He was born in New York in 1927, he studied in New York. In 1946, he became an artist.
After I read this article, I know objects have two different views include inner and outer. I am interested in her writing; she teaches me how to see nature in different ways. In my life, I don’t pay much attention about nature and its beauty. Sometimes, I don’t notice the inside of nature. In other hand, when you really look at something very carefully, you will find something difference between inner and outer of objects. For example, you going to buy apples in supermarket, you find a beautiful apple which it is big, red and smooth. After you eat it, you find the apple is rot. You will fell upset when you know the apple is different than its look. However, I find out the vision of granted is not only way to look at, but understand every moment of it.
Ode to Orange by Isabel Allende -pp. 27-49
“Omayra Sanchez” by Isabel Allende. She wrote a story about Omayra. Omayra was a 13 years old girl who lived in Colombia. Allende had seen her once, but in the picture. When her daughter was sick. She had begun to remember Omayra. Because she said Omayra taught her to accept tragedies and deaths. In fact, Omayra didn’t really teach her. Allende used her imagination to feel what she thinks. She also understood the poverty, death, sickness or failure could not control by human. She didn’t died, she live in everybody’s heart. She is still alive with her spirit in their memories. She encountered the image of Omayra at first time. Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Chile. After her uncle died. She left her country. The beginning of story is a true story. Her daughter named Paula died. This site provided a clear context for Allende’s essay “Omayra Sanchez”. So it is a reason to explain why she deepens feels the death cannot control after she saw Omayra’s pictures.
I felt sympathy to her when I finished this story. As she said “…anything that is inexplicable or uncontrollable, like poverty, death, sickness, or failure” I agree with this quote. People can control their money, marriage, business and family. But they cannot control their destinies. In my childhood, I had a best friend. Her family was poor. Every days and nights, they were working all the time. Unfortunately, her mother got sick. I didn’t see her go to class for many days. So I tried to contract her. She told me that her mother was dead. I didn’t have any reactions to her, I just felt disappointment. In this moment, I thought the life time of people were very short. The poverty and sickness would come to you without warming. You could not know what things would happen in the future. The lessons teach me that to treasure my things which I have.
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gabrielle Germain
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Alfred Leslie “Television Moon” pages 90-92, “
When first confronting the photograph known as Television Moon, my eyes eagerly searched for a large luminous object, an object that would somehow grasp my attention by its appearance and size. However, I found myself doing the complete opposite. I was looking for the moon. I finally found it in the television but my expectations were not fulfilled. The setting was somewhat mysterious, gloomy and pale. The simplicity of the picture somehow dissatisfied me. I began observing the other objects: the sneakers, sandals, chair, telephone and plate. The more I looked and drew my attention to them, the more the simplest objects became alive. I began to see the yellow of the chair pop out as well as the blueness of the sneakers. Then I suddenly saw the moon more sharply, its whiteness and defined curve leaped out of the darkness behind it. Alfred Leslie wanted to show the moon through a nonrealistic sense: through a television. Leslie portrayed a moon other than the large, luminous rock out in space. Because of its simplicity it required me to look deeper into the photo and observe more than just the ordinary. This proves to show that in our daily lives that there is more to the ordinary. Captivating and insightful things can come from the simplest things in our life. What may seem dark and regular may really be something beautiful and extraordinary. Just like the Chair, once I decided to really look and appreciate it, the rusty yellow came alive and drew me to see the sea blue sandals. The colors seemed to make such a beautiful contrast to the dark and pale background, thus displaying in its simplicity, its true beauty and uniqueness. This can tell us that there is light in the darkness. There is hope in the midst of disorder and darkness. That there is a “moon” in the least expected place that will help guide us.
Annie Dillard’s “SEEING “pages 108-117
Annie Dillard’s “Seeing” speaks about nature and seeing the things in nature that is not often seen. Like the wind blowing instead of a house across the street or even the insects flying by rather than the tree ahead. Sometimes it is hard to see these things especially when it’s not made a habit or fails to practice being on the lookout for the “utterly common” things that happen around us every day. Trying to see the everyday happenings that many can’t see allows us to see what Dillard mentions the artificial obvious, things that are so hard to see and are almost impossible to see, but do happen around us. Unless we catch our attention to what Is at the moment passing us by, we will not see or observe. Annie Dillard is not saying to see the ordinary differently but look beyond it, in front of it, and to the side. Dillard also portrays a concern: as writers we must be careful of what we see because what we see and observe is what we may ultimately write. If we choice to see the many wonders of the obvious, our writing will then be more creative, filled with many different juices and flavors. Overall Dillard expressed the different ways of seeing; Seeing with a camera, shot by shot or seeing with our own eyes as the camera, our eye lids shuttering, opening, and clicking as we choice them too or even more simply seeing through our minds.
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