As a freshman at the University of Florida, I am taking the class ENG1131: Writing Through Media. In this class, we will be keeping a personal blog reflecting upon the topics discussed in class. We will be producing 10 blogs over the Fall 2010 semester. The objective of this course is to help us, as students, learn and embrace the rapid transition into modern media seen throughout our culture. Through blogging, we will combine different sources of media in order to develop analytical and observational views on different kinds of apparatus.
I'm Perri, I'm from Roslyn, New York and I love to write! Throughout high school I worked a lot with Photoshop, where I developed an ardent interest in the aptitude of visual images. In this class, I hope to find a way to powerfully combine the two (writing and "photoshopping") in ways such that my writing evokes images and my images evoke language. Throughout contemporary society, each observer has his or her own way of interpreting different things. Some messages and themes throughout my work may be subtle, or obvious but each individual opinion will make the works influential and powerful.
Above is a collage of Jimi Hendrix posters. Jimi Hendrix was an efficacious musician, inducing powerful messages within his music. I chose this because each shows his ability through pictures to support a meaningful message felt and heard through his music. The bright colors in each poster strengthen his expressive and thought provoking music. The messages he portrays show ambition and intensity captivating the ideas of a generation. Just as Jimi Hendrix accomplished his goals, in this class, I hope to captivate the ideas of this generation and express them through my writing and production of images. Just like his music during a changing time showed confidence and spiritual guidance for the present a future, I hope to do the same.
