Brittany C. to Leah F.

(You Dont Know What You Got Til Its Gone) 02/25/2014 6:40am I have a Polaroid camera at home and I love it, but I haven't been able to find refills for a decent price since the early 2000s. It's really unfortunate, but it surely proves that you don't know what you have until it's gone (though toilet paper would be the best example). Though I really enjoy my front facing and back facing cameras on my phone and itouch, and I love my super compact digital camera with an HD lens, I still love those big, over-sized canons and nikons. They are what a real camera is supposed to look like and they take amazing pictures with the right photographer and lens filter. It's amazing what modern digital photographers can do. Even still, the Polaroid is the purest form of photography - it gives you exactly what you're looking at, as you're looking at it, for you to save forever. Now that's pretty amazing. Brittany C. to Sam G. (Mash, Smash or Pass?) 04/08/2014 10:01am I think you're right when you say we're all pretty mash-up-ed out. I've made mash-up type videos in the past for fun, but having to think about it in terms of annotated bibliographies and story boards and proposals was definitely a challenge. I'm not sure how I feel about publishing multiple drafts of the video because I hate when others view my unfinished work, but like you said we have to make a choice. And I choose to pass this assignment. Brittany C. to Sam G. (Old Art/New Art) 04/08/2014 9:47am I really enjoyed studying that funky art genre timeline. It was an interesting view on the progression of art in terms of style. But I find it a little strange to think that some art genres only happened in phases. I think once an art genre is started, it never ends...someone out there will have it live on. But, that's just me. As far as your blog post, I think you touched upon a lot of good points that Berger was trying to get across. Brittany Coughlin to Regina L. (Welcome Behind the Wizards Curtain) 02/04/2014 10:20am Regina, like you I am a writer above all - ever emotion I feel, ever story I create - everything goes on paper, because that is how I immortalize my thoughts. Without writing everything down (and taking pictures of near everything) I wouldn't remember much, at least not in the detail I can with the help of my records. The inventions of the internet, external hard drives and cloud storage, writers have an infinite amount of ways to plan, create, polish and share our messages with the rest of the world - a point I always make to technological resistors. However, you are 100% correct in saying everyone has different controlling values and that's perfectly fine. One of my controlling values is to progress with technology and always be up to date with all the tools I have as a writer.

Brittany C. to Regina L. (Welcome Behind the Wizards Curtain) 02/09/2014 11:53am Regina, I am most certainly a blogger - whatever new social network comes out I join it and stick with it if it's for me. Right now I contribute to The Collectionary and HubPages as a blogger/author. I have personal and professional Twitter accounts that I maintain regularly. I even have a supersecret-diary-esque blog (with a site that I'm not going to mention because I like to keep it a secret from my known world for I prefer to be 'followed' by complete strangers). I blog about anything and everything relevant or interesting to me and I hope to continue this habit because it is very therapeutic to me. Brittany C. to Amy M. (Analysis of Perception) 03/14/2014 8:38am Semiotics are a tricky concept because, like you alluded to, your interpretation is up to the individual. As far as the half empty v. half full debate, both are true and whichever you choose is based on pessimism and optimism, respectively. But, what would a realist say? The glass is half water, half air? The glass is full of water and air? Brittany C. to Alyssa R. (Be Careful What You Post) 04/23/2014 5:50am Alyssa, I think the point that you're hitting is a good one to take a second to actually look at. The internet is a wonderfully powerful tool, but many human beings take its vastness and occasional anonymity for granted. I remember when my high school's security team set up a fake Facebook profile. She was an average looking blonde with one profile picture, but over 200 students friended her and were arrested for content on THEIR Facebook profiles. Anything from pictures smoking marijuana and/or drinking alcohol to near death and other violence threats, in the forms of statuses or notes were cause to pull my classmates from class to interrogate. Many were given detention, some were suspended, one was expelled. Granted we had a huge bullying scandal unfolding at the time, it goes to show you just how powerful a picture can be. As far as my internet presence I have 2 account with almost every social networking site. One is more so anonymous (I sign in with a junk email, I make my privacy settings very strict and I add people very selectively), the other is more so public (I sign in with my professional email, my privacy settings are loose enough so others can find me, and I put on a face with these accounts) These public accounts are what I want to use as my sole internet identity one day. But as a college student I like to keep in contact with old friends and enjoy the archive of pictures and posts I've created on my first Facebook account. Brittany to Alyssa R. (How Do You Feel About.) 03/02/2014 9:41am I've only ever heard of "semiotics" before this class, but this is the class that legitimately defined it for me. Honestly, before I attached the term "semiotics" to this concept, I considered it all

"symbolic interactionism". I suppose the two things are connected, but each is differentiated. It just goes to show you how much we all have left to learn. Brittany C. to Chelsea S. (Baby, Youre Beautiful) 04/08/2014 10:13am I think you picked a good way to spin the "social idea of beauty" argument by focusing on the roots of the problem, who is affected by the problem and how, and "will this ever stop" My suggestion is that you take a stance on whether you think it will or not and why. Possibly introducing how you believe this epidemic can be stopped. Brittany C. to Chelsea S. (Mashing Up the Writing Process) 04/23/2014 6:23am This video mash up project and process is throwing me through the loop. It's far more intense than writing a paper of pretty much any length - at least I understand the conventions and expectations placed upon me as a /writer/. However, when I was younger I used to throw together video mash-ups for school, Key Club and for fun. However I've never created a mash up with a specific and powerful purpose. With "Breaking Rape Culture" I have to make a lot of considerations for many different kinds of people and situations, just as I would have to when writing and investigative or persuasive paper. However the /video/ aspect of the project adds the element of still and moving images which can pack a much more powerful punch in terms of intersexuality. All and all this projects frustrates and annoys me, but that's because it's challenging me and I love a good challenge. Brittany C. to Laurie T. (Copyrighting: Friend or Foe?) 04/23/2014 5:58am Copyrighting and owning the rights to things is a 'squirrely' subject. Sure you should have the right to take credit for your own original work, but does that mean you have to take away everyone else's right to it also? For example, Micheal Jackson owns the rights to the song "Happy Birthday" (Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday Whoever Happy Birthday to You) Ever wonder why you've never heard it played in a movie? Or a TV show? Ever wonder why they never sing it to you at chain restaurants? It's because the rights are privately owned. My just typing out the lyrics could be considered copyright infringement. How weird is that? I don't agree with things like musical artists sampling another song and not giving credit where it's due. You should ALWAYS gives credit where and when due, but also give credit to yourself for revamping an existing idea. That's what I think about it all, anyway. Brittany C. in reply to Chelsea S. on Courtney W. (What Makes Art?) 03/02/2014 9:49am

I'm not an artistic person in the sense of drawing or painting, either. Honestly I could be an abstract artist, like a Pollock because seriously, how hard could it be to splatter paint? I did it to my room in the 6th grade! But is that art? No. Art is emotional. Art means something. But does it always have to? It does, but to the individual. A Pollock painting may be inspiring to me and not to you, and that's okay! Like you said, "What one considers to be art is completely dependent on what they consider beautiful, inspiring, worthy, etc." and that's exactly how it is. Brittany C. to Jackson B. (Syncopated Images) 02/25/2014 6:45am I completely agree that we live in a world painted in shades of gray, rather than black and white. Especially as I've gotten older, I've noticed just how gray the world is. I believe photographs and the human imagination are connected, but separate entities - like you alluded to. The human imagination believes (and tries to convince us of) many things, photographs capture moments in human life (possibly exposing the actual truth and breaking through the human imagination's ideal). This post (as you may have notices from my response) has got me to think a great deal about the connection between the human imagination and photography. Brittany C. to Kaylee C. (Is Anything Really Original?) 04/08/2014 9:56am Simply because of how long human beings have been on earth, it's near impossible, I believe, for anything to be entirely original. Like you quoted from the video, "copying is how we learn," and that's a very true statement. As a tutor I have tutored ESL students and the easiest way for them to learn English is through transcription (of sentences properly written in English) and repetition (of new words' pronunciations). Brittany C. to Kaylee C. (What Really Makes a Story?) 04/08/2014 9:52am In order for a story to be interesting, it should have several well developed, 3-Dimensional characters (as well as supporting characters that add to the story), a conflict and I, personally, love a good plot twist. TV shows like American Horror Story and books like Veronica Roth's Divergent series, have really good, really unexpected plot twists that keep me interested. Brittany C. to Jen D. (Marilyn Monroe, Feminism, and Charles Spinosas Disclosing New Worlds) 04/23/2014 6:11am Jen, You bring up some really great conversational points in this post. Gary's reaction certainly captures that. (Just so you know Gary, I'm another girl that agrees women as a vast majority work for things when it suits the vast majority. If everything's going peachy keen, they just sit at home and knit.) Personally, I blame Hollywood and the American entertainment industry for the death of Norma

Jean Baker. While some argue that Marilyn Monroe should've spoke up, or known better, Norma, was trapped in a world where she was suffocating from the pressure of perfection. I blame the American entertainment industry for the deaths of many celebrities that die of drug overdoses and from eating disorders. The addictions and disorders may have existed anyway, but the public eye is one hell of a suicidal catalyst.