Poetics

I decided to write mine in a story format. Because I consider myself a story teller and it’s a big part of my life. But I have the story written and then posted in the wrong order because I have a very hectic life and I feel that putting it out of order portrays that about me. In the story are characters, songs and scenes that are important in my life and about my personality. The song that plays in the story is a hymn and a metal song playing over one another to add a strange dichotomy and show two different sides of myself. In the story Lana Del Rey only speaks in song lyrics. That represents my love for her music but also that I love to use quotes in my daily vernacular. GIFs also make an appearance quite a bit in the project. I love using GIFs to explain myself especially in terms of inside jokes or situations that only a specific person will understand the use of the GIF. In this project I created a GIF of screenshots of my friend Tripp – who is also a character in the story (expect his voice in it is actually mine and how I would react, not him). I use screenshots of Tripp when texting mutual friends of ours as my own person form of emoji and because it’s entertaining for my friends and I. So I decided to create a GIF of screenshots of him to show how I love to use GIFs as expression, all the GIFs represent “anger” to show my short-fused personality, and it’s of photos of Tripp who is one of my best friends and a big role in my life. I used fictional characters and places as well to represent the books, TV shows and what not that I enjoy. And it all took place on an airplane because traveling a big part of my life. I wanted to do it on WordPress because I liked the idea of keeping all my class material on one platform. But I did not do pages because I have an entirely unorganized life and making everything aesthetically pleasing would not accurately represent my life.