Reflection
Here is my reflection page and the original prompt.
This assignment was great, because I was able to reflect on my old projects and see how much I have grown over this semester. I hope you enjoy my final product.
Author: Dan
Analyzing Vietnamerica
As most of my peers have already said, this project was time-consuming but very interesting in that we were able to challenge and confirm definitions through analyzing two texts. Here is the original prompt and my Analyzing Vietnamerica project, enjoy.
Sunday Funnies 9
For my Sunday Funnies 9 I created a diagram of the process of making roman noodles.
Sunday Funnies 8
Here is my Sunday Funnies 8 assignment. It’s an attempt to make a football.
Mapping Fun Home
Here is my Mapping Fun Home project. This assignment took me longer than any other assignment but I felt as though I was able to further explore parts of the book than I hadn’t focused on before.
Sunday Funny 7
In my Sunday Funny 7 assignment I created a poem from a page in How She Knows What She Knows about Yo-Yos
by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall.
The Poem Reads:
A hole,
a closed subject.
The light came,
the sun touched.
Thick shadow caught
the light,
a dream come true.
Dark,
heavy,
everything blowing away.
Nothing around.
Sunday Funny 6
I chose this quote because I wanted to convey that all things are impossible if you don’t even make an attempt in my Sunday Funny.I thought that the progression of climbing a mountain and finally making it to the summit exemplified this idea. If a person doesn’t try to climb the mountain then they will never reach the top.
Quote Citation:
“Francis of Assisi.” BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2015. 22 March 2015. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/francisofa121023.html
Image Citations:
Berman, Talia. Digital image. N.p., 24 July 2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
Destination Jannah. Digital image. N.p., 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
Stewart, Roger. Climbing Mountains. Digital image. N.p., 9 Jan. 2013. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
Revised Tracing Persepolis
In my final product of my Tracing Persepolis project I made a few changes. I went more into depth about my claims regarding the darkness used in each of the panels I chose. I also further supported the themes that I discussed. I used Gaby’s flow of her pages to better link my pages together with hyperlinks.
Sunday Funnies #5: Mapping Tracing Persepolis
I mapped out Ryan’s Tracing Persepolis project in this week’s Sunday Funny.
Tracing Persepolis
Tracing Persepolis was a long journey, in that the majority of my time was on finding the right pages and tracing them. This part took the longest because I was torn on which panels to select. The actual synthesis did not take too long because I was constantly thinking about what the panels mean as I was tracing them. Furthermore, I believe that I better understand the time and effort that it takes to write/draw this type of book after this assignment.
My main goals for this project were to find the best two pages possible that I could manage to draw without butchering MarJane Satrapi’s work. I also wanted to find two distinctively different pages as mentioned in the assignment. I found this one of the hardest tasks in the preliminary stages. Another challenge that I had was tracing the pages. I went through about 2 mechanical pencils and 4 regular pencils until completion. I also experience a severe wrist pain for a period of time. Additionally, I found some difficulty with comparing the flow and panel arrangement between the two pages. I thought the project was interesting and very unique all together.