Creative Writing #7 + Grandma's Birthday! + South Beach Development

September 18, Thursday
Today is my grandma's birthday!



Here she is, I made a video of her - 家 (Jia) March 2008 when I was still in Year 1. These are some frames from the video. I really want to work on this video further and I will! The second picture is an image of her as a baby. She's the best. Sun yat fai lok (Happy birthday in Cantonese)!

Ok today I was late for Creative Writing, and I didn't manage to copy any notes! It's also the workcheck and I rushed with all her work yes I did.

After Creative Writing class I walked over to 8Q beside Singapore Art Museum to check out the exhibition there and then to South Beach Development for the Singapore Biennale. Long day, tired.

Creative Writing #6

Things to submit at Work Check (CR) on 18 September
1. I Heard a Rumour
2. Book Response
3. This is Not a Love Song
4. Titanic Lifeboat
5. Lost in Translation 1
6. Lost in Translation 2
7. Choose Your Adventure
8. Cut After Reading
9. Alternate Universe Fan Fiction

Please check Word Limit, Compile all assignments together in running order, Feedback of assignments + Rectify them + Evaluation Notes (Critical Analysis & Self-reflective Remarks) Only Hard Copy, Times New Roman Font 12, 1.5 Spacing, Clear Plastic Folder, No Late Submissions

Types of Dishonesty
1. Fabrication
2. Deception
3. Sabotage
4. Cheating

Proper citation requires quotation marks; source must be identified, full bibliographic citation. No citation marks are needed when paraphrased.

Why People Cheat
1. Ease
2. Ignorance
3. Lack of Confidence
4. Save Time
5. Language Barrier
6. Competition
7. Getting Even
8. Time Management
9. Peer Pressure
10. Weak Sense of Community
11. Neutralisation

September 11, Friday
Went to have a talk with Kai Syng after creative writing class, found it difficult to say what I wanted to say. But I received a lot of good advice anyway and also forgot to say thanks.

Thanks

Creative Writing #2

Stream of Consciousness
• Technique that records multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence.
• Unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind
• Associative or sometimes dissociative leaps in syntax & punctuation that make prose difficult to follow, tracing fragmentary thoughts & sensory feelings.
• Thought processes are depicted as overheard in the mind (or addressed to oneself)
• Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
• Molly Bloom – Ulysses

Confessional Poetry
• “The Murderous Art”
o Many practicioners committed suicide: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, etc.
o Depression, Death, Trauma
• Not openly discussed in American poetry
• Self revelation (getting to know oneself)
• Goes beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment
o Difference between tradition and confessional
• QN: Does pain produce better artists?
• Writing as form of therapy
• Outlet for their demons
• Anne Sexton – Wanting to Die
• Schizophernia
• Writing and re-reading the work changes the cognitive processes with which one’s brain processes this information, offers perspective

Beat Generation
• “beatnik”
• non-conformity
• spontaneous creativity
• influence by spirituality: Zen Buddhism, etc.
• Artists/Writers: Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg,Jack Kerouae, Alan Ansen, William Burraugh, Gregory Corso
• Open form poetry against format poetry
• Questioning of traditional values
• Improvised spontaneity: Bop, Jazz: Charlie Parker, Dadaism, Surrealism
• Open emotion against modernist’s objectivity
• Challenge the limits of free expression
• Recreational drug use

Assignment 1: Self introduction with mug shot - 150-200 words
Assignment 2: Titanic Lifeboat (2nd lecture)

Choose one of these scenarios:

1. You are stuck with a doctor, a teacher, a politician, a mother and a farmer. Argue for why you, an artist, should be saved instead of them.
2. You are stuck in 3rd class with all other artists. Make a case for why you, as a video artist, should be saved over other artists.
   

August 14, Thursday
To Do: Buy mini-DV tapes, Proposal (due Monday), Upload photos to Flickr, Brew tea, Circle of fifths practice.

Creative Writing #1

Today I felt bad because I made our exchange student from Japan eat chili padi.

August 7, Thursday

• Creative Writing / Contextual Studies / Thesis
• Introduction on course content and assessment criteria
  
• 45 Question test on whether I abuse literature
• 44 No, 1 Yes: Because I don't read at all
  

Assignment 1: Book Reading

Read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
With reference to the ideas in the book, think about one thing that would greatly affect my life personally or as an artist if this thing were to be banned forever.
Write a 200-300 response.

Assignment 2: Song Genetic Engineering Exercise

1. Your lyrics gene/text pool will come from the lyrics of two songs.
2. You are now expected to write a completely new song using any combination of these lyrics. You need not use ALL the words in the two songs.
3. You cannot change the original order of the lyrics, BUT you can change the text break of the lyric lines.
4. The final result cannot be a song with the obvious theme of love.
5. Rhyme scheme of new song: can be sung to the tune of Rihanna's Umbrella.
6. Songs are: Suspended From Class by Camera Obscura and I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance. Love song and anti love song.

Interesting.. I might actually start reading, even though Fahrenheit 451 was adapted into a film in 1966 by French New Wave director François Truffaut. But I'll do both.

Today's class was dead slow. The only interesting factor is the quirky actions from our lecturer. And the way the guys from animation art speak to her totally lack respect. Anyway I'm hoping to learn much from this class.

I'm going to KL this weekend (Friday to Monday) because there's no school on Friday, Saturday is National Day (otherwise there is After Effects class), and Monday is LASALLE's Founder's Day.