I decided to again listen to what people said and mess with the words, because they did look a little odd just at the top of the image. I was trying to break them up into different pieces, but that didn't look right to me, so I decided to add shadowing (which sort of happened by accident) and I made it smaller and moved it down so that it kind of looked like the couple was saying it. After I moved it there, it just looked right to me, so I decided to stick with it. I also worked on the guy's arm because it was a little messy.

I did the song "Sway" which has been performed many times, my favorite being Michael Buble.

Sway Lyrics
When marimba rhythms start to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me

Other dancers may be on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I go weak

I can hear the sounds of violins
Long before it begins
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now

okay, so i finally finished my video project, and here it is! After lots and lots of thought i decided to do the topic how technology has affected presidential campaigns. i thought with the impending election it would be a great topic. let me know...

I decided to listen to some comments and get rid of some of the images because it did look a little crowded when I looked at it again. Also, some of them were not really necessary to the piece as a whole in describing the character's actions and feelings. I added another eye to make the symmetry better, and it would have bugged me if there wasn't another one there. I made the eyes blend in more to the body by hardening each of them. I also added flames to the top right corner just so that each corner had it. I also moved the words because I thought that off center, they didn't look right once I had taken away some of the gratuitous images.

This project has been very fun for me; however, it still had some challenges. I really liked learning how to use Photoplus, even though it was very frustrating at times. It was fun to work with images, which is something I don’t do a lot. I’m so bad with Photoshop, so maybe this will help me out and make me better at it. I like to take pictures, but I have never thought about manipulating them until now, which I am totally going to do.

This is my video about Dorothy Parker's poem "Penelope". I wanted to visually represent the feel and tone of her poem, since I think it is a witty commentary on the housewife. I chose this poem because my "assigned challenge" for the second half of the course was to integrate some sort of women studies analysis into one of my projects, and this poem clearly lent itself to the task. I show the poem three times in three different settings to show how over time, society's view of women (and women's views of themselves) have changed.

The image credits to the video are as follows:

http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/odysseus/images/odysseus-2....
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/odysseus/images/odysseus-4....
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/the-odyssey/images/the-odys...
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/odysseus/images/odysseus-5....
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/the-odyssey/images/the-odys...
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/the-odyssey/images/the-odys...
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/the-odyssey/images/the-odys...

It has been a long road to this final portfolio. As I would assume most freshmen do, I came into this university intimidated but with high expectations for myself and for the curriculum of the school. I knew for sure that I wanted to take a First Year Seminar in my first semester because I had heard so much positive feedback about the program from my “experienced” upperclassman friends. As I was told, taking a seminar would never turn out to be something that I would regret. However, as English has never fully intrigued me, and computers have always mystified my mind, I failed to envision myself taking a seminar entitled English and Computers, much less enjoying it. The first few weeks of the class, however, completely reversed any of my negative preconceived notions of what the class would entail. From the beginning, it became clear that Professor Anderson was the type of instructor that any college student would kill for; not only is he passionate about the subject he teaches, but he actually gives a lick what his students have to say.