Going out in LA, you're bound to end up partying with A-list celebs who give you even more validation to make bad decision if they're doing it too.
Daphne was at a party,
where rapper Juicy J performed in the club.
Miley Cyrus was in the club and went on stage to do her thing.
She danced for the crowd and then tore it up with her now infamous TWERK dance.
She has twerked in a video wearing an animal costume the video went viral.
People like it, they don't even poke fun. It's become a phenomenon for her and shed more public attention on her. That's how it goes in LA... anything goes.
People just love to party and enjoy life no matter how outlandish it may be. I mean she was dressed as a fucking unicorn!
Daphne got home around 6am and made her own twerk video.
The blog project was one of the most memorable and worthwhile things I learned throughout all of my classes this semester. After the end of this course and learning about “What is a Text” I was able to clarify a lot of my questions as an English major and a writer. How we use and how we see texts it in our daily lives is important as a writer, and the blog posts deemed to be one of the most useful ways to incorporate the ideas, concepts and readings throughout this course in our own creative way. This project for me was not only a creative outlet but allowed many of the more difficult concepts and ideas we had discussed throughout the class to genuinely solidify in our minds instead of just learning and forgetting the information. The weekly blog posts enhanced the learning process in a way where I was able to think about it more outside of the class. As an English major, I find that being on a continuum of concepts and weaving them throughout my studies is the essential to being a good and profound writer. Many people easily leave their studies at school without needing or wanting to think about or interact with concepts throughout their day. However, I find that allowing these concepts and ideas to linger throughout my life enhances me as a person and ultimately enhances my writing. Shaping meaning of a text from or by another text became important after understanding it even more in this class. Many people say you are what you absorb or you are what you read… amongst other things like, you are what you eat. But I digress. The point is allowing ideas and concepts and readings to become a part of you in order for us to gain a better sense of the world, finding the writer voice within us to create a become better more fluent writers. I enjoyed watching how the blog projects became a melting pot of all the blogs. They started out as original ideas but by the end all worked their way into each others. I looked at it in terms of the Walter Benjamin essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". He elaborates this theory of how when artwork is replicated and transformed it loses its “aura” of time and space. By utilizing someone’s blog posts to filter through and tie into our own an ideas, concepts or photographs from their original post we were able to grasp the concept of how art is transformed or replicated. Our own blog posts now had piece of someone else’s artwork infused in our own creative process. This is exactly what Benjamin focuses on in his essay and we were able to actually have hands on experience to see how this is done with our own creative twists. We are all artists in a way; whether we are writers, painters, photographers, dancers, singers, chefs, teachers or musicians. Everyone’s art has been influence and inspired by something they have seen or someone they know. How original can it be? Is everything connected in some way? There are questions of what constitutes as plagiarism, pastiche, parody or allusion. That’s made the blog posts so great because we could grasp all of these things in our own hands on experience of creating meaning through a text in our own way. Artwork is a key element in understanding “What is a Text” because it has been incorporated into our society as more than just art. Visuals and texts have become one in the same. They anchor each other in our society. Visuals can convey volumes without any words. This is why it is still considered some kind of textual piece that’s left its mark on our lives. The blog projects were a neat process to be a part of, to actually do what Benjamin talks about and not just watch how it’s done like in the documentary of Exit Through the Gift Shop. Incorporating other blogs into our own vision, experiencing that intertextuality happens all around us was much more feasible.
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