Arturo Reading Notes:

"One panel, operating as several panels"- like computers encompassing several mediums.

Panels parallel "windows"

" ...our skin-- is seldom thought of as an organ"- thinking of the medium as the message

Time depicted vs. time perceived

McCloud uses several different sizes and shapes of panels in his own comic.

The role of comics today?- to provide ideas for movies...no more comic book shops!

Also, a lot of the ways of showing motion that McCloud pointed out appear in The Matrix








****Next Tuesday: Email word document outlining online activity in the class. 3 Components: how many blogs, and with what frequency; how many delicious blogs, and frequency; and wiki participation and frequency. Include a paragraph reflecting on participation and ways to further participation.


Gloria's Class Notes:
-millicomputing
-technorati.com
-Linking our blogs to get more readers
McCloud's Time Frames
Pg. 716 Our skin is an organ. Thinking about the skin as an organ allows you to do many things: how does it work? what to do when it doesn't work?
Analysis is a way to experience material at different levels.
The thing we do to tie different perspectives together is "concept". A concept is a way of thinking upon varying appearances to tie everything together.
"You do the grotesque to alert people of what's around them"
pg. 720-721 "hemorrhages and escapes into timeless space" The two borders missing.
"The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided."

*For next Tuesday: Outline in a document (to email to dr. c) an inventory of your work in class--how many times you've blogged, how many blogs in delicious, and participation on wiki (frequency as well); write paragraph on participation (what areas are robust and what are not?)