Cycles of Awe Project: Prototype Three

I have my three poems completed. I plan on putting them on my own personal blog (my personal angle) and on Google+ with tags specific to my topic. Hopefully this generates interest and responses from relevant and interested online communities. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Personal Angle on Game Changer

As far as adding a personal element to my final project, the Game Changer YouTube series, the best way might be to use my mother as an interviewee. Growing up, she didn't allow us to have a Nintendo or very many computer games at all. The culture in our house was very much one of reading and playing outside. I was often encouraged to do either of those things with my spare time.

In the past year or so while I've been studying games and writing, I've talked with her a lot about it, but she still is very distant from the whole idea of videogames and doesn't understand much of what I'm saying, I think. Interviewing her for Game Change and teaching her how to use a controller and see the themes at play and how a game can invite you to think on bigger themes and questions just like a good book would be satisfying for me and also add a great personal element to the video if I can pull it off right.

So, while my original idea of interviewing Whitney from Studio C (my brother has a connection) is cool, it wouldn't be nearly as personal. I'm also still not totally sure about her availability and stuff, so my mom might be the easier choice too.

It's a work in progress, of course.

Reclaiming Awe: Project Prototype (Part I)

Well, after way too many hours of learning Lightworks, Part I of my project prototype for "Reclaiming Awe" is complete. The videos are CC Attribution-Sharealike, so I'll put links up in the final version. The piano music is a bit rough at this point, as I didn't have time to schedule a studio with a real piano. Anyway, I hope you like it! I'd love to hear your feedback!

Cycles in Awe Project: Prototype Two

My work in progress!

I mentioned at the bottom of this post how I changed my poetry format from my original ideas to a roundel poem. I would like to do maybe three poems (one for each book I'm studying) that incorporate the ideas I'll be discussing in my final paper (cycles of awe). I'm not sure this is working the way I want, or where to take it next. The poem has not been edited yet, but here is my first draft for the first poem about Alice visiting Wonderland. Let me know what you think. I'm hoping the poem talking about Alice cycling back to Wonderland, which ultimately leads to her becoming self aware, can be like the Dancing Dissertation videos we watched; the poem should be a small representation of what my paper discusses, just as the dancing dissertations tried to tell the main ideas of the dissertation.

Cycle One

Is it a wonder? She calls it Wonderland.
Curious and enthralled she wanders under
spells of caterpillar "who's?," Cheshire "where's?." And
is it a wonder

that one so young would cycle back to plunder
the cakes, rich teas, red queens, strange things odd yet grand?
She goes for fun but finds herself asunder;

madness would split her self in half. Yet she stands
anew. Sane. Tolerant. Aware. Her blunders
from asking "who I am" she can now withstand.
Is it a wonder?

Game Changer: Creative Prototype

Here's my video I showed in class as a prototype for my creative project: