Assignment 10: David Mazzucchelli's Voice in Asterios Polyp

After doing a little research on Mazzucchelli, I am very interested and inspired by him as an artist and author. Asterios Polyp is extremely well executed, design wise as well as writing wise. This mind blowing, nitty gritty, incredibly intelligent work reflect's its author wholeheartedly in my opinion. I think Mazzucchelli really wanted to break way from collaborating with the traditional comics like Daredevil and Batman, and find his personal voice and project it through his own solo project. He uses his characters to voice his opinions of America, human nature, and the duality that inevitably appears in everyday life.

Assignment 9: Tone and Voice

The term “author’s voice” is usually referring to the author’s personal attitude towards the subject matter they are writing about. “Author’s tone” however is a term describing the mood of the writer, or the mood they want you to feel. For example, a writer can use various voices in his writing (satirical, patronizing, humorous, etc.) but tone is about the bigger picture, what the mood is after reading the words said with their voice. “While voice can be attributed as a writer’s representation of the truth that he depicts, tone can be said to be representation of his feelings or attitudes”(1). Voice can be considered stylistic, and different writers have different and unique voices. Tone however, only describes their mood or feelings

http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-voice-and-tone/

Assignment 8: Virtual Reality

I did not grow up in a video game household. I had a Nintendo GameBoy, a DS, and a Wii but all I really liked to play were the "girly" games. But boy did I looove those girly games. Nintendogs, Horsez, you name it. If it had a farm and horses in it I was begging my mom to buy it. I loved any sort of RPG where its a girl on a farm doing chores and taking care of animals, probably because I wanted to grow up on a farm really badly. I think it would actually make a pretty neat virtual reality experience, especially for people who live in the city who want to feel what the country is like.

An unexpected tumble,thud, and thump snap your world into view as you gain consciousness of your sleepy body in a heap full of blankets. You’re on your right side facing the wall, shoulder stiff from a deserved night's sleep. You finally roll over to see what made the commotion, but you could already guess. A wet nose, two eyes, and a tongue are waiting to greet you, and a wagging tail knocks over some more stuff from your nightstand. You swing yourself up out of bed, making sure to scratch the ears of the sleeping cat at the food of the bed. Shielding your eyes from the rising sun outside the window, you walk out of your bedroom through to the kitchen, where two more excited dogs are ready to be let outside. You open the screen door to your endless, story-book beautiful farmland. Green grass glowing orange with the bright light of sunrise. Fresh dew sparkling on each blade. Horses whinnying in the background, ready for breakfast. A slight breeze brings the scent of fresh hay and flowers to your nose.

BARK

THUMP

You’re suddenly on the ground, as three dogs race out the door knocking you off your feet.

“Well shit” you sigh, your HP meter just appeared in the upper left corner of your FOV (Field of Vision), and it went down 5 out 100 points.

“Those damn goons knocked me down hard”.

As you make your way inside to prepare the dogs’ breakfast, you daily “TO DO” list materializes on the counter

TO DO TODAY

MORNING CHORES

• feed: dogs, cats, horses, sheep, rabbits
• turn out horses
• give morning hay
• sweep

OTHER

• weed garden
• pick ripe things
• make salsa for Hellen’s Party

As you turn to go out the door and start your day, a blinking icon appears in the top right of your FOV

~HURRICANE WATCH FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW~

“For Christ’s sake, as if I didn’t have enough shit to do today, no I’ve gotta prep for this” you say out loud, half to yourself, half to the cat asleep on top of the refrigerator.
"Oh well, should be fun".

What is your voice? What constitutes your work?

          I like to think my voice is one of a 19 year old girl who is very confused and does her best to take the abstract racing thoughts in her brain into concrete words structured into sentences and whatnot, so that the average human may comprehend mayhem. I tend to be narcissistic, sarcastic, harsh, and sometimes overly poetic. Usually my in my writing I try to make you feel like you're sitting in a room with me, and I am talking to you directly. In my artwork I tend to be softer, prettier, more appealing. I like using pastels and pretty colors, purple, teal, baby blues. I like to draw dogs and paint flowers and stare at clouds, but when I write I like to rip and dig and use a thesaurus and make you think.