The Blog Project

See, English 110 exists outside of the classroom. We'll be sharpening our analytical minds in this heated arena: blog-dom.

The point of the blog is for you to practice making 1) observations and 2) analyses on the material you come across in your day-to-day virtual lives, and then to share your analytical experiments with your classmates. Take this opportunity to explore the course theme and broaden your understanding of your chosen sources. Social media, YouTube, and online articles are rife with opportunities for interesting analysis. So impress us with your brilliance, hipness, and pop-cultural savoir faire. This is all about practice (and nerd/cool points, of course) so really go for it.

Let's say to post (roughly) once every other week, which makes a minimum of 5 posts total. There's no limit to how much you can post. But I'll remind you: if you start honing your analytical skills here, your grade and your chances for success over the next few years will markedly improve. Try stuff out--this is graded simply on doing it. If you're truly exploring, you'll probably make some analytical trips that you look back on and are slightly embarrassed about--and that's a good thing.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Franz v. Anti-Franz

Franz Ferdinand- Take Me Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk4j-r7qPA&ob=av2e

In this video Franz Ferdinand appears to be in contrast throughout this video. Conflicting styles of art (classical and steampunk), color, and physical conflict used throughout the song. These conflicting styles mixed with some good old bareknuckle boxing are used to create a world of Franz v. Anti-Franz. All of this is done while singing a song with a double meaning. While images show a message of a crosshairs ready to "take me out" another message is being conveyed. Images show men and women together implying a romantic tension that brings a whole new meaning to "take me out." In a genius use of a metaphor, Franz Ferdinand creates two different worlds with 3 words.


Jon Burgbacher, Austin Davis, Devin Trainer, Max McConaughy, and Parker Jones


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  1. Parker JonesOctober 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM

    I agree that Take Me Out is a song of competing lights, sounds, and ideologies. I noticed that Franz Ferdinand designating the modern/screwy instances over the older/classical instances with a "Franz" and an "Anti-Franz". I believe that this is Franz's way of endorsing the new modern art of which they are a part of. I also thought that by adding robotics to the newer art Franz was trying to emphasize its superiority.

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