Ponderous

adjective

slow and clumsy because of great weight.

Source: Google Definition

This word was encounter while I was reading the article Lecture Me. Really. Where it says “When any reading assignment longer than a Facebook post seems ponderous.” Now I understand this word in the text means any reading is longer than a facebook post, people will be so tired to read about it.

Exhibit Catalogue (Final)

To change a theme of a book by using the text from the original book is not as difficult as it sound. This exhibit is presented by Xingfu, Ye. Ye was born and raise up in Zhejiang, China. Then he moved to New York where now he live. Ye is a student of New York City College of Technology whose major is graphic design. He get inspired by a British artist Tom Phillips’ recreation “The Humument”.

“The Humument” was first publish in 1970, it was a recreation of W H Mallock’s Novel “A Human Document”, and the name “The Humument” was come from the original novel name. Tom Phillips took out “an” from the word human, and “Doc” from document, then he put two words together become Humument. The purpose of this is to recreate a different theme and story of a book to let reader have a different experience of reading the original book and recreated version of the book.

Alice Taylor’s novel House of Memories is a story of resilience in the face of family tragedy. Ye have recreates few pages of House of Memories with different theme, his favorite three pages are “Great Position”, “Death and life”, and “Twisted space”. In first page, Ye try to convey a great position, so he used Ruler, Pigma Micron 05, and PITT artist Big brush to draw lines and solid bridges to support the center. The idea was come from the text where he found the words “Great position”. He is trying to explain that how could a position stand out, a great position is where the surrounds are supporting one area to make it a great position. For this page, if views did not see the word great position, they might be confuse and not understanding about this page. In the second page, life and death, Ye also used Ruler, Pigma Micron 05, and PITT artist Big brush to drew circles and line taps, half of which were filled in with black ink and the other half left blank. The idea was came from the text, the words “dead,” and “live”. Ye is trying to express that live and death are so close. The lines was drawn twisted, because he wants to show that life is difficult so is death. Views might confuse about the circles, Ye said he drew circles was trying to represent spirit, but he did not write in the description, because he think the circles could also represent as events that makes how the life is going to be, different person has different views. In the third page, Ye drew a snake goes in circle like a sea shield also with Ruler, Pigma Micron 05, and PITT artist Big brush, this is trying to convey a Twisted space. Ye said this is how he thinks a twisted space look like, a twisted space in his mind is like a space that everything is twisted and has no end. In this page, views might think that this drawing look like a portal, Ye also had a thought about that, however he thinks inside of the portal there must be another space, and that space is just like what he have described.

Understand Tom Phillips’ Humument project, Ye used with all skills and techniques from Graphic design principle 1100 and English 1101 class to create this humument book.

Ye’s recreations give readers a different point of view of the original novel. From a resilience in the face of family tragedy story to a imagery of fantasy story. Each page contains a small message about the new theme of the story.

ponderous

ponderous

adjective

of very great weight

Source – Merriam-Webster

I found that word while I reading the article ‘Lecture me. Really,’ in a sentece what said “…any reading assignment longer than a facebook post seems ponderous…”.

Now I know that it’s saying that people can’t read anything long because they’re so use to the lightweight readings.

Idiosyncratic

Adjective

a peculiarity of constitution or temperament :  an individualizing characteristic or quality

(Merriam Webster)

I first heard this word while listening to a collider heroes video on YouTube where Max Landis writer of the new comic book series Superman: American Alien describes his version of Superman as idiosyncratic.

natatorial

natatorial

adjective (nay-tuh-TOR-ee-ul)

adapted to or characterized by swimming

Source – Merriam-Webster
I encountered this word when I was going to look up another word in Marriam webchester. The word was chosen as the word of the day by them. I couldn’t help but be curious what their word of the day actually meant.

My Glossary Entries

Vocabulary:

Aesthetic
Juxtaposition
Monotony
Hierarchy
Conjecture
Simultaneous Contrast
Silhouette
Aloof
Solemn
Skylark
Unheralded
Disperse
Inventories
Orientate
Swatches

These glossary entries really helped a lot. By having to define the words and also explain the meaning of them helped me to get a better understanding of them more. If it wasn’t for these guidelines I would have just looked up the word and not think about it as much as I should have. Also by having my classmates post their entries benefited me a lot. When I go through the Ways Of Seeing site, I see the vocabulary my classmates post from readings. And when I go to read the readings, the words I don’t understand are already defined and explained thanks to my classmates.

Swatches

Noun

A small sample of fabric intended to demonstrate the look of a larger piece.

Source – Google Definitions

I encountered this word while reading the guidelines for project #6 for COMD1100. “The finished inventory should include an image of the color reference and a series of proportionally sized color swatches.”

Now I know what that sentence was saying, I need to include an image of the fabric that I will be inventorying as references for its color.

[Glossay Entry #15]

Orientate

Verb

To face or turn to the east

Source – Merriam-Webster

I encountered this word while reading the guidelines for project #6 for COMD1100. “Clearly orientate the viewer. Make sure the viewer understands how to navigate the cover”

Now I know what that sentence was saying, I have to make the cover so that viewers would want to look at it and clearly understand it.

[Glossay Entry #14]