Aug
19
Two very cool things.
August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
One: Video enhancement using still photographs.
Two: Yale grad student builds tiny house. (Madeline, I think you especially would like this.)
Jul
14
Meaning, responsibility, ???
July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
First off: I really loved today’s class. I feel sort of like I derailed the topic of discussion, but the things we ended up talking about have been weighing much on my mind these days so I’m hugely glad we got a chance to discuss them.
I’m hung up on authenticity in a big way. [...]
Jul
12
On the read-a-thon. (Mostly un-Milton thoughts.)
July 12, 2008 | 3 Comments
First off, I had a really really great time and I’m halfway regretting that I left as early as I did. (The other half of me is concerned with health matters and is chiding me for not leaving sooner, so it’s a toss-up.) I met some really interesting people–I wish there had been more time [...]
Jul
8
Ira Glass Interview
July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment
I added this to our class Delicious feed, but I think it’s worth bringing up again (or in a more obvious way). Ira Glass conducted an interview largely about storytelling. The whole thing is worth watching, but what I want to highlight is in part three. I actually followed Emma’s lead from [...]
Jul
7
Satan, God, & Responsibility (again).
July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is what’s been weighing on my mind recently and has only been exacerbated by today’s class–if it doesn’t relate enough to be counted as a Milton post, let me know and I’ll write on another subject, but this is what is urgent to me today.
There seems, throughout Milton’s works, to be a recurrent [...]
Jul
4
Epics and smaller stories.
July 4, 2008 | 3 Comments
I’m interested in the way we tell stories, not just in the specific language and creation of those stories, but the changes in how we tell them. Next semester I’m taking a class that deals with this specifically–Forms of Narrative–and I’m pretty excited about it, actually.
It seems strange and sad in some ways–Milton [...]
Jul
3
From “A Man for All Seasons”
July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Sir Thomas More: God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind. If He suffers us to come to such a case that there is no escaping, then we may stand [...]
Jul
3
Gratitude & “In Place of a Curse”
July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
I was gathering my thoughts yesterday and getting ready to write them out when the umwblogs site went down for maintenance. I should have written something out but I’m too dumb to do that so I just went to bed instead. Anyway, here’s another try.
It seems to me that Satan’s inability to be [...]
Jun
30
Self-doubt & Responsibility
June 30, 2008 | 3 Comments
The discussion today about Milton’s consideration of self-doubt and self-esteem really caught my attention. Milton knows he has a gift, and he knows that God has given him this gift in order for him to use it; he sees that there’s no point in denying this. Denying it would, in fact, be a refutation of [...]
Jun
25
Riotous growth.
June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
“The very act of restraining growth creates growth.”
We see this everywhere, from the pruning of a plant to damming water. Deny something and it’s liable to burst forth further, at least if it’s a true thing. From experience I can say that trying to squash something you’re worried of and scared of, if [...]