Give the name of student, topic, and list minimally three aspects of their presentation you liked or were impressed with, plus paraphrase their thesis or key argument.
Presenter, responding in a self-reflection on the process--writing to oral presentation. Share your process and what you learned.
This is a recap of the assignment posted last week re: Women in Hip Hop.
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Dexter English
Response to Itzel Diaz Grafiti presentation.
Itzel's presentation was very thoughtful and well planned. She focused on an artist by te name of Jesus "Chucho" Rodriguez, a Chicago native with a New York style who was kind enough to ask permission of the company he would tag before defacing their property. I loved the artwork she had on display, liked how she made the comparison between his work and New York based work, and how she gave her personal thoughts on grafiti and how it should be displayed.
Itzel Diaz's presentation focused on the graffiti artist Jesus "Chucho" Rodriquez. I was really impressed with the background information she provided on the artist. His progression as an artist was phenomenal. Growing up as a young boy, he began drawing, then going into graffiti work, merging into tattooing and into other amazing art forms. Her poster board was filled with many of the artists'graffiti works and tattoo pieces. I thought it was interesting that "Chucho" asked people for permission to work on their walls. Most graffiti artists typically work on unauthorized locations and sneak around to do so.
well, I missed the majority of Itzel Diaz's presentation about grafitti. Apparently, she was speaking about an artist that was named Chucho whose paintings were very elaboarate. One statement that she made about grafitti is that it is a space wherein they can develop their talents. That is a good point because all we see are "throw ups" and paintings that signify where the artist is artisitically at the time of the painting. However, we fail to see their progress insoar as we fail to pay attention to their work chronologically. She mentioned the truth that a lot of grafitti is the prduct of gangs marking their territories. This is unfortuante because such markings are usually street names, nicknames and slander or cross outs against rival gangs. To the contrary, there are artists that are inspired to draw and paint progressively more articulate through grafitti the city is their canvas and everyone is their audience and following.
Vu Minh
Response to Itzel "grafiti" presentation:
In her presentation she included alot of images showing varities of grafities type. Most of them are from New York, she also brought up a grafiti writer name Jesus "Chucho" Rodriguez he mostly do cartoon grafiti he doesn't like the whole tagging thing. Itzel also mentioned that grafities for most people is the way that they express their selves as writers.I myself have a lot of friends who a tagger because they were caught up in the bandwagon of becoming a grafiti tagger but most of their tag was just meant to degrade public space they are not really even arts. For me a truth grafities writers will express their passion for art through a better image of grafities rather then some scribble line on the bus or bathroom door...
Response to Itzel Diaz's presentation
Itzel's presentation was very good planned and she did a good job on presenting her presentation. I liked her poster board because she made a comparison between his work and the New York style graffities. Also I liked it when she told us her own oppinions and thought on graffity.
Erica Williams
English 1B
10/8/2009
Assignment:Presentation Response
Today's presentation by Itzel Diaz was about the art of graffiti. I really enjoyed how Itzel focused on the graffiti artist Jesus "Chucho" Rodriguez, it really gave insight to the art of graffiti from the perspective of a real graffiti artist. One of the points about Jesus Rodriguez that I really enjoyed was that he used graffiti as his creative point as an artist. Also, I appreciate how Itzel emerged herself into the paper and she was able to focus on one specific artist, which in my opinion shows true dedication to research. Itzel's main argument in her presentation was to show how graffiti is a real form of art and the starting point for artists. Itzel did an awesome job.
Melissa Carpenter
The student presentation that I am responding to is Itzel Diaz. Her presentation was about Jesus "Chucho" Rodriguez and his talent in the art of grafitti. I liked that Itzel gave a good explaination of who Jesus "Chucho" Rodriguez did in his life and how he contributed to the works and creation of art. He had a different take on being an artist by actually asking permission to tag or do Grafitti on someone's property, and Itzel had a lot of pictures to explain the visual side of what he does. I like her pictures a lot, they were very interesting and eye-catching. I think that Itzel did a wonderful job and explained who Jesus "Chucho" Rodriguez is in detail, and also her personal opinions on grafitti.
Erica Williams
English 1B
10/8/2009
Assignment: Presentation response
Jermaine's presentation today gave an awesome prespective on the life Lauryn Hill. I appreciated his focus on the progression of her life. It was very informative especially in the way it allowed me to recognize the parrallels between Lauryn Hill and all women in general. Jermaine's key point in my opinion was to display how in many instances women move away from who they really are in order to be sucessful in the music industry.
Dexter English
Response to Jermaine Hughes:
As an avid hip hop fan, present and past, I was anxious to hear Jermaine's presentation on Lauryn Hill. The presentation went from an early bibliography with the Fugies to the transfermation to Ms. Hill. I loved the facts he used to illistrate his work, loved how he showed the transformation from L-Boogey to Lauryn Hill to Ms. Hill. Ms. Hill is the Lauryn Hill who is and will remain herself, no longer living for the fame and spotlight, and no longer living to please any but herself. Watching the tranfomation of Ms. Hill let me no one thing, she is human just like all of us. We all go through the times were we must find ourselves and do whats best for us in the long run. Overall I loved the presentation.
Awww man, I wanted to rap her lyrics! I didn't have a cd or a boombox to play her music, much less the CDs. I personally am a fan of her work so much so that I have memorized many of her lyrics. She is a person with a depth that many people, male and female, can hardly relate to. She was placed in a possession wherein she had to be before the public eye, which with her strong ideas and beliefs, made it difficult to breathe. Being real for her was speaking her mind on social issues, speaking against corrupt people, speaking up for people that are silenced by the media and so forth. Therefore, for her to be her was a serious task and at a certain point she became fed up with all the work she had to do to be herslef. She, then, came to recognize that she could have the freedom to be human like other people and not please all of he fans and supporters all of the time.
I think that I shined light on who she was and what she was about articulately but the people who are not fans or knowledgable of her work missed out by my failure to bring something for people to hear. Sorry...
Melissa Carpenter
In Jermaine Hughes presentation he focused on the artist Lauryn Hill. I really liked Jermaine's presentation because he gave an in depth explaination of who Lauryn Hill is, her mind-blowing talent in the industry, her early career up until now, and her struggle as an artist. Lauryn Hill is an artist that doesn't like to conform or be a certain way to please people of the media. Throughout her career she struggled trying to find herself but she always remained being true to what she thought was the right thing to do. I really enjoyed Jermaine's presentation because he made me appreciate Lauryn Hill even more as an artist.
Munkhjin Munkhbaatar
Response to Jermaine Hughes's presentation
Jermaine's presentation was about a female hip hop artist Laurin Hill. His knowledge about Laurin Hill's background and life was impressive. It seemed like Jermaine was friends with Laurin Hill, he knew about her so much. He knew about her childhood and how she became famous. Overall Jermaine did a good job presenting Laurin Hill.
Albert Fan
today Jermaine Hughes made a presentation about Lauryn Hill a female hip-hop artist. Thoughout the whole presentation he talked mainly about Hill's career as a hip-hop artist. From the time she started to the today, as well as her image to the eyes of her fans. overall i like how he described some of Hill's songs and showed use that there are deeper meaning to it then we thought. I also like imformative he was about this topic.
Vu Minh
Responses to Jermaine Hughes:
When Jermaine mentioned the name Lauryn Hills first thought came up to me was the Fugees and the song "Killing me softly with his song" that song is one of my top ten all time favorite, i remmembered watching the Sister Act2: Back in the Habbit and i remmember how talented she was even at the very young age. To me i think she is one of the very most important influence in R&B and rap and for her to walk away from fame and sucess, that shows how she kept it real as a person who fame and sucess do not affect. Most people when they blew up in their carrer and won 5 grammy awards that is when they on top of their game, Lauryns Hill walks away from all that and want to live a normal life away from the fame and sucess and just find her spirtual from within. I got a lot of respects for her and her music and it was really cool that Jermaine chose her as his first lady to present.
Tatiana Alexander
Response to Jermaine Hughes Persentation
Listening to Jermaine's presntation I could tell that he really enjoys Ms.Hill body of work. Him speaking on her evoultion into the women she wanted to be made think about many Hip Hop artist do not do that. Their few artist that be called because they sell out.I'm to know that Ms.Hill will not sell out
Ilene Lee
English 1B
10/8/09
Jermaine Hughes' presentation focused on Lauryn Hill, a respectable hip hop artist who changed her image during the course of her career. To start off the presentation, he gave a brief summary of what he was going to talk about and I thought it was helpful to direct the audience through his presentation. Lauryn Hill's growth as an artist definitely showed a sense of personal maturity. Beginning in a hip hop group in high school, she eventually moved onto her solo career. As an individual artist, her career reached its highest peak. She then decided to shed her popular reputation and come out as an artist who truely embodied herself. Jermaine did an eloquent job at describing her journey. His knowledge of Lauryn Hill's life was very impressive and made his presentation even more memorable.
I had the opportunity to catch Jermaine's follow up to his presentation. I caught on to how he connected the success of Lauren Hill with her struggle to perfect her art form at the cost of neglecting her personal life. For a woman to reach the level of success Lauren Hill achieved it was a great sacrifice.
Itzel, I enjoyed your visual presentation. Notably you contrast what you called art with what you called tagging with the connotation: vandalism. What I wanted to hear was how this form of expression writing, esp. writing on public property...writing in public spaces is not unique to hip hop, it goes back centuries to the times when a lot of writing was pictorial and told stories and reflected the happenings of the village or town or nation. You spoke about it briefly when you answered my question about the artist's place in the Chicago landscape, that is, who is he connected to re: his work, since obviously he didn't create the genre.
When looking at the various creative expressions within hip hop culture, connect the dots, show how one art form is just another aspect of a larger pallet.
Chicago is known for its visual art institutions--it is the home of the Chicago Art Institute and I am sure the academies within Chicago noticed the rise in this "urban visual design movement," I don't know how, but just as Chicago is the home to poets: ee cummings and Gwendolyn Brooks and many others who don't come to mind presently, this poetic tradition bleeds into the popular culture and influences it. None of us is a blank slate, we are influenced by our environment--hip hop culture was born in the starkest and bleakest places, places people were forced to live because of their economic circumstances, and the art that arose is how they let society know they existed and their voices mattered.
This rebellion, this resistance is an aspect of all hip hop and now that hip hop is older--50 years+ we see the elders taking a back seat to the youngsters who don't know the history and as such do not continue the legacy of resistance and rebellion against any system which goes against our well-being: social, political, spiritual, physical, environmental, economic, you name it.
One thing about hip hop culture is its commitment to truth telling, which is a tenant of artists. True artists are honest in their work and honesty like reality is something one feels in that moment of creation given what one knows. Honesty is dependent on one's knowledge base and that is dependent on one's sources, which means your truth is not necessarily my truth, because I might have better information than you. This doesn't mean, though that I will not listen to you.
I gave you the essay on Graffiti because I wanted the article to information your research process. You cannot talk about graffiti --hip hop "writing" without mentioning the Bronx and TAKI 183. Look at http://www.at149st.com/artists.html
In LA recently: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/09/graffiti_law_say_what.php
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/graffiti-law.html
Jermaine:
I enjoyed your presentation as much as I enjoyed reading it, well perhaps not as much because I expected a soundtrack for the piece.
You obviously are an expert; I could tell when you referenced other artists whose careers Lauren Hill's parallels. You knew the lyrics of her work and others just as well and this was cool to hear as you spoke, but again, I wanted to hear her, and if only three people knew her work and have listened to The Miseducation, then education about her certainly needed a soundtrack.
For each student the audience is one who knows little to nothing about the artists or topics covered, so examples and illustration is key.
In the discussion you spoke about the history of the genre, but just as I asked Itzel to couch her topic within the historic genre we are speaking of: hip hop culture, Lauren Hill, as Dexter said well, his reflection based on Felicia Pride's Me, Myself and I, the notion of "keeping it real," which is not something De La Soul invented.
This authenticity is something which is a value black culture celebrates. When I grew up I was taught that all one had was one's word and if one's word wasn't one's bond then you could give it up, 'cause you weren't to be trusted.
Words are important in the African cosmology. Words are important in a lot of traditions--words create, words name, words are like energy, they vibrate, they can kill and they can give life.
Lauren Hill is connected to a long tradition that begins before the Fugees...who is Roberta Flack, a Washington D.C. teacher who started her career later in life. Why did Lauren Hill choose to sample "Killing Me Softly?"
I am not saying answer all these questions, but for your next presentation, think about how you can bring the artist and their work to life in front of us.
I missed hearing Ms. Hill's voice. It would have been nice to actually see her in concert and a pictorial depiction of her look as it changed over her career to now.
I wasn't at the concert at Great American Music Hall. I suggest you see Still Bill at the Oakland International Film Festival or in San Francisco next month when it opens at Sundance Kabuki.
My suggestion is to go to a public lecture given by an artist and see how they illustrate it. You can look at my presentations, how have I illustrated my lectures with sound, pictures, film? I play music; I give you activities to do as individuals and in small groups.
The thing about the live performance (lecture) is just that, one has an opportunity to engage one's audience in a way you can't when the audience is not there.
Jose Vasquez
Response to presentaton
I really enjoyed Itzel's presentation on grafitti. I liked the way that she presented her poster about the diffrent types of graffitti. she explained about the grafitti that many people may see as gang related.
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