An art project to investigate:
1) follow the link and read about/look at/listen to the project.
2) Post your investigation (notice reaction, ask a question, make a plan) in the comments field.
3) If five people have already commented, choose a different link
Comments (5)
The sticky notes made me laugh. Taking words and breaking them down into smaller words, then drawing the literal meanings is very creative and fun. I’ve played around with words in my head like that. For instance, today my sister taught me how to play poker and as soon as she said royal flush a literal interpretation came to my head. I began to laugh. Then I wondered, does everyone think of things literally sometimes, or even all the time? I think “sticky moments” can easily be put to the test by experimenting with many words and see what others can depict out of them.
When I looked at the sticky art project my first reaction was laughter, followed by curiosity. I spent about 20 minutes on the site, and it is by far one of the funniest, silliest, and coolest ideas I have come across. It quickly reminded me of the TTC subway station, Coxwell. I laugh to myself everyday, twice a day when I pass this subway station, and often receive strange looks from other TTC riders. Like Samar said in the above comment, taking words and breaking them down from their literal meaning is extremely fun.
The sticky art project made me wonder how much of what people say is supposed to carry it’s literal meaning. Words like lol, lmao or phrases like I love you, I hate you, get the @#$# out of my face. Do people actually mean what they say when they say some of these word, phrases and sentences. Are people aware of the literal meaning to some of these words, sentences and phrases? lol.
I would like do this sticky art project myself. I would also like to know how many people are actually laughing out loud (lol), or rolling on the floor laughing (rofl), when they use these internet abbreviations. It would be cool to know how much of what an average person says in a day, is supposed to carry its literal meaning.
Reading the sticky notes immediately brought a smile onto my face, especially since the first sticky note is of a “dill-doe”. Sexual innuendoes always seem to make me laugh, being a teenager and all, and then continuing from there, the other allusions were all very entertaining. Before reading them I was in a pretty indifferent mood but they definitely made me feel light-hearted. The first thing I thought about was getting every stick in the mud and person down-in-the-dumps to get to read this and hopefully bring a smile on their faces as well. I wonder if that’d be possible…I mean it’d be great if that could happen because really these sticky notes/tabs or whatever they’re called are all pretty funny and entertaining! I think it would be good if everyone could get to see this and maybe get a laugh out of them, so I would probably copy the link and send it in a forward to a bunch of contacts. Even if everyone doesn’t read it, I’d hope that the people who WOULD read it would feel as light-hearted as I did when I read them.
Drawing out the literal meaning of broken down words is very creative, and very funny. When I looked at the sticky art project, I laughed, as many people would. The sticky art project made me realize that the english language is very confusing at times and that one has to be very precise with the words they say, else the wrong message will be sent across. For example,
Bob: Do you like my hair?
Max: Wait, you never told me you had a pet rabbit…
***This is kind of a lame one, but you get the idea***
Are people aware of the literal meaning to the things they say. Something I would like to do is exactly that. Break down phrases into their literal meaning.
P.S. Roeshawn the word you are looking for is illusions and not allusions. (Allusions are events, people or places which mark a specific time.)
As I looked through all the sticky notes a smile appeared on my face. I felt a sense of silliness along with creativity inside of me, which started to make me think of all the places I could possibly stick all those sticky notes. I didn’t even finish looking through all of them and already I was trying to come up with words that would make awesome sticky art. I also thought about how wordplay can in fact give the actual word a whole new meaning and a whole new picture in this case. Coming from a person with a very strong photographic memory, this sticky business gives a whole meaning to my skill. Now I can breakdown words and think of silly images to help me remember things. This site also reminded me how sometimes we use images and symbols to represent words. For examples the symbol “@” for the word “at” and “<3” for love/heart.
Do people actually use sticky art as a way to incorporate fun in a serious work or school environment?