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Low Brow

I encourage everyone to check out lowbrow.com which houses the lowbrow project 2.0. The project is a collection of stories, thoughts, and messages recorded on audio and broadcast to the world. Anyone could submit with these guidlines: Instructions

* Be depraved.
* Be anonymous. Or not.
* Confess your sins.
* Unload your conscience.
* Share your fantasy.
* Share your shame.

Here's a bit more information:

About The Lowbrow Line

A friend once said that everyone has a story. A person is known for telling the story, and others, often, will beg for the person to tell that story. Culturally, it's been a way for people to introduce themselves -- or be introduced - to new people.

"Hey, tell John that story about how you..."

"Oh! This is John. He's the guy that..."

Everyone has one of those stories. Tell us yours.

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The Lowbrow Forum
There is a forum that continues to exist with a vibrant and active commmunity. You can find it here.


A note about Lowbrow 1.0
Lowbrow 1.0 was a project that existed from 1996 to 2006, a nearly ten year run of collecting text-based stories of the depraved, the young and the feckless. The run came came to completion when The Management lost interest in the financial care and feeding required to keep it running. The option was extended to the end users to help support the costs of maintaining the project. The silence was message enough. The project continues behined closed doors for those who did step up. If you care to have access to the project, please use the donate buttonsbelow. $10 minimum for the final year of lowbrow.

What'll happen to the moments? They will be buried, on a cdrom, in a timecapsule for the future to find. it'll make a beautiful portrait of humanity.

And so I encourage everyone to go listen to these stories before they are buried forever.

High Brow

Group Presentations Wed April 20th

A little reflection on my presentation experience and then thoughts on others. Well, I wasn't really prepared to present my paper. I suppose looking back at all the creative things people did I could have hired a person to read the monologue with me in order to make it more engaging. Having no plan however, I dug myself into a little grade. I'm comfortable speaking in front of people to be sure, but presenting material I wrote is a whole other story. (Which is probably why I have to imagine no one reads this blog in order to keep myself sane). I knew that Dr. Sexson would probably ask me to read a snippet of my story, but I hoped I wouldn't have to read all of it. But as is the case most of the time things did not turn out the way I wanted. I read my whole story. It was hard to share because I was extremely proud of my work and worried what other people may think. That is to say, I am not my biggest critic, the fear of other critics is. On the bright side everyone seemed to enjoy it and I didn't die of wounded pride. Other notables include Bri Barber's presentation where she performed a rap. Now, I feel fairly comfortable speaking in front of people but performing a rap, by oneself for that matter, is totally different. I applaud her for going all out and fully committing herself to her performance, I think everyone would agree it was an enjoyable experience.

The Dream

I am so ecstatic that Rio has put the video of the dream on his blog. This movie absolutely inspired me and I wanted the ability to torment the masses of people I know with this high brow work. Remembering Classical Literature I knew that the group that contained Zach would be something to marvel at. I wasn't wrong. This film is done so beautifully its really hard to describe it in words. It has references of all our works from class placed in seamlessly along with references that only fit our classes discourse group, Dr. Sexson's granddaughter anyone? I really think that if Dr. Sexson or anyone else should teach this class again this movie should be incorporated into the curriculum. In fact many of the offerings that have come about from this class should be incorporated in. I also love that almost every presentation in the class dealt with Dr. Sexson in some way. The wizard of the class had to be incorporated or it wouldn't be the same.

Reflection over group presentation.

To be honest I am completely surprised that our group presentation came together at all. As James said, we were originally going to mirror what group one did. Then came the problem that group one had switched times and shortened our turn around period. And then we saw group one's presentation and realized it would be so hard to mirror their presentation. Which left us with three days to come up with a whole new idea. I guess our group had met once before, a meeting I could not attend, and come up with a somewhat idea dealing with the sun. When we met Sunday, a day before our presentation mind you, I was terribly worried. We had about four hours to come up with an idea, presentation and script. As we sat there discussing an idea began to form. What if we dealt with the stages of language and ended with the "dude" language quoting the "god" language coming full circle. It was a plan. So we paired off and individually with our partners came up with our sections of the script. Needless to say it helped that we had a group of fantastically brilliant people, but what would you expect in English anyway, that somehow made each script fit together perfectly. We talked about our costumes rehearsed it over once and prayed for the best. Luckily, and I hope you'd agree, we did pretty damn well for ourselves.

Group Presentations Monday April 26th

All of the group presentations today were fabulous, I mean who will ever forget Lisa's ribbon dance performance my four year old self was jumping for joy on the inside over her stellar moves, and what I have come to expect to see in a Sexon class. There were a few that really stood out to me though. First off would be Zach's performance on his guitar. Any time I have had the pleasure to read or hear anything Zach created is a treat and this held true yet again. The lyrics to his song were absolutely beautiful as well as the melody. I also liked the fact that he switched mid way through and refined a song he had previously written because he hadn't understood what he needed to yet. I had the same experience in this class so this really resonated with me. I also really enjoyed our resident business majors take on lowbrow and comic books. In Literary Criticism last semester we explored the idea of graphic novels in a classroom and the implications with which people view them. This presentation brought me back to that idea and how people often judge things without really looking deeper and finding meaning. I also really loved Christina's presentation and look forward to reading her whole paper. Great job again team.