Archive for the ‘Other Yummy Meta Delights’ Category
David Hockney’s Metaphotocollage
The metaphotocollage (how about that word!) by David Hockney, “Luncheon at British Embassy, Tokyo, Feb. 16, 1983,” is meta because it upsets several assumptions about photographs, refers to the photographer, and captures the act of taking photographs.
Metaphotos of a Meta-sculpture
Omar Rodriguez Rodriguez’s Metaphotos of Josiah McElheny’s Meta-Sculpture Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (after Buckminster Fuller & Isamu Noguchi), 2003.
Blown glass objects, mirrored glass, and wood base.
Metaclock
(Thanks to Emily Merriman for bringing this to my attention!)
The Conventions of Unconventionality: An Overview of Metafiction
An overview of major themes I found while studying metafiction for the Metaclass, a self-study course for a masters of literature at San Francisco State University. This summary will also serve as a guide to the posts I have written over the last four months (with notes about a few others I intend to write). It is not meant to be a comprehensive list of meta conventions, but an addition to the the list found under Meta-Meta and Metafiction. (Nor is this intended to be a summary of themes I developed about writing and teaching, the metaclass aspect. Those themes may be found in Putting It All Together: Collaborative and Integrated Reading and Writing.)
Me tab log Once I Rex Wrote Metafiction on Ronosaurus
What Makes Us Human
What separates us from the animals…
…is the desire to separate ourselves from the animals.
Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people in the world:
those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.
If Not a Pipe, Then What?
When first I came across René Magritte’s famous painting, which says in French “This is not a pipe,” I was quite confused. Of course it is a pipe. Just look at the painting. I propose a simple test to check: put something in the pipe and smoke it. You can’t? Why not? If not a pipe, then what is it?
Las Meninas: A Meta-painting
Las Meninas is a meta-painting, a painting about paintings. (Thanks Alejo for pointing this out!) I decided to post Velasquez’s masterpiece with a quick explanation of what makes it meta, but as I have been studying the (digitally reproduced) oil painting and writing about it, I have noticed more and more self-references and so my explanation keeps expanding. At this point I count at least 23 meta aspects. Take a look at the painting yourself and see if you can identify them:
Meta-YouTube: “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”
A profound meditation on the community YouTube creates, this video, “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube,” by Michael Wesch is thoroughly meta from beginning to end (55 minutes, so make some popcorn) and profoundly moving (I am still all choked up and puffy-eyed) because it is about the revolution that is happening as “real” people share “real” content with a growing, global (and very “real”) community (hello world!).
