tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067316757764729342024-03-19T16:26:42.173-05:00kind of . . .on rhetoric, image, film, making & beingbonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-69283252850522793862019-12-02T19:22:00.000-06:002019-12-02T19:22:44.654-06:00bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-87353719655151979212018-07-21T13:16:00.001-05:002021-07-26T14:28:29.266-05:00Do Your Best ... bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-53039297097144965792018-03-04T09:57:00.007-06:002021-07-26T14:57:20.728-05:00Stand Up Straight & Let Me Get a Look at You
It's awards show Sunday, so i'm giving Margot. I'm through with the wishfulness and angst and regret, and Margot, more than anyone gives this good ennui.I'm mad for Guillermo's brilliant, faceshredding tearmaker The Shape of Water, loved underrated genius Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (didn't want it to end!! ... Saorise Ronan's flared jeans!), and worshipped the blinding, teacup bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-87898071297429729162016-09-25T09:14:00.008-05:002021-07-26T14:57:39.823-05:00Social Media is People!
Not a selfie, but so very much about
self, self-identity, choice. There's
a great story about my determined
choice to be photographed in THIS
dress. MINE!
Messy, icky, less-than-ideally *curated* people. Following my interest in conceptions of "self" that have shifted through time*, on into our selfie loving cultures, I am currently collecting resources on the contemporary bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-13865022432384433132016-05-30T23:01:00.003-05:002021-07-26T14:58:03.330-05:00Things I Learned at the Conference
I love conferences. I have always loved performing. People often say that they enjoy my performances, so I like to think it's time well spent, and, lucky me, getting to do this thing I love!
Also, I like people. I enjoy my professional relationships; however, I am a trained extrovert, so it doesn't always come easy. That's what this post is about.
Over the last 2 weeks, I've presented 3 timesbonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-3534842131948341622016-02-14T20:39:00.005-06:002021-07-26T14:58:47.716-05:00Just Because
I begin with this trailer because YES. It serves as an absurdist vision for the notion that this work I'm doing is relevant, important, interesting. It is, mind you, but the notion of it is absurd in ways I recognize in light of life and death, dreams of the good life, all the aspirational hopes of seeking (or avoiding) love and partnerships. Generally, absurd is how I've been feeling, and somebonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-41630409354124940302015-08-05T10:32:00.005-05:002021-07-26T14:59:16.884-05:00Selfies?
In the midst of attempting to complete my book, review a film for publication, produce 2 new documentaries, apply for a prestigious award, prep my syllabi for the upcoming academic semester, and host a visit from my in-laws, I have been keeping pace with my selfie practices and even recently bought an inexpensive selfie stick in the small-bin kid's toy section at the local superstore (!). i'm bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-69704285562819814252015-04-25T08:50:00.003-05:002021-07-26T14:59:38.480-05:00Trauma Dot Com
"memory" by Stanley Yuu
A friend's FB post prompted me to look up some old posts I'd shared about "the boatwreck." I have enjoyed reading them again, though their content is always somewhat provocative, releasing additional forms of trauma that attach to my current situation, about which I won't be writing publicly for some time but which involves my mother's still fairly recent passing and mybonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-6274689310675832312015-01-16T08:48:00.009-06:002021-07-26T15:04:03.788-05:00Puppets! Performance! Projectors!!
After last night's opening performance at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a member of the core ensemble said, "The show is very seamful." True. Also, brilliant. The use of old OVERHEAD PROJECTORS (!), puppets, digital tech, and live performers projected onto 2 screens, digitally captured and reprojected onto a center screen, created an enchanting, visceral film noir experience.
MEMENTOS bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-20578760927634928682014-12-24T09:52:00.002-06:002021-07-26T15:00:53.782-05:00updating ...
Screening Rhetorics: Affective Mediations Toward Film-Composition performs a take on the emergence and state of film-composition, an area within the larger field of Rhetoric and Composition. The book argues for film-composition as a vital scene for rhetorical inquiry and practice. Through a judicious use of anecdotal reflection from my experience as rhetorician, compositionist, actor, bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-21171018933630630602014-08-23T08:41:00.004-05:002022-02-27T09:22:31.461-06:00risqué
Writing about risk. That's the theme of the 2015 Conference on College Composition & Communication, which will take place in Tampa, Florida, the very home of my doctoral program (USF). Last week, I learned that my proposal had been accepted. My performance explores the rhetoric of "DIY" (do it yourself) composing projects as a kind of "optimistic failure." Upon reading the acceptance email, bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-86605272881629505932014-05-21T07:50:00.003-05:002022-02-27T09:26:26.508-06:00reviews are in!!
I am the reluctant writer. Oh sure, I write a lot and in different modes. But this book project? (really, we need to rethink the ways in which *books* create these forms of approval ... the ongoing dream ...). As you know, I've been trying to launch this documentary-style ethnographic narrative (aka "book") amid my life's 4 billion obstacles. I know i'm not spesh in this, but for real. I bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-84657587581776404452014-05-15T13:06:00.008-05:002022-02-27T09:40:50.622-06:00redesigning
So, we are about to buy a condo in Naperville. Very exciting! Sounds great, right? And it is. I kind of I hate to admit it, but ... nah, we'll go with "great!" Why? Because in the ongoing project that is bonnie lenore kyburz, I am working to reflect and evolve, and I've been doing a lot of it this past year. Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
I won't lie. This year has been one of the most bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-69665487815137526842013-12-23T09:37:00.002-06:002015-10-01T09:22:17.391-05:00on holidays (radical change version)
One of my favorite lyrics is in "White Knuckles" by the conceptually joyful band, Ok Go. Before I share the lyric and why I love it, I must reflect upon the title. Titles first. If they are good, if they have cleverly compressed the song's intention, its key conceptual valences, even better.
2013 has been a white knuckle year. I've written about the challenges of giving up my tenured bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-44672934145929044892013-12-04T09:54:00.000-06:002013-12-04T09:54:54.687-06:00the proposal is away ...
The proposal is away.
No, i'm not celebrating too soon, but i am celebrating. You see, in composing it, i see much more clearly the real, true possibility for the project. You knew this. About writing proposals. This is how it works.
i continue on in my 4 course load, so simply completing the P is worthy of an LBD and a cocktail, i'd say. And then, it's a vision, this bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-88140222952951957242013-10-21T11:42:00.000-05:002013-10-21T11:42:42.342-05:00National Day on Writing (assignment)i joined my students in this assignment ...
bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-38296980148856290362013-10-11T08:32:00.002-05:002013-10-11T08:36:46.052-05:00renewing purpose
screenshot from screencube
I am writing this post to clarify the deleted title subheader, which previously read "thinking about representation." For while I continue to think about representation, this webspace has a variety of purposes that are so "kind of ..." (inquiring and exploratory) that it makes sense to simply lead off with that title and then craft appropriate post titles.
Whatbonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-60200439659199802962013-07-30T11:46:00.000-05:002013-10-11T15:31:08.768-05:00updating
draft (gaps!) image of reflecting cube, screencube
Since writing about writing my book and all my grand plans, I have done a bit of revision, sought and received helpful feedback, and then put the work aside as I work on more immediately pressing "transition" matters. Settling into the apartment. Wondering if an apartment was the right choice. Looking at houses (!). Kinda bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-84318464917000571372013-07-10T13:59:00.000-05:002019-09-28T09:16:35.438-05:00an anniversary (update)
40 years ago today our family's boat capsized in the waters between the Dry Tortugas and Key West. We spent 26 hours on the overturned hull -- falling off and scrambling back up -- in pretty dangerous, shark-friendly waters and throughout an overnight storm. We made it. Yes, there's a whole lotta story I've left out, complete with mirages, my pleas to let me swim to a channel marker my bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-50234240677051792992013-03-19T13:40:00.002-05:002013-03-19T13:40:11.095-05:00Digital Pedagogy Slides from C's 2013bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-55554646237558923552013-01-01T10:03:00.000-06:002013-01-05T20:09:37.504-06:00new year's day 2013
test shot. screencube
2013, hello.
i am glad to see you. 2012 was productive and challenging ... like, crazy. As you know, i was unspeakably happy to stage my very first immersive installation, screencube, at our MoMLA gallery in Seatlle. Seattle, btw, is an outstanding city; i could see myself visiting often. Especially fantastic was The Steelhead Diner, Metsker Maps, and this bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-66024176392606367482012-09-03T11:24:00.002-05:002012-09-03T11:27:11.169-05:00becoming the book
yu-cheng chou,
"emotions"
Yesterday, i responded to one of Cheryl Ball's FB status updates regarding her current sabbatical and book project. i used the response as an opportunity to see with greater clarity how our driving concepts are (re)animated, (re)mediated within real and virtual spaces. Cheryl offers a perfect lens through which to read this possibility, her identity bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-63611736913536111282012-08-25T13:50:00.001-05:002012-08-25T13:52:10.369-05:00inventory
So i've just completed the latest revisions to my c.v. It's fine looking, i suppose. Alotta lists. Alotta work. But so also just happened: i'm posting a response to a friend's Facebook post about a long-ago audition, in which he reflects upon the advice of the Director ("go home and listen to Frank Sinatra"). i'm empathizing from the perspective of a girl who's studied acting since her early 40'bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-20887419736643758572012-06-29T10:45:00.005-05:002012-06-29T10:50:29.571-05:00summer teaching ...All kinds of economic factors mean that i am teaching the Summer B Block class. This is a compressed semester of 7.5 weeks, my favorite way to teach Introduction to Writing. i have so many projects up in the air, but i am choosing to focus almost exclusively on my teaching, for now, because the past year has been so full of family drama, travel, conference presentations, publication preparation, bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606731675776472934.post-39295208557548130102012-06-05T19:06:00.002-05:002012-06-05T19:07:01.996-05:00Nisimazine (all things Cannes films) ...
Open publication - Free publishing - More 2012bonnie lenore kyburzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com0