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table of contents

the final seven posters

seeing um telling essay

the exhibition

– Speech patterns

– Word | context | word

– Grid speech patterns

– Human versus computer filters

– Emotion filters

– Um evident

– Speed of speech

– Documenting process

– The 5 sense

– Plutchik’s wheel of emotions

– Visualize thought through images

– Thought through language

Analyzing words

How visual effect our emotions

Objectivity through context “mind”

– Collecting stories

– Visualizing stories

Chris’s story

Beth’s story

Ann’s story

– Emotion chart | each line indcates 10 secs.

– Part of speech pattern | each line indcates 10 secs.

– Speed of speech chart between three stories

– Emotion Filters

– Um Evident

– Speed of Speech

the process and inspirations

Positive wordsNegative words

Repeated wordsMost common nouns

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First person singularFirst person plural

Third person singular Verb chris clark | nov 5, 2010 | 796 words in 4 mins 10 secs

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chrIs clark / Nov 5, 2010 / 798 WoRds IN 4 mINs 10 secs

context / word /context

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chris clark | nov 5, 2010 | 796 words in 4 mins 10 secs



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[1] Grid speech patterns [2] Human versus computer filters [3] Emotion filters [4] Um Evident

It’s probably not a good idea to choose a thesis idea as complex as analyzing a language I didn’t grow up speaking or hearing. My native language is Thai, yet as a member of the global design community, I also must interact with English, an international language.

I love listening to stories, and I am interested in analyzing the way people tell them. I asked some of my classmates to tell me stories about their childhoods. Faint memories came back as rich stories.

I used a video camera to record the stories as people told them. I transcribed this spoken language into text. Then I created various systems to analyze the elements of storytelling. Finally, I designed posters to represent my analysis. I named my project “Seeing Um Telling” to represent my effort to translate talking into typography.

The mysterious process of speech fascinates me. How do we transform our thoughts into spoken language? During speech, we think, talk, hesitate, pause, and say “um,” or “uh,” to buy time. Talking is an activity that relies on thinking in the moment. It’s part of our com-munication style and individual verbal habits. All these behaviors affect how each person narrates.

After collecting ten stories, I choose three that I thought had potential for analysis. My friends’ stories and the way they narrated them portray their person-alities. I started to create systems around the analysis. Starting with three stories gave me a chance to see how each system could apply to other stories. The process also allows comparisons among the stories.

Chris’s story is long, confessional and had the most emotional contrast, while Beth and Ann’s stories are more direct, clear and focused. I chose to focus on Chris’s story, analyzing in twenty graphic ways.

first design strategy

[1} This system represents speech patterns. I broke down the story into sections that indicated 5-second intervals. I divided the words into a grid with equal spacing. The number of words in each line forms a bar graph that shows the speed of speech. It showed how fast or how slow Chris talks throughout each session. I also coded each word by color based on the part of speech.

This pattern symbolizes the frequency of speed, tone, rhythm, and fillers. The pattern allows view-ers to see the number of times Chris mentions one person and what kind of description he gives that person. Also, the intensities of each color show in what part of the story he uses more fillers and the frequency of negative and positive words.In the beginning of the story, Chris says, “Ross is the best thing I had.” A reader might interpret the tone of Chris’s statement as positive, but upon close inspection, the reader will see that Chris intended sarcasm. The readers can see the negative colors around one spot of positive colors. The outcome expresses emotion not only through choice of words but also through rhythm and pace during different parts of the story. The pattern allows the viewers to see the mood and tone in each part without reading through the whole story.

[2] After exploring the parts of speech in objective ways, I became more interested in analyzing subjec-tive aspects of the stories. I categorized emotions throughout the story. I was interested in how a computer algorithm would judge the emotions of the story. I filtered the story with a natural lan-guage processor, and it pointed out the positive and negative words.

It’s fascinating to compare the nuances of human judgment to the computer filters. For instance, the computer program defined the word pretty as dif-ferently as a positive adjective. Yet Chris was using the word as a noncommittal adverb. Because of this,

the program categorized the word differently than I did. The program also picked out the word super as positive, but in this context, it is being used as an adjective in the phrase “super freaked out.” By contrast, the program fails to identify the phrases anti-social and no friend as negative while identify-ing friend and adventure as a positive word. My design represents human judgment with a thick line and the program’s judgment with thin.

[3] The next poster applies an emotional filter to each part of the story. There are four main emo-tions: negative, contrary, neutral, and positive emotion. I used my own judgment to begin and later asked the story’s teller to verify. I used color to differentiate between certain stages of emotions.

[4] Uncovered words indicated fillers such as um, uh, and, like, which contrasted with the emotion fillers. In general, the fillers mostly occurred in the beginning and middle parts of the story, rather than at the end. More important, the fillers are often used when the speaker is switching emotions. I made the fillers more evident in the preceding poster by blocking out other words and emphasiz-ing the fillers.

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When I was in, I believe it was fourth grade, I think, um | I had a friend named Ross

Mercer and Ross Mercer sucked, | he was like the most irritating human being on the

planet, | he had no self-control um and he never knew when to stop, he always did

everything past | the point where it was funny to the point where it was genuinely

irritating and and he would continue, | but I was incredibly shy and antisocial and I

had no friends, | he was, he was the best thing I had so Ross Mercer was my friend | and

uh both, both my parents worked so um | I had to, had to stay after school everyday at

this thing | called adventure club and adventure club took place in the cafeteria and we

all just sat around | and played board games, basically they tried to keep us preoccupied

and and | from not hurting ourselves until our parents um finally came and picked us

up, | most of the kids had stay-at-home moms where I was living so their moms would

come and pick them | up but I had to wait an additional two hours until my dad would

get off work and uh | and so that was what Ross was also in adventure club | and um |

uh sorry I lost my train of thought um | we just um we would always draw pictures, we

only, we only did a few activities, | in the summer we would we would go out and we

would we would we would take yellow plastic | baseball bats and try to kill yellow-jackets

around a trashcan, this is how bored we were and then | if we weren’t doing that we

were drawing pictures, and I had a character named | Zucchni Cookie and uh he had

some other characters one time he got really mad | at me for trying, trying to, for using

one of his characters but that was because he said | he didn’t want to draw it anymore,

and I thought it was a pretty sweet character so I started drawing it and um | he got

really mad at me about this and uh | he uh we both, both went to the bathroom | and

the bathroom was kind of far off it was down the hallway and um | I guess whenever

in the bathroom you know, he finished peeing and doing his business earlier than me

| and he um he thought it would be really funny to stand in front of the door with his

arms | really wide like this so I couldn’t get out of the door and he just thought this

was hysterical and he would flip | the lights on and off really fast, he kept turning

on the lights so it was a very like intense like strobe-light effect | and uh I was super

freaked out | ‘cause you know I was like a super shy and timid kid this sort of thing

really freaked me out and of course it was Ross, | so he had to take everything way too

far so what he was also turning on all the uh | all the hairdryers in the bathroom, so

it was all this sound happening, and lights were going on and off, | and I was totally

freaking out, and since it was Ross he had to take everything | not only too far past the

point where it was it was annoying but even farther than that, and he just | would not stop, so

I was nearly at the point of tears here ‘cause this kid was completely ballistic | and

and trapping me in the bathroom and turning on the hairdryers, but he had every

five minutes the hairdryers would go off | ‘cause they were on a timer, so my only way of

escaping was waiting for all of the hairdryers | to go off ‘cause he would have to run and

hit the hairdryers again to make them go back on | so at one moment he uh he ran to hit

the hairdryers and that was my escape, | so I grabbed the door and ran out, and right as I

opened the door, one of the um | one of the uh people who ran adventure club was there,

and uh | they had seen the whole thing, and I got in trouble for it, | which is really really

shitty um Ross um also got in trouble too, | but I really didn’t feel like I deserved that,

and I uh I still remember having to explain that to my dad, | that I was in trouble because

my irritating friend Ross locked me in the bathroom | and turned off all the lights and

flipped on all the hairdryers um, | anyways I don’t think I will ever be the same again


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a story from my childhood that sort of defines

like a moment of realization for me was when,

i remember i was really young and i was, that’s probably like six

or seven and i was in the car with my brother and sister in

um the back seat and my dad was driving

and it was a really cloudy day and it was kind of cold and i just

didn’t like the weather outside and i was like looking at the window and i was like i wish everyday

was a sunny day and i just said it ‘cause you know i was like lalala

and then my sister turns to me and she goes everyday is sunny,

it’s just the clouds block the sun and i was like

literally, my mind could not realize that, i was like

oh my god, you mean, the sun is like always out and

it’s, it’s always just above the clouds like my my little mind like worked so hard

to like figure out what it meant and then i realized that and then i was like

oh my god, everyday is sunny, that’s crazy and so,

that was, that was a moment that i really realized that like i didn’t quite understand

the world and that people could teach me like all these new things

that that took me a while to understand but once when i knew i was like that’s really cool.

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comparing three stories

when i was a kid, my dad was a crazy fisherman, he would go out all night

and come home and sleep for an hour or two and then he would

get up and work all day um he had boats, he ran a charter boat,

which we had a little business out of it and in order to

have bait, he kept a bath tub in our side yard,

filled with eels and there was a wooden,

a wooden top for it, there was almost always water

running through the tub, and when i said that there were eels

in the tub, i don’t mean that there were like five eels swimming in the water in the tub,

i mean it’s like a horror movie, like it’s filled with eels and they were all

slithering around each other, really pretty nasty, right? so

i was always so curious, they were all black and um i’d never seen anything like them,

there is no other animal or fish that that’s like them and

i would go out and push the wooden board aside and i’d peek in

and sometimes i would stick my hand in and grab one and then i’d get more

brave, and i’d take an eel out and hold it, and then

one time, i took one out and i dropped it and it was slithering around on the ground

and i was scared, i don’t know what i was scared of

but i couldn’t catch it, so there was a sledge hammer

nearby which uh a rubber mallet, i don’t know, maybe they’re the same thing,

and i took the rubber mallet and i beat it and i killed it

and i threw it off into the field and

covered it back up, covered the bathtub of eels back up

and i was pretty young, i was probably

eight or ten, and i think about that probably

monthly, just that’s probably the only time i’ve ever intentionally killed an animal larger

than a bug um and it really really

sticks with me, there was absolutely no need to kill that eel,

if i’d just let it go it would have died on its own but it was just that fear

that overtook me and i had to kill it.

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when i was in, i believe it was fourth grade, i think, um

i had a friend named ross mercer and ross mercer sucked,

he was like the most irritating human being on the planet,

he had no self-control um and he was never knew when to stop, he always did everything past

the point where it was funny to the point where it was genuinely irritating and and he would continue,

but i was incredibly shy and antisocial and i had no friends,

he was, he was the best thing i had so ross mercer was my friend

and uh both, both my parents worked so um

i had to, had to stay after school everyday at this thing

called adventure club and adventure club took place in the cafeteria and we all just sat around

and played board games, basically they tried to keep us preoccupied and and

from not hurting ourselves until our parents um finally came and picked us up,

most of the kids had stay-at-home moms where i was living so their mom would come and pick them

up but i had to wait an additional two hours until my dad would get off work and uh

and so that was what ross was also in adventure club

and um

uh sorry i lost my train of thought um

we just um we would always draw pictures, we only, we only did a few activities,

in the summer we would we would go out and we would we would we would take yellow plastic

baseball bats and try to kill yellow-jackets around a trashcan, this is how bored we were and then

if we weren’t doing that we were drawing pictures, and i had a character named

zucchni cookie and uh he had some other characters one time he got really mad

at me for trying, trying to, for using one of his characters but that was because he said

he didn’t want to draw it anymore, and i thought it was a pretty sweet character so i started drawing it and um

he got really mad at me about this and uh

he uh we both, both went to the bathroom

and the bathroom was kind of far off it was down the hallway and um

i guess whenever in the bathroom you know, he finished peeing and doing his business earlier than me

and he um he thought it would be really funny to stand in front of the door with his arms

really wide like this so i couldn’t get out of the door and he just thought this was hysterical and he would flip

the lights on and off really fast, he kept turning on the lights so it was a very like intense like strobe-light effect

and uh i was super freaked out

‘cause you know i was like a super shy and timid kid this sort of thing really freaked me out and of course it was ross,

so he had to take everything way too far so what he was also turning on all the uh

all the hairdryers in the bathroom, so it was all this sound happening, and lights were going on and off,

and i was totally freaking out, and since it was ross he had to take everything

not only too far past the point where it was it was annoying and even farther than that, and he just

would not stop, so i was nearly at the point of tears here ‘cause this kid was completely ballistic

and and trapping me in the bathroom and turning on the hairdryers, but he had every five minutes the hairdryers would go off

‘cause they were on a timer, so my only way of escaping was waiting for all of the hairdryers

to go off ‘cause he would have to run and hit the hairdryers again to make them go back on

so at one moment he uh he ran to hit the hairdryers and that was my escape,

so i grabbed the door and ran out, and right as i opened the door, one of the um

one of the uh people who ran adventure club was there, and uh

they had seen the whole thing, and i got in trouble for it,

which is really really shitty um ross um also got in trouble too,

but i really didn’t feel like i deserved that, and i uh i still remember having to explain that to my dad,

that i was in trouble because my irritating friend ross locked me in the bathroom

and turned off all the lights and flipped on all the hairdryers um,

anyways i don’t think i will ever be the same again

chris clark | nov 5, 2010 | 796 words in 4 mins 10 secs beth taylor | nov 5, 2010 | 380 words in 2 mins 30 secs ann liu | nov 8, 2010 | 242 words in 1 mins 30 secs

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seeing um telling essay ii

Speech patterns Word | context | word [4] Speed of speech

second design strategy

A key part of my thesis exhibition in the graphic design in Master of Fine Art at MICA was the creation of motion graphics. The video served as an introduction to the posters that follow with the details. The type appears on the screen one word at a time, synchronized with the voice of the tellers. These videos allowed visitors to both see and hear the stories simultaneously without any distracting of images.

The words appear and disappear, symbolizing the spoken language’s transience as it passes from the speaker to the audience. In contrast with subtitles in a film or closed captions on TV, these motion graphics follow the spoken stories in real time. The screen appears blank, implying that the teller paused. Words that appear for a very short moment mean when the speaker talks very fast.

These motion pieces were simply designed. They presented small black words on a white screen. This simplicity contrasts with the complexity of the color-codes posters. The bar graphs under the screens supplemented the motion pieces. They immediately showed information about different kinds of words that the tellers used in their stories. There were no numbers for each category but only the lengths for comparison.

third design strategy

[4} The last piece of my poster design compared all three stories over time. Each line length indicates the number of words spoken in five seconds. It compares each 5 seconds of each story together. Chris Clark spoke both the fastest with 26 words in 5 seconds and the slowest with 2 words in 5 seconds. He spoke fast during the climax of the story, where he took action after having victimized from the beginning. The slowest part of his story was when he lost his train of thought in the story’s transition section. The poster shows how long, fast, and slow he talked, and how long he paused. Chris’s variable data makes him the most inconsistent in speech rate. Ann and Beth spoke the fastest at 20 words per 5 seconds. They have a more consistent rate of talk-ing throughout their whole stories.

There are also parts toward the end of the story where Chris got excited and enthusiastic. He spoke quickly. Here, he did not use a lot of fillers. All these conclusions are evident in his emotion, tone, mood, pace and rhythm. Words like um, uh and like occurred the most in Chris’s speech – 5 per every 100 words. Interestingly, Beth used only 1 filter word in every 100 words and Ann used less than 1 per every 300 words. However, Ann said like 8 times per every 100 words.

When comparing these three people, Chris’s amount of filler words seems extremely high. In reality, the American adult English speaker uses 7 fillers per every 100 words [5], although, we hardly notice them. It is obvious that fillers affect the speed of speaking, but they are not necessarily influenced by emotions. This project is not intended to catch all the errors in spoken language. Rather, it is attempting to reveal how we communicate verbally. I created an objective and subjective dis-section of spoken language. Even though I subjected three narratives to this analysis, the system can ap-ply to any kind of storytelling, speech or interview.

It, metaphorically speaking, creates a blueprint that to parallel the story. It’s a system that is based a particular story, but it alternatively allows the reader to interpret the story on their own. Instead of seeing a story from one perspective in linear form, it gives readers another perspective on the stories. By looking at the system, you can better understand the tone, emotion and rhythms of the stories as well as observe the way people tell them. Above all, I am interested in seeing the visual pat-terns created when language is filtered through a typographic system. There’s an element of beauty and surprise that comes from the organic texture of speech and language meeting an abstract system.

[5] Um. Slips, stumbles, and verbal blunders, and what they mean by Micheal Erard, Pantheon 2007

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the exhibition

the processes and inspirations

living in the present moment

focusing your mind understand how you feel

connecting thought, emotions and images

Have you ever been with your thought at the time you are thinking? How can we focus on activities of the mind?

documenting process

observe describe document

Design Process : April 10, 2010

gnats in balloon

ymindfulness

feeling thinking

the five senses


The five senses contributed to human emotion attitude and thought.

ACCEPTANCE

APPREHENSION

DISTRACTION

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BOREDOM

ANNOYANCE

INTEREST

ECSTASY

ADMIRATION

TERROR

AMAZEMENT

GRIEF

LOATHING

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VIGILANCE

TRUST

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/ / / Feeling / / / // / / Thinking / / - - - - - Feeling - - - - -

visualizing thought through images


I’m thinking about what I am thinking. little hungry. I’m really good at keeping myself starving and I hate myself for that. Acid in stomach hurt me. it’s loud outside. I had good conversation . I was happy but I have so many things to do I want to be there where I feel peaceful.

- - - - - Feeling - - - - -

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I’m thinking about what I am thinking. little hungry. I’m really good at keeping myself starving and I hate myself for that. Acid in stomach hurt me. it’s loud outside. I had good conversation . I was happy but I have so many things to do I want to be there where I feel peaceful.

The 5 SensesPast Present Future Thought Positive thought Negative thought Sequence/

Lauren’s Adam’s thought / April 24, 2010

thought through language


Analyzing words

Learn to stand on your own / young calf. It’s so young it totters when she licks it / french breads / tuxedo / pantomiming / Mr.Wilson, “This song should make my mother cry!” Deep River my home is over Jordan / Peach tree / Presbyterian church, Savannah, GA / Stone mountains / Kelly Teall needs my inhaler / Chris Hade climbs up the mountain with us / So does Joel Hade, then he got cancer and dies right before his benefit concert and in the last song. / Michael and I thought for a second that that one guys was Chris but it wasn’t. It’s just some guy who looks like Chris. “We ain’t got dames!” / And then Abbey has cancer too and I’m worried about her life and every time I get a new care page update I hope it’s not going to tell me that they found more spots in her lungs and speaking of lungs. / I’m so pleased that my asthma seems to be under control now and that I haven’t been getting sick as much lately / I want to be healthy like Ahsley / I am excited for Ragbrai this summer and sleeping out under the stars with bats flying above our heads / cicadas chirping reminds me of Mimi’s house / I love 17. reminds me I should call her and tell her I love her.

ObjectPast Present Future Place Positive thought

Ann Liu’s thought / July 20, 2010

How visual effect our emotions

Chris Clark’s thought / July 20, 2010

I was twenty one and moving out of my first rented home. The dishes had not been done in months and at ten in the morning i awoke to my roomate resolving the issue by simply throwing them all in the garbage (including one of my favorite tumblers, of which it’s sister now lives as a pencil jar, since I can’t stand having single kinds of anything).

It reminds me of living in San Francisco. I used to buy beautiful flowers and put them in jars we had, because I didn’t have a flower vase.

thought through language

Objectivity through context “mind”

Chris Clark’s thoughtat night with too much caffein

August 22, 2010

Chris Clark’s thought in the morning with no caffein August 22, 2010

I am gonna be biking for the rest of my life

Cameron Zotter | Nov 5, 2011

Maybe when I go there for Thanksgiv-ing, I will walk out and find the monkey bridge again.

Lauren P. Adams | Nov 10, 2011

The time when I get surgery was the point that I chaged my interest in my life.

Jinkwan Kim | Nov 8, 2011

Everyday is a sunny day.

Ann Liu | Nov 8, 2011

My dad had shape my memory in term of work ethic. It is motivation and energy to do things in oder to provide.

Jessica Karle | Nov 10, 2011

collecting stories

And then just listened to his song, I forgot my pain and since then, he became one of my favorite artist in the world.

Michal Rotberg | Nov 10, 2011

He was like the most irritating human being on the planet.

Chris Clark | Nov 5, 2011

My dad built the house so of course I can do this.

Chris McCampbell | Nov 8, 2011

But it was just that fear that overtook me and I have to kill it

Beth Taylor | Nov 8, 2011

He was like tHe most irritating Human being on tHe planet.

visualizing story

Design Process : Dec 2 , 2010

When I was in, I believe it was fourth grade, I think, um | I had a friend named Ross Mercer and Ross

Mercer sucked, | he was like the most irritating human being on the planet, | he had no self-control

um and he was never knew when to stop, he always did everything past | the point where it was

funny to the point where it was genuinely irritating and and he would continue, | but I was incredibly

shy and antisocial and I had no friends, | he was, he was the best thing I had so Ross Mercer was my

friend | and uh both, both my parents worked so um | I had to, had to stay after school everyday at

this thing | called adventure club and adventure club took place in the cafeteria and we all just

sat around | and played board games, basically they tried to keep us preoccupied and and | from

not hurting ourselves until our parents um finally came and picked us up, | most of the kids

had stay-at-home moms where I was living so their mom would come and pick them | up but I had

to wait an additional two hours until my dad would get off work and uh | and so that was what Ross

was also in adventure club | and um | uh sorry I lost my train of thought um | we just um we would

always draw pictures, we only, we only did a few activities, | in the summer we would we would go

out and we would we would we would take yellow plastic | baseball bats and try to kill yellow-jackets

around a trashcan, this is how bored we were and then | if we weren’t doing that we were drawing

pictures, and I had a character named | Zucchni Cookie and uh he had some other characters one time

he got really mad | at me for trying, trying to, for using one of his characters but that was because he

said | he didn’t want to draw it anymore, and I thought it was a pretty sweet characters so I started

drawing it and um | he got really mad at me about this and uh | he uh we both, both went to the

bathroom | and the bathroom was kind of far off it was down the hallway and um | I guess whenever

in the bathroom you know, he finished peeing and doing his business earlier than me | and he um he

thought it would be really funny to stand in front of the door with his arms | really wide like this so

I couldn’t get out of the door and he just thought this was hysterical and he would flip | the lights

on and off really fast, he kept turning on the lights so it was a very like intense like strobe-light effect

| and uh I was super freaked out | ‘cause you know I was like a super shy and timid kid this sort of

thing really freaked me out and of course it was Ross, | so he had to take everything way too far so

what he was also turning on all the uh | all the hairdryers in the bathroom, so it was all this sound

happening, and lights were going on and off, | and I was totally freaking out, and since it was Ross

he had to take everything | not only too far past the point where it was it was annoying but even

farther than that, and he just | would not stop, so I was nearly at the point of tears here ‘cause this

kid was completely ballistic | and and trapping me in the bathroom and turning on the hairdryers,

but he had every five minutes the hairdryers would go off | ‘cause they were on a timer, so my only

way of escaping was waiting for all of the hairdryers | to go off ‘cause he would have to run and hit

the hairdryers again to make them go back on | so at one moment he uh he ran to hit the hairdryers

and that was my escape, | so I grabbed the door and ran out, and right as I opened the door, one of the

um | one of the uh people who ran adventure club was there, and uh | they had seen the whole thing,

and I got in trouble for it, | which is really really shitty um Ross um also got in trouble too, | but I

really didn’t feel like I deserved that, and I uh I still remember having to explain that to my dad, |

that I was in trouble because my irritating friend Ross locked me in the bathroom | and turned off all

the lights and flipped on all the hairdryers um, | anyways I don’t think I will ever be the same again

chris clark / nov 5, 2010 / 798 words in 4 mins 10 secs

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BuT IT wAS juST THAT FEAr THAT ovErTook ME

and I have to kIll It

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When I was a kid, my dad was a crazy fisherman,

he would go out all night | and come home and sleep

for an hour or two and then he would | get up and

work all day um he had boats, he ran a charter

boat, | which we had a little business out of it and

in order to | have bait, he kept a bath tub in our

side yard, | filled with eels and there was a wooden, | a wooden top for it, there was almost always water

| running through the tub, and when I said that

there were eels | in the tub, I don’t mean that

there were like five eels swimming in the water

in the tub, | I mean it’s like a horror movie, like

it’s filled with eels and they were all | slithering

around each other, really pretty nasty, right? So

| I was always so curious, they were all black and

um I’d never seen anything like them, | there is no

other animal or fish that that’s like them and | I

will go out and push the wooden board aside and

I’d peek in | and sometimes I would stick my hand in

and grab one and then I’d get more | brave, and I’d

take an eel out and hold it, and then | one time, I took

one out and I dropped it and it was slithering around

on the ground | and I was scared, I don’t know what

I was scared of | but I couldn’t catch it, so there were

a sledge hammer | nearby which uh a rubber mallet, I

don’t know, maybe they’re the same thing, | and I took

the rubber mallet and I beat it and I killed it | and I

threw it off into the field and | covered it back up,

covered the bathtub of eels back up | and I was pretty

young, I was probably | eight or ten, and I think about

that probably | monthly, just that’s probably the only

time I’ve ever intentionally killed an animal larger

| than a bug um and It really really | sticks with me,

there was absolutely no need to kill that eel, | If I’d

just let it go it would have die on its own but it was

just that fear | that overtook me and I had to kill it.

beth taylor / nov 5, 2010 / 380 words in 2 mins 30 secs


EVERY-DAY IS A SUNNY

DAY.

visualizing story


ann liu / nov 8, 2010 / 242 words in 1 mins 30 secs


A story from my childhood that sort of defines | like a moment of realization for me was when, | I remember I was really young and I was, that’s

probably like six | or seven and I was in the car

with my brother and sister in | um the back seat

and my dad was driving | and it was a really cloudy

day and it was kind of cold and I just | didn’t like

the weather outside and I was like looking at the

window and I was like I wish everyday | was a sunny

day and I just said it ‘cause you know I was like

lalala | and then my sister turns to me and she goes

everyday is sunny, | It’s just the cloud block the Sun

and I was like | literally, my mind could not realize

that, I was like | oh my God, you mean, the Sun is like

always out and | it’s, it’s always just above the cloud

like my my little mind like worked so hard | to like fig-

ure it out what it meant and then I realized that and

then I was like | oh my God, everyday is sunny, that’s

crazy and so, | that was, that was the moment that I

really realized that like I didn’t quite understand | the world and that people could teach me like all these

new things | that that took me a while to understand

but once when I knew I was like that’s really cool.

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when tohe he he hehad no self- controlwas was knew stop did passedeverythingnever alwaysthe most irritating human being on the planetlike andum

it he IIitwas would hadcontinuewasfunny genuinely irritating was shy antisocial noincrediblythe thepoint point friendwhere where and and and andbutto

he Ihe was had was my myfriend parentswas bestthe thing so and both bothuh uhsoworkedRoss Mercer

everydayI had to stay called placetook cafeteriaclubadventure had to after andschool this thingat in the uhwe all just sat around

toboard games, basically finallyplayed triedand and and andthey us usourselves our parentskeep preoccupied from not hurting umuntil came picked up

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weren’t were had a character characters one timenamed got really madZucchini cookie and uh he hehad some otherdoing pictures andthat drawing Iweif we

trying trying use onetryingfor for his characters charactershe he it it itdidn’t want pretty sweetsaid anymore and andsoI Ithought started drawingwasmeat to to of uh

of thoughttrainlost we we we weum just activitiessorry would alwaysum only only few in the summerdid aI draw pictures

would would take try to kill aroundyellow plastic basebll bats yellow jacketswould go out we weand and and thenwe werewould would istrashcan,awe wewe boredhowthis

thanmefar offkind ofwas was I you heknow finish peeing doingguess wheneverdown the theand and and his business earlierinbathroom bathroom it hallway bathroomum

flipwouldhethought would be really funnyhehe it door with his arms wide like this thisso and andI couldn’t get out of the door he just thought was hystericalto stand theand front ofinum

shysuperkept turningfastand I Iwas wasa avery intense strobelike likewasthe thelights lights lights effecton onoff really so it and super freaked out you know‘causehe uh

got really mad aboutme thewent toandhe he we both bothat this uh uh

kid hairdryersand and Ross he theso sotohad take everything whatwasof coursetimid ofsortthis reallystuff me it way too far he turning on allwas alsofreaked out

noteverythingin and I itwas totally waslights were goingthe bathroom wasitso thisall happening Ross he takehad tosound and and and sinceon off freaking out

trappingandonly too far the point where it it and even further than that and andhe would not stop so I was wasnearly completely balisticat the point of tears here ‘cause this kidwas was annoyingpast

escape‘cause hairdryers again toat one momentto make them go backhe would have hitrunto and the mythatthe so ran hit wason he heuh hairdryers and

they uhso right as therepeople whoI opened the thedoor oneI grabbed the outrandoor and and wasof ran adventure clubuh and

gooffme but a thewould werego offhe had every fivein the theturningandbathroom on timer so of for hairdryersof toallescaping was waitingwayhairdryers hairdryers onminutes the ‘cause they my only

had trouble troubleitfor tooRoss alsoI which is really really shittyseen the gotthingwhole and in got inum um but

bathroomwasIuh in intoI I I still remember having to explainreally didn’t deserved thatlikefeel and thatthat my my irritating thefriend Ross melockeddad trouble because

againsameum beand and anyways I Idon’t think willturned off onflippedall allthe thelights hairdryers thethat ever

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When in I I Ibelieve think, had a friend andRoss RossMercer Mercernamed suckedumwas was grade,fourthitI

when tohe he he hehad no self- controlwas was knew stop did passedeverythingnever alwaysthe most irritating human being on the planetlike andum

it he IIitwas would hadcontinuewasfunny genuinely irritating was shy antisocial noincrediblythe thepoint point friendwhere where and and and andbutto

he Ihe was had was my myfriend parentswas bestthe thing so and both bothuh uhsoworkedRoss Mercer

everydayI had to stay called placetook cafeteriaclubadventure had to after andschool this thingat in the uhwe all just sat around

toboard games, basically finallyplayed triedand and and andthey us usourselves our parentskeep preoccupied from not hurting umuntil came picked up

of kids had stayto wait get off work and uhan additional two hours until my dadat and butmost wherethe home usso their mom comewouldmoms I Iwas had wouldliving pick up

was wasRosswhat um uhinalsoand andthatso clubadventure

weren’t were had a character characters one timenamed got really madZucchini cookie and uh he hehad some otherdoing pictures andthat drawing Iweif we

trying trying use onetryingfor for his characters charactershe he it it itdidn’t want pretty sweetsaid anymore and andsoI Ithought started drawingwasmeat to to of uh

of thoughttrainlost we we we weum just activitiessorry would alwaysum only only few in the summerdid aI draw pictures

would would take try to kill aroundyellow plastic basebll bats yellow jacketswould go out we weand and and thenwe werewould would istrashcan,awe wewe boredhowthis

thanmefar offkind ofwas was I you heknow finish peeing doingguess wheneverdown the theand and and his business earlierinbathroom bathroom it hallway bathroomum

flipwouldhethought would be really funnyhehe it door with his arms wide like this thisso and andI couldn’t get out of the door he just thought was hystericalto stand theand front ofinum

shysuperkept turningfastand I Iwas wasa avery intense strobelike likewasthe thelights lights lights effecton onoff really so it and super freaked out you know‘causehe uh

got really mad aboutme thewent toandhe he we both bothat this uh uh

kid hairdryersand and Ross he theso sotohad take everything whatwasof coursetimid ofsortthis reallystuff me it way too far he turning on allwas alsofreaked out

noteverythingin and I itwas totally waslights were goingthe bathroom wasitso thisall happening Ross he takehad tosound and and and sinceon off freaking out

trappingandonly too far the point where it it and even further than that and andhe would not stop so I was wasnearly completely balisticat the point of tears here ‘cause this kidwas was annoyingpast

escape‘cause hairdryers again toat one momentto make them go backhe would have hitrunto and the mythatthe so ran hit wason he heuh hairdryers and

they uhso right as therepeople whoI opened the thedoor oneI grabbed the outrandoor and and wasof ran adventure clubuh and

gooffme but a thewould werego offhe had every fivein the theturningandbathroom on timer so of for hairdryersof toallescaping was waitingwayhairdryers hairdryers onminutes the ‘cause they my only

had trouble troubleitfor tooRoss alsoI which is really really shittyseen the gotthingwhole and in got inum um but

bathroomwasIuh in intoI I I still remember having to explainreally didn’t deserved thatlikefeel and thatthat my my irritating thefriend Ross melockeddad trouble because

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chris clark nov 5, 2010795 words | 4 mins 8 secs

when

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Design Process : Feb 9, 2011

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Verb

Adverbs

Adjectives

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Noun

Pronoun

Conjunction

Preposition

Contraction

Interjection

chris clark nov 5, 2010795 words | 4 mins 8 secs

when

in

I I I

believe think had

a

friend

and

Ross Mercer Ross Mercer

named sucked

um

was was

grade

fourth

it

I

when

to

He

he he he

had

no

self-control

was was knew stop did passed

everything

never always

the

most

irritating human

being

on

the

planet

like

and

um

it he

II

it

was would hadcontinuewas

funny genuinely

irritating

was

shy antisocial no

incredibly

the the

point point friend

where where

and and and andbutto

he

I

he

was had was

my my

friend parents

was

best

the

thing

Ross Mercer

so

and

both both

uh uh

so

worked

everyday

I

had to stay called took place

cafeteria

club

adventure

had to

after

and

school

this

thing

at in

the

uh

we all

just

sat

around

to

board games

Basically finally

played tried

and

and and

and

they

us usourselves our

parents

keep preoccupied

from

not

hurting

um

until

came picked

up

of

kids

had stay

to

wait get

off

work

and

uh

an

additional two

hours

until

my

dad

at

and but

most

where

the

home us

so

their

mom

comewould

moms

I I

was had wouldliving pick

up

um uh

was was

Ross

what

in

also

and and

that

so

club

adventure

of

thoughttrain

lost

we we we we

um

just

activities

sorry

would

always

um

only only

few

in

the

summer

did

a

I

draw

pictures

would would take try

to

kill

around

yellow plastic

basebll bats

yellow-jackets

would go

out

we we

and and and

then

we

werewould would is

trashcan

a

we wewe

bored

how

this

weren’t were had

a

character characters

one

time

named got

really

mad

Zucchini cookie

and

uh

he he

had

some

other

doing

pictures

and

that

drawing

I

we

if

we

trying trying use

one

trying

for for

his

characters characters

he he it it it

didn’t want

pretty

sweet

said

anymore

and andso

I I

thought started drawingwas

me

at to to of

uh

got

really

mad

about

me

the

went

to

and

he he we

both both

at

this

uh uh

far off

kind

of

was was

I you

he

know finish peeing doingguess

whenever

down

the the

and and and

his

business

than

earlier

me

in

bathroom bathroom

it

hallway bathroom

um

thought would be

really

funny

hehe it

door

with

his

arms

wide

like

this this

so and and

I

couldn’t get

out

of

the

door

he he

just

thought was would flip

hysterical

to

stand

the

and

front

ofin

um

and and

Ross he

the

so so

to

had take

everything what

was

of

course

timid

kid

of

sort

this

really

stuff

me it

way too

far

hairdryers

he

turning

on

all

was

also

freaked

out

in

and

I

it

was

totally

was

lights

were going

the

bathroom

was

it

so

this

all

happening

Ross he

take

everything

not

had

to

sound

and and and since

on off

freaking

outonly too

far

the

point

where

it it

and

even

further

than

that

and and and

trapping

he

would

not

stop

so

I

was was

nearly completely

balistic

at

the

point

of

tears

here

‘cause

this

kid

was was annoying

past

me

but

a the

would werego

off

he

had

every five

in

the the

turning

and

bathroom

on

timer

so

of for

hairdryers

of to

all

escaping

was waiting go

off

wayhairdryers hairdryers

on

minutes

the

‘cause

they my

only

‘cause

hairdryers

again

toat

one

moment

to

make

them

go

back

he

would have hitrun

to

and

the

my

escape

that

the

so

ran hit was

on

he he

uh

hairdryers

andso

right

as

there

people

who

I

opened

the the

door

one

I

grabbed

the

out

ran

door

and and

was

of

ran

adventure

club

uh uh

they

and

had

trouble trouble

it

for

too

Ross

also

I

which

is

really really

shitty

seen

the

got

thing

whole

and

in

got

in

um um

but

was

I

uh

in into

I I I

still

remember having

to

explain

really

didn’t deserved

that

like

feel

and that

that my my

irritating

the

bathroomfriend

Ross me

locked

dad trouble

because

again

same

um

be

and and

anyways

I I

don’t think willturned

off on

flipped

all all

the the

lights hairdryers

the

that

ever

and and

Ross he

the the

so so

to

had take

everything what

was

of

course

timid

kid

of

sort

this

really

stuff

me it

way too

far

uh

hairdryers

he

turning

on

all all

was

also

freaked

out

so

right

as

there

people

who

I

opened

the the the

door

one one

I

grabbed

the

out

ran

door

and and

was

of of

ran

adventure

club

uh um uh

they

and

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