McNely is McAwesome

               As a photographer                                       

I felt super hip to McNely's
          application,
exploration,
        & research...

...among the (((((((((((((((visual and physical))))))))))))) world.


His studies provoke 
the elitism that has been brutally ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~threaded into the professional research domain.  

He counters that old dusty:::::(-)



 

container 

of 

knowledge 

by suggesting that his students are coauthors of his research journals. They become active agents for providing evidence and data in the moment.  The carriage in this instance is blogging (McNely,Teston, Cox, Olorunda, & Dunker, 2012). 

He also argues that this 
         method of data 
is more valid by nature of immediacy  and its relationship
                         to the context.  

Since the reflections 
      are taking place within 
          the moment of the experience 
                               in place of  
{{{pre))) and (((post}}}

qualitative evidence. 

http://www.brianjmcnely.com/ <----------------------------

The quality of the data becomes significantly relevant to the study.

What I found soooo)))))) sweet was the many distractions' I acted on launching from McNely's website and papers!!  Check out his visual research methods page.  

McNely states among his website:

"Indeed, empirical visual research methods support a strategy of inquiry for better surfacing, tracing, and understanding the often ephemeral rhetorical genres that mediate contemporary work, learning, and play. Capturing these genres of practice in photographs and video helps me better understand complex activities; more importantly, visual research methods help me better represent the lived experience of my participants."

Here's my own Rhetoric investigation:

Notes of notes and more notes.  

The physical, the virtual, the formal, the scratch,  image of a screen showing McNely's image of other's notes

my daughters circles(((( OOOOOOOO = ((((copying my note patterns 

while I was in the bathroom :) 

This particular photograph also reminds me of the REMIX culture we live among.

There are no rules anymore.

All is fair in the art of borrowing and
the most popular sport is experimenting with other people's art forms.  Some artists would PUKE at this notion.  My own interpretation
is that nothing is original until we put our
own hands into it.  Everything starts from the
world...

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The notion of using the visual to research at a higher level makes me wonder, what would some of my own professors think if I arrived to my committee with images to support my research.  Would they still want the written evidence?  Many of my professors are "old fashioned" in their research methods.  IT makes me think about that container of knowledge again....

 A FRESH APPROACH TO THE COLLEGE CLASS, HE INITIATES A CLASS FOR HIS COLLEGE STUDENTS IN THIS WEBSITE:

http://repurposed.posterous.com/ 

:::::::A LOOK AT RHETORICS:::::::: 

I have investigated public spaces in relationship to art.  McNely is looking at it much the same way but using the word Rhetoric and emphasizing the many modes of language we use.  This photograph was taken prior to looking at his work. 

IT was FOUND at the playground my kids were at.

   After taking it I ended up finding an artist online that I LOVE.  
To me this shows the connections that are arising from the new medias.  The ability to bring things at a higher dimension...

Here is the artist that I found:  YUKO SHImizu

 http://yukoart.com/category/blog/

She is 
hip
political
commercial
children's artist
Playboy
Magazine illustrator
provocative
traditional
intelligent
and so on...