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Slaughterhouse Five Project Ideas

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cool.
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Just finished reading Slaughterhouse Five in English and we need to create a visual project to go along with our 3rd essay (3 essays per book in my class). The project is completely up to you, it just needs to help show or represent a common theme in the book. The question is assignment is reallyyy open-ended and my teacher is a pretty abstract, funky kinda guy so... yeah.

So I have a couple ideas right now about creating my project on "time" but I was wondering if NS had any other good ideas because it's a pretty popular book haha.


Feb 4 2010 3:12PM
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OhMyBosh
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Something to do with the aliens concept of time... Maybe look into some legit science on the topic and see if you can find anything which would make the aliens view of time seem like its plausible.
Feb 4 2010 3:23PM
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Fuck you're so lucky. I wanted to read slaughterhouse 5 but I got stuck with all quiet on the western front.
Feb 4 2010 4:35PM
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ECfreeski3
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yeah something along those lines might be nice
Feb 4 2010 4:38PM
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Holte
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Take your 3rd essay, and cut it up and rearrange each paragraph in a non-linear order.
Feb 4 2010 4:39PM
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Shaky_Jake
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This is either a really stupid idea, or the most brilliant thing I have ever heard.
Feb 4 2010 4:41PM
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just like vonnogut, i like it
Feb 4 2010 4:42PM
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cool.
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wow thats a sick idea. definitely a possibility. thanks dood!

to ohmybosh thats where i was headed with my idea, thanks.
Feb 4 2010 4:53PM
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Feb 4 2010 5:10PM
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Tasche
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One of the things I really remember about that was how people looked like centipedes to the aliens. Existing at every time at the same time.

So what you could do would be like, take a picture of a place at multiple points of the day. Then sting them together in the shape of a bomb blast or something like that. Kind of hard to explain what I have in my mind.

Try to think of something that challenges our linear idea of time. take a bunch of pictures of you doing different things with out moving the camera then make them all into one picture, like a ski segment but closer together, so it looks like a centipede.

Feb 4 2010 5:52PM
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bump!
Feb 6 2010 3:04PM
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cool.
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last try bump
Feb 6 2010 10:52PM
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OhMyBosh
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This... like maybe make a video or something, like film it all then break it up frame by frame, and then sorta paste them all together, so its like a snake moving around doing everything youre doing, rather than just one dude.
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