There is no such thing as originality. As my favorite website, tvtropes.org, tells us some ideas are older than dirt and it’s how you arrange the ideas and play with expectations that makes something original. That being said: Plagiarism. Not cool. Giving Credit. Very cool. Giving further resources. Ice cold.
Here is general information for works that I borrowed to make this site. This mostly includes items that I used to enhance my Intro pages. Please refer to the individual pages I set up that house bibliographies for essays attached to this e-portfolio.
Images
Since this is related to education, all images fall under the purview of fair use. That being said, each image I chose was labeled for reuse and sharing. Each image hyperlinks back to its source. Except one. The background image. This image is courtesy of opencage.info.
Correction: I did use some clip art from Microsoft Online out of desperation, which links back if you click it. I particularly used it for my “Writing New Media Essay” (Clipart has even less associated user information than the stuff of Wiki Commons; the link is really all I could provide). To be honest, the licensing information available online is confusing, but from my understanding, by having Microsoft Office and signing their EULA, not selling it, and having some Fair Use pretensions, it is safe enough for me to use. If any of you are lawyers and know better, contact me ASAP before Microsoft does.
Quotes and Videos
Siken, Richard. Crush. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
The Pinky Show: We Love Museums . . . Do Museums Love Us Back? [Video]. (2008). Retrieved April 2, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFbmuEUdwI
FULL (EXTENDED) INTERVIEW: George R.R Martin [Video]. Retrieved April 12, 2012, from http://youtu.be/fHfip4DefG4
Other Resources
The Pinky Show- the website for the organization that created “We Love Museums . . . Do Museums Love Us Back” and holds many pieces of subversive clever commentary
Richard Siken’s Blog- For more of Richard Siken’s poetry without buying or borrowing Crush, which is a book I cannot recommend enough. I’ll be honest here. His poetry works best on me when it’s spoken, which is why I’m providing a link to him doing a reading.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”- this is the poem that I was referencing with my opium jokes on the first page. My English teacher actually from England said the only reason it was remembered is that it was written on drugs.