Eco-Rap Teach-in

As the co-creator of this rap, I believe I speak for both of us when I say rap writing is a complex and refined art. This was one of the most difficult creative endeavors I have ever pursued. I now have so much more respect for rappers as artistic minds--it really takes a lot of brain power. I imagine it's even more difficult when one has to lay down one's own beat.. 

We attempted, I think successfully, to incorporate some of the things in the course that stood out to us (Zoe and I), namely getting lost. Zoe recently wrote a very interesting paper on getting lost as an essential but perhaps difficult part of life, of growing older. I disagreed with her on one point, that getting lost is not something one can expect to do in college without doing poorly in school, which made this topic stand out for both of us. We were able to have some discourse and then collaborate on a creative piece using our ideas. Our sites sits also proved a place for inspiration, as in our rap we chose to venture outside into the wild, observing nature poetically--this was a running theme in both Zoe and my site sit postings. Though we didn't use any found poetry from our sits, we managed to briefly summerize our experience this fall. 

Once we wrote the rap, we practiced it over and over (and over) again, and I eventually had the whole thing down by heart if I didnt think about it too much. In common parlance, we had a blast practicing. Unfortunately this did not quite carry over into our preformance, as we both got a little nervous and rapped too fast, not keeping with the track. Sad times. I believe our message was conveyed in a satisfactory manner, however. 

I really enjoyed the teach-in day! I wish we had more opportunities like that to step out of our comfort zones for awhile and try something new. It helped me to step out of my skin and be someone else for a little bit, to experience the world from a different perspective. Very ecologially imaginative, yes?

Props to everyone who presented!

Peace.