Rives' Videos...only 6 weeks late

So for some reason I decided to go back and re-watch one of Rives' videos back from our week-one folder. I can't say that I expected the mild obsession that over-took me though, without barely realizing it, I found myself watching every single one of the video's posted on blackboard, not to mention the rest of his season, "Ironic Iconic America" which I found online (and no Bar Refaeli was not the ONLY reason I watched lol). I was absolutely mesmerized by his ability to use the same words that you and I use everyday, to transcend the normal mode in which we speak and create such an entertaining art-form. In some of the videos I was more impressed by the ways in which he manipulated the words to rhyme and flow, whereas in other sketches I was more taken aback by his ability to formulate such a powerful message. In a way, Rives' videos have made me more excited about writing, in a way that I can't always say I am. Clearly the ways he uses language in his poetry jams and sketches are entirely different from how I formulate language in say a paper, but the 'art' of using rhetoric to convince or entertain still remains consistent. It is the ability to transform simple words into such a powerful and impressive presentation, an ability which Rives most certainly has, that makes language so interesting to me.