This Week’s Work
This week started off to a good start with new assignments to try, the first daily create that I did was a little confusing at first but I soon got the hang of it over the course of the week. For the first daily create, I took a screenshot of my three-word map and then set out to find pictures. My Map’s name was Magma-Shut-Swing… What does that have to do with anything in Richmond… Most cities have swings but I haven’t seen magma back home! I then took the picture and put it into a photoshop editor and added cut out photos of a girl on a swing and magma, with an apple notification of what was going on in the picture. The notification read: Alert! Magma and swings are in Richmond, Virginia.
Daily Create #2 was easier and I just needed to take a photo of my ceiling and post it to Mastodon (the links to all my assignments and posts are down at the end!). Daily Create #3 admittedly took a little bit more of time because I was unsure about how to proceed with creating my own version. I decided to just wing it and draw it on my Ipad using procreate. Daily Create #4 was more about how I feel on rainy days because in California on Wednesday January 24th was gloomy on the cameras. I feel as though some people really like rainy days and while for others it can be really overwhelming to deal with along with depression. Daily create #5 entailed creating a emergency sign to safely exit from a toxic internet and I felt as though the safest way to exit a toxic internet is to unplug the internet and go to sleep so I inserted pictures of both and then posted it to mastodon.
Let’s talk about the assignments from the bank! For my storytelling through text mashup assignment, I didn’t have a friend readily available to do this with me so I opted for a third-party app to build my story. I was not familiar with the certain features of the app so some of the timing could have been better in retrospect, but overall that assignment was the easiest to complete. I also decided to connect this assignment to the AI topic that we are on. Next, I completed a guess the story from the web assignments. I was tasked with inserting 5 gifs to give hint to the movie that I was alluding to. I chose an Ai movie and found some pretty cool gifs to add to the post and one gif specifically is more related to pop culture of today. If you reverse search the gif you should be able to get a name for the celebrity and ultimately the name. I thought that adding that hint would help bring everything together as a final haha once you go through the rest of the hints. I will insert the name of the movie below along with the work for the week! These are a few of my favorite things is the only assignment that I did that wasn’t directly related to the topic. I began this assignment by taking a picture of my dorm room. I then had to find a way to highlight certain subjects of my photo and keep the others black and white. So I opted to throw the picture into an app on my Ipad called procreate and hand outline the objects in the photo. If you zoom in close enough you can see my shaky outlines of the objects.
Lastly, let’s talk about the other assignments from this week. The first assignment that I did was the Manifesto assignment. When reading the techno-optimist manifesto I found myself intrigued about certain aspects of the positive view of AI and to me others just seemed blatantly oblivious or too optimistic. I tried to convey these in my response and Dr. oblivion agreed that my argument was valid however, some of the responses that I got from him were very attitude filled. I didn’t take any offense to this however, in order to get a full response I inserted the prompt 3 times and combined them. This also helped with the issue where he gets cut off. In one of my responses he took my argument and the techno optimist perspective and responded separately in the same response, or at least tried to, but ultimately when he went to respond to the second part he got cut off. I also used this same method when asking questions about The Creator and my review to compile my rewrite. Dr. Oblivion too longer than any other program I used this week to get used to but we figured it out by the end. Finally, I introduced my course character Mrs. Marie Pearl, who some have found to be suspicious, however, she is just a regular person who enjoys some weird things at times. Everyone has their quirks! I really enjoyed creating her character, and she was built using a few people I know. I took certain aspects and added them to her character profile. I also found that completing the dossier before writing the character introduction really helped speed up the process. I was able to add more details than I added in the dossier, and overall compiled a good introduction to her.
Daily Creates:
Assignments from the assignment bank:
- Storytelling through text- Mashup Assignments
- Guess the Story- Web Assignments. (Megan)
- These are a few of my favorite things- Visual Assignments
Other Assignments from this week:
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