I love the nostalgia of vaporwaves as a child of the 90’s I was brought make memories i forgot existed.  

I remember that 90s cup that was in ever water dispenser machine such a simple thing i still remember.

I do think it brings back childhood memories for me although some thinks i completely don’t understand i understand its significance for people who enjoy it. It is a virtual acid trip if you will to times we no longer can live in.

In honor of Vaporwaves. This is my digital art. It is a take on the popular movie mean girls featuring a cross over movie of the early 2000’s is The Wild Thorneberries and the Rugrats crossed over into “Rugrats Gone Wild”  both are mean to other characters in the show but they befriend each other in the movie.

Copyright sucks, and many people who want to express there creative freedom have dealt with this issue. Copyright is a way to give credit to the author by fair means without someone else making money off them. However I feel that in todays world copyright is to strict and people who want to remix there own ideas don’t have the creative freedom to do so without it being taken down.

A writer Andy Baio went through copyright issues where he was sued and forced to pay.

Another was an artist called Richard Prince who was in legal trouble for his remix usage he did on a collage of another person.

I think that law around fair use isn’t working. Andy had to pay a ridiculous large sum of money just because he wanted to show tribute to the painting and remix it. In terms of Richard Prince, it was messed up because he took the original painting and remixed it and gave credit. I personally would be honored if someone took my work and remixed it and made it look even nicer.

If I was in charge the way I would change copyright law is to allow the ability for artists to remix there own ideas as long as there not making profits and if they are give credit to the owner and then it won’t be any reason for all these artists getting sued for large amounts. Art is about creative expression not limitations.

In all honesty I have focused more on content then on customization. I really wish there was more time to dedicate to it but between classes, Covid, holidays, my toddler who just so happens to be exhibiting signs of terrible twos (pray for me). I cannot seem to catch up on all the things i envisioned originally for my site. But like the professor keeps telling me “That’s okay” My need for everything to be perfect has caused me to kind of lag behind in this class and caused me great stress. But learning to not strive for protection in a 101 level class done online in the midst of a global pandemic is one thing I’ve learn so far. I have also learn the importance  of posting good quality content and reader engagement will always come first versus customization. Good Energy is something I enjoy creating

Without the constraints of deadlines i can be very creative. My favorite projects thus far was

The first thing I did was spend 20 minutes looking at eyes close up on google. This green one stuck out to me.

Secondly,  a tattered American flag (this art was inspired by a dream i had the night before)

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, I wanted a good versus evil dynamic to my art and found this picture and loved it.

Now that we have our pictures lets get to work!!!

Step 1: I uploaded the eye picture on the app.

Step 2: Then I add the flag

Step 3: I have to get rid of that white boarder around the flag. On the app there is a magic button that removes it.

Step 4: I enlarged the flag, I manipulated the opacity of the flag.

Step 5:  I added the Good Vs. Evil drawing on top of the flag.

Step 6: I have to remove the black border on the image.

Step 7: I enlarged the image and adjusted the opacity of the image.

Viola! Here is the final product.

I named this piece Amerikkka

Pretend you are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and you see my art. You read the caption write below it.  Heres what it would say

“Trump exposed the America we already knew existed” – WheelchairBae

🤘🏾

The eye represents the prospective viewer. The green represents capitalism in which America thrives. The tattered flag represents the wars we started and how ancestors put in work for America to fit into their homes that never accepted them. The current state of America that refuses to address racial disparities. People who hate us often burn our flag as a symbolic hatred for the real people in power (Not Us). The child is next-generation forced to follow unjust laws and beliefs of ignorance, which caused a divide between good and evil. RACISM IS THE EVIL Unity is good. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU? People wear masks; Trump exposed the real racist out here. People aren’t afraid of being racist anymore. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN-Who was America Good too? Depends on perspective, The symbolism of trump not wearing his mask and catching coronavirus is the western view of “civilization” The need to save people who are different from others. The ignorance of not protecting yourself by wearing your mask from the virus exposing others to sickness is Very American. HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF. History is often told from the winners’ perspective now that the whole world is impacted. Everyone’s views matter now. WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE RACIAL PROBLEMS IN AMERICA ITS LITERALLY KILLING US ALL. 🤟🏾

and Making my own memes

With everything going against me in terms of how i thought my blog would be to blogging about my CT101 class and how cool it is.

With all that being said I think I deserve an A for all the content I’ve posted and how awesome the class is

http://wheelchairbae.com

 

When it comes to copyright, I think of when I tried creating YouTube videos. I always thought I can’t use a song for a certain amount of seconds, so I always used the default sounds on iMovie. I simply didn’t want to risk my chances. I’ve questioned many times will my videos ever be taken down for real or pictured different scenarios where I would get busted for it with messages like these:

Copyright is the legal protection of a property that the rightful owner has. It’s a way for artists or creators to protect their work. I completely understand this and agree with a certain point. In Larry Lessig TED Talk, he discussed many examples of how this issue of copyright struggles in a society and culture like the one we have. Many take snippets of media and create remixes of it.  Although many quotes of Lessig stood out to me, there was one that I can say I connect to. Larry Lessig states that “these tools of creativity have become tools of speech.”

The reason why this stood out to me is that our culture is full of creativity. It allows people to transmit their happiness and creativity to the world. Part of this creativity includes combining different videos to produce a remix, but that’s the art and it’s amazing. Many use it to commuitcate with hundreds of other people. It also stood out to me because my younger brother does this all the time. Never has he posted it on social media, but our close family and friends see it all the time. Overall, ff creating remixes or re-producing something, is what makes someone happy or helps them express and communicate better, we should allow it and applaud it because not everyone can.

 

 

 

 

 

This semester has gone by so fast and I thought it would go by slow!

The things I have learned so far from this class were undeniably very helpful and benefiting. I registered for this course thinking it was going to be stressful. It was at first, but only because I was making it stressful myself. I was able to get the hang of the assignments we were doing with the help of Professor Seslow. He is a very organized person and possess great teaching skills. Professor thank you so much!

 

Learning how to make my own website and indulging myself in a bit of graphic design was very fun. I would highly recommend someone who hasn’t took this class to take it.

Vaporwave ?!?!?!

Of course seems like another way of using art as a form of communication or an expression- viewing these masterpieces automatically turned on my awareness switch.

Looking at the post and being it hit with so much colors at the same time sort of made my eyes hurt. It makes me wonder sometimes how people are able to focus up on just one art piece at a time. On a serious note, I was also able to feel a rush because of the flashing images that scream “LOOK AT ME !”

I do understand that vaporwave is effect to make an image even more different than it already is. This sort of artwork is suppose to resemble the wave of electronic music. Its amazing how I have never heard or seen this form of images before. But to say, I wouldn’t say that I hate the ways of the vaporwave but instead this would be something that is not my style. I am open to new things but I would rather stay away because if activates some kind of anxiety.

At the same time I would love to see what people come up with when they bring out their own ideas into this vaporwave era.

This fall semester has been difficult, the levels of stress and anxiety have grown over the past few months, and include the current pandemic which caused the in home learning it doesn’t help, BUT, what does help is when professors such as ours know the strain of due dates and the anxiety that comes with them, and understands us and helps us and allows us to speak our minds and express ourselves not only with words, but with visuals.

CT101 is the best example of how an online class setting should be, the work given to us is NOT boring, it’s actually very creative and FUN! It allows to explore and express our imagination with different assignments such as the beginning which was about learning to use gifs.  I enjoy the search of gifs, I learned to use gifs in mostly all my conversations with people now, helps maintain a level of attention in a way because the humor many gifs have.

Moving to websites 😀 >

I am now learning more on how to make a website, of how the design affects greatly the attention of the one observing the website. Of how to scratch a template and transform it to whatever I desire. These are skills that I did not have so strongly before entering this class, but I do believe that they have strengthen and will continue to strengthen as I continue designing my website. Which link is right here if you wanna peek what I got so far:

https://fxlearnersway.com

Remember, it is still a work in progress! I want to add as much information as I can that is accurate and simple to understand, my goal continues to be to simply share information about FX.

My strengths? Well I believe they are expressing my thoughts with creativity, creating a website (like said this is something that I’ve grown stronger with :)), and gifs. The assignments help me express myself as a speaker with more creativity and more visuals. Just check out an earlier post of my fun I found fun to do>

DS106 Week 6 Assign. Part 2

Grade wise, well I’m aiming for an A, so far though since I haven’t given everything in so I’m probably at a B or less but fear not! That A is mine! Lol.

It felt good writing this reflection for the class, just love that we are allowed to speak our thoughts you know, thank you Ryan.

On that note, farewell! See you in the next post ;D

For this assignment, we were told to explore a classmates website and I chose to explore Claudias website. Claudia’s website is really good. It’s organized, neat and easy to navigate.  Claudia’s website is very eye catching and vibrant. I love that every time you refresh the page you get a new photo at the top. It is very entertaining. I can’t wait to try one of the recipes she put up.

If you want to see some of my stuff here is the link to My Website

Unlike other classes that makes me sign in just to focus on topics that dont make sense and are totally boring- CT 101 does the complete opposite and makes everything fun to learn. Just by being apart of this class I’ve learned so much more than any other my other classes have taught me

I was ale to understand the importance of sharing information to others but in a interesting way, like getting the message across through gifs and etc. I was also able to have the ability to make it seem as if I have found my long lost twin in just one picture thanks to the assignments we had to do.

I am over an overall shy person- when it comes to speaking to others or something as simple as giving a presentation my panic button is always pressed.

But using this system helped me express myself thats different than just commenting on other students post of discussion boards. Fortunately, for me this course has helped me find my creativity using other things than just words on a blank screen.

So far in this class I feel as if I earned a B simply because I am not consistent as I want to be, which is something I do have to work on. My procrastination is terrible, which makes me feel as if I am far away from the ball game. I also feel as if I could do more than just average work- this course gives us unlimited access to the creativity we have but I feel as if I am doing just enough and not going above and beyond.

After watching Laws that Choke Creativity I found that Lessig did a wonderful job of making compelling arguments for  Remix Culture. Throughout the video I can recall many great quote from him that I could  pull from for this post but I can’t settle on just one.

Early on Lessig spoke on the intention of our generation when it comes to the internet. Specifically referring to amateur culture where what we create is…

“For the love, not for the Money”

It is what this class is all about.

Now, yes we can of course make money off of what we create on the internet and there is noting  wrong with that. But, let’s keep it real for second,           at-least for me…

We are apart of the first generation where the internet is an integral part of our culture and it is our way of communicating our voice to the world. Culture is something the evolves over time and technology is just one of many tools that we use to shape it to fit our reality.

“You cant kill the instinct that technology produces”

That is 100% true. You can try to kill it but we all know how prohibition went. It is all about the natural progression of human society and the internet is the culmination of that. An inevitable transition of  communication that can not be stoped.

“You cant stop our kids from using it we can only drive it underground”

Just like Hip-Hop and Punk music the youth will always revolt and break the law, in order to do what they love.  Especially, if it goes against our natural instincts. Instead of restricting us why don’t they just guide us and nurture the creativity, not criminalize it.

 

 

Copyright copyright copyright…

Copyright is a way to protect your work under copyright. This means that no one can use your work without first giving you credit or giving you a share of the earnings if someone is making money with it. 

The subject of copyright is a very controversial subject since there are divided opinions, there are people who agree and people who disagree. Personally, I think copyright law is stupid since it are not interested in protecting the work of authors. Instead, they only want the companies that take over the work like producers, music record  and publishers to benefit. Those who benefit the most are these companies that charge thousands of dollars for “their” works.

**Assignment Option #2

The two quotes I chose are these:

“The Supreme Court only defines fair use as needing to “alter the original with ‘new expression, meaning, or message.’” The lower courts interpreted this to mean that, in order to make fair use of Cariou’s photographs, Prince must “comment on Cariou, on Cariou’s Photos, or on aspects of popular culture closely associated with Cariou or the Photos.””

“The constitution states that the purpose of copyright is to promote the progress of science and useful arts. It was intended to cultivate creativity by letting artists and inventors profit off their work for a limited time. Instead, what has happened as we’ve criminalized some type of creativity and like patents we’ve turned copyright into a weapon.” 

I agree with both quotes. In the first quote it basically talks about giving credit to the original author which Prince did not do. And in the second quote, I think that copyright is like a weapon where those who have the most money benefit and it hurts creative people who try to create and make things better.

Personally I think that if someone uploads a song to the internet, and I use that song to sell it elsewhere, I think that copyright laws should be strong. But if I pick up and use that song for no financial purpose, I think copyright laws shouldn’t be applied

But apart from all, there is another copyright that also sucks, and the right to free information. And to sum up the sentence above, just think about what happened with Aaron Swartz.

I know I have a couple of gif and it is because I think it’s a serious matter since this has the power make a better world with the free information.

 

Today I explored the world of Vaporwave and I can honestly say I was extremely amazed. one common trend that I noticed amongst all of the visuals was the similarities in colors. Often times pink, purple, and blueish colors are used to give the viewer a vibrant contrast.

From a Journalist’s point of view, I would be able to write a novels based on what I see. Being the aesthetics are a contrast of different things, time periods, cars, etc many people will enjoy looking out these visuals while telling a relatable story. The aesthetic of the ’80s makes it more fun to look at is that we are 20 years late. Honestly this is not something I would try to recreate but, I definitely do have interest in writing and analyzing it.

 

 

Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to use and recreate their own works. It’s purpose is to protect creators from people that may try to steal or pirate their original content. Although copyright in itself is a positive thing, there have been concerns about extremities brought about from this concept. One of the most notable examples of this is Youtube videos being taken down because of “Copyright Infringement”.

One of the laws that protect users from potential issues regarding copyright is fair use. Fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. What this means is that users can utilize resources they find online and take their own spin on it, HOWEVER, this does not mean they can take credit for the original work.

WARNING: The video below has distorted colors that may induce some discomfort in people’s eyes. 

A meme popular back in 2016-2017 was “You Reposted in the Wrong Neighborhood”. People would use this song to make remixes of video game characters singing uses voice lines found in game.

Disclaimer: However, this video below is fine and will not induce any discomfort. 

One of my all time favorite remixes from this meme is “You Reinposted in the Wrong Neighbourhardt”. The creator of this video uses the beat from the original music video, but he creates a song using the voice lines said by Reinhardt, my favorite character in Overwatch.

After watching the TED Talk by Larry Lessig, one quote that really stuck to me was “It is a literacy for this generation. This is how our kids speak.” This phrase refers to expressions of creativity found on the internet, such as making remixes of songs (like in the example I showed). The Internet has become such an important part of our lives that our children use it to share their feelings and thoughts, whether it’s through text, emojis, gifs or even making their own content like music, Youtube videos and video games!

There’s a video above that, in my opinion, is a good representation of what the Internet has to offer if creators are given creative freedom. The animator that created this animation did NOT create every single asset put into this video. Many of the songs, sounds and even the characters themselves are NOT an original product created by the animator. However, because of fair use, he is able to use different resources he found on the Internet and create a wonderful piece of art that brings joy to the large audience of Youtube.

All in all, while I wholeheartedly believe hard work should NEVER be stolen, people need to be given the freedom to create what they want. The best things in life are always a combination of many things.

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