Vaporwave… Like many of you, I had already seen images and videos of that style but did not know that they were called that. I mostly saw these types of images and videos at electronic / dance music (EDM) concerts. DJs use them as background videos in their presentations.
To me, vaporwave is a digital style that is made up of one or many images within a single image. It has bright colors and 3D style figures that create a plus in the image. I hate it? I love it? well, I like it. It is very striking to see these images and especially on video since I am also a big fan of EDM and seeing each movement in the video to the rhythm of the music is amazing.
I created my own vaporwave which is inspired by who was the DJ / Producer Avicii.
This assignment required me to stop by one of my classmates website and comment. It was really interesting looking at another website. Its like looking at a different culture since so many people have different ideas to put in their website.For example, Claudiabakes’s website is about baking which is awsome! She shares some of her recipes and posts really nice pictures of what she’s baking. Her first blog post was a recipe idea and it looked like she was already use to the blogging process. She did a great job!
I felt like a blogger throughout the semester. It was a different experience for me because I dont usually explore the enternet the way I explored it this year. I would say I was forced in the beginning to discover new things in the internet. I did initially because I had to complete my assignments for this class in order to get a good grade. But, it was all worth it at the end because I learned alot. I was not going to do it unless I had to, so this was the best way for me to get out rom my box.
Yes, these are people trying to change the tires while the car is driving.
The things I learned in this class were how to make giffs and creating giffs from videos. This is definitely something that I’m obsessed with. I didn’t know you can create a giff from a video! I have been using the same giffs thats offered when you text someone. Now I have upgraded my giffs and they’re more funny. So for now my strengths are making giffs.
Something I needed to definitely work on was my website. I still need to enhance my website and learn more about other programs that can help with that. I also need to start exposing some of my culture just like how I did in here. I started making giffs that were related to the Middle Eastern culture. I feel like thats something I need to expose more, especially when I finally have the opportunity because I have my own website!
The assignments of this class cetaintly helped me as a communicator. I was able to use my voice and it was not limited to anything. Thats the best part of this class. Although we have requirements to fulfill, like the questions that are asked for us to answer, we can answer in our way which was really fun.
Yup, it says it on the picture. I believe I deserve an A+!
Joking! Everyone wishes to see that grade on their transcript. I’ll be very exited if I receive that grade for this class, but we have to be fair. I feel like I could’ve done more. My creativity wasn’t enough to recieve that grade. I feel like I have earned an A because I did all the work but theres always room for improvement. I could’ve done more.
#Livingwithayoosh is my domain name for my website. I am planning to post Middle Eastern recipes and talk about food. I am also planning on posing things avout nature because I love nature.
Knowledge is power, knowledge is meant to be shared, explored and used by all who want to, but unfortunately in this film we learn that knowledge is kept under the rugs by the government, it’s kept caged and not used to its potential. This is a cage that Aaron wanted to break, and it breaking meant changing how information is given all round the world which its impact is to everyone.
This Film was worth the watch, it is very deep but very needed to be heard and seen. For contex if you want review minute 23 to 24:15, in this minute and seconds we learn that Aaron decided to instead of giving in to cage, he would break trend and start over to avoid the cage and grow bigger than it.
Aaron rejected the business world, he didn’t want to work in the given conditions even if in our eyes seemed like okay conditions, Aaron was limited to what he could and how he can express himself and at cause of all this he was fired multiple times but Aaron did not care, Aaron did not want to be controlled or told how to live.
I believe it’s that part, the part in which he refused to follow the trend, refused to let the corporations limit how he thinks, limits what he can do in this computer, limit his curiosity to keep on learning. He left everything and everyone who brought him up to where he was to create his own way, to keep expressing and learning freely. I believe we ourselves sometimes want to learn more and more and give more and more to people, in regards to knowledge which is information, but were sometimes met with walls that are placed by those who control, these walls restrict us to keep giving and instead teaches us it’s best to keep quiet and do what they say, this in terms being the government. The government was that wall that Aaron tried to face, was he successful? That’s up to you really, but I believe Aaron was in the process of evolutionizing what freedom stands for. To give it up all and to restart for a new change, that’s amazing and brave.
Vapor waves has pinkish, purple vibrant colors that gives out very calm vibes. It is a genre of electronic music and futuristic colors arraying all together. I personally love it because it makes a normal photo pop out 10x times.
I will review this vapor wave from a journalist perspective and just admire the vibrant colors that tells a story.
Vapor waves reminds me of a old retro style video game with futuristic coloring.
Vapor waves will definitely be the future and it is trendy and I hope people check out the textures it has along with it. You can’t look away from it without thinking man I wish I can live in a vapor wave world.
Have you heard about Forex? Probably have, this year out of all many people have been interest in investing so I believe you the reader has read something regarding Forex or and the Stock Market but my interest is mainly in Forex.
Since my interest and actual study has been in Forex (the Foreign Exchange Market) I would like to make my website about it, not to sell anything like many people do, but just to have information, information that might interest you and make you do your own study in it for your future.
So since I want my website to be informative regarding Forex, I need a good name for it. So I came up with this one: FXLearnersWay
FX: Forex (Foreign Exchange Market)
Learners Way: Simply that lol, just someone like you who might want to try to learn something new in which I want to provide a way.
Or if not that one then FXStartersPoint
I’m actually pumped about this project, I’ve made websites before but for others, never for myself, so I’m quite curious where my imagination will take my creation to. But I’m mainly excited to help others learn new things and maybe provide a starting point of study in a new thing. I am nervous though on my projection of the information, I want to be accurate and simple when I provide information, but for Forex it can be a bit tricky with some terms. Either way, I’m happy that this opportunity is being given to us!
For the Youtube Link it’s just youtube, you can learn a lot from others by simply typing the subject or and anything really, there’s a lot of great people who share their knowledge in creative ways.
I am really excited to share that I added a social media page to my website killermonsta. I am very happy to see that the website is looking little presentable.
I connected my personal Instagram account at the moment, which will show you only my images.
However, I want to make a new account and post random images related to my website. Please let me know, if I should keep it like this or add a new Instagram account?
This is your future self from the year 2020. I’m writing this letter to let you know that I am doing well, despite some of the struggles I’ve been going through. Unfortunately, I can’t say life gets easier once you grow up because in all honesty, it’s been a real race trying to keep up.
What I can tell you is that you grow up into a fine young man. While I did drop out of school two years ago, I got back on my feet and am currently working towards my dream career of becoming a User Designer. Yes, not a doctor or police man, a designer! Your passion for creativity blossoms exponentially, so keep drawing in that sketch book and don’t mind those remarks your brother makes about your doodles!
All in all, I want to let you know that I am proud of you for coming this far and that you don’t have to worry about your future. I’ve had to deal with a lot anxiety because I was trying to do what would “make my family proud” or “make me the most money”, leading me to a dead end.
Instead of worrying about what others want or what is the “best way”, reach for what you want! Scribble in those books, splatter the paint all over the wall, let the ink from your markers bleed through the paper! And most importantly, never stop doing what you love.
From your older self,
Isaac Moon
P.S. You get a really sweet and pretty girlfriend!
This assignment was pretty fun! Anyone else that wants to try it, just click on the image above to check it out!
Honestly, it has been an extremely difficult semester and the class I thought would be the least stressful..is now my most stressed about class. Juggling remote learning (me & 5 year old), work, family in a pandemic has really taken a toll on me. I said all that to say, I have not been able to get much done to my website. Maybe I am thinking too hard about the website and posts for this class. But I guess, since we have such an awesome professor, I have been trying to catch up on my more difficult classes. Which I see now, was not a good strategy. My hope is to tackle the site (http://rosepinc10.com) head on this week, Nike said it best “Just Do It!”
In the past week I’ve been slammed with work from my other classes so it was hard to find time to log on and update my website. As I can imagine everyone else is probably dealing with the same issue. With finals coming up it feels like professors want to throw mad work at us for no reason like NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Now that its the weekend I was able to post an older Film Review that I got published on Pandora’s Box’s Website and added in some new categories, widgets, and just gave it bit more character. I’m satisfy with how looks now, it’s almost in its final form.
Check it out and let me know what you guys think. I would love some feed back and maybe suggestion to help improve it.
After I went in and did some maintenance to my website. I decide to look through everybody else sites to see what your guys are up too. I have to say some of you guys have some cool idea.
This is Imani’s website and first off that logo in the top left corner is dope. It’s eye catching and really complements the theme of her website. Also, her post so far powerful and authentic. If you haven’t gone through and read them you are missing out.
I also want to shout out Issac Moon and his website. I love the artwork you posted there beautiful. I’m looking forward to seeing you add more to that gallery. Also I love the home screen image it gives your website a really chill vibe.
Those were two that really stood out to me but everyones else is doing great. Each and every individual site is unique and represent a different personality and interest. I can’t wait to see at the end of the seamster everyone final product and see it populated with more blog post, art work, photos, and whatever you guys have to share to the world.
Congrats to everyone for getting this far! The finish line is just around the corner just hang in there and will make it together. Good Luck !!!
Hello everyone. I’m going to leave a couple of comments on the websites of my classmates. First I want to say that in general there is no good or bad design, only with different tastes.
I would say that this web page is about baking cakes and desserts, and I say that because she has an image at the top of her web page a whick, eggs and foam that I don’t know what is to be honest. The design of her page is simple since it only has one image and also uses a white background for the rest of the page. I would recommend adding a bit more colors to make your page more inviting and friendly.
The design of this page has red and black as main colors, which combine very well. However, she also uses the color red in the main title of her page (WHEEL CHAIRBAE The Rolling Rebel) and this makes her title a bit difficult to read as it does not highlight the red with a red and black background. So, I recommend changing the color of the title font. The rest of your page is oriented to the right and leaves its left side empty so I would add something there.
I especially like its design. I find it simple and elegant. As background images it has on social networks like instagram and facebook which makes sense since its website is about digital marketing. I personally think this page is ready to start publishing digital marketing methods to attract more viewers.
I looked at a few of my classmates’ websites and it was nice to see the variety of different content people were focused on. The domain names were very creative and authentic. Here is a review of my top 3 favorite websites from my classmates:
The first domain name that caught my eye was Tershara Hogan. Wheelchair Bae is very intriguing, call me noisy but I wanted to know more about this person. I have sooo many questions; Is she disabled because I’ve never an disabled classmate before. Also, I’m intrigued to hear the background story behind using a wheelchair? What are the benefits and challenges of using a wheelchair? Has it been difficult during quarantine? I loved the website slogan too “The Rolling Rebel”. It shows me that she has embraced her reality and she’s breaking stereotypes and the limitations set for her. For her first blog post I think it’d be cool to write about her backstory and the reason she chose this domain name. I think her website would inspire a lot of people! Can’t wait to see the final product, I’ll be looking out for it!
I like the website setup, it looks like Kysa is very up to date with the personalization of her website from the previous 3-4 weeks. I loved how she introduced herself and what I’ll be viewing in her posts. I liked how incorporated a very nice picture of herself. This was a nice touch because now that we are online we can’t see each other to remember faces and interact. So, by her putting up a picture of herself allowed me to put a face to a name. I viewed one post and I loved how she made a Youtube video instead of writing a lengthy blog post. This was definitely different. I look forward to reading/watching more.
Shaikh Isalm’s website is something different. Looking at the background picture I knew what it was about. It gives me an irgy feel, so he hit the nail right on about sharing creepy/scary content. I like the different floors he made as well; viewers would be able to view pictures, written stories, and even videos. THIS IS SWEET!
Before CT101 I knew that movies affected us emotionally and impacted our choice in live thanks to different sort of contents and technics, but I was barely unaware that I could use one or some of these visual contents to share my own feeling and even influence others. CT101 granted me that awareness, and all I can say is thank you!
Not only CT101 helped me to use GIFS, memes and logo to communicate my gladness, sadness, anger, embarrassment, desire, skills, etc., but also it taught me to create them. I do not know for others, it has not been easy for me because I only used to click and watch. Maybe this and other circumstances my slow learning during the semester. But, no worries! I surely will reached the destination.
Now I own a domain name, don’t I? And my website www.guadelead.com is getting customized. wow! I just made a hyperlink! How exciting! Progressively I install the different features such as Menues, homepage, plugins.
As I said before, my website will be meant to Leadership. The goal is to bring out the invisible Leaders, those pillars who support the visible Leaders. In fact, leadership acts are performed everyday around us, sometimes at home, by normal and unknown people. Those people and individuals or groups they make happy need to share their experience. Also, guadelead is committing to bringing back to the present, as models, Leaders who have left their mark on the history of mankind…
What are my strengths and weakness so far? I think I need to improve every aspects of what we have learned. But, our bigger weakness lays in our lack of time. We have so much things to do at a time. Beside mastering tools to design a logo, completing the customizing of my website remains an exciting challenge for me.
As I mentioned in part 1 of customizing my website, I was completely lost but after spending hours, now I feel my website looks pretty good. Click on the link to check out my website killermonsta.
**The Digital Art Making Tutorial / Recording from class on 11/19 is at the bottom of this post – scroll down to follow along please**
Well, before we dig in, I blame professor Michael Smith for getting me hooked on the Aesthetic! Did I just say “aesthetic”? It all started when I saw that he created this post and assignment for a previous CT101 class that we were team teaching:
(PS – The assignment details are at the bottom of this post!)
“I saw this morning’s DS106 Daily Create and thought of the Vaporwave Aesthetic (read the wiki – it helps) and thought I’d share my interest in it. It’s an amalgam of retro culture remix focused on the commercial aesthetics of 1980s and early 1990s – VHS artifacts, Glitch art, a little greek classical sculpture, 90s web design, low poly 3D computer graphics, and more. It’s a fairly recent phenomena starting around 2010, but there’s already a brief history video if interested.”
I updated the video link to another variation as the original video from a few years ago was removed.. but if you go to YouTube and do a search for “VaporWave”, well, down the rabbit hole you will go!
Prof. Smith is also responsible for introducing me to the infamous but yet now very famous – KIDMOGRAPH – a motion graphics artist based in Argentina who continues to dominate the Motion Graphics world in many many ways! Including inspiring tons and tons of artists and designers of all types, all over the world.
“There’s a Tumblr by the handle KIDMOGRAPH that’s a personal favorite GIF artist in this particular genre. Here’s an example of his work which incorporates low polygon 3D models.”
The ASSIGNMENT: In a new blog post, review this blog post and its content! Describe what you see and perceive, what is Vapor Wave? Do you love it? Hate it? Somewhere in between? Will you review the vaporwave aesthetic from a journalists perspective? Or will jump in as an artist and make some VAPORWAVE digital art? Will you do both? Either way, lets get to work and share this creative project on CT101 (and your personal websites if you wish! Be sure to check out the vaporwave student gallery here from CT101 students in the past!
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I created my own vaporwave which is inspired by who was the DJ / Producer Avicii.
From your older self,
