DS106 and Future Assignments
For the two projects we were required to choose from the DS106, I decided to pick the “Design Your Own Cereal Box Cover” assignment as the project I would complete, and the “Fashionista” assignment as a future project.
Below is my completed cereal box cover I created using Photoshop.
I wanted my cereal box to look at least somewhat convincing, so I used a lot of cereal box references like Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, and many other popular cereal brands. I noticed that one prevalent theme all the children’s cereal had was a colorful, vibrant mascot representing their cereal brand. This inspired me to create a cereal box cover using All Might, a character from my favorite show, My Hero Academia.
The next project I’ve chosen to do some time in the future is the “Fashionista” assignment. I’ve always loved drawing characters in my spare time, but I’ve never specifically focused on clothing and fashion. I want to expand my creative horizons a bit by learning how to draw beautiful clothing that people can wear during special occasions. When I begin this project, I plan on doing my best to design a bridesmaid dress because I’ve always believed these dresses accentuate a woman’s beauty.
Are Memes Art?
By definition, art is an expression of human creativity and imagination through visual form, which could include painting, films, graphics or sculpture. Eventually, the expressed creativity compels a particular emotion. If we are to analyze memes through the lens of above definition, one may right say that meme are art. To further buttress this, I will be exploring different memes that express varying emotions.
The post above suggests the excitement that follows after a long week of working. It is important to observe that only the image would not have been enough to fully communicate this expression. Instead, the texts helped convey the meaning. In the same way, only the texts may not be enough to express the excitement. This is why memes are considered art, they help communicate a particular feeling or emotion.
The shock of Monday is real!
From the above post, almost everyone can share similar feelings with this guy, Monday is not always fun. However, if we continue to work hard and persevere, maybe one we will be like the lady in the gif below:
Like I said, memes are art because they express human creativity to convey a particular emotion by using either painting, graphics or films. By looking at the lady dancing, one can immediately relate it to the texts saying ‘Happy Retirement,’ and therefore associate her excitement with retirement. This is how it is: from having fun on Fridays to waking up early on Mondays, on day we will celebrate our retirements!!!
Assignment #4 – DS 106!
Hi everyone!
For my first assignment, I chose to do something with typography. I had a little intro to typography in my graphic design class and decided to try my hand at this cipher assignment because it looked pretty cool!
Basically, you can encode any phrase that you want into a cipher, and use these alpha-numerical digits to form a picture. The final product should have two versions: one with the cipher, and one with the translated message.
For my project, I encoded my message to Base32 using Cryptii.com
As for the content, I kept using the theme of apples. You should know by now that I’m a huge anime fan, and I couldn’t think of a more perfect phrase to encode than this one:
Ver. 1 : Encoded
Ver. 2 : Decoded w/ under layer
This took me around 3+ hours to color and complete in Photoshop, but I’m pretty happy with how it came out! If you zoom in on the second image, the letters created this cool effect with the color under them. I had to make the cipher font really small because the spaces between the letters looked kind of inconsistent if they were any larger.
For my second assignment, I chose to try doing a book cover design.
I’ve never really done any formal design projects like this, so I thought it would be interesting to try this. I hope I’ll get to learn a thing or two about what colors I should choose, what appeals to the audience etc. I think that this could go in soooo many directions: supervillains, killer robots, maybe even zombies!
Can’t wait to try it out!
DS106 Assignment
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DS 106 Assignment
This week’s assignment on DS 106 was pretty interesting. I got to explore some pretty dope content that I think I could possibly use for my own website when the time is right.
This week we were task with finding an assignment that we could try now and another in which we would later develop the skills to do it later. The first assignment I chose was from the “Mashup Assignment: Storytelling Through Text.”
If you direct your attention to the below this text, I’ve left a picture of what the page looks like. I also have hyperlinked the assignment name in the text.
In this assignment, I had to create a story through text. I’ve seen many of these examples on Youtube ads or on my Facebook timeline. Most of the examples I’ve seen have a thriller like a theme. It starts off as a normal conversation through text and one person always appears to be in trouble.
To complete this assignment, all I needed was my iPhone and an app called “Texting Story.” With this app, I have the ability to create a text tread between two or more individuals. Also, I’m able to edit the names of the people I’m texting and able to screen record the whole thing.
This is what the app looks like for iPhone users
This app is quite effective in creating this assignment. The harder part is just coming up with a storyline to make the text thread interesting. It was a little weird because I was basically talking to myself. But I made it as interesting as possible.
Here is the finished product of my recreation of “Storytelling Through Text.” Hope it is as entertaining as it was creating it!
The second part of the assignment was to find something that I needed more informative knowledge to create. For this assignment, I wanted to learn how to create my very own Logo. this assignment could be found in the Visual Assignment folder.
This how the assignment looks. I wanted to know more about this process because when creating my own blog website, I intend on creating making my very own to put off my site. This would personalize my work a little bit more and people tend to do better with remembering visual rather than words. I would love to create a logo that helps me become memorable with my CT101 peers.
To do this website I’m not sure what I would have to use as yet. But I intend on doing some more research. I’m pretty sure in this day and age I could find some app to help me with the process.
Louannie N. Smith
DS 106 work
In this chapter of our storytelling class , we’re utilizing a new editing machine . This page is great because it shows different ways to produce visuals . I’m learning that art can be displayed in humor, sadness and through parodies . The limit is endless to communicating through art . I choose two activities from the DS106assignment bank . I decided to do the “Silly movie poster” and the “Birthdays are the worst “ assignments . I picked these options because of them being beginner level and because they challenged my creativity . I typically go for collages or emotional projects . Doing something lighthearted was a trip down memory lane. It made me remember when I was younger and loved editing on computers.
This assignment made me realize how much art was significant in my growth . As I grew, my interest in art matured . Instead of simple collages , I preferred creating pieces that embodies emotion. This was refreshing and gave me a new outlook.
Assignment #3- Are Memes Art?
ARE MEMES ART?
Of course, memes are an art. I’m saying this because art comes in many forms such as paintings, drawings, etc. The role that art plays is to convey one’s message and express it. Memes are a form of art because they express people’s emotions, and convey the message that it’s aiming for.
Although, some people might say the meme is not a form of art, however, I disagree. The reason being that just because you do not believe that it’s not appropriate and does not require the normal way of creating it ..it does not mean it’s not.
Nonetheless, It does require the same amount of effort and creativity to create something. It should be considered art formally because we live in a time where technology is everything and used.
Digital storytelling
For this project I have chosen to do one of the visual assignments and one of the video assignments.
In the visual assignment I will have to create a logo. I have chosen this assignment because I always imagined myself creating my own logo representing something that I love to do or even myself, so this is a great time to start doing so. To start this, I will need to find a website that will allow be to create my own logo.
However, in the video assignment I will have to make a video from the perspective of my character. I think this assignment will be very interesting because it’s going to force me to really focus on who I really am.
To really do these assignments correctly, I think I will have to make more than 5 attempts, especially for the logo project. This is because I am not familiar with the websites that help with these kind of things, so I will explore multiple sites to find the good one.
Both assignments will not take me one attempt because I am not use to creating and editing videos or pictures. However, once I get the hang of it, it will help me for the future. Imagine I have a business or company of my own and I used these techniques. Less stress for me!
Heres an example of a logo I created for a bakery shop.
Assignment 4 DS106 Assignment!
Today I will be working on the DS106 Assignment Bank
Click on the photo above!
In terms of my two selections I picked one visual and one mashup
Here is my visual assignment!
I picked this visual poster because I thought it would be something
cool to do later on in the future. Customizing a current poster and making
it silly always seems like a fun idea.
Next is my mashup assignment!
For this assignment I have picked this because I thought it would
be cool to take two brands and mash them together.
This is the assignment I will be doing!
The photo above is my take on the mashup assignment.
I combined both the McDonald’s slogan I’m loving it with Dunkin Donuts.
I felt that these two slogans go well together and it just seemed fun to do
Assignment #4 – DS106 Exploring
Today, I will attempt one assignment and discuss another from the DS106 Assignment Repository website.
For my first assignment, I chose a visual assignment called Pop Star Out of Place by Courtney Rodenbough!
This assignment asks you to take a picture of a pop star and put them in a place where you would probably never see them. Their example is the following:
First, I searched for an image of a pop star on google and saved it to my computer. Then, I searched for a background I thought would be odd for our pop star and kept that too.
I used the website Pixlr to cut out Ariana Grande from a concert and place her in the background I chose.
And…
Voilà! We have our pop star out of place!
After completing the first assignment, I searched for other projects I could be interested in.
The next one that caught my eye was the following hyperlinked photo…
This assignment, submitted by Jim Groom, instructs you to pick a movie poster and animate it.
Why not choose your favorite! (I thought)
Now, it may seem simple to do, but I wouldn’t get past choosing my favorite movie poster to work on.
However, our friend (the author of this assignment) posted a link to a tutorial from Michael Branson Smith. –> Click Here to Visit
That being said, I do hope to someday be able to complete such artistry!
Learning to simply photoshop might not cut it this semester. I believe there is more to a simple meme or assignment, such as the ones described above. We need to learn to create movement and add sound to images and videos, starting from scratch. Those are skills I hope to gain this semester in CT101!
Assignment #3 Are Internet Memes ART?
I do believe that Internet Memes are Art because they are special in their own unqiue way. I think can be use for many diffrent ways such as expressing a feeling or even a mood.
I think it can also be a way to crack a joke, speaking from personal experience. I know that Art has its own way of speaking to an indiviual in its own way . Therefore I do consider it due to the fact that it can be whatever you want it to be and you won’t be judge for it
Assignment#2: My First CT101
I was circumspect and even perplexed during my first day at CT101..
About to jump into the infinite Boulevard …..
MEME’S ARE ART!!!
Saying MEME’s aren’t art is like saying HIP HOP isn’t music.
The reason I compared MEME”S to HIP HOP is because for a long time it wasn’t considered to be art or even a legitimate genre of music.
HIP HOP in it most basic form is basically pulling records that already exists. Looping the break section and rhyming over that loop.
And guess what 40 + years later.
IT’S THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC GENRE IN THE WORLD
Like HIP HOP MEME’S pull pieces pop culture media across the internet and transforms the content to represent a different perspective and that appeals to a new audience than it was originally intended for.
Today MEME’S have become a norm in the way we express ourselves on the web and it has revolutionized our society in so many ways.
VOX posted this amazing video that explains in depth the details of what meme’s are, where did come form, how they have change internet culture.
I think MEME’S are just another form of evolution in human communication. Since the start of the digital age what was seen as communication was flip on it head when computers came into game. MEME’S are just by product of our inevitable transition into a fully digital world.
I say embrace them and let’s keep evolving. Right now on this site we are doing just that. I know that MEME’S have been seen as problematic and don’t necessarily fit the traditional conventions of art. But hasn’t every art form gone through that stage.
I see MEME’S as like the graffiti of the internet they are hard to understand if you get the language or the refers. But when you do get it you respect and admire the inspiration they pulled from to create it.
Just like a painting each MEME tells a story and no one meme is the same even though they may look like they do.
Like this meme it is one of my favorite of all time.
You have probably seen this comercial growing up a million times but that is what is on the surface. What we don’t think about is why did that creator of this MEME choose this image? What does it represent to them ? To me this comercial when it came on tv no matter how bad of day I was having always made me smile and laugh.
It allowed me to be nostalgic and have a flash back into the past. To a moment where I know I was happy.
MEME’S are not just a piece of pop culture, They are a piece of you. They represent not only the history of the content but the history your life. When you see that imagine you know exactly when, where, and how you felt in that exact moment you saw that image.
To me anything that make me feel that I consider to be art.
FIN.
Assignment #3 Are Internet Memes ART?
Art consists of painting or sculpture, the representation or operation of human imaginative talent and creativity creates works to be admired mainly for their beauty or emotional strength.
An aspect of a culture or behavioral mechanism that can be considered to be transmitted by non-genetic means from one person to another, especially imitation. A humorous picture, video, piece of text, etc and, distributed easily by Internet users.
What is Meme ART? After analyzing both definitions of what art and memes are I can cnconcule that anything that consists of images are art, by adding words and significance the image weather ist moving or still it can become a meme. Oftentimes come from funny interactions with something or someone that many have a reaction to.
I believe memes are Art.
