This week I played around with a lot of creativity. I am currently still in the process of making my blog more personal. The hardest thing is making my blog easy for everyone to navigate and comment on. It’s definitely still a work in progress, but I love the color scheme and the name so far! I experimented with commenting back to a couple of you guys on mastodon and on your blogs. I’m excited to see more from you guys.

The daily creations are super fun. At the beginning of the week I struggled trying to think of what to create.

The first prompt was to make some kind of art about unexpected coincidences. The first thing I thought about was the fact that I keep seeing the time 4:16. I’m not sure if I was hyper focused on it, but for the past couple of days I was asking myself what does this mean? So I decided to make a montage of the time at 4:16.

I created this on the canva website which I’m very familiar with and love creating posters, videos etc. I really enjoyed playing around with the clock templates and the different fonts. This only took me about 10 minutes to create.

Daily create day 2 was to create bad art. Lucky for me that’s super easy! I’ve never been a great artist even though almost my whole family is extremely artistic.

I’ve always stuck to drawing landscape or nature-like pictures just because it’s the easiest and what I’m most inspired by. I really just freestyle this picture. I always start by drawing trees and I go from there. I decided to add mountains, the sun as well as apples and flowers to add extra depth to the picture.

Daily create 3 was the longest tallest shadow selfie. This was an interesting one, I’ve never thought about the difference in shadows at different points of the day.

Thankfully it was pretty sunny today so I was able to get a good shadow. I took the photo off campus around 2:30ish. When I looked up the best time of day to get your tallest shadow it said sunrise, unfortunately I couldn’t get a sunrise picture, so I had to settle for a midday picture which ironically is supposedly the shortest shadow of the day.

Happy birthday #DS106 radio! For daily create 4 I decided to share a happy birthday video collage from the cast of “Friends”.

A lot of the birthday videos I wanted to share were already shared so I took a couple minutes to find a new one, thanks @bward for liking the video!

Last daily create of the week was actually one of my favorites to do. If you interested in knowing what poem I picked here it is

DON’T CLICK THE LINK if you don’t want a spoiler!

This wasn’t too hard to create. I honestly just wonder if anyone guessed right? I would be very happy if someone did!

Thank you @SarahHoneychu for liking the post!

I absolutely loved the first assignment I did! I love creating collages so this one was super fun.

Technically this is connected to “tech noir” in a small way. I had to create the opposite of “tech noir”.

I asked Dr. Oblivion for his help with the assignment here was his response

I created a very fantasy, mystical ozian, colorful theme which is very far from tech noir. Check it out!

Creating my own game was a bit hard. I found it hard to choose what theme I wanted to do. I decided to relate my game to the “tech noir” aesthetic.

I based my game aesthetic on my course character Krysta Ghosting.

The character you see in the corner is a bit of what I visualize Krysta looking like. I kind of thought of it as Krysta playing the game and you can see her video icon in the corner, similar to twitch streams.

I created this game intro on Canva since I’m very familiar with how to use it.

I used neon black, blue, and red colors as well as the “magz” font to make it look more futuristic and game-like.

I found a free website where I could get uncopyrighted music for free. I just screen recorded the audio I felt fit the vibe of my game the most and cut/adjusted the audio to fit the video best.

I’m actually very proud of how my game home page came out! I love the music behind it. I wanted a very eerie, dark, hype vibe. I would love to perfect the game a bit more once I advance and understand how to navigate the website more.

To be honest the title “Cyberheist” was very random, but it does fit the motive of the game. The game is about hacking into pastry shops and restaurants’ money records and stealing money. Like I said the game is based on my course character so if this seems random you should read up on her to get a better understanding 🙂

Check it out!

I loved this assignment mainly because I love listening to music.

I’ve always had a hard time expressing how things make me feel emotionally so this was a bit hard, but I still loved it which is why I decided to do two songs!

The two songs I chose are from my 2 favorite artists currently Ariana Grande and Madison Beer. These are also two of my favorite songs from both of them so I’m excited to share these thoughts with you guys.

Creating Krysta Ghosting was definitely a task. I don’t find myself to be super creative so creating a character from scratch was a task. To meet Krysta Here is the link

I’m glad I made her. I’m excited to see what we do with the course characters. Krysta is based off of some of my favorite films such as Hercules and Princess and the frog. Although I got inspo from the two she is very different from the two movies and you should go read more on her.

Lastly for my weekly recap, meeting Dr Oblivion was definitely interesting. He can be very straightforward and to the point which comes off a little impatient and sarcastic at times. Here are some of the questions I asked him about Postman’s thoughts:

If you would like to see my thoughts on Postman’s readings here is the link

Thanks for reading my weekly recap looking forward to chatting and creating with you next week!

Sincerely, Kristen