This week, my main challenge was keeping up with everything we were supposed to do. Organization has always been a weak spot for me, so I created a little to-do list and started checking things off. Every day brought new weather and a new challenge! First, I did the character…
This week I read The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by Marc Andreessen. From the first line – “We are being lied to” – I had an issue with the tone of the article. I agreed with the ideas presented but the entire thing came off as pretentious (maybe that is just the…
January 20: Three Word Map This activity used what3words to generate three words based on my hometown. I then used images related to that place, including art based on history, informational signs, and common animals, to create a collage. I edited using PhotoPea. January 21: Ceiling Selfie For this daily…
I chose to do the Up-Goer Five Your Writing challenge, where you rewrite a piece of writing using only the 1000 most common words. The website I used can be found here. I decided to write a brief recap of the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. It was…
I chose to do the Guess The Story assignment, where I try to tell a classic story/tale in five gifs. This one might be a bit of a deep cut, so good luck! 1: 2: 3: 4: 5:
For one of this week’s assignments, I chose to do My Story As A Game. I thought it would be fun to play around with a Photoshop-like program and imagine how people would play my life. I used Photopea, which is essentially a free Photoshop. I designed the characters in…
Today I am formally introducing my course character, Georgia Finch, to the world. Georgia was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 12, 2000. Georgia recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia with a degree in computer science. She now works at Aggressive Technologies as an assistant software developer. Georgia sees…
This week featured the uphill battle of trying to set up a website. That was the most challenging part. I spent a better part of Tuesday’s snow day working on it. It was unintuitive, but I manufactured something resembling a functioning site. While it was difficult, It was much more…
For the movie assignment, I watched Metropolis, a 1927 German film about a man who discovers the dark truth about the city his father runs. I chose this movie because I wanted to know what a film from 1926 had to say about robots and how those messages would read…
Welcome to Sydney Says Things, my website to share, discuss, and manage all the various things in my life. As of now, this blog will primarily discuss my work in the class Digital Storytelling 106, aka ds106. My goal in this class is to become semi-acceptable at using the internet.…