In Moon Graffiti, written and produced by Jonathan Mitchell, is a fictional retelling of the moon landing where Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong crashed and became stranded. Matt Evans and Ed Herbstman played the two astronats. The story is inspired by the speech written for Nixon by William Saffire in…
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Making Images and Looking At Images – Week 3, where I thought about art
This week was all about visual design. While my motivation to keep myself organized wavered, I still managed to get everything done and have some fun while doing it. I did three daily creates this week: Colour In A Classic, Gif Your First Job, and Theme Song. My favorite was…
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Taking Photos of Things – Photoblitz
This week I tried the Photoblitz for the first time. I was very stressed out about this assignment, but I had a surprising amount of fun. I didn’t need the whole 20 minutes! Below are my start and end screenshot and the photos I took.
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Things To Watch and Read – Talking About Poster and Book Design
This week I learned about book jacket and movie poster design. Some of the videos and articles I read are below so you can enjoy them as well. (Not all of them could be linked) Going in, I was interested to hear what professionals had to say about their work.…
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Executive Level Business – Create Your Own Business Card Assignment
I chose to do the Create Your Own Business Card assignment for my character Georgia Finch. If she’s going to become a super important software developer she needs a professional business card. Unfortunately she doesn’t have an eye for detail like Patrick Bateman, so her business card is not incredibly…
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Things She Carries – What’s In Your Bag? Assignment
I chose to do the What’s In Your Bag assignment. I did this with my character, Georgia Finch, in mind. I used Landing to make this collage. I had seen Landing before online and thought this was the perfect time to finally use it. I had a ton of fun…
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Creating Things – I make some robots do art for me
Today I experimented with two AI softwares to create art. This is based on the Demystifying AI article. The two softwares I used are Microsoft Bing and Craiyon. Before this, I hadn’t used AI for anything other than grammar (I am referring to Grammarly), so this was new to me.…
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Life Imitates Art- Daily Create
This week I did three Daily Creates. 1: Colour in a Classic For this one I used Google’s Art Coloring Book to color in my own version of The Watermelon Seller by Hafidh al-Droubi 2: Gif Your First Job I chose this gif to represent my job as a counselor…
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Something In The Wind – This Week’s Work Amidst Confusing Weather
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…
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Figuring Things Out – The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
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…