For my four stars of assignments this weekend I decided to just do one four and a half star assignment and design my own superhero. My hero is called Silver Star, my idea is that she is kind of a female, assassin version of Captain America. One of her defining traits is that she is …

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So this first half of memorial day week went by in a flash with the assignments and things to think about. I did all three daily creates, I saw the directions said two but I thought “what the hey I will do them all just in case”, plus they are kinda fun to try and …

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So the big assignment this week was to do another Blitz, this time a design blitz. Basically, I was to learn about the eight big design principals then keep them in mind as I went about my life these last three days and take pictures of examples of at least five of them. Picture one: …

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To start off this week I watched two, count em, two Ted talks done by designers. Then did a little bit of design practice on Canva to learn about different design rules. The first of the two was done by Paula Scher  who talked a lot about the difference between serious and solemn “play”. She …

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What a Week: Wow these last assignments have been a lot to take in. Just a lot of decisions and things to make sure they get done, not to mention time consuming. I understand what Professor Polack meant about the course being a lot to keep up with, good thing my 5 day a week …

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When looking at the visual assignments it was difficult to choose one as there were so many options. The first one I chose was the Common Everyday Object prompt.  I took a picture of one of the most important things in life to a  student, a pencil and an eraser. Then the task was to …

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Good Photography Advice:  One of the things I had never heard of before when I was watching the video was the part about the rule-of-thirds. This was not something I had heard of before, however, contrast, depth, perspective, lighting, and aesthetic are all things that are common knowledge to anyone who takes pictures, whether they …

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Assignment Level: Stressful This was a difficult assignment because I spent half my time second guessing myself wondering “will this really work for that prompt?”, the time limit messed with my brain and made me feel like I was not going to have enough time to get more than one or two done.  Partly because …

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This week we went through the process of signing up for everything and doing introductions plus our first daily creates. I started with the daily create,  the first step was guessing what the picture to word puzzle given to us was, the second step was to create our own. @ds106dc #tdc2325 My answer to the …

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Introducing Me….Me with my sister, me with my love, and me with some of my best friends #ds106 A post shared by Kimberly Sak (@kimsak99) on May 23, 2018 at 12:56pm PDT As instructed I will not go into much detail but these things are some of the most important things to me and the …

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Hello I am Kim Sak this is my new domain. Is it working?