Ever since I was a kid I was indoctrinated to be a vikings fan. Many Sundays were spent cheering on The Vikings even though they never make it to playoffs but as fans we keep watching. My dad group Minnesota so as a young boy he had to cheer for The Vikings and even though …

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This week I picked the body image but cover weekly assignment because I think it’s very important topic especially for young girls. I have a lot of younger cousins that are currently middle school dealing with unrealistic body expectations in having low self esteem so I wanted to create a visual image of what “healthy” …

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The lotion bar is heavy with symbolism. The bees are very important to nature in general and the fact that it’s on the lotion bar is trying to relay how natural a good for you the lotion bars is. The fact that the lotion bar text is in yellow is relaying again symbolism for the …

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The most interesting thing about the kid chip article was The part where he talked about the practical aspect of design and that that throughout history real problems are solved by design.  I always looked at design as a frou frou type of creative artistic thing. However, I never recognized that it had such a …

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I think we should try and do op-eds on specific sports legend, important leaders, etc, and go through there journey. This would match mystory, about overcoming challenges and making the worst thing the best thing for you. I think this could really hoo...

I found this week to be the most challenging. A lot of hours were spent spent simply learning audio editing, I was pretty deep into the week when I got to the assignment portion. This really added a skill to my repertoire for future jobs powssibly. My favorite was the tree podcast, I really reallly …

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I listened to the Wednesday Podcast, and I must say this is my favorite thing about this class so far. The subject matter was so interesting, and I learned so much! The opening story about the dog, Jiggs, falling into the outhouse–that story was so disgusting, but funny. The inflection of the speaker’s and witty …

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I loved the daily creates this week! My favorite was the food one, it made me stop by the grocery store and get all the fun topping for my Greek salad–I am influenced lol.

So, I chose to do a creepy sound effect. I compiled 5 different audio sound effects. I actually reused one audio effect from my audio story. In the different context the story was completely different! Which is super cool when you think about it. I used adobe pro, and converted youtuve videos into mp3 audio, …

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I didn’t upload this to soundcloud due to fear of copyright. I used adobe premier pro to distort and lower the song, so that it sounded like it was coming from a different room. This was very annoying to do, and my computer kept crashing. This is my 6th edition of the song, its not …

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This was a very challenging project, I spent a couple hours figuring out the audio editing system. However, once I got it down putting it all together was not difficult just time consuming. I was using audacity, but then switched to adobe premier pro because I understood the program better. I used a YouTube to …

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OH MY GOODNESSSSS!!!! Moon Graffiti was terrifying without any visual images. The beginning where it sounded like a phone/radio was breaking up and the inflection was distorted–this made me feel they were in danger. I found my heart racing and myself getting anxious. Honestly, this made me paranoid about other conspiracry theories because it starts …

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This was super fun to do. I spent about 20 minutes listening to radio intros on YouTube because (honestly) I never listen to the radio. I always use Bluetooth in my car to listen to my own playlist or audiobooks! It felt super awkward at first speaking out loud with that exaggerated inflection in my …

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Well, this week was not my favorite. Personally, I have a pretty old phone (since I’m cheap lol) with questionable photography and storage. I would take pictures just for them to somehow get deleted off my phone, so sorry you didn’t get my hiking photos! I liked the ds106 photography assignment because I got to …

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I made George Washington even more patriotic that he already was ( if that is even possible LOL)! I found a dollar bill picture cropped it and then cropped Uncle Sam’s hat onto his head. I did this assignment on CANVA pretty easily! George Washington is looking flyyyyy in his new hat !!!

I created this image of a student and fast food, because many students exit college and then work minimum wage. I cut these images out and put them on a yellow background, then I added the fast food elements to represent minimum wage job like McDonalds. I added the text, because many students are pushed …

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I found this assignment pretty hard, I finally gave up without getting the background to fade out of the picture of me. If anyone has any suggestions let me know! I love Kevin gates music, and would really enjoy his concert. I don’t enjoy concert that much if they are not hip-hop. It’s weird I …

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I love soccer and I still do! Currently I coach girls soccer team and still play on an adult League. As a child I always played soccer and went to every available camp! I used the site CANVA to create this poster, first I found a soccer field background, then I cut out a soccer …

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hotoblitzer 11:50 Take a photo of two related objects of drastically different sizes.  Tell the story of a place in a single photo Gauges, meters, and turn signals are all indicators. Take a photo that makes use of converging lines. Pattern is built on repetition, like a rhythm. A regular or irregular pattern. Take a photo …

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This is my beautiful father in his hay day! I just love this photo of him, and looking at how handsome he really was ! This photographer selection was genius, he is looking away contemplating something. It leaves a mysterious impression, like I want to know more about what he was thinking or doing. I …

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 Do you take a lot of photos now? What of? Do you have a particular approach to taking photos? Do you ever work to capture a particular feeling or meaning in your photos? If so, how successful do you think you are? After reviewing these resources, what tactics can you use to improve your photos …

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Daily Creates The daily creates were visually stimulating this week! I found my dormant inner artist come out, I used to be really into painting, but I let that go when other things became a bigger focus for me. I actually experimented using my laptop drawing application which was a interesting new media to draw …

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I am thankful for my soul, for guidance, for my family, for books, for my dogs, for my life, for my body, for my god and for my health! That was a lot faster than I expected! I didnt get to list everything I wanted, but here is a snapshot list of the things I …

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Abby believed crab’s daddys extra funky gravy had iffy jacked krusty lemon meal, nobody offered plates quickly. Really, such travesty united voters. Women x’ed yellow zebras! WOW this was a lot harder than I though it would be. I created a somewhat non-sensicle story, but the process was pretty fun. I redid this like 7 …

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Follow that restless urge to find yourself. I think this is the human calling, to always be chasing betterment and deeper understanding. The more I expeirence life and its challenges the greater my empathy for my fellow humans. I meditate everyday, in those quiet moments many lessons become known. When one is restless that means …

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The digital age has opened up the possibility for story to be told through multiple vehicles simultaneously. While reading text a hyperlink could take you to somthing about that text, or there could be visual images or music or etc. going on at the same time. Over the last couple months my sister had been …

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Like tears it fell from sky. It was an aberration. It was …. beautiful. It was the tempest. Inside my body screamed, every cell fighting against the cest pool of acid–a sickening dread festered in my pit. I felt sick. But outside, it was pure despite the raging winds. It was clean. I stood there, …

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Well this week was challenging to say the least! Wifi connection was challenged this week due to construction at my house, so I had to wait to get started on the assingments later, so that put me way behind! The construction finished yesterday though, so the problem will not persist! Alas I prevailed. I really …

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A bucket list is an interesting concept. Morbid, yet beautiful. I often wonder are we born to die, or to be alive. Each day is one step closer to the inevitable end. So why keep going? What is the point of it all? The answer is that mysterious intangible thing called life. I want to …

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This past christmas my family got another cat named D’Artagnan. He loves sneaking around and hiding in things, he krept into one of my shopping bags and I thought it was the cutest thing ever! He makes his way into bags, cabinets, the dryer (LOL), my pants, inside the couch. So, I though it was …

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