This week I did the following: Design Project 1, Design Project 2 Response to “Images” by Robert Hass I am really excited for this visual unit because I love photography, especially when it involves editing and design. I have always wanted to get into graphic design and I feel like with this unit I will finally ...

All of Salvador Dali’s pieces are so poetic. There’s always a message behind the profound images in his paintings and what you see is never what it seems.

First I edited the coloring of the image in iphoto. I went to effects and then put the Antique effect on level 7 and fade on level 1. From there, I used Gimp to add the text. I clicked on the text tool and dragged in a text box, typing in my caption. Then I ...

  On befunky.com I uploaded my photo and selected effects on the left side on the page. Then I selected Holgaart and chose Holgaart 4 out of the two options. From there, I adjusted the superimposed clone image until I was satisfied with its posi...

  Radio 1: Fake Dating Profile  For this piece, I decided to read over a fake dating profile that a friend of mine created, followed by some of the messages she received in response from some of the other users of the dating site. Since the fake profile was intended to be extremely ridiculous, I ...

I found this piece to be really moving and informative. By opening with a personal story of a friend who passed away from Cancer, the piece really grabbed my attention and made me emotionally invested in the information to come. It grabbed my full attention to listen to the more clinical information about Cancer that ...

On transom.org I listened to “Sonic IDs.” “Popcorn Enthusiast” by Robbie Feinberg was only 30 seconds long but I thought it was really well made and well edited. All it did was make me hungry for popcorn even though I wasn’t even hungry to begin with! I though that the use of sound was what ...

This week I did the following: Response to Deception  Daily Create, Daily Create Vox Pop Radio Show Idea I am really excited to start working on my section of the radio show because I think it will be really amusing and great! I do however hate the sound of my voice and will have to ...

Daydreaming Window

For the Radio Show, I plan to do what I talked about in class. I will be reading off of profile of a fake girl on a dating website and the responses received from all of the guys that have contacted her to meet up or chat. I think it will really highlight how much ...

  Last Awkward Situation

I found the use of sound to be very effective and powerful in this piece. The sound effects added to the content of their discussion and developed a sense of setting. Their discussion made me think of my Biology of Sex class as well as my Psychology class. In Bio of Sex we’ve been learning ...

This week I did the following: Daily Create, Daily Create Last Video Response to Radio On I am sad to end the video unit because I had so much fun with it and wish that it could just continue until the end of the semester. Though I am not as excited for the audio unit, ...

  Response to Radio On

IMG_0235, a photo by arianaln on Flickr.

Something I Made, a photo by arianaln on Flickr.

My second video. It’s about the ways in which abusing adderall affects your brain.

IMG_1931, a photo by arianaln on Flickr.

IMG_2054, a photo by arianaln on Flickr.

A self portrait of my strange life.

This week I did the following: Response to Reality Hunger: A Manifesto Daily Create, Daily Create, Daily Create Response to How To Read A Movie I had such a fun time editing the first video I am working on! I am finding that editing is something that I really enjoy, not only in theory but even ...

Since the blog on how to read a movie talked about Alfred Hitchock’s Notorious, I decided to respond with the comments and reflections I made after a viewing of this film in my film class last year on the art of film. In that class we were taught how to read a movie, which is ...

IMG_2048, a photo by arianaln on Flickr.

  Daily Activity Sound

  Vest Poem

This week I did the following: Daily Create, Daily Create, Daily Create Video Unit Goals Response to Numa Numa Video I think it’s good that we were required to express our goals for the video unit because it really made me brainstorm ideas in my head and really visualize what it is that I want to ...