If you think that Social Media has had a massive contribution to how digitalized we are as a society in our everyday lives, you’d be onto the right track! I’ve gone and took the time to summaries a few points about how we have become digitalized so strongly as a society in key aspects of … Continue reading "How Social Media Digitalizes Us"

Mixing and matching films is always good, combining two of your favourites into a wacky and unexpected collaboration. That’s the goal of this neat little assignment I found lying about the mashup bank. Two of my favourite films, which hold almost no significance to each other are the Star Wars franchise and the amazing Pulp … Continue reading "Unit 10: Mixey Mashy Moo Moo"

We’ve all seen those online personality tests, they’re practically unavoidable for anyone who frequents use of Facebook or Twitter in the modern world, but have you ever taken one? I found myself spending a lot of time when I first began using social media finding out what kind of animal I am deep down, or … Continue reading "Unit 8: You won’t BELIEVE these personality tests!"

Imagine closing your eyes, forgetting where you are; the only tool you’re allowed to use to pinpoint exactly where you are is your ears. Could you do it? Or could you create a virtual environment around yourself? Creating a virtual space using just audio is done in several steps, multiple noises cannot just be thrown … Continue reading "Unit 7: Create a Space with Sound"

A simple image with a deeper meaning, this assignment gives me a chance to talk about a tattoo I have already had done. The tattoo is based off of the above image, a geometric pineapple. The sentimental behind the tattoo derives from my friends and I’s cheesy use of a pineapple signifying our friendship after … Continue reading "Unit 6: Tattoos that Describe You"

Looking through the lenses – a working photograph piece for #ds106. Changing the colour on a photo can dramatically change the way people perceive the image and dramatically shift the focal points as to where an audience is going to look when they view your image. For example, shifting the colour tones in this image … Continue reading "Unit 5: Colour Changer"

For todays DailyCreate we were asked about a new pledge. I decided to talk about my current experience of joining a Society for the first time at University and how pledging to a new community and overall entering a new community felt. Pledging into Squash was a very easy and welcoming experience, with several friends … Continue reading "A New Pledge – My first Society"

For today’s DailyCreate we were asked to select a new phone for the Global DailyCreate phone. I decided to use this image of Little Bo Peep and her Sheep near a payphone completely vandalised. I chose this image because it prominently shows a globally innocent character attempting to break the law, break moral boundaries and … Continue reading "Little Bo Peep’s Global Pandemic"

Following the DailyCreate idea of ‘something simplistic’ I decided to take a single photograph of a banana being held up by one of my hands. This is, in fact something simple however to many people the image of a banana by itself can hold a lot more meaning. The standalone Banana, at least for me … Continue reading "Something Simple, Velvet Inspiration"

Creating GIFs in Photoshop is a basic but challenging way to create a GIF from scratch. Most forms of reaction GIFs are created from videos and are often created by websites which automatically complete the process for the user – I’ll let you in on a secret, I used to be quite the nerd and … Continue reading "Gaming ‘n GIFs – The Adobe Way"

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