As you can see, there’s a new page on my blog! This is a purely fictional page, with pretty much no real life basis. This was for the How It All Began web assignment (3 stars), which asked for a new page that described the forming of a group of people. I decided to make a […]

A lost flower child, an outcast for her false petals and fabricated leaves. She is not real, and yet she lives, wandering through nature, daring to be. She finds home in herself and no one else, and yet…the existence is lonely. She feels removed from everyone else. She is a thing that should not exist, […]

For the Daily Create today, we have to talk a bit about the negative sides of our “happy place”. Arguably, I’d say my happy place is home. I’m a hermit; 90% of the time, I’m in my apartment. It’s comfy and quiet and I know where everything is. No one here can judge me, and […]

Enter the world of Dr. Franklin Stenton, scientist and observer of the mysterious and unknown. He is well-known in in late 18th century New York as being a creator of…unusual, but fascinating inventions. But today, Dr. Stenton has received a package that he did not order, with a variety of objects which baffle him. [Read] […]

Has it really only been two weeks? It feels like it’s been so long. Maybe that’s just the stress speaking. These last two weeks, we had to create our radio show! This was…probably the most strenuous group project I’ve ever been a part of. Let’s answer some questions. How did your group go about choosing […]

Showing some trees in motion The last bits of summer Taking a word from a quote, and writing a poem Talking about the luckiest day ever Adding an extra day of the week

For this assignment (4.5 stars), we had to have a phone conversation with ourself! Probably more awkward than getting a wrong number, is getting a wrong number that won’t end. But maybe that person on the other end was trying to tell you something secretly? Ah, who cares. What a weirdo. Process: Wrote the script […]

For the Reverse Audio Quiz assignment (3 stars), we had to take a song and reverse it. And you, the listener, has to guess what it is! Of course, you get three hints (and this might make it very easy!). It’s a cover of a Studio Ghibli song The song plays in the end credits […]

So for this assignment, and staying in the same vein as our radio show, I decided to mix old and new in this commercial for the King Fly Killer, a fly swatter patented in the 1900s. Here’s a newspaper ad for it! My roommate pointed it out to me in a book titled From Hearth to […]

A possible radio bumper for my group’s radio show, Wacky History! I wanted to have old timey music and to keep it relatively simple, because that’s just…how I like things to be. To show how simple it is, my editing looked like this: The top track is the music (Hyperfun from Incompetech.com) and the bottom […]

This isn’t a homework post. This isn’t even a really important post. I just figured, since it’s been haunting me all week and the site just relaunched today, I’d say: NaNoWriMo is Coming Soon! NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, as you can assume from the title, is an incredible month where hundreds of thousands […]

Another week, another lesson, this time in Design. It was a pretty interesting week, since I’ve never thought about design before now. I learned a lot, I think, although in the end I’d have to say that design? Not really my thing. But it’s always fun to try new things, and I think I’ll be […]

So, for this designblitz, I decided to stick to the variety of stuff I have around my apartment, because it is gross outside, and I have a lot of stuff in my apartment. It wasn’t too difficult to find designs that captivated some of these concepts. Let’s begin with: Typography This is my roommate’s big Hershey’s […]

This little booklet explains the what design is and how to work with design in order to create something amazing and timeless. That’s one of the first points I noticed that really stood out: a rant on how design is made to withstand time and despises obsolescence. I found this statement to be a little […]

“I can’t believe you would say such a cheesy line,” she said, folding her arms across her chest and turning away. The boy’s mouth hung open, and he grasped at her hand. “I thought you would like something like this,” he said. “I do,” she replied, turning back to him with a look of disdain. “But […]

It’s Halloween, yes, but that means Valentine’s Day is just around a couple of corners. I was actually thinking today about the Valentine Cards I create for my friends every year, wondering if I should do Halloween cards in a similar style. It could work, right? Anyway, while looking through random assignments, the Valentines Alternative […]

Ah, Harry Potter. The boy who became a movie classic. Harry Potter was the first thing that came to mind for the Movies From Another Time assignment, and I think it’s really ideal for something like this. I mean, if you compare the movie poster for the first movie to some movie posters from the […]

4 more daily creates for week 6, finished today, hot off the presses. For tdc1359, mixing up some logos For tdc1361, an upside-down photo For tdc1362, a photo of the coming time change And, for tdc1363, an image of what is through my window

Ah, October! The month of Halloween, and the season for spooks and nostalgia. And what better way to celebrate this month of skeletons and ghosts than by watching Over the Garden Wall every day until November? Over the Garden Wall is a 10-part miniseries that aired on Cartoon Network in November of 2014. The story follows […]

The name is Melanie, and I’ve been doing work around this house for years now. 5 years to be exact. I’ve been solving crimes since the day I was born. I’ve solved a lot of them in my life. The case of the missing pacifier (it rolled under the coffee table), the case of the […]

I’ll admit it: I have an obsession with this song, “Youth”, by Daughter. I heard it for the first time a little over 24 hours ago, and I must have listened to it at least 50 times by this point. Am I the type of person to listen to a song on repeat when they first […]

The subject of this week was visual storytelling, with photography and pictures. And the most important thing I learned this week: I still have a lot to learn about photography. Before, I was happy with a lot of the pictures I took, thinking they were decent, if not fairly well-composed. Turns out, my photography needs […]

For this week, we had to look through some tips on creating better photography, and then try to apply them to the photos we took this week! It turns out, this was a lot harder than I imagined it would be. It was interesting though, and it got me to slow down a little when […]

This week was a week for lots of comments. 2 for each member of our radio show group, so that we could get to know their content better, and 3 comments for other blogs. It was also a week where there weren’t really reflections, and a lot of creative things. And it was really fun, […]

For the mandatory visual assignment this week, Apophenia, we had to look transform a picture of a regular object into what we could imagine it being. This was hard for me, because, despite having an over-active imagination when it comes to seeing every shadow as a possible intruder, I found it difficult to imagine everyday […]

My bookshelf for this semester is just filled with so many books, some aren’t even pictured here! But there’s one book that’s just for me. Something that’s just for fun, that I know I can relax and enjoy and not have to worry about analyzing and papers. Just a little bit of magic to brighten […]

Another week of daily creates! And ah, what a good bunch there were this time. This week I found myself drawn to the photography-related daily creates for…obvious reasons, maybe, but I feel they gave me more practice for learning different photography techniques. Anyway, he’s the collection of them, along with little blurbs about what I […]

I love taking pictures of my food. But they’re all taken so you can’t see how messy my kitchen gets!

An assignment I thought would be the most fun, but actually turned out to be the most challenging, was the Photoblitz! I chose to do it in my apartment, because as I was looking around, I could imagine all the different prompts I could do with all the various stuff we have. However, as it […]

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