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    Comedy Star

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    This star made out of newspaper comic strips was made for the Daily Create ‘Junk Mail art‘ to make art out of junk mail. My grandparents send me the comics from our local newspaper every weekend because I would always read them when I’m home. I lucked out because one of the comics had someone laughing, … Continue reading Comedy Star
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    The Blurry Hero

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    For the Daily Create ‘Arty Blur photo‘ you have to take a photograph with an ‘artistic blur’ made with a slow shutter speed or by just wiggling the camera. I took this picture when I attended the convention Katsucon. I saw this person dressed as a cross between Iron Man and Umbreon and snapped a … Continue reading The Blurry Hero
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    Ribbit!

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    Today’s Daily Create was to Create a Lesson, so I decided to create a pictorial lesson on How To Draw a Cute Frog. This type of frog is very easy to draw and I doodle them a lot in my notebook. They are inspired by the design of the frogs in a manga series I … Continue reading Ribbit!
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    Inspired by: Mia Boleis and Kelsey Roach

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    Mia and Kelsey’s You’re Invited design assignment inspired me through their successful use of the design elements of color and typography to greatly enhance a design that was already considered professional. They collaborated on this assignment so well together and their designs are so cohesive with each other that they inspire me to collaborate with … Continue reading Inspired by: Mia Boleis and Kelsey Roach
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    Inspired by: Kim Roehl

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    Kim’s cereal commercial for Kellogg’s Cocoa Kitties is one of my favorite assignments I’ve listened to this semester because of the thought that went into creating this commercial. The suspenseful sound effects, and dialogue along make it a very believable advertisement. The chocolate cat and raspberry cereal that can “bring out your noir side” also … Continue reading Inspired by: Kim Roehl
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    The Sides of Me

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    For the my different sides Daily Create, you have to to make a photo collage of different sides of yourself. I put these photos together in Powerpoint and used photographs from after my senior year of high school. Most of these sides of me are at Mary Washington and include various clubs, CCC, social groups, … Continue reading The Sides of Me
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    An Emoji Story

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    For the “Are you up for some emojination?” Daily Create, I used the random emoji generator to produce five image prompts that I turned into the short story below. The first couple of times that the images were generated, I ended up getting a majority of emotional faces, but I wanted a prompt with more … Continue reading An Emoji Story
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    Shelley’s Theme

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    Shelley Layton now has a theme song as a result of the “Your Theme Song” Audio Assignment. I altered this assignment a bit because instead of creating a theme song for myself, I created one for my original character. The music and sound effects I used came from the freesound users soulman-90, yuval, cgeffex, qubodup, … Continue reading Shelley’s Theme
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    Ring, Ring Ringtone

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    This week, I decided to complete the “Make Your Own Ringtone” Audio Assignment. for this assignment, you have to join different audio clips into one file and create a ringtone for your phone that isn’t longer than 40 seconds. At first, I tried animals sounds, like guinea pigs, but found that mixing the audio of herbertboland’s … Continue reading Ring, Ring Ringtone
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    Sleuth Sticker

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    I decided to create a promo bumper sticker for our group radio show that had something that was related to each group member’s original character. Shelley is represented by the black cat, Sarah by the mustard, and Sasha by the cereal. I wanted to design the promo in this way in order to make people guess … Continue reading Sleuth Sticker
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    Double Design

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    For observing the design elements of film noir, I watched the noir film Double Indemnity. The city of Los Angeles frames the noir design of this movie is subtle ways like the California Spanish style houses, the skyline shot of LA, and the casual mention of LA neighborhoods like Glendale and Hollywood. The urban night-scene … Continue reading Double Design
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    Pretzel Chic

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    Today’s Daily Create assignment was to “Play with your food!” where you had to create jewelry using food. I looked through what food I had in my room and found that pretzels were the easiest to manipulate into different shapes and you can break off different section of the pretzel to create open spaces to … Continue reading Pretzel Chic

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