In my very first post on this blog, I stated that I was double majoring in CT and Business. Well, I decided to drop Business and just have CT (and a minor in Art). Why? because of all the CT classes I took this semester…. specifically CT 101: DS106. This was one of the most fulfilling classes ...

      July summer breeze Oh how I miss you so dear Winter I do fear The assignment was to do a dailyshoot and then write a haiku about it. I took this photo of Times Square back in July. I think this photo is very relevant to what everyone is feeling right now ...

Took this random portion of text out of an online French magazine. It’s from a makeup artist’s interview of how he got started in the business. The original is on the left and the translation on the right……..(click to get a closer look) Lol, everything about that is just wrong. They should make translators with the right ...

    This is a picture of me and my best friend. I don’t remember what I was talking about when this picture was snapped. I do remember we were eating at a Korean restaurant for my birthday lunch. I think the text is perfect considering the fact that I’m always hungry lol. I used picnik.com for ...

This was fun to do. I took  4 different clips from YouTube and made it same as though Bill Cosby was reacting to them. Can you guess what he’s thinking about what’s going on in the clips based on his reaction? I used Windows Movie Maker to edit the video.  

  For this mash up assignment, I mixed four of my favorite songs at the moment. I used the following songs: Vindahl – Head Over Heels feat. Coco Slum Village – Tainted Common – Break My Heart A Tribe Called Quest – Bonita Applebum [Instrumental] I also used the sound of a record scratching and ...

Halloween Bumper   For this Bumper I used the sounds of: a grenade a door slam a scream an evil laugh some scary music and the “Grudge” sounding noise and the person saying Happy Halloween is my own voice. I got all the sounds from freesounds.org and edited them in audacity.                

So, in Photoshop I cut Justin Timberlake out of a picture and put him on stage with Beyonce. I chose this as my last assignment simply because of how they look together. Lol, I don’t know I thought it was kind of funny. He just fit the part too. I guess  because he has on the leotard and ...

These three simple symbols are what I try to be about…..I think they represent me best. Hand drew them in photoshop.  

If you live in NYC this is a common everyday object…..the MTA metrocard. I don’t know why but the colors of the picture are showing up more muted on here. Anyways, I did this in Photoshop. I was trying to get a “pop art” effect. I used the pen tool for the pink on the outsides ...

I must say I have to agree with everything Tim Owens has said in this broadcast about us being all artists and having creativity. First off, I do think we’re all artists. I think creativity is innate. We all create and have created at some point or another. Whether its for a school project, drawing ...

Finally had a chance to visit some art galleries in the city last week and the one which struck me the most was Tim Okamura’s exhibition. His paintings have so much depth and are so realistic its as if  you can reach out and touch them and they’ll react like they’re alive. I also like how ...

Okay so in case you can’t make out these icons I made….. The first one is a locket, the second is the Fedex logo, the third is a vector image of a major non human character in the film and the fourth is supposed to be an island. My pen tool skills are on point. (-MAJOR major sarcasm, ...

Was watching some old 90′s Nickelodeon last week. Felt like making these….   Kenan and Kel All That   The Secret World of Alex Mack Rocket Power Hey Arnold Ahh, the joys of childhood. Loved all these shows growing up.   And please excuse the crappy quality. Any pointers on how to avoid that is greatly…

  I believe creating  ”a domain of your own” is essential to education these days because it allows students to keep up with the ever changing technology as well as be the masters of their own digital world. Too many students, in my opinion, are scraping the surface. They are only familiar with using social…

So, I finally get my blog up and running, make my first post, etc. and I’m all happy like…..   But still after following the directions I realize my first assignment isn’t being posted on the main ds106 site. Kind of frustrated…….   On the plus side though, glad my gifs are working!

How’s everyone doing? My name’s Shakira. I’m a junior here at York majoring in CT and Business Admin. The only blogging I do is on tumblr.com so this kind of thing (installing wordpress, a webhost, setting up a website, etc.) is kind of new to me but I’m sure I’ll be used to it soon.…