Tough week, tough semester, tough year. Its difficult for me to put my feelings into words, and I think that this tends to cause me more suffering so I am really gonna try and vocalize them this time. The final project for this class brought out a lot of feelings …
This semester has been really tough, I’ve said this every semester since my freshman year (perhaps because covid hit that year) but this semester has been my toughest semester yet. I would not be surprised if I failed half my classes, which sucks, But I feel as though I learned …
For my final project I would like to do a combination visual and audio assignment. The premise of the project is basically to create portraits and accompanying music in order to tell a story without words. I plan to make a series of digital paintings and musical compositions and pairing …
Well I finally got around to customizing my website. Only took me 3/4 of the semester. I think the thing that was most difficult for me when I was trying to decide what my site would look like was the idea that it was still for school. Although all of …
We are now in week 10 of the semester, or maybe week 11, I’m not too sure anymore, it could be week 9. However long it has been, this has been the hardest semester of my college career. I probably said the same thing last semester, and it isn’t because …
This week, in preparation for our music based radio show, I prepared a mixtape which we will go further in depth on in the show itself. This playlist contains a number of songs that I listen to while taking part in one of the most important activities in my life: …
I would say this week has been the toughest week thus far. I imagine that if this trend continues I wont be able to get through the semester, let alone the school year. If I had to guess I would say I’m behind in most of my classes, but more …
This is another assignment that I thought would be fun for future generations of this class to participate in. There is a program available on the internet called chrome labs, which has a plethora of music based applications including beat makers and melody makers etc. For this assignment you will …
I decided to make an audio assignment because I noticed there was a considerable lack of composition based audio assignments in the assignment bank. I certainly Plan on adding more audio assignments, and I’ll try to add tutorials for all of them.
For this Audio Assignment you’ll use any composition …
The Audio Assignment Reverse It Asks that you take a soundtrack form a musical and rearrange the tracks in order to create a whole new story. Many musicals begin and end in similar places musically, with the finale being a reprisal of some of the main beginning numbers of the …
Another hard week full of too many assignments to keep track of, but hey only 12 more weeks to go. I talked in one of my posts for this week about how life is just moving at 10000 miles an hour all the time with no breaks and sometimes I …
For this particular assignment, because I had been doing a lot of photography for the week I wanted to challenge myself to complete all the prompts with a single image ( I know this is probably against the rules but I did it anyway). So these were my prompts
And …
As an artist, I’m always struggling to find inspiration to create, and when I do find inspiration I always want to do these 40 day project that are entirely unthinkable given my time and resources. We live in a time and a space where we literally can’t slow down, life …
My freshman year of UMW I was in design principals (Arts105) and we did a self portrait project where we took a black and white photo of ourselves and then turned it into a piece using two colors on the color wheel in different tones. I chose an image with …
I never had the chance to go to a summer camp as a kid. My parents worked pretty hard to shelter us from the dangers of the outside world. Now that I’m an adult myself I can understand that they were concerned for my safety and well being, especially being …
For this assignment I Wanted to use the Poem Parody I wrote last week as inspiration for the art I made this week. Really I just took an image of some lemon ricotta pancakes I made, then blurred the image behind my poem, and this is the finished result:
This …
Back in the day I was very into photography; I would usually take pictures of nature and the world around me, and whenever we went to special events like weddings, or graduations, I was always the designated photographer. However, as time went on, I began to associate photography with with …
This week was very very difficult. I did a lot of thinking about my past and my present and my future and I took inventory on my life as a whole. I’m not sure if I should be including all of this emotion and all of this information in these …
Word of warning: If I were you I would not read this poem. well I’m not sure I would call it a poem though. its something between a poem, a rant and a short story, anyway I’ve been writing it for this entire week and I’m still not done but …
Whose Cakes these are? of sweetened dough.
His house is internationally known;
He will leave the ketchup here
and watch me fill my mouth with Potatoes.
My family must think it queer
To eat my pancakes with root beer
But If they’re serving it to me
I can’t be blamed …
There once was a man named General Genghis Kahn Schmitz who scared children out of their wits. Not much is know about this man other than that fact that he was a domineering general with a love of butter bread (so long as its eaten butter side up), and his …
Welp, I think I can file this week under “happy accidents”. I made the decision to catch up on my week 1 assignments this week and In doing so missed out on a number of really cool assignments for week 2, which will probably impact my grade (but then I’m …
Since I was in the 9th grade I wanted to be an artist. I had been sketching for a few years but I mostly kept what I made to myself and I didn’t talk to anyone about it, but when I got to high school some friends helped me see …
I didn’t join this class until around this time last week so hadn’t done any work for the week so there wasn’t really anything to summarize. There wasn’t much work from other classes either, other than reading syllabuses and talking about what we wanted to get out of the courses …
I didn’t sign up for this course to fulfill any graduation requirements. Actually I am trying to Graduate this year and since I am fully remote my course options were exceedingly limited. I took this class because there was an open seat and I need to take at least 18 …
As a long time fan of Bob Ross, I think there are many things his videos can teach us about how create, how we share our interests and how we live our lives. This particular video showcases many of Bob’s philosophies and truly demonstrates why he is still such a …
This blog will be used for both digital story telling(DS106) and Intro to digital studies(DGST101) for the fall 2021 semester.…
