Assignment: Thinking about Photos

Assignment: Thinking about Photos

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated
February 11, 2018

I LOVED THIS ASSIGNMENT! This is my prompt for the Photoblitz: #ds106 A post shared by Elaina (@gramming4theend) on Feb 11, 2018 at 8:13am PST Below are my before pictures I took: The before shots #ds106 A post shared by Elaina (@gramming4theend) on Feb 11, 2018 at 8:17am PST These are the edited...
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Assignment: Films, Reflections, and GIFs

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments2
February 11, 2018

Mad Max The movie I decided to watch this week was Mad Max! I thought it was cool watching this movie because I have seen Mad Max Fury Road, but I’ve never seen the original. I enjoyed this movie a lot, but the most interesting part was seeing how the newer movies are so much...
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Week 3 Run Down

by @tweetingfortheend

| Syndicated, the end, Weekly Posts
February 1, 2018

This week was pretty hard. I struggled on some of the writing assignments, but overall i’m pretty happy with what I produced. I was freaking out at first because it was a lot of work to do, but once I sat down and started reading through the assignment bank, I had fun with the prompts!...
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Apocalypse Terms Of Service

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated, the end, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2163
February 1, 2018

Here is my version of APOCALYPSE “Terms of Service” using only GIFS:
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Dear Mom….

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated, the end, writingassignments, WritingTutorials1903
February 1, 2018

Dear mom, It’s day 89 of the apocalypse. I think i’m going insane. I haven’t talked to another human in about 3 days. I’ve been hiding at night, and at this point I have a routine to sleep through the night. I met a friend last week called Sandy. She’s about 9, I think....
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Writing Assignment: Write An Alternate Ending

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated, the end, writingassignments, WritingTutorials1552
February 1, 2018

Alternate ending: There will come soft rains by Roy Bradbury *my alternate ending is bolded* ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ There will come soft rains by Ray Bradbury (born 1920) In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid nobody would. The morning house lay...
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Amazon Review: Products of the apocalypse

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated, the end, writingassignments, WritingTutorials2161
February 1, 2018

SO, it wouldn’t let me post my review on Amazon (LMAO) but here it is:
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Assignment: Short Story readings

by @tweetingfortheend

| Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated, the end
February 1, 2018

I read two short stories this week. The first story I wrote is called “There will come soft rains” by Roy Bradbury. I enjoyed this short story for multiple reasons. At first, I thought that it was really long and boring, but I quickly got super into it and couldn’t stop reading. I thought it...
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The End: Week 2 rundown

by @tweetingfortheend

| Syndicated, the end
January 26, 2018

I started out my week doing two Daily Create challenges! I had a lot of fun with these, and I enjoyed having to run around my kitchen making up a new name for something! I enjoy challenges where we get to tweet because it’s more difficult for me, but I think it truly pushes me...
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Writing Assignments #1: Into the Deep Forest

by @tweetingfortheend

| Syndicated, the end, writingassignments, WritingTutorials2160
January 25, 2018

***backstory: When I was growing up, I did not live in a house that had a backyard. We had a deep dark forest that stretched out for miles until it hit the highway. My friends and I would spend hours when we were little voyaging through this forest, but as the sun went down we...
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Blog Post #1: the apocalypse begins.

by @tweetingfortheend

| Syndicated, the end
January 17, 2018

Do aliens exist? YES. Let me tell you why. In 2012 I was on a red eye flight on my way back from Alaska. As the plane was asleep, I looked out my window to see a spinning chrome “dome like structure” that was blinked with red and green lights. I thought my eyes were...
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Final Project Reflection

by @tweetingfortheend

| DGST395, Syndicated
April 26, 2017

For my final project for 395, I decided to do a podcast series with one of my best friends named Anna Rinko. I have always been interested in starting a podcast series, however I truly never had the time to actually record and find content to record about. I was very passionate about this final...
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My Final Project Proposal

by @tweetingfortheend

| DGST395, Syndicated
March 27, 2017

My Final Project Proposal For my final project for DGST 395, I originally decided to create a Twitter bot to automatically tweet song lyrics or poetry onto Twitter. However, after actually spending a whole day creating the bot using Whalen’s google doc bot setup, I was able to create my bot in less than 3...
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Learning to Code

by @tweetingfortheend

| DGST395, Syndicated
March 2, 2017

I loved doing the learn to code assignment! This was super fun for me because not only did I get to use a learn to code activity that was a game, it also it Frozen themed! For this assignment I used Studio Code’s Frozen game. The link is: https://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1 So, my first reaction to this was...
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Revised blog: Why coding is important to me

by @tweetingfortheend

| DGST395, Syndicated
February 7, 2017

In my last blog post I talked about why coding is important in general, however, I want to touch on why it is important to me. Besides my previous story about how I taught myself to code at a young age thanks to Neopets, another important reason that coding is important to me is because...
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Make America Code Again (lmao)

by @tweetingfortheend

| DGST395, Syndicated
February 5, 2017

When I was about 10 years old, I taught myself how to code. Well, sorta. (As much as a 10 year old attempted). My best friend and I used to play this online game that allowed you to make your own CSS and HTML webpage for pets (shoutout Neopets. You showed me how fun coding...
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The Erasure, Abuse, and Sexism in the Music Industry

by @tweetingfortheend

| DGST395, Syndicated
February 1, 2017

The music industry has never had a clean slate. From Motown strikes in the 50’s and the struggle to hear colored people on the radio, to now the abuse of women that is silently coming back to haunt producers. Lord knows how the struggle for equality in the music business is very much still a...
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FINAL PROJECT TURN UP!!!!

by @tweetingfortheend

| DIGI Arts 104, Syndicated
December 7, 2016

For my final project I wanted to make various gifs of me recording a song in the production studio in Pollard. My inspiration came from a friend who told me that the process of recording a song was really cool, and I decided I wanted my project to tell a story which I will show...
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Artist Blog: Chris Milk

by @tweetingfortheend

| DIGI Arts 104, Syndicated
December 7, 2016

Chris Milk is an American entrepreneur, innovator, director, photographer, and immersive artist. He is Founder and CEO of Within (Virtual Reality)(formerly Vrse), a virtual reality technology company, and Founder and Creative Director of Here Be Dragons (formerly Vrse.works), a virtual reality production company. Milk began his career directing music videos and commercials for top artists and...
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Artist Blog: Marco Brambilla

by @tweetingfortheend

| DIGI Arts 104, Syndicated
December 1, 2016

Marco Brambilla is a visual and installation artist, based in New York and Berlin. He is primarily known for his elaborate re-contextualizations of found imagery, often employing new technologies in his work. He has pioneered the use of 3D technology in video art with his Megaplex trilogy, LiDAR computer-mapping for Anthropocene (a public art installation...
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Artist Blog: Evan Roth

by @tweetingfortheend

| DIGI Arts 104, Syndicated
November 29, 2016

Evan Roth is an American artist based in Paris whose practice visualizes and archives culture through unintended uses of technologies. Creating prints, sculptures, videos and websites, his work explores the relationship between misuse and empowerment and the effect that philosophies from hacker communities can have when applied to digital and non-digital systems. Roth’s work is...
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