For this week I had many computer difficulties and still am… but I am learning to navigate through them. I couldn’t figure out my word press password for a long time so I realized that all I really need to do is get access through UMW domains. I then had an issue where my whole site crashed so yesterday I reworked my front page, and today I am going to the DKC to work on splitting my blog- one for digital studies and one for music but on my same page! I did a lot this week with learning wordpress and how to change my website. I am currently working on my about page, it is not up to date yet but it will be hopefully by the end of week  Daily Create Link Daily Create Link This picture was from the beginning of the week when we were jamming out getting ready for classes in my apartment! My mom stopped by to exchange some goodies this week and my stinky dogs got to visit me too! ?

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The prompt was to write a diary entry from your favorite Disney Villain’s perspective. https://youtu.be/-7jWt3JvJtoDisneyMusicVEVO. Donna Murphy – Mother Knows Best (From “Tangled”/Sing-Along). YouTube, 2 July 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7jWt3JvJto. Try this #ds106 Assignment Dear Diary…. https://t.co/KjhrlI2yZt Dear Diary…. pic.twitter.com/tCx0I6Jag3 — Hailey Amick (@amick_hailey) January 29, 2022 Dear Diary, Mother knows best. Rapunzel wanted to leave the tower because the lanterns are calling her. She can never know what it is like to be out of the tower or else I will vanish into nothingness. Her beauty makes me shine as the young flower I am on the inside. I wish that she would be able to come to her sense and realize that I know best. I am the one who has raised her. I am the one who has brought her to all of her senses!!!!!!!! Goodnight,  May I shine just as bright tommorrow. 

This life is yours. This life is yours. Some of it was to you; the rest you made by yourself. This fortune cookie is speaking to me in the fact that this life is mine. I CAN do anything I want in this life. The part that was given to me was the life that has been laid out for me by my sweet parents giving me lessons, putting me through art classes, dance, girl scouts, and sports. The rest of my life is made by me and I want to take these beautiful things that I have been through and use my creativity to make myself and others happy.

                       https://twitter.com/amick_hailey/status/1486379070753591299 I was given the following prompt: Mashup photos from your favorite movie with the sheet music from it’s the best song in the movie. Using Adobe Photoshop or comparable, play with overlays, Image effects, Opacity, and Masks to create one cohesive piece.  I felt inspired to post this particular movie because the music is so empowering in every way that I wanted to express the positivity that this particular song in this movie incorporates. No matter who you are the lyrics speak to you, the background chords show empowerment, and even the melody places a reminder within the musical elements that this is ME. It is quite incredible how the musicians writing this incorporated this empowerment in every single way.   LYRICS: The lyrics behind this piece are incredibly meaningful in the way that it displays no matter who you are, what you’ve gone through, you are a beautiful person inside and out. For instance, the chorus: “When the sharpest words wanna cut me downI’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown ’em outI am brave, I am bruisedI am who I’m meant to be, this is me”     BACKGROUNDS: In music, when you hear a piece there are parts that play underneath the actual vocalist or soloist. These are called chords and they create background harmonies. The chords are shown up above start on a B minor which says I’m not a stranger. Minor usually indicates distant or sad- which is exactly how being a stranger feels. Then it goes to a V,I in music which is the A-D major which is extremely positive- stating to the dark that you aren’t a stranger. It constantly takes a minor chord and makes it major which is indicating that no matter the negative it always turns positive.     MELODY: The vocalist sings the melody lyrics – THIS IS ME. The music is significant because this motive in music displays a solid unison pitch when singing this to say that no matter what: this is me, this is my voice, this is the note that I am singing. By the middle of the song the vocalist changes the pitch of this is me indicating that they CAN and WILL sing any note because they are indicating that this is ME.   Gracey, Michael, director. The Greatest Showman. Disney+, 2018.

For this week in digital studies, I watched the video on youtube A Warm Winter. My thoughts on this video flourished. Bob Ross is not just a phenomenal artist, but also a wonderful spokesperson and television host. His communication with the audience made his show so particularly moving. This piece in particular moved me in… Continue reading A Warm Winter

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