I’ve never been one to take photos or videos of some event I’m at, I have always believed in living in the moment and experiencing everything to it’s fullest. I actually don’t take many photos at all, the only camera I own is my cameraphone, and if this metaphor make sense, I use it more … Continue reading "Death of photography?"

After reading about taking portraits with natural light in Scott Kelby’s The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes, I took this photo of my dad: I set the camera to Portrait mode to take a few, so I could make sure I got a decent shot for reference, but then I set it to […]

For this assignment, I did Story Map. For this assignment they wanted me to use Knightlab’s Story Map. However, I wanted to make my own. So I made my own, “story map” of all of my pictures from when I went to Italy spring of 2015. Since we were on the topic this week of “Is photography […]

Today #ds106 posted the challenge to post an image of things for different planets. I decided to post a comic of the Earth continuously accepting Pluto but then immediately denying the poor thing right after – Pluto is a planet and you all are heartless for taking him away from us. Heartless.  

International Dot Day was apparently a thing celebrated by #ds106 For this day, the Daily Create was in celebration of National Dot Day. We were assigned to create a dot and decorate it how we please. For mine – I decided to draw on the white board and doodle in some trees for decoration – … Continue reading Daily Create – International Dot Day

On September 12th, #ds106 had posted a daily create challenge to post a picture of twelve of something. Being the good friend I am, I like to pick on my friend from Digital Media class – Brianna. She was sitting across the room from me, telling a story (of which I don’t remember because I … Continue reading Daily Create – Twelve of Something

I took on the assignment, Splash the Color, and I think it was a lot of fun! I love messing with color in pictures. In this assignment, you had to have a black and white picture with one object or subject full of color. So, there was a “splash” of color. When I read “splash” I […]

As this week I was crunched for time like no other, I couldn’t take my sweet ole time doing these pictures. However I did take some advice into account. I started taking pictures in my backyard. And by “backyard” I mean around campus. And by “around campus” I mean a few from campus and most […]

So, I totally forgot about last weeks update. I drove to Colorado to meet some family and spread my grandfathers ashes at redstone. I didn’t get much done for the week, just one daily create(https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001), due to being in Colorado. I’ll drop this weeks update tomorrow, and it’ll be much better.

I did some slight research on Jim Richardson and thought that his work was amazing! First I looked at his National Geographic Photography, which I thought was amazing. I loved all the pictures of the different people, landscapes, and nature. Then I realized something. My friend has a smart TV in her apartment and when it […]

This assignment was worth a star and a half which got me to a total of four and a half. The directions to this assignment were very simple. I had to take an old cartoon character and edit the colors. I decided to use Winnie the Pooh for some odd reason, but I had some […]

This assignment was a fun one. It is a visual assignment on the ds106 website. The directions are to mesh some animals together. The first image and body of this animal is a fish. I’m not sure what form of fish though. The other animals I incorporated into this image are a water buffalo, koala, […]

In this post I am going to be reflecting to The Death of Photography by Stuart Jeffries from The Guardian. In many ways I agree with Jeffries. I have many memories of going to events and not really remembering it, however I also have other memories that I highly recorded yet still remember clearly. Maybe it’s how much […]

Now days, you probably can’t find a magazine on the shelf that doesn’t have a photoshopped picture in it. It’s human nature to correct our imperfections. Personally, I don’t have a problem with it because I know it’s not real. However, for mothers out there that have their children looking at these pictures and being […]

I’m a bit late to the party, but that’s okay, I’m always fashionably late if I’m late. First off, I don’t think it’s necessary to rewrite the bit I wrote about the ds106 assignments did this week, so I will provide a link to that blog post. Link: https://mdseim.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/ds106-assignments/ The assignments were the bulk of … Continue reading Week 3 Summary

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The first assignment I did was the “A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing” assignment. My task was to take a logo of a company and redesign it representing the company’s rival. Thus, I chose to do the Jayhawk representing K-State. I chose the Jayhawk because I’m evil and like to create … Continue reading Ds106 Assignments

I read an article titled The Death of Photography: Are Camera Phones Destroying an Art Form? It discusses the effect smart phone cameras are having on professional photographers. It is becoming harder and harder to find work as a photographer because in a world where nearly everyone has a mobile camera that takes decent pictures, professional […]

This week was much busier than the first two. We were told we had to find our own assignments on the ds106 website, but the difficulty level had to add up to eight stars. Those of you who do not know how the website works, each assignment on the website has been graded on difficulty […]

The week for Digital Media was filled with various activities, such as discussing technology in 1964, daily creates, and design assignments. Following are the links to each project accomplished this week for Digital Media:   Ds106 Assignment Bank: https://kyliedeeart.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/ds106-assignment-bank/ Daily Create – Acrostic Poem: https://kyliedeeart.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/daily-create-acrostic-poem/ Daily Create – Interesting Doorknobs: https://kyliedeeart.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/daily-create-interesting-doorknobs/ Daily Create – Message … Continue reading 9/12/2016 Weekly Summary

This assignment was very easy to finish. It wasn’t supposed to be anything special, it’s just putting something from a cartoon onto something in real life. I used Photoshop to adjust the legs of the starfish so they line up with the shorts. This assignment was only worth a star and a half, but it’s […]

I found this assignment on the ds106 website. It was a three star assignment, and the directions were to make an invitation for a wedding. I tweaked it just a little bit and did a graduation invitation instead because I have been working on my for some time now. I was limited to what I […]

For today’s daily create, #ds106 asked us to publish a message of hope in honor of 9/11. Above is the quote I published. This message is greatly well known through the Pantheist community and is used to show that there is hope for happiness even after our lives are through.

#ds106 daily create asked us to post an image of an interesting doorknob. For mine, I decided to honor my professor Jim Smith and state that this doorknob was interesting because it led me to his classroom. (If you look close enough, you can see Jim st...

For a daily create, I was to write an Acrostic poem (the first letter of each word spells out a word). This is what I came up with: Trash Racoon Under Mass Poop #ds106

This week, our Digital Media professor asked us to complete a few assignments on the #ds106 website. We were allowed to choose which ones we would complete, as long as we did a total of 8 stars (the difficulty of the assignment is rated by stars 1-5 – one being easy and five being the … Continue reading Ds106 Assignment Bank

This is my response to the Alternative Book Covers assignment. The challenge was to create an alternative cover for a book that changes the entire theme. The Crucible was originally a bout the Salem Witch Trials. A crucible is a piece of lab equipment used to hold hot metals, so I made a cover that […]

This is my response to the What’s The Weather In Your Neck Of The Woods? assignment. I had to create a video of myself forecasting the weather. Weather is never interesting to watch, so I set out to change that! The most challenging part of this video was probably getting the Cyberlox (the springy tube stuff) […]

In the spirit of this being the 1946 week, the pictures are of my grandfather, Victor Backhus who fought in WWII. I remember he wasn’t shy to tell stories of his time in service and would speak of them often. However, sadly he passed away August 8, 2009. This week has pretty busy for me, […]

I am going to be discussing what I thought about the article “As We May Think.” As I “read” this article, it was really hard for me to focus in on it. It was just so long! So as I skimmed it there were some good points in there. Mostly, I would like to talk […]

For this post we are going to be talking about Getting to Know, Decim Peters. For one of my other assignments I decided to do the fanfic assignment “Creating Your Own Character.” For this assignment, you needed to create your own character. At first I thought this was going to be easy like, “Oh just write a […]