Behind this creation: This daily create asked us to make a spiral photo. So, I played around for a little and came up with this!
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4/8 Daily create
Here is the daily create from 4/18
Behind the creation: For this, I just went with the flow of the erasure poem and tried to make it as coherent as possible. This wasn’t my favorite but I still enjoyed the experience.
Week of 4.1.24 – Reap the benefits
This week fooled me. I saw the assignment page coming up on Friday and I looked over it and thought “Wow, easy week”. It probably would be easy if the wifi was better in the dorms here, but no use crying over spilled milk. If you see daily creates posted a little late it’s because the wifi has been in and out. Rest assured that they were completed the day of and not the day it was posted. Anything that I do post late was done by using my phone, but I can’t log into mastodon on my phone, So I have wait until the wifi in the dorms comes back to post! Thanks for you patience and understanding. That was the only major problem that I ran into this week. I am working on workshopping a lot so stayed tuned for my video project!
I also took some time to update my website, so feel free to look around while I get everything situated.
As always the assignments are below!
Assignments
Daily Creates- We had three this week
And we are live!
Today, I tuned into a radio show done by Feli, Georgia, and Andrea’s radio show. This show was really put together, but I am kind of surprised that there wasn’t an intro bumper. This also opens my eyes to how Aggressive technology, really tries to gaslight the public (No shade to the people behind the radio show). I feel like the radio show adds to the narrative that we as a class have built around aggressive technologies. I also think that the groups editing skills are really good and whoever edited it, I need your game-card because my editing feels subpar to yours (please teach me your ways!!)
Something else that I also noticed while listening was how well-structured the interview was and how the interviewer Desuna (I’m sorry if I butchered your name) had a broad array of questions that addressed almost everyone’s course character’s problems with AT. So props to everyone who worked on the radio show. The radio show is structured like a propaganda radio that would be played across all speakers in the factories, offices, and break rooms.
I also loved the fact that Feli joined in and answered my questions about how natural they got their AI to sound. I had problems with my internet, unfortunately, so I couldn’t hear the rest of the radio show. I am amazed about how all of the radio shows turned out!!
Also fun fact: Did you know that Aggressive Technologies inc is an actual company that operates out of Illinois? They unfortunately don’t deal with AI but more so with manufacturing.
4.1
I am writing this to say that I will be dropping this class, blog, and anything associated with DS106. It has been detrimental to my mental health and to be honest its a good riddance.
Sincerely,
L.B
P.S Happy APRIL FOOLS (I don’t get the chance often)
Here is the daily create for today!!
Okay, So what now?
Now we have an upcoming video project. For my video project, I want to film my commercial for activism. I think that I am going to film myself getting up from a chair and then text rolls onto the screen along with sad music along with made up statistics. Then at the end, I will cut to an up-close video of me saying “Now how are you going to take action?”. Then the screen will cut to a black screen with more text highlighting resources for both people unaffected by Aggressive technologies and those who are affected by Aggressive Technologies. At the bottom of the entire video I will put text in white like a political campaign saying “paid for by M.P” which is Marie’s alias. So the video builds upon Marie becoming an activist while still working for A.T.
I will start filming probably over the weekend because I have a busy week ahead and I have to travel home for a little while on the only day during this week that I have to complete work, without class or work. I am looking forward to filming and have already gotten a person to help me with filming. If I have time later on this week to do some filming I will update this post here!
3.31
Happy Easter!!
3.30
Today is my birthday! I just turned 19! Alas, there are no off days. So, here is my daily create!!
Week of 3.25- CUT THE TAPES!
First spring semester, and I have now learned what spring slump is. One of the biggest challenges this week was overcoming the spring slump. In brighter news the radio project is coming to an end. While I loved working with Tubba, Jacob, Latifiah, and Reece the assignment load has seemed very tiring the last couple of weeks. Below are the links to the two daily creates I did, as well as an update post, and eventually the finished Project! Also I’m turning 19 on Tomorrow, So happy early birthday to me!!
One challenge that I ran into this week was the INTERNET. The wifi in the dorms has been cutting in and out so bad it is delaying all the work I could have easily gotten done earlier in the week. I don’t really have the luxury of working anywhere else because I get easily distracted but I am hopeful they will correct the problem soon… right? Also I noticed that my mac book records audios in different octaves sometimes so if you are listening to my section in the final project please ignore it!!! I tried to correct the problem within audacity but we’ll see.
I also helped out this week by editing everything together. If I am being honest I didn’t want to but It had to be done. Against my prior attitude about editing the show together, I enjoyed it. I took bits and pieces of everyone’s work and made it something to be proud of! While the last two weeks have been a headache, I enjoyed the process of working with others.
As always everything from this week is below.
Assignments:
Daily creates (We had two this week)
Radio Show update:
This week things got kicked into gear really fast again. Going into the week I had no idea how we were going to pull off the radio show, but it worked out. This week we decided that we were going to do our own movies with the twins and Tubba doing the evolution of Spiderman. I don’t know what Jacob is deciding as of now, but I am sure it is going to be great! For my piece of the project I did the first avengers movie Avengers (2012). I connected my course character as a podcaster under a persona M.P, because it did not make sense for her to use a fake personality online and then her real identity in the podcast knowing that she was going to speak her mind about AI. I decided to record my own audio instead of cutting together potentially hours worth of AI generated voices to get the sound right and even longer editing so there would be proper pauses and such. So, to save time and energy I recorded my own voice and I stuttered alot, I couldn’t edit some of it out so bear with me. After I edited all the audio together I added an intro bumper sound and then some music in the background.
I just finished it and emailed it to the group, so it is still waiting to be edited all together. I am hopeful for how the rest of the project will turn out. I have already heard one of the Twins section and it sounds great. I am sure whatever we come up with in the end is going to knock your socks off so tune in. I hope I gave enough of an update and nothing that spoiled it too much!