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3 This Week, Sounds Good

So, for the daily creates this week I did 3 of them. I wanted to do more, but when you work full time and have 2 kids and 3 dogs and 1 cat and your dryer breaks, and your laundry room needs painted to match the new appliances… you kind of get busy. So, yeah, I was only able to get 3 done, BUT I had fun doing them. I got to do some coloring, I made a gif of my first job, and I let you into my world a little bit with my intro song.

The first one was to use a digital coloring book to re-color famous artwork. This is the one I chose, and I went with a green theme. I don’t know why, but all this AI and internet talk made want to do something that reminded me of nature. Here is my post below:

The next one I did was a gif of my first job. Not a lot of funny or cool videos of car washes or detailing, so I just quickly put this one together. I’ll admit it wasn’t too exciting and I could have put just a tad more effort in, but yeah, detailing was super fun. I have lots of gross stories and one dangerous one so, just let me know if you want to hear it! See post below.

The last one I did was posting my walkout song. When I saw this, I know a slow smile appeared on my face because I think about this every time, I see a UFC fighter walk out or see the starting lineup for an NBA game. I knew exactly which one I was going to pick. It has been a song I have enjoyed for a long time. It’s got a great intro, dark lyrics, and slamming riffs. See below. Here is the video if you want to watch it yourself.

So yeah, only 3 this week because real life got a few punches in, but overall, I had a good time with it. I keep saying it, and I’ll say it again, these little daily things really keep me motivated in this course. They keep me excited to see what the next thing is, and I know I’ll likely learn something from each one. I have done a few of them with my kids to get them thinking creatively and they are already as excited as I am for the next one.

Daily Create 2/1/24

Walk up songs have been around baseball since the 1970s. The walk up songs were played by an organist named Nancy Faust at the Chicago White Sox games. These songs are meant for the player to listen to his song for a brief second before he steps up to the plate to hit. Helping the player “lock in” for his at bat. I would choose “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” by Roy Ayers. I like the intro to this song and it would help me lock in when I am about to play.

Books for Everyone (including animals and the machines) #dailycreate #tdc4396 #ds106

This 1929 poster is from the Library of Congress archives on Flickr. Let’s do an update (maybe most needed now more than ever in the era of banned books in the US). Make your poster or meme more modern but keep the love of books alive in your art. https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4396/

My poster was generated with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer (Powered by DALL·E 3), using the prompt “A promotional poster of a retro futuristic environment filled with diverse humans, whales, animals and robots all happily reading books and sharing what they know and expanding their minds, in a 20s minimal colour art deco style.”



Daily Create 1/26/2024

Here is my answer to today’s Daily Create prompt:

I used Canva again (it’s my go to for easy graphic design things) and I wanted to kind of play around with the tools I hadn’t explored in it. Now that I’m looking at it, I kinda wish I made the books black and white, or the text to follow the books, but I didn’t want to spend too long on it.

There’s no big story here, I was just recreating the original poster with my own interpretation. I chose a graphic that had known books on it so that it could click with someone! But yeah!

Like a muscle, creativity must be exercised to grow stronger and more vibrant.

This week I decided to do 5 daily creations. I thought that all of them worked out a different creative muscle and I really enjoyed them all. I’m going to move backwards from the 25th.

On the 25th, the goal was to create an Exit sign for the internet. This one took me a while to figure out what to do, but I ended up using application logos to spell exit and then have a picture of unplugging underlining the exit. I’m not very proud of this one after I saw some of the other things people came up with. This one was my particular favorite. Here is a picture of my design below:

On the 23rd, the objective was to create something that resembled the Voynich manuscript. I took it literally and decided to make a page that could be inside it. I decided to use real world media to make it look more realistic. This was by far my favorite one this week. See below:

On the 22nd, the objective was to make a Fibonacci poem. The way this works is to start with one word, then the next line has to add up to the total words used in the previous 2 lines. This makes it get much larger and complex by the 6th line. I was inspired by some dark song lyrics and just kept the theme of doom. If you are wondering, the song is called Eternal Wasteland of Galaxies by the slam death metal band Vulvodynia. The song is about a galactic entity eating galaxies. I feel like my poem turned into a statement about climate change and our self-destructive nature… would an AI agree with me? See my poem below:

On the, the objective was to take a photo of your ceiling. This was interesting because usually the ceiling never gets looked at for more than a moment. We got to capture that moment. I chose a space in my house that has been causing me stress for multiple months. It has character and is fairly interesting. See below:

On the 20th, we had to use this website that associates 3 words with any town you choose. We were asked to do this for our hometown. Since I was a military brat, I never really had a “hometown” experience, so I decided to use the last place I lived before I went off on my own, Schertz, Texas. I was very happy with my words: funds, since, speeding. This was where my three words took me:

Overall, I had fun with these this week. I think over time, the more of these I do, the better they will get. This is a fun way to make me think creatively and I can’t wait to see what’s next.

Daily Create 1/25/2024

Here is my Daily Create for today!

I made this very quickly on Canva. I wanted to specifically focus on the toxicity of the Internet, so I compared it to factories, which add a lot of polution to our earth. Obviously, they’re not 100% similar, but I think they can kind of be comparable. If the factories polute our earth, the toxicity of the Internet does too. I think that if it stays as toxic as it is, we’ll get to a point where we can’t escape the toxicity: it’ll be everywhere. I hope everyone can learn to just click the X in the corner, but I especially hope that those people that spread toxicity will especially learn to press the X.

Daily Create 1/24/24

Here is my Daily Create for today, a poem based on this camera

Is it smoke or is it mist?
that reaches up like a fist,
that rises from the grass to the sky,
covering the trees that stretch high
In the hills, is it raining heavy
or is it just the clouds that carry
the weight of the world around
silencing the earth to no sound?
Quiet.
Dreary.
Gray.

I don’t really have a lot to say about this one. I just thought it was really interesting how I wasn’t sure if it was mist or smoke, and what story that tells? Regardless, I thought the image looked sort of sad, so I wanted to depict that. All I know is that I am not a fan of writing poetry.