This week was different from what we’ve been doing so far. Since our radio show was due we had little else to do and it definitely threw me off my usual routine. While the process wasn’t as fun as I had hoped since most of it was spent stressing out about how well it comes out, the end product is something I can sort of enjoy now that it’s over. You can listen to the podcast and read more about the process to make it here: the little radio show that could. I’m very excited to get back to our normal weekly assignments after this.
These were fun and easy peasy! I love the ones where I get to open art programs and put stuff together and fiddle with things. It’s so fun to me, really revives the creative kid inside that was brutally murdered to focus on school. They’re back!!
Making these updates is always so fun to me, so this was nice to make. It makes me realize how far we’ve come and just how the process has been. It’s very comforting, actually!! It also makes me know how much work we put into it, so that we should be proud of it, and I am proud of the radio and of my group
I love this so much, I actually don’t remember the last time I had so much fun in a group project. Group projects are supposed to be miserable, that’s how they always have been, but this was FUN?? I think I was blessed with the most fun and creative group members, and I really could not have done it all without them!
Communication was amazing. Everyone contributed, everyone worked hard, and I just feel very warm to have done all of this with them. So, huge thank you to my group for creating this with me. I’m very happy to have done all of this with you guys!! We created something great!!
I talked about the process before in the post and the process post, so I’ll save you that story again. Just know that I’m very happy with our hard work.
I have no idea what we’ll be up to next week, after doing all of this, so I am kind of nervous! But I guess I’ll see where this all goes.
This week was radio show week part 1! We had to finalize our show idea and started making all that will need to go into it. I talk about my progress with that monstrous task here. We also had to make a design for our show which you can look at here.
For my 2 audio assignments, I made a good morning aggressors! message to inspire cheerfulness and a little bit of fear in Aggressive Tech’s loyal supporters. And my weird product ad meets 80s radio show where I truly have no explanation for how I got to the final product idea.
Turning, she found herself face to face with a hobbit. “Curiosity, little one?” she chuckled, the corners of her lips curling into a wry smile. “Care to join me?” she offered, extending the pack of cigarettes toward him. With a hesitant nod, the hobbit accepted, taking a cigarette and watching with curiosity as the witch conjured a flame with a flick of her finger. The witch couldn’t help but wonder what other adventures the letter “C” might bring into her night.
I wanna start this off by saying that I just did a round of commenting on a bunch of posts and seeing other groups’s progress and it made me so happy I could cry. Everyone seems to be having a good time and working well and smoothly, and so is my group, and it’s just so nice!! Group projects are usually miserable, but this one isn’t!
But, enough about that, let’s talk about my week.
My anthem for this week was Electric Blue by Easha, which I wanted to add, mostly because I listened to this on repeat all week long while doing my work (stats.fm says I’ve listened to it 38 times this week (also also, this is a fun thing to add that I want to start adding to my weekly summaries because I listen to most of my music when I’m working for this class).
I updated about my group’s radio here, and wrote a whole ton because I was so happy. I still am! I’m really happy to have my group, they’re all very passionate about what we’re doing and coming up with something good. They’re also all willing to hear feedback and come up with ideas together. We have a great team dynamic!
I anticipate we might finish early, to be honest, but I’m still really excited to see our final product.
I came up with a very simple, ironically bubbly logo in Canva for our radio. The team really liked it, so I feel bubbly myself.
I also saw the other poster designs my group made for the radio and it’s so fun seeing all of our ideas come together and have a physical design. I love this team <3
The first Audio Assignment I did was a Radio Bumper for our show, where I convinced Dr. Oblivion to sound enthusiastic for the first time in his AI life. This was easy peasy, just patched some stuff together using free sound and Dr. Oblivion and Audacity.
Interestingly enough, when I sent it to our Discord, one of my group members asked (for their own bumper) if we were supposed to say ds106radio or Ravioli Radio and my heart fell out of my chest. I thought I misread an assignment AGAIN but it turns out, you can do either, so that’s great!
The next Audio Assignment I did was a Radio Commercial for sketchy, free mopeds from an unknown source. We already have enough commercials, so this one may not be used, but my groupmates said that there was no limit, so it might actually be thrown in! This was fun, I used an AI voice and Audacity and more free sound. Pretty simple again, but I love the voice, it’s so funny to me.
The Daily Creates this week might have been my favorite of the ones we’ve had in previous weeks. These ones really made me think and also allowed me to write, which is something I love to do. Reading about endangered languages was also so interesting and sad to me, but it was very inspiring finding the poem I did in the endangered language I found. Regardless, really fun! My brain was opened!
This week was great, I felt really, really happy. I’m so excited to see more radio progress next week, this is just so so fun. Thanks for a good week, team!!
This week was the calm before the storm. We had to decide on a solid concept for our radio show and form our groups. We also had to add to our class’s AI tool laboratory and make a sales pitch a product that Aggressive Tech would either buy or put out of business. You can find that post here.
I definitely wouldn’t be able to go a day without reading for fun. Even though it’s required for me to read as I go about my day, I definitely have to set aside time to read something I actually enjoy daily. From fiction novels to textbooks examining niche concepts, anything that excites my brain with new things.
Newton doesn’t know what he would do without his espresso machine from Williams Sonoma. It grinds and steams his coffee grounds for him and leaves no mess behind so that he can spend more time doing random experiments.
The nap I am about to take after I finish this and my final homework . . . (it won’t be a nap, I will be going to bed).
In this class, this week was actually kinda fun! I met my groupmates!! I’m actually really excited. Sol might be being interviewed by Dr. Ravioli on Ravioli Radio along with Natasha Sidorov, Dolly, and Lady Alice. Very excited to see what we’re going to come up with!!
Other than that, I didn’t do a whole lot for the class, but here are my posts!
I talked about the Daily Creates in the post, and you can see them all! They were all fairly simple, either just fiddling with an art program, thinking about my cat, or clicking some buttons on Canva! Honestly, a typical week of Daily Creates for me. Nothing stood out, so I don’t really have much else to say!
First thing I want to say about this, is that I did it wrong . . . I have so much to do after this assignment, so I just did not process the instructions correctly. I thought we were using AI to explain why our character should acquire Aggressive Technologies or should put Aggressive Technologies out of business, not use AI to explain why Aggressive Technologies should acquire the AI or put the AI out of business. I guess I just am letting out my inner Sol and hating Aggressive Technologies too much that it’s impacting how I read . . .
I really had no idea until I was doing my commenting and I was like “oh this person did this assignment wrong” and then I clicked at another person’s and saw that it was the same and I started scratching my head.
Anyways, it’s too late to change it, so I’m keeping it and that’s just how it’s going to be.
I used a video creator AI to explain why Aggressive Technologies should be put out of business, creating a TikTok-esc 1-minute video about how Aggressive Technologies threatens human creativity. Sol made the script, and used the AI to show that there are some things that AI can be good with, like creating text to speech, but there are other things that AI goes too far on, and that’s when it becomes a threat.
It was fairly easy, nothing really deep or big about it! I enjoyed the assignment all up until I realized I did it wrong (but I’m exaggerating, I’m not too beat up about it).
NEXT WEEK GOAL! Learn how to read the instructions and start my work in all my classes earlier so I don’t do everything at 7pm on Friday when everything’s due. Or just tell my job I can’t come in every other day this week in the morning when I usually do my homework.
That’s it, I have to get to this assignment before I explode okay bye see you next week
WE LOVE PROPAGANDA WEEK!!! For both my propaganda poster and my PSA I focused on Aggressive Technologies and the role it is taking in the world that is basically being controlled by them at this point. It was a little rough coming up with ideas though since last week I did my own sort of propaganda week, but after looking up some inspiration online and the other posts from our class I made a sort of plan for what I wanted to do.
My post-reaction was an unexpected fun activity from this week since I was able to get into the mind of Andrea and create more layers to her personality. It was also fun as always to see what the rest of the class is working on with such broad assignment prompts.
Also in my free time, I added some small customizations to my website theme. I already knew how to code before but I learned a lot about CSS so that I could add small things. Like the effect that highlights the post when you hover over it and some slight adjustments to change the spacing of the header and its elements which isn’t a customizable option through the theme’s usual settings.
They’re a traveling quartet of singers displaying their full range for all to hear! They perform many different styles from opera to beatboxing and between the 4 of them they can pull off whatever you throw at them.
This week was pretty fine! I had a lot of assignments in other classes with midterms and jazz, so I was so grateful to have a simpler week this week. I did leave all my work for Friday, but that was mostly because I had to so I could focus on my other work. It’s okay, though, because I do think I did pretty fine this week!
In the last few weeks, I was trying a new style for organizing these summaries, and I think I like that way better, so here it is!
Daily Creates
The Daily Creates this week were pretty simple and easy! They still prepared me to get to actual work and get a little inspired! I talked about it a lot more in the post so I’ll save you the yapping, but these were nice. I especially liked the Net Art one, I think it was fun to come up with a prompt and see how it would scan the internet to give you a new image with a crazy amalgamation of images.
This might be one of the assignments I’m most proud of. After stepping away and going to work and coming back, I’m looking at my propaganda poster, and I’m like, “wow, I did that!” I think it looks really good! I think I have an advantage with experience with graphic design from high school, but I do think this was really good.
Now that I am looking at it again, I do see things that I missed or could have tweaked, but I’m stil happy!
One last thing, creating a Pinterest board for inspiration really helped me, I think. I actually had a good time getting inspired looking at these, so I think for other design-related assignments like this, I want to make boards for them to see what I can find and get inspired.
I lost all of my inspiration by this post and spat out a not very fun PSA. I really liked other people’s PSAs, I don’t know why I lost all my inspiration and couldn’t make a similar one. I think I feel bored and dull about my PSA because I used ChatGPT to write it instead of me . . . that’s not really my type of thing, but I thought maybe it could write something more intelligent! Which, it did, but I just don’t feel happy because it didn’t come from me . . . I don’t know.
Looking at all the posts for this week was really fun! I loved seeing where people’s brains went for these assignments. Everyone is really creative!
One problem I’m having is that I can’t quite figure out what personality I want Sol to have. Every time I’m writing, I feel like I might be writing as myself and not as Sol. I’m having a rough time getting in their head, and part of me regrets making a character that’s similar to me, but it wasn’t super intentional. I hope as I keep doing these assignments related to them that I find their voice.
This week was fun! It’s also interesting to me because we just recently talked about propaganda in my Social Psychology class, so designing propaganda was fun because I could understand just what people are looking for in propaganda and just what influences them.
Very excited for break next week though . . . everyone have a good spring break!!
It’s video week part 2! This week’s assignment choices had a lot of options and it was hard to choose at first. While I may have overdone the worldbuilding a little bit for my character Andrea, I simply enjoyed the process too much to stop.
For my first assignment, I did one where we had to tell our course character’s story. I ended up telling the story of how Andrea and Georgia’s rivalry began. And of course, being Andrea, the story is ridiculously dramatic as she laments her struggle with Georgia in her journal and so the title needed to be theatrical as well The Rivalry Redefined: Andrea’s Story.
When I saw this post in the assignment bank I immediately heard Frank Costanza yelling “Serenity Now!’ and I knew I had to do it. While this assignment wasn’t me screaming the same way I did enjoy the simple serenity that my Serenity Now! But for real video produced.
The last assignment is actually the first one I started but took the longest. I made an Aggressive Technologies Propaganda ad where my character Andrea records a video campaign for the company. As a completely unrelated part of the assignment, I may have gotten carried away and made another subdomain to host some content for Aggressive Technologies.
It’s video week!!! We didn’t have as many assignments but instead one big one. Before doing that though we had to update our course goals which can be found here.
The reading and videos this week were really interesting and I definitely overdid it with the notes but I enjoyed the time I wasted so another win for me. I’m definitely gonna spend more time watching the rest of Tony Zhou’s videos in the future.
Finally my video essay. It was a task I enjoyed way too much and I hope someone enjoys listening to the nonsensical production opinions I summoned from the trashcan part of my brain.
