Monday, November 28, 2011

ds106 Video Assignments 159 "Video Essay"

So here is one my favorite music! I just love this music and it makes me wanna dance. I like the music more than the video clip itself but I will explain in detail later, after you watch the Video!!!!!



The music is called "In the Dark" and the artist is Dev. She always has her unique way of music videos and I really like her musics. The theme of this music is Dark, which is shown in the black color. There are a lot of sexy scenes for example when she is surrounded by people and she is lying down naked... When I first listened to this music I thought the music video is going to be a lot of dancing, in a different locations but it was quite different.

It is very easy to understand this music video because it is shown in the color and the way she sings is a little slow and also repetitive. I think these days, most of the music video turned into sexual lyrics more than deep meaning... Which makes me a little sad. I think the music in the 90's were the best because it all has more meaningful lyrics and lots of emotions... This is why somehow music in the 90's never dies...??? Music now a days dies eventually and it is the matter of time. Artists gets popular but they might not be popular the next year?!

All and all I really like this music not so much the music video. I hope you will like it too!

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ds106 Visual Assignments 191 "Demotivate Yourself"

Here is my little puppy Choco!!!!! I took her out the other day and she looked so cute so I took a picture!
She was so lazy that she didn't even bother herself to move for a little bit, or I guess she was too comfortable! hahahahaha. It looks fun and I wish I could do that too! lol. Hope you will like it ;)



ds106 Design Assignments 54 "Iconic You"

This sounds really fun!!!!! I took a picture of myself and try to change the tone of the picture and the color of it! I look scary and PINK but I really enjoyed it!

ds106 Writing Assignment 189 "1 Quote a Day"

Quotes are very useful and meaningful! It makes us to think and people might agree or disagree. I will take this good opportunity to make some quote and see how people respond to my quote!!!!

I don't believe in bad luck because everything happen for reason.
                                                                     -Seira K

Positive thought always gives us positive feedback ;)
                                                                    -Seira K

I wrote two instead of one and they are both very simple and basic. But this is what I always think about when something bad happens or I feel very negative. I hope you will like it ;)


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

We Are All Artist by Timmmmyboy

Are we all artist?



This a very arguemental question. By listening Timmmmyboy's, "We are all Artist"  talking I would say the answer for this question could be Yes, or No or something in between. Are we all artist? This is too general question. I don't like to use the word "All" because this word is too strong in my opinion... I mean everyone of us is different and because of this we have different talents. One can have a great voice, one can draw well, one can dance well, one can cook well...etc.

Artist...?! Anything that we do could be an art in my opinion. But art needs creativity and this needs practice to be able to be a good artist. One is born with a great talent and one is not. The one who is a great artist and became famous was born talented and its in their genes. They create art which is incredible and unbelievably beautiful. So if we are all artist, how come I can't draw what Picasso drew??? Is that mean I am not artist? or is that mean I am but in a different way.

I agree with Timmmmyboy that a creative environment can foster creativity. This is very important. If I was born in a very artistic family and I see both my father and mother is drawing all the time, I will be interested to draw and learn what they are doing too right? If we do that from our childhood, by the time we grow up we become an artist. So yes I agree to this statement.

Are we all an artist? I would say no because not everyone wants to be an artist and not everyone needs to be an artist. I think this question is a little judgmental too. Being an artist is great but not everyone has that talent to become one. We have so many options in our lives, "to become something" in our lives and artist is just one another option. Everyone of us is different and this makes our world interesting.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Midterm Blogpost Assinment

Digital Storytelling 2011 welcome screen
                     Digital Storytelling 2011 welcome screen by digistorytellin through CClicense

So I am going to focus on the "design" of digital storytelling. What is digital storytelling in the first place? Digital storytelling is almost a new term, people uses digital tools and try to tell a story. It is very common these days because technology is high and people are getting used to use digital tools to make one easily. The length of the video is 5 to 8 minutes, not more than that, so we can say it is like a short movie (documentary). To make digital storytelling, people use software to be able to make it easier. Some examples could be, iMovie, Movie Maker, and most known Final Cut Express. Through these software people can easily make a video and may upload it on Youtube, Facebook.etc.

Earth's Interior-Digital Storytelling by  editclassvideos

In some of the classes in TUJ even uses digital storytelling and we watch it in our class to be able to understand better of that subject. It is very useful and it actually helps the students to understand better. Also it is always nice to hear other voices in the class (listening to some professor's voice for 2h might be a little hard ;) Another thing is that it is very interesting to have the visual and somebody explaining that topic because we have the visual to think about it. This video is geography digital storytelling video. I uploaded this because I remember when i was in middle school my teacher always used one of these to explain. This helped me a lot to memorize things like this.


Storytelling blog 1 This basically talked about the importance of digital storytelling by showing some examples.

Storytelling blog 2 This one is actually very nice. At the beginning it shows how a third year elementary student made a storytelling by showing the video and giving other examples as well.

Storytelling blog 3 This blog explains the importance and the good points to use storytelling as a tool of teaching to students.

All and all it is always good to learn things from digital storytelling and it can always be helpful. Now the design of it also has a huge impact because we are watching it, it has to be something which capture our attention. It is a bad idea to make it too simple because the audience would probably get bored and will not watch it until the end. It can be a fun project too if we can be in a group and make one for project!