Tyra Edwards

New Digital Media student. Yeah, it's a class thing.

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Waving at the Machines

There are plenty of ways to look at the future, but anyone can see it’s definitely going to be full of advancing technology. Arguably, this could have the positive impact of making our day to day lives easier, or the negative effect of completely destroying our humanity, emotions, sensitivity, etcetera.

Inevitably, machines will progress to become more intelligent and aware of people. It’s not something many would worry about, people would probably enjoy it, seeing as the machines could help people keep up with difficult and, more than likely at some point, daily tasks. It does however become intimidating when we give enough knowledge or power to a machine that it could become dangerous. I mean, have you watched I,Robot? Eagle Eye? Terminator, for crying out loud?

Super computers exist already, what makes you think at some point in the future artificial intelligence won’t? Presumably, people are working on that already and it could take decades, but it will come into existence. If people were to have a more positive input in the cyberspace and technology and the world, and more positivity in general, we’d have just little technicalities to worry about, like a circuit shorting out. However, because we’re such a destructive species, we’ll have to worry about machines having technicalities like “Susan! It killed the dog again!” or “Oh, Volunteer Manpreet, we’ll get a surgeon on that immediately, you’re done for the day. Sorry, we’re just working out some bugs. Want a cookie?”

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HTML + CSS Change

The name of the game was to alter a tumblr page using HTML. From what I gathered, CSS acts like a shortcut to HTML to just put in the codes you want to change. I made a handful of alterations willy nilly to see what they would change.

I edited the “font family” and it’s “color” for the blog because I was curious to see how it would change the overall look of the blog, and view how the font color would mesh with the color of the post boxes. I discovered you can’t be funny and change it to Comic Sans. I threw this code into CSS:

body {    font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;    color: #DADCD7;

I edited the “background image” to an image of a corgi pup because they’re cute and why wouldn’t you want something cute to be your background? After writing out the code, I uploaded the image to a separate blog and copied the image URL and pasted it in CSS:

body {    background-image: url(https://41.media.tumblr.com/29302765e71d69153636f7338c2b2bd2/tumblr_nydqvtE41J1stig8ao1_540.jpg);}

I edited the “post wrapper” to a burgundy-esque color because I felt it would stand out on the lighter corgi background. I found a good shade and pasted it with the code in CSS:

.post-wrapper {    background: #4D1A1A;

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Yeah, well this is that one thing. Y’know the “deep dream” photo filter thing. Yeah, this is that. Yep.

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Capture the Human! Save the Underground! Break the Barrier! This is the initial reaction to the player in the video game, Undertale. The gameplay is passive aggressive where the player can choose whether they want to spare or destroy everything they encounter. The monsters of the underworld are trapped because there’s a barrier between their world and the human world, the surface. To break the barrier, they need to harvest seven human souls. Thus, they make this flyer and put it everywhere to raise awareness.

As morbid as it sounds, it was a really awesome game. The story really pulls you in and the characters are awesome. I don’t believe I can do it justice but that’s what the flyer is for! Check it out, play it, watch it, spoil it for yourself if you want. It’s just a really awesome game.

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Catch These Tracks! only includes the best new music released to the public! If you haven’t already picked up your issue of the UnderGround, you’re missing out.

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Illustrator is just so complicated! Shoutout to all the experts who make this like it’s nothing. How does one even manipulate the pen tool? Oh my goodness. Maybe a few more hours or assignments on Illustrator and I’ll get it. Onto the next assignment!

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One block, two block, blue block, green block. We’re getting into colors and illustrator. They’re supposed to jump out but I’m not really seeing it. I have a good idea of what’s going on, so no worries. Yet.

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Hey dudes, homies, amigos, did you listen to that album that just dropped? No? What?! You gotta hear it! Immediately, as in right now! Hey. Don’t judge an album by it’s cover. Seriously, it’s really awesome.

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It’s like 4th(?) grade all over again. We’ve moved on to Illustrator... At least, we’re getting a taste of the basics. Which is cool, it’s kind of like a big, blocky, blur image. With exactly 15 pixels. But arranged differently. Anyways, yeah, it is what it is. It’s supposed to be Bjork. It’s cartoon realistic, come on!

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I wanna say it’s a spot the difference, but I’m not posting the original! On the bright side, Amelia Earhart finally has her own crew of pilots. Maybe “squad” is a better term. Whoop, whoop!

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Software Takes Command RR

Manovich believes people focus on all things that relate to media but ignore the software behind it. He believes no one truly understands the role software plays in our modern society. Manovich wrote Software Takes Command primarily to give people a better interpretation of software and how it’s involved in everything we use when it comes to technology. I believe I need a better understanding of software so that I may utilize the programs and applications I interact with on a daily basis to my best ability. Some might think it’s useless to learn software but perhaps they don’t fully understand it themselves, and you never know when the information will come in handy.

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Salvador Dali and his mini me are probably the talk of every party they attend. People probably can’t tear their eyes away from his art or his eyes.

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Remix Reading Response

I believe this reading was a through explanation of the cultural diffence between the creators of the past and the creators of the future. It also go in depth on how laws effect creators and their works. The author’s argument contained his desire to stop duplications whilst allowing amateurs acts of creativity and remixes without suffering from blatant copyright.

I agree with the author’s terms to allow amateur creators to remix old works with their own spin. I also agree that piracy is much like Prohibition and can’t be stopped. War against piracy is ultimately meaningless. In regards to copyright affecting me, I suppose a copyright could prevent me from creating my own amateur remix.

The reading does make a point about stopping duplicators. Everyday, many people repost an original post and not too many of them add the source. Though for those who do share the source, I believe they could be considered part of the sharing economy.

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Skull Roots by Famous When Dead

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c.2010 This image stands out to me because it looks as if death brings life in some morbid aspect. Or death just means returning to nature. And I like the aesthetics of weird stuff.

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Crystal Fusion Gone Wrong

No, Kanye isn't a gem. But his fusion with Kim... Well, makes him look horrific. Hurray for learning the little things of photoshop! The hype for class is real. Let the learning begin. ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

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While there are plenty of things to enjoy while browsing the internet, be it games, videos, or chatting, I frequently visit YouTube. YouTube is my favorite thing on the internet because of all of its content creators, better known as YouTubers, and the wide variety of content. I tend to stick to the gaming side of YouTube, but that doesn’t stop me from exploring the newest song, or latest cult hit. Who can resist the creativity of original videos, the comedy of vine compilations, or finally finding that song you’ve been hearing all week on the radio and playing it on a 3 hour loop?