fmx210-3 digital media

 This week, we are working on our first Photoshop project, and since I have basically no ideas what I want to create, I've decided that I'm just going to use my first image that I made with Midjourney and expand on it. Since its armadillos in a desert, I'm thinking like a Rango vibe, except I haven't seen that movie in ages, and have like a very hazy memory of it, so it'll probably just be a Wild West type landscape with animals in it. I really like the 3D cartoon style from the first image, so I'll see what I come up with in that style.  All that being said, Photoshop is very very hard to figure out, and the tutorials didn't do much to help me at all, so I'm kind of winging it right now. 

 Overture     For the first reading of the semester, I thought this beginning chapter was very interesting, especially as it built upon the article from Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think". It was very interesting to read about the origins of digital media as we know it today. I also learned that the integration of the digital into different forms of media first happened in the 1960s, with Billy Klüver's interactive artworks. While detailing the history of media and how it has evolved into how we use it today, the chapter also discusses our current media technologies, outlining five characteristics that make today's "new media" different from that of the past: Integration - the combining of artistic forms & technology into a hybrid form of expression  Interactivity - the ability of the user to manipulate & affect her experience of media directly, and to communicate with others through media Hypermedia - the linking of separate media elements to one