fmx210-3 digital media

 One thing that stuck out to me from Nelson's chapter of the reading, especially considering how we use computers today, is his mention of branching. He states that branching is all the different functions and options a specific machine (computer) or program can provide within a specific subject, using text and music as examples. I think this has assisted in how I do my work digitally through programs like Google and Adobe, where they each have different functions that are all still related within the program. For example, concerning text, Google has Docs, Slides, Forms, and Sheets to keep people text related documents together. For images and videos, Adobe has all the different programs within their suite, like Premiere Rush, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, so people can edit, create, and modify pictures and videos under one app.  In Goldberg and Kay's piece, I was very surprised at how well they predicted the systems of today, starting with their vision for the Dynabo...

 I thought this film was a really interesting watch. From the beginning, you can tell they want the audience to be thinking about what is real and what is fake throughout the film. I personally don't agree with the notion of creating forgeries of people's art. While the film brings up the idea that de Hory's fakes could have technically been considered his, I just don't feel like that could be the case. I think all art is inspired by other art, but when an artist is creating an exact replica of someone else's work, I don't think that qualifies what they've created as truly theirs. What I mean to say is that de Hory was certainly a talented artist, and while his skills were put on display through his different "fake" artworks, at the end of the day he only created replicas of other people's work; he didn't make any new or authentic art of his own accord. I think if he had created works inspired by the artist's he copied from, or even cha...

 First Project Done. Period. This is what it came out like:  I personally think it slayed. It was really hard to figure out the lighting, but I fixed it up as best as I could and it still think it came out well. I like all the images that Midjourney came up with, although it took a while to get the ones that were just right. I also think I had to come up with my own way of cutting and layering different images into the background, because I don't think that it should have as many steps as it did when I was working on it, but it worked, so I'm going to keep doing it. Once I got the hang of what I was doing, it ended up being pretty fun, so I'm excited for our next project with Photoshop.