This is my first introduction to code as I've never explored it piror to
this class. After reading through the introduction of it on htmldogs I found
it very interesting. I am a video editor and I found the way you assemble
and html site very similiar to the video editing process. I can view the
html page as the video editing software, the body as the timeline, and then
all the other elements you add after that is an effect or edit. I think that
this thought process will help me as I learn how to code.
Furthermore I am overall just very excited to learn how to code and develop
a website. I've been meaning to learn for quite some time to make a website
as a portfolio for myself. After this weeks reading I am eager to learn more
about css and the creative aspect of it as it didn't go into it too much.
Every single day, thanks to modern technology in smartphones, we take
photographs. I personally take photographs on my phone every day. For me,
the images I take are just me showing the beauty in the world that I am
witnessing. Taking a photograph is a way for me to capture reality in all of
its glory. If I see a particular scene I find visually pleasing, such as a
sunset, I will immortalize it by taking a photograph.
With this fact that I take photographs to show the beauty in the world, we
can also take photographs to show how ugly the world can be. Through
photographs or illustrations we can highlight many things. We can showcase
injustices or we showcase acts of empathy and compassion. Through the use of
photography we can really give an accurate representation of the realities
of the world we live in. For instance, if you want to highlight wealth
inequality in New York City you can photograph business men waiting to cross
the street next to a homeless man begging. That image would enforce the
notion of wealth inequality and hopefully invoke the emotion of empathy in
those that view it.
After reading this graphic novel I was left with this melanchonic feeling,
while also beeing glad for Aboul. While I was happy to see her child recieve
the treatment he needed, it was very heartbreaking to see how the people in
Sierra Lione and other under-developed nations live. I assume most people
take their children to the traditional healer and they don't survive and
that is depressing. As far as the technical aspects of the graphic novel, I
really enjoyed it. Visually it was very appealing, I think the art styles
used for the characters was the amount of not too detailed while also not
that cartoon-ish, i think it really helped keep the reader engaged.
Having some movement whther it be Kadiatu's eye opening in the
hospital or the text bubbles appearing on screens kept the story from
feeling stale. If it were just still images the story most likely wouldn't
of been as compelling as it was. Also not using large amounts of texts was
beneficial to enaging with the reader because they are able to fully observe
the picture as opposed to having a large text box in the middle of the
panel. Overall I thought that this graphic novel was both excellent
storytelling with great dialouge, and visually appealing due to the
technical choices the creator made. I would reccomend this to a friend.
Just how much and how fast the world is changing is incredible. Who would of
ever believed people could make a living playing a video game, and not from
streaming the game, but from actually playing it. I will be honest I don't
know much about NFTs and crypto-currency but this new economy is so
fascinating to me. Turning video game sprites into NFTs and making them
worth money seems like it could be a revolutionary invention. Like I said,
I'm not all too sure how this works but it does and people are getting real
results from it.
In the article it states the barrier of entry is difficult which is
disheartening for me because this is something I would genuinely be
interested in. I have played Pokemon my whole, since I was 4 years old. I've
played so many RPGs, and have wasted so many hours. If I could've turned
those hours spent playing Skyrim, or Pokemon into real tangible money, I
would be a millionaire by now. As technology keeps advancing and media keeps
becoming a more intergral aspect of our daily lives it is very exciting to
see what lays ahead in the future. Perhaps, Triple A gaming studios will
pick up on this and try to implement something of the sorts into their games
later on. It would be interesting to have a weapon in Call Of Duty be a NFT.
In this New York Times article they discuss tracking down the original 64
bitcoin miners, the people who really made bitcoin sucessful. This article
posed a question I never really thought about, how 'anonymous' is bitcoin
actually? I had no idea that there were only 64 original miners, even more
so I didn't know there was most likely 5 or 6 actual miners. In the article
it even states that at times there are only one or two.
Using data visualization to be able to come this conclusion is truly
remarkable. When they displayed the graph of all the original 64 miners, it
was really eye opening to me to see just how centralized this cryptocurrency
was. I'm sure that most readers had this same effect. Using datata
visualization in this way could be a key aspect in many problems we face as
a society in the near future, in different aspects of life.