#netnarr

It’s already May, where the semester ends and students like myself start reflecting back to what was learned and taught. I still remember the feeling of “what did I get myself into?” when walking into class. It was cool that my Professor lives in another state but the work that was announced was gave me the “hibby jibbys”. But while the weeks continued and I was trying hard to understand the work presented, I started to enjoy it. You can see that from my first blog to my latest, my attempt has improved and I have found ways to make it as interesting as I can for my readers (even if its only fro my Professor) Doing the weekly blogs helped me in remembering what was done on the prior class. Also, it gave me the freedom to comment on the project. If I did or did not enjoy it. Awesomely, every week consisted of great ideas for example, GIF making, speaking about Selfies, and even audio making which I have never done.  

http://netnarr.arganee.world/author/vanessas-netnarr-blogs/

I wish I would’ve enjoyed the DDA’s a little more than I did. My problem with them was that I overthought them so I didn’t find it as fun as I did until the end. Also, I would have trouble in remembering to do them throughout the week. It was not until week 3 or 4 that I started to do them wholeheartedly. This gave me an insight view on how digital art can be shared within minutes, If someone found something interesting enough to be a DDA it can be shared throughout the world within minutes. Also, you can have fun with it and be a silly goof ball while also exploring and learning. I just can’t believe I did 19 of them, its one of the activities that I would honestly miss.

http://daily.arganee.world/hashtags/nessacastrii/

I am pretty much in the middle of all of the clog for the #netnarr twitter space, which I guessing I am very active. These are one of the activities that I did not comprehend as much as the others. But like I mentioned before, I’m guessing it shows the activity of each user and if they rare in the middle of the #netnarr clog, that means that they have tagged netnarr as their post. 

https://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=1vEfH0ZKcQ2dZx8f31Pt18tnUCHi5nHKSSPndNHC2YUc&gid=400689247&name=nessacastrii

I was looking into my past pictures on my phone to see if I found the screenshot I took of my Twitter Analysis tool from week 2. Sadly I couldn’t find it but I do remember the way it looked. It just had a red cube on the right side since I was not too active. Also, it as my first time activating a twitter for the purpose of the class so I was technically a beginner back then. But seeing how it looks now, you can see that I have posted my blogs mostly on Tuesdays and periodically throughout the week. 

The Make Banks are the activities that I believe I had more work on. I took my time and made sure I made each one correctly. Thankfully, the Make Bank will be introduced during class time so our TAs, Hailey and Marissa, will help out the students who did not understand. But I enjoyed the Make Banks a lot. Especially the GIF making and the audio making one. With the Audio Making project, mine named “Process of Emotions While Gaming”  I had an absolute blast. I was terrified at first but when actually watching a YouTube Tutorial that my Professor recorded for our sake, I followed each step and was able to achieve my work. 

digital alchemy eh?

if only I could share this great sense of synergy in finding this course …

it was cold and rainy out on campus

a perfect day for thoughts to roam

frustrated w/ my own entrepreneurial pursuits, in particular ?

well, just constructing a dynamic yet digestible “editorial”

that would serve my peers & client’s questions about my new directions and pursuits

from the east coast, to the west coast, from fashion major to chem.

out west, an experience that was monumental to my attending now,

K e a n U n i v e r s i t y … to be close to family again

I hope to incorporate my passions for repurposing and investigating materiality,

physically and existential,

to utilize learnings in chemistry,

to both concert and instrument my inquiries, of the science’s connection

to my 1st love - “fashion.”

exploring it’s infinite spaces b/ the sectors of :

art, architecture, braiding, design, fashion history, hair, literature, math

along w/ my heart’s nucleic beat, film photography and image direction!

I believe digital alchemy & storytelling to be EXACTLY the metaphor and tools I need,

to expand on stories of the land, onto the digital space,

to then weave those influences off-line … (on-land + in my lab),

by creating repurposed works of ornamentation and hair sculpture,

beautiful works of (gold) …

I am,

le - petit jo

watch me carve and spin,

mhm.

digital alchemy for story-telling,

I’m all in … all prose … oui ;)

… to quote fellow french - african director [ samba gadjigo ]

“ no identity w/o memory …

no memory w/ no story ”

here, my story’s elements

here, my potion …

here, your alchemist

No matter where that ol’ Cog Dog roams, he calls the internet home... I’m jumping into the 2019 iteration of #netnarr mainly for the Bus Trips, which were, as the kids say, AWESOME last year. 

I’ve missed the dynamic online space of DS 106--I drifted from the Daily Creates because I did so many hundreds of them that I finally actually turned into an artist who creates daily, and my interest was in my own kind of art and less about random internet tricks...which are fun sometimes and sometimes don’t have the ability to stick in my brain long enough for me to act on them. 

But anyway--’nuff said! The Captain has called th sailors onto the Good Ship Arganee. I have packed my old kit bag, slung it over my shoulder and trudged up the gang plank.

So my E-lit experience was a bit peculiar. I clicked on the four links that my Professor sent the students in our choosing. Just one link has over 20 options in choosing which reading one would like tot read. I chose a couple. My first reading is called “Golpe de Garcia.” It was in Spanish which is my first language so it related to me in that aspect. It was about a company’s boss being in the hospital on his death bed. His staff goes to visit him, but teach and every visitor he gets despise the man. They are happy to see him in his condition and they spill their feelings towards him. The editor makes no description or describes the boss in any way, but by the words and the anger of the visitors, it shows the reader that he was not a good guy at all. Thanks to the E-Lit I was able to understand the story without having to read any specific description. The story goes on with a game in between the reading of what should the visitors do next. But I do not keep going, it was fascinating enough.

http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/rodriguez_golpedegracia.html

Next story I looked into, was the Red Riding Hood. But it is not a typical red riding hood story that we all are aware. The creator of this E-Lit wanted to add in her personal touch in this story. She meant to make it feminist. It is short but it leaves a certain unknown feeling due to it not having clarification on the ending of it. Pretty much, Red is asked by her mom to pick up some flowers. So red goes along and does as she is asked. While she is picking up the flowers, she falls into a slumber. Then, the E Lit itself asks the reader to wake her up or let her dream. Dreaming consists of nothing important so you have to wake her up to see any kind of action. While shes walking towards the grandma’s house, we see a werewolves passing by in his scooter. Since he gets to the grandma’s house first, he eats her and lays in bed o wait for Red. When Red arrives, she gets upset and ends up eating the werewolves. But towards the end, you see a guy moving away from the window shades and points a gun at Red while she sleeps. I do not understand the content of it, but I did appreciate the time and effort I know she must have gone through to finish what she did. The drawings and the music were very well put together, but the story itself was confusing so there was no clarity.

I am pleased to announce my induction to Epsilon Epsilon Omega Honor Society, woohoo! Only negative aspect of it, was that I missed Netnarr’s class last week. I must say, it probably was the worst time to have missed class since the class went over and made their own bots. This technological class has been a bit tough, but if you miss the class, especially having the TA’s there to help, it can be like running in a maze, no where out. But, thankfully our TA’s Hailey and Marissa were in school today (4/16/2018) and was able to help me out. Without any help, it can be tricky. Especially connecting it to twitter. But, both girls, especially Hailey showed me and easily knew where to put everything in the correct spot, for example the API Key and API Secret. 

But they are such pros that everything was correct and I was able to do my bots. I started my bot off my bot was “Lately social media has been taking over the world.” The first time I wrote down the synonyms that can be replaced with the original words, it did not show as a correct sentence. With help from Hailey, she reminded me to put all words in the same tense. For example, I had past tense for one word and present tense for others which did not collided well when it sent out the tweets. But after working on it for a bit, I concurred it and it sent out to a couple of people. 

Besides making bots, I was able to compare my bots with a certain celebrity and it will compare it in percentages. I went with the ultimate famous Kim Kardashian and this is what came out. 

I wish I could’ve been in class to more about ti but just with the basics I was able to see how influential bots are in the technology world. 

Referencium:

https://www.recode.net/2016/4/11/11586022/what-are-bots

For this week, the class of Netnarr seemed more complete then last class. The in class assignment was very tricky especially for the undergrad. In my experience, I was completely lost in what to do and how to do it. I am very grateful towards the grad students for stepping out of their way like always and helping us out.  We started the class of by watching video in redlining which is refusing loan or  insurance to someone in a certain area that can be categorized as poorly financially stable. We were introduced to a picture from Newark, NJ back in 1939 and it shows the map of the city but with different colors on the map. The red part of the city was in the redlining category. 

Our Professor decided to end the gaming part of the class by making us compare distribution of digital services from today and compare the map and see the difference and how the times have changed. I came up with looking up Universities. Rutgers and so many other great universities are located in Newark although it still has the stigma of not being a great city to live in. It was a very complicated process in showing the difference, but like mentioned before, thanks to the graduate students, we were able to continue on. Here is the link to the Make Bank to my finished item. https://h5p.org/node/215345

When looking at both maps, I can definitely see that the redlining can still affect that area in Newark. But, it is slowly filling up.

This assignment right here took me forever to complete. It was only the simple fact that i do not like how my voice sounds. I had to constantly re-record myself since I would mess up. While recording, I noticed my Hispanic accent and noticed that I kept messing up on simple words. I guess this assignment was a realization that I should practice more on my speech. I searched for a simple jazz song on free sound and kind of had little breaks on my audio. Listen at: https://soundcloud.com/vanessa-castrillon-573676079/child-marriage-audio/s-cYGct

Nayera, who is the student at AUC that I decided to look into for her chosen game prototype had the topic of Child Marriage. While reading her blog, I right away thought myself “ How great would it be for child marriage to have a finale.” Not everyone in this world have that experience which is why I think it is an issue very minimal for some people. I do not know much about, the only thing I know is that young girls are married to older men due to their parents and wanting the best or themselves financial wise. But, the child is the person who ends up losing since they are the ones who would not have a normal life growing up. 

Referencium: https://www.wibbu.com/importance-narrative-video-games/

DDA: https://twitter.com/nessacastrii/status/983039325330866176