Category: Assignments
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Spontaneous with a Purpose – DS106 Final Video and Reflections
So my final video went over 2 minutes, but it still stayed within the 2 minute range so hopefully Aggressive Technologies doesn’t kick me out of their conference. My goal with this video was to purposely make it spontaneous and free flowing. I realized that the majority of my output in this class was meticulously…
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Week 12 Video Project – The Rise, the Continuation of Hwei’s Story
For my video project, I decided to continue Hwei’s story and give some context as to what drove him to absolute madness. After being fed up with Aggressive Technologies and their mass expansion and brainwashing of the world, Hwei decides that he must become an example of what humanity can achieve if they choose his…
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Radio Show Design Project – Lots of Brains in this Talk!
For my design for our radio show, I decided to do a show poster / logo that would compliment our topic. Logic Pod: The Tech Podium is our podcast name. A lot of our initial discussion for our show was about how intellectually sophisticated our characters were. This made us think of a brain as…
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Aggressive Technologies Sales Pitch – Synthesia Video Generator is the Start of Something REAL
My name is Hwei, I am a researcher of sorts and I’m here to pitch a product that you may be interested in acquiring. As much as I disagree with your grandeur plans of acquiring the world by becoming a megacorporation that controls all, I am in dire need of funding for my project, and…
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Hwei’s Approval of “One and the Same” Propaganda
Hwei went through the sea of propaganda posters for DS106, but only one of them stood out to him in a meaningful way. This poster resonated with Hwei, as he is also pushing for the acceptance of AI. The visual representation of how humans and AI can be linked in the mind and body directly…
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Public Service Announcement: Coming of the New Civilization – Condemn Aggressive Technologies!
I created a public service announcement based on something my course character would put out to the world. Here is the script: This is a public service announcement. I repeat, this is a public service announcement. In approximately the next 5 years, our lord and savior Hwei will be bestowing upon this world, a new…
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Propaganda Design – Do Not Fear the Robot!
For this assignment, I designed a propaganda poster to push the agenda of my course character Hwei. I went with louder design language, finding an image of a robot colored in bright red and oranges, and then overlaid that with text highlighted with red and pink outlines. The white text seemed like a good choice…
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Hwei Against a Mega Corporation: His Take on Aggressive Technologies
As Hwei ventured on his quest for world domination through the harnessing of AI powers and creating life through his research, Aggressive Technologies was a corporation that he never saw eye to eye with. Aggressive Technologies looked to take the AI market by storm, engulfing all of the industries pertaining to, e-commerce, social media, among…
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Talk to the Bot – Giving Dr. Oblivion an Offer to Become a Super Robot to Take Over the World
For my choice of assignment this week, I decided to do the Talk to the Bot assignment. I actually did the Consult with your doctor as one of my optional assignments for a previous week, so I already had experience generating speech from Dr. Oblivion and creating a narrative. I decided to make my course…
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Film analysis: Coming Full Circle with WALL-E – My Favorite Project So Far!
This is hands down my favorite ever project for DS106. Initially I had a hard time coming up with a film to analyze. I don’t have any subscriptions to any streaming platforms, so I had to do my best to find clips on YouTube. While brainstorming, I had a lightbulb moment that reminded me of…