During this week, I created this subdomain of my website as well as three Daily Creates.
The first creation I made was this subdomain! My “About Me” page can be found using this link. Making the subdomain itself was fairly easy; I had a bit of trouble trying to set the destination of the subdomain, but overall, I think the assignment was completed well. I learned how to set up a subdomain, but I was already fairly used to Domain of One’s Own and WordPress. The only thing that I still feel unsatisfied with in the creation of my subdomain and my “About Me” page is the page links. Even with experimentation and searches, I wasn’t able to set the page addresses to be what I wanted them to be: ds106.acemolloy.com/[the-page-address-name] rather than ds106.acemolloy.com/?page_id=[IDNumber]. This issue is something I want to fix in the coming week about customizing our website, especially because my main domain, acemolloy.com, does not have this issue with page addresses. As for the content of my “About Me” page, I decided that I wanted to take the information from my “About Me” page on my main domain and add to it. I wanted to use the same information from my main domain because I really like what I wrote there, and it makes my subdomain and main domain match somewhat. I added a link to my main domain, my portfolio, into the buttons at the bottom of the page, and I added the section titled “Me and My Relation to Digital Storytelling.” This subdomain doesn’t have many cultural or social implications, but the existence of my main domain does mean that I am contributing to the somewhat harmful expectation of writers and authors to have an easily accessible online portfolio in this society where Generative AI actively searches the Internet for writing and artwork to steal and copy.
The first of my Daily Creates was for the prompt titled “Tribute Bench.” The Daily Create can be found using the tags #tdc4975 #ds106 Tribute Bench. The Daily Create I made is the image below.
This Daily Create was harder to make than I expected. I took a picture of myself in a chair to edit into the photo of the bench, but I had a hard time separating myself from the background. I was using Clip Studio Paint Ex to edit this photo, so I had to select all of the background pixels to delete them rather than just selecting the figure to mask or isolate. If I were to make this image again, I would take my picture on a solid color background to make it a little easier to separate my figure from the background. The image itself fulfills the prompt, but I don’t think that it was very creative, which is the purpose of the Daily Create assignments. It also does not really engage with any larger cultural or societal themes which I think is important to art.
The second of my Daily Creates was for the prompt titled “Gate to another dimension.” The Daily Create can be found using the tags #tdc4976 #ds106 Gate to another dimension. The Daily Create I made is the GIF below.
I really enjoyed making this Daily Create. The animation took a while to make, but I feel really happy with the result it created, and I feel that it fulfilled the purpose of the Daily Create assignments which is to stir creativity. I once again used Clip Studio Paint Ex for this assignment. I took a series of images opening the book to make the base of the GIF. Then, I edited out the inside of the book, and in the space of the inside of the book, I edited in the digital painting I created for the final image of the open book. The GIF is animated on twos generally, but the final image holds for five frames. Editing out the inside of the book was difficult because of how sensitive my select tool was. The digital painting itself was fairly easy because I am used to drawing digitally; I enjoyed that part of the process the most. If I redid this assignment, I would make one large painting that encompassed the entire canvas, that way, the painting inside the book was a little more consistent. This Daily Create does have a larger theme or idea behind it. I love fairy tales and feel that they are a great escape from reality, so I wanted to make this portal in the book look whimsical, like you were stepping into a magical fairy tale land.
The third and final of my Daily Creates this week was for the prompt titled “Asemic Writing.” The Daily Create can be found using the tags #tdc4977 #ds106 Asemic writing. The Daily Create I made is the image below.
Because I used a traditional medium for this Daily Create, I feel I could have fulfilled the purpose of the assignment a bit better than I did. I did fulfill the prompt and stimulate my creativity, but if I did this assignment again, I would take this idea and remake it using a digital medium. I do, however, really love the idea behind this Daily Create. I used the three pens to make overlapping asemic writing. I wanted the already unreadable writing to look overwhelming and chaotic, which I think I accomplished. I wanted to do this because the idea behind this piece was the mess that my neurodivergent brain can be. I have an anxiety disorder, and I wanted the writing to look like my brain feels when I have anxiety attacks. I am also autistic, and I also wanted the writing to look like my speech can be when I try to explain my special interests: chaotic and unintelligible. I think these ideas come across well in the image. The hardest part of this Daily Create was making the asemic writing look different from each other and interesting. However, despite some of the individual pieces of the writing looking similar, the way they all combine make it so that I don’t notice the individual similarities.
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