WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:09:31.9330000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.79107064 91f1bf0e-ee00-49ed-9b0d-66f8d0682c5d 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.210 Hi, my name is Megan Marzzacco and this semester I've been NOTE Confidence: 0.79107064 9966b67f-6faa-4ffd-94c3-0701e1782c7e 00:00:05.210 --> 00:00:07.640 working on an individual study with Dr. Blevins called NOTE Confidence: 0.79107064 0f83cb99-b534-4d1d-ac39-068a58675d25 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:08.720 digital writing and design. NOTE Confidence: 0.8709169 a227a144-6a78-42f1-8988-c9f149695561 00:00:10.130 --> 00:00:12.690 Throughout the semester I've been exploring creative writing NOTE Confidence: 0.8709169 86d91c2d-c092-45b9-9de9-a091635ae6cd 00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:16.530 in our digital age. I researched and read about topics such as NOTE Confidence: 0.8709169 93be4b6f-b0e2-4c64-958a-b7fdcd7e575d 00:00:16.530 --> 00:00:19.410 the writing process, techniques, and sharing which helped me NOTE Confidence: 0.8314475 be3a3196-52f8-472e-b580-8d640761c68d 00:00:19.410 --> 00:00:22.819 improve my writing. For my projects and assignments, I took NOTE Confidence: 0.8314475 5dbcefb1-fa5d-49de-939f-adf09949c228 00:00:22.819 --> 00:00:24.054 my own written pieces and NOTE Confidence: 0.86140823 135e0e21-ef0f-416a-b4d4-dc47d43aeb57 00:00:24.054 --> 00:00:27.830 original poems and transform them into a digital design, NOTE Confidence: 0.86140823 9b6b9909-54f0-4c29-989d-9585fa448a67 00:00:27.830 --> 00:00:28.880 typically using Adobe NOTE Confidence: 0.81685543 5eac4dc0-f91a-4cc9-b1ac-b188bfd0ed88 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:32.180 Illustrator. I also posted most of these graphics to a public NOTE Confidence: 0.81685543 31b71ba1-1581-4ccc-a63d-3833747aefbc 00:00:32.180 --> 00:00:33.590 Instagram account as a way to NOTE Confidence: 0.87068045 642aa7ec-dfbb-439f-89c4-64d08493e36d 00:00:33.590 --> 00:00:35.786 digitally publish my work. Throughout this presentation NOTE Confidence: 0.87068045 40957342-b7b2-46b2-aa41-228da952c308 00:00:35.786 --> 00:00:38.006 I'll be going over some of the most valuable lessons NOTE Confidence: 0.87068045 d0619359-1f63-4544-b370-e8b74c40c4ae 00:00:38.006 --> 00:00:40.670 from my research, as well as sharing a few samples of my NOTE Confidence: 0.87068045 7a382ca0-2920-4ee2-9b30-3ae7ed087939 00:00:40.670 --> 00:00:41.114 digital projects. NOTE Confidence: 0.8902501 6ffd61da-2deb-4106-b63c-63309fd9bba5 00:00:45.550 --> 00:00:48.130 First, I want to talk a little bit about the writing process NOTE Confidence: 0.8902501 cfd91dbe-f0bb-4adf-b6aa-9eda6f7b29b5 00:00:48.130 --> 00:00:49.420 and some things I learned when NOTE Confidence: 0.8688308 3751fa90-6da5-4381-9d64-051874999c78 00:00:49.420 --> 00:00:52.440 researching this topic. This is just a summary from what I NOTE Confidence: 0.8688308 15f28672-53ce-45e6-8dae-4aec7881d0b4 00:00:52.440 --> 00:00:54.805 learned, but I've included a list of citations on the final NOTE Confidence: 0.8688308 cda2650a-7952-4822-9b49-a1320d9e46a6 00:00:54.805 --> 00:00:57.385 side of this presentation, and at the end of the transcript. If NOTE Confidence: 0.8688308 ef2c8ad3-7acf-400c-9beb-714ab4dc2530 00:00:57.385 --> 00:00:58.460 you'd like to read further. NOTE Confidence: 0.8809497 018f63fd-955c-41dd-b694-fa8ec4534383 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:02.440 In practice, the writing process can look different for everyone. NOTE Confidence: 0.86170787 936d733f-3a68-471b-bf83-7515024cb439 00:01:03.130 --> 00:01:05.020 Even though we've all been taught this writing process NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 0753abc6-abbd-4f75-9569-e9c00f45ddca 00:01:05.020 --> 00:01:08.178 since grade school. Instead of reiterating the basics of NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 9f67fdbd-1089-4888-99b1-27a8bd5b01db 00:01:08.178 --> 00:01:09.984 brainstorming, drafting, revising an finalizing, I want NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 3db631da-436e-47b5-b5a5-dfd6d344fbbf 00:01:09.984 --> 00:01:12.822 to stress how important the first draft is, no matter how NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 eca2673a-2734-4a1a-976f-4e1acdddadc9 00:01:12.822 --> 00:01:15.918 bad it is, is completely OK and often beneficial for your first NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 feb4e1dc-4be5-4109-94b2-debbe0c891d0 00:01:15.918 --> 00:01:19.272 draft to be terrible. The point of the first draft is to get NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 f6506ddc-0ec3-440e-9480-4a4ecb9b0606 00:01:19.272 --> 00:01:22.368 your ideas from your head to the page. It's important to just NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 0d6a1263-77b0-4853-8c5e-8b5897f0a422 00:01:22.368 --> 00:01:25.206 drop all your thoughts down because you can revise or take NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 14cb8020-d52f-4535-8bd8-fe79bb41d1ed 00:01:25.206 --> 00:01:27.786 things out later. If you stress too much about getting NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 a2139fb3-56ae-47d3-b27a-eda3466b8e74 00:01:27.786 --> 00:01:30.882 everything right the first time, and you may miss out on ideas NOTE Confidence: 0.8478821 bb167565-9b2b-4820-bf9d-7df6591cdf8b 00:01:30.882 --> 00:01:32.430 and forget what's in your head. NOTE Confidence: 0.86497355 3cadd7b1-e1e2-48ea-930e-317d197ed43f 00:01:33.150 --> 00:01:35.515 If you remember one thing after his presentation, it should be NOTE Confidence: 0.86497355 fcf1a0ff-d911-47fc-ad7f-6268a215a8c3 00:01:35.515 --> 00:01:36.805 to write all your thoughts down NOTE Confidence: 0.83573395 13d2bbb1-5d75-45e0-a324-382eca04ecba 00:01:36.805 --> 00:01:40.285 in your first draft. The next step is revising and I did quite NOTE Confidence: 0.83573395 d50283c0-7092-4b08-bfbb-4a5be3f68161 00:01:40.285 --> 00:01:42.625 a bit of reading on this step because it's what I struggled NOTE Confidence: 0.8145795 5064e30d-50f5-4b3c-8015-85eda7669440 00:01:42.625 --> 00:01:46.108 the most with. Most of what I write, his poetry and sometimes NOTE Confidence: 0.8145795 fbde5d85-826f-431f-ba74-d3d379bf3eb6 00:01:46.108 --> 00:01:48.864 if you revise poetry too much, it can take the life or emotion NOTE Confidence: 0.8071398 6d212f54-ef10-4cf6-b92d-80fe2bc505d3 00:01:48.864 --> 00:01:53.178 out of the poem. Two my favorite techniques for revising are NOTE Confidence: 0.8071398 bd708cf8-975f-441f-aabe-e1afd4b1a586 00:01:53.178 --> 00:01:56.490 rearranging/cut-and-paste, revising and rewriting. NOTE Confidence: 0.82297605 a207173d-aae2-4d6b-9522-3cf36b8ccee9 00:01:57.230 --> 00:02:00.233 Rearranging or cut-and-paste revising help to keep the life of the NOTE Confidence: 0.82297605 4ceb79b1-a9b9-4753-a351-26a4704c4feb 00:02:00.233 --> 00:02:03.236 poem by only requiring you to take out unnecessary words. Once NOTE Confidence: 0.82297605 694f469f-76a4-434d-a12b-98ef6faa4186 00:02:03.236 --> 00:02:05.966 you've done that, you can rearrange lines and play around NOTE Confidence: 0.82297605 0bbf73eb-b545-46e0-b22c-19ce3279d2cb 00:02:05.966 --> 00:02:08.696 the sequence and structure of the piece until you are NOTE Confidence: 0.8699447 79cfda3a-53bb-4906-91ad-74fa99e85515 00:02:08.696 --> 00:02:11.764 satisfied. Another option is rewriting and this can be NOTE Confidence: 0.8699447 babcb491-0da7-42da-93db-fff4cc2774c4 00:02:11.764 --> 00:02:14.680 especially helpful if you have time to do this right after your NOTE Confidence: 0.88949424 416f95d0-650d-4cab-847e-77b1745f8069 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:18.690 bad first draft. You write down what you want to say, and then NOTE Confidence: 0.88949424 b25c7028-8829-4ec4-8b5b-508f3ffba605 00:02:18.690 --> 00:02:22.190 as soon as you finish the piece, you flip a page and write it NOTE Confidence: 0.88949424 805eea0a-cdc0-4ecd-97f3-641ecbac50dc 00:02:22.190 --> 00:02:25.190 again, this time using any words that you wanted to include in NOTE Confidence: 0.88949424 8d5bb6a2-1bfe-40d4-b934-98070417e231 00:02:25.190 --> 00:02:26.440 the last piece but didn't. NOTE Confidence: 0.8494421 c992df79-de13-4d71-b12d-e2ce22c04164 00:02:27.290 --> 00:02:29.612 Writing is ultimately about choosing words to convey your NOTE Confidence: 0.8494421 d7316e9f-76ce-4f9f-947d-80b638fe8ed4 00:02:29.612 --> 00:02:32.192 message, so the rewrite method allows you to quickly write NOTE Confidence: 0.8494421 8101f7e5-dff7-4d55-9506-27f557bea293 00:02:32.192 --> 00:02:34.772 multiple versions of the same message, then choose the best NOTE Confidence: 0.79582244 51ffcf0b-745f-43d8-9d90-aac174749948 00:02:34.772 --> 00:02:38.560 one. You can also rewrite using different rhyme schemes or see NOTE Confidence: 0.79582244 d7eb1afe-1a44-4cb9-9020-16b77f7599e3 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.070 how it sounds freeverse you can set rules for counting NOTE Confidence: 0.79582244 fd64cdb3-b6e3-4299-95da-f5e8c2b01030 00:02:41.070 --> 00:02:43.580 syllables or words in each line. There's a lot of NOTE Confidence: 0.79582244 718e8154-a177-44da-bcad-837c94be125f 00:02:43.580 --> 00:02:45.337 different things you can play around with. NOTE Confidence: 0.87556344 7729cc7e-56ec-46ad-ba3d-71115aaaaf42 00:02:50.890 --> 00:02:53.244 One of the biggest challenges I had to overcome with this NOTE Confidence: 0.87556344 5ab75b34-8deb-4522-a648-fd5db1665d40 00:02:53.244 --> 00:02:54.528 project was simply the act of NOTE Confidence: 0.8654557 f2274fdc-43aa-4c17-9395-4afc1d67bf99 00:02:54.528 --> 00:02:57.786 sharing my writing. I already had an Instagram account for my NOTE Confidence: 0.8654557 008cf626-d3a4-4f59-9382-02ef4828e9c2 00:02:57.786 --> 00:03:00.613 writing prior to this individual study, but I rarely posted to NOTE Confidence: 0.8288357 c692a922-5331-4ef6-9104-a45608226c2f 00:03:00.613 --> 00:03:03.910 it. Gradually, I gain more confidence in sharing and try to NOTE Confidence: 0.8288357 ebb31395-2382-4f64-a7db-c73902cddce2 00:03:03.910 --> 00:03:07.069 post as regularly as possible now, at least a few times a week. NOTE Confidence: 0.82512033 96d59393-6ab8-4da7-8db0-834e61ee0dda 00:03:07.900 --> 00:03:09.412 Writing can be a gift. It's a NOTE Confidence: 0.87245107 71136e92-1e0f-4d8b-9178-544822a416f9 00:03:09.412 --> 00:03:12.618 gift of our thoughts. We often ask for feedback on writing, but NOTE Confidence: 0.87245107 4b64321d-6c02-44b4-9c5b-5a1ba58e1060 00:03:12.618 --> 00:03:15.210 it can also be our way to express and share with someone. NOTE Confidence: 0.87245107 e131599a-289c-497c-bfca-f5862303f6b3 00:03:15.210 --> 00:03:16.290 Our thoughts and feelings about NOTE Confidence: 0.88124555 34e710b3-9403-46e3-9f8a-b8d496ddc841 00:03:16.290 --> 00:03:20.370 something. It's also beneficial to, as a writer, see what other NOTE Confidence: 0.88124555 04429149-7fe1-4c4c-a79e-f668b82352bd 00:03:20.370 --> 00:03:23.370 people have written, because if you find yourself thinking, oh, NOTE Confidence: 0.88124555 a63d1847-5ba4-4d2d-8088-e344d3b66b4c 00:03:23.370 --> 00:03:27.270 I wish I'd written that. Well, you could have. Almost all of us NOTE Confidence: 0.88124555 539a3553-4469-462a-bd3d-cae5886ce903 00:03:27.270 --> 00:03:29.970 have the ability to write. It just takes practice, NOTE Confidence: 0.85227853 739d667b-e028-4c14-b534-e2211d9cceeb 00:03:29.970 --> 00:03:32.072 inspiration, and motivation. Sharing allows NOTE Confidence: 0.85227853 164df5ac-ab72-43b5-b9bf-68b121df446f 00:03:32.072 --> 00:03:34.376 you to take responsibility and ownership of your work NOTE Confidence: 0.85227853 53f16121-d4eb-4f20-8b0b-db03f0fa1cf5 00:03:34.376 --> 00:03:36.424 and also provides relief from the solitude of NOTE Confidence: 0.85227853 1f1e70a1-3e9a-4d98-bb1b-18c24cbb33b4 00:03:36.424 --> 00:03:38.728 writing and allows you to connect with others, even NOTE Confidence: 0.85227853 86fd2917-fe95-487b-a805-150b7a2665fd 00:03:38.728 --> 00:03:41.544 if not many people respond to your work, you can still NOTE Confidence: 0.85227853 959e4492-b8b4-4db5-9a61-07a97647f425 00:03:41.544 --> 00:03:43.336 get satisfaction from sharing it with others. NOTE Confidence: 0.80387825 0e6f0f02-6df0-4294-8d4b-bf5bf5ca8aba 00:03:44.610 --> 00:03:46.617 Slowly, I've grown more comfortable sharing my work on NOTE Confidence: 0.80387825 7454ad79-a3e6-4640-937c-da96eea93c5b 00:03:46.617 --> 00:03:47.732 Instagram and with my friends. NOTE Confidence: 0.87099767 b38d398f-d272-45df-a2a8-178816dd7b1c 00:03:48.650 --> 00:03:51.530 Last but not least, there's a lot to be said about the NOTE Confidence: 0.87099767 9ee66aae-5c58-4dc9-adfb-0a4b223eb633 00:03:51.530 --> 00:03:53.930 relationship between the writing and the speaking voice. If you NOTE Confidence: 0.87099767 0b41c8a2-0665-459e-bcf9-2e96f67924f5 00:03:53.930 --> 00:03:56.570 read a piece of writing aloud, you can emphasize the proper NOTE Confidence: 0.87099767 26b5f315-03d0-47b9-8d9c-285967118f5e 00:03:56.570 --> 00:03:58.010 words and points that you wanted NOTE Confidence: 0.8451097 4cd40e0d-babe-4b27-b683-d1e40902c5be 00:03:58.010 --> 00:04:01.990 to get across. As I share a few my projects, I'll be reading NOTE Confidence: 0.8451097 27f0c43d-0796-407b-b26b-ee8685c7c6ba 00:04:01.990 --> 00:04:04.270 the poem aloud and then talking about the design process. NOTE Confidence: 0.74014056 da5009c1-3a3d-444a-9c9a-cd5c587858da 00:04:08.850 --> 00:04:09.330 Quitter. NOTE Confidence: 0.88776684 536d2187-34b7-4d6e-a244-27ef620fcec3 00:04:10.430 --> 00:04:13.420 "It is kind of funny how you gave up on this before you NOTE Confidence: 0.88776684 5998667b-4826-443a-b919-2dd56a2f16b1 00:04:13.420 --> 00:04:14.110 could know me. NOTE Confidence: 0.8972569 6f6576b6-3260-4d4e-8416-d9b701a72f92 00:04:15.220 --> 00:04:18.180 Maybe you thought you did, but oh, my sweet honey, NOTE Confidence: 0.8972569 da20b9c0-a1fb-410b-a76e-89d8fc243b19 00:04:18.180 --> 00:04:19.660 there's so much I hid." NOTE Confidence: 0.82654464 ee543802-9438-430d-bdc6-f078e66ec811 00:04:21.330 --> 00:04:24.333 This was one of my first designs this semester, and again, all the NOTE Confidence: 0.82654464 482be850-1c38-46a6-8882-5d52fe1c8785 00:04:24.333 --> 00:04:26.517 projects I'm presenting today were made with Adobe NOTE Confidence: 0.8153793 03417935-2812-4b31-9d2e-8df431d416c8 00:04:26.517 --> 00:04:29.910 Illustrator. I used some of the basic shape tools to illustrate NOTE Confidence: 0.8153793 2b84cf91-aefc-4124-8e7a-99e213c21d79 00:04:29.910 --> 00:04:30.914 the beehive and little NOTE Confidence: 0.80621225 d4d6a09c-e9a1-4784-99ef-004337a9b1cc 00:04:30.914 --> 00:04:34.372 bumblebee. I liked how when I typed the poem out and centered NOTE Confidence: 0.80621225 ccc14d7d-e1a4-479a-ab55-6571e0493c3b 00:04:34.372 --> 00:04:35.926 it and almost made the shape of NOTE Confidence: 0.8290017 8761b3ab-e7ee-4d20-8d08-43fd24588add 00:04:35.926 --> 00:04:39.082 a small beehive. Since I mentioned honey, I thought it NOTE Confidence: 0.8290017 23cc8981-f2bd-4d9b-a12f-f1a77438cb02 00:04:39.082 --> 00:04:41.788 would be kind of funny to illustrate a bee flying away. NOTE Confidence: 0.8290017 de3b5bdb-5f9a-476a-b312-c4f1a82a9cde 00:04:41.788 --> 00:04:44.248 It's kind of cheesy, and honestly took me awhile to NOTE Confidence: 0.8290017 19126870-c8b0-43a4-8dbd-a9ba74b0fa9a 00:04:44.248 --> 00:04:46.708 draw since it was the early phases of me learning NOTE Confidence: 0.8290017 aa9a2ebf-2143-4823-bca7-bf611099b2b4 00:04:46.708 --> 00:04:49.168 Illustrator, but I was happy with how it came out, NOTE Confidence: 0.8290017 3cd19d33-04b3-4dbe-91df-4143d09ba029 00:04:49.168 --> 00:04:51.628 especially for one of my first projects of the semester. NOTE Confidence: 0.81696796 e16c7cc4-1ecd-40dc-8450-72a0d414f8c5 00:04:54.960 --> 00:04:55.620 Letting go. NOTE Confidence: 0.88496405 f0a853df-1c19-4b8a-8c0c-836ed9ee143a 00:04:56.640 --> 00:04:59.958 "If I wanted the clouds to fade away, I had to accept you could NOTE Confidence: 0.79187596 870a092b-671f-46f3-896a-abd65bed15f4 00:04:59.958 --> 00:05:03.723 not stay. Now I paint my skies gold and blue because I NOTE Confidence: 0.79187596 7ee999cf-f060-45a9-ac6a-b5af40c7e477 00:05:03.723 --> 00:05:04.871 shine brighter without you." NOTE Confidence: 0.85997504 77d985ce-2a3f-4b54-8b84-d5f717f10d8e 00:05:06.780 --> 00:05:09.312 This one I actually did a few different designs for, but these NOTE Confidence: 0.8650606 1de707c8-8d2b-45e5-8d3c-b37c33ac6ff7 00:05:09.312 --> 00:05:12.738 were my favorite two. I found the photos from Unsplash and NOTE Confidence: 0.8650606 d15955f5-c9b6-4434-994f-ed8d1d77758e 00:05:12.738 --> 00:05:16.574 placed them behind the text. The one on the right. I also added a NOTE Confidence: 0.8650606 2addfa4d-3a75-47d6-98cb-76c659b79b3f 00:05:16.574 --> 00:05:17.944 gradient to make it more NOTE Confidence: 0.851557 2cd32413-8f66-4b31-9e2a-eee1f4a43437 00:05:17.944 --> 00:05:20.964 readable. I like both of them, but I ended up only posting NOTE Confidence: 0.851557 9a3ecd3e-d7d1-4327-bd36-2df145a3454d 00:05:20.964 --> 00:05:23.356 the design on the left because I just feel like the photo fit NOTE Confidence: 0.851557 b258d19d-6969-4095-ac9c-ddd801938b6f 00:05:23.356 --> 00:05:23.908 the poem better. NOTE Confidence: 0.85277724 f8b0f36e-014e-40b8-9797-efd8cf511a17 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:29.550 Painting My world without you. NOTE Confidence: 0.8590748 d7d8b208-6eea-4876-a625-8e66317880e5 00:05:30.610 --> 00:05:33.305 "I'll paint the town red once you're out of my head. NOTE Confidence: 0.9041588 a95734ff-b452-4620-ab87-d91b77d3c5a9 00:05:34.010 --> 00:05:35.788 I'm so sick of you making me NOTE Confidence: 0.8719549 abc93f56-44d0-422f-8f83-d05b38b708ba 00:05:35.788 --> 00:05:40.133 feel blue. I'll take all this pain and turn it to paint to NOTE Confidence: 0.8719549 334d90c3-d06b-40ca-abca-b7a1032a9ace 00:05:40.133 --> 00:05:42.590 color everything in while you pay for your sins." NOTE Confidence: 0.8752206 d4d0b480-f678-43d5-84d4-1915482f7a21 00:05:44.690 --> 00:05:47.748 This one is actually one of my favorite designs because there's NOTE Confidence: 0.8752206 4cd67de6-5184-4679-9421-c076c4ce6435 00:05:47.748 --> 00:05:48.860 almost created an accident. NOTE Confidence: 0.8451283 2a92364f-0848-43ad-9daf-b2e4025d1a9d 00:05:49.640 --> 00:05:52.484 I love mixing paint colors and making abstract brushstrokes. NOTE Confidence: 0.8451283 c567fedb-ddb5-47fb-9ac5-052236bae8eb 00:05:52.484 --> 00:05:54.064 I've always found it really NOTE Confidence: 0.8556513 0267d8ad-01ad-4ae4-ae76-bd3253eccdd9 00:05:54.064 --> 00:05:58.200 relaxing. My favorite color is red and so that was the color I NOTE Confidence: 0.8556513 066fc245-67c9-47ed-a24f-120ffbdd0e96 00:05:58.200 --> 00:06:01.385 went with that night and I think I actually wrote the poem while NOTE Confidence: 0.8556513 bf602dca-da46-42aa-9b8e-ab34aeafe711 00:06:01.385 --> 00:06:04.325 the paint was drying. I don't remember the exact order, but I NOTE Confidence: 0.8556513 3e0bdfbf-3ddd-4aea-9cab-d0c0ac577256 00:06:04.325 --> 00:06:07.265 know I painted, wrote the poem, and made the digital version all NOTE Confidence: 0.8449366 927ddcd9-d976-4415-917b-298c73823871 00:06:07.265 --> 00:06:10.914 on the same night. I took a picture of the painting and NOTE Confidence: 0.8449366 93bd6bd4-88fa-4290-a624-2ba6e22cb46f 00:06:10.914 --> 00:06:13.194 uploaded it into Illustrator. Then type the poem on top. NOTE Confidence: 0.86673427 6048c656-b672-4dab-ac74-daae5a76401c 00:06:14.050 --> 00:06:17.040 I had a slightly lower the opacity of the photo in order to NOTE Confidence: 0.86673427 24df9b2b-ebdc-42ba-9162-768e2c357f3e 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.570 make the poem more readable, and this was the final result. NOTE Confidence: 0.8538836 1bc44355-558f-4473-a8cd-4adfb5447861 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:23.290 I just like how it combines traditional art  medium of NOTE Confidence: 0.8538836 7b14e721-4d7b-4732-80d1-837b8149cd1c 00:06:23.290 --> 00:06:26.300 acrylic paint with digital typography and a little bit of NOTE Confidence: 0.8538836 89ba1af8-c08f-4b30-84dd-b7c8d92e3438 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:27.504 editing in Adobe Illustrator. NOTE Confidence: 0.8486879 64c5753f-72a9-4b9e-944f-8cd130814d7d 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:35.039 This next one started as a single poem that I wrote back in NOTE Confidence: 0.8486879 9718a785-a940-41ac-a62a-7eb6ebe1557a 00:06:35.039 --> 00:06:38.042 December, but I added updates or almost like sequels to the NOTE Confidence: 0.8486879 c4e116ca-5387-4b52-8fd2-2e8e4175c8ab 00:06:38.042 --> 00:06:41.045 original, and it kind of turned into this miniseries. I'll read NOTE Confidence: 0.8486879 95b83fbd-3fcd-4744-a42a-af22ba6b20f2 00:06:41.045 --> 00:06:42.956 it in order from left to right. NOTE Confidence: 0.8606412 cd3356e8-4f3f-41e4-8408-f499c4ccbe20 00:06:44.250 --> 00:06:47.792 "I met a new boy tonight. He said I'm a player, and maybe he's NOTE Confidence: 0.831975 f0add05d-88d0-492f-8a1d-572f79e21dad 00:06:47.792 --> 00:06:51.535 right. I'm ready for a new game so babe, roll the dice." NOTE Confidence: 0.8821754 6da3f76e-15fb-4ea0-81e4-58d16546bf4e 00:06:53.540 --> 00:06:56.202 "I don't care who's winning or losing. I'll play games with NOTE Confidence: 0.8821754 fe8751e7-0c5c-45de-8c72-41606e94e6a6 00:06:56.202 --> 00:06:57.412 you over and over again..." NOTE Confidence: 0.8358386 1fe313e2-2523-4d4a-a514-fe138a08d627 00:06:59.030 --> 00:07:01.980 "Are we keeping score? Who's winning this game? My hearts NOTE Confidence: 0.8358386 12859633-0317-42ac-966f-aa7ab6bbc65c 00:07:01.980 --> 00:07:03.750 growing sore, I don't know who's NOTE Confidence: 0.89022976 29b9938f-ab27-4475-8007-a4e97c68e9cf 00:07:03.750 --> 00:07:07.626 to blame. What are we playing for? Are we on the same team? NOTE Confidence: 0.89022976 97ea906a-3f55-4869-9fe9-3e152575bab4 00:07:07.626 --> 00:07:10.564 Should be us against the world, but I'm not sure you're with me." NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 eda296ba-e68b-4267-8f9c-f87eeea1ee7a 00:07:12.700 --> 00:07:15.340 I just found this one funny because it kind of accidentally NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 0a491129-d8b2-4077-bfbb-55d18ac1373f 00:07:15.340 --> 00:07:18.460 turned into this miniseries, and I might add more to it in the NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 71365524-67ba-4983-8e5d-e9a0c846a5ff 00:07:18.460 --> 00:07:21.340 future, and it's also kind of mixed media. I found two dice, NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 74dd76ec-5fb5-4a4e-943d-29da60f87aa9 00:07:21.340 --> 00:07:24.460 place them on a blank page in my sketchbook, shined a warm light NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 2a141d17-040c-45d6-95eb-29fe15ca6a81 00:07:24.460 --> 00:07:27.340 above it, and then took a few pictures. I placed the photos NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 a39f7fb2-299c-4f89-8ad5-625c80f75b89 00:07:27.340 --> 00:07:30.220 behind the text and choose the one that had enough blank space NOTE Confidence: 0.8286996 f1c4809b-97ec-4d1c-a346-fab52c33712a 00:07:30.220 --> 00:07:31.660 for the text to fit for NOTE Confidence: 0.871073 e25aec14-5915-4f4b-9247-9f5866321d62 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:34.955 everything to look nice. On another note, I intentionally NOTE Confidence: 0.871073 46991178-f90e-496c-942d-1d019447015d 00:07:34.955 --> 00:07:39.140 placed the dice to be showing two and one because 2 + 1 = 3, NOTE Confidence: 0.8757929 68f57d8d-29d8-42d7-b4f7-cd2612b2eea9 00:07:39.820 --> 00:07:41.297 which just so happens to be my NOTE Confidence: 0.90345377 f60a8496-147c-43d9-83e2-0b17097d77f0 00:07:41.297 --> 00:07:44.250 lucky number and the lucky number of the person who NOTE Confidence: 0.90345377 5dd516ae-204a-413d-837b-6cc7db29eae2 00:07:44.250 --> 00:07:45.720 inspired me to write each of NOTE Confidence: 0.904978 dca626c4-0492-4db5-99cf-7df16ead8877 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.766 these poems. And it was also the third was our former NOTE Confidence: 0.8806026 50fadc66-1a56-4ac7-be59-2b280c076649 00:07:49.766 --> 00:07:53.480 anniversary. I just realized too that as of now there are three NOTE Confidence: 0.8806026 734357a9-6f42-499a-94e5-4d2680d722e4 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.240 parts to this series, so it's funny how the number 3 just NOTE Confidence: 0.8806026 21f069a2-4c24-48ca-9bdb-531716deee36 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:57.620 works out in all these different NOTE Confidence: 0.8753876 7d1528fa-8337-488e-bf64-6a5a552bd854 00:07:57.620 --> 00:08:00.690 aspects. I'm only adding in these details because I think NOTE Confidence: 0.8753876 2bf5d7cc-51d6-43e1-9154-ffcbe24b1464 00:08:00.690 --> 00:08:03.450 the most fun part of designing is adding a greater meaning to NOTE Confidence: 0.8753876 5e110b9c-dc74-4fc6-81f5-93b7eb0ea652 00:08:03.450 --> 00:08:04.600 the words in the piece. NOTE Confidence: 0.8479362 0adbb40c-5816-461e-b3eb-0873febe0438 00:08:05.290 --> 00:08:08.314 Some of my posts are text only because I feel like a graphic or NOTE Confidence: 0.8479362 fffdb60a-0c58-4b76-b760-18ce75cb49c4 00:08:08.314 --> 00:08:10.690 image would distract from the intensity of the words or the NOTE Confidence: 0.89209354 fffebee8-6b76-486a-a03e-5baad1aa8d73 00:08:10.690 --> 00:08:13.548 message. However, this was definitely one of those cases NOTE Confidence: 0.89209354 e03f950a-813f-422e-aed3-65a363899fbe 00:08:13.548 --> 00:08:16.922 where the imagery is part of the story, and it just adds to it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8224414 e7f874b1-8628-472e-b8f1-c0a49618456e 00:08:18.280 --> 00:08:20.607 I grouped these into one post on Instagram, which is why I kept NOTE Confidence: 0.8224414 2b4537c4-2c44-4e19-a771-fec6401d3f14 00:08:20.607 --> 00:08:22.934 the days only in the first poem and I just kept a plain NOTE Confidence: 0.8224414 464b5cc3-3727-4204-9d9e-20acabbdb6cd 00:08:22.934 --> 00:08:25.082 background for the latter two, I didn't want to have it in NOTE Confidence: 0.8224414 5822735a-eb40-45c6-9289-5e778f038da4 00:08:25.082 --> 00:08:25.798 like every single one. NOTE Confidence: 0.8625684 5491b3e7-a0fc-4b9c-ad9c-c304e7777c97 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:32.896 "While the world turns upside down, will you NOTE Confidence: 0.8625684 808cd714-32f4-4cba-a628-61292132d2de 00:08:32.896 --> 00:08:34.106 hold me right-side up?" NOTE Confidence: 0.8271544 3c8ad0c8-489d-4597-b828-c1cb34e61b6c 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.404 I consider this to be one of the cheesiest poems and graphics NOTE Confidence: 0.8271544 e15feb69-97cc-46c0-bce5-6d0e9314774f 00:08:39.404 --> 00:08:42.968 that I've ever made, but I included it here because I think NOTE Confidence: 0.8271544 864236f3-4474-4d42-99bb-b1a34e19d5c4 00:08:42.968 --> 00:08:46.532 it's one that we can definitely all relate to during the global NOTE Confidence: 0.8455239 33c8b9a7-afd4-4ca9-a854-d86613c1c085 00:08:46.532 --> 00:08:49.998 pandemic going on. I wrote this when classes first went online NOTE Confidence: 0.8455239 78e49f33-f2a0-4213-ac82-44cabf6f1393 00:08:49.998 --> 00:08:53.001 and I found the image of Earth from Unsplash and if you look NOTE Confidence: 0.8455239 afefdf0e-93f9-486e-aff0-2cc4ec6c2523 00:08:53.001 --> 00:08:55.773 closely you'll see I rotate the photo so the world is upside NOTE Confidence: 0.8455239 16e9512a-c049-4cef-9c80-5214ec54494a 00:08:55.773 --> 00:08:56.928 down as described in the NOTE Confidence: 0.847248 36496e94-67e2-406f-9462-0335fb257234 00:08:56.928 --> 00:09:00.471 writing. I like how this design came out and how the words NOTE Confidence: 0.847248 13b465c2-f424-4d58-82b1-88269ffdb836 00:09:00.471 --> 00:09:01.315 naturally shaped around the NOTE Confidence: 0.7998886 f7f92831-c02e-43bb-be7d-199dcba6d56f 00:09:01.315 --> 00:09:04.218 world. I also like how the spacing of everything came out and I NOTE Confidence: 0.7998886 28b44f5d-5e40-418e-9fbc-8fc9cd52bc1b 00:09:04.218 --> 00:09:06.438 think the photo and design adds more meaning to the NOTE Confidence: 0.7998886 d8aa71e5-0cca-461c-b133-b691e1012a28 00:09:06.438 --> 00:09:06.660 writing. NOTE Confidence: 0.8426731 117d5d48-ed02-40fb-871d-e4ba8beb0b07 00:09:10.510 --> 00:09:13.266 Last but not least, here are my citations. I hope you enjoyed my NOTE Confidence: 0.8426731 d280fed5-448b-481a-8f5d-491ca265ef37 00:09:13.266 --> 00:09:15.810 writing and sharing tips as well as some of my digital writing NOTE Confidence: 0.8862445 2d009c56-2044-48c9-bc27-50f3d893f966 00:09:15.810 --> 00:09:18.690 and designs. I did not include the Instagram account name NOTE Confidence: 0.8862445 303c16a3-aff7-495e-a4a6-36e7368f21ca 00:09:18.690 --> 00:09:21.840 where I post my work as a lot of it is personal. However, if NOTE Confidence: 0.8862445 2abb8f09-98d3-4c88-8001-d1433c918c3e 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.865 you are interested in following me, please feel free NOTE Confidence: 0.8862445 c85f57bf-f062-4de7-a648-73824b4b699e 00:09:23.865 --> 00:09:26.340 to reach out and I can share it with you individually. NOTE Confidence: 0.8862445 83b5cff2-ee56-451b-ae3f-0d2cd68738e7 00:09:26.340 --> 00:09:28.590 Thank you for listening to my presentation and I hope you NOTE Confidence: 0.8862445 f510c869-d135-4fdf-9272-5e092aa01f14 00:09:28.590 --> 00:09:30.165 stay safe and have a great day.