For me, the hardest part of class this week was figuring what changes needed to be made to my Hack #3 in order for me to really expand upon my first rendition of it. It was challenging for me to try to expand upon my previous project because in order for me to really grow…

This week the hardest task for me was putting together my video for my fourth hack. I have next to no experience using video editing software, so it was definitely difficult for me to be able to figure out how to use the software and make the video still look well put together. I ended…

Link to YouTube Video: The Evolution of Protests for Racial Discrimination All sources are linked in the description of my YouTube video. Growing up in the age of technology and social media, I have always been surrounded by remixes of all different forms of media throughout my whole life. So many of my favorite music…

This week, by far the most difficult task for me was thinking of an idea for our fourth hack. For a while, I think I was overthinking what a “remix” truly is. When I think of remix, I think of it being this dramatically different piece of art, when it reality, that is not always…

Similar to last week, the concept I struggled the most with was deciding what is original and what is not. For example, the iconic poster of Barack Obama that went viral during his first campaign. Shepard Fairey created a poster of Obama during his first campaign that read, “HOPE,” across the bottom of it. This…

For me, the hardest thing about this week was deciding what is considered to be creative and original versus what is considered to be uncreative writing. Similarly, we were trying to tackle the debate of if “uncreative writing” is considered to taking an influence from something and what is stealing and copyright. To look at…

This week the by far the biggest thing that I struggled with was coming up with a an idea for my Hack #3. At first, it was tough for me to think of ideas to do because there are not many forms of software that I am familiar with and that I use on a…

For this hack, we were tasked with taking a form of software that we are already familiar with and repurposing it from its original design and making it have some type of a different use than it did before. We had to think outside of the box and find a way to make the software…

This week in class we did a lot of discussions and readings about remixing designs. A common theme was tools having many different purposes than their what their original designs were intended for. We looked at this with the Oregon Trail game that we played in class. This game initially came out on the Apple…