Multimedia and Digital Culture

Hello, everyone, we are all most halfway through the semester and with that said I hope everyone's semester is going well. For me personally it has been going really fast. Aside from that, we have been given a few new projects. Prezi I don't mind using but I can't say I'm a huge fan of it. I am also using it for another project and from there on if I have the option I am probably going to avoid it. The corpus analysis was interesting to do as I have never done one. It was cool to see the word cloud and the phrases that are used a lot in a piece of writing. I have not started on the flyers yet for the classes as I am not sure what software I want to use. I am thinking I will use Photoshop as I have been wanting to use it more and get better with it as this is the software I am going to use for drawing. Relating to that the reason I wanna start drawing in Photoshop is that I started an online course for character art and drawing. I hope to improve my skill in character ...

I am excited for this week as we will be going over infographics and doing workshops. My other class have is also going other infographics as well so I have learned a lot about them recently. At first, I did not really know what an infographic was but after looking at some examples I figured it out. I finished my draft for my infographic on H. P. Lovecraft. At first, I was all for the bestiary idea but there are just way too many monsters in his books to compile them all. As I said in my last update I was going to change it but was not entirely sure what it would be about. In the end, I decided to focus on the writer and the type of writing he does and not so much the monsters. I was not sure if I needed graphs or data like that so that is something I hope to get feedback on and was also not sure if I was limited to one page or not so I did 2. As of right now, I am ok with where it is, however, I did forget to put my logo in the draft, I will add that in the finished version. Feedb...

For my project, I am choosing the topic of H.P. Lovecraft. As I have stated before in my previous posts like with my logo I am very interested in H.P. Lovecraft, his works, and the mythos and creatures that exist within his stories. My logo was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu so I thought I might as well make it the topic of my Zine. I have a decent idea of how I am going to do each part of the zine. For the title page I will put H. P. Lovecraft at the top and I will include an image of Cthulhu, one of his most well-known creations. In the introduction I will go other the author himself and some of his works. The infographic might be a bestiary that shows images and names of monsters from his books. The corpus analysis will have a chunk of his writing from one of his stories he wrote. This should not be a problem as all of his works are public domain now. For the picture story, I thought I could have images of a convention for H. P. Lovecraft. As for the podcast and video, I ...

I am very excited to start designing a personal logo this upcoming week. I have tried using the free apps I have available but unfortunately, I can not get what I want exactly. I plan on using my three initials IML for part of my logo. I am using these initials not only because it is part of my name but it also was used as a nickname for me by my family. I plan on putting these initials in the center of a round eyeball. I am really interested in H.P. Lovecraft and his stories and I try to incorporate this Lovecraftian theme into a lot of things I do like painting and such. So for my logo, I am going to try to have a green Lovecraftian eyeball and instead of a pupil in the center it will be my initials. If this logo works out I thought about animating it if I ever use it in media like YouTube. If it was animated at some point in time I would have it be the eyeball with pupil at first then it would blink once and my initials will be there in place of the pupil. I am eager to star...

             Made it through my first week of college and it is not so bad, although the labor day weekend was kinda confusing off the first week. As you can all probably tell my blog has been visually updated from before, I am quite happy where it is right now. Blogger is becoming more familiar to me now and I feel a lot more confident in these blog posts. I am excited to design my own logo as I like graphic design, but I never felt I was good at it. There are a few concepts in my head for a logo I might use. Looking forward to workshopping some of these ideas and interested in seeing other people's logos.

                                                               Introduction to Me                        Hello, my name is Ian Lemmon and welcome to my blog. I'm 20 years old and I am a freshman at UPJ. I grew up in Indiana Pa and moved to Johnstown about a year ago. I have two brothers, a sister, two dogs, and two cats. As of right now im living with my brother and another roommate aswell.                     I have many hobbies including camping, playing DnD, and painting/modeling. My favorite thing to do is painting/modeling...