Multimedia and Digital Culture

For my remix I am taking elements from the card game “Magic The Gathering”(MTG), “Dungeons & Dragons”(D&D), various pieces of art and combining them with some of my own personal elements too. It is not necessary to have knowledge of any of these subjects as my goal is more focused on the visual aesthetics and fitting something in a format where it was not originally found I take the format of MTG and apply it to characters from elsewhere. For my first two cards I created I based them off an old D&D character I created years ago. For the first card I found the art online and applied it to the card format and used elements from the D&D rulebook to make some abilities for the card. For the second card I uploaded the image of a model I personally worked on myself and just listed stats of the character according to the character sheet commonly used in D&D. My final 2 cards I made were for characters from a video game series called Diablo. I again took attributes of these...

I am still unsure of what type of remix I want to do that will relate to my blog. I do think I wanna try to do something visual if not completely visual. I have seen a couple remixes that have interested me before. The two examples include creative combinations of artistic and model rendering to make something new and interesting. Example 1: D&D Monster Fusions The first example the person takes random monsters from two different sources and combines them to make there own and does there own artistic rendering stealing aspects form both sides to make a completely new and interesting piece of media. Example 2: Warhammer Kit Bash In this example someone has taken pieces form various and different model kits to create new original eye-catching model As to what I will do I have yet to decide, I might try to continue an image story I did for another class where I took images of H.P. Lovecraft from his life time. I modified the photos of him more as he aged in each picture to kind of sho...

So my two types of writing have both related to the theme of the Warhammer 40K hobby which works for me. The focus of the blog was for visual elements and design but seeing as this is a writing course it can be difficult to link that. These are the type of things I would like to do writing for though and create concepts and designs being the hobbies I enjoy. I already do writing for D&D and plan to start creating some character art for it as well. As a result the writing I have been doing has been with Warhammer 40K as a focal point.   I think for a future assignment I wanna try to do something relating to design work, concept art, and writing as a professional career and possibly relate to an interview I did a while back with a professional concept artist.

I enjoyed the feedback I got as I was unsure how I wanted to present this subject. I wanted to talk about a fictional place from a hobby I am interested in. The subject was a place called Nurgle’s Garden which exists in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000. Some problems I had while creating my hack was that I understood my subject is obscure to mostly anyone who has not heard of or played Warhammer which could leave some readers lost. This is why I chose the poem method for my narrative. With a poem the subject can easily be imagined by using lots of imagery and the point I wanted to make was just to imagine this place and not have an exact description that might be hard to comprehend. It was an interesting technique to try and also a bit of a challenge and over all I am happy with the results.

I have had trouble thinking of a idea for a storytelling hack using a web 2.0 hack. I think I finally have thought of something I want to try that coincides with some of the themes of my blog and uses a platform that is unusual but works well. I plan on using Tripadvisor  which a website that allows people to review and share there experiences about places all over the world. What I plan on doing is telling the story of a fictional place that does not actually exist but rather I will pick a place and use it as a metaphor to connect to a fictional realm. I am thinking of pulling a fictional place from the Warhammer 40k universe as I have already used that subject for my listicle as well. Warhammer is often so over the top I think it would be cool to try write about it as if it was a real place in Tripadvisor. In this way I am manipulating the presumed use of Tripadvisor by talking and telling the story of a fictional place on a platform that shows reviews and photos of real places i...