My final project consists of making an animation about the web on the web. My main thought in creating…
I always interpreted the dark web as the place you accidentally end up and find something weird or random, like finding a space cat when you were looking for sandals. I did not consider that a sub-internet existed and is a “underground-market” of crime and theft. This side of the internet has…
Something about this dark childhood world draws the audience in. Through sounds and shapes our senses are filled with a depressing atmosphere we are curious to continue to explore.
The character we play is a shape of a child -perhaps a shadow- with eerie white eyes. The character just…
What’s the Point of Hashtags?
Twitter has become a factory of hashtags, but what’s so good about a fragment that reduces an action and generalizes it?
For starters, it’s simplistic and playful. The user doesn’t seem less intelligent by using it, but rather hip. Twitter’s character limit promoted the…
Some blame the creation of digital media and texting on mobile devices for the decrease in proper grammar, excessive abbreviations, and poor punctuation of today’s youth. Viewing texting language as a matter of intelligence they believe that these…
Despite the communal nature of the web it is still a reflection of our world, and with power of anonymity an arguably worst version. I say this because I feel as though you are more likely to face attack from others on the web than in real life…
Twitter, a social media platform where the user’s posts — or “tweets” — are limited to 140 characters has contributed to the rise in digital short-hand. Despite the platform’s unique“atmosphere” in…
It is interesting how the heavy concept of the end of our world is being shown with a color comic starring a puppy. The cheerful style of the art contrasting against the theme. The format is free flowing and loose. Having the…
Gifs have become popular thanks to social media and because of this they are more popular in creation and in usage by the younger (30-) generation. A Gif can be described as a picture that moves or a even a micro clip. Usage of a gif can be used to express an emotion or make a joke in a amusing manner. For Twitter, it…
What is the internet?
I view the internet as a limitless resource in which individuals are constantly attributing more information such a knowledge or speculation. This near bottom-less hole of thoughts serves a major purpose of creating a habitat for knowledge, opinions and everything in between.One of the major functions…
