Megan's Food 4 Thought

I think that as a whole our society doesn't take enough time for themselves; to decompress, clear our minds, and love ourselves. We get so busy in a routine, worrying about others and whats going on around us that we forget about the most important thing in our lives; ourselves. There are several different avenues you can take to center yourself throughout the day but it is important to remember that everyone is different and people may need to experience different methods than yourself. Below I have added four ways I would recommend to decompress during your day: 1. Meditate (breathe)- Taking a couple minutes out of your day to get a few deep breathes in could really help to keep you calm and centered. Clearing your brain even for the minutes of meditation you are experiencing can give you clarity as well as energy you need to boost your day. 2. Take a Bath- A warm bath is always so helpful for me. At the end of a long day just hopping into some warm water and relaxing in th...

I honestly didn't know what to expect coming into this course. I had a hard semester; I was taking 18 credit hours, had a part-time internship and was competing for our University of Toledo Softball team. I was turning in assignments at 11:58 p.m. as well as experiencing a ton of technically difficulties with my Wi-Fi and computer. But I can honestly say that this was my favorite class this semester. I found myself branching out and showing my friends and family the artwork I was creating. I was having fun with the assignments, learning a bunch of new things and pushing myself to work outside of my comfort zone. I think my favorite assignment by far was the website, I was wondered how those were made and it was really cool as well as fun to establish my own page. I think that we covered a variety of topics among the digital media world and this could personally help me with my own career. I want to do Athletic Communications with a major league sports team, this can i...

This one was a tough one for me. I had my top image complete and I was finishing up my M on this Lotus flower image and it shut me out so I had to restart. Once I restarted it shut me out twice which really pissed me off. I finally finished the project which is late but I finished it. I went with two logos that really spoke to me. I am not quite a master at these applications we had to use but I tried and put some thought into the logos I made. I think the more you play around with the applications the easier it is. Also the videos were extremely helpful when I was choosing which application to use. Overall I enjoyed this assignment. Also, I tried to get this to not be underlined and every time I click the U it doesn't do anything so I think its time for a new computer or I need some serious help... lol 

The converted image I created was an elephant. I thought it would be extremely interesting to see it with the numbers and symbols and I liked the way the black background looked rather than the white. Beside this text, I have added a softball that has my name in it to make out the picture. Softball has been my life ever since I can remember and I thought it was a really cool idea if I use my name within this photo to really express that this sport will always have a piece of me. Below this text I inserted my word art image, which is a heart with the words love, smile and happiness within it. I think it was just a nice little touch that I thought was super cute, loving and everyone deserved to see as well as, feel. As you can tell love is extremely emphasized and I really liked the look of it within this heart. This made me think of self-love. The heart has an arrow that comes around back into the center of the heart and I really translated that to love first starts fr...

I really enjoyed doing these two images. It was really interesting and fun to play around with Scribbler Too. I made a few images before I finally settled on these two that I wanted to publish in my blog. I think they both convey something completely different but still are interesting and I really enjoyed doing these two images the most. I thought that this application was extremely easy to use and I would gladly use them again and play around with more images. It took me a few tries to get the uploaded image the way I wanted and I event switched my images around four times until I decided I enjoyed this one the best. I thought that this was a great assignment.  I really enjoyed the flame artwork after my Adobe Flash wanted to work for me. I tried to download these with the other images up top but they didn't come through right away which really stressed me out.   "Flatline" I liked the use of colors with this one. I wanted to keep it simple and to the poin...

I found this project to be a lot of fun while also really challenging my abilities. I chose a lot of my videos from the archive site because it was super accessible. I used iMovie to do my video and I didn't realize how challenging it truly would be mostly downloading at the end because it is a big file and I tried to download it to my Vimeo account which was a disaster. The end of this project was a real struggle for me because it seemed like nothing was working and that usually is how it goes when you turn it in with ten minutes to spare. I though iMovie was super simple to use, I just downloaded my videos and cut them in there the way I wanted to because it was very similar to the way I cut videos when I do Twitter inserts for my job. You take the video shut off the audio cover it with yours a boom you got yourself a video. I chose to do mostly nature scenes as well as a little cute blurb of some puppies just because I thought they were adorable. I liked the different natur...

For my Bechers' Grid I did types of alcohol. These were all bottles my roommates and I had and it was easily accessible for me as well as it looked kinda neat so I thought it would be interesting to photograph. I think all the different types of alcohol along with the different companies who produce these drinks made a perfect candidate for my grid. I found the hardest part to be all the layers and it took me a few tries to cut and paste the pictures onto the grid but I really enjoy at the grid turned out. I think the videos that were provided were extremely helpful and I probably watched them 1,000 times to make sure I did the grid correctly because I had messed it up so many times. Overall the assignment was easy because of all the directions and videos that made it simple to use.