Intro to Digital Media

Or as I like to call it, Crossing-the-Digital-Hurdle-and-Remembering-Stuff-From-Years-Ago.

My experience with digital media is very limited. In 8th grade I did Yearbook, but really I ended updating the school's A and A/B Honor Roll list. You best believe I choose fun texts, crazy colors, used free backgrounds, and even did a marquee here and there. Looking back, I can only imagine how tacky those webpages were. To get out of taking a year and a half of something computer related, in high school (honestly, I forget the requirement), I took Webmastery and worked on very few things. Mostly I searched the web after doing what I was supposed to do, but we never had much to do. I did learn some basics of photoshop, and years later I did take AP Photo though I wasn't using it as my sole medium, but I did do some digital projects. Add random livejournal (yes I had/have one), myspace, and other random blogs, I do in fact have some experience of codes and creating things for the web. I don't know how much of that will come in handy, but I hope some of it does.

Of course, I am the only undergrad in the class, as the other 6 are grads, but thankfully, I know and love them all. I'm excited that my advisor is teaching it too. To be honest, it all does seem overwhelming, but I know I will learn a lot as I struggle to decide if the professional art world is my place, I hope it is, or at least part of it. I have said that I do not seek fame or fortune, I seek to help and inspire others---part of the reason I want to teach, but I want to explore my passion for my field as well, and being in galleries and shows is a part of that. I look forward to working and learning about all these things that are so complex, but I know it will only help me.

On the plus side, we're going to work on making our own websites, EXCITEMENT! Given some of the grads already have one, but still, some of us don't and it's perfect timing before my show goes up to learn all these handy things, in the hopes that by May I can hand out business cards with my own name and site... a huge step into that professional world. I hope I can just pull it all off.

Overall, knowing all this web stuff, is only going to increase my knowledge, and nerdiness. Cool points to me.