Going Mobile

This last week I couldn’t attend class due to family events and Thursday we had no class. However, there was still a lot of learning to be had within the course files. I think this week the work made me go through all the emotions – fun, annoyed, and relief!

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Standing Out

Some people would love to stand out in a crowd. But me, I am happy going along with the flow most of the time. This year at the Addys Awards Gala I thought it would be fun to do a little dress up. In past years, it was a thing – people really got into it. This year the theme was decades, exploring advertising throughout the decades of the local club. And since all this year’s promotion was centered around a very strong retro 50s and 60s styling I thought that would be a fun genre to dress up.

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Journey Entry – Week 6

Hard to believe that we are half way through the semester already. I feel like I have learned a lot so far. I felt a little better this week in regards to my coding. I was really frustrated with the Concentric website and spent way more time then I wanted to on the project. The one plus side is by spending that much time doing trial and error, I was able to learn how the codes effected the page. The responsive design was a really cool project. I still feel like I have a lot more to learn. It would be really great that by the end of this class I knew how to push my website live so the public could view it. Hopefully, I will get a chance to learn how to do this by the end of the class.

Goldlilocks paradox

You ever have those days where you regret getting out of bed?

So I went to the ad club event, to see what it is and to have the adventure. I like the idea of being a person who goes to meetings like this and sees new things. Unfortunately I saw more than I wanted to, but that was before the meeting.

So I was horribly early, as is my habit when I have no real idea where I am going. Wondered around the neighborhood for a while and then tripped and fell down.

Yes I landed hard and stupidly, right in front of a homeless person. I blew up and swore then apologized as I was embarrassed to trip and fall in front of someone, seems like a lot of drama to impose on a stranger. The homeless person didn’t think so and immediately started to yell at me.

I think she was more offended by me saying “sorry” after swearing, and she found that offensive. I was confused and apologized again for some reason, which really set her off. Thats when I saw the guy down the street taping me on his phone.

Turns out what I thought was a bad sprain was by the end of the evening obviously broken. I did try and tough it out for the meeting, I didn’t want to go all the way down there just to turn around and go home. That seemed silly at the time, but in hindsight staying was probably really the silly thing.

So I did go to ER and get it checked out on Friday (another tale of drama), got a brace and a note and a lot more embarrassed. I didn’t really study last weekend, am far behind than I wanted to be, but am dedicated to starting to work as hard as my hand will allow to catch up for my injury-weekend-adventure.

I think next time I would rather stay home and do homework.

Week 5 – Positioning and Creative Critical Thinking

Well, this week was unusual for me since I attended a Creative wood event instead of being in class on Thursday. It was fun to learn how it is even possible to come up with a great idea for an advertising in just about 20 minutes.

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