#inclass

[abbaddonadvocate]

#me #personal #selfie #blogging #bloggers #blogger #inclass #school #college #collegelife #learn #butfirstletmetakeaselfie #life #lifer #brunette #smile #self #learning

[antideluvian-blog]

#warmup #inclass #artdemonstration of using the #loomismethod for drawing the figure with #noreference I did the figure construction and first pass at the costume in class and went back in later, slightly adjusted the legs and boots, finished off some of the spot blacks. #fantasysoldier #ancientsoldier #fantasywarrior #andrewloomis #frankfrazetta #georgebridgeman #academicdrawing #atlanteansoldier #fantasyart #fantasyartist #fantasyartwork #dungeonsanddragons #magicthegathering #lordoftherings #gameofthrones #hyborianage #characterdesign #characterart #pencildrawing (at Burlington, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/CncUTLfL2Af/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#warmup #inclass #artdemonstration #loomismethod #noreference #fantasysoldier #ancientsoldier #fantasywarrior #andrewloomis #frankfrazetta #georgebridgeman #academicdrawing #atlanteansoldier #fantasyart #fantasyartist #fantasyartwork #dungeonsanddragons #magicthegathering #lordoftherings #gameofthrones #hyborianage #characterdesign #characterart #pencildrawing

[502kevin]

Studio Formative Assessment

Proposal Presentation

What is it

Details a project idea, communicates the idea and what is needed to make it happen. 

Title + Dates + Objectives + Goals = Overall main achievement at the end.

Clear sections detailing various areas and steps to be taken.

Issue + Actions + Resources

Components

Content - to inform the audience and direction you will be taking

Visual Design - supports presentation and project

Delivery - 10min presentation (5mins + 5mins Q&A)

Contains

5W + How

Engage with a specific issue exploring conceptual and visual ways to activate an awareness, a conversation or a call to action. 

Identify cultural, environmental and social concerns and raise awareness to the importance of individual and collective concerns.

Generate content using and distilling existing data and relevant research.

Specify and communicate to a target audience.

Propose visual elements to produce specific outputs (print, online or site specific outcomes) appropriate to the campaign and target audience.

Proposed initial (development) iterations of a design system including: typographic usage, colour ways, image treatment, graphic styles and a brief rational*(logic/reason supporting a decision) supporting the choices and development of the system. 

5W + H

WHY did it happen WHAT happened WHO is impacted WHEN did it start WHERE did it happen = HOW did it happen

WHY are we doing this project WHAT do we do about this issue  WHO are we targeting / benefitting WHEN does the campaign start, and when does it end WHERE will the campaign take place = HOW do we solve the issue

#inclass

[yareneroglu]

#inclass

[shadow-and-purgatory]

on the outside i am cool as a cucumber but on the in side i am repeatedly having the thought "i can't breathe" despite the fact that i am actively breathing, at a normal rate even

#i really fucked up this quarter and i dont know how to get back on track and i could email the professor but its scary #shes very nice but i feel like if i ask for a list of our inclass writing prompts shell be disappointed #but i NEED those prompts because i didnt do all of them and i need to submit them and they arent listed on d2l #i feel vaguely ill but like. not entirely physically #i feel like i cant breathe #i dont know what to do #ramblimgs #vent ramblimgs #school ramblimgs

[americiumam]

They say Alderaan is the happiest place in the galaxy. Well apparently no one has ever been standing next to you.

according to my sources, naboo is the most beautiful thing in the galaxy, but my sources must have never seen you!!!

#THIS MADE ME GIGGLE INCLASS I WAS LIKE 🥰🥰🥰🥰 ILY #fav #friends :) #agahanendjwjdjeknx :333

[formless-entity]

teacher really likes horses, so we've gotta draw horses

#traditional art #inclass sketches #horses #sketchbook #skeletons #mundane

[controlledchaosetc]

So I had to write a final essay for my Intro to Media Studies class about "speculative media", where I look at a specific piece of media or medium and try to predict where its going in 1 to 10 years.

I unironically wrote 7 pages and almost 2000 words about the possible rebirth of Tumblr. Enjoy

Social media, as people know it in 2022, is an upheaval. Technology stocks plummeted with an economic downturn marked by the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. This wave of instability resulted in significant changes and news stories in the social media sphere. Although Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has mainly been in the news due to their foray into the “metaverse,” one platform has dominated recent headlines like no other: Twitter. Twitter, one of the largest text-based social media websites, is no longer a publicly traded company after Elon Musk bought the platform for an unprecedented 44 billion dollars. However, this is not an essay on Twitter, at least not primarily. After Musk’s takeover, Twitter saw a 21% increase in downloads; In this same period, there was a 96% U.S. increase in downloads for a surprising site: Tumblr (Delouya). While there was an even more significant increase for Mastodon, a newer platformer derivative of Twitter, Tumblr was unexpected as a platform many labeled as dead. As a new user of Tumblr myself, it made me consider how Tumblr rivals other social media websites. Compared to the decline of Twitter, Tumblr offers a haven to Twitter refugees and new users alike, with features that improve open those on other platforms, those that few other social media websites have, and an attitude towards consumers and its experience reminiscent of an older internet and unlike like any seen on the modern web. With all these factors in mind, Twitter will see a slow decline, and Tumblr will see a rebirth as an alternative social media platform within the decade.

To begin analyzing the rebirth of Tumblr, its catalyst must be discussed first. Tumblr might have languished in its current state if it wasn’t for Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, as discussed in the introduction. The effects of Musk’s Twitter are vast, varied, and many of them negative. The one most relevant for a Twitter exodus is the rise of hate speech and far-right ideology on the platform. According to the New York Times, “Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day” (Conger and Frenkel). Antisemitic posts “soared more than 61%”, and more alarmingly, slurs against African Americans rose over 300% (Conger and Frenkel). Unfortunately, this is not surprising. Over half of Twitter’s workforce have either been fired or quit, including many members of the content moderation and safety team and Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety. Far-right figures like Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neonazi website The Daily Stormer, have been unbanned. Musk himself has pushed far-right conspiracy theories and ideology, such as the conspiracy that the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband was his gay prostitute, and indirectly accusing Yoel Roth, a gay man and again, a former senior member of Twitter, of supporting the sexualization of children, a common anti-LGBTQ+ dog whistle. There is story after story after story that Twitter is becoming increasingly hostile to members of minority groups. This is incredibly disheartening who already face disproportionate online harassment. As Yeal Eisenstat, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League, stated, “‘[Musk’s] actions to date show that he is not committed to a transparent process where he incorporates the best practices we have learned from civil society groups. Instead, he has emboldened racists, homophobes, and antisemites’” (Conger and Frenkel). As such, it is no surprise that people who face this harassment and allies are beginning to leave the platform or at least explore other options. However, why Tumblr? Let’s analyze Tumblr’s history, a minority space on Twitter, and how Tumblr can replicate a similar space.

Tumblr’s space is largely supportive and inclusive, as represented by its history. Tumblr’s users have historically largely been queer teenage women and nonbinary people. These marginalized demographics coopted Tumblr as a safe space to speak about their interests and to people similar to them. However, these communities were predominantly white, so while ethnic minority communities do exist on Tumblr, they are the best example of a minority group to grow further by people moving from Twitter. In “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as Cultural Conversation,” André Brock analyzes the concept of Black Twitter, the elements of Twitter that enable this cultural space, and why the space came to be. The primary element that enables cultural communication is a signifyin’ hashtag. A hashtag with cultural significance, both in content and in semantics, can help signify the tweet's intended audience and introduce group discussion and discourse for other people to join (530). Tumblr does not have hashtags, but they have an equivalent feature called “tags.” As the name would imply, tags allow posts to be found in searches and recommended if a user follows a particular tag. However, they have an additional feature adopted by the general Tumblr community. While they were initially created to be like hashtags, users also utilize the tags to add comments to the original post that are more conversational toward their followers and thoughts that the user does not deem necessary to be added to a broader sphere. Tags add an additional level of intimacy to posts by creating a separation of public statements in the post and statements that, while still public, are seen as personal additions and more private as they are harder to find if the post is reblogged (Tumblr’s equivalent to retweeting). This inherently can create a tighter community, both between a user and their mutuals and a user and their general sphere. Tumblr is already known to have close-knit communities, primarily those of “fandoms” of a particular piece of media. However, this has expanded to cultural communities, such as Black Tumblr. This allows Black Twitter users, off-put by the negative direction of Twitter, to smoothly move to a platform that allows a similar exchange to what they are used to.

Additionally, Tumblr’s features allow a greater range of posts, better functionality, and an arguably better user experience. How a user interacts with a website is predominantly determined by its procedural rhetoric. In Persuasive Games: Videogames and Procedural Rhetoric, Ian Bogost explores how programmed rules and outlined constraints in video games can form their own rhetoric to persuade the player (3). While the book focuses only on video games, anything with procedures, like social media websites, can have procedural rhetoric. Returning to the functionality of tags, this is a clear example of procedural rhetoric. Tags have already been discussed as an elaboration on hashtags. By being limited to one word and emphasizing use in the trending tab and search optimization, hashtags are highlighted to users as a categorizing tool with limited expression. However, for tags, users could type full-spaced sentences without impacting the character count of the post, and Tumblr has a complete de-emphasis on trending topics. These factors influenced more user creativity to express their thoughts of categorization, resulting in custom self-sorting tags and a subsection of the post itself for thoughts. A more open, user-expressive rhetoric continues throughout the website’s design. Reblogs, while compared to retweets earlier, have entirely different rhetoric. While allowing users to respond to a tweet on their account in a separate tweet, retweets display the response first, only allow users to see two tweets in what may be a longer retweet chain, and attribute engagement to the response and not the original tweet. This results in rhetoric that not only encourages limited communication through retweets but instead encourages pointing at the previous tweet with a comment of their own, most often a negative, jeering response. On the other hand, reblogs are additive, with the original post at the top and all reblogged responses sorted chronologically under it, and interactions are additive to the overall post, not individual. This rhetoric encourages a fuller, more conversational attitude when posting on Tumblr that is often more positive and more civil. The ability for users to post images, hyperlinks, and even different-sized and colored text with unlimited length additionally enforces this rhetoric. By giving users the tools to be more creative and organized, Tumblr encourages users to be fuller with their thoughts and allows more nuanced conversation. Finally, users’ homepages are blogs reminiscent of 90s-era websites, which users customize with provided options or code from the ground up. This is yet another example of Tumblr’s rhetoric allowing extended user freedom that few sites offer. However, the early internet influences run deeper than Tumblr’s rhetoric and blogs. A further examination of Tumblr’s history and corporate mentality to fully understand these aspects.

Considering Tumblr’s corporate history adds a layer of complexity to these recent events with Twitter. Tumblr was founded in 2007 on anti-consumerism and a mission to avoid ads. Six years later, it was bought by Yahoo in 2013 for 1.1 billion dollars. Another six years passed, and multiple acquisitions later, Tumblr was finally sold again for 3 million dollars in 2019. Failed overvalued profit goals, adult content bans to appeal to advertisers, and a lack of technical support for the platform itself marked this decline. Tumblr was not profitable to its new corporate owners, and that doomed the platform. It’s interesting how a similar series of events are occurring on Twitter almost a decade later. In a sense, Tumblr has already gone through the collapse Twitter and other social media companies are currently experiencing. As Balbi and Magaudda write, “digital media history cannot be uncoupled from an understanding of the way these new media emerge, grow and evolve in conjunction with specific economic and political power dynamics in a globalized economy” (31). Both platforms were founded on tenets of connection and anti-consumerism. Both platforms eventually needed to change their ways to appeal to the market. Finally, both platforms were forced onto a downward trajectory in the efforts to grow as the market demands and generate the desired profits. Tumblr has already hit bottom.

In this stalled state, Tumblr remains as an internet relic. However, this is what fundamentally sets Tumblr apart from modern internet platforms: it’s not a modern internet platform. Tumblr is of an earlier time when metrics and engagement weren’t prioritized, and algorithms were optional and less intrusive. Additionally, this lack of expectation in the market allows relative freedom from the demands it faced previously. Posts are sorted chronologically from when it was posted or reblogged. Recommendations for content the user might enjoy is optional, unlike on Twitter and many other platforms. Posts from multiple years ago resurface as the users of Tumblr decide what is popular and should be seen again, not the algorithm. In the modern social media landscape mired by platforms seeking to addict their users, capitalize on engagement, and incentivize profit above consumers, Tumblr is a breath of fresh air.

To quote Thomas Ridgewall on the decline of Twitter, “Death is a rare mercy.” Despite Musk’s claims, with the amount of debt Twitter has, profits will be impossible. If Tumblr’s history is any indication, Twitter will slowly diminish in the coming years, marked by unpopular changes, multiple devaluations, and sales to other companies at lower costs. A general sentiment of longing for the older internet will continue to grow in the general online public. Tumblr will continue regrowth, and other companies inspired by its formula may grow alongside it. Tumblr may not change much, but this possibly marks a shift in the larger social media space towards smaller, more manageable, and more accessible platforms. However, this rebirth is not without its concerns. If its popularity and user base continue to increase, Tumblr may find itself in the same capitalist predicament it found itself in almost a decade ago.

#i got an A lmao #this literally came from an inclass discussion where I brought up tumblr #and how ive actually really enjoyed using it #and she was like “oh i'd love to read that as a final essay!” #i didnt have any other topic sooooo #here we are

[livresgay]

À ce soir (de ParisDude)

Synopsis C’est une histoire d’amour. Une histoire qui débute en Sicile, se poursuit sur l’île Saint-Louis, à Paris, et se termine sur une île des tropiques, « l’île aux Cerfs ». Le narrateur voyage avec la personne qu’il aime, Tabatha. Ce qui les réunit ? Le plaisir carnavalesque de la danse, du chant ; le plaisir de se courir après, de se chasser. Une histoire qui se joue des frontières entre…

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#5 étoiles #Éditions de la Grange Batelière #Histoire d’amour #Inclassable #J. Verney #littérature trans

[priyakhurana]

Explore the wonders of the natural world through hands-on experiments, interactive simulations, and engaging discussions in our Science courses. Covering topics such as biology, chemistry, physics, and environmental science, students gain a deeper understanding of scientific principles and processes while developing essential inquiry and investigative skills.

#scienceclassesinsingapore #bestclasses #onlineclasses #inclasses #learningclasses

[thedaynightdreamer]

practice in class 3

#video art #inclass practice 3 #Youtube

[avidex]

Aude, 14 août 2022

Le Coucou gris s'approche, je déclenche l'appareil photo comme un dingue en priant pour que la mise au point se fasse ... Eh ! Il existe un dieu pour les ornithologues, et il m'a écouté

#2022 #aude #pays de sault #coucou #inclassable #coucou gris #liste

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

PLEASE 😭😭

If I were your professor, I'd give you an A

Did you start and finish your project the night it was due? (I do the same, don't worry)

thankyoo thankyoo

...maybe i did, maybe i didnt

what are you, the cops?? ',:|

#eel gets asks! #just turned it in tho so we'll see how it goes inclass tmrw #ugh i still gotta finish cleaninng my room dammit

[horse-shit]

hi. as it turns out python is my enemy and html is my lover on a sunny morning wrapped in bedsheets with messy hair. augh

#this class is not working for me is there anything we can do #no fucking enemy to lovers this is hatred on hatred #grrr #i. hate my coding class because as soon as i set everything up i get overwhelmed #my teacher is great! the kids are pretty sucky! python goes over my head and i feel so fucking stupid!!! #imps bs #sigh #and. this is so late #i tried talking with the teacher about it and like. i didnt explicitly say #because like. there is NOTHING we can DO unless it goes on a fucking PAPER which is STUPID AS SHIT #like i have no clue whats going on and its not computing for me #my web design class from a couple years ago was fine. i could decorate to my hearts content. #found out my teacher was transphobic in web design 2 but hey. what ya gonna do /s #i should like. die real quick. metaphorically #like i should take a nap and retry #ALSI THE DIRECTIONS PAGE IS STUCK IN LIGHT MODE. THERES NO DARK #MY EYES HURT!!! #ALSO inclass the lights are off. which is usually fine i love being in the darkness #but not when theres a moniter less than a foot away from my face with unadjustable beightness. #oh right. forgot to say that there was no class i could join and even if i Did manage to get out if there id most likely have an F in there #-becauae i ditched. hrrrmghaahdkglghdkdkckfbshslalanf #anger #oh GOD DAMN IT i forgot about the quotation mark bullshit #god fucking damn it

[yipeewahoo]

what don’t they understand it’s not engaging i can’t fuckikg focus on teh most BORING shit in the world ah ah ah ah HEHRJKR all she does is give a shorty ass fucking video , 20+ pages and the worlds worst fucking “simulations.” she rarely even fucking teaches! I CANT FOCUS I CANT FOCUS ITS NOT INTERESTING I FEEL SO BORED ITS PAINFUL I CANT JUST SITTT THERE^_^_^^_^_^^_^\^_% FOR AN HOUR I CANT ^^^^^_^ do that you know. it’s hard to sit still and listen to soemthing that 1) isn’t interesting and 2) you don’t care about

#vent #what’s wrong with meee!! #why am i like this no one. else inClass Is like this ykyky #like.Fuck! ahhaa #ahahhhhh

[feyreduarte]

Otto Hightower is a bitch. I rest my case. 

#justwatchedtheepisode inclass notmysmartestmoment