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Brady Bunch Remix

I probably spent way too long on this for someone who has never seen Brady Bunch or That 70’s Show. I was going to try and get pictures of my friends but I didn’t have enough that wanted to let their faces be in this, and I was going to do animals but I didn’t know if my friends would let me take their animals faces either. So I had to do something I knew I had enough of that meant something to me especially during these times of quarantine and that would be video games! I sadly don’t get to play that often now, if I do play it’s playing Animal Crossing as soon as I wake up and right before I go to bed so I can try and relax at the start and end of the day. I’m a bigger fan of the older consoles, I still play a ton of Gamecube games now when I get the chance and I’m often playing my old Nintendogs or Pokemon games on my D.S. I did have a Gameboy but I think my brother took it when he wanted to play something last Summer and never brought it back so I couldn’t include that- so I included my laptop! My laptop means so much to me! Back in the dorms I didn’t have my Nintendo Switch set up at all, so the only games I would ever play would be Overwatch on my computer or Mario Kart with the roommates on the Wii- more often it was just Overwatch though.

I honestly had a lot of fun doing this. I love editing photos even though this isn’t the best example to show how much I enjoy editing photos! I also haven’t had any time to break out my drawing tablet in a while either because of the large amounts of homework in my multiple classes so it was just nice to use that again.

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DS106 Week #5 – We’re the Real Life Brady Bunch

I decided to recreate the Brady bunch image with the title in the center and the people around the boxes with the blue background. I wanted to make this assignment using my friends I have made at UNE for my first two semester as the subject. We don’t really have a name for our friend group, so I just went with The UNE Crew. Most of my friends I have made have been through our shared major, Animal Behavior. The lovely ladies shown in my final creation (from left to right, top to bottom) are Izzi, Sidney, Bailey, Rachel, Madison, Kelsie, myself, and Lauren. Each and every one of them has made my time so far at UNE special and memorable in their own ways and I cannot wait to reunite with them in August (fingers crossed nothing major changes and we still get to return to Biddeford). To make this final image, I started with a solid blue background layer in Photoshop. I then placed black lines to create boxes for each friend. I then looked through either my computer to find photos I had taken of my friends, or looked on their social media to find a photo if I hadn’t taken a solid shot of them to use (all but two were my own photos… photo credit to Rachel and Lauren for their photos from Facebook). After I had the boxes, I imported each photo one at a time and erased around their chest and head to get rid of the original background.

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The Quarantine Bunch

My mom’s all-time favorite show is The Brady Bunch so I felt like I had to do her some justice and make this little image of who we’ve been seeing during the quarantine. In this picture, I included my dog, Cookie, my brothers, Jack and Josh, my mom, my mom’s fiance, Derek, and my grandparents. The hardest part of this assignment was finding the perfect font. For some reason the image quality of my upload is poor so I am attaching the link to it here. 

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ds106 – We’re the Brady Bunch!

What an awesome assignment! Apologies for not filling in the final and last square. I was going to include a picture of my house (or something of that liking) but decided to push the text and try to fill in the blank space. There was also the debate of including my brother’s girlfriend but I thought against it. I’m really glad this assignment got to focus on family & friends. Here I show off my own family as there’s a lot of us Cabrals. Not as much as the Brady Bunch, but certainly enough of us. I also included I picture of Winter as he deserves to be included in a family photo/collage. These are all photos taken by my mom, Kelly Cabral, and were pulled from her computer.

For this assignment, I got to try my hands at InDesign when making the Background & cropping images. I first included all my photos and then drew a big square that I used for my background. The layout options are really helpful when you can bring elements forward/back on the page. I threw the background to the back of the frame and then began to draw the lines for the frame. I sent those to the back and then one layer above the background. Giving the image a smooth look. Finally, I added the Text block that contained “The Cabrals” and was set on the Brady Bunch layout. I really enjoyed this assignment and was glad I could spotlight my big ol’ family.

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DS106 We’re The Real Life Brady Bunch

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The idea of the “real life Brady Bunch” is actually my family. My image is made up of all of my three older sisters, my five year old brother, my stepmom, my mom, and my dad. We really are the real life Brady bunch because growing up with three older sisters made for quite a few hectic days! We all get along now but growing up was really interesting. I am not sure how my parents handled four girls. When my dad got remarried to my stepmom (whom we all love and adore), he finally got a son! It only took him five tries!! It is really funny going home to a brother who is 17.5 years younger than me but I love having fun with him and watching Thomas and Friends! We all live in different parts of the country now but we do get together for holidays and it is ALWAYS the highlight of my year! This was definitely a fun project and once I figured out how to create the image, I had a lot of fun with it!

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The Brady Bunch Remix

When becoming a teacher, there are many hoops to jump through. From completing a 4-6 year degree to creating lesson plans and being able to adapt them. Some of the steps are harder than others but they are all necessary to become a teacher. I thought of this idea after a conversation with my mother about all the things you have to do to become a teacher.

When picking images for the Brady Bunch Remix, I started with the image of the teacher. With all the steps you have to be pretty strong to go through it so that is why I choose the teacher stock image with muscle arms. Next, I included a picture of lesson plans and a sign with different arrows to indicate how you need to be able to adapt the lessons you create to the various needs of the classroom. I included a degree for all the years you need to go to school to be a teacher. I also included Maine’s state exam logo, Praxis, because to be a teacher you need to pass about seven of them. I also included a blackboard with the words “student teaching” because you need to complete student teaching to be able to get your certificate. After that, I included an open head with lots of things coming out of it to stand for the lots of knowledge that is needed to be a teacher. The next picture, which is my favorite one, is a bunch of coffee cups standing in for the lots of energy to get tasks completed and to keep up a positive attitude. The final picture I included was a job interview standing for the interviews that teachers go through to get a job.

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DS106 Brady Bunch

For this assignment, we were asked to create a Brady Bunch like collage. Instead of using family members or friends, I wanted to showcase everything I use on a daily basis in the life of a nanny. In order from the top to the right we have:

  • a fun little ring toy with beads which is a favorite right now because it makes a lot of noise
  • a food pouch with peaches, pears and apples, also a favorite because it involves peaches
  • a diaper because we need those a lot in one day
  • a teething toy ice cream, also a big hit right now especially after it sits in the fridge for a few minutes
  • nanny probs as my title in the middle of all of these pieces
  • a bottle, a not so favorite but still needing the nutrients!
  • Connor thinking I am so funny
  • peach puffs, he loves feeding himself and these are the easiest go to snack, also a favorite because they involve peach
  • Connor and I being silly

I took a little spin on this project and I am really happy with how it turned out. I edited these pictures on my phone using the app called “color tone” and then put them onto my computer and made a collage with the website “befunky” linked here.

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DS106 We’re The Real Life Brady Bunch

This is obviously not a joke and it’s something we all need to take very seriously. We, as adults, as students, as advocates, as future leaders, as HUMANS have the obligation and opportunity to stand up for our fellow friends and family in the black community, and other minority communities, that are enduring and have endured a lifetime of cruelty and discrimination. We must speak up and speak out, because their voices are not being heard. Their voices fall silent on the ears of the racist policy makers that run this country. Black Lives Matter. We will prevail together. ds106assignment

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FIG LOOP NIGOD

For my backward gif I decided to do a dog jumping into the pool.  I chose this because I was trying to think of something that you don’t normally see in reverse. The first thing I thought of was a splash. There is a trend right now (on tik too actually) where you make a pose and then jump into the pool but then put the video in reverse. Now you look like a superhero jumping out of the water and landing in a battle stance. I googled a person jumping into the pool to find a video to make a reverse gif out of. Then I saw this dog and, well, dogs are better than people.

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DS106 Assignment: Turn a GIF into a FIG

“Recently, I was exposed to reverse-animated GIFs. I must say, some are hilarious. Find a video clip, or shoot one of yourself, and then make it playback in reverse over and over again as a GIF. Try to find a situation that is absolutely mind-blowing when played backwards.”

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Since my last GIF was of me rollerblading I thought I’d continue the trend and make a “FIG” of me rollerblading. This is a simple 360 but it looks pretty cool backwards. I wish I was that good at skating backwards in real life!

To make this GIF, I downloaded a simple video reversing app on my phone, which made the video run backwards. From there, I just put it into GIPHY, edited the length, and voilà! A FIG was born.

Figuring out how to do this was a little frustrating. I thought it was going to be a lot harder than it was in the end. I’m pleased with the result!

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Daily Create #tdc3078

It was hard to choose one time of day that I like most. I really find nighttime to be beautiful, especially in the summer, with the star-filled skies and lightning bugs in the field out front of our home, but there is something special and peaceful about the time around 30 minutes before to an hour after sunrise. Just in general, it is kind of neat to be awake and watching the sun actually rise in the morning. It makes me feel like I have a full day ahead of me and I just feel refreshed and calm when I see the sunrise (especially on the beach!). Secondly, as a wildlife photographer, lighting is key. Photographing animals midday can be less fruitful than sunrise and late afternoon/early evening/close to sunset because of the lighting. Midday light is harsh and casts undesirable shadows and blown out highlights. However, early morning sunrise light gives a beautifully rich and warm glow to whatever subject I’m observing and photographing. I decided to depict this light through a collage I threw together of photos taken at Tuesday morning’s sunrise. The subjects are adorable Piping Plovers, a threatened and protected shorebird species in Maine. I woke up at 3:30 in the morning to go watch the sunrise at Old Orchard Beach and photograph these special little birds with the beautiful warm light of a Maine summer sunrise.

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DS106 Week #4 – “What they might have done on social media”

I decided to choose the famous figure, Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. I recently watched the film “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and it inspired me to complete this project about everyone’s favorite neighbor. I had trouble with the Facebook site and wasn’t able to save it, so I had to take a screenshot of my screen. After doing that, it still had elements of the building template, so I took the screenshot image into photoshop and covered up evidence of it being a work in progress so that it looked more polished like a real facebook page. I had fun coming up with a fake Twitter and sample tweet for him and decided to go with a current event that would have happened during his time. I thought it would be interesting to mention the moon landing and have Mr Rogers comment on how the neighborhood was growing bigger as the astronauts traveled to the moon and placed the American flag. He was such a happy and caring person, so I decided that his Facebook posts would all be inspirational, wholesome words, so I used some of his famous quotes as his Facebook posts.

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GIF to FIG

This is from a video of my synchronized swim team in our second year competing in the Junior Olympics. We left that week with 2 Gold medals and 1 Silver.

This specific part of the video is of our first lift and I just thought it would look really cool backward. Sorry, it is a little blurry, after being put through editing apps it kind of lost some resolution.

For this assignment, I just used an editing app I already had on my phone and trimmed the part of the first lift from the full routine video.

Besides looking really cool, I decided to choose this because swimming and being part of such a successful team was a huge part of my life. Although it’s kind of a strange sport, I was extremely dedicated and passionate about it.

I wanted to pursue it further in my college career, and I even got offers from different Universities for it, but unfortunately, I was unable to continue. Over the years, the wear and tear the sport had on me, my knees especially, resulted in the development of a disease in my joints that have limited me greatly.

I was advised to quit before my last year of competition, but I refused and finished my last year as strong as I could. Now, there is very little I can do without the assistance of bulky knee braces, but it hasn’t stopped me from finding new athletic passions such as surfing. Although the pain is still very much present and I can no longer swim like I used to, I refuse to let it stop me from pursuing any new active adventures.

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DS106 Week #5 – GIF to a FIG

Bird’s flying in reverse GIF – link: (via GIPHY)

I decided to use a slow-mo video I took this past winter of me feeding birds from my hand. I love slow mo videos of animals and birds in flight are fascinating to watch. I thought it would be kind of interesting to see birds flying backwards. I also like the beginning of the GIF where it looks like the seed is levitating into the nuthatches bill! I used an app on my phone called Reversevid to convert my original slow mo video into a reverse version, and then uploaded that reverse copy to GIPHY to complete my FIG where it is linked to above with the grayish-blue link.

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DS106- Turn A GIF Into A FIG

I chose this video of a jump I did for dance and reversed it because I thought of how crazy it would be for me to do this coming up from the ground. I look at it and it makes my legs hurt! The caption “leg day” is because it would be a huge workout to do and I would need to be really strong in order to do this from the floor. I liked this assignment although I could not think right away about what I wanted to do for it. I looked through a few videos I had and this one stood out to me. I had no issues creating this through an application on my phone called “Reverse Vid” and then put the video on the giphy website and here you go!

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Daily Create #TDC3078

The daily create for 6/16/2020 was to talk about our favorite part of the day. My favorite part of the day is when the day becomes the night. More specifically a clear night where you can see the stars and moon. I have always loved space and the stars. I have fond memories of going outside at night and just looking at the stars and whenever things get crazy, I always try to look at them. Something about them just brings joy, peace, and a sense of hope to me. The stars to me are calming and centering.

The idea that they are all far far away but yet I can still see them fascinates me. The idea that some are dead/dying by the time we see them on earth is interesting to me. My most favorite idea though is the thought that no matter where you are on earth, there are stars above you. It connects people. I have been told stories about how parents tell their children to look at the stars if they miss them and know the parents are looking up at the same stars thinking of the children. As a babysitter/nanny, I have told kiddos the same story to help them go to sleep without their parents if they were having a difficult time and so far it has always calmed them. There is something about looking at the stars and knowing that the person you are thinking about can see them too that is connecting.

There is also something calming about the night sky and stars. I remember going to the beach as a child and seeing the night sky in all its beauty on a clear night. The quietness and stillness of it all was surreal. It was calming and peaceful. I believe the first time I experienced that as a little kid was the first time was the time I fell in love with it. Its something I believe everyone should experience at some point in their life, the beach with a starry sky.

I was going to include a stock image with my post because I don’t have any photos of the stars or the night sky on my phone due to it being hard to capture all of it but it didn’t feel genuine so I didn’t. I simply put what my favorite part of the day was, which is actually the night when the stars come out to shine.

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DS106 GIF into FIG

This weeks gif assignment was to create a gif that is funny backwards. The original video, the frog obviously jumped forward and in this it looks like it is jumping backwards. I guess the gif itself isn’t all that funny, but the story behind it is. The other day while I was sitting for my other nanny child, we found this cute little frog, she’s nine so of course we played with it and brought it along with us to do fun things. The frogs name was then Todd. While Summer (the little girl) was walking outside, Todd did a jump onto the ground, probably seeing an opportunity to escape. Todd was rudely mistaken when he next found himself inside of Summer’s 11 year old French Bulldog’s mouth. Summer cried, I screamed. I finally did the adult thing, picked up the dog and fortunately she spit Todd out. Todd was very wet after and we let him hop peacefully away while we went inside. I was very unsure about Todd living and I didn’t need Summer to be traumatized even more, so we “let him go home”. We both ended up laughing about it in the end, but the whole experience was a whirlwind of emotions. So, here you have Summer and Todd, Todd is doing a little backwards jump.

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Turn a GIF into a FIG

I honestly couldn’t figure this out but thankfully someone on the home page shared what they did and I followed that and it helped me so much! I took my video, uploaded it on YouTube so I could upload it to GifRun. Then I brought it to freegifmaker (which by the way my computer says is not a safe site so be careful I guess?) which has a reverse button. Their sizes are too large so I brought it over to GIF Maker and changed the width to 260px! Thank you to whoever posted these instructions because that helped me a lot!

So the story behind this is the fact that my dog can almost never catch treats. In this one it boops off his nose and onto the floor. I took a few videos in hopes maybe one would be pretty funny but sadly they were mainly all the same- sometimes he just opens his mouth and lets it bounce off his head. Nonetheless, it looks like the treats crawling towards him and then he tosses it to me and I’ve already sent it to a few of my friends because it looks funny! I love Achilles so much.

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