Creative Gallery

For my final project in our class, the creative gallery, it was important to me to utilize a concept that we learned about in class.  The day that stuck in my mind the most was the day we looked at the website Night of Melvin's Murder.  I really liked how it gave users options as to the path they chose to go for accessing another page. I decided to take this concept and apply it to the subject I used this past semester of European football.  I used some of the most famous players in the game and found connections among them.  Since certain teams have more money to purchase top competitors, these are the teams that typically have the best players like Spain.  Although I used less links than the site that inspired the project, it was extremely time consuming to find links for some of the players.  Taking as much time as it did for the forteen players I represented, made me appreciate the site Night of Melvins Murder even more.  One challenge that I faced where the creators of that site did not was that I was not creating fiction.  I had to find connections among the players that were factual so it made it more difficult and took more time.  I made sure to incorporate forwards, midfielders, defenders, and even a goalie to create my own All Star Team.  The concept also made me think of how our culture sometimes trys to link celebrities like actors or singers in magazines regarding their dating history or present.  In Europe, these players are some of the top celebrities so it would be possible for a form of these connections to exist. Enjoy


Creative Gallery

Creative Gallery Idea

For my creative gallery I wanted to do a website similar to The Night of Melvin's Murder, but with soccer players.  One player's page will have two other players with links to their pages.  The overall theme is similar to how the media connects celebrities usually through dating.  This page will show the connections with players such as who has previously played next to who.

Final Paper

Final Paper

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Learning to Love you More Response

Looking at the website Learning to Love you more was pretty interesting. I liked that there was a prompt to online audiences that allow people to grow as individuals. The last and most recent prompt was saying goodbye to all unnecessary things that are causing negative effects including exboyfriends/habits/bad thoughts. Some are more silly like the one that asks users to make a child's outfit into a size they fit into or growing a garden in an unexpected spot. One of my favorite prompts was to hang a windchime in a tree of a parking lot. This may seem odd, but its something simple that will brighten someone elses' day and that made me like it.

I really liked how overall there were exercises that caused people on the internet to actually DO soemthing. Sometimes I think that people that spend countless hours on the internet could use a little encouraging to do a physical activity. What I thought was really interesting is that these submissions had potential to be showcased in museum presentations all over the states.