Zoë c.
Hello, welcome to my page. I would really appreciate it if you would check out my first assignment. All you have to do is click here.
How to Create a Voki
Hello, my name is Zoë. I would like to provide anyone who might’ve enjoyed my Voki with instructions on how to make your very own. Making a Voki is fun and surprisingly easy to do. It also lets you get as creative as you want when you’re making your avatar.
The first step in the process of making your own Voki is to create a free account. You wouldn’t want to work really hard on your character and then have it disappear when you exit out of the tab, would you? After you create your account, you are going to click on the word ‘Voki’ at the top of the screen (not the one in the speech bubble, the one beside it.) After you do that, you will see a randomized character and a bunch of options beside it. I would start with the options under the: ‘Customize Your Character’ category.
Under that category you will find three options that will enable you to select and customize your avatar. I suggest that you start with the first option. The first option will give you several types of characters and various categories to choose your character from. After you’ve finished picking your character, you can use the other two options to customize your character even more. After you’re done editing your avatar’s appearance, if you’d look under the ‘Give It a Voice’ category, you’d see that you can give your character a voice, accent, and you even tell your character what to say.
When you’re done giving your person a voice, there is one last thing that can do: pick out a background that goes with your character’s personality. The option to do so is right under the option to give your character a voice. There are many, many backgrounds to choose from so you don’t have to worry about only having a few options.
When you’re happy with your Voki, click the ‘Publish’ option at the bottom of the screen and then you can see how your Voki turned out when it was finished. You can view your Voki as much as you want when you’re finished with it. You can also create as many Vokis as you want. I hope these instructions were helpful to you and I hope you have fun making your very own Voki.
Tagxedo
Hello again. I would like to give you a quick introduction on how I made the image you see above this message and why I chose the words that make up the image. The reason that I made the picture above is that I took a personality test and I created a photo that is made up of most of the words that I think suit my personality best.
I chose those specific words because those are the words that suit my personality and attitude the best. Those words describe what I am and act like every single day of my life. But the words that I think suit me the most out of all the words in the image are 'introverted' and 'tired.'
This assignment was meant to help me express my personality in words instead of what I look like or what I do. This picture represents what I am and what I stand for, so to me it isn't just a regular photograph. This picture takes my appearance and puts it into words and I think that all of these words express who I truly am.
Color Wheel
Color wheels are used for a variety of things. Every artist uses a color wheel; they are used to find different colors. Everything that has color comes from a color wheel. All colors originate from the three colors: blue, red, and yellow. These three colors create a group of colors called the primary colors. Any color that you could possibly think of could be traced back to any of these three colors.
Vincent Van Gogh is a very famous painter who used the color wheel on multiple occasions. In Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night”, there are different shades of many colors, specifically blue and yellow. This painting is one of Van Gogh’s most famous works of art. The darker colors used in this painting give the painting a very mysterious air and the darker shades also make the lighter colors used in this painting look even more bright and vibrant than if the darker shades hadn’t been used.
Color wheels are very good for combinations of colors that could be complete opposites. They can make colors that we wouldn’t have noticed before and make them stand out so much that it’s all we can see. Color wheels help us see the things that aren’t usually noticed by most of us.
Graffiti Wall
There are many reasons why people do graffiti. Sometimes people do it just to have an outlet to their artistic ability. People also do graffiti to just brighten up an abandoned building or they might be marking something as their territory.
The first step of creating a digital graffiti wall is to open up a program on your computer called Gimp. Then, you can pick the brick background that you like and post it on Gimp. After that, you can post any design, word, or symbol that you want, sky’s the limit.
I chose the specific words that I did because they’re some of the words that I connect with the most. For example, I chose the word ‘paranoid’ because I suspect everything and trust no one, including myself. Another example would be the word ‘moody’. That word was chosen because I am almost never in a perfectly good mood and because my mood will change in the blink of an eye.
Food Face
Arcimboldo is a surreal artist that used fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books to create portraits of people. When Arcimboldo put all of the objects together, the portrait actually looks human. Arcimboldo chose to use food to create art because he thought that it would be unique and creative.
I chose to use the food that I did because they are some of my favorite foods. Believe it or not, some of these foods hold significant memories for me. As you can see, I chose foods that have a special meaning to me and foods that I simply just like to eat.
“I had that dream again…”
I woke up in the middle of that same empty street. I brushed the rubble off of my clothing as I got to my feet. I observed the rotting corpse of a city surrounding me. I looked at the rusted cars laying on cracked walkways. I looked at the jagged pieces of glass that littered the ground that I stood on. And in the distance I heard the eerie squeak of a disused swing moving in a breeze that I couldn’t feel.
But most of all, I looked at the building right in front of me, its frame untouched by whatever happened to the rest of this dystopian land. It seemed like that building stood taller than all of the rest. And although it was just a regular building, it struck fear into my heart. I looked at that building and thought Everything that is horrible and ugly and disgusting in this world lies within this very building.
I don’t know why I thought that but I knew that it was true.
Then the building started to move closer to me. Or rather, I was moving getting closer to it. Completely against my will, I started to walk towards that wretched place. As I was nearing the entrance, I noticed foreboding red sign above the entryway that simply read HOSPITAL.
It’s like a child’s drawing. Children don’t know that places have specific names, instead they just label places things like “Store” or “Library.” I laughed without humor. I knew that this place wasn’t place for healing, but a place where death and insanity resides. There were never any smiling faces at this hospital. There were never any excited children running around with candy, bragging about how their doctor told them that they’re their number one patient.
At this hospital, there were only gaunt features and white sheets over pale faces. I was horrified to find that my feet were carrying me closer and closer to the hospital’s entrance. I prayed. I begged and I raved and I screamed in my head but my body wouldn’t stop. I placed my hand on the door and I pushed.
I stepped inside and immediately a foul stench invaded my nostrils. It was like someone was trying to cover up the smell of death with a can of cheap air freshener. It smelt like daisies and rotting meat. I gagged and my stomach lurched. I turned my body to leave but the entrance had disappeared. I was trapped.
I was about to open my mouth to scream until I ripped my vocal chords but a voice invaded my mind:
“Who are you? Are you here to visit me? I’m so lonely here.”
The voice was that of a child’s but the remainder of my sanity forced me to listen more closely. And I could hear it. The voice behind the voice. It was the sound of a thousand tortured souls condensed into one single voice.
The monster spoke again:
“Could you visit me? I’m not far, just ride the elevator up to the thirteenth floor. I’m the only one who lives up there.” I hated this thing’s voice. It sent shards of glass into my veins and rusted nails into my mind. I tried to run away, but, once again, my body started moving of its own accord. I moved toward the elevator, the door already open, almost like it’s welcoming me. It makes me sick.
Once inside the bar-less cage, I looked at the button panel. There was only one button to press: the thirteenth floor button. My hand extended towards the panel and pushed the only option I had. The elevator jolted and made screeching noise, as if the elevator was struggling to carry its load. In the back of my mind I feared that the wires would snap and I would fall to my death but I knew that worse things awaited me on the thirteenth floor.
I felt an eternity pass before the elevator doors finally opened. I stepped out into the hallway and the moment those elevator doors closed, the elevator plunged down to the hospital basement with a sudden crash. Probably ensuring I couldn’t escape from my fate. The air was cold and it seemed like everyone stopped trying to hide the scent of decay.
I walked down the hallway and stopped in front of the only door on this floor. The monster’s voice got louder and louder and it had given up the charade of being a child. That voice lashed out at me like a caged animal. When my hand reached for the doorknob I used my other hand to grab it, anything to stop me from meeting the horrible thing on the other side of this door. Sweat trickled down my brow and tears raced down my cheeks. The voice started to threaten me, and at last I finally let go of my hand and it shot towards the doorknob. At the moment when flesh met metal, the voice stopped and the only thing I could hear was the beating of my own heart.
I walked in the room and was met with what looked like a sickly child in a hospital bed. But I knew better. When I was standing directly in front of the bed the child opened his eyes. To reveal no eyes. There was nothing in his empty sockets, just black. Then the thing spoke:
“Hello, I am so glad you came to visit. Now I can devour you.”
The monster tackled me to the ground and opened its mouth to reveal rows and rows of syringe needles instead of teeth and in those last moments of life all I could think was You look an awful lot like my son.
I awoke in a cold sweat. I spent a good ten minutes in the dark just trying to catch my breath. In an effort to calm down, I got out of bed and walked down the hallway towards my son’s room. When I got there I just stood in the doorway and stared at him, admiring how he never had any terrifying nightmares.
I walked toward him and sat down on his bed. After sitting for a while, I laid a kiss on his forehead and got up to go back to my own. But I didn’t see my son starting to wake up. I didn’t see him open his eyes to reveal empty sockets and I didn’t see him smile, revealing several rows of syringe needles dripping with venom.
The End.
Board Game Instructions:
Last to Die
Number of Players: 3-4
Age Range: 14 and up
Backstory:
For centuries, witches have been seen as evil and twisted creatures. They have been hated throughout the land and no one has ever treated them the same as they do their neighbor. No one has ever even regarded them as human. But what the villagers don’t know is that the witches walk among them. They’re everywhere. Sometimes disguised and other times they’re invisible. This plan has worked for witches for many years, but something happened. On the first of October, when cold winds and snowy nights were approaching. Something happened that changed history forever. A group of witches infiltrated a nearby village to steal chickens for the secret sacrifice that they would hold in their sacred cursed forest. Although they were dressed as average, everyday villagers, their identities were still found out and they were forced to run for their lives. They have to run as fast as they can to their forest. They casted a special spell that only allows them to go in. So if the villagers were to have a surprise attack on the witches in the forest, they couldn’t be able to go in. The spell keeps non-witches out. Will any of the witches survive without getting burned at the stake? Nobody will ever know…
Game Objective
The ultimate objective is to get to the other end of the board game without getting captured by the sadistic villagers. You must reach the end of the board without drawing a sudden death card. Anyone who gets a sudden death will automatically be out of the game.
Game Contents
The game contents include two decks of cards, a free standing game board, and a maximum of four game pieces used by the players.
Game assembly
You assemble the game by shuffling both decks of cards, setting up the board, letting the players pick out the game pieces they want to use.
Game setup
To start the game, you setup the board nicely and on a flat surface. Then, carefully shuffle both decks of cards, regular and tarot cards. You put both of the decks of cards on the two separate rectangles shown on the board. And, finally, each player picks out their game piece to represent a witch in the game. Put all the game piece each person picked out and put them in the place that says “start.” Game setup is the same no matter the number of players.
Game Play
The player who is wearing the most dark clothing pieces goes first. If this cannot be decided, then the players will play rock paper scissors to decide. When it’s decided who goes first the order of players will then be a clockwise rotation.
Turn Sequence – When it is a player’s turn to play they will first pick up a card out of the regular deck. That card will either be one with a number on it or a special card. If the player drew a card with a number on it, they will then draw a card from the tarot deck. If the tarot card that the player drew says “negative” on it then the player will move the number of spaces that was on the regular card backward. But if the tarot card that the player drew says “positive” then the player will move the number of spaces that was on the regular card forward. If a player draws a negative tarot card while still on the beginning space, then that player will not move and it will be the next person’s turn. That player will not move from the beginning space until getting a positive tarot card. In the event that a player draws one of the special regular cards, that player will not have to draw a tarot card afterwards. There is no scoring in this game. The order play does change but only when a certain special card is drawn.
Special conditions
When you land on another player while playing the game, you’ll have to stay there. Two players can be on the same square, but no more than two. If, by any chance, three or four players are on the same square, then the first person to be on that square will stay in the spot. The second person to get in the square will have to go back one space (but only if there are more than two people on the same square). The third person to get on the square will have to go back two spaces and the fourth person will have to go back three. Hopefully, this will never happen. But if it does, then hope for the best because the rules are confusing.
Game Play variations:
There are three special cards in the deck of regular cards. One says “Captured.” This means that you have been captured by the villagers and will soon be burned at the stake. When you get this card, you can’t continue playing. So pick up your piece and throw it off the game board because you have permanently lost the game and the will to live. Your journey to freedom is over and there is no way you can continue to survive. The next special card says “Switch.” You are very lucky when you get this card because it means you can switch places with anyone on the board. You simply pick up your game piece and move to the spot you want and put that game piece in your old spot. The last card says “Lose a Turn.” This means that you can’t move until another round has gone by. When you get this card, you don’t do anything. After you pick up this card, it goes straight to the next person. When you pick up any of these three cards, you don’t pick up a tarot card. There is no need to for a tarot card in this situation.
Winning
You win the game just by fate. There is no way of telling who’s going to win or lose. When you’re the first person to get to the end of the board game, in the forest, you win. Or you’re just the first one to survive. The game can continue if there’s more than one person still playing. If there’s only one person playing, then they have lost and died. The other way to die is by getting one of the special cards called “Captured.” If you get it, then you die and lose instantly.
Forced Perspective:
