For this weekend, I am going to choose the easy digital detox path. The dance concert is next week, and I will have to stay pretty online this weekend regarding tech and other concerns. Otherwise, one platform I will try and limit my use of is Instagram, since I feel that I do not get much out of the app every time I log on. What takes up most of my screen time normally is TikTok, Spotify, and Messages- this weekend I will try and limit my TikTok usage as well.

I feel like I did meet my digital detox goal by simply getting more sleep. I think that normally, I view going on social media as a “break”, when in reality it is not making me more relaxed. Again, this made me realize that what I am considering breaks are not really so, and going forward will prioritize things such as sleep, not going on my phone. For Thanksgiving break, I will try my best to spend my time truly relaxing and spending time with my family, not doing things like watching television. Overall (even though I felt like I didn’t do a true detox since I had so much homework) I think this experience taught me a lot of valuable lessons.

Since my project is based on visual elements from social media (which are also my sources). I was going to create a draft story map, but without all of the sources ready, it started to look like blobs of text with weird gaps in between. I specified in the document which storyboard tools I will be using for the final draft, along with the specific examples of what media types I will be using and their purposes. For accessibility purposes, I will make sure I use interactive elements that everyone can access without having to create any sort of account. Additionally, I will provide appropriate trigger warnings when examples of harmful media posts are shown. For improvements from last time, I will make sure to elongate my project, along with adding on more interactive aspects.

A story map diving into what to expect at concerts, how to prepare for them, and the different experiences various venues may bring.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c6fe1604e1564085a4bf42633d9dea86

This photo was taken on my 15th birthday, and was taken by a film camera. Lots of my family have jobs in which they produce media, so I have always been surrounded by cameras, and thus grew a love for photography. I started taking film photography classes in 8th grade, and continued until I got to college. I loved how therapeutic the darkroom was, and loved watching my artwork come to light. I love how young my face looks in this picture, along with the lighting and composition of this image.

This photo was taken in November of 2020. Some family members of mine were high risk, so I rarely saw people other than those who lived with me. Two weeks prior to this photo being taken, I severely dislocated my knee, and was basically in bed 24/7 for two months, making me lose all mobility and muscle in my right leg. My parents built a fort in our backyard with an old couch and a space heater, and I would have my best friend over and we would watch movies together. She is the subject of the photo, but you can see my leg with my cast/brace on coming from the side- I lowered the saturation on this image to further convey the gloomy mood. This photo almost seems surreal, because a year prior to this photo being taken, I could have never predicted the position I would have been in.

This photo was taken in April 2023, right before the Spring dance concert. Last year was my first full year back to dancing, because the two years prior I had either been injured or recovering from my knee surgery. I was extra excited for this concert because the piece I was dancing in I had also choreographed, and my parents were in the audience. I feel like the contexts between the previous image and this one is quite uplifting to see that I was able to return to dancing and that life returned to (semi) normal. I like my costumes are very dark, almost alluding the the mood of the previous photo, but the mood of this image is very bright.