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  • My CD Collection: CD #20 – Foo Fighters

    This is Foo Fighter’s Self-Titled album. Foo Fighters is a rock band formed in 1994 by Dave Grohl. Dave Grohl was previously in the band Nirvana as the drummer. After the end of Nirvana due to Kurt Cobains death, Dave formed this band with some friends, including former Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear. This Self-Titled album…

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  • Portfolio Print Production – Magazine Printing and Production

    We are finishing our magazines from last semester in our print production class this semester. To finish these magazines we are printing and assembling all of the pages to our magazine. The first was the printing. After making the necessary changes and fixes, we needed to arrange the pages into printer spreads. These printer spreads…

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  • Layout 2: Whole Magazine

    After finishing all of the different components that went into the magazine, we had to put it all together and add a folio. Putting all the different articles and ads together was simple. We placed the pdfs into one InDesign file into the page that it is suposed to go. But creating the folios was…

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  • My CD Collection: CD #19 – E350

    This is Ordinary by E350. This CD was one given to me by my father. E350 was a Sioux Falls-based band mad up of Brad Webber on bass and vocals, Mark Richards on drums, Pat McIntyre on guitars and vocals, and Dan Anderson on guitar and lead vocals. Not much is known about this band…

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  • New Media: Bootstrap Site

    In New Media, we were assigned to create a website for “Chef Jacqueline” using bootstrap and css code. We used the program Adobe Dreamweaver to make these websites and upload them to the server. I found this project pretty fun! At first I had a bit of trouble with some of the elements, but after…

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  • My CD Collection: CD #18 – Everclear

    So Much For The Afterglow is Everclear’s 1997 album. Everclear is a rock band from Portland formed in 1991. Formed by lead singer and guitarist Art Alexakis. So Much For The Afterglow was released in 1997, has 14 song, and a runtime of around 48 minutes. MY OPINION I’ve been a fan of Everclear’s music…

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  • Layout 2: Product Spread

    For this assignment in Layout 2, we had to make a product spread for our magazine with out own photos of products. We first had to pick our products and a topic. I chose the topic of drawing and decided on the title of 7 Essentials for Sketching Your Designs. I chose many different products…

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  • Photography: Triptych Photos

    Triptych photos are three separate photos with a similar theme, put together to make one image. The instructions were to photograph anything we would like and this is why I found this project fun. I really like music and playing guitar so I chose to take photos of my acoustic guitar out in nature. I…

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  • Media Writing: Social Media Posts

    In Media Writing class we were assigned to write 20 Facebook posts of a business of our choice. Because I had already had contact with Josh Rieck of J. Rieck Music, I chose to write for him. I really enjoyed writing for J. Rieck Music! I wrote a lot about guitar and the many different…

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  • Layout 2: Second Article

    This one was very similar to the Featured Article. But I didn’t find it as tough. In Media Writing, we were assigned to interview and write about an owner of a local business. I interviewed store owner and luthier, Josh Rice, of J. Rieck Music. I really enjoyed talking to Josh and really like visiting…

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