This assignment was an interesting one. They asked us to choose a color, take a 20 min walk, and take a few pictures with that color included. However, instead of taking a walk through nature, as seen in the example, I thought I’d take a walk through a nearby convention. I choose the color blue, since I love blue, and thought that it would be a unique color for this assignment.

My first photo was of this girl wearing a blue kimono, or traditional Japanese outfit. Next was a set of blue multi-sided dice. They had all sorts of blue dice, so it was hard to pick which I should take a picture of for this assignment. The next one features my friend and me in blue attire and was taken after being captured by Stormtroopers as part of a bounty hunting game. We got caught while I was buying a sword, so it was kind of funny having them stand and wait for me to pay before escorting us to “jail”. The nice thing about this booth was that the people were raising money for people with epilepsy. The “shame” was due to my friend jokingly saying my purchase was the reason for our capture. We also went to a panel, which is where I took a picture of my friend’s new toy fox and the blue screen at the front.

In this particular assignment, we were asked to use a website called TimeLine JS to compile all of our pictures into a “timeline”. I found it interesting that you could turn an Excel Spreadsheet into a nice looking timeline so easily and have some bit of customization involved. I did have some trouble figuring out where to put what information on the Excel sheet, but a quick look at all the spreadsheet helped with my confusion. However, I had some issues with embedding the timeline onto this post itself, even after looking online for the answers. Thankfully, a classmate had the same problem and found a solution that worked for both of us.

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