Digital Media Exploration

Project Description

For this project, I collected  and produced different types of computational media from Creative Commons, with the proper credit, as well as create an animation, albeit crude, from scratch. 

Image Sample - JPG

This is a photograph I took while I was on my honeymoon last year. We traveled to Zimbabwe and Zambia, where we first went to Victoria Falls, then went on a safari. The Safari trips were camping expeditions in Hwange National Park as well as the Mana Pools National Park. The set ups were "glamping" style tents that had wood floors and toilets, but they also had a commons area, which is where this photo was taken. There's a spa here, and almost everyday there's an elephant that comes and drinks out of the pool. He, for reasons unexplained, earned the nickname Big Mac. 

Audio Sample - MP3

Above is an audio file called Psychoflex. I selected it because I wanted to see what heavy metal music would sound like under a creative commons license. It is pretty terrible. 

This piece of music happens to be shared under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, which means that it is available for

Free - Content is available for sharing

Adapt -Modify or adapt content into new works

No attribution requirements - The author is not required to be reference, but still can be if you know who created it.

Psychoflex © 2026 by AberrantRealities is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 

Lessons Learned

I learned quite a bit doing this project. I got to learn a new program and create my own animations, which I had a blast doing. I was also someone that never really paid any attention to grabbing and using stuff off the internet, but now I feel that if I were to publish anything online with borrowed materials, I can at least somewhat minimize any legal exposure. I had also never before really created any copyright protection or licensing for anything that I made. I've minted NFTs before when they had their moments; however that is more technological protection rather than legal.