Hey guys, this week I was your media curator and I’d like to share my experiences of “curating media” with you. At first it was kind of overwhelming trying to keep track of how many posts I’ve submitted on Instagram and Twitter. Fortunately, I eventually got the hang of it by making it a habit to post at least 1 or 2 tweets and an Instagram photo post everyday. The real challenge was actually finding interesting content to post everyday when you are constantly barraged with homework and assignments and looming deadlines that I am sure everyone can relate to.

Creating a Spotify playlist was by far the most enjoyable aspect of this assignment. If I remember correctly, the last time I used Spotify was about 6 months back when my brother asked me to stream music on my iPhone. Getting back into Spotify was refreshing as I found new genres of songs that I enjoy like vaporwave and funk jazz. As such I proceeded to construct my playlist full of “dank tunes” that I found really funny and entertaining. The playlist contains the likes of various indie vaporwave music composers and I threw in the works of Earth, Wind and Fire just for the hell of it. I hope everyone enjoys that playlists or I will be very sad…

Getting on Instagram was tricky as I could not even log into the account for the first two days. I kept entering the same username and password provided to me for god knows how many times but I was greeted with the same annoying error message: “the username does not exist.” I later found out that my username was indeed incorrect because of one small mistake: the corect username was rhe.of.the.iphone instead of @rhe.of.the.iphone. Its funny how a single character can cause so much pain to me. Well it didn’t bother me that much as I got to post the most mundane stuff on Instagram like a banana I just bought at H-E-B today (Check it out!).

Hope you guys have as much fun being a media curator as I did!