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Connor Skaryd

Why Don’t We See You Anymore?

Synopsis: Prompted by the innocuous question of “Why don’t we see you anymore?” from his mother, a young boy returns to his room with dinner. Along the way he relives painful memories of abuse from his father and answers why his family doesn’t see him outside his room anymore.

Video Editing: DaVinci Resolve 19

Image Editing: Edited in Canva, Paint 3D, and Inkarnate

Audio Editing: Audacity 

Dialog: All Dialog was recorded and Edited with Audacity
Connor Skaryd: Father, Stephen, Andrew
Stephanie Skaryd: Mother

Image Assets:
Classic kitchen, interior design. Free public domain CC0 https://www.rawpixel.com/image/6042964

“A modern living room with a white couch and a tv” by Wilcle Nunes public domain CC0  https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-modern-living-room-with-a-white-couch-and-a-tv-27164969/
Edited in Canva, Paint 3D, and Inkarnate

Looking down at a plate of food, holding it with both hands in a kitchen. teenager First person perspective, The plate is on a marble counter The kitchen has white styling, realistic style,” image generated by Connor Skaryd using MidJourney AI image generation

Arguing Man and Woman j4p4n CC0 
https://openclipart.org/detail/320010/arguing-man-and-woman
Edited in Canva and Paint 3D

“The free high-resolution photo of architecture, wood, white, house, floor, home, hall, property, empty, room, apartment, interior design, hardwood, hell, do, gang, real estate, inner hallway, flooring, daylighting, wood flooring” The image is released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/754453?utm_content=shareClip&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pxhere
Edited in Canva, Paint 3D, and Inkarnate

Woman Tasting Food Silhouette by  Mohamed Hassan CC0 https://www.stockvault.net/photo/254893/woman-tasting-food-silhouette
Edited in Canva, Paint 3D, and Inkarnate

Photo of a Minimalist Room by El the Explorer, CC 0, https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-a-minimalist-room-12243565/
Edited in Canva, Paint 3D, and Inkarnate

Paper-cut of an 8 year old boy from Germany, by Hanes Grobe, Wikimedia Commons, This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silhouette_hg.jpg 
Edited in Canva, and Paint 3D

A Laundry Room by Alex Tyson CC 0 https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-laundry-room-19980200/
Edited in Canva, Paint 3D, and Inkarnate

White Wooden Door by La Miko CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-wooden-door-3616740

Audio Assets:

Footsteps on hollow wood by florianreichelt — https://freesound.org/s/459970/ — License: Creative Commons 0

dorm door close.wav by pagancow — https://freesound.org/s/15418/ — License: Creative Commons 0

Somber Melodies by ViraMiller — https://freesound.org/s/745099/ — License: Attribution 4.0

dorm door close.wav by pagancow — https://freesound.org/s/15418/ — License: Creative Commons 0

Kitchen Sounds: 006 – Cooking In Home Kitchen B.wav by Trashcan_Studios — https://freesound.org/s/625632/ — License: Attribution 4.0

April 7, 2025 by Student Posts 0

The Invasion

Created by Connor Skaryd
Video Edited in DaVinci Resolve exported directly to Youtube
Audio Edited in Audacity
Credit Slide Created in Canva

Audio Credit
“The Day The Earth Stood Still by Stefan Kartenberg 2025 – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)
Edited in Audacity

Image Credits in order of Appearance
“Sunrise from the International Space Station” By NASA Johnson Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0  https://www.flickr.com/photos/steveguttman/49824911106

“Earth satellite illustration” This image is from Pixabay and was published prior to July 2017 under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication license https://web.archive.org/web/20161229043156/https://pixabay.com/en/service/terms/ . https://www.uihere.com/free-photos/earth-satellite-illustration-538538

“Empty Streets Times Square, empty (Covid-19)” Photo by  Steve Guttman Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0  https://www.flickr.com/photos/steveguttman/49824911106

“Person stargazing under a vivid starry night sky scene”. Photo by Nathan Anderson Photos courtesy of and copyright Free Range Stock, www.freerangestock.com

“Camera lens focusing in the dark.” By Francis Daniel licensed under Equalicense Retreaved from https://freerangestock.com/photos/165101/camera-lens-focusing-in-the-dark.html

“Stargazing Night Gathering” AI Generated Stock Cake

“https://stockcake.com/i/stargazing-night-gathering_98077_4444

“Camera Alien attack“ Image generated using Midjourney, developed by XYZ Labs

“Alien viewing couple” Image generated using Midjourney, developed by XYZ Labs.

“Dozens of mourning people captured during civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks victims”  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

“High-resolution photo of sky, photograph, night, atmosphere”. The image is released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1563871

Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Hart Retrieved https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240402.html

“The earth is reflected in the Water. Reflections Planet Earth” Free images of Earth from space, available for commercial use and free download. Copyright-free, no attribution required. https://picryl.com/media/reflections-planet-earth-a608a2

An alien flying over a forest at night. Alien ufo extraterrestrial. This image is from Pixabay and was published prior to July 2017 under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication license

“Eyeing an Attack”  Image generated using Midjourney, developed by XYZ Labs

“A digitally manipulated image depicting an alien cityscape with unusual architecture.” This image is from Pixabay and was published prior to July 2017 under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication license https://picryl.com/media/photo-manipulation-alien-foreign-architecture-buildings-fbd54d

March 3, 2025 by Student Posts 4

The Fail Forward Podcast

“Fail Forward Podcast” by Connor Skaryd, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Includes derivatives “Dice Rolling Sounds” by stricktj, “High Octane” by Benjamin Tissot

Image Credits:

Image generated using Midjourney, developed by XYZ Labs.

Edited in Canva 2/17/2025 (adding in the title Banner and text for the title.)

Audio Credits:

DiceRollingSounds_Tile.wav by stricktj — https://freesound.org/s/218090/ — License: Attribution 3.0

“High Octaine” Music I use: https://www.bensound.com
License code: BPPH9Z2QPWJ481CP

Recorded and Edited Using Audacity

When designing my podcast I decided on leaning into my interest in tabletop gaming and the vast fictional setting of Warhammer 40,000 universe. Considering the often intense feeling of the 40,000 universe I decide to use a heavy guitar riff for the introductory music that feeds into a dice roll sound effect for the transition to my introduction to the podcast itself. I took advantage of the Midjourney AI image generation to create a cover for the podcast with a fairly simple image of a cartoony table with dice falling over onto the table. “Failing Forward” as a title for the podcast refers to a table top gaming term where one fails a specific check but is still able to advance the plot forward, and that would play into the themes of the podcast. Moving the plot forward even though I might be mucking it up!

February 17, 2025 by Student Posts 3

The Bridge Between the Ground and the Clouds

Original: “Returning to Palm Beach International Airport” by Connor Skaryd is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

I went with the image I took late last year of Palm Beach International Airport when I was returning from west palm beach. The original photo was taken from my plane seat and just trying to capture my return home to Florida and taking the image of the sunset and the sky with the beautiful clouds about their airport. the airport. There was no way for me to avoid catching the plane’s wing in the image, but it really doesn’t cover much.

Derivative “Bridge Between Ground and Clouds” by Connor Skaryd is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.


The cropped version is really focused on the control tower. Unintentionally finding that it almost perfectly meets the bottom of the clouds with my angle, I zoomed in and narrowed the field of view from my phone’s camera to emphasize the sky about the tower and remove the airplane’s wing from the image.  I set the control tower to be at the bottom left intersection of the rule of thirds to really emphasize the sky. I set it to a more panoramic scale to really show the clouds and the deep red and oranges of the sunset. Making it so that the sun lit sky was the border between the ground and the clouds, that was then bridged by the air traffic control tower.

My goal with this edit is to make the air traffic control tower of the airport be a literal bridge to the sky in the image, while it is a metaphorical bridge to the sky, with the controllers in the tower guiding planes into the air. The main thing I wish I could change is having a better resolution and not having it so pixelated.

February 3, 2025 by Student Posts 3

Making Light of the Horrific

“Operation Crossroads Baker” credited to the United States Department of Defense. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

“Oh, Christmas Tree” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I am always a fan of dark humor and this particular combination of media certainly scratches that itch. I was scrolling through the creative commons websites while listening to music and I was on a fairly upbeat song when I came across this image and I could not help but laugh at it. At that point I started my hunt across various creative commons audio websites to find just the right sound that would maximize the juxtaposition between it and the horrific nature of nuclear weapons. I eventually came across a creative commons instrumental version of “Oh, Christmas Tree” that got the effect I was looking for.

The image of the nuclear explosion of the Crossroads Baker Test is both informative and sobering, showing the terrible nature of weapons of mass destruction. This is hard juxtaposed with the well known and very positive feeling the Christmas song “Oh, Christmas Tree”. These two clashing media forms something that I hope can invoke feelings that would contrast against the horrific nature of nuclear weapons.

January 20, 2025 by Student Posts 4

A Game Master and Librarian

Greeting my fellow scholars and seekers of knowledge! My name is Connor Skaryd. I was born in West Palm Beach, Florida and I spent most of my childhood and teenage years growing up in Martin County, Florida. After high school I decided that I was tired of the warm tropical weather and moved up to the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota to attend the University of North Dakota for my Bachelor’s Degree. Having survived sub-zero winters for my undergraduate degree and learning the feeling of your breath freezing in your mouth from the cold weather, I returned to Florida and through a long and complex series of events, I started working for the Martin County Library System. I currently work as the senior Library Specialist for the Palm City Library where I am functionally the assistant manager of the branch.


Outside of work one of my great passions is playing tabletop role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, and Lancer. I have routinely fallen into the role of a “forever GM” and I find deep satisfaction running games and creating amazing stories with friends that we can enjoy together. I am excited for this class since learning about the use of digital media will be a huge boon for me since I work with digital media in both my professional and personal life. I want to learn the tools and systems that would help me advance my career and the gaming experience I give to my players.

January 12, 2025 by Student Posts 3