Daily Create #2
Todays Daily Create was to draw an image of your favorite day with your best friend. I drew a fishing boat because my favorite way to spend a day with my best friend is out on the water fishing. This … Continue reading →
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GIF Assignment #2
This GIF assignment is called “Highlight Reel”, the description for this assignment is to “Create an animated GIF of a sports moment to be played over and over again. It doesn’t matter what sport, but make sure its a cool … Continue reading → -
GIF Assignment #1
For my first GIF assignment I chose to do the assignment titled “Been There” which says to “Take a moment from a movie that you can relate too and make a gif out of it. Emotions, expressions and embarrasing … Continue reading → -
Design Assignment #4
This design assignment is called The Little Caption and the description for this assignment was to take a photo that you had and add a caption to it in order to make a story out of it. I took a … Continue reading → -
Design Assignment #3
The title of this design assignment is Design a License Plate and the description is to simply design and customize your own license plate using some sort of online software. For my license plate I used a website called Build a … Continue reading → -
Design Assignment #2
This design assignment is called “Dog it Out” and the description for this assignment was to take a picture of your dog and and things to it to make it a comical picture. I took a picture of my dog … Continue reading → -
Daily Create #1 Week 2
Todays Daily Create was to draw a picture, so here is my drawing of a car. -
Design Assignment #1
For this design assignment. I chose to create my own DS106 wallpaper. I thought this would be a fun thing to try and a challenge myself with. The background image I chose I think symbolizes Digital Storytelling very well because … Continue reading → -
Vignelli Reflection
Reading Vignelli’s Canon was interesting to me because I have no background in graphic design but have always been interested in learning about it. Ive always thought of it as a very tricky and intricate process that you really need a … Continue reading → -
Weekly Summary
As far as setting up my domain and social media is concerned all in all it went well I think. Setting up social media was a breeze and setting up my domain was simple because I have experience with WordPress. … Continue reading → -
Reflection on Visual Storytelling
In terms of storytelling, I think visual is the most fun and the most effective, maybe thats because I am a very visual learner. Seeing things is more enjoyable to me then hearing them, so this topic of storytelling was … Continue reading → -
Reflection on Media
So after the first week of ds106, I viewed a wide variety of different visual media. I viewed other peoples work and I created my own work. It was a new and different experience for me because I have not … Continue reading → -
Photo Safari
My thoughts on this photosafari is that it was unlike any assignment I have done in the past. It was fun to look for all the different types of photographs. I did not get all the ones suggested but I … Continue reading → -
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Daily Create #2
For todays Daily Create the prompt was to respond to a short video conveying the saying “Silence is Golden.” My thoughts are silence are that silence is hard to come by these days it seems, wherever you go there is … Continue reading → -
Shakespeare LOL Cat
I found the idea of this assignment to be very funny since I am a cat lover at heart. Here is my cat Jack, looking on as if he was answering the call of Juliet. There is not too much … Continue reading → -
Story Map
For this visual assignment I wanted to try something new and different from the normal pictures so I created a story map of a recent trip to Miami and Key Largo, Florida. Here is the Link to my story map. The story … Continue reading → -
What’s in Your Bag?
Okay so heres the story of the things I carry around with me on a daily basis in my backpack. First are the two largest items, my French textbook and French notebook. Those are the only two books I currently … Continue reading → -
My Very Own Spubble
Here is my very own spubble, featuring my female Rottweiler puppy, Dixie. The story behind this picture is this was right after I adopted her and she was still getting aquatinted with me. The look on my face was me … Continue reading → -
Daily Create #1
For today’s daily create I was tasked with writing an opening line, and I chose the absurd category. “Today I awoke to in raining beer and potatoes” Im not sure how I came up with this, but I hope it … Continue reading → -
Hello DS106
Hello DS106, Im looking forward to a good, yet quick semester! Time to get this show on the road! Hello class! #ds106 — Alexander Hollyer (@hollyer_alex) June 24, 2015 Theres my first Twitter post on my brand new Twitter account. … Continue reading → -
Photoreflection
The previous experience that I have with photography is limited to my casual use of my iPhone camera and the occasional use of a friends digital camera. The main things I take photos of now are myself and my friends, … Continue reading →
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