I played around with soundation.com and made a cool beat for the voiceover a beat assignment. When I finally had something I wanted I spoke a few words in Garage Band and combined the two tracks, creating my audio file. I am still on a Halloween kick so I made it sound creepy and asked […]

In light of my obsession with Halloween candy at the moment and the holiday’s fast approach, I decided to do the Spooky Sounds assignment. I used my GarageBand to make this, pulling some creepy audio sounds from it. I interspersed these sounds with portions of noises, screams and other sounds from the show Supernatural, which […]

Today I practiced making a radio bumper for the daily create!! I did not know how to do this and was pretty scared, but I worked on GarageBand for a bit to figure it out. First, I looked over the Beatnik terms and wrote a script. I decided to do an advice-type bumper because I […]

  For today’s daily create I answered the question “I feel like…” Instead of doing an object, I wrote that I have a lot of reading to do. Today will be very busy but I have to somehow find room for reading 100 pages of a novel for class! Yikes.

I started off Design Week with my post on Tim Owens, in which I went over the details of the conversation and what I took away from it. I’m glad I started with this assignment first because it pushed me to be more creative with my work this week and ignore my general excuse that I […]

For my design blitz I used my iPhone and took pictures all week of some designs that I found really interesting. I took a lot of the same type of photo and struggled with finding the right photos/designs to fit the elements. I ended up with six and here they are! Color-Brings attention or focus […]

  I did today’s tracing exercise for the daily create. I used some parchment paper to trace a photo and then put it overtop a cool map to make it look a little differently.

I did today’s daily create, “ds106 4life empathy map” and pertained it to McNulty, one of my favorite characters from the Wire. I saw Amy Wallace did her map using Bubble and D’Angelo and thought it was interesting, so I wanted to use our “textbook” as well. A lot of the things I wrote were contradictory. For […]

I did my daily create today with water and glass moving. I was not sure how exactly to do this, but I thought it would be cool to pour water from one container to another. I had a glass decanter and filled it with water and had someone tape me as I poured the water […]

Massimo Vignelli’s The Vignelli Canon was a cool study. I really like the idea of semantics out into the context of art. I always thought of it in terms of language, but Vignelli is right in saying that art must have some sort of meaning; it cannot be arbitrary. Art is made for a purpose, […]

Guess my song! I decided to do the “guess my song” assignment as my last assignment and have some fun with it. I uploaded a photo from my birthday to Photoshop. It was the perfect photo for what I had in mind because I was holding something. I got a photo of a tea infuser […]

  After watching the scene with McNulty drunk driving and then drunk crashing, I thought it would be funny to do an ironic bumper sticker pertaining to McNulty for the bumper sticker assignment. I used canva.com to make this and it was pretty easy. Coming up with the tagline was a little more difficult though. […]

  I am currently taking a Gothic Literature course and reading Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. When I saw the book cover assignment I was immediately thinking of this novel and how to come up with a cover for it. I have many different versions of the book that I have shared here, but I wanted […]

Lysander, Jimmy McNulty, Robert Mallory…Dominic West. They are all him! Though probably most well-known for his character in the Wire, Dominic West was first known to me as Lysander in the 1999 version of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that my grandmother used to watch all the time. Then, as I tweeted just the other day, I […]

I was struck by the “Create A READ poster” assignment because of the attention spent on D’Angelo’s education, both book learning and life knowledge. When I looked at this poster I thought about the moment when D is in jail and reading The Great Gatsby and I decided to use that scene to make a […]

  The “Collage with Symbolism” assignment was both fun and meaningful for me. The idea was to make a collage of photos of me and someone I care about. Of late I have been spending a lot of time with my sister Emily, back in town from NYC, and my cousin Alexandra, visiting from L.A. […]

The assignment for a classic painting blended with something in the Wire, or the “Creative Mashup” was really interesting to me, and after watching the opening of episode 9 I figured out exactly what I wanted to do. Many are familiar with Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” and I found it was a perfect parallel […]

I really enjoyed the discussion with Tim Owens for “We Are All Artists.” It’s really nice to someone take a major that has such a stereotype for failure in this era and not only make a career out of it, but also inspire others to do the same. I am terrible at actual art, as […]

This week was visual week and packed full with visual assignments. Through working on those assignment I gained a more focused attention to how things look and are presented to me, both in shows, photos and other media. I definitely paid more attention to the visual aspect of the Wire, especially with color and character […]

  I started my photoblitz this morning at 9:41 and finished it in only 10 minutes! I was surprised at how quickly I thought of things that could work for photos! Here they all are! 1. An interesting shadow: I actually had just lit a candle before I started my photoblitz and it turned out […]

I really liked the idea of mirroring scenes in the Wire because so many aspects of the show are paralleled and many elements keep showing up, and so for my last assignment I did the “wiring mirror scenes” visual assignment where I had to find two parallel scenes from different episodes and loop them together. […]

  I decided to do the “Wire everywhere” visual assignment where I had to capture a visual from the real world that is recurring in the Wire. At the beginning of episode 7 we see an angel in the flower shop and in that same episode there is D’Angelo’s funeral. I think the angel represents the […]

I decided to use the Rainbow visual assignment to highlight the colors in the Wire. The point was to take clips from a show or movie that highlights the colors of the rainbow and string them together. This has been done before with the “Rainbow Port” post, but I decided to focus on episode 7 […]

Over the weekend I went to Georgetown and visited the National Arboretum, a very expansive garden in D.C. I thought this would be perfect for the backyard safari photos assignment as my backyard is not interesting and the Arboretum had so much to offer. There were many different sections to the vast park: a bonsai […]

For my daily create today I put my favorite song into a photograph. I love both “La Vie en Rose” and flowers and thus combined them both in this daily create and had a lot of fun with it. I thought this song fit well for visual week as well as it makes you imagine […]

This week was audio week and definitely made me stretch both my abilities with technology and my thoughts on audio storytelling. I did my post on Jennifer’s interview, which I found really interesting. I definitely started to pay more attention to the audio in the Wire after listening. Listening to episode 3 of the Wire […]

I thought long and hard about a discussion topic for the radio show project that is soon upon us. I wanted to wait until I had finished all of the episodes for this week to come up with my idea and I am glad I did, as I got a lot of insight from these […]

For my third audio assignment I did a reflection on my time in ds106 so far. I had to answer the questions, “Why am I here?” “What brought me to DS106?” and “Why did I stay?” I was completely honest in my post and it was really nice to get it out there as to why I […]

For my second audio assignment this week I did an audio recording of my morning. I used voice memos to capture the sound of my morning and was really surprised to hear how everything came out. I wonder if anyone else can figure out what some of the no...

  Today I did a daily create on my feeling of the day. It is a really easy one, but it goes through my mind every morning when my alarm goes off. I’m terrible at drawing so I hope people can still tell what it is!