This is the radio show that my group put together. My group decided that we would all record about five minutes worth of content, plus an advert and a bumper. We decided to do a news segment for our radio show, focusing on stories that happened during the second season of The Wire. I decided […]

I am liking The Wire more and more with each season. I’m very unhappy that Kima seems to be becoming McNulty because I really like her and I want her to be happy, but she is really pissing me off right now. I am very happy that McNulty is doing something about D’s faked suicide, […]

For the radio show project, my group decided we would split up the work by each making a five minute segment. We decided that we would style our radio show as a news program. I have made a script for and recorded one 3 minute story about Soatka’s body being found in the water, and one […]

Today’s Daily Create Today is a very special day because I took a break from my homework and finished the book I was reading!

The Wire this week was really interesting. I did not see the thing with Sobatka coming (although in hindsight I should have). Th ending to the season was also handled really well. I like that this season finale had the same feel as the last one. The montage and the court case and people getting […]

This is my version of part of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, for the All Me In The Scene assignment. I used audacity to record the audio, and I obviously did the reading.  

This is my radio bumper assignment (worth 1.5 stars). I made this for the radio show project, so we decided to go with The Wire theme. I decided to use the opening sequence from The Wire as the music (“Way Down in the Hole” by Tom Waits). To make this, I used audacity to edit the parts […]

Today’s Daily Create – evil guinea pigs To do today’s daily create, I opened the door to my guinea pig cage and I waited for Arthur to try to climb out, and I took a picture. I then decided to add some evil eyebrows because, to me at least, he was too cute to be […]

This is for the Cheesy Radio Ad for your School assignment, which is worth 3 stars. I decided to do this one because honestly, my friends and I spend a lot of time making fun of the billboards that UMW puts up, especially their slogans. Going in to this, I had no idea what to […]

For the audio assignments for this week, I really liked the idea of doing a dramatic reading, but setting it to different music to give it a completely new feel, so I made an assignment for it. For my dramatic reading remix, I did a reading of a cheesy song from my childhood, S Club […]

Today’s Daily Create – a ds106 letterhead I made this by first downloading the Polygon font from dafont.com. I then made a blank document on photoshop and added the text. I then got the computers from the noun project, and added them to the sides of the text. I really wanted to go for the […]

The Wire this week was interesting. I am interested in what will happen to Ziggy. He will probably become an informant for the police against his father, but I’m not sure he has enough details about anything to make a case. Sobatka is also getting interesting as he seems to be breaking as the pressure […]

The Vignelli Canon was interesting, even though some of it was outdated. I think the theory behind the method is still good though, even if the technology for making design is different. It is obviously still important to utilize his three aspects (Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic) when making a design. Semantics is the search for […]

Today’s Daily Create – Today I Feel Peaceful I made this by drawing the meditating girl by hand and then scanning it in, and adding the text through photoshop

I found Tim Owens’ talk to be really interesting, and weirdly inspirational. The idea that art is all about practice, is something that I was always told growing up (because of dance), but I never thought about applying it to what we do in this class. I assumed that over the course of this semester […]

Today’s Daily Create was to merge together previous daily creates into one picture. I used this picture and this picture from previous daily create assignments and used photoshop to layer them. I then adjusted the opacity on the top one until a double exposure effect was created. I used the bricks because there is just […]

Today’s Daily Create – An Empathy Map I decided to do my empathy map for some characters from The Wire, and I ended up deciding to use D’Angelo and Bubbles because they are an interesting contrast. I did the actual map by hand (using a purple pen for Bubbles and a red one for D) […]

I decided to do the designblitz in my living room, mainly because I didn’t feel like leaving my apartment, but also because I thought it would make for a more interesting challenge, which it did because all we have in our apartment is Harry Potter posters and books. This is the first photo that I […]

For my last design assignment of the week, I made a minimalist poster  (worth 3 stars) for the 442nd Quidditch World Cup. I used photoshop, and a Harry Potter font to make the poster, as well as editing a picture from a Harry Potter coloring page online, to make it all black, to create the […]

For the Lyric Typography Poster assignment (worth 3.5 stars), I made a lyric poster with lyrics from Fall Out Boy’s “Young Volcanoes.” I used different fonts from Fonts2u.com to portray the different lines, such as a roman font about Rome. I put this all together in photoshop with the different fonts and the volcano clip […]

This was a really funny assignment to do. I did the Tell a Tale on Tapestry assignment (worth 3 stars), and used the Bildwirkerey von Bayeuxbe website to put this tapestry together. This tapestry is supposed to portray the two groups of drug dealers in The Wire fighting over the high rises, and people dying […]

This is my If Movie Posters Told the Truth assignment (worth 3 stars). I decided to do it on The Wire, but not on a specific episode, more on a general theme of the series. I wanted to put something about the actual point of the show, but McNulty was front and center in the […]

This is my One Story, Four Icons assignment (worth 2.5 stars) for The Wire S2E9, “Stray Rounds.” I used a gun because of the opening sequence with the shoot out and the  boy being shot. I used a computer because of the continued monitoring of the docks. I used the phone and the prostitute because McNulty […]

For my first design assignment of the week, I did an otherworldly distortion assignment (worth 1 star). I used a picture I took of the alps when I was visiting Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, and distorted it so the mountains were red. I got the inspiration for this form Doctor Who’s Gallifrey. To make it […]

The Wire was really interesting this week. I have never liked McNulty (just in case I have never said that before on my blog) but his story line is becoming more interesting as his life seems to spin more and more out of control. I paid more attention to how the shots were composed in […]

Today’s Daily Create – What’s on I used my favorite radio station, 96x from the Hampton Roads area, and recorded one of the bumpers and part of a song. To record it I used Audacity while I streamed the radio station online, and then exported it as an mp3.

For my Photoblitz I decided to do the assignment in my own apartment (mainly because it was raining outside), so all of the pictures are weird things sitting around my apartment. This was a really fun assignment, even though I think I annoyed my roommate because I did it early in the morning, and it was […]

For the Journey to Somewhere visual assignment, I decided to get nostalgic, and tell the story of the study abroad trip I took this summer. The assignment said to use Google presentation, but I decided to use Knightlab’s Storymaps. I had used this website for a previous project and it was really fast and easy. The […]

I made this photo for the Colorize It Assignment I used a picture that I took in London this summer while crossing the street to get to the changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace. I used photoshop, created a duplicate layer. I then used the quick select tool to select the parts of […]

For my third visual assignment for the week, I decided to do the Imaginary Places assignment, so I made my version of Cair Paravel from the Chronicles of Narnia. I used my own pictures from some traveling I did this summer, and used photoshop to put them together. I used a picture of Neuschwanstein Castle that […]