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    The One-Man Play

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    For this Audio Assignment I chose to do a scene from a Broadway play my high school drama teacher introduced me to called In the Heights. I chose to do the scene when Nina is coming home and trying to figure out how to explain to her parents that she lost her scholarship to college. ...
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    Suess It!- Cat in the Hat

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    For this Audio Assignment I recorded myself reading Cat in Hat on SoundCloud. Since I didn’t have my original Cat in the Hat book with me I had to read the a copy of it off of Google Books. An since I used Google Books it would only let me preview the first half of ...
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    And that’s a Wrap! The Despicables Radio Show

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    Off my suggestion my group chose to go with the Autumn theme for our Radio Show and off of Shalini’s/ Puja’s suggestion we chose to interview different people asking them questions based on this theme. My group mostly communicated through emails, but we did meet up two times at Shalini’s and Puja’s apartment (I attended ...
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    Design, Design, and Once More…Design!

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    This week we were required to do 15 stars worth of Design Assignments. Here is my first assignment (worth 2 stars and the requirement this week) Ds106 Radio: For this Assignment I simply used the Program Paint and Microsoft Word. I just copied and pasted different images that I got off the internet and from ...
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    Design your Heart Away! Week 6

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    Radio Show Contribution: Seniorritis106 Daily Creates: DailyCreate Design Assignments: Assignments Design Safari: DesignSafari Week Six has definitely been a challenge when it came to the Design Assignments. I don’t know if this is just me, but I wish that more students or the creators of the assignments would post up some damn tutorials!! As I’ve ...
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    Not the Safari on you Iphone! This is Design Safari!

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    This week in DS106 in all about Design! One of our first assignments this week was too spend some time updating our knowledge on design concepts and then applying 4 out of the 10 major design elements into four photos. For my four photos I choose to to rhythm, proportion, dominance, and unity. Here are ...
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    Daily Creates for Week 6

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    Here are all of my Daily Creates for this week! My first daily create one was adding crazy effects to one of my favorite songs. (Beyonce-Why Don’t You Love Me) I basically used the program Audicity and played around with a few things and decided to use the Reverse effect on her song. Listen and ...
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    Draw It!

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    For this Visual Assignment I we were asked to use a previous photo that we have taken and make a sketch of that photo. Inspiration: I choose to use a photo that I took in France of a statue that I thought was really cool. I statue is of Trident (the famous ruler of the ...
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    The good, the bad, and the in between of Visual Storytelling

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    Here are all my DailyCreates for this Week: DailyCreates Here all of my Visual Assignments: Common Everyday Object Splash That Color Find Yourself Draw It Here is my Photoblizting: Pimp up Your Flickr: Flickr Set This week was all about using images to tell different stories and practing on improving our photography skill. The only ...
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    Pimp My Flickr!

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    For my Best Set on Flickr I chose a couple of photos that I have taken that are my favorites. The story that I am trying to convey with them is that they are my favorite photos because they capture some aspect of beauty. Whether the photo is just a simple one or a complex ...
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    Common Everyday Object!

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    For this Visual Assignment we were asked to take a everyday object and manipulate the colors. Inspiration: Since there has been so much hype around the Iphone5 I decided to incorpate that in my photo. I feel like all Apple products have become apart of our whole society. So I decided to take a picture ...
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    Find Yourself!

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    Here is my next Visual Assignment called Find Yourself! Assignment: For this assignment we had to find our name in the environment around us. We could either use something that had our first name, parts of our first name, or even the individual letters that make up our name in the environment around us. Process: ...
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    Splash That Color!

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    For my first Visual Assignment I decided to do Splash that Color! Basically you take any photo, turn it into a black and white photo, and then use some type of photo software and insert back some of the original color of the photo in one spot. Process: To make this as simple as possible ...
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    Oh Yeah! Week 5 Daily Create Oh Yeah!

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    Here are all of the Daily Creates for Week 5! The first one is a abstract drawing of my favorite animal the whale. The second is another drawing so that you can never have enough yellow! (Inspired by my sweater) The third is a photo of a ad that was painted on a building. (In ...
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    Audio Techniques and Listening to Stories

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    I decided to listen to The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar and I have to say it was a pretty cool story! I felt that using audio to tell the story was so effective! (I read it in print and lets just say the music and voice dynamics definitely helped it out) Like Jad Abumrad said ...
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    Move out the way before I use my Bumper!

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    So here is my first Bumper! I decided to use one of my favorite songs by Rihanna (of course) called Cockiness. I used the program Audicty and also a website that allows you to convert youtube videos into mp3 form. Here is the link to the website: Convert Youtube Videos to mp3 I downloaded the ...
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    Listen to D to the S to the 106 Radio!!

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    Today was the first day I listened to the Radio Station. And I have to say I’m glad I waited to Sunday to listen to the Radio Station! Here is my orignal tweet letting the host know I was listening: @ds106radio @drgarcia Listening to you guys right now! Loving the music! #ds106 #fistpump — ? ...
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    All about Audio Storytelling

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    This week we were asked to watch a couple of videos about to experts Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad discussing radio storytelling. Glass gives out some amazing tips on how to make radio storytelling a success. I felt that Glass’s overall point in his videos was to make viewers realize that radio storytelling is a ...
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    A Past DS106 that Inspired me

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    This week we were asked to look on the in[SPIRE] page and pick one of the past works done by a student who has taken this course and blog about it. When viewing the page this work stuck out to me the most and I immediately feel in love with it! The fact that it ...
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    Third Weekly Summary

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    Here is the link to my Animated GIF from last week: Animated GIF Here is the link to my thoughts on Storytelling: blog page Here is the link to my Daily Creates for this week: Daily Creates Here is the link to Tell A Story in 5 Frames Post: Tell Story in 5 Frames Here ...
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    How to apply Kurt Vonnegut’s Idea to Anything

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    After watching the video on Kurt Vonnegut the model that I decided to imitate was the last model that he described. I’m going to name that model the “Cinderella Model”. At first I really couldn’t think of any stories other than the ones all based off the same storyline about Cinderella. Then after pondering the ...
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    Daily Creates For Week Three

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    Here are all my Daily Creates for this week! Here is something that makes me angry! : Here is something with a weird texture. Can you guess what it is?: Here is a photo of a sidewalk scene: Here is something that I miss: The Daily Creates are by far the easiets assignments to do ...
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    Animated GIF

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    Initially when I decided to make this I didn’t know which movie I wanted to do this on. After a while of debating I found some inspiration from my roommates watching a movie that was playing on ABC Family. I decided to my animated gif on MEAN GIRLS! I chose a very popular scene when ...

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