This week was super laid back and relaxed compared to the previous weeks, but I am also not at all complaining about it. I started the week by commenting on 10 posts from people in the course. I really do like this assignment because it allows you to see what other people do and how … Continue reading Taking On Week 7.. →

For today’s daily create we had to make a video of things that scare us. Song: Well, Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, I feel like it works perfectly because I truly have “bad blood” with these things. Snakes: I have the biggest fear of snakes and them just showing up somewhere, even though I’ve never … Continue reading Bad Blood →

DOGS FIGHTING CRIME?! Just a normal day in the life of the crazy dog Bella! She takes on crime everyday, with her four pound crazy self, she seeks to kill all the time…GO DOGS! If you want a crazy dog filled action packed movie…come watch DOGS IN 3D, yes I said 3D! Dogs, crime and … Continue reading Blue and Orange, Blue and Orange! →

The daily create was to create a heel with a everyday object. Due to the fact that I am obsessed with my dog, I used her bone because it was next to me at the time and it wasn’t a abnormal amount of heel. I struggle with the whole heel arch part that comes with … Continue reading Heels 4 Dayz →

I have to say that this project was absolutely amazing. The thought of doing a project in a online class actually really scared me, but it turned out to be amazing and my group was AWESOME! We started by planning a time for us all to meet, which is pretty hard considering we are all … Continue reading How Did We Do it? Or Did We.. →

Project.band Project.band Above is my theme song for Longs! I learned how to get garage band finally on my computer, so I was super happy to mess around with it. I am still obviously not the best garage bander and I will never be, but I love making music and this is really a start. … Continue reading Theme Song For Longs! →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/tv-product-placement-radio-ad/ (2 stars) I did this assignment, but was kind of unsure of the directions that were given about it. I took a TV commercials words for a twix commercial and turned them into words instead of songs, I then said them “in my best radio voice” and made it a radio ad instead of a … Continue reading TWIX! IT’S IN THE MIX! →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/line-remix/ (3 stars) I did this assignment because my favorite movie is Elf and I love the buddy the Elf and everything that he stands for. My favorite holiday is also Christmas and I love love Christmas movies and everything about them. I used the famous quote “the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing … Continue reading Re-re-re..REMIX! →

This week seemed like such a easy week workload wise compared to the other weeks of this class. I did find it a little difficult to actually find a group for the project, but once it happened it was so much fun sharing ideas with other people. One thing we had to do this week … Continue reading Week 6! →

This week we had to do another tweet along assignment for DS106. I did not like it as much as I liked the previous week one and I had trouble getting into the story, it just didn’t grab my attention as much and I had trouble staying focussed. I didn’t find much suspense and interest … Continue reading Tweet Tweet.. →

We all decided to make our own ideas of logos and or bumpers and when we meet up as a group this week we are going to decide on how to mesh and or choose one of the ones previously created. I chose the font that I wrote tune squad in because it was dark … Continue reading Logo For The Tune Squad: Idea 1 →

Group Name: Tune Squad Members: Geoffry Berryman, Stephanie Henderson, Brian Christiansen Radio Topic: Combining all of the alternate endings of the stories we created together to form one large story incorporating all of our noir characters we created. Game Plan: Meeting this week to discuss the radio assignment and to work on it, read each … Continue reading Radio Show Progress! →

I’ll be honest that coming into this week, I was very scared, I wasn’t really into last week so it scared me for this week. I also am not the most creative person so I was worried…but long behold, I LOVED THIS WEEK! I loved the first reading because you see what really goes into … Continue reading Hey Week 5..Are You There? →

I agree with everything when it comes to copyright because I look at it in the way of if I create something and use my time and ideas to make it, I will clearly be proud of it. I don’t want someone else taking credit for my hard work and everything that I accomplished because … Continue reading Are You Copying, Or Is It Your Right? →

For yesterday’s daily create we had to make a youtube video showing a game that we chose to play at the arcade, I will be honest and say that I did forget to do a daily create last night after the games because I went home and then got stuck driving in snow.. But as … Continue reading I Will Never Be a Gamer.. →

I chose to watch Double Indemnity as my movie of choice this week because when I looked both movies up it seemed more interesting to me! At about the time of 2 minutes and 45 seconds there is a portion of the movie that really hints at the design noir idea, we see a very … Continue reading Video & Noir Film Design. →

1.Balance: I chose this picture in order to show balance because I took it during the week in one of the times I was walking around campus exploring a little bit this week. It was on the little stage behind Trinkle and it was a nice little area. I think this shows balance because it … Continue reading Design BLITZ →

For today’s daily create we had to make food jewelry..it was the ultimate fail. Me and a child my mom and I babysit found a picture of letter pancake necklaces, so we made the pancakes (took a picture for the memories), then attempted to lace the string in the right away around the letter to … Continue reading Food Jewelry Fail →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/newspaper-design/ (3 stars) I chose to do this assignment to relate back to my character because we know that Longs can do both good and bad. I created my own New York newspaper because that is where he is from. The background is blue because that is his favorite color, although it is actually dark blue, … Continue reading Longs In The Headlines →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-ds106-wallpaper/ (4 Stars) I chose to do the wallpaper because I felt as though it would help me be a little more creative and try to explore with things like photoshop and other photo editing tools. DS106 is themed base off the idea of noir, which is that dark, crime filled idea of things, a darker … Continue reading DS106 Wallpaper →

This is for the daily create for today in which we had to record ourselves doing a radio broadcast from the past. I do not have much of a creative mind, so I used one of the ones from the past that was offered to us. I used the Americans At Work one, Circa 1939, … Continue reading Radio Recording →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/laptop-lingo/ (2 stars) I loved this assignment because I didn’t even know I could create a mac cover. I chose the picture of three of my closest friends at Shenandoah, where I transferred from this semester. Last semester was very draining and hard, I was battling a lot of personal problems and was just overall unhappy … Continue reading The Lingo of Friendship →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/apps-galore/ (3 stars) I decided to do this assignment because I can relate it back to my character, Detective Longs. Apps on his phone: Photos: He can’t take pictures on his phone because there may be sensitive images or they could be released and get him busted by gangs or other people who are against him. … Continue reading Inside Longs Phone.. →

To start, I love how the reading started off. At first I did not understand the first line because I was unsure of what the words Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic meant. Though, I loved to learn the fact that semantic was the meaning behind the graphic picture or design and to me that is very important … Continue reading Reflection of Vignelli →

I didn’t like this week very much because I don’t like audio and talking very much because I’m shy. I did like the two videos we watched though and the one reading, it was really interesting and helped me understand the idea and concept of audio a little more. The reflection of audio really killed … Continue reading Hey Week 4!!! →

  I chose to do this assignment because I am going to this person’s concert soon and their songs are ALWAYS stuck in my head!!! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cant-get-it-out-of-my-head/ (2 stars)

Here is my audio storytelling assignment with just sounds. It was supposed to be someone woken up from snoring with large noises, then a door slamming because they went to go see what it was, then they went walking and ended up finding a flood, hence the water flowing. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ (3 1/2 stars)

-Use noir like music to add the effect of noir -Noir is used to describe something dramatically, when I think of things related to being dramatic I think of things like seaco -We can add suspense to it by voice changes -Make sure to have dull boring voices -Act as though you don’t know whats … Continue reading Radio Broadcasting Show Ideas..Take 1 →

Here is my radio bumper with a little noir like music to introduce DS106 radio.

Well as we all know by now my life is cheer and only cheer..well and school. But our daily create was to have a theme song and I asked my old cheer coach to send me our music because I lived by this song for three seasons and listened to it 24/7, I was also … Continue reading Theme Song Part 2 Because I Sleep Eat and Breathe Cheer… →