I like to laugh. I’m not talking about laughter that is like “haha” or the single “he!,” I’m talking about finding something so hilarious that I double over with a gasping-for-air laugh in which tears spring from my eyes. It’s been a while since I’ve found something to make me truly laugh until two days ...

Yesterday’s Daily Shoot was: Find something beautiful and make a photo. Don’t over think it. What I find interesting is the response to this dailyshoot was. Okay, so there is a lot of flower/ plant photos. And there’s a fair few photos of people and animals. But people have also posted photos of sprinkles, shadows ...

Once Upon a time there lived an ordinary girl named Megan. Oh, she was unique enough in her own ways, like possessing a high level of strength and being a giant Star Wars nerd among others, but she didn't possess any supernatural abilities.

I’ve finally caught up on all my dailyshoot  photos for the past few weeks!  For the most part it hasn’t been that big of a deal to take a photo everyday, but posting them up on Flickr has been difficult. I’ve been traveling all over the place with my Australian friend and haven’t always had ...

Although I have many projects I need to attend to, one that I’ve been thinking about for a while is doing another mashup. But to explain why I want to do this mashup, I need to discuss my first stage performance ever. When I was in first grade I got selected to play a munchkin ...

I was talking Colleen about all the adventures I was planning for this summer and she has decided to dub it “Tour of Wanderlust 2011.” The “Wanderlust” part of the name is a joke from when we were trying to decide on the name for our literary magazine last fall. Someone suggested “Wanderlust” which we ...

After  eight semesters of hard work, plus a couple of summer classes here and there, I’ve graduated from the University of Mary Washington! I’ve graduated with departmental honors and a BA in English: Creative Writing, summa cum laude.   So now that I’ve graduated I’ve faced an exponential increase of family and/or random people asking ...

Recently I was was asked to have a bucket of water thrown on me by a friend, Cullen Lawlor   for his Video Editing Class . Love the music on this. Watch on YouTube Like Unlike

So we (David Noel, Kelsey Conway, and me) decided to make movie posters. They are all about Jim Groom, of course. Behold: Groomed4life! Poster 1:   Poster 2: Poster 3: Poster 4: (image credit to Erin O’Neal) Creation process: We all sat together and discussed what we wanted the posters to be. 1) Kelsey came ...

Since I have such a crazy final exam schedule, I’ve decided to combine 3 assignments in one! Thus, I give you part of my post card final project, with the cover of the post card inspired by my love for ds106 (fandom, holla) and the back of the postcard containing my letter to future #ds106sers. ...

So Colleen did this super awesome mashup called “When Florrie Takes Over” and I can’t stop playing this song! Seriously one of my favorite songs right now! (Replacing ET perhaps? O.o) When Florrie Takes Over by Call_lean Like Unlike

I really like this past weeks daily shoots! I actually remembered to take them the day they were assigned (always a plus!) and they are all so different which is cool.   I think the biggest reason why I like them all is because they perfectly seem to represent each day I took them. Normally ...

I just got my blue Rainbow Brite shoot! The daily shoot for Thursday (ds522) was water themed, so I decided to go ahead and take Blue Rainbow Brite Photos! Now I just need to get the colors: purple and indigo. In the interest of time I might combine these two colors because they are basically ...

So lately I’ve been obsessed with Katy Perry’s song ET. I think the lyrics are horrible and very much emphasizes male dominance over women: “Take me, ta-ta-take me Wanna be a victim Ready for abduction”  aka RAPE ME, ALIEN MAN, RAPE ME…. but it’s so damn catchy.  (Kind of like the Friday song, but better?…) ...

Dear DS106, Sorry for not showing you any love lately. All my other classes have been bogging me down lately and it’s all I can do to stay afloat! But, since I turned in on Tuesday a paper that is worth 35% of my grade, I will have slightly more of a breather before finals! ...

So here are just a few of the mashups I’ve come across lately that I really like Watch on YouTube   I love how the creators mixed Angry Birds and the three little pigs with the events happening in the  Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.  Very funny! Watch on YouTube Not sure if this next video ...

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Sarah who had to do a video essay for her digital storytelling class, ds106. She decided to do it on her favorite movie ever: Stardust. She spent hours and hour and hours and hours and hours and hours TIMES infinity on the project because otherwise her ...

I made this bumper for DS106 radio around the time of our audio projects, but had forgotten about it until my friend who did the voice for it, Gigi, reminded me. The background music is from freesoundproject.org.  I wrote the link down somewhere, but ...

Watch on YouTube   Here is my video essay in all its glory. I ended up using the MAC lab for most of it which worked out great except when it came time to record my commentary. People would keep coming in and out and print stuff, so I ended up using my roomie’s mac ...

So Friday’s daily shoot was “Illustrate Attraction in a photograph today.” Really wasn’t sure what I wanted to take a photo of for this and eventually almost the whole day had passed and I still hadn’t taken anything. But finally inspiration hit when I checked my mail. My Australian friend Rose sent me the perfect ...

I ran into some problems in creating my video essay for the movie Stardust since I couldn’t get all the clips I wanted frrom the movie.  As I continue to work on my video essay tonight, I decided to leave you with a 4 icon challenge I created for the movie. This will prepare you ...

Watch on YouTube I was introduced to this video yesterday by a friend who found it through Tumblr. The video uses clips from the new My Little Pony TV show and puts them to the soundtrack from “The Dark Knight” trailer. What the artist creates in this video is probably the best and most hilarious ...

My friend Gina Mae Dargan, an anthropology and studio art double major, spent the past month slaving on a textile piece to enter in the Annual Student Art Show. After many sleepless nights using a floor loom (which alone, took about an entire day to set up with the help of two other people) Gina has created transparent multilayered, eight foot long ...

Okay so I actually started this project 5 weeks ago, but due to certain circumstances it took me a while to get good copies of my Australia photos to make into postcards. So here is week 1 of my Australia and US postcards. This starts with my first full week in Australia and I plan on continuing this project until beginning July when I left Australia. I am doing this as a way to compare my life in OZ to my life here.

As of tonight I have uploaded  81 photos for 53 daily shoots to Flickr. This does not count the other photos I have uploaded to flickr or all the other photos I have taken but not uploaded. I have officially accomplished 14% of my 365 photo goal. Wow! I am surprised my motivation has lasted ...

I was reading Alex’s blog and was inspired to create my own google webstory. It’s slightly narcissistic as it involves my illustrious self. However, it also stars other ds106ers and of course, the Reverend Jim Groom. Watch on YouTube Like ...

This is a twitter stream explaining a day in the life of Dr. Zach Whalen when he has to advise two students, Carah Counts and Alaina Sur, on their independent study. Jim Groom also makes an appearance as somewhat of devil’s advocate. Currently it’s not working properly to upload the html online, so until that ...

#2 Assignment for #ds106 is up: Normal to Extraordinary: Take a friend and turn him/her from a normal looking person to an extraordinary looking one. Put the shots side by side for comparison.   For my example I used two photos that I’ve taken of my suitemate Karen (she is a #ds106 superstar now, haha): ...