I decided to complete the assignment titled “Professor Groom Poster” which is worth 4 and a half stars. This is the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/professor-groom-poster/ For this assignment, I decided to put Professor Groom’s face on an ad for the popular TV show “The Bachelor.” And I must admit, the final product for this … Continue reading Did You Know Professor Groom Was The Bachelor?!

This article can be found at http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf Here are some bullet points with take-aways from the article: 1. People know very little about the complexity behind design work. 2. Design shouldn’t be reduced to just rules, but there are some things that will enhance the creative mind in design aspects. 3.I really like how he … Continue reading “The Vignelli Canon” Review

Today’s Daily Create was to pick a superpower to have. I think if I could have any superpower, I would want to be able to talk to animals. Not only have I always wondered what my dog is thinking, but what a unique opportunity it would be. I think a lot of the world could … Continue reading Superpowers? Sure, I’ll take one.

Today’s Daily Create was to create a portrait of “David.” I do not know who David is, but the instructions included a picture so I got a little bit of an idea as to what he looks like. The Picasso Head I created of David is below. Want to make your own? Here’s the link … Continue reading I Am Picasso

Well Audio week is officially over in DS106! This was an interesting week and it was definitely very challenging. Here’s the week in review. First up was to think about what exactly audio storytelling is. This was done by reviewing old readings, videos, or stories and reflecting upon how important audio is to paint a … Continue reading Another Week Down

This was a tough thing to think about. I’m starting this post on Tuesday and am just going to keep it open on my desktop throughout the week so I can write any idea I have down quickly. 1. I think it would be cool to act out the part of a newscaster and get … Continue reading An Idea For A Radio Show

This assignment that I chose to do is titled “Sounds of Your Day” and is worth 3 points. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sounds-of-your-day/ I completed this assignment by recording little clips of my day on my iPhone and then putting them all together in Audacity. Here’s the final product: I’ll walk you through … Continue reading Sounds of My Day

This audio assignment was required this week. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/ This assignment was not too challenging, however, I’m not very creative so I was at a loss of what to do. I turned to http://www.freesound.org and used a couple of different downloadable sounds from that site. I pieced them together and … Continue reading DS 106 Radio Bumper

This audio assignment I chose to complete is called “Make It 800% Slower” and is worth 3 points. Here’s the link to this assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-it-800-slower/ This assignment seemed easy at first, however, it ended up being extremely frustrating. Plus, I am no pro at Audacity yet which I’m sure made this even more difficult. This … Continue reading Slow it doooowwwnnn

This was a required audio assignment for this week and needed to be done from the point of view of our character. Here’s the link to this assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ This ended up being a lot more challenging than I thought. Not only in the sense of creating this with Audacity, but because I realized I … Continue reading Story With Sound Effects

This audio assignment was titled “Reverse Audio Quiz” and was worth 2 and a half stars. It can be found at this link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/reverse-audio-quiz-2/ Let’s see if someone can guess this song! Here are the hints: 1. This song is co-written and sung by a British singer-songwriter. 2. This song is from their debut studio … Continue reading Reverse Audio Quiz

Today’s Daily Create was to caption a picture of a little puppy. Here’s what I created:

The first thing I did was listen to and read the different examples listed. Here’s my reflection on them: 1. “Touch of Evil” opening shot. These two examples compared the effects of street sound vs theme music for the beginning of the movie. Here are the links: (Street Sound) (Theme Music) For me, I personally … Continue reading Audio Reflection

Since this week is about audio storytelling, I think it’s important to reflect upon the fact that audio can do a lot of storytelling in our own lives in the form of music. With that being said, I haven’t caught on to Soundcloud as a place where I like to listen to and discover new … Continue reading Just A Thought…

Today’s Daily Create was to make a picture with words on it with the theme being “I’m Sorry.” This is an interesting concept and I took it as making something with a sarcastic twinge. My idea was based on the massive amount of school work I have for this week. My picture reads, “I’m sorry … Continue reading I’m Sorry

I am overjoyed that this week is finally coming to an end. It was definitely a rough one. After just getting over a two week sickness, one of my roommates came home and said she went to the doctor and definitely has the flu…good thing I had a weakened immune system (not really a good … Continue reading TGIS (Thank God It’s Sunday)

I guess this is better late than never…but this was in my drafts and I just now noticed that this was never posted. Oops! Here are the questions I had to mull over for the beginning of the week photo reflection: Do you take a lot of photos now? What of? Do you have a … Continue reading Photo Reflection

For my last visual assignment of the week, I chose one called “Newspaper Blackout Poetry.” It was worth 3 points. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/newspaper-blackout-poetry/ When I first saw this assignment, I knew I would want to complete it for this week. So, I picked up the New York Times from the lobby … Continue reading Newspaper Blackout Poetry

At the beginning of this week, we were supposed to watch 2 noir movies to get us in the mindset of visual storytelling with noir characteristics. Watching “Killer’s Kiss” was required and I chose to watch “He Walked By Night” along with it. Here’s the breakdown: 1. First up is “Killer’s Kiss.” This movie had … Continue reading Reflect on Noir and Visual Storytelling

Today’s Daily Create was to create a picture without lifting our pencil (as explained by the title). I thought that this would be very simple, but turned out to be a little more complicated than I thought. First off, I am not very creative when it comes to these kinds of things so it was … Continue reading Drawing Without Lifting The Pencil

This post is completely dedicated to my Photo Safari that we had to complete this week. It was challenging to take really cool pictures because I don’t really go anywhere too fun besides campus. Obviously a lot of these photos are edited, but what’s more mysterious than ever knowing what the original photo really looks … Continue reading Noir Safari

I chose an assignment titled “Demotivate Yourself!” worth 2 points and completed it from the viewpoint of my character, Lena. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/demotivate-yourself/ So don’t get me wrong, vet school is great and everything…but it can get messy very quick. I decided to make this meme just because I needed to … Continue reading Demotivating Myself (Written as Lena)

This assignment was a required assignment on the character we made up and it was worth 3 points. Here is the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/whats-in-your-bag/ In Lena’s bag there are only a few things. She’s a simple person and only carries the essentials with her! 1. Blistix – This is something that Lena has … Continue reading What’s In Lena’s bag?

Today’s Daily Create was to make a paper sculpture. When I first saw the image that was an example on the daily create site, I thought, “there’s no way I’d be able to do this.” But I took my best shot at it and although it might be simple, I think it’s kinda cool! The … Continue reading Daily Create Paper Sculpture

Well… hopefully we’re still friends. In this visual assignment I chose to complete, the task was to take pictures of unsuspecting friends. Throughout the week I have been collecting these pictures to make this a good one. This assignment is definitely visual and it definitely helps you get creative by taking pictures at times you … Continue reading Unsuspecting Friends

This is one of the assignments I chose to do this week under Visual Assignments. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/word-cloud/ It was called “Word Cloud” and was worth one point. I created a word cloud of words about Field Hockey. I used UMW’s color scheme in my Word Cloud. Go Eagles!!

Today’s Daily Create consisted of making a special edition of one of my favorite addicting games, 2048. In my special edition, I replaced the classic number tiles with puppy tiles. What’s better than playing an addicting game while “aww”ing over adorable puppies? Nothing. Here’s the link: http://community.usvsth3m.com/2048/puppy-edition-167/

Today’s “The Daily Create” was to create a Word Painting. So, I created a word drawing with just a simple dandelion idea.

How is the second week of school coming to an end? This semester is already starting to go by so quick! This week in digital storytelling, we focused on noir literature and writing. After beginning the week by reading three different pieces of noir literature, I was in the mind set for all of the … Continue reading Time Flies (Week 2 Down)

I guess this post should have technically been done first this week, but I just jumped right into the other assignments we had to complete. This week we had to read at least 3 pieces of noir work. One that was required was “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and the other two that I chose … Continue reading Noir Readings