Favorite Movie Quote

Favorite Movie Quote

by @CRLunn

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1974, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

I love movies, they are truly one of favorite guilty pleasures so this Design Assignment was an obvious choice for me. The prompt involved adding our favorite movie quote to an image from the movie.Honestly, it will be hard for me to document my process for this assignment because it just came to be so …
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Contradiction Creation

by @CRLunn

| DesginAssignments2075, designassignments, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

For this Design Assignment I was asked to create a “poster” with a contradictory quote on it. The first step was to find a graphic – I chose a beautiful image of the beach then I needed to add text that completely contradicted the image. Originally I considered “Animals Poop Here” because my best friend …
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One Story/Four Logos

by @CRLunn

| DesignAssignment358, designassignments, Syndicated
February 18, 2020

This was another assignment that Professor Bond suggest we do; it asked me to to suggest a story using only 4 basic icons. I decided to use the class theme for this assignment and quickly whipped up a list of my favorite 80’s movies. I began to brainstorm icon ideas for The Shining, The breakfast …
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Movie Poster Assignment

by @CRLunn

| designassignments, DesignAssignments43, Syndicated
February 16, 2020

It was suggested that we complete this Design Assignment this week and I saw a great opportunity to work in the 80’s theme. I quickly Googled “80’s movies” to get the creative juices flowing before deciding on “Sixteen Candles” which is also one of my most favorite movies. I then went to Canva and began …
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Radio Show Ideas

by @CRLunn

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

So in case you missed it another teaser trailer dropped for Stranger Things session 4 today. You can watch it here! I’m obsessed with Stranger Things because I love the 80’s music and “lingo”. I don’t have any clear ideas for a radio show just yet but I love the idea of channeling Stranger Things …
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Week 5 Summary

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

This week we focused on Audio Assignments which is definitely out of my wheel house. I downloaded and played extensively with Audacity which was very user friendly and intuitive. I recorded myself a fair bit which is not something I enjoy but I faced these assignments head on in the pursuit of my degree! For …
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Auditory Hell

by @CRLunn

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignment2140, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This was a pretty straight forward Audio Assignment: “Create YOUR worst sound ever. Take audio clips of every single sound that you hate and put them all together to make The Worst Noise Ever. ” Obviously, there is only one answer here…NAILS. ON. CHALKBOARDS. So I downloaded 3 different audio clips from freesound.org of nails …
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80’s Product Radio Commerical

by @CRLunn

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2479, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

As I previously mentioned in my Radio Bumper post I really don’t like recording my own voice so these projects are nerve wracking for me. Despite my apprehension this was fun to work on.For this I assignments I was asked to make a radio commercial advertisment for a product created in the 80’s. When I …
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Radio Bumper

by @CRLunn

| radiobumper, Syndicated
February 13, 2020

The purpose of this blog is to provide insight into our thought process when creating our content for this course so I suppose I should be honest, I did not enjoy this assignment. I hate recording my own voice, it’s just so cringy! But I did it and I plan to tackle another Audio Assignment …
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Moon Graffiti & ds106 radio reflection

by @CRLunn

| #audioreflection, ds106radio, Syndicated
February 13, 2020

This week we listened to “Moon Graffiti” and our choice of ds106 radio (I chose to tune in Thursday). Both of these stories were fascinating to listen to and the experience was only amplified by the lack of visual. Both stories were terrifying for very different reasons (the thought of dying on the moon and …
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All the Relaxation

by @CRLunn

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2142, Syndicated
February 13, 2020

I knew I needed to do this Audio Assignment because it asked me to create my own layered relaxation sound track. I love ASMR and use a sound app to fall asleep so I really loved this challenge. I pondered what layered sounds I would want to hear to relax and decided on some soothing …
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Sound Effects Story

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated
February 13, 2020

Oh boy, this project was something else. Let me begin by saying I read the Audacity beginners guide but reading and doing are not the same thing for me so I had to get in there and just start poking around. I had an idea that I wanted implement and while it didn’t go completely …
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Week 4 Summary

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated
February 12, 2020

So concludes another week is DS 106. This week we focused our efforts on photography which is something I really enjoy as I have been surrounded by it my whole life (my dad is a professional photographer). We began with the Photoblitz assignment that I admittedly did last. That was fun and I’m pretty sure …
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Photoblitzer

by @CRLunn

| #photoblitz, Syndicated
February 7, 2020

Alright, lets get right to it, below is my Photobitzer item list and then I will launch into my photographs including start and end time. I was able to come in under time because for this assignment because I was able to take many of the photos from my office. I originally took the photo …
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That’s Not What I Expected

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1882
February 7, 2020

This prompt involved taking a picture of an item from a strange angle or just really stinking close, to see if people can guess what it is. This is my final Visual Assignment of the week and I am not going to lie, I’m at work (don’t tell my boss) so I was at the …
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You in Collage Form

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1890
February 7, 2020

This was fun. and I may have got a little carried away with it. Being a feminist is a huge part of my social identity so I wanted to focus on highlighting that. I started by find a bunch of individual images (I didn’t use them all but I wanted to the option) before working …
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Concert You Want to be At

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2421
February 7, 2020

Maybe you have noticed but I kinddddda love Cyndi Lauper so obviously if I had the opportunity to attend any concert it would be a Lauper concert. I started by finding a picture of a Cyndi Lauper concert and I decided on this one, which yes, I know is not from the 80’s (hence the …
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Who Said What

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2060
February 6, 2020

This Visual Assignment required me to pick a photo of a secret agent, then add a quote from a different secret agent, before finally attributing the quote to a final secret agent. I saw this as a good opportunity to work in the course theme. Obviously, James Bond came to mind when considering 80’s secret …
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Combophoto

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2050
February 6, 2020

This particular assignment involved splicing a pair of pictures together to make one single image, however, I took my own artistic liberties and ran with this assignment. I decided to make my dream animal by combining my 3 favorite animals into one beautiful creature. I had to really dig deep in my memory bank to …
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Week Three Summary

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated
January 31, 2020

Well, that’s a wrap one week 3 and I must say it’s all starting to come together. Assignments are feeling less terrifying and WordPress is actually starting to make sense. I had a great time with this weeks writing assignments but that might be because I enjoy writing and feel like I am good at …
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Your Hopes, Dreams, and Fears

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1910
January 31, 2020

Ahhh, another weepy writing assignment. This prompt asked me to write a letter to myself 10 years in the future which was rather emotional for me. It’s difficult to truly imagine where my life will take me in the next year so I kept my letter very vague. At the very core of it, I …
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A Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1763
January 31, 2020

If you need a little pick me up I cannot stress the joy that Googling “Bad 80’s photos” will bring you. Below is what I decided to tile “Who Ya Gonna Call? Dustbusters!” This prompt involved finding a photo and giving it a description or story behind it. After finding the photo I knew I …
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That Bucket List Though

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments1738
January 31, 2020

I want to begin this post by saying I tend to weep pretty easily but SHEESH. Reflecting on the struggles I have had getting to my final semester of college and the sacrifices I have made to make other people happy was tough but I am glad I took some time out to set some …
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I’m Having an Old Friend for Dinner

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1846
January 31, 2020

I knew almost immediately that I wanted to use this prompt as one of the “80’s Themed” writing topics because having dinner with my guest would be a dream come true. Originally, I thought about writing this as if I was attending dinner at her house but then realized that the thought of a celebrity …
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Haiku About You

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated
January 30, 2020

Let me begin this by saying that I haven’t written a haiku since probably 5th grade and I admittedly had to Google “syllables” just to make sure I was doing this correctly. I’m not proud but 5th grade was a long time ago… But moving on my from how old and dumb I am….It took …
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Week Two Summary

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 24, 2020

GUYS! We made it through week two! I am so proud of us. Let’s chat about this week, shall we?I personally cried less this week so that’s a plus. I loved looking at everyone’s Daily Creates because I was able to get a sense of each of your personalities via what you created and I think …
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Assignment Bank 1

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments5694
January 23, 2020

For this particular assignment I let my squirrel-like attention span lead the way. While scrolling though the “Fanfic Assignments” when a Bob’s Burger’s writing prompt caught my attention . As Bob’s Burgers is one of my favorite shows so I couldn’t resist that particular writing activity, and really, who doesn’t love a good erotic Friend …
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Introductions are needed

by @CRLunn

| ds106introductions, Syndicated
January 17, 2020

Hey #ds106 classmates! My name is Carly. I'm a senior at UMW who is graduating in May. I am as excited as this noodle man to be a part of this class. pic.twitter.com/ANXtyMFQih— CRLunn (@LunnCr) January 16, 2020 Vi...
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Week One Summary

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 17, 2020

Wow, what a week. I joined the class a little late and so it has been a mad dash to get to this point but I am here. On top of joining late I am also intimidated by this course. I previously attempted to take it during a summer semester and the experience was so …
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The 80’s and Today

by @CRLunn

| ds106thingsthoughts, Syndicated
January 17, 2020

Maybe it’s because I am a product of the 80’s but I think it is one of the best generations in terms of films, music, television and fashion! Fashion was often unisex, and the line of gender was beginning to blur (Grace Jones, David Bowie and Prince are just a few examples of this. Feminism …
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