Well I had to get Week 5 done quite early because I have Orientation starting Thursday and I am very thankful that my supervisors gave me time of to complete my Final Project. I am very excited with how that turned out. Also this week I created two different assignments for the DS106 Assignment Bank.  I decided […]

To create this reflection in my friend Morgan’s eye I followed the steps listed below in this post. I imported the photograph I took of Morgan’s eye into Canva.com. I then went to the Elements Menu and searched for a circle. I chose a circle that allows you to insert a photograph to make it […]

To start this ad I knew I would need a good background and searched the internet trying to find one I liked.  I finally settled on this image to be used as the background sans the “aloha” at the bottom of the image.  I liked the color scheme that it would bring to the entire […]

Jon Snow had a very average life growing up in Westeros… well average for any Lord or Lady, but Jon was not really a Lord because his mother was nary a Lady but simply a peasant. Jon’s last family name was not Stark like that of his father, but Snow the mark of a bastard. […]

DS106 Word Cloud Near the end of your time completing DS106 complete a Word Cloud that encompasses the class and all that you have learned! There are plenty of different online tools to help you create a Word Cloud! Creating a word cloud can be super easy and word clouds are very useful in showing […]

Create A Game of Thrones House Create your own Game of Thrones House name and Sigil.  Jointherealm.com is a useful tool for creating your own Sigil! (3 stars) I’ve always loved the idea of creating a Game of Thrones house because I just live an breath Game of Thrones.  I’m shocked by how quickly I […]

This week has been completely and utterly challenging for me.  I started Orientation which means I have no time to work during the week and I got very very ill today.  So ill that I keep falling asleep in the middle of  typing all of my posts to the point that I really just need […]

I found Roger Ebert’s “How to Read Film” super interesting and it solidified things that I had never noticed in movies.  As I was reading my brain was scanning all the different movies I have watched over my lifetime and a lot of the techniques clicked right into place.  One thing I found particularly interesting […]

Moving Object   Make a moving object using Vine. (4 Stars) These flip aren’t just walking.  They are walking straight out of my office and to no more responsibility.  This week has been really stressful for me because I started orientation which means I have about zero free time and I would really like to […]

Create a Lyric Video Create a lyric video for a song. Try and be as creative as possible. Use multiple fonts, colors, backgrounds, and transitions. Try not to be super plain and try to deliver the lyrics clearly and correctly. (4.5 Stars)   I had a hard time deciding what song I would like to […]

Week Three was very interesting and not exactly what I was expecting.  I had to get a lot of my work done early in the week because I had a wedding to go to over the weekend and everything else was done while in the car for 16 hours in a two day span.  Audio […]

I was super excited to comment on Daenerys Targaryan’s voicemail and was happy to find there was another Game of Thrones fan in the class.  Honestly in the case of this comment it was much more content focused than process focused. The good morning message was overall pretty good, but as I said I think […]

I thought the idea of this Daily Create was really funny and wanted an image of someone riding on the hood of a car to demonstrate how useful pedestrian flypaper would be to add an extra seat to self driving cars.  I mean it’s not like they need to be able to see through the […]

Doing audio this week was a real eye opener as to how time consuming audio can be to complete well.  I really enjoyed learning to layer sound with Audacity and while I don’t think I have a complete knowledge of Audacity by any means I am more confident in my ability to use it.  I’m […]

I listened to Talking to Machines from Radiolab, which was a very interesting both in it’s content and how the show was put together.  The show delved deeper into how humans interact with robot/machines and if it will ever be possible for robots to truly be sentient beings.  I found the content pretty interesting which made […]

I really appreciated that Ira Glass started off by saying great story telling is not how it is taught to us all in school. I am not the kind of person who tells a lot of stories I’m much more a listener so I think I very easily could have fallen in the trap of […]

@ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1608 I don't know what you're talking about that's me not Taylor Swift pic.twitter.com/52GY3vF0nZ — Emily Stallings (@em_stallings95) June 3, 2016 Guitar Face? Me? Yes, I am the real Taylor Swift and I think this is one of her *ehem* my best guitar faces that show how into the instrument I truly […]

@ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1607 So close but not quite. pic.twitter.com/20hPnsrc7P — Emily Stallings (@em_stallings95) June 2, 2016 The first thing I did when I saw this Daily Create was look around my apartment for the number 1,0, and 6.  Looking preferably for at least two of those numbers together.  I found the number 16 on […]

#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1606 Are you my friend? @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/oWLac1QDFA — Emily Stallings (@em_stallings95) June 1, 2016 I completed the title with Are You My Friend?  I think it’s very interesting that people my age are so obsessed with being friends with each other on social media.  Sure you may be my friend on Facebook, but […]

Do You Hear What I Hear? Record glimpses of the different sounds you hear throughout the day, whether it be busy street noises, people talking, birds chirping, etc. and compile it into a single audio clip on Sound Cloud.  Use an audio software such as Audacity to put them all in one. (2.5 Stars) This […]

Favorite Song Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess. Audio in all honesty is kicking my ass.  I’m super interested in audio and find it fascinating, however as I have continued to work with it this week I have realized […]

Week 2 was very interesting to me because I got to do Design which I was pretty comfortable with, while I’m not fluent in programs like Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, I’ve been told I have a good eye for design. I started this week by jumping feet first into Design Assignments starting with the required […]

My first thought after reading this is that Massimo Vignelli is a firm believer in Keep it Simple Stupid and I appreciate him for that.  He knows what works and is sticking to it. Vignelli shows his passion for design very quickly in this article when he sets the three most important parts of design […]

It has been very interesting completing the Design Blitz over the last week and it has made me appreciate more the amount of thought an effort it takes to create eye-catching designs that fulfill their purpose with elegance and style. Through all my reading on design I know that there are many different types of […]

Hurry Up and Wait Animate one of those frustrating moments when you know time is moving forward, but it’s just so damn hard to tell. I think one of the most frustrating things that happen while using a Mac is when the user receives what I like to call the Rainbow Spinny Wheel of Death. […]

Favorite Musician GIF Choose your favorite musician, and then head to Youtube and pick one of their videos to make an animated gif of. Try to use the best quality video possible, preferably HD. I love things that are involved with musicians and if I had to pick my favorite singular musician it would be […]

Triple Rock Troll (2 Stars) As an homage to the popular Triple Quotes assignment, this one puts a rock music twist on it. Find an image of a well known rock star, add to it a phrase by song lyric by someone related in some way to the star in the image and then attribute the quote […]

If Movie Posters Told the Truth Improve movie posters to make them more accurately reflect the content of the film. Inspired entirely by theshiznit.co.uk. (3 Stars) I think everyone knows that Liam Neeson knows how to play one character and one character only.  That character just so happens to be Liam Neeson.  Neeson is the […]

Event Advertisement Create a poster for an up coming event. (4 Stars) When I found this Event Assignment in the Design Bank I was very excited and super comforted because creating event advertisements has been part of my job in CPB for over a year now.  The following are just a few of the event […]

Branding For this assignment you will make a business logo for the business of a character of your choice. Be creative! Use an application like Photoshop or a website like http://www.designmantic.com/ to create your logo. Make it personal to the business while remaining professional. (4 Stars) I was very excited to deal with Branding, because it […]