We’re done! We finished the recording on Wednesday night, and got the commercials done yesterday, and Evan polished everything up and stuck it all together this afternoon. Here it is! The biggest issue I think we had was communication, but overall it was pretty inconsequential. There was one big “uh oh” moment this afternoon, when … Continue reading Radio Show →

@ds106dc #tdc1734 #ds106 Not my best job ever, but fun to figure out pic.twitter.com/m8AT52wGj4 — Gail Crunkhorn (@gcrunkie) October 8, 2016   https://t.co/HIJbyb4Zsf via @giphy#ds106 #tdc1731Me in the morning. — Gail Crunkhorn (@gcrunkie) October 5, 2016   @ds106dc #tdc1732 #ds106In 1732, the founders of the colony of Georgia received their royal charter! pic.twitter.com/pV8vqVisc4 — Gail … Continue reading Weekly Summary Week 6 →

I did a bumper sticker for the radio show! Credit to concoll.edu for the background photo. I chose this font because it looks tech-y and futuristic– just like a re-imagined history should look. The tagline “Re-write the Past” is because that’s exactly what we intend to do as a group. The radio channel at the … Continue reading Radio Show Bumper Sticker →

This week was kinda slow on the radio front; we didn’t really get things rolling on the group google doc until yesterday afternoon. So far I have one response on the group twitter messenger- I thought the response time would be better via twitter, but I guess not. We’ll figure it out. We have a … Continue reading Radio Show Week 1 →

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I had tons of fun with this one, especially with the spelling. Not only are all u’s turned to v’s automatically, but I tried to spelle as olde-fashionede as possible. Mainly by adding e’s to the ends of words. This assignment is the 3 1/2 star “Tell a Tale on a Tapestry”. The tale I’ve … Continue reading Jabberwocky Tapestry →

For this 3 1/2 star project (Minimalist TV/Movie Poster), I chose the movie Stardust, based on the book by Neil Gaiman. I love this movie a lot; the story and characters are so engaging and imaginative that it pulls you right in. (My favorite character has got to be Captain Shakespeare, no question.) I made this entire … Continue reading Stardust Minimalist Poster →

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what story I’m talking about given these four images. (No, that’s not a hint.) This one should be pretty easy, guys. I have faith in you. If you can’t figure it out, look here for the answer. This was the three-star “Four Icons, … Continue reading 4 Nouns 1 Story →

Confession time: I procrastinated this week. I had a pretty significant amount of things going on, and I just kept putting it off. I seriously, seriously, regretted that come Thursday. Learn from me, fellow kids. Don’t do shit like this.   First up, the daily creates: #ds106 #tdc1717I… don't know what to do with this … Continue reading Weekly Summary: Week4 →

Radio Bumper This was so hard. I’m still not sure it sounds like an actual radio bumper, but it’s better then the alternatives. I used part of “The Normandy Reborn” from the Mass Effect Two soundtrack– the very beginning of when the music starts to swoop as Shepherd looks down on the second Normandy. I teared … Continue reading Radio Bumper →

First off, if I ever buy music from Google Play again, I’m an idiot. Trying to do things legally is such a pain in the ass, and I am never leaving iTunes again. I almost burst into tears of frustration more than once trying to a) ascertain if I had even bought the damn track … Continue reading Down Under →

For this 2 1/2 star assignment to imitate the weather (Audio Assignment 406), I chose to try and sound like rain and wind. I’ve noticed before how if you breathe right, you can sound like the whistling wind on a winter evening. However, I’ll be the first to admit that my first few attempts sounded … Continue reading Weather Imitation →

I completely forgot to do this. Whoops. From the beginning of the week: You know how I was scared for photography? At least I’d taken picture before. This? Audio editing? NEVER. I listen to music, and that’s about the extent of my experience. Audacity seems like it’s pretty easy to use though, [edit: HAHAHAHA. I hadn’t accidentally erased … Continue reading Audio Reflection →

I haven’t sung this round in an actual choir since about middle school– 8th grade, to be precise. It was fun singing it again, although I wish I’d been a little more consistent with my timing. Eh. I used the Smart Voice Recorder on my phone, then transferred the four tracks I recorded to Audacity … Continue reading Row Row Polyphony (AKA I revisit middle school) →

  Oh, sweet God. This took me forever. In my defense, I’ve never actually used Audacity before, and it took me ~30 minutes to figure out how to do things. This was actually pretty fun, aside from the constant stream of under-the-breath comments about recordings and putting things together and how the hell is this only 50 … Continue reading Footsteps in the Night- 90 second short story →

Cooking ideas! Sports stories Tales of our childhoods Travel ideas/tips 4 trips Book club Video game review Freshman ProTip: the show how to internet scary stories to listen to in the dark (or scar your children with) NPR but college This American College Life Lake Woebegone  Sleepbegone Wait Wait Please Tell Me Whose Turn Is … Continue reading Radio Show- The Brainstorm →

Not gonna lie, I started off this week slightly terrified. No joke- look at my reflection: I Know Nothing About Photography (and I’m Kinda Scared) However, I have definitely learned stuff about photography this week! And photo editing! For my three visual assignments this week, I did “Your Very Own Spubble”, “Bring Your Pet to … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3: Lots of Guessing →

My third and final visual assignment was the 1 1/2 star “Your Very Own Spubble”. I chose a selfie of me from last year, and for the speech bubble I put in an opinion I’ve held for a very long time (ever since I had to suffer through the Two Towers AKA Three Hours of … Continue reading Sam was the true hero. →

I did the 2 1/2 star visual assignment “Bring Your Pet to School” because I miss my pets a ton while I’m at school (I rated it 2 stars, which brought it down). I had a photo of my dog Theodore on my phone, so I removed the background in Powerpoint and superimposed it over a picture … Continue reading My dog is here! →

(credit: Virginia Institute of Blacksmithing) My first visual assignment for this week was the 4-star “Camp Poster”. The really, really cool thing about the photo background?? It’s meeeeee! I took a shield-making class at the Virginia Institute of Blacksmithing last February, and the jewelery-making teacher came around and took photos of everyone. In this photo, … Continue reading BLACKSMITH CAMP (based on a true story) →

  My photoblitz began at 10:43 pm EST and concluded at 11:03pm EST. You’ll notice the quality difference- I remembered I could screenshot on my computer instead of taking a photo of my laptop screen. Whoops. I did this at my team’s study hall in an academic building, figuring there would be plenty of stuff … Continue reading Photoblitz: I Weird Out My Teammates and Steal Their Stuff →

I’m sitting on a beach right now, in my land-locked neighborhood in my land-locked state. The moon reflected in the ocean is full, but the moon above me is just a sliver. Everyone else in my family is in bed, but tonight I just couldn’t sleep. My dad loves having an ocean in our backyard, … Continue reading An Ocean Behind My House →

My experience with photography is… slim. Very slim. I got a camera for my 13th birthday and used it indeterminately until I got a smartphone. Once I got a smartphone my camera fell by the wayside. My phone camera I’ve mainly used for Snapchat, honestly. Lots of terrible selfies never meant to be seen by … Continue reading I Know Nothing About Photography (and I’m Kinda Scared) →

This week, we started daily creates! In reverse order: @ds106dc Freckles, a dusting of caramel dotsAvatars of personalityCreases, witness to laughterEyes, windows that work both ways#tdc1705 — Gail Crunkhorn (@gcrunkie) September 8, 2016 @ds106dc You could make palindromes with .www! or if someone had a number at the end, they could make it precise with … Continue reading Week 2- AKA Middle Earth Appreciation Week →

So, when I decided to do the two-star assignment “Favorite Movie Quotes”, I told myself I will not do another Lord of the Rings quote. I will not do another Lord of the Rings quote. I will not do another Lord of the Rings quote.  I lied, guys. I did another Lord of the Rings quote. … Continue reading Gimli is Underrated and You Should All Love Him →

This piece is slightly scary for how accurate it is. It may not have accounted for the human tendency to want mobility in their computing devices, but overall I can think of modern names for everything in the story. Skype, google, netflix- Joe and its logic brethren are all of them and more. The interesting … Continue reading Be Glad Your Computer is Unhelpful: A Short Story →

This assignment is rated 3 1/2 stars- unlike the last assignment, I actually upped the star count with my vote because dear God this was a lot of work. I don’t know if other people find design software (read: paint)  easier to manage or if I’m just a perfectionist, but this took me a significant amount … Continue reading I Am No Man →

If anyone in the western world hasn’t heard of the Game of Thrones series, they’re either Amish or live under a rock (do the Amish count as part of the western world?). I read the first four books in a month, about a book a week, and I loved them– so how could I resist … Continue reading Game of Thrones: Weberos →

What do I listen to while I’m trying to get work done? Usually, I create  a playlist, in order to have a constant stream that I don’t have to continually tend. YouTube and Pandora used to be my go-tos, but the sudden, often loud ads often jar me out of focus. I’ll admit, Soundcloud has been … Continue reading Inspiration: Sounds →

whew, what a week! I signed up for about twice as many social media accounts as I had before… and resurrected a couple that had been lost to the depths of the interwebs. It turns out this whole social thing is more complicated than it looks, which is partly why I had never bothered before. … Continue reading Weekly Summary →