This week, I was introduced to the existence of a site filled with works of fellow ds106ers that inspired people to keep on creating art. I enjoyed the concept, and have to give kudos to whoever created the site. It’s a great way to share our favorites, and bring some recognition to the artist.  That […]

I tuned in to ds106 radio tonight to listen to the members of WMAD radio discuss the central theme of corruption in The Wire. To support their topic, they bring up moments and characters from the show including the Baltimore PD, the Barksdale crew, and Sobotka’s dealings with The Greek. Production-wise, there were lots of […]

  For easy access, here is our radio show, brought to you by John, Jeremy, Carmela, and Ien! We hope you learn something new!

Wow. This is gonna be such a short post. And yet it was so busy in terms of ds106 work. Most of the effort this week went into editing the radio show, and that final product will be available to listen on ds106 radio! Release date to be determined. We put forth a lot of […]

  Today’s daily create, give what might be my last words. How morbid! Anyways I’m kind of a bit of a romanticist so I prefer not to think of myself dying of old age or in a terrible accident, but through some weird unexplainable mishap or adventure. So I mixed a bit of humor in.

After that very much needed Fall break, our radio group got together and planned out individual guidelines for the upcoming radio show. I would handle audio editing and the script, John would handle research of the science parts, Carmela would help look up pertinent scenes from The Wire, and Jeremy would handle researching surveillance and […]

Usually in works of fiction, the number 7 shows up an exorbitant number of times as a special number. 7 years, 7 gods, 7 kingdoms, lucky 7, 7 valar, etc. The number 7 is even considered the favorite number amongst a high number of people (radiolab has a cool segment on that here.) So it’s […]

If this message has gotten out, then I’ve probably been captured by the powers that be. They had eyes and ears everywhere man. I thought I could avoid them forever, but they were too resourceful. They feared how much I knew. Well those big heads in the government probably didn’t bank on me keeping a […]

An original poem related to the theme of my blog? I like it. For another audio assignment, I decided to tackle this prompt. Since my blog has a very heavy space theme, and one of the main topics in general is art, I decided to relate how the cosmos themselves are almost like a work […]

This poor guy needs better safety equipment. For today’s daily create, I made a doodle interacting with the environment. In this case, I decide to draw a mountain climber attempting to scale the sheer face that is my bookshelf. My doodle has more thrills and adventures in his life than I do.

Since we seem to be refreshing our audio editing skills in preparation for the radio show, I’ve decided to try the sound effects story assignment. Considering most good radio programs utilize sound effects for not only ambiance, but to help get information across, it seems vital to get used to the nuances of leveling and […]

Since we’re focusing on the radio show this week, I figured today’s daily create to make a radio bumper would be perfect. The twist with this one is that I had to use certain examples of beatnik slang. Hopefully I did it correctly. I equalized my voice with the AM radio setting and leveled it […]

On Friday’s video discussion about The Wire, we were asked an intriguing question: What separates the visual element from the element of design? And to me, the difference lies in intention. When looking into inspiration for my visual assignments, I could rely on anything that caught my eye. Natural color, form, and general aesthetic appeal […]

For my final design assignment of the week, since I only need a few more stars of Wire related design work, I decided to make an alternative epigraph that applies to this class. This quote is from the season one finale and is addressed to Carver. However sometimes I feel like this can apply to […]

Today’s daily create was simple: make a short two minute doodle about how you’re feeling at the moment. In keeping with the cute examples, I decided to use an adorable koala as my example.  

For another Wire based design assignment, I made a new banner for this blog! Considering that the previous banner was a generic provided one, I wanted to actually make a custom one that fits the idea of the site. And since our focus this semester is The Wire, I decided to make that the theme. […]

When it comes to design, I adore either the minimalistic or colorful approach. I try to get enough information and intent across in as little as possible, while using color to make everything more vivid and memorable. It’s something I appreciate about road signs. They use minimal geometry to get a message across, and have […]

In celebration of the 1000th daily create, I was tasked with combining three daily creates I’ve done in the past! I was hoping to go for a theme, and since these three pictures were science related, I cobbled them together on GIMP. Here’s to the next 1000!

While perusing the resources provided for elements of design this week, I was suddenly struck by an idea of another type of artwork. Surprisingly, a search of what I was looking for didn’t turn up, so I decided to submit my own. Since we need to come up with two assignments over the semester, this […]

Wow. This one was way more difficult than it needed to be. I found out that making GIFs is actually a LOT easier in Adobe Flash. But I’m broke and stuck with GIMP, so… Anyways, based off this design assignment, I decided to make my own, but inspired off a tv show, The Legend of […]

For today’s daily create, I get to show my feelings on our very own Wire106 course! I made sure to illustrate not only my struggles, but my gains from this class as well. It’s definitely a lot more work than I initially expected. Especially design week in general. When your focus is form and aesthetic […]

Since this week is focused on the elements of design, I decided to make a The Wire inspired cover of an Atari 2600 game. Utilizing the provided fonts from the Atari Age forums, and a template from here, I was able to have a basis to design this:   It was nice having the provided […]

Just like how last week focused on sound, this week focused on the visual aspects of art. My prediction was right! As a result of this focus on visual art, I had loads of visual assignments to work on: An album cover 5 dots, 4 lines, and a curve Color Selection Dream window view Each […]

For my last visual assignment of the week, I decided to try out this one that limits our usage to only a few basic shapes: 4 lines, 5 dots, and one curve. I decide to do an artistic rendition of a space view of our home. The 5 dots make up the Earth, the Sun, […]

Continuing the trend of visual assignments for the week, I worked on an album cover that utilizes random quotes, pages, and pictures. The band name was chose from this wiki article, and the album name was taken from this random quote by Charles Schulz: “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s […]

Inspired by this small assignment, I decided to see what if it would look like if I had a house on Mars. I used this image of the Martian surface taken by the Curiosity rover, and an image of a window pane found on google, and GIMP as the editing tool. I set the window […]

I liked this assignment because I thought that it was a nice way to learn the tools available within a  free editing program like GIMP. I took a photo of my backyard, and decided to focus on the blue of the pool. While the image might not look like much in terms of color emphasis, […]

Had a chance to try out a photoblitzer challenge for the first time! My goal is to take photos capturing the essence of the prompts provided to me in 20 minutes or less! The list I got is shown below: Make a beautiful photo of something rusted or crushed. Where would we be without tools? […]

A simple but unique daily create. While I could not find anything on the 106 FM station, I was able to rely on trusty old DC101.

For today’s daily create, I had to make some old fashioned style design schematics. Since our focus is on The Wire, I decided to use the schematics for a pay phone! I just used GIMP and used the provided layers and the ‘multiply’ function to put it all together.