This week, we had to do 3 daily creates. For my first create, I chose to bury passive aggressive Facebook posts, because who wants those…ever? I used a photo of a blank tombstone from Google and added in the words using Paint. I posted this the day after because I forgot to hit the submit … Continue reading "Creations"

For this assignment, I created a crimeboard that is related to my earlier post about the seven characters and their story. I added in a little twist though – Bonnie Sue, a sheriffs wife, is linked to Andy, a bank robber, but we don’t know why. I used a corkboard picture from Google, to create … Continue reading "Who’s the Boss?"

This week I listened to Turning Tumbleweeds on DS106 Radio. I thought the show was really well done! They used a lot of great sound effects to enhance the story. For example, the high pitched music in the background made it seem eerie/creepy. There was also a really good use of other sounds, like a … Continue reading "Turning Tumbleweeds"

This assignment was to make a story using 7 characters, similar to Justice League. I decided to try and create a movie idea using 7 of our characters. One warm day, Marlene was cleaning her bar when Rose, and shortly after, Maybelline ran inside and locked the door behind them. Rose told Marlene, a man … Continue reading "Seven Characters, One Story"

For the assignment, I had to create a poster for a camp I went to. To incorporate my character and Sophia’s character, Rose, I decided to create a little backstory for the friendship hinted at in our Radio Show. When we were younger, Rose and I both attended archery camp and became quick friends. Rose … Continue reading "Calling All Archers!"

So this week was a lot of editing and recording for the audio show, in addition to the daily creates. I think the radio shows are a great idea and I’m pretty excited to see what others have come up with. I know one group has a murder mystery theme – which I am especially … Continue reading "Week 8: Perfecting the Show"

We have finished the radio show and I think everything turned out great! We used a few commercials that were western themed and used our characters for the show. Marlene, Maybelline and Rose are 3 girls from the same place who are on a radio show after they’ve gone traveling. Each one of us visited … Continue reading "The Travelin Gals/Girls"

As everyone knows, we have been working on our radio shows the past two weeks. Sophia, Maria and I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas and recording our show. We had a little trouble coming up with an official name and we chose one last week, but decided to change it to … Continue reading "Travelin Gals Are Done Travelin…For Now"

This week we had to complete 2 daily creates. I chose to create a tongue twister and make up thoughts that a man from a picture was having. For the tongue twister, we had to look at the ds106 hashtag on twitter and find someone who was on their. I chose Lindsey and made a … Continue reading "The Newest Creations"

So for this week, we started planning out our radio shows. I’m working with Sophia and Maria to create an awesome radio show about traveling! We decided to use GoogleDocs to plan and come up with ideas and it worked out pretty well, as mentioned in the post. I’m pretty excited to get started recording … Continue reading "Audio Party: The Radio Show"

This week, we had to complete 3 daily creates. I think this week they were a little easier than some of the previous weeks, but I was okay with it because it has been a ROUGH week work-load wise. The first daily create I did was to take a selfie when it was 1:06 – … Continue reading "Three New Creations"

For this assignment, you have to find your theme song. I decided that instead of doing mine, I would find Marlene her own song! I chose this song because it starts off kind of dark and mysterious and then gets fast paced, which is what Marlene’s life is doing now. When I introduced her, I … Continue reading "Marlene Got A Theme"

So for this assignment, I chose one of my favorite songs ever and I’m hoping you guys can guess it! It’s kind of an old song (think like middle/early high school), but it’s SO GREAT. I used Audacity to remove the lyrics which was not very easy to do. I had to re-do it a … Continue reading "Guess What Song"

So for this assignment, I struggled a little in deciding what the bumper sticker would look like and all of that. I decided to go on a slightly cheesy route and went with the whole “like westerns? like outlaws? we’ve got it all on DS106 radio”. Part of the reason I did this is because … Continue reading "LISTEN TO DS106 RADIO"

So as everyone is aware, it’s radio show week(s)! I was originally kind of dreading this assignment – I’ve heard about it from some friends and while it sounded cool, it also sounded a little awful. I am happy to say that after brainstorming with my group I am pretty excited for the radio show … Continue reading "Radio Madness"

This week, as everyone knows, we focused on design. I thought that this week was very similar to photography in terms of what we were looking at as characteristics of design. I really enjoyed reading Vignelli’s booklet. One of my favorite things about it, besides the content was how clear it is that Vignelli loves … Continue reading "Designing Everyday"

Looking through the posters and based on the Western genre type movies I’ve noticed a few different things. Generally, in terms of color there seem to be about 4 colors that dominate in westerns and on the posters: yellow, brown, red, and black. These colors are usually in some type of hue throughout the movie. … Continue reading "Themes in Western Designs"

Once again this week, we had to complete 3 daily creates. They were all pretty fun this week. For my first one, I had to add some text to an existing gif. I added some glittery text since it was for a birthday and played around with the text some. I used the site recommended … Continue reading "Daily Creations"

For this assignment, I created a wanted poster for Sam Bass. Sam Bass started out pretty small and robbed a few thousand from his employers with a buddy. Then he decided to move on to robbing stagecoaches. After awhile he decided to try train robbery and eventually ended up pulling off the largest robbery in … Continue reading "WANTED"

So as I walked/drove around this week from classes to work to hanging out with my friends, I tried to look around for elements of design for the Design Blitz. I found a few different things that were examples of dominance, and definitely a lot of symbols (from street signs, bathroom symbols in stores/restaurants). For … Continue reading "Finding Design In Your Daily Life"

This assignment was a lot of fun! I had to create a minimalist movie poster. I chose to do Edward Scissorhands. In order to try and capture the meaning of the movie, I decided to use his scissorhand (because obviously, that’s what the movie is about). In paint, I pasted the image I found on … Continue reading "Edward Scissorhands"

For this assignment, I had to recreate a cereal box in some way. I decided to make donut cheerios…which would be delicious. I used a picture of doughnuts that I found on Google and a cheerio box as well. I decided to keep the design fairly simple and my photo shopping skills obviously need some … Continue reading "Donut Cheerios!"

So for this assignment, I decided to go pretty simplistic. I am a huge fan of inspirational quotes – like I’m the person with those little wooden things that have quotes on them. I used a picture that I stumbled upon one day awhile ago. I felt the picture was appropriate for the quote because … Continue reading "Need Some Inspiration?"

After reading Vignelli’s booklet, The Vignelli Canon, I have a newfound respect for design and people who use design in their everyday life. I realize that we use design for basically everything after reading Vignelli’s booklet. Everything from choosing a title for a paper to actually creating art is a use of design. Before reading … Continue reading "It’s All in the Details"

So as you all know, this week we were focusing on audio in storytelling. I think so far this has been my favorite week. I really enjoyed focusing on audio in the movies and radio involving westerns. As I mentioned in my post, I really enjoy the way most westerns use diegetic and other sounds … Continue reading "Audio Party"

So this week we had to do 3 daily creates from twitter. I really enjoyed the ones for this week, I thought they were pretty great! For the first one, we had to create an invention of some sort, so I decided on a breakfast buddy! Essentially, it’s a spin off of the machine in … Continue reading "Always Making Something New…"

This assignment was pretty fun! I re-did my recording like 8 times probably because I kept saying something strange or something that didn’t make any sense. I ended up just keeping it pretty simple, but I like the way it turned out. I used a guitar sound from freesound for the background and talked over … Continue reading "Radio Bumper"

This assignment was pretty nerve racking. I felt like I was actually doing speed dating when I was talking and trying to figure out what to say in 30 seconds. I kind of winged it because if I were to try speed dating I definitely would change what I say with every person, so I … Continue reading "30 Seconds: All About Me"

For this assignment I had to choose an artist and pick at least 5 of their songs and create a mashup, at least 5 minutes long. I chose to do New Politics for this because I’m fairly obsessed with them and it happened pretty quickly…I saw them live and fell in love. So while they are … Continue reading "Mashed potat….songs"

So for my radio show, I’m not quite sure yet what I want to do. I have a few kind of random ideas but I’m not sure how they’ll go together. Here are some ideas I have as of now: I think it would be really fun to do like an Onion type show where … Continue reading "Radio Madness"