What Yonder Design Doth Blitz??

What Yonder Design Doth Blitz??

by @JHolburd

| designblitz, Syndicated
February 14, 2022

Let’s look at COLOR, RHYTHM, TYPOGRAPHY AND UNITY Color is what defines the design in the photo below, and the deep saturation of color enables the back lighting to play with the reds and greens to create interest for the viewer. The deep red berries on the left that are not directly backlit by the […]
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Design Is the Gift of Sense

by @JHolburd

| designthoughts, Syndicated
February 14, 2022

Thinking about the importance of good design, it is important because it helps us make sense of our world. It creates linkages for us. James Verdesoto distilled movie poster design down by color themes and use of negative space and wow, it became so obvious how I’ve been personally influenced by design. Actually, it’s been […]
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Weekly Summary Week Five–High Five!

by @JHolburd

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated, weekly assignments
February 11, 2022

Below are all the embeds for the work I did this week. I “got ‘er done” but I cannot say I gained maximum proficiency in the audio arena. I’d say I’m mediocre at best in Audacity and it was difficult to find help for the version I am using. For instance, the tutorial that was […]
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Radio Show Idea–The Voice

by @JHolburd

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
February 11, 2022

Thinking out loud here. Really. If we are going to be recording our voices in the future, those voices are one of the tools to effectively communicate to our audience. I think it would be cool to do a radio show about how we use our voices effectively to get our message across. For instance, […]
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A Defiant Song Story

by @JHolburd

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments75, Syndicated
February 10, 2022

I always had a determination to insist on fairness so when AudioAssignments75 came up to write a Song Story, something popped immediately in my head. From the time of my memories, I’ve thought about fairness and why being male or female was such a big deal when people thought about what someone should or should […]
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A Poem of Joy for Children

by @JHolburd

| AudioAssignments454, Syndicated, writingassignments
February 9, 2022

This poetic story is for Audio Assignments454, Poetry Reading. For decades now, I have remembered a children’s poem from my high school Spanish class that I know as Aserin, Aseran, Los Maderos de San Juan. I would recite it intact to my Spanish-speaking friends and they would smile nicely and tell me that it basically […]
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Must Get the Snow Shoveling Done

by @JHolburd

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2615, Syndicated
February 8, 2022

This is my Sound Effects Story, Audio Assignments 2615. I used Audacity and found three sounds from freesound.org. They were of shuffling shoes, shoveling snow and a car crashing. With a lot of choices, I was thinking about what sounded best for sounds outside, in a snowy, icy cold environment. The plot of the story […]
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Listening to the Rad eeO

by @JHolburd

| ds106radio, Syndicated
February 8, 2022

There were seven of us listening to the ds106 radio this evening, Monday, February 7, from 8-9 p.m. Our Professor Paul Bond wove us through the intro and outro (was he also the sound editor emeritus??). Unfortunately, I could not engage in the discussion on Discord. I didn’t receive my invitation in the first week […]
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DS106 Radio Bumpedey Bump

by @JHolburd

| radiobumper, Syndicated
February 7, 2022

Here is Holbert’s Radio Bumper in MP3 format.
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Audio Reflection

by @JHolburd

| #audioreflection, Syndicated
February 7, 2022

I had not thought about audio storytelling as the story in itself but more to amplify and assist a story of words. As I listened to Abumrad, he brought it home when he explained that radio connects people with their imaginations by one person transmitting a visual image to the receiving person with their voice […]
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Daily Creates Week Five TDC 3677

by @JHolburd

| Daily Creates, Syndicated, twitter
February 7, 2022

The question was, What’s the argument? My response was not an argument, they broke out in the song Iko Iko.
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Daily Creates Week Five, TDC 3678

by @JHolburd

| Daily Creates, Syndicated, twitter
February 7, 2022

This Daily Create 3678 was a spin-off on @PeaceLoveAndBot
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Daily Creates Week 5, TDC 3679

by @JHolburd

| Daily Creates, Syndicated, twitter
February 7, 2022

This TDC 3679 is all about creating an Unselfie.
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Weekly Summary–Week Four

by @JHolburd

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
February 4, 2022

Twitter I figured out the three Daily Creates this week, trying to see how I could accomplish the task as quickly as possible and still satisfy the intent of the assignment. For the first Tweet, it was just too obvious to pick a photo that I had taken while hiking along the Rappahannock River a […]
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Peace be Here. And There.

by @JHolburd

| Syndicated, visualassignments2109, writingassignments
February 3, 2022

A relaxing VisualAssignments2109 called “Places of Peace”. Bob Ross would have approved because it is a nice way to find a little bit of joy in my day, looking for photos that take me right back to peaceful, joyful places I’ve visited and that I also get to enJOY now. The assignment is to create […]
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It’s A Bad, Bad Photo

by @JHolburd

| Syndicated, VisualAssignments65, writingassignments
February 3, 2022

This was fun. No pressure because I didn’t have to find a good photo to work with. I could relax and look for one of my lamest photos, and I found one that is just blobs of plants and a sputtering of water with no context or depth. Bob Ross would never have gone with […]
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Stenciled Photos

by @JHolburd

| Chatham Manor, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Park Service, Syndicated, VisualAssignments1316, writingassignments
February 2, 2022

For this Visual Assignments1316 “Back to Basics“, I chose a photo I had already altered that I called Dragon Teeth, that is a close-up of a succulent plant. I thought it would be really cool to turn it into a stencil look so I went to the photo editor program, paint.net, to create the stencil […]
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Dasher’s Photo Blitzen

by @JHolburd

| #photoblitz, Syndicated
February 2, 2022

A few days ago, I went through about ten different photoblitz lists before landing on one I could completely accomplish in my personal space. Then it took me two more days to find the time during the day to do the project because the one I chose needed me to take a picture of weather […]
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Color Makes a Difference

by @JHolburd

| Chicago, Syndicated, The Bean, VisualAssignments1701, writingassignments
February 2, 2022

We feel excited, calm, happy and sad, many times based on the colors around us. So when the colors are changed up, what does that do? Check out what happens to the sky, ground and The Bean in Chicago. For this VisualAssignments1701 “Color Changer,” I installed Paint.net so I could manipulate the image. I used […]
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Please Tell Me What This Is!

by @JHolburd

| Syndicated, VisualAssignments1882, writingassignments
February 2, 2022

For Visual Assignments 1882 “That’s Not What I Expected”, I not only took a close-up photo but then cropped it more closely to take away a lot of clues for you. But there are clues and I think, still too many. Regardless, this is my favorite theme in photography and what gives me the greatest […]
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Journey to Ice and Fire: Iceland

by @JHolburd

| Syndicated, VisualAssignments1256, writingassignments
February 2, 2022

In Iceland, it is all about water, whether it was cold or hot; a rainbow, waterfall, geyser, hot thermal springs, glacier or ocean. The air temperature in August averaged about 62 degrees and we always had some kind of windbreaker and water repellent jacket, and hiking boots. This was one of my most favorite photographic […]
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Samples of Making Better Photographs

by @JHolburd

| ds 106photography, Syndicated
February 1, 2022

A deliberate composition in the camera. Being more pleasing to the eye keeps the viewer looking at the details and interested in the total image because all the elements are related to one another. In this case, the moss and mushrooms are growing i...
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D’Juneau?? 2022-02-01 00:24:12

by @JHolburd

| photoreflection, Syndicated
February 1, 2022

I’ve been shooting since the Kodak Pocket Instamatic in high school. By the time I enlisted in the Marine Corps, I got my first SLR camera, an Olympus OM-1 with a fixed, 50mm lens. You could adjust the aperture and focus, and could add a flash with its hot shoe. I wish I still had […]
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Weekly Summary–Week Three

by @JHolburd

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
January 28, 2022

This was a much more manageable week. I got an earlier start, figured out how to do hypertext links and didn’t have problems with my laptop’s performance. I spent a lot more time on my Daily Creates than is expected but it’s still not easy for me to just throw something together. I wish it […]
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Kindred Story Analysis

by @JHolburd

| Syndicated
January 28, 2022

The novel Kindred by Octavia Butler, published in 1979, is a science fiction/slave narrative about Dana, a young African American woman and aspiring writer, who finds herself shunted between her home in Los Angeles in 1976 and a pre-civil war Maryland plantation, back and forth, over multiple time-travel trips, where she meets her ancestors. This […]
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Coming Out of the Dark

by @JHolburd

| outline, Syndicated
January 27, 2022

August 2021 was my benchmark, when we started gathering again in the classroom at UMW. It meant that we students would again be in each other’s presence after about 15 months of hibernation. I was ready to announce, that I was going to “find my happy”. That was my running tag line. For my art […]
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Gauchos, The Tango and Malbec

by @JHolburd

| Argentina, Argentine Tango, Buenos Aires, Estancia, Gauchos, Malbec, Mendoza, Pampas, Perito Moreno Glacier, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1716
January 27, 2022

It seems Argentina has a twist on everything interesting in this world! So this is a dream vacation that would create the Joy we talk about in our theme (back to Bob Ross) because it will last at least six weeks, something I have never indulged in before. Can you imagine being gone from your […]
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My Bucket isn’t Bottomless Anymore

by @JHolburd

| Angkor Wat, Ballroom Dancing, bucket list, Cattle Drive, Drift Car Racing, gardening, Gordon Ramsey, Grand Canyon, Great Barrier Reef, Mongolian Steppes, Natural Hot Springs, New Zealand, Northern Rockies, Oprah, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments1738
January 26, 2022

This assignment asks if we ever made a mental bucket list of things we ever seriously or jokingly wanted to do. Heck, I live by lists. Lists for the grocery store, lists for what to do tomorrow, tonight, this month, next month, for you, for me, for the dog. Wait–I don’t have a dog! Darn […]
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Fear, No. PTS, Yes.

by @JHolburd

| anxiety, fear, Gerald Desmond Bridge, Post Traumatic Stress, PTS, PTSD, Syndicated, Vincent Thomas Bridge, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2235
January 25, 2022

I say “Fear, No” because I am not a fearful person. To me, fear has little use except to cripple and stop you in your tracks. When I saw the assignment “Facing Your Fears” then asking me to describe my biggest fear and what it might think of me, then write a terrifying story of […]
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Threading the Family Needle with Letters and Furniture

by @JHolburd

| Angeles PI, Clayton County IA, Coon Can, Highway 52, Nagasaki, Philippine-American War, Porac, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments503
January 25, 2022

I possess about 20 letters from my Great Uncle Frank Brownson to his sister, my Great Aunt Lois Brownson, when he was a soldier in the Philippine Islands in 1900-1901 and Aunt Lois lived in Iowa. He was serving in Porac just northwest of Manila with Company M in the 32nd Infantry Regiment of the […]
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