The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli,while written before the popularization of digital design, still greatly pertains to how to successfully create a design and what complex thinking and planning can go behind what someone could consider a simple design. I appreciated the fact that he used visual examples in his book to match up with … Continue reading Design Canon

The Design Blitz assignment consists of taking photos of things you see as you walk around during the week and illustrating four of the ten concepts of design. I already knew of a few objects and signs I wanted to photograph for this assignment, so I took the photos relatively quickly. These are the photographs … Continue reading Blitz Pics

I’ve always thought minimalist posters were an artistic and creative way to show the plot/main focus of a story through only a few shapes and colors. For this assignment, “Minimalist TV/Movie Poster” we were to create a poster that captures a story through minimalist design and iconography. I decided to use the movie Clue as … Continue reading A Minimalist Murder Mystery

For this Design Assignment, titled “One Story/Four Icons”, people were to reduce a story, movie, or event into their main focus and find four icons that visualized the focus. I used the website mentioned in the assignment posting to find my icons and then I put these visuals together in Photoshop and created a jpeg … Continue reading 4 Icons, Can you guess the movie?

For the Design Assignment, “Create Your Own DS106 Wallpaper”, the assignment was to create a wallpaper for ds106 using a digital imaging software. This wallpaper for ds106 focuses on this semester’s theme of noir106 and I also incorporated some imagery so the wallpaper could connect with my original character. I chose to do this assignment … Continue reading On the case, On my desktop

The purpose of this Design Assignment titled “Bumper Sticker” was to create our own bumper sticker and I decided to connect the bumper sticker to my character, Shelley Layton. The bumper sticker acts as an advertisement for her private detective work and the bright color of the sticker makes it catch your attention and read … Continue reading Shelley Sticker

I was very excited about the Daily Create for today, titled “What’s your super power?” where you have to show your superpower in a photo. I also found this assignment to be difficult because of the super power I would want. If I had a super power, I would want to have the power of … Continue reading Teleport!

Today’s Daily Create assignment was to “Make creative hands” through a drawing or other art on paper, based on the examples shown on the Creative Hands Project website. I decided to complete this DC because I knew that I would be working with Valentine’s Day supplies today and figured that there would be an interesting … Continue reading A Handful of Hearts

Ideas for a Radio Show: Themes: -detective theme -collaboration of different people’s original characters -conflict of original characters -modern detective or mid-1900s? -noir in a TV genre (soap-opera, game show, sci-fi) How to form the radio show: 1st: brainstorm with group members 2nd: script 3rd: create/find audio 4th: figure out if it would be easier … Continue reading What To Do For A Radio Show?

This Audio Assignment is titled “Create A DS106 Radio Bumper” where everyone in the ds106 class this semester was required to create a radio bumper for ds106 radio. I never knew that this had a definitive name, I just thought the bumper would be called a radio station advertisement. I’ve heard them many times before … Continue reading Bumper To Bumper Radio

The Audio Assignment “Emotions Through Sound” consists of conveying emotions only through sound effects or human sounds. I chose to attempt to convey the emotions of sadness and apprehension through sound effect clips. At first I was only going to focus on sadness, but as I started editing the audio clips, I realized that I … Continue reading The Sounds of Sadness

This week’s overall theme for noir106 was Audio Storytelling, how you can tell a story with sounds/audio and how audio can affect a story. I feel like a completed the requirements for assignments this week better than I have for the past weeks because I started working on multiple assignments early in the week and … Continue reading The Sounds of Noir

The readings, visual and audio examples of audio in storytelling on the ds106 site this week all helped me have a better grasp of how audio is important in storytelling. Ira Glass’ videos about storytelling are very insightful for someone figuring out how to most successfully write an attention-grabbing story. The storytelling building blocks of anecdotes, … Continue reading The Stories of Audio

I completed the Audio Assignment “Reverse Audio Quiz” in which you must reverse an audio file of music and give people three hints as to what the song is. My hints are: -This song is on the soundtrack of a 2013 film. -The singer’s genres of music are primarily considered to be pop, R&B, and … Continue reading What Song is this?

This blog post is a response to the Audio Assignment titled “Sound Effects Story” where you have to tell a story with no verbal communication, only sound effects. This audio listens in to a quiet moment in my character’s, Shelley Layton’s life, after she returns home from teaching a class at the university she works for. … Continue reading Shelley After Work

The Daily Create for today is titled “I’m Sorry” and the goal was to create a picture with the words on it and the words were , “I’m sorry”. Everyone has a day where they just wake up in a bad mood and don’t feel like like putting effort into their day. You regret being … Continue reading Grumpy Panda

The Daily Create for today was “Ruin photography today” where we were to take inspiration from the photography of Andre Govia and take a photograph of something abandoned or in the process of decaying. I immediately thought of the abandoned amphitheater on my college campus to be the focus of my photo. The amphitheater has … Continue reading Amphitheater Ruins

I really enjoyed the overall theme for this week in class! Taking photographs is a stress-relieving activity for me and an activity I do daily. I feel that I sufficiently accomplished the class assignments given to me this week. The only thing I had trouble understanding was why the number of stars an assignment is … Continue reading Noir Photography…and Cats!

These photos are for the Noir Photo Safari and capture the Noir elements of: Dramatic use of distinct shadows Lighting from one side The “Venetian effect” (repeated geometric shadow) Off-kilter camera angle Noir Cat

This post is for the assignment for reflecting on noir and visual storytelling. The film Killer’s Kiss has the noir aesthetics and feelings of being shot in dark rooms with limited lighting, the moodiness of a defeated boxer and a girl who has lost her family, and urban nightscapes of the boxing ring, nightclub, and … Continue reading Noir Movie Stills

This blog post is a response to the Visual Assignment titled “What’s In Your Bag?” and contains images of my fictional character, Shelley Layton’s bag, and the contents of her bag. The contents of her bag includes: lipstick: Shelley likes to maintain a nice appearance and her favorite color is rouge. black gloves: These are … Continue reading Shelley’s Bag

My previous experiences with photography have been very casual when I’m the one taking photos. If I see something that catches my eye or interests me in some way, I take the best picture I can of it during the time I have. Sometimes I try a little too hard to find the “best shot” … Continue reading My Photography

This blog entry is a response to the Visual Assignment “Post-It Notes And Grocery Lists!” where I had to create notes that my fictional noir106 character Shelley Layton would leave for herself around her apartment. One of the notes relates to her official occupation as a university professor and another note lists what her plans … Continue reading Shelley’s Notes

For the Visual Assignment “Back to Basics” I had to find a photo I have taken and remove the color from the photo so that it would look like a stenciled image instead of a photograph. The brightness of the lily and lily pads contrasting with the dark water in this photo was the main … Continue reading Lily Stencil

This Visual Assignment was called “Putting Disney Into Focus” while blurring out what is surrounding the object in the photo I took. I chose to take a scene from the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame when Esmeralda is singing “God Help the Outcasts” in the cathedral. I chose this window because the song it … Continue reading The Window at Notre Dame

Today’s Daily Create assignment was to “Create Instructions for an everyday item” and I chose to create instructions for how to use a #2 pencil. I chose the pencil because it is an item that is used less and less as computers and digital messages become more commonplace. Also, mechanical pencils and pens don’t ever … Continue reading How do I use a pencil?

The Daily Create for today was “Make 2048!” with our own pictures filling in for the numbers. I wanted to use a theme that I was familiar with, so I chose Girl Scouts. I have been involved with Girl Scouts for over 15 years and cookie season is starting soon, so I felt that it … Continue reading Girl Scouts!

Today I completed the Daily Create assignment “Droodle at a meeting (or elsewhere)” because I doodle on my notes whenever I look over them for a test or when I just need to draw for stress relief. I decided to use bright colored pens for the doodles to make them stand out more from the pen notes on … Continue reading Free Time Doodling!

This is my weekly summary for my second week in the ds106 ‘noir 106′ class and so far I am enjoying every story I’ve read and found the Writing Assignments this week very enjoyable to create and write about. Daily Creates: Cat playing a Synthesizer in Space Eye Selfie Collage of My Day Readings/Writing Assignments: … Continue reading Noir Characters and Murder Readings WS2

Nick had done what George had asked. He had told Ole Anderson about the two men in matching derby hats and black overcoats that were going to kill Ole Anderson. And Ole Anderson didn’t care. He didn’t even show as much as a glint of concern for what those two fellows want to do to … Continue reading The Murdered: An Alternate Ending to The Killers