Blarrgh
This week we looked at Web Design in DS106. I was a bit intimidated at first, but it was so much fun once I installed the x-ray goggles! When I first read the assignment I thought that I might want … Continue reading →
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The Longest Three Weeks Ever
I feel like it has been SO INCREDIBLY LONG since the last time I posted a weekly summary! The past three weeks have been full of audio assignments with a few visual and writing ones scattered about in the TDC … Continue reading → -
Foley follies
That was so hard! Wow. So the foley sounds definitely win for being the hardest assignment of the week. I’m not sure how much I really enjoyed that! I had to watch that clip over and over and over again … Continue reading → -
Daily Creates, what up?!
Did a TON of daily creates, and more than that, wrote a post for every one of them without thinking about it. Whoops. I’m more or less going to copy or paste them all into here though, so get ready … Continue reading → -
Hoku and Bright Eyes
This was my favorite TDC of the past two weeks! TDC420 required us to write song lyrics from a song that described how we thought a day would go and then from a song that described how it went. When … Continue reading → -
Daydream Believer
For TDC419 we were instructed to take a photo looking out our best daydreaming window. I live in a small townhouse in College Heights and we don’t have very many windows, but I do like this one looking out from our … Continue reading → -
Another Moose (His name is Melon)
For TDC425, we were supposed to take a picture of something in our car and make it into a movie poster. In keeping with my moose obsession, I chose the stuffed moose that I bought a thrift store two years … Continue reading → -
Order and Cleanliness
TDC424 instructed us to write about an odd thing that brings us joy. As I state in my post for the assignment, I’ve never been diagnosed with any form of OCD. However, I have always had weird quirks with food … Continue reading → -
The Railing
For TDC413, we were supposed to write an ode to an under-appreciated object. In my Environment and Society course, we recently went over character-object networks, and one of the examples we were provided with was a railing. Granted, in the … Continue reading → -
Homowhat?
To be completely honest, when I read this assignment, I had completely forgotten what homophones were. It’s been a long time since the 2nd grade, okay? Anyway, even though I did remember after a few minutes, I still couldn’t think … Continue reading → -
Pure Poetry
The second audio assignment I chose this week was called Beat Craigs List, in which I was supposed to find a Craigslist ad and record it as though it were supposed to be a poem. I after checking out some … Continue reading → -
I can make noises, too!
We had to complete five stars worth of assignments from the audio assignment bank this week. The first one I chose, a one-star assignment, was to make weather noises with my mouth and objects around me. I did these after … Continue reading → -
So. Many. Sound Effects.
Creating the radio bumper for the Dot Commers was far easier than creating the commercial. While I don’t want to give away what our show is about, the commercial kind of hints at it anyway. For this assignment, I had … Continue reading → -
Radio Bumper ftw
We were supposed to create a bumper for our group radio shows for this week. I’m on the Dot Commers, along with @krisavball08 @Teldridge3, @KyleDex22, and @tsharpie07. This was more challenging than I’d anticipated but was also enjoyable. I tried thinking of what radio … Continue reading → -
I had a weird childhood
I spent the bulk of my “formative years” on other continents. Shortly after I was born, my family moved to Kampala, Uganda, and about two years after that we moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina. We moved back to the United … Continue reading → -
This week in procrastination…
This week was the midterm for what I consider my most difficult class, so I spent the majority of my time studying for that. DS106 took a bit of a back seat because of that, so here I am again … Continue reading → -
Domino (2005)
I used the same movie for three of the five assignments from the design assignments. I’m not sure if anyone has seen it, but I hope so or none of these are going to make sense! The design blitz we did … Continue reading → -
Inspired
After seeing the example of the bumper sticker (Strong Women: You’re Following One”), it was hard for me to think of anything but activist-y topics for my own. Since it dealt with feminism, it was especially difficult to stray from … Continue reading → -
TDC’s, yo.
This week’s daily creates were fun for me. I’m awful at art, but I like to try sometimes, so this week gave me an opportunity to do that. I wrote a poem about an underappreciated object, I drew a bumper … Continue reading → -
they both start with “M”
I spent a very long time trying to come up with a six-word memoir to describe my life. Unfortunately my drawing skills are far behind my ability to think up images in my head, so I ended up having to … Continue reading → -
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Patterns, Fonts, and Symbols, oh my!
I spent a lot of time indoors this week, studying for midterms and doing work for my internship and volunteer positions. That being said, I didn’t get to check out many outdoor examples of design except for while I was … Continue reading → -
Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger
All sorts of photography improvements this week! This week I tried using my newly improved photography skills in two of my daily creates and in part of my photoblitz! Here are the pictures I tried some new things with: (All … Continue reading → -
I can haz photography skills?
The visual assignments for the week were challenging because I was supposed to be improving my photography skills. The main issue here was that I have no camera (right now I’m operating with a mighty fine iPhone cam), but aside … Continue reading → -
I lacked the confidence to give this to you, but I hope you say yes
I tried doing this assignment SO MANY TIMES this week and couldn’t come up with anything. Even this one isn’t too original (I don’t think), but it’s all I could think of. This was a silly, fun assignment though, and … Continue reading → -
I’m not very assertive
I had the most fun this week with the “Love: In Three Frames” assignment and knew almost immediately what to make mine about. As my URL indicates, I’m really a dog person. Like…REALLY really. Unfortunately, my girlfriend is very much … Continue reading → -
Ever since I can remember I’ve been poppin’ my color
That’s not true. I haven’t been. But I DID this week! The color popping assignment was a lot of fun. I’ll admit I got a little bit of a hand cramp erasing the black and white image to reveal the … Continue reading → -
fat cats DO make everything better
I own one of the chubbiest cats ever and it’s the perfect look for him, so when I saw this assignment in the assignment bank, I knew I had to try it. When I realized I’m close friends with the … Continue reading → -
A Reindeer and an Airstrike
Two things I automatically associate with the word “blitz:” 1) Blitzen 2) Blitzkrieg Anyway, moving on. This week we did a ‘photoblitz’ assignment in which we had to take as many photos based on a short list of prompts during … Continue reading → -
the best of the worst!
Best Of, a set on Flickr. I’m really a very unskilled photographer/artist when it comes down to it. Nothing has showcased that lack of talent more than this class, so when I saw that I had to make a “best … Continue reading →
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