I wanted to take a moment to post a few thoughts I had after listening to the interview with Jenn Ralston, sound editor for The Wire. First off– how cool is this!! So sweet of her to take the time out of… Continue Reading →

First audio assignment of the week | Sound Effects Story //tell a story using only sound effects //use at least 5 different sounds found online //can be no longer than 90 seconds. //worth 3.5 stars ^^ tree image found here. Clip… Continue Reading →

Daily Create: Show us a feeling. Can you guess what it is? Its pretty self-explanatory, I think. Bonus points if you catch the reference in the last drawing. Also- check out my entry on Known!

I did a lot of individual posting this week with the hopes of making my weekly summary for week 3 a little less bulky. ~ +Shapes of Stories & Web 2.0 Refection +Watched 3 of The Wire episodes +4 Daily Creates–>… Continue Reading →

One of the tasks we were given for this week was reading and reflecting on Bryan Alexander’s chapter on Web 2.0 Storytelling. I’ve been reading this chapter on and off for the past few days, which honestly I think has… Continue Reading →

For my last project from the assignment bank, I decided to create a logo for my blog. I was already on a role with changing menus/categories for my blog (more on that later), so this assignment felt perfect. As you… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: Write a poem in which the first words in each line begin with z or s. You can find the my response here, or you can read it below! Students, what do you think? Zillions of places to Study… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: Make a self-help audio recording. It can be written in the style of a self-help article or book. Or you can take it in a more subtle self-help direction. For my daily create I decided to make a… Continue Reading →

For my second assignment bank task this week I chose to do the Been There assignment that involves creating an animated GIF. We were asked to “take a moment from a movie that you can relate too and make a… Continue Reading →

Maybe it was the conversation that Jim & a couple #ds106 classmates and I had over lunch at Brother’s Pizza today that sparked this observation, I don’t know. We had talked a lot about how all the frames in the… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: What is your favorite mathematical expression? Since math is not my forte, my ‘mathematical expression’ is inspired from none other than a quote. Are you surprised? Yes, I realize the assignment was supposed to be digital. But I… Continue Reading →

…I have MANY dream vacations.     I’ve grown rather fond of Pinterest over the years.. judge if you must, but I find the whole process as a way to gain inspiration and ideas for executing this thing called capital… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: Write a little story and read it out loud…in the dark. Use only your voice to make it come alive for your audience. Simultaneously writing a short story for a creative writing fiction course. This is a little… Continue Reading →

At the beginning of Week 2, I read our assignment list and immediately made my own to-do list. Throughout the week I’ve been checking things off, taking note of my daily reminders to make sure I didn’t forget anything. So… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: What is your most hilarious tech confession? You can find some examples here. I’m fairly positive that if I did not have an iPhone, I would be unable to get from point A to point B behind the… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: Design your book block shield that projects a message in the form of a book title and take a photograph. Find the Daily Create prompt here. I found this link to be helpful in explaining what a book… Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATE: Mashup the pieces of 2 unrelated games into a new game. My game: Ultimate Hoop. Funny enough, I’ve actually played this game before. My friends and I came up with it during a team building exercise at a summer… Continue Reading →

Missed my GIF post? See them here. Hey all. As promised, I wanted to take a moment to talk about my process in creating GIFs for one of this week’s #ds106 assignments. I chose an earlier episode, simply because I… Continue Reading →

Once upon a time… …in a far off land known as The Wire… …”The Detail” occurred… McNulty and Moreland talk with the coroner about the murder of William Grant, the witness that testified against the Barksdale crew. Lieutenant Daniels and… Continue Reading →

So I did today’s daily create assignment– you can find the prompt here, but essentially we were asked to create a logo for ourselves— our “brand.” Loved the scientist examples by the way. Although I have a personal website that I’ve… Continue Reading →

Introduction for the Blog | Monday, August 25 Hey everyone! Although the title of this post suggests that I will be summarizing the work I’ve done for ds106 over the past week, I also wanted to take a moment to introduce… Continue Reading →

Transformation GIF | Remember how I did this little assignment in class to get the hang of creating animated GIFs on photoshop? Well here’s my final project! BAND POSTER | The assignment was to create a poster on photoshop for a band that we created. Here’s what I came up with: // CLASSIFICATION | The class went on a vacation […]

Before the beginning of the semester, I wanted to go through and get everything set up on this website for my new round of classes. Below are the artists that I researched over the summer during my Photoshop class. // Matt Siber | Matt Siber, born in 1972, now lives in Chicago with a BA in […]

Hard to believe that this is my last Art of the Day post! I feel like we just started this little assignment last week or something, but now today is reading day before final exams on Thursday! Weird stuff, guys. I’ve had fun with this though– making a point to be creative every day, even […]

Had loads of fun making this. Thanks to Sara for walking in lots of straight lines for me!

For our last project, the class has been asked to create animated GIFs on photoshop that somehow uphold a “transformation” theme. I’m using the following videos as my inspiration. Excited to share what I come up with in the next few days!

We made animated GIFs in photoshop today. I’m in love.