Okay so ‘Double Indemnity.’ I watched this one cause it was the only free one. In retrospect it probably wouldn’t have mattered if I spent two bucks to watch a different one, but whatever. I’m writing this up now at two a.m. because  I just finished the movie and want to get my thoughts down before […]

flickr really messed up my saturation and it’s making me upset. it’s showing up too uber saturated and i can’t figure out why. anyway i did the lyric typography poster assignment and did regina sektor’s song ‘one more time with feeling’ because she’s the artist I listen to on repeat when I’m sad, which I […]

Alright there’s a lot here because I love design a lot, so brace yourself. Also I didn’t realize that we were only supposed to do four, and I… well I did all but one. opps. Guess I’ll read more carefully next time, but I really didn’t mind because I enjoy design so much. And another […]

Oh my goodness I love this week already. If I weren’t going into teaching I’d be going into graphic design. So this week is like heaven for me! I’m ready to dive right in! The Vignelli book was amazing. Everything in there, I just kept trying to absorb as much as I could, and honestly I’ll […]

My Posts: Assignments Ringtone (1 1/2 points) Emotion through sounds (3 points) Story through sounds (3 1/2 points) Radio Bumper Daily Creates Sorry Dot day Other Posts audio reflection radio show ideas Okay so audacity didn’t come as easily to me as I initially thought. But I’m used to working in layers like in photoshop, […]

In this project I got to play around more with echo and pitch effects. It was to make a new ringtone, and here’s what I came up with. I usually like a ringtone that sounds more like an actual phone so I started off with this.  And then I changed the pitch and added an […]

I’ve been struggling trying to come up with some sort of idea for this radio show. I just couldn’t come up with anything at all. Then when I was going through my posts I looked at my audio reflection post which I’d titled ‘video killed the radio star’ as a joke, but then I got […]

Sometimes grandparents are shocked if you know anything about the past. In ‘A Christmas Story’ when Ralphie listens to ‘Little Orphan Annie’ on the radio, my grandma will point to the screen and point and ask my little brother if he knows what that is and “isn’t interesting that they had that instead of tv?” […]

This whole day every time I think about radio I keep getting Regina Spektor’s ‘On the Radio’ stuck in my head, hence the title. Anyway, here’s my radio bumper. The music might seem a bit familiar cause I used the song Groom has on his blog trailer. I thought it sounded super spooky and perfect […]

Here is my first audacity audio project, which I’m calling ‘armed robbery.’ It’s for the sound effects story assignment, in which we were to create a story using only sound effects. I decided to go along with my character, Cleo Barrow (a spin on Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde), on a bank robbery. To set […]

You can tell I really like a daily create if I bother to share it on here too. The prompt was to put text on a picture and have it related to being sorry, so I made it a response to being sorry. In case anyone was wondering, that title is the word aesthetic in […]

Ew this week I ended up getting sick- twice! I was worried I wouldn’t have time to do everything, but I did! Photography  reflection Cinematography reflection Photo Safari Daily Creates: un deux trois And assignments: (3 points) What’s in your bag?  (3 points) Poetry Art (2 points) Putting Disney in Focus (2 points) Text on […]

I found the assignment to put text over a gif and luckily I was already working on something like that for my disney blog (which i have because I’m a total nerd). So I picked it up and polished it off to use for this. wow totally lame right? I used this little program I found called […]

Okay so I’m taking on the putting disney in focus assignment. I saw somebody else had used a photo from a trip to France and I jumped at the bit to use a picture from my trip to disney world.  So an important symbol from the movie Tangled is the sun which is on the […]

And now it’s time for a photo safari! All the images were taken by me and edited in photoshop. most of what I did was play around with the levels and curves, so nothing too drastic, but enough to make a difference. My first image I just happened to be there at the right moment […]

For my take on the what’s in your bag assignment I’m doing in from the perspective of my character Cleo Barrow, a bank robber. I could’ve gone into detail and included her favorite lipstick which makes her look super sassy, but she doesn’t care enough to touch up her make up through the day, or I could’ve […]

Woo! It’s time for noir cinematography reflections! First up I took a look at Killer’s Kiss.   I really liked this shot. The banister and molding on the wall points to the center screen drawing your eye right to Gloria and making her the focal point. Then she appears darker than the bright tiles behind her, […]

I’ve never been that into photography. I always leaned more toward design and drawing and creating my own thing rather than capturing an image. I think of all the info we were assigned to review that the video by Jason Eskenazi in the section of the ds106 handbook was the most eye opening and inspiring for […]

(cont.) Time was when I’d gladly have listened, Before I was tainted with shame, But it wouldn’t be fair to you honey; Men laugh when they mention my name.Back there on the farm in Nebraska, I might have said yes to you then, But I thought the world was a playground; Just teeming with Santa […]

          My posts for the week: Writing Assignments                                                                Daily Creates Alternate Ending 3 points               […]

“Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? So help you God.” The cop straightened up. “I do.” It was the same cop that saw the ladder waiting out the window for Cora. The cop that heard the Greek yowl when Cora hit him in the head […]

Brother, I need you the night has fallen I go to the phone with sleep in my eyes Brother, come help me the world is bigger than I thought before I can’t do this alone Brother, I miss you just come give your favorite girl a hug Told from the point of view of my […]

chocolate cake; milk: condensed, evaporated, half-and-half on top . then put some icing, chocolate is the best kind, and eat that cake, yum! It’s gone over well every time I’ve made it! I brought it in for Spanish class before and it was a major hit; everybody liked it better than the plain tres leches. […]

You know Bonnie and Clyde? What if it was Bonnie and Cleo instead? Admittedly inspired by the Avicii music video here. But I’m gonna take it a couple decades later, so that they aren’t in the depression, but instead children of the depression. Here’s what I put for Cleo’s bio when I submitted the character […]

In this weeks further readings of noir fiction, I started off with “The Postman Always RIngs Twice.” Our protagonist and antihero, Frank, stumbles into a restaurant and the desperate owner, Nick (called the Greek by Frank), hires him on the spot. Frank soon dives into an affair with Cora, the Greek’s wife and femme fatale […]

          Noir week one is a go! I started off by reading the Notes on Noir and Intro to More Than Night, and then I watched Courageous Cat and Bugs Bunny. At that point I was like, ‘okay I got this, I know what this noir deal is about,’ but then as I sat down […]

“Take a photo of an animal doing something funny, kooky, suspicious, or odd. Get creative with it, and don’t just google “crazy cat pics”!” So here is my cousins’ dog wearing a dino hat.