I’ve gotta say, I’m not a big fan of having work due on a Thursday. Even though there was only one major assignment due, the earlier due date really made me feel the pressure like I haven’t before during this class. To start the week I completed three Daily Creates. I completed the Postcard to...

For my final project in my ds106 class I decided to tell the story of Warframe. Specifically, I told the story of where the Tenno came from and how the world we see in the game came to be. I decided to make my project a Prezi as I am familiar with the platform and...

This week was one of the more technically challenging out of all the weeks we’ve had so far. Audio mixing is something I’ve thought was pretty cool but if I learned one thing this week, it’s that I suck at audio mixing. I’m pretty happy with how my assignments came out but I feel like...

For this week we had to complete at least 12 stars worth of assignments from the video assignments bank, one of them had to be related to the question of the week. I decided to post all the videos I made onto YouTube, as it’s a platform I’m pretty familiar with. I ended up having...

For my last 3 stars for my video assignments I decided to complete the “But” Edit assignment. The first thing I did was to find my original video. I found this video of Ring Around the Rosie and tried to make it tie in with the question of the week. I used a YouTube to...

For my next 3 stars for my video assignments I completed the HIGHLIGHTS VIDEOGAME assignment. For this assignment I once again played Warframe, I really can’t get enough of that game. I once again used NVIDIA Shadowplay for recording, as it worked pretty well in my last assignment. While Warframe doesn’t have many large, obvious...

For my next 3 stars out of the 12 needed in my video assignments, I completed the Lowlights task. I once again used the game Warframe for this assignment as I’ve really been getting into it a lot recently. In my previous assignment I used OBS Studio, but the video came out a little bit...

For the first three stars out of the 12 needed for my video assignments I completed the What Can They Do? assignment. I chose Excalibur from the game Warframe as my character for this assignment. To start I downloaded OBS Studio, a software I’ve used before for streaming. After doing my best to get recording set up I...

The first half of this week was a lot easier than most weeks before it. To start off with I did both of my daily creates, then read over the How to Read a Movie article. After writing my blog post about the article, I jumped straight in to watching the four YouTube videos we...

The four different videos I watched were Hitchcock Loves Bikinis, Camera Angles and Techniques, Top 20 Amazing Cinematic Techniques Part 1, and Examples of Editing Techniques. While I didn’t learn a ton of new things in the videos, I enjoyed learning new names to techniques I’ve seem time and time again in films. I think the most educational...

Roger Ebert’s article “How to Read a Movie” discusses the act of analyzing a movie by looking at individual frames. I remember doing this as a kid, not to analyze the inner workings of the film, but to see if I could get the actors frozen on any stupidly funny faces. While this is definitely...

I love audio. I’ve taken piano lessons, guitar lessons, and been was in my high school band for 3 years. While I haven’t stuck with any of my practicing, I still loved being able to create music. This week so far has been focused on audio. Specifically, the telling of stories with sound. To begin...

For my Daily Creates for the first half of this week I did the 9th’s and the 10th’s. For the 9th’s I used National Geographic’s Mapmaker and made a map leading from Virginia to Japan. I’ve always wanted to visit Japan, but I’m not sure how I’m gonna walk across the ocean! @ds106dc Anybody wanna...

Before starting this class and even before coming to college I have been playing music. I started playing piano when I was around seven (I think it was seven I’m not really sure) years old. After my first year of high school I joined band and took piano and guitar classes. Because of my musical...

While both weeks of this class have been focused on design so far, this week was focused much more on digital design and photo-manipulation than last week. To start off the week I watched two Ted Talks focused around graphic design, one by Paula Scher and one by David Carson. Next, I made a Canva...

In order to get at least 4 starts of design assignments done, I completed the Contradiction Creation and Motivational Poster assignments, coming out to 5 and a half starts total. For the Contradiction Creation assignment, I created a… rather strange picture. I wanted a really pretty picture with something completely stupid written over it. I honestly just...

Here is my example of a post nuclear war White House for the Alternative History Image assignment. I began with this photo: First I separated the White House from the background in Photoshop. I used the sponge tool’s feature to bring out the shadows of an object to give it that gloomy look. Next, I...

“The Cuban Missile Crisis is the term used in the west to describe the events of October 1962, described by Robert Kennedy as the world brought to the beginning of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind. On 27 October that year, Robert McNamara said ‘as I left the White House and walked through the...

While last week was focused on photography and the stories they tell, this week seems to be focused much more on the design aspect of digital storytelling. The first thing I did was watch two Ted Talks, one by Paula Scher and one by David Carson. Next I made an account on Canva and did seven...

I wasn’t sure if the DesignBlitz had a time limit or not, but I gave myself one anyway. In 15 minutes I tried to find as many examples of the 8 basic principles of debate as I could and managed to find 5. DesignBlitz #ds106 #designblitz A post shared by Andrew Barnett (@ducksarecool2) on Jul...

I’ve got to be honest, I wasn’t a big fan of either of the designers in the Ted Talks we had to listen to. Both Paula Scher and David Carson had some interesting ideas, but nothing that really flew out at me. Paula Scher had a few design pieces that I really enjoyed, especially her...

This has been a pretty fun week overall, I think I’m going to enjoy this class! I started off by making a whole bunch of social media accounts. I’m not the most social guys so a few of the accounts that I made were on sites completely new to me, I’m probably the only college...

A young woman is on her way home from work in the great city of Metropolis. It’s just beginning to get dark, but before she can make it back to her cozy little apartment she spots something in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s Superman! Superman flying away #ds106...

I feel like I learned a lot by looking at both the Tips for Better Photography page and this America Abandoned gallery. I had never even heard of the rule of thirds before today and if I’m being honest, I’m still not entirely sure how it works. I really enjoyed this picture of a broken...

Howdy everyone! The first few days of class have been pretty fun, if not confusing. I’m still not sure that I set everything up properly. First things first, I created my Instagram, Soundcloud, Twitter,and YouTube accounts. Other than YouTube and Facebook I don’t use much social media so it took me a little bit of time to make sure...