The clip I chose is from Rounders. Camera Work When watching the scene without audio, the crafty camera work was much more noticeable. The scene begins with the camera setting a 180 degree view of the table. To get a full grasp of what is going on at the table the camera continues to pan slowly ...

Review of fellow DS106′ers radio broadcast Review of Fifth Dimension Web Storytelling Assignment *** Wagon Wheel Map ** ESPN Time Machine The comment character I chose to create is Charles, a middle aged man who just recently discovered the internet. Unfortunately, the comments I left earlier today have not been approved so at this point ...

One of the required assignments of this week was Storytelling Within The Web. As a computer science major, this assignment was very simple. I have experience using Firebug from a previous web development course I took, which was very helpful. I chose to edit a Craigslist page that was advertising the sale of a “Swivel ...

Another assignment I chose to complete is the Way Back Time Machine. The assignment called for “Using the Way Back Time Machine website on Internet Archive, take screen shots of a favorite website overtime. Then, look at how the website has changed for better and worse.” The site I chose to analyze is ESPN , and I ...

One of the web assignments I decided to do was the Google Maps Story for three stars.The basic premise of the assignment was to, “Use Google Maps to tell a story of historical or literary figure”. I did not follow the prompt exactly, and rather than tell the story of a historical or literary figure, ...

My Fifth Dimension radio broadcast team chose a Twilight Zone theme for our radio broadcast, and adopted a soundscape format. While I think we followed the soundscape format well, it was a bit confusing to our listeners as it may have seemed unorganized. Each team member created individual components of the broadcast separately, which led ...

Listen Here The “Team Awesome” radio show incorporated an interesting theme into their broadcast. While a common theme of a show may be a “blast from the past” or a futuristic themed show, Team Awesome took an interesting approach by mixing both themes. I really enjoyed the back and forth between the past and the ...

While Charles has just recently discovered the Internet, he is quickly becoming hooked on DS106. To show his dedication to the course, he has decided to have his license plate changed to say, “DS 106″. In order to do this, Charles needed to make a trip to the dreaded DMV.  Here he is anxiously waiting ...

The past few weeks working with audio has brought an overwhelming whirlwind of knowledge. From completing my first foley challenge, to having a four minute conversation with myself, there was lots to learn. Let’s recap the highlights: I created a bumper and commercial for my Twilight Zone themed radio show: Radio Show Bumper Blog Radio ...

Another assignment I completed for this week’s audio assignments was multipersonality. The task was to, “pretend that you are three to four persons having a regular conversation.” Being that my group chose a Twilight Zone theme for our radio broadcast, I chose to re-enact a scene from a Twilight Zone episode. The episode I chose ...

I chose Text Impersonations as one of the audio assignments to complete this week. The task was to, “take a conversation between multiple people over a text based medium, like Facebook or Twitter, and create a audio version of that same conversation.” I decided to use a cleverly made Facebook status, which imagined a status ...

This assignment was probably the most interesting and difficult assignment to date in ds106. As per usual, I used Audacity to create the audio for this assignment. Here is the segment of the clip that I used: To start, I watched the clip about five or so times through to gauge what kind of sounds ...

For this week’s weekly summary, we were required to complete 6 daily creates. This is more than usual, but it was also over the course of three weeks, so there was plenty of options. Let’s recap: Take a picture of something you collect While I have never avidly collected anything in my life other than ...

In creating a commercial for the Fifth Dimension’s radio broadcast, being that we chose a soundscape themed show using a variety of assignments from the audio assignment bank, I chose the Beat Craig’s List assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to choose a craiglist ad that is odd enough to engage you, and record it ...

Here is my bumper for our twilight zone themed radio show. I used Audacity to create this bumper, and combined bits and pieces of the Twilight Zone theme with my voice. My first idea was to extract the quintessential repeating piano portion of the theme and repeat it throughout the bumper in the background. From ...

There was a lot of work to do this week, but it went by pretty quickly as I enjoyed working on virtually all of the assignments. Let’s recap. Design Safari I spent much of this week analyzing objects around me for design principles. The majority of my pictures ended up being from my house or ...

The Design Safari assignment made me more cognizant of the various types of designs I encounter everyday. I was on the lookout the past few days for good examples, and here is what I came up with: Unity With this photo, I wanted to capture the, “similarity, proximity, and alignment” of the rug design. The ...

This assignment was heaps of fun, as there was so many options to how to approach the task. I initially was going to draw a standard smiling face, however seeing the switch was black gave me the idea to take the next step and draw Batman’s face. I ended up using Batman‘s nose as the ...

This particular design assignment was to, “take a well-known kids book and re-cast it as a computer book.” The book cover I chose to play with was One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Suess. When making the new cover, I considered the three most commonly used tools for a DS106 student ...

The ultimate merger assignment was to create a logo that combines to famous logos. I thought that I should merge the two most predominant logos that we see everyday as DS106′ers, twitter and flickr. The assignment was pretty simple to complete, and was also very enjoyable. I used pixlr to create the logo. I then ...

The purpose of this assignment was to pick a pivotal point in a film and rewrite the dialogue of that moment so that it changes the outcome of the movie. After browsing through a bunch of webpages, I found one that lists 40 iconic screenshots from 40 famous movies. After that, I chose my favorite ...

This assignment was to create a propaganda poster for DS106 using a WWII poster. The process of completing this assignment was rather simple. I scanned through Google images to find the perfect poster to convey my message, and I came up with this one: After that, I used Pixlr to edit the image and change ...

Can you guess this movie? The assignment was to depict a movie in four basic icons. I had a lot of fun working on this assignment, and worked hard to create identifiable objects with my minimal drawing skills. While I could have done this assignment using Pixlr, or another photo editing software, I chose to ...

Group Name The 5th Dimension Group Comments Although I have a new group this week, the members essentially stayed the same with the exception of one. Fairuz shared the same liking for the photo blitzing assignment that I had. She had some great pictures, especially that elephant shadow photograph; check it out. Casey did a ...

The assignment I chose is Newspaper Blackout Poetry. The activity calls for using a marker and a magazine to black out sections to create a new story. I truly underestimated the difficulty of this task. Firstly, being that I am at my girlfriend’s, the closest thing to a newspaper I could access was People Magazine. ...

The Buddy photo assignment was to, “Find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that you can carry around with you. Use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. Luckily, I had bear. Bear and I have a long history of companionship. Yesterday, we shared deep conversation over dinner and ...

The challenge was to add a caption to one of 30 different valentine’s day postcards. These were no ordinary valentine’s day cards. To do this activity, I uploaded the picture to pixlr and added text with the online editing tool. I realize my inserted text was a bit childish, but I think this kind of ...

Take a picture of something you made, be it food, art, or something else. As I had valentine’s day dinner with my girlfriend, and she made the whole meal, I was in charge of dessert. By ‘in charge of dessert’, I mean i plopped a bunch of strawberries in chocolate. This was the first photo ...

* Derived from TEN: Ten Ways to Improve Your Craft. None of Them Involve Buying Gear * 1) Create Depth: Look for ways to add dimension of visual depth in your 2 dimensional images- play with foreground, lines, use of wide angle lenses, use of dark backgrounds I used a unique point of view to create ...

The “A change of emotion(in two panels)” assignment immediately attracted me as I knew exactly what to draw. The two-panel drawing portrays the cyclical, year in, year out struggle of being a New York Jets fan. I am all too familiar with the heart-wrenching feeling of your sports team falling short. One day these two ...