Three Wrongs Make a Right?***

Three Wrongs Make a Right?***

by Princess Karissa

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February 19, 2013

You always hear how two wrongs don’t make a right, but what about three? When approached with the opportunity to design a Venn Diagram involving pop culture I decided to do the pop culture I’m best at, Disney! I’ll pause for a second while you be surprised. You good? Okay. So I immediately had this (continue reading...)
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Overachiever in the Palace*

by Princess Karissa

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February 18, 2013

I find it very funny what I get really into and what I don’t, especially when it comes to school. It’s not secret that I really enjoy this class, but when I first saw Design week I was a little intimidated by what was to come. I wasn’t sure exactly what it entailed, so I (continue reading...)
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

by Princess Karissa

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February 17, 2013

Reflecting back on this week I definitely saw a theme in everything that I was working on during Visual week. Everything seemed to be based on the good the bad and the ugly parts of my college career. So welcome to my college experience through a series of photos! So for starters I now have (continue reading...)
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Is it me of are the lights Flickr-ing?

by Princess Karissa

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February 17, 2013

Fridge Status, a set on Flickr. Tacky title, of course. This week we needed to amp our flickr up, and I had some difficulty doing that at first. However, once I changed my URL I started to really enjoy it. I ended up making my URL be http://www.flickr.com/photos/ofaprincess because who doesn’t love to look at (continue reading...)
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Try and Get Past me, I Dare You

by Princess Karissa

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February 17, 2013

Getting past me is something that was very hard for four years, if you were playing against me on the volleyball court. Blocking has always been my favorite part of the game of volleyball and I don’t think I am happier than after blocking some annoying girl on the other side of the net. It (continue reading...)
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Princess Makes Perfect

by Princess Karissa

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February 17, 2013

Well, maybe not perfect…but I’m getting a little bit closer. This week was purely all visual storytelling and I was very glad to get different tips on how to be a better photographer, since I could certainly use it. So while I may not have made perfect just yet, I certainly did practicing between the (continue reading...)
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I’m Sensing a Blitz on this Run

by Princess Karissa

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February 16, 2013

This assignment was one that I was looking forward to the most. However I wish I approached it a little differently. I thought for a long time about where I wanted to take the pictures which ranged from my apartment, to my sisters house, and eventually Trinkle. Trinkle is my main place of business since (continue reading...)
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The Evil Gym of Salisbury

by Princess Karissa

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February 14, 2013

At first I had very little inspiration for the daily creates this week. I’m not sure what exactly was stopping me, but I just wasn’t feeling it as much as a usually do. But, while looking back at the daily creates from the week I realized that I could do Tuesday’s Daily Create which involved (continue reading...)
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An Ode to Goolrick***

by Princess Karissa

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February 14, 2013

This three star visual assignment really made me think about my story as a college student. I knew right away that I was going to do a picture from freshman year, mainly because I have pictures printed out from then and I also needed the location to be in Fredericksburg since I’m not going to (continue reading...)
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Happy Prince-less Awareness Day**…

by Princess Karissa

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February 13, 2013

I feel as though this 2 star challenge is my calling. I love Valentine’s Day, I spend every Valentine’s weekend with two of my three sisters and we always watch John Tucker Must Die and eat pints of ice cream and just catch up (since out of the six people in my family we live (continue reading...)
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I’m not a Cat Person or a Yoga Person**…

by Princess Karissa

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February 13, 2013

It is no secret to anyone that knows me that when it comes to cats I am not the biggest fan of them. However, I do really enjoy my friend’s cat Frankie because she just does really weird things and so half of my pictures on my iPhone are pictures of Frankie. My favorite pictures (continue reading...)
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I Guess This is the Confessions Part of my Blog…*

by Princess Karissa

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February 13, 2013

Going off of the title of my website, confessions of a future Disney princess, I guess confessions had to come along somewhere. I’m not really sure why, but this 1 star visual assignment really interested me. The assignment calls for creating a post it note that tells a “secret” of some sort or something that’s (continue reading...)
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Perfect for those Drafty Castles!**

by Princess Karissa

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February 13, 2013

Castles, dorm rooms, they all are the same! Well that being said, you guessed it, perfect for those drafty dorm rooms means SNUGGIES! Yes, I admit that I am an owner of the As Seen on TV phenomenon, I’ll even do you one better and tell you that mine has my name embroidered on it. What (continue reading...)
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It’s Time for you to Meet my Prince

by Princess Karissa

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February 11, 2013

Yes, that’s right. I have a man in my life, my stuffed animal duck named Quackie. Surely you would think by his name that I got him when I was very little and had zero creativity, but I got him only about two years ago and I’m obsessed. For some reason I just love ducks, (continue reading...)
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Audios Mio!

by Princess Karissa

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February 10, 2013

Sorry, that title was a bit tacky. But it seems perfect for this weekly summary which is all about audio week, and what a week it was! I was cordially introduced to Audio, and we hit it off right away. This princess has invited audio to my kingdom so we can hang out together sometime. (continue reading...)
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ds106 Radio is so Hot the Fire Alarm Went off.

by Princess Karissa

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February 10, 2013

Yes you heard me, the fire alarm. Luckily for me, the ds106 show was moved to Monday so I was able to catch it live*! The asterisk is there for a reason since I had to leave at some point because the fire alarm went off so I had to evacuate the building (as you could hear (continue reading...)
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Is a News Cast a Doppelganger of a Radio Show?

by Princess Karissa

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February 10, 2013

So here’s the story, about a story. I’m listening to The American Life radio show episode 484 about Doppelgangers. Yes that is right, listening. As in I am doing it right now. Looking at the overview I saw that there was a prologue and two acts. So I decided to reflect on each different part (continue reading...)
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A Week Worth of Daily’s

by Princess Karissa

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February 10, 2013

Okay, so here is the deal. I wanted to mix things up and make a post of all of the daily creates I did, but honestly it will never be happening again because it stressed me out way too much. So this is my first and last post that includes all of my daily creates, (continue reading...)
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Princess Goes to Best Buy

by Princess Karissa

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February 8, 2013

Well here I am, doing both audio assignments for the week in one night! Typically, I spend about two days brainstorming ideas on what I want to do my assignments on, and then spend the rest of the week working on them. Not having class on Wednesday and Friday really are quite the blessing because (continue reading...)
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Bumpers are like Onions…

by Princess Karissa

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February 7, 2013

Okay so for starters if you don’t get the title of this post you need to hear this back and forth from Shrek right away but replace “ogres” with “bumpers”. Seriously. Even if you know what I am talking about, do it. The princess commands it. I certainly at times felt the frustration that Shrek (continue reading...)
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