This week I listened to The Wire Buyers on the ds106 radio and live tweeted during the show. The show was a lot different from the show my group produced. I liked their idea of looking at the product placements that are on The Wire. Their commercials were well thought out and nicely produced. The […]

Letz Chop It Up’s assignment “You’s A Dime Piece” inspired me to look at the small things. The simple image she uploaded has a huge meaning behind it. The picture of the dime has the message of a simple drop of the dime into a pay phone and you can call the cops. Whether she […]

One of Blindside Archive’s assignments inspired me after I decided what assignment I wanted to work on. I saw the assignment Row Row Polyphony and thought it would be an interesting thing to complete. However, I was slightly baffled as to how and what I wanted to do for the song to have it overlap […]

SydThek1d’s assignment post of Cartoonize Bubba inspired me. I didn’t know the assignment prior to seeing her posting. First she cartoonized a picture of ziggy and his duck but then the second picture she cartoonized was of her dog bubba. Once I saw this image it made me think of a picture of my dog […]

Well the radio show is complete. This project came at a tough time with fall break occurring in the middle of it. I was away for all of fall break without internet so I was unable to work on the project during that time. However in the end my group and I pulled it all […]

This project seemed to start at the worst possible time. The week before fall break is never a good week. Every professor in every class seems to need to get all their tests and papers in before the break… Do they think we aren’t going to come back? My group has accomplished some work. We […]

I cannot believe I completed week 7 this early. I didn’t want to but I needed to. Since I am going camping this weekend and won’t have internet or much electricity I had to get it completed and I DID! Group Meeting My group and I met up this week to discuss the radio show. […]

Since it is October I thought it was only fitting to complete the Spooky Sounds assignment. I actually had a lot of fun with this one and spent a lot of time on it. I wanted to try to make it creepy and once I got started I could not stop. First, I tried to […]

What’s The Morning Story Glory? assignment was not to hard. I just had to remember to record the sounds of the things I did in the morning. I do not normally cook breakfast for myself in the morning. I like going to seaco to get and omelette from Estelle. Since, I used my cellphone to record […]

I also completed the Cheesy Radio Add For Your School assignment. Once I read this I knew exactly what I wanted to say. I wanted to make it around the slogan UMW has “Where great minds get to work.” What does that even mean. Personally, I think it is cheesy by itself. I wrote up […]

The Row Row Polyphony assignment was an interesting assignment. It took me a while to find a song that sounded half way decent with the polyphony effect. I ended up choosing the Incy Wincy Spider. I had the song start at 3 different times. Using audacity I was easily able to move the different tracks […]

One audio assignment I completed this week was Create A DS106 Radio Bumper. I decided to make it related to The Wire so I could possibly use it for my radio show. Using audacity I recorded my self saying DS106. I then used the effect “paulstretch” to have it said a little slower. I also lowered the […]

Another week down. Wasn’t too bad of a week. I was able to get some more of the work done earlier in the week but it was still a tough week with all of my other classes trying to cram everything in before fall break.  Speaking of fall break…. I wonder if we will get […]

I’ll be honest I wasn’t the biggest fan of this reading. I tend to not enjoy readings that are about something I am not truly interested in. Design is not my forte nor my inspiration. I try at times to make good designs but it’s just not for me. I would have to say the […]

At first I was a little intimidated by task at hand. Once I read the definitions of each of the different types of designs I relaxed a little and started to keep an eye out for the different types. Color – I think color in a design is extremely important. It is an immediate distinction […]

The final design assignment I created was “Picture into Words” For this one I had to take pictures of objects that look like letters. Many people have completed this assignment by make the words “The Wire.” I decided to make mine a little different but kept it with the wire theme. Season 2 Episode 11 […]

“Cartoonize Bubba” was a simple assignment but interesting. Using http://www.befunky.com I was able to select a picture of my dog Lucy and turn her into a cartoon. The picture I chose was one I was going to use for a daily create but did not complete the daily create in time. I decided to use the picture now […]

Another design assignment I completed was “Design and Invoice.” For this one I wanted to relate it to The Wire episodes we watched this week. Using word  I created the invoice. First, I considered the different items to put on the invoice. Now I know the job Ziggy did for George Glekas was an inside job […]

The design assignment “Animated Comic Book Covers” was challenging but a lot of fun. It really tested my rookie skills of photoshop and GIMP. First I had to choose a comic book cover to animate. I wanted something that would my photoshop ability but not be too challenging. This X-men cover is from 1991.   […]

The “Barcode Transformation” design assignment took me a little longer than I expected but yet again that was because I am too stubborn to google how to do something. Instead I just click all the different buttons until I figure out a way to complete the assignment. Basically for this assignment you were to take […]

The “Paste Someone’s Head On An Animal” design assignment was quite fun. I am still trying to develop my Photoshop skills but I think this turned out halfway decent. While watching the recent Wire episode I came across this one. I actually saw it will Ziggy was walking his duck or sitting at the bar […]

Once I read today’s daily create my first thought was Pirates of the Caribbean and it was to a specific scene. During Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth get stranded on a deserted island. However Jack has been to this island before or knew of it and found a […]

Well, yet again here I am at 11:30 pm trying to finish all of my DS106 assignments. I started the week out well getting a lot of things completed but then once I felt ahead in this class my other classes started to pickup the workload. I also just realized that my accounts time settings […]

Nothing like a late night photoblitz. Here is my list of pictures I needed to take.   My start time:   Not only can doors have a lot of character but the doorknobs reflect the person taking a picture of it.   My first ever square picture. Thanks to the iPhone it is really simple […]

My final assignment I completed was the “My Favorite Lyric.” I chose lyrics from the song American Kids by Kenny Chesney. I like the song as a whole so it was tough to choice a specific part that I wanted. After looking for some pictures to show the lyrics I found one that I really […]

My third visual assignment I completed was “Splash the Color.” This one was not too challenging once I found the right tool on Photoshop. It probably would have taken me a lot less time if I just Googled it, but I like figuring things out on my own. There is a tool on the Photoshop […]

There are some people in the world that really make you question humanity. Some people call them Darwins Exceptions and others just say “You’re doing it wrong.” The title of this assignment is “You’re doing it wrong.” I had to find  a picture of someone doing something that was just absolutely wrong. I witnessed and […]

One of the visual assignments I completed was “An Album Cover.” For this assignment I was given a link for a random Wikipedia page, Quotes, and Flickr. The title of the wikipedia article was the name of my band, the last 4-5 words of the last quote was my album title, and the 3rd picture […]

I can not believe we are already a quarter of the way through the semester. Week 4 was an interesting one. I’ve never put so much thought into the audio side of things. It was tough at first trying to figure out Audacity and also it was really annoying when any music mashup I uploaded to […]

I think a “What would you do” radio show would be a fun and interesting topic to discuss. Prior to the discussion there would have to be a list of questions or situations that will be discussed. My thought was putting yourself in the shoes of one of the characters of the wire. You would […]