Dear E, I had a dream about you last night. I dreamed that we were roommates, which was weird because we are not even friends. We spent the whole dream avoiding each other and refusing to speak. Near the end of the dream, you asked me a question and it was like a barrier between us just shattered. We looked at each other, each shocked to discover the other wasn’t a monster, and.. Read More

This post isn’t really a tragedy, but that’s the mood of the video I created this week. The task (worth 3 stars) was to take a music video and replace the music with a classical piece. To start, I needed to pick a video, and finding one that was appropriate for a class assignment was not particularly easy. Finally, I settled on a relatively new video by The Weeknd for his song titled.. Read More

Stanley Kubrick’s collection of shots in one point perspective, and in a more general sense, his shots where the camera is centered on the action are abnormal. According to cinematic theory, you should place the person/thing you want view positively to the left, and negatively to the right, and never in the center. Placing the center of focus in the center of the screen works for Kubrick though. It gives an air of.. Read More

Phew! What a whirlwind. It’s hard to believe this class is already over, feels like it just started yesterday. The amount of things we’ve learned and types of media we’ve “mastered” (I use that word very lightly) is unbelievable. Although I struggled with the amount of work and keeping up, I really enjoyed learning how to make videos and sound files and use different software. For my final project, I wanted to do.. Read More

Stella’s parents would not have named her Stella if they’d know how much time she would spend staring at the sky as a child. They lived on a farm, and there was more than enough work to go around, but Stella was usually off somewhere with her head in the clouds. Often she snuck out after everyone went to sleep at night to watch the stars go by and try to count them.. Read More

Strange title for a weekly summary, no? But ever since I came to the realization that this class is half over, I couldn’t get that song out of my head. “Hold On, we’re halfway there, oohhoohh, Livin’ on a Prayer” But enough silliness, let’s get down to business. (that rhymed)   I mentioned in my post about This American Life, that I think Ira Glass is an American Hero, right? If I didn’t,.. Read More

Ira Glass sure is spectacular! My friend Kelsey has been trying to persuade me to listen to This American Life for almost a year now, and the whole time I have refused to do so, and insisted that the radio was boring and that NPR was a waste of time. Boy, don’t I look like a fool. Ira Glass is amazing, and This American Life is fascinating! I listened to the episode Dopplegangers.. Read More

This week’s Daily Create’s had a lot of shapes going on. The first Daily Create I did this week asked us to draw a circle, and then put whatever we like into the middle of said circle. Although I had originally planned to pass this one by and do different daily creates to fulfill my requirement, after I got home from work, I went to the embroidery projects I have in the works,.. Read More

Three hints about the song: 1. Released in 2010 2. Hit number 1 on the Hip Hop/R&B Billboard Chart 3. The lead on the song is also a comedian.   This was the first of two audio assignments that I completed this week, and I found the tutorial on it to be very helpful. In all, this assignment was a perfect way to get introduced to Audible.The act of reversing the song was.. Read More

For my second audio assignment I chose to really push myself. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I have loved Edgar Allen Poe fr as long as i have known his work, so picking assignment 1418 was a no brainer. I visited multiple tutorial sites, and made full use of the tutorials past students had posted for Audible, and by the end of the assignment I was feeling comfortable enough with the software.. Read More

Wow! What a crazy week! This week went pretty well. I believe I did a much better job managing my time in terms of completing all of the assignments with the least amount of stress. Starting with Monday I  tried to complete at least one assignment every day. However, at the end of the week I had a slight technical problem that definitely derailed me a bit. Going forward I will be sure.. Read More

I have a good many friends who are into design. Because I grew up and still live in Richmond City, most of my friends are either students or byproducts of the art school at VCU. Even those who are not have been almost absorbed into a highly aesthetic culture. Although I have been around this culture for my entire life, it never quite made sense to me. Of course I can see something.. Read More

Dailycreate 5.30: If the internet went out tomorrow. Today’s daily create asked us to consider what would happen if the internet went out. Truly, the concept of making a new internet never even crossed my mind. In fact, it would probably be hours before I realized there even was a problem. Much of my life is spent reading books, doing homework, and sewing. Once I did realize the internet was down, however, I.. Read More

Enjoy as a child: (5.26) I was initially unsure what to do for this assignment, but it was miserably hot in Richmond on Tuesday, and all I could think about on my way to work was how my mother used to bribe us into road trips during the summer by buying us a McDonald’s ice cream cone and smashing it upside down in a kiddie cup and rolling down all the windows in.. Read More

Favorite Musician Gif. Although I have been a self-proclaimed feminist for years, I hadn’t listened the a lot of lady’s performing rock music in my life. When my boyfriend introduced me to Sleater-Kinney a few weeks back, I immediately changed my ways. These girls rock so hard and they do it entirely effortlessly. There were a band through the mid 1990’s, and didn’t break up until 2005, so there is quite a lot.. Read More

I found this picture while I was reading articles about the FIFA scandal and the major violations of human rights in Qatar. Some artist, who was sadly unaccredited where I found this picture, took the logos of international brands who support and donate money to FIFA and manipulated their logos to represent the fact that they are also supporting slave labor. The men lifting the larger and larger bars of the Adidas logo.. Read More

Hello class! Glad to be joining the fun. #ds106 — Victoria (@_sharkship) May 21, 2015 Joining Twitter has never been high on my list of priorities, only because I didn’t fully understand the point. After a little less than one week as a member of the site, my original hesitaion is still mostly intact, however, I think I am beginning to understand the way in which it can be a more exciting mode.. Read More

A big part of my story lately, is the trip I took to Italy in November. The experience was mindblowing, and everyday held a new adventure. I spent 2 full days just wnadering around Rome and getting lost with a Preist friend of mine. I spent another day and a half winding my way through the alleys and the back canals of Venice, a city which somehow always makes you fell like the.. Read More

WEAVESILK CREATION I had so much fun with this assignment! This website has been around for a while, but I had totally forgotten its existnec until I saw in in the bank of visual assignment options. To me, weavesilk is a more entertaining version of watching the coulds go by. In honesty, the user picks the direction, but the person in control still has very little say about what the program does. I.. Read More

My tale is often one of hesitation transformed into enthusaism, however this assignment was totally different. As soon as I read what the Daily Create on Thursday was asking us to do I headed over to google Images and found an acceptable image of the number one athlete in the world as far as I am concerned. Marcel Kittel is a German cyclist, and arguably the fastest sprinter in the world. I have.. Read More