Vignelli Canon

Vignelli Canon

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 28, 2023

The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli is an important work that explores the fundamental principles of design. Vignelli, an influential Italian designer, presents several important concepts for designers across various disciplines. One of his key conc...
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Website Band Creation

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, visualassignments, VisualAssignments44
May 21, 2023

Another day just me being bored. So I thought why not create a random album for a band that does not exist? Going through websites to give me the words and what I need to make it weird and not make sense. To create something to laugh at or regret later...
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15-Minute Photo Scavenger Hunt

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 20, 2023

When I started the 15 minutes I was just running around my house trying to find objects or anything that could be of use. When it came to finding something futuristic I had no idea what to do about it. I eventually just found my lightsaber and used tha...
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How to Take a Photo Reflection

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 20, 2023

To get a good photo that seems highly detailed even if it is just your phone it is best to use a photo app that is not already downloaded on the device. Piklr is an excellent app to start off with because it gives the user a more precise image than the...
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The shape of Luca

by @leetmaster

| Assignments, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 26, 2021

This week I saw Luca, Pixar’s latest movie and their shot at a Studio Ghibli film.Luca is a story of the boy meets girl type (or rather sea monster meets the outside world) according to Kurt Vonnegut’s shapes of stories because after coming...
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The shape of LucaThis week I saw Luca, Pixar’s latest movie and their shot at a Studio Ghibli…

by @leetmaster

| Assignments, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 26, 2021

The shape of LucaThis week I saw Luca, Pixar’s latest movie and their shot at a Studio Ghibli film.Luca is a story of the boy meets girl type (or rather sea monster meets the outside world) according to Kurt Vonnegut’s shapes of stories bec...
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First, What is Storytelling?

by @leetmaster

| Assignments, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 21, 2021

When I was a I child, I took my first camping trip with my family in Easter. My uncle, who wasn’t very religious, told my cousins and me stories about the last days of Jesus Christ. It was nothing like Sunday School, though. He would sometimes en...
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First, What is Storytelling?When I was a I child, I took my first camping trip with my family in…

by @leetmaster

| Assignments, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 21, 2021

First, What is Storytelling?When I was a I child, I took my first camping trip with my family in Easter. My uncle, who wasn’t very religious, told my cousins and me stories about the last days of Jesus Christ. It was nothing like Sunday School, t...
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My Personal Cyber Infrastructure

by @leetmaster

| Assignments, Best Work, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, Web
June 18, 2021

I coded my first website in 1999, two years after I got connected to the internet using FrontPage Express and uploading the files to Geocities. I learned HTML by studying the code generated by FrontPage and comparing it to a laminated reference guide t...
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My Personal Cyber InfrastructureI coded my first website in 1999, two years after I got connected to…

by @leetmaster

| Assignments, Best Work, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, Web
June 18, 2021

My Personal Cyber InfrastructureI coded my first website in 1999, two years after I got connected to the internet using FrontPage Express and uploading the files to Geocities. I learned HTML by studying the code generated by FrontPage and comparing it ...
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Week 5 Reflection

by @shika_f

| ds106, FINAL, Reflection, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, Weekly
June 21, 2019

So this is the end of this course and I feel alright and not much more. I definitely feel that it all went…
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Final Reflections

by @TreeStand_98

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 21, 2019

When I first started this class I already felt fairly comfortable with digital media. Now that I have taken this […]
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Look Listen Analyze

by @MattMDL106

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 17, 2019

For Look, Listen and Analyze, I watched a clip from The Joker. In the first part, in analyzing the camera work, I noticed how, most
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Look, listen, analyze

by @BreeNicholson14

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 16, 2019

This assignment we have to watch a video and use different techniques to looking, listening, and analyzing them! I chose this link to follow to analyze: First, with looking, I saw how the colors and patterns of the clip looked. It help to set the tone, and to what would come next. By listening, I…
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Reading Movies

by @BreeNicholson14

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 16, 2019

This task was about reading about and responding to some suggestions by Ebert about motion pictures. For the two videos I watched, I watched Kubrick // One-Point Perspective https://vimeo.com/48425421 and Examples of Editing Techniques http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Sp59lQD7Q. I found these both to be really informative as they helped me to understand the basic of what type of videos I…
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End of Week 4

by @shika_f

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, Weekly
June 16, 2019

Thoughts and Reflections I feel that this week was a very good week! Granted that it felt a bit lighter than the previous…
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Look. Listen. Analyze.

by @jacobhilker1

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, VideoAssignments
June 16, 2019

After reading Roger Ebert’s guide to reading movies, we had to analyze a classic movie scene. Given that a lot of the scenes for me were from movies that I had never heard (except for a few, such as Rocky, Apocalypse Now, and The Dark Knight), I decided to use the cutscene from Destiny 2: […]
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Look. Listen. Analyze.

by @TreeStand_98

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 16, 2019

I chose the lobby shootout scene from the movie The Matrix.
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Reading Movies

by @TreeStand_98

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 16, 2019

Information is power, so I definitely feel more powerful after reading Roger Ebert’s article about How to Read a Movie. […]
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Cold Blood

by @shika_f

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts, Thoughts and Ideas
June 15, 2019

Here is another gem in which I have no knowledge about. I have heard so many great things about this film and yet,…
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Video Blog Comments

by @TreeStand_98

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 15, 2019

I said… do you like apples? That was a very well done analysis explaining how that scene was put together. Pointing out the jump cuts to make the audience look at the scene as more natural was spot on. But the best part of your whole blog w...
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Cuts and Perspective

by @shika_f

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts, Thoughts and Ideas, Video
June 15, 2019

This first video was extremely helpful make it clear to me many of the basic cuts scenes a film or particular scene can…
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Reading a Movie

by @shika_f

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, Video
June 13, 2019

After reading up on Ebert’s Article on Reading a Movie, I thought about how I’ve seen the fruits of the labor of others…
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“Moon Graffiti” Techniques

by @BreeNicholson14

| #audioreflection, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

For these “Moon Graffiti” techniques, I listened to This American Life Episode 484: Dopplegangers by Fred Armisen and Ira Glass. In this about 57 minute episode, I listened to the certain aspects which made up their storytelling techniques and what they did to really bring the story to life. First of all, I really liked…
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TED Radio Hour and ScottLo

by @BreeNicholson14

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

For this assignment, we were to listen and learn about audio techniques and ways to use audio to the best of our ability. For the TED Radio Hour videos, just by listening to their different techniques (one using sound, the other without) I learned how much of a difference the two videos worked. By using…
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Storytelling from the Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad Videos

by @BreeNicholson14

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

From these videos, they discussed the primary building blocks of how audio and storytelling can come together as one. From Ira Glass we learned about the aspects of storytelling. First, he recommended setting a sequence of actions, then raising questions to those actions. By doing so, you draw in your audience, as you would with…
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Moon Graffiti

by @MattMDL106

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

For this portion I listened to “Moon Graffiti“. A made up story based on an event that could have actually happened. It is about what
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TED Radio Hour and ScottLo

by @MattMDL106

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

In this TED Radio Hour, I, instead of listening to the story, listened to how it was told. This allowed me to better understand the
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Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad

by @MattMDL106

| Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

Ira on storytelling was actually really fun to listen too. I learned a lot about how much work actually goes into telling a story, specifically
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Dead and Gone

by @shika_f

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audio, AudioAssignments2371, ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
June 9, 2019

This is the tell a story assignment from the assignment bank is worth 3.5 stars. Wow! This was an absolutely amazing assignment. I…
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