In to week three now and I think I might possibly be getting the hang of all this. Week one and two were rough trying to figure out all of this new technology and having some unfortunate personal issues to deal with, but things are looking up now! With that being said, I feel like … Continue reading Week 3 Summary →

“Keep Calm and Make More Lines” was The Daily Create assignment today. Was trying to come up with an idea when I looked down and realized the jump course I was designing to set up tomorrow was nothing but lines!

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

For today’s daily create, I had to do something with lines. So I decided to use my girlfriend’s tablet, Surface 3. I used the program called, Fresh Paint, to paint these colorful lines. I just took the stylus and randomly chose colors and different types of brushes and pastels to paint these different lines. I … Continue reading Paint Lines →

Week Three. Terminated. Sounds like we made it. Get it? Like the song Looks Like We Made It but I substituted Sound because this is the audio unit. : D Ahahaha ha ha. Anyway here’s my work for the week: [Regular Blog Posts] Summary of Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad —> Click Here Summary of Radio […]

So I decided to do this assignment (3 stars). It called for me to record myself singing a song three different times and layer them together. I decided to cover Vance Joy’s “Riptide” This is the result: I chose the song because it’s been stuck in my head for a bit. I mean I really […]

Listening to Ira Glass was interesting. Talking about how story telling is a sequence of events and the build up is important as the story itself then giving his example of walking down the stairs and adding suspense to something that was just a basic story of him walking down the steps and talk about … Continue reading Audio as Important as the Story Itself →

Here is the topic most students find both the most challenging and/or rewarding portion of ds106: video. It presents challenges with file formats, creating more complex narratives, and working with more complicated software. But it is also one of the most engaging forms of media — hence the current statistic that in the span of one […]

*Alternate titles included “Tales from the Radio Lab” and “Scary Radio Lab stories to listen to in the dark” This is the first show from Radio Lab I’ve ever listened to and I enjoyed immensely. The subject matter was my absolute cup of tea. The title Ghost Stories, is what initially drew me in. So naturally […]

I jumped all over the place attempting to pick one of the many show episodes to do this reflection on. I do believe I listened to the first few minutes of all of them simply out of curiosity. However, I ended up sticking with a “This American Life” episode called “How I got Into College“. The … Continue reading How’d I get In Anyway?! →

This week was less stressful than I thought that it would be. I’m not one to record my voice because I hate the way that it sounds through a microphone so I was relieved to find that I could complete the assignments without having to record my own voice. I will say up front that … Continue reading Week 3 Summary →

Can I just say, originally I thought I would not like this unit at all… but now I’m kind of in love with audio storytelling. For this reflection, we had to listen to a radio story and comment on the audio elements in the story. In my case, the series I chose was The Truth … Continue reading “Movies for your Ears”

For this assignment we were required to remember a time at the dinner table and act like every member of the event at the time.  For mine I did it for the last Thanksgiving I had with my family closest friend that was pretty much family, Mr Patton.  He passed away 2 years ago on … Continue reading The Family Table →

This daily create was pretty fun to make. Drawing lines was left behind when I started college and free time became scarce. It felt good to be able to just sit down and draw random lines to make a picture. Disney inspired my creation because they are a company that I want to work for … Continue reading Keep Calm and Make More Lines →

I love car chases. Who doesn’t? Cops being cops, stupid people being stupid people, a sense of danger. Yeah I hope no one gets hurt in the process but to me it is still fun to watch. I used audacity to record my commentary while watching the clip but I wanted to do it a … Continue reading Car Chase Commentary →

This week I listened to Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad give their perspectives on the art of audio storytelling. Ira Glass pointed out that audio storytelling is not just a topic sentence followed by a series of facts, like we learn in high school. Instead, broadcasting has two main building blocks. The first building block … Continue reading The Craft of Audio Storytelling →

This particular show talks about how students get in to college. What college admissions officers actually look at when deciding whether an applicant gets in to the school or not. Since I am a college student I found this episode particularly  interesting. One thing about how the episode was made that I throughly enjoyed was … Continue reading Reflection on How I got into College from the radio show This American Life →

The site TV Tropes defines a Big Bad as “the cause of all bad happenings in a story.” Basically it’s that one bad guy who continuously shows up. It’s that one person that ruins all of the main character’s plans. This idea was the inspiration behind my song created for this assignment (2 stars). The instructions […]

I decided to do the Make Your Own Ringtone assignment worth 1.5 stars. For this assignment I used an app called Logic Pro X on a friends computer. Logic Pro X is an expensive, but really cool program that has several sounds already available to mix. Since the assignment asked that I use Audacity, I dragged the various … Continue reading Ring, Ring →

Week Two Reflection: This week we used audio as a form of storytelling and I didn’t I would, but I really enjoyed this week.  I played around with Audacity, which I’ve heard of but never used before, and really like it.  It can do so many things that I haven’t even begun to explore yet. … Continue reading Week Three – Completed

It’s a sunrise… made out of lines. Can you see it?

For this assignment I had to record different sounds throughout my day and then combine them together to create a one long track. I used the recording device on my phone to record any distinct sounds that I could hear while I went about my daily activities. I then loaded them onto my computer and onto … Continue reading Sounds of my day →

Background time! I’m pretty familiar with audio storytelling. It’s always been something I’ve found interesting but more so in the last year. I’ve been listening to two audio dramas (Awake and Tokyo Demons) from this digital magazine called Sparkler Monthly. Both are really well done and I recommend giving them a listen. So, I really […]

Some of the sound effects that Ira used when telling this Podcast, is background Music, it was very soothing so you wanted to keep listening, the music sucked you in. Also I want to say it was done as a podcast, and also his voice is so clear, there is no background noise. There was […]

For this Daily create we were supposed to create something with more lines, or just make lines, so I used picsart, I choose a background, that consists of lines, I have a barcode on the picture that consists of all lines, and then I also wrote “Keep Calm and Love Ds106, I tried to keep […]

Part 1. http://www.ariddesert1.com/reflections/tv-on-the-radio/ Part 3 http://www.ariddesert1.com/reflections/the-truth-stories-synopsis/ Daily Creates 1. May 31: 2. June 3: http://www.ariddesert1.com/daily-create/its-neologism-day-at-ds-106/ June 4: June 6: Ira and Jad had the same philosophy towards story telling. They both liked to have a sequence to their story with … Continue reading →

The assignment was to take your favorite song and use a sound editing program, such as audacity, to make it 800% or so slower so that it may be unrecognizable (which I soon came to realize that whether it is unrecognizable or not it really depends on what song you do) The process for creating … Continue reading Make it 800% Slower →

I will start out by saying that I personally do not listen to many radio shows. When I do get the chance to listen to one, I listen to the Bobby Bones show which is on US 106.1 in Virginia Beach (but it’s on in many other states as well). However, I agree with a … Continue reading Summary of Expert Talks: Ira Glass and Jab Abumrad →

At first I found a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger throwing a cat and really wanted to submit that as my assignment. I was not sure if it would count though, so I did not but I will post it below because I still think that it is funny and should be seen.  <- this is … Continue reading Daily Create: Brides throwing cats →