I picked this visual assignment randomly (by pressing the random button obviously). And luckily, it was two stars–the perfect amount of stars to reach my goal of ten. It also worked out that my friend Enisa was over at my house working on her own digital storytelling shiz, so she helped me out. Yes, the ...

For my second visual assignment, I decided to do the Splash the Color, worth 2 stars. Here are my two color splashes (I had so much fun I had to do two). This is passionflower, which looks really awesome in … Continue Reading →

This past Friday was Field Trip Day for my son and I.  We were both pretty excited.  It was time to go play with some other homeschoolers and have a bunch of fun and whatnot.We were only going to a park to play and take pictures, but still.  It was something different, and we were ...

Sunday night, as ds106 students around the globe (okay, maybe just the graded students in and around Fredericksburg, VA) experienced the unthinkable: a ds106 site CRASH, with only an hour to go before the submission deadline for the week’s assignments. OH NOES!! @crystalrose0784 no our server sucks. you are teh awesome — Alan Levine (@cogdog) ...

It’s Friday night.  Both kids are gone.  I’m home alone, and hubby is just getting off of work. Holy cow, a night to ourselves?! What is this?!  What should we do??? I know!  How about if we brought home pizza (thank you, Dominos, for offering GF pizza), wine, beer, and ice cream, change into sweats, ...

This week one of our assignments was to in 20 minutes: Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural. Take a photo that makes use of converging lines. Take a photo dominated by a single color Take a photo … Continue reading →

I choose to do the assignment Caught in Mid Action from the visual assignment bank.  This assignment is worth 2 stars and I thought it was so much fun! The assigment was to take a picture of something in mid … Continue reading →

Part of our assignment for this week was to do multiple assignments from the visual assignment bank.  I choose to do King of the Meltdowns.  This assignment was worth 2 stars, and we had to find a picture of a … Continue reading →

First, here is my blog post on the photoblitzing assignment. It was a doozy, and I was trying to look as nonchalant as possible as I was trying to get the perfect angle on the lamp post. Here is my … Continue reading →

(I hope you get the reference above. If not, google it, and then watch the movie if you haven’t seen it. It’s got some funny one-liners.) I chose Windex for this assignment because I thought it would look cool to manipulate the color of it. I was right. It looks like some kind of neon, toxic ...

Because I am such a perfectionist about the pictures I take, I really actually only got five pictures taken during the twenty allotted minutes. BUT, it worked out because I really like the way all of them turned out (even the time marker ones). I chose to do this assignment in my bedroom/bathroom (all one area) ...

I thought for sure for this assignment I was going to have to crop together a bunch of random letters to create my name, but I forget sometimes how popular my name has become over recent years (especially with movie stars like Emma Stone, and Emma Watson having the same first name as me). So, randomly ...

First of all, I really enjoyed doing this assignment. I liked the randomness of it, and I liked the room for creativity that it allowed me. So, how did I result in this vundabar album cover? Let me tell you. After extracting the random picture/album title/band name that I was going to be using, which ...

How to be a better photgrapher Tips in how to be a better photographer really helped me to improve my photo taking skill. this week those tips were in my head which was a great help when I was taking photos. I spend my time more on pre-composing in my mind and then taking photo, ...

Switch up the Mood Although we read left-to-right, suspend reality for a second. The picture on the right is the original, and I used GIMP to darken things up a bit, using mostly the Brightness-Contrast and Hue-Saturation tools. Here is … Continue reading →

A good friend can be anyone regardless of his/her Religion, ethnicity, country, culture.Good Friends are gift from God; a person without a good friend is like a body without a soul. A good friend is hard to find, but it is worth it, because a good friend heals your pain and brings a smile to ...

I belong to a land where harassment, violence and harsh cultural taboos against the women are the norms. I belong to a people who sacrifice their own daughters, sisters and wives in the name of culture, but I also belong to a generation who will open a new page in the history of my country ...

College provides individuals with the opportunity to have a better career and personal enrichment. The value of college is more than the opportunity to have a better and well paid job. A college education gives you the ability to understand yourself and you’re environed. A college education enables one to achieve their personal as well ...

Yam Yarn This is Godzilla, a hero of mine, vanquishing his foe, the diabolical Yam. Why does a Yam have arms you ask? Foolishness! How else would a Yam climb to the top of a municipal building? As far as … Continue reading →

Weekly Reflection: This week was a learning process for me, I took a more direct approach in my work for this class and started mass tweeting with my Radio show group. We plan to meet on Monday to start our radio project … Continue reading →

I did the a-z photo collage assignment, worth 3 stars. I focused on animals and when it came to the letters u and x I stretched it by using the scientific names sometimes. here’s my photo collage: For photos of … Continue Reading →