October 8th Evil Guinea Pigs All guinea pigs are so evil because they just trap you with their cuteness. October 11th Make a doodle that interacts with its surroundings As always, I did something with my dog. We’ve been trying to cut...
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Mash-ups tend me to my favorite assignments. For example, my second audio assignment for this week is “Music Mash-up”. What we had to do for this assignment was taking two distinct types of music and mashing them up together. I fear that my mashup was a bit cliché but whatever, it’s hilarious. Let me take […]

This poor guy needs better safety equipment. For today’s daily create, I made a doodle interacting with the environment. In this case, I decide to draw a mountain climber attempting to scale the sheer face that is my bookshelf. My doodle has more thrills and adventures in his life than I do.

I tried to keep the bumper relevant to The Wire. I found this assignment to be one of the easier ones so far!   Process I went on YouTube to find the theme song of The Wire. Then I went...
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Since we seem to be refreshing our audio editing skills in preparation for the radio show, I’ve decided to try the sound effects story assignment. Considering most good radio programs utilize sound effects for not only ambiance, but to help get information across, it seems vital to get used to the nuances of leveling and […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/all-me-in-the-scene/ Alright here is a short audio clip of the adventurer’s shack. Creating this simply required my mic, my computer’s sound recorder, and a quiet area. I also had to pull to different voices to act out a scene (I’m not too good at making different voices so it might not be the best). I […]

I absolutely loved this assignment! I am so excited for halloween! I am going to play this one the way to the Kings Dominion Haunt, I cannot wait! Hope you enjoy!   Process: I went to Freesound and searched for scary,...
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This week we focused back on audio.  Audio seems to be harder for me than working with images.  It seems more personal listening to someone’s voice rather than just looking at a picture.  We are building up and getting ready for our radio show.  A radio show makes me really nervous. 20-30 minutes of just […]

My first Audio assignment consisted of mashing two distinct songs in to one track, a . I used two popular songs from different genres; one being R & B and the other Hip Hop. The track Bad by Wale uses a lighter version sound featured in Trillville’s hit Some Cut so I thought they would […]

 You can find the commentary video here (with the right credentials, of course.) Karen Thorson is in charge of the post production. I had a bit of an understanding about what this was, but decided to look up the basic tasks… Continue Reading →

I know that this was not a required blog but I just wanted to make a comment on how much I enjoyed watching the episode while Karen Thorson and editor Thom Zimny were commenting on the episode.  I had two functions going at once.  I watched the episode from the library but had the sound muted.  […]

For my second daily create assignment I chose a writing daily create. I wasn’t able to post that day but it can be found here. This book is perhaps the one which most closely aligns with my opinion as to every thing wrong in our society today relevant to episodes of tense race relations we […]

This was a cool assignment.  I used Audacity to make my own sounds to imitate the beginning of a thunderstorm.  I made the wind myself, the rain was my fingertips on a Diet Pepsi can, and I also did my own lightning strikes. (Sorry could not figure out how to make thunder.  Everything with my […]

And so a lone wanderer discovered a cave at the edge of darkness. As soon as I saw this was up, I knew I had to make a cave doodle for a minifig to explore. This was a fun and simple daily create! Again, since I’m not too good at drawing this is just a […]

Spooky Sounds: (3 Stars) This was a fun assignment to work on, especially right at Halloween time!  I found most of my sounds that I wanted to go with on Freesound.org.  The following tracks were downloaded: Uncle Sigmund:  “Chainsaw” tcrocker68_girl:  “girl screaming” Puniho: “Chainsawing” Spoonbender: “Wind through trees” All of the files were uploaded into […]

How to do Remix a Song with Some Speech (you can see mine here): Decide on what song you want to use. Consider what ideas or themes are present in the song and how you could incorporate some speech relating to it? Are there any political undertones? Is there a … Continue reading

How to do the Movie As Radio assignment (you can see my assignment here): First, you need to decide on what movie you want to do. Once you have decided on the movie, consider what music and dialogue you would like to include to best represent the movie. When I … Continue reading

How to do a Sound Effects Story (You can see my story here): Go to freesound.org. Make sure you have an account. Search and listen to all the files that have been uploaded. There are a lot of options, so if you’re struggling to come up with what you want … Continue reading

Radio designed by Toni Valdés Medina from the Noun Project Here is my promotional poster for the radio show. I created it in Pixlr, using the radio from The Noun Project. I like the minimalist look it has.

Trying to get this done before going away for break! This week was a cool experience. I liked how it was fewer stars so I could focus more attention on the assignments. I had a lot of fun with these. With the help of some friends, Jim Groom, and the technology center in the ITCC, […]

I made a commercial for the product placement radio ad assignment and did it a little bit differently. Though not necessarily owned by anyone, the games of chess and checkers are 1) widely popular, 2) centered around the same general idea and 3) major representations of the “game” so often discussed in the Wire. Chess […]

This assignment (3.5 stars) was fun to make! With the help of my friends and freesound.org it wasn’t that bad! I got the idea from real life when my friends started arguing about Tinder. I was laughing at them and decided to use it for ds106! I recorded the audio on Audacity and just laid it […]

Recording daily sounds was an assignment that made my roommates think I’m crazy. I walked around the house with my phone recording noises of my alarm, flushing the toilet, using the microwave, locking my door, and more. It’s interesting to listen to the sounds isolated. I never really think about all the noises in my life. […]

TV Product Placement Radio Ad | TV and movies are full of product placement these days. Take a clip from a TV show or movie where they discuss a product (food, technology, movie, restaurant, etc.) and turn it into a radio… Continue Reading →

In this audio assignment, I am to reenact a scene in which I play all the characters parts. (3 stars)  I wanted to use an episode from The Wire, so I decided that I would use the episode in which Frank and Nick have a discussion overlooking the port.  This scene is from Season 2 […]

My Original poem:  “The Wire” (3 stars) This poem was written in Microsoft Word and then I recited the track directly into Soundcloud.  My poem was written to talk about the game.  The characters that we watch in each episode are all players in a the game of life.  This game they play is separated […]

The Wire this week was really interesting. I did not see the thing with Sobatka coming (although in hindsight I should have). Th ending to the season was also handled really well. I like that this season finale had the same feel as the last one. The montage and the court case and people getting […]

This is my version of part of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, for the All Me In The Scene assignment. I used audacity to record the audio, and I obviously did the reading.  

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 […]