I made the last ad for my group’s radio show. It’s a mash-up of The Wire in reference to Avon Barksdale and Avon Beauty Products. I really love it. I think my favorite part is Prez saying, “It’s like a scavenger hunt.” It just seems to silly when juxtaposed with a … Continue reading

In light of my obsession with Halloween candy at the moment and the holiday’s fast approach, I decided to do the Spooky Sounds assignment. I used my GarageBand to make this, pulling some creepy audio sounds from it. I interspersed these sounds with portions of noises, screams and other sounds from the show Supernatural, which […]

For this daily create, i’m going to tell you NOT what The Wire is about. Good luck! The Wire The popular reality show is getting some fame. For those of you who have neither seen nor watched The Wire, It’s a spin off of The Real World. It consists of 6 strangers doing drugs under one roof. Yeah, you […]

This assignment was to take 2 songs and mash them together using audacity. Here are the two songs I chose: I converted the YouTube Videos in YouTube to MP3 Converter and opened the filed in Audacity. House songs are generally pretty easy to mash together so that’s why I picked these 2. I added some… Read More

The Wire is a show about a technician. This technician is responsible for re-wiring the electricity in broken houses that were damaged by various things. Some of these things include storms, fire, natural disasters, or even vandalism. The show takes place in Italy, and features a cast of various technicians that work across the world. […]

I volunteered to make the logo for my audio group. In our meeting last night we decided on 76.5 as our name. I was right on it when I remembered

I created a new visual assignment where you take pictures of color schemes from The Wire that appear in real life. While you can definitely set the shot up, I decided to try and find instances of red, yellow, & blue together while I was walking back from the ITCC. Here … Continue reading

TDC 1005: (Don’t) describe #wire106 Taking Artistry to a New Level October 9, 2014 The Wire is a reality tv show similar to Project Runway where artists are the contestants on a show that will ultimately land their work in a prestigious art gallery if they win. Each week is a new challenge using different […]

I decided to do the Remix a Song with Some Speech assignment. I thought it would be interesting to remix Macklemore’s “Same Love” with a bunch of news clips about gay rights in the U.S. I got the song and the news clips from YouTube and used an online converter … Continue reading

For my second daily create I decided to do the description of The Wire in a lie like way. I didn’t really know what to write at first so I

Crack a joke with Onomatopoeias! For this assignment, we were asked to use sound effects and our voice to tell a joke. I looked online for jokes and came across a similar one to this. I changed it a bit and added music instead of just me talking. I think it makes it more funny […]

I did the Movie As Radio assignment for the movie Drive. I chose Drive because the soundtrack plays a huge part in the movie. There isn’t a whole lot of dialogue. It’s a lot of staring and driving. Here’s the trailer for the movie: It’s a classic action movie with an emerging … Continue reading

This week we are supposed to make a promo poster (or something like it) for DS106 Radio. I decided to take an angry picture of McNulty and kind of make the poster like a threat. “You’re going to do this or else…” kind of thing. Here is what I came up with: How I did […]

Hiya! This assignment, Movie as Radio (3 1/2 stars), was a lot of fun! We were supposed to take a soundtrack to a movie and combine all of the tracks to create a 10 minute or less. I thought this assignment would be so fun if I did a Disney movie. I grew up as a…

Today’s Daily Create was to not describe The Wire. Here is my response: The Wire is a sitcom about the families who all live an apartment complex in Baltimore. Their shenanigans always end with an important life lesson. It’s a great family show. I wanted to keep it simple, but … Continue reading

This is my radio bumper assignment (worth 1.5 stars). I made this for the radio show project, so we decided to go with The Wire theme. I decided to use the opening sequence from The Wire as the music (“Way Down in the Hole” by Tom Waits). To make this, I used audacity to edit the parts […]

I really enjoy listening to episode commentaries on shows that I enjoy as they often provide a lot of details about the production and post-production that wouldn’t be known otherwise. This commentary emphasized the importance of what people are saying with their eyes throughout the episode. There’s a lot that … Continue reading

The Wire: Downton Shabby is a British period drama set in fictional Yorkshire, England in the early 21st century on the estate of the eighth Earl of Baltimore, Avon Barksdale. The series depicts the lives of the aristocratic Barksdale family and their servants as they experience great events in history that effect their lives and […]

The first episode of season three brought back some good ol’ memories for me. I was so interested and ready to type as soon as McNulty walked in on the

Tonight (10/08/14), my group met for the second time to plan our radio show. We had some really good ideas floating around the table tonight. The first thing that jumped

My first daily create of the week is the Evil Guinea Pig one. I didn’t really know what to expext from this tdc. When I went to look at the

I enjoyed the commentary on episode 12 of season two provided by Thorson and Zimny. One of the biggest takeaways I have from listening to them was about the focus

The 12th episode of season two really caught my attention. I noticed from the start that this episode was going to be based off of emotions. Obviously with the dead

So my last audio assignment for the week was “Voice Over a Beat” (1.5 stars). I chose to do this one because I thought it would be fun. Though at first, I didn’t know what I was going to say. How I did it: But I went on Soundation and created a login so I […]

I did the audio assignment “FlickrSounds” which is worth 1.5 stars. At first I didn’t know what to search so I searched sunset and then I came up with a picture/sound combination that was interesting to me. Mostly because they don’t really go together but they could. There could be a stream somewhere out of […]

Hey guys! This assignment, Sound Effects Story (3 1/2 stars), was actually really fun! I was able to play around with audacity more than I did the last audio week. We had to tell a story without using any vocals. At first I thought this was a challenge as I was brainstorming ideas I could do…

For my next design assignment this week I did “Interview/Music Mashup” (3 stars). I loved the example that was posted on the assignment page, as well as some of the other people’s takes on it. They all turned out super funny so I figured I would give it a try. I think the hardest part […]

Tonight, I started working on the commercials for the radio show. Each person in my group is responsible for 4-5 minutes worth of sound, whether it be bumpers, music, or commercials. Imran said he’d find a couple of bumpers and Jessica said she’d put together some music mash-ups of songs … Continue reading

Group Work This week our group set up a Google Doc where we have our idea written down for our radio show, and where we have the division of duties for this past week. Since our radio show is backwards, in that the show is the product commercials and the breaks are when music is […]

Today’s Daily Create – evil guinea pigs To do today’s daily create, I opened the door to my guinea pig cage and I waited for Arthur to try to climb out, and I took a picture. I then decided to add some evil eyebrows because, to me at least, he was too cute to be […]