Today’s daily create was  fun and interesting. I love silhouettes, I copied a picture and used scissors to cut it out, then pasted it one a contrasting background.

The design assignment “Animated Comic Book Covers” was challenging but a lot of fun. It really tested my rookie skills of photoshop and GIMP. First I had to choose a comic book cover to animate. I wanted something that would my photoshop ability but not be too challenging. This X-men cover is from 1991.   […]

It had to be done. Design a book cover.  I had to go with parody, because I don’t take fluffy beach froth like this book too seriously.  On a deeper note, there might actually BE fifty different aspects to Wee-Bey’s character.  We see the fish hobbyist, the loyal Barksdale employee, capable street-wise hit man and […]

I did the Design Assignment Truthful Movie Poster, which is worth 3 stars. In order to make this poster I took the Friends With Benefits poster and cut it out on top of a still from No Strings Attached using Pixlr. I used the magic wand tool to eliminate the background of the Friends With Benefits poster and then simply moved Justin and […]

TDC 999: Trace Yourself!

I did yesterday’s daily create but didn’t get a chance to blog about it, so here is the post for it. The daily create was “Make Your DS106 #4life Empathy Map” at first I didn’t know if I wanted to do this or not. But then when I thought about it I figured it would […]

A Hot Crazy Mess and her fellow “Angel” hockey peeps turned into a “trace” of their former selves with the help of a pair of scissors and a nifty photo editing app on my iPhone   Before:     After: … Continue reading →

Wow. This one was way more difficult than it needed to be. I found out that making GIFs is actually a LOT easier in Adobe Flash. But I’m broke and stuck with GIMP, so… Anyways, based off this design assignment, I decided to make my own, but inspired off a tv show, The Legend of […]

For this video discussion of Season 2 Episode 10 of The Wire, “Storm Warnings,” Paul Bond and I were joined by quite a number of UMW #wire106 internauts Demi Fulcher, Alison Thoet, Stefanie Reutter, Meredith Fierro, and Maggie Stough. This discussion was … Continue reading →

Home stretch! I’m on to my last design assignment for the week. An assignment that stood was the “Guess The Song.” There was a picture of a girl with a straw drinking a watermelon. I later realized that the song was by Beyonce. Point being, i chose this assignment and i’m now going to take […]

For this video discussion of Season 2 Episode 9 of The Wire, “Stray Rounds,” Paul Bond and I were joined by UMW #wire106 internauts Lakisha Mahone and Nicky Memita. This discussion was pretty tight, and I found it a lot of fun. Since … Continue reading →

A Motivational Poster.. For me, a motivational poster could be represented by no one else other than my favorite character, Omar.  I wanted to pull Omar into this assignment.  I used one of the images that I had used for the “Where are they now?” design assignment.  I inserted the image into pizap and added  […]

This design assignment was the hardest one i completed for week 6. Yet again i found myself scrolling through the pages and pages of assignments and saw a picture of Justin Bieber. I wasn’t aware that he was still relevant but that’s a different story. The assignment i chose was “On The Cover of A […]

Lieutenant Daniels is tall and thin and reminds me of a giraffe. So here is Cedric Daniels with a giraffe body.

A Celebrity Life…  In this assignment, we are to paste our face on a celebrity or a person that we would like to be.  My person that I have selected is Galadriel, the Elven Queen, from Lord of the Rings.  I downloaded an image of Galadriel from Google Images.  I then used piZap to paste […]

This is one of my favorite movies adapted into a book. I thought Omar would fit perfectly just from the title alone.

Really Reality TV | Follow the following formula to create your own reality TV show for the ds106 Network. Worth 3 stars. Use the Reality TV Show name generator to get a title for the show. Do a Google search on the… Continue Reading →

Caution!: May cause seizures if watched too long. The design assignment was to create a random GIF of Beyonce so I thought this was an interesting sequence to make as a GIF. This is from a VMA performance and it has nice flashing colors and I like the ...

One thing that stood out to me in the 11th episode of season 2 was Stringer Bell reaching out to Omar. I was ready for Stringer to make a move

For my third daily create assignment I took advantage of an opportunity to vent and release some of my emotions thus far in the semester with an empathy map; TDC 998. These are all of my own emotions tied to my frustrations with not being able to spend more time being even more creative with […]

For the Design Blitz assignment, I found examples of balance, symbolism, unity, and typography either on campus or in my apartment. Balance In this picture, balance is displayed quite literally. The playing cards are balancing on each other to stay up in their triangular formation. Looking at the playing cards, you can also see that […]

I had never heard of an empathy map before doing this daily create.  It was more fun when I got into it and played around in Photoshop with the chat and thought bubbles.  I didn’t have a really great one for “hearing” so I used the jagged-edged bubble that’s probably supposed to be used for […]

The thing that caught my attention in the 10th episode of season 2 was how Brother Mouzone came in and started making power moves. It’s weird to see Avon compromise

This design assignment was really funny and it seemed pretty easy to do.  We are to paste someone’s head on an animal’s body.  I wanted to also make this related to The Wire so I did my assignment by portraying Frank Sabotka as a lamb.  The Greek is always referring to lambs and lambs to […]

Valentine’s Alternative | Valentines day is lame and the cards are worse. Make a good one targeted towards a particular person (real or imaginary). Worth 2 stars. For this assignment I decided to take “alternative Valentine’s Day card” to the extreme. Yes,… Continue Reading →

One of the things that stood out to me in this episode came right at the beginning. It was when the little boy was shot and killed in the gun

For my second daily create I did the empathy map. It didn’t take really long I just filled in everything according to what was happening at the specific time I

So this here is my empathy map! Here is a short explanation of each field: Hear? T.G.I.T. – Thank God it’s Thursday! Since I don’t have classes on Friday, this is always being heard from me. It makes the weekend so much sweeter! Say & Do I can do this (say) – I say I […]