Today’s Daily Create was a writing assignment about what unexpected thing the pirates took. You can read my response here. I drew my inspiration from Talk Like a Pirate Day at Krispy Kreme where you can get a dozen glazed donuts free if you show up dressed like a pirate. … Continue reading

I got in just under the 20 minute wire. Thank goodness I waited to do this assignment until the kids were at school or I might not have made it in time. Love my kids but they are homework blockers … Continue reading →

Another design resource that’s worth looking at is The Vignelli Canon. It’s a short booklet by Massimo Vignelli, who was a superstar in the world of graphic design. The booklet is light on text and heavy on space and imagery, … Continue reading →

A lot of people have been noticing color in The Wire, so it’s a natural for the Splash the Color assignment. Here, I took one of the shots inside the Can Office with the orange target on the floor. I wanted … Continue reading →

My fifth week accomplished in #DS106 with the completion of this narrative which summarizes my week focusing on visual aesthetics. I learned early on in life to appreciate all the senses we are blessed to have. I learned best from playing hide and seek blindfolded with an uncle who had his sight taken from him […]

This week was a bit stressful and a little tense for me. I am starting to have a lot of work and it’s all getting in the way of other

The thing that caught my attention in episode 8 of the second season of The Wire was McNulty and his drinking. First, I was hoping that he could work things

Well, yet again here I am at 11:30 pm trying to finish all of my DS106 assignments. I started the week out well getting a lot of things completed but then once I felt ahead in this class my other classes started to pickup the workload. I also just realized that my accounts time settings […]

Hello again ds106-ers!  Hope you all had another wonderful week.  This one was a busy one for me.  I took the physics GRE this weekend.  I have been spending a lot of free time studying for that, so now that it’s over with, I feel FREE!!!!  But seriously… This week was all about visuals…visual assignments, […]

Technology was not my friend this week on many different levels. The song that was I trying to post on Sound Cloud on Thursday for the Daily Create was rejected for copyright issues (even though it was a song I … Continue reading →

This week has been fun and interesting. I have always enjoyed taking pictures of things (just ask my boyfriend). I stop to take pictures of anything I find interesting. But this week has allowed me to grow in my photography skills. I learned about the rule of thirds this week–something that I may have known […]

I was totally blown away by the 7th episode of the second season of The Wire. The whole Barksdale organization has got me captivated. It is crazy that Stringer was

Wow this was a crazy week! On top of my all of my school work, today is my birthday so I have been juggling family coming to visit–that explains why this post is so close to our deadline. It’s been a long week but a fun one! Check out what I did! Daily Creates Picture […]

Ok so I’m not going to lie, I did this right before our work was due for this week, but it was really cool! I’ve done the photo scavenger hunts before and those are a lot of fun. This, however, was way more difficult that that because you had to think about the pictures. Running […]

WOW!  This assignment could not have turned out any more hilarious!  I decided to do the “An album cover” assignment and man-o-man was it funny!  The assignment had a link to a random wikipedia article, a random list of quotes, and a random list of flickr pics from the last 7 days.  The idea is […]

One of the things that stood out to me in the 6th episode of the second season of The Wire was Omar’s testimony. It was interesting to see him in

I went through the assignment bank to see what hadn’t been done yet, and I was surprised to see the “Image Manipulation and Historical Narrative” hadn’t been done, so I decided to fix that. I figured I would take one … Continue reading →

This assignment had to do with focusing on one color in a picture. I used a picture taken a few years ago on one of my trips to St. Thomas. It is a picture of a bottle of Captain Morgan and a bottle of Cruzan Rum. The blue in the Cruzan Rum is focused on because […]

Hi guys!  So I decided to do the “Common everyday object” assignment.  I took a few photos of things around the office and around school.  What I finally decided to do was to edit a photo of one of the most bittersweet moments in my college path thus far.  So last semester, my physics friends and […]

4 Lines 5 Dots 1 Curve 4 stars You had to be very creative to do this assignment. It was difficult to figure out what to do, but once I thought of something, it was easy. I decided to create a compass. It’s a little abstract so use your imagination! I used paint to create this […]

Photoblitzer 13:27 This assignment which was to be done within 20 minutes I accomplished while accompanying my household to family’s house to take part in Sunday football, there was plenty of material since my aunt and uncle reside in what I consider the sticks in King George! The rules follow in the bullet list below: […]

So I decided to do the ” Redoing a past pose” assignment.  I thought it would be easier that it was.  I looked through a bunch of old photos, and when I finally found one I was comfortable with remaking (I didn’t wear a lot of clothes as a child apparently) I took a quick […]

What’s up ds106? So this photoblitz assignment was something I was really excited about this week. I had a friend with a nicer camera come over and help me with the photos, and I have to say, I’m pretty happy with the results! Let’s get started! And so it begins…         “Make […]

So this week I caught the UMW plague so I was basically immobile for 3 days and I definitely think that effected my work. I wish I spent more time doing these assignments, but here’s what I have to show. Live Tweeting The Wire: No sound Last week was only audio, now our assignment was… Read More

This week was all about visual.  Visual is very important but as we have learned this week, visual can be deceiving.  When we covered audio, audio allows your brain to put the pieces together of the scene that the producer is trying to portray.  Visual can be altered though.  Some of the projects that I […]

Just like how last week focused on sound, this week focused on the visual aspects of art. My prediction was right! As a result of this focus on visual art, I had loads of visual assignments to work on: An album cover 5 dots, 4 lines, and a curve Color Selection Dream window view Each […]

Link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/optical-illusion/ Alright, this one was in a rush, but here is me holding a calender. The lightning unfortunately is not too good (the photo was taken at 9:16pm. I chose the calender because it was one of the more interesting items to do this with in my room. Pretty much the only things I used […]

Here is my second daily create. I decided to record when I was with a group of my friends and we were “trying” to “study”. You could probably tell not

3 and a half stars. This is one of my favorite lyrics. It’s from a Dave Matthews song, Lie in Our Graves. I found this photo on flickr and then just used Google Picasa editor to put the lyrics in. Dave Matthews in one of my favorite artists and I’ve grown up listening to him.… Read More