For my last visual assignment of the week, I decided to try out this one that limits our usage to only a few basic shapes: 4 lines, 5 dots, and one curve. I decide to do an artistic rendition of a space view of our home. The 5 dots make up the Earth, the Sun, […]

Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said, “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be...

Another week has gone by in DS106 and i’m stoked. As we all know, last week was Audio and this week is Visual. I’m crossing my fingers that week 6 is Scent. Get it? Because it’s one of the five senses? Yes, it’s been a long week if you couldn’t tell. The transition from audio […]

        2 and a half stars. This was a fun assignment. Google autocorrects are so funny, like the fact people actually search for these things scares me. I searched “I hate it when” and it finished with “I’m studying and a velociraptor throws.” What is he throwing? Where did a velociraptor come… Read More

  3 stars. Here is my 10 step photo challenge. I used Pic Monkey to make the collage. In 10 steps you get a pretty good view of the front on my dad’s house.Sometimes I took little steps, and others big steps. I crouched down, looked up and all around. I like all the browns and… Read More

2 and a half stars. Originally T-Swift and Miley Cyrus, I now introduce me and my bae, Brittany. Brittany was my roommate sophomore year and the first person i ever lived with in my first house when I moved to college. We met on Craigslist when she was looking for a roommate. We ended up… Read More

Finally I see the home stretch! My last attempt at successfully completing a 12 star requirement and I finish with this 2 1/2 star beauty! With having to utilize the last 3 containers that I had drunk from throughout the day, this particular day actually spoke volumes to how my week was finishing out. This […]

A third of the way done with visual assignments, this time I capitulated on a 2 star execution. “Larger than Life” required that I create an image of something making it appear larger than life; I decided to go with a dime keeping with the theme of The Wire. This would represent a detectives most […]

For the next visual assignment I reached even higher for the sky with a 4 star challenge. “Time of Day” consisted of taking several pics of an image throughout different times of the day. I captured the view from my a bedroom entry door while watching my daughter board the school bus as it was […]

Hello ladies and gentlemen! Once more we are back at the end of yet another thrilling week.A lot has happened this week for all of us, and I must say it has been fun despite me being sick. But anyways, enough of me yammering about my health, here is a breakdown of what has been […]

It was a good week!  Fun assignments, good community interactions, and the focus on visual aspects was fun. Continuing my original list of prequel questions, I’d like to add another item: What is the background on the relationship between The Greek and Spiros?  They don’t seem like father and son, but there is some mileage […]

The assignment, to be done in 20 minutes or less: Let’s play with movement. Get a shot of something in motion. A fork in the road. Casting a ballot. Buying bread. Choices abound.Take a photo of a choice. No ocean, surely you can find some water around you to take a photo of. Features a […]

With a requirement of 12 stars for completing visual assignments, I reached for the high stars starting with A-Z Photo Collage. I wanted to approach this assignment from a perspective no one had done so I decided to do sea life. After many attempts utilizing Photoshop I decided to use a more simplistic method, so […]

                  Here’s my wiggle steroscopy! Basically it’s just a two frame gif. I took two pictures at slightly different angles and uploaded them as layers into GIMP. Then just exported it as a gif and here you have it. I do wish the movement was a little… Read More

Week 5 Summary Photoblitz After reading we had to do a Photoblitz assignment, I had no idea what this was. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this assignment. It’s like a race to show your true creativity in photography! Take a look at the photos I took…

Visual Assignment “What’s In Your Gullett” 2 1/2 Stars. My day started with hitting the ground and running once the kids and the hubby were off! After all I had the party of the decade to prepare for; my baby would be turning 12 and requested a slumber party to set the party off right. […]

Here is a photo of one of my fans! This is the smaller of my two fans and this picture actually makes it seem really tall now that I look at it. I image that a minifig would see this as some form of a dark spire that possesses wind energy, but that’s just my […]

Make a thread painting! Another daily create showing how unartistic I am HAH. They’re hands, I hope you can tell

These are the last beverages I have had over the weekend. If you are wondering why they are full, it is because I did not want to sift through my garbage to go and grab the empty bottles, especially since sick materials are the majority of my trash at the moment. Why go with those […]

One of these things just doesn’t belong here… I’m very curious to know if you can find it! This one was simple for me to make because I immediately thought about LEGO. This did not take long to make, it just took a couple of minifig parts, the correct lighting, macro mode on a camera, […]

So this was an interesting assignment. The goal was to draw something using 4 lines, 5 dots, and 1 curve. I immediately thought of the classic ice cream cone you learn to draw as a kid. I had one big, pink dot, and four smaller ones as sprinkles. Add in a nice caramel curve, and […]

September 26, 2014 For one of the Daily Creates this week, I was excited to draw a picture of our professor, Jim Groom! I used an app on my iPhone called Inkflow for this drawing and uploaded the finished product to Flickr. Hope I drew him well! ...

Week 5: Visual Assignment #3 For my last visual assignment this week, I chose to GIF animate my day like Ben. I used my iPhone to capture videos that told the story of my day well, however I made the mistake of not reading the directions thoroughly. This assignment called…

Ronald Reagan once said, “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” Week 5 went by fast. I was...

Walt Disney once said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” So the assignment we had to do...

This was my first photo blitz ever; it was actually pretty fun to do! I found myself trying to go for some interesting pictures, so I hope you will enjoy as I take you through this little tale. It started at 12:43, and I had no clue what I was going to take pictures of. […]

Here was my 20 minute Photoblitz challenge. I did it in about 18 minutes. It doesn’t give you much time to think about what you want to do, so it sparks some quick creativity! I was able to take all of these in my room.   Today’s theme is “3”. Make a photograph that features… Read More

Continuing the trend of visual assignments for the week, I worked on an album cover that utilizes random quotes, pages, and pictures. The band name was chose from this wiki article, and the album name was taken from this random quote by Charles Schulz: “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s […]

The Wire was really interesting this week. I have never liked McNulty (just in case I have never said that before on my blog) but his story line is becoming more interesting as his life seems to spin more and more out of control. I paid more attention to how the shots were composed in […]

This week was all focused on the visual! It is truly amazing how many things contribute to creating a perfect visual. I loved doing the assignments, it is amazing what you can do to any given image. The Wire: Episode...
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