I already blogged a bit about the Wire 106 listen along last week, and this week’s watch along, but I want to take a moment to reflect on these particular course activities. The shared object of attention for this course … Continue reading →

I really enjoyed the visual week. I’ve never felt that my photography skills were anything incredible, so it was fun to try and improve them and play around with visuals. I also really enjoyed analyzing things visually. The Wire Episodes Here are my blog posts for season 2 episodes six, seven, … Continue reading

This assignment made it easy to ease on into visual assignments. As always I picked to do a picture of a cow. I thought they were just incredible cute pictures!   Process: I googled pictures of cows and cow art. These...
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As I have stated before, I am no artist, but I can draw stickfigures (barely)! So I decided to draw Jim Groom, with lightning. For some odd reason the name “Reverend” sounds like lightning should be associated with it. Perhaps I’ve played one to many fantasy games. Anyways, let me know what you think, especially […]

For this assignment, I get to demonstrate what my perfect day is! I loved this assignment because it allowed to just daydream about my ideal day. This was actually very hard to think about, there were so many options!  ...
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Today’s Daily Create is hilarious. I love the meme that goes with it the whole “Y U NO..” The face is really creepy but funny at the same time. I saw this tweet a while go, maybe 3 weeks ago on Groom’s twitter feed. I think the whole concept of drawing your professors is great. […]

I’m terrible at drawing, and that is exacerbated by using a mouse as a drawing tool.  So, today’s daily create was interesting and won’t win me any art awards, but he said “Make art, dammit” he didn’t say it had to be good.

This man is frequently seen nesting in his office, playing with science fiction action figures and arranging them in questionable poses. When he leaves his lair, he is difficult to track because he does not carry a smartphone. If apprehended and taken into custody, it is recommended to restrain the individual due to his propensity […]

Journey to Somewhere 3.5 stars For this assignment, I decided to journey to St. Thomas. Much of my ds106 profile is centered around my trips to St. Thomas because I’m a frequent visitor. My family owns a timeshare on the island so we spend two weeks of our summers down there. It’s such a beautiful island, […]

Soooo, I made a new assignment called “WANTED Poster” under the Visual category in the Assignment Bank. It was inspired by the “Y U NO DRAW JIM GROOM” daily create, but because I am horrible at drawing and I wanted to include a writing aspect, I decided to create an opportunity for writing and bounty […]

Take a picture that describes a song. Toes is one of my favorite songs. I decided to go with a literal approach and took a picture of my feet in the shower.

Apophenia 3.5 stars I had a lot of fun with this assignment. It was one that required a lot of creativity, but I am good at that! I asked my roommate to lay some objects out for me while I wasn’t looking. She chose a roll of painter’s tape and a roll of yarn. I then […]

You’re Doing it Wrong 3 stars For this assignment, I went on one of my favorite websites, TheChive, to find the photo. TheChive is a website that has albums of pictures. A popular album they put up is actually called “you’re doing it wrong.” The picture I found is of a bag of sugar that says […]

Larger Than Life 2.5 stars As soon as I read this assignment, I knew what I was going to do. I took a photo of my “larger than life” laptop with the DS106 homepage up. Sometimes I do feel like DS106 is larger than life because it has consumed my life (in a good way!!).

Another assignment down! This one was actually a lot of fun! I decided to do this at 12:40 am this morning (or last night since I hadn’t fallen asleep yet). This was the list I got when I logged on the the photoblitzer site. This site makes a random list of things to take a…

My third visual assignment I completed was “Splash the Color.” This one was not too challenging once I found the right tool on Photoshop. It probably would have taken me a lot less time if I just Googled it, but I like figuring things out on my own. There is a tool on the Photoshop […]

Hey everyone– first off, Happy Friday!!   I’m headed out of town this weekend so I’m checking out a bit early this week! I’ll still be available by twitter, of course, but I’m going to go ahead and put up… Continue Reading →

Today’s Daily Create is to draw Jim Groom: This is my poorly illustrated interpretation of our beloved professor. Despite not giving him shoulders or a body that really looks anything close to human, I did give him a Chipotle burrito and a coke as well as his trusty fedora and … Continue reading

I decided to try my hand at the Shakespearean LOLcat assignment, but since this is Wire106 and not Hamlet106, I made a Simonian LOLcat. It’s a picture of my friend Coaltrain from across the street. I’m not sure why it … Continue reading →

Here’s my 20 minute photoblitz. I had a lot of fun and it was very interesting finding all of the pictures and taking them. 1. Take a photo showing the

Here’s my radio daily create. For some reason I wasn’t able to upload my original recording, so I went ahead and did another one. I turned my radio on tuned

So 4 stars down! As part of our visual week, I was going through the Visual Assignment Bank and the Story Map really caught my eye. I I was quickly running through different trips that I took that would fit perfectly into this, and I couldn’t stop thinking about my trip to London back in January of…

Today, the Daily Create was to tune your radio to whatever 106 station there was on the radio. I totally didn’t realize that we were supposed to do that! But I was running errands today and I just decided to record whatever came on as soon as I turned on my car. So this is what…

A simple but unique daily create. While I could not find anything on the 106 FM station, I was able to rely on trusty old DC101.

What’s up ds106?  Hope everyone’s week has been going well so far.  For my Story Map assignment, I though I would use some pics from my honeymoon in Aruba last year.  Hands down the BEST TRIP EVER, largely because of who I went with, but also because it was a beautiful island and everything went […]

Tonight I got to live-tweet along to The Wire’s season 2, episode 8. It was such an interesting experience!! And honestly, I had a hard time figuring out- plot wise- what was happening. I’ll definitely need to watch it again… Continue Reading →

September 23, 2014 Creating an uncropped road sign was one of the most amusing Daily Creates I’ve ever had to do! Seeing my other classmates’ uncropped road signs was hilarious… some great ideas out there. I chose the construction sign and immediately thought, elephant poop. I used GIMP to copy…

Photoblitz! Make an artistic closeup photo of an ear- human, animal, whatever. Toilets get little respect. Make an interesting photo of a toilet (keep it G rated). What does disappointment look like? Glasses help many folks bring the world into focus each day. Using a picture taken today, add a…

There are some people in the world that really make you question humanity. Some people call them Darwins Exceptions and others just say “You’re doing it wrong.” The title of this assignment is “You’re doing it wrong.” I had to find  a picture of someone doing something that was just absolutely wrong. I witnessed and […]

I did today’s daily create and rather than just doing music that I like to listen to, I did the Redskins game that I am currently listening to. How I did it: I recorded it with Audacity (hence the poor quality) but I couldn’t think of a better way to do it to get better […]