Wow, this was a fun daily create!  I could’ve happily spent a lot more time searching around the images of interesting patents, but I settled on some steampunk style goggles. I copied the image into Photoshop, added a warming layer to turn the text into dark brown and then added a sepia-toned satin overlay on […]

  My bead story begins with my first undergraduate degree in Biology, symbolized by the green and blue glass bead at #1. Pretty much beginning around that time, I began rudimentary computer gaming. I say “rudimentary”, because it was pretty primitive stuff back in the late ’80s. The 20-sided die (at #2) is frequently used […]

I’ve been slowly working on a set of bead/charms for a bracelet and so far I’ve got the beads, but not the actual bracelet.  I’ve played with the order of things, and ran across a website called “North America Great Story Beads” where they use beads to create a timeline around which they narrate a story. […]

Daily Create | Make your own stylish vintage blueprint. It wasn’t until after I created mine that I realized someone had already made a teacup as an example! I decided to keep this one anyway though, because I really enjoyed adding… Continue Reading →

My Favorite Lyric |  For this assignment use one of those lyrics that stood out to you and make it into a visual. Use some kind of background that represents the lyric and place the lyrics over it in some way.… Continue Reading →

For my third visual assignment, I decided to do Rainbow Showcase. I’ve acquired quite the collection of screen shots from episodes of The Wire, since I’ve been writing a blog post for each episode, so I thought it would be fun to sift through them all and assemble a rainbow of … Continue reading

The Florist All the red and purple reminds me of the colors seen outside the funeral home where Avon’s business is being run now. I love how it looks like this angel is spying on Bodie. I wonder if any trouble is going to rise from his purchase at the … Continue reading

Another Visual Assignment that I did was “Real Life 8-Bit Art.” From what I read and saw of Groom’s assignment description, I figured we were supposed to find an 8-bit picture in real life. Well, this picture was real life but I edited it to be an “8-bit” picture. I took some liberties the way […]

For my next Visual Assignment (I have lost count at this point haha) I decided to do “Larger than Life.” I chose it because I was like oh this will be easy, I like taking pictures in different perspectives to see how they turn out. Yeah, well I was wrong. It wasn’t as easy as […]

Last week was focused on introducing audio so we did three Wire 106 Listen Alongs via ds106radio that focused specifically on audio. This week we’re introducing visual/photography, so we wanted to switch it up and have folks watch and not … Continue reading →

I love today’s Daily Create, namely taking a cropped road sign and provide a different context. My idea of turning a nuclear fallout sign into a fan was quick and easy, although not nearly as creative as some of the others. … Continue reading →

For my third Visual Assignment for this week I did “My Favorite Lyric.” This isn’t exactly my favorite lyric but it is a memorable one and since I am in my final year of undergrad, I am feeling a little nostalgic. Missing childhood and all of the memories that I have, as well as feeling […]

This week we are focusing on the visual aspect to storytelling. So the three episodes we are watching this week are all being shown with out the sound. Tonight was season 2 episode 6 or “All Prologue.” I really like how there was no sound. It really made you focus on the different visual cues…

Photoblitz Blog post: The Speedy Photography Assignments Total= 12 stars 1. Multiply Yourself: 5 stars Blog Post: How I Procrastinate 2. Photo It Like Peanut Butter: 3 stars Blog Post: Brewing Passion Ice Tea 3. 4 Lines, 5 Dots, 1 Curve: 4 stars Blog Post: Minimalistic Ice Cream   Daily Creates 9/23/14: Make an un-cropped road sign Blog Post: […]

Just finished live-Tweeting while watching an episode of The Wire with the ds106 gang without sound!  A very different experience from listening without watching. I had seen the episode before, which helped tremendously in following the story, but without sound I would’ve wandered away from the story.  The live tweeting kept me in the Game, […]

Similar to last week, we have to do another live tweeting of an episode from the assigned episodes this week. I wanted to get a head start so i decided to start on the first viewing: Episode 6 of Season 2. I watched the episode ahead of time because that’s just the way i roll. […]

For my second Visual Assignment this week, I did “What a Crappy Font Will Do.” I decided to go with Google because their font is so well-known. I wanted to change it to Courier New because everyone always makes fun of how ugly it is. How I did it: I saved a picture of the […]

For my first Visual Assignment this week, I had a lot that I was choosing from but this one really caught my eye. Then I was going through my pictures from another assignment when I saw this one and I knew I had to do this assignment for this picture. Unfortunately I didn’t take the […]

For the Journey to Somewhere visual assignment, I decided to get nostalgic, and tell the story of the study abroad trip I took this summer. The assignment said to use Google presentation, but I decided to use Knightlab’s Storymaps. I had used this website for a previous project and it was really fast and easy. The […]

I did the Visual Assignment “Multiply Yourself,” worth 5 stars. How I did this was I simply put my camera on our dining table, set the timer to ten seconds, and took siz different pictures of myself doing different things in the living room. I did not move the camera at all, and made sure […]

9/23/14 TDC: Make an un-cropped road sign I chose to show the real cause of the falling rocks in the falling rocks sign. Credits: 1. Warning Sign – Falling rocks by Kingroyos, February 26, 2013 2. Man Push clip art from ClipArtBest.com

I made this photo for the Colorize It Assignment I used a picture that I took in London this summer while crossing the street to get to the changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace. I used photoshop, created a duplicate layer. I then used the quick select tool to select the parts of […]

For my second visual assignment, I decided to do Classic Album Makeover. While, it’s hard to say whether The Starting Line’s album Say It Like You Mean It  counts as “classic,” it was released in 2002 and could use some updating. The jeans and phone really says early 2000s here. And … Continue reading

For my third visual assignment for the week, I decided to do the Imaginary Places assignment, so I made my version of Cair Paravel from the Chronicles of Narnia. I used my own pictures from some traveling I did this summer, and used photoshop to put them together. I used a picture of Neuschwanstein Castle that […]

Redoing the Past Pose | So we cannot go back in time…. but can you recreate a pose of someone’s old photograph with them doing the same pose in the present? Make a photograph of someone holding their own old… Continue Reading →

    For my second visual assignment for the week, I decided to do the Rainbow Showcase assignment. I was originally planning on using one of the episodes of The Wire that we have to watch, but the assignment said that I should use my favorite show, so I decided that Doctor Who would be […]

I really liked the idea of mirroring scenes in the Wire because so many aspects of the show are paralleled and many elements keep showing up, and so for my last assignment I did the “wiring mirror scenes” visual assignment where I had to find two parallel scenes from different episodes and loop them together. […]

For my first visual assignment this week, I did the Triple Troll Wire Epigraph (2 stars). I took a screenshot from the episode, found the epigraph I wanted (here‘s a list of all of them), and then did the editing in GIMP. I used a screenshot of Bird at the end … Continue reading

This was a really crazy episode. A lot of things happened that we’e been building up to, like Bird’s trial and D’Angelo’s fate. “I got the shot gun. You got the briefcase.”–Omar Omar was just terrific in this episode. I love the tie (his outfit is another example of  the … Continue reading

The List: Here is the list for the Photoblitz: Make a landscape photo! Get closer and fill the frame. If only shoes could talk. Tell their story in a photo, either on or off someone. Where would we be without tools? Take a photo of your most valued (non technology) … Continue reading