For my first visual assignment for the week, I chose to make an album cover. I was given this lovely picture for my cover, which I inverted and changed in Photoshop. The name of my band in “Roman Catholicism in Kenya” and the name of our newest album is “States and all their Clans are […]

  I decided to do the “Wire everywhere” visual assignment where I had to capture a visual from the real world that is recurring in the Wire. At the beginning of episode 7 we see an angel in the flower shop and in that same episode there is D’Angelo’s funeral. I think the angel represents the […]

Today’s Daily Create – a picture using uncropped road signs I used a pedestrian crossing road sign to make a city street crossing

This week we were dealing with audio projects. Continuing on with the storytelling aspects, we went to audio. I was really hesitant at first because I wasn’t comfortable with the audio aspect. I thought it was mainly going to be about recording yourself talking as the different assignments. I quickly learned that I was wrong.…

I decided to use the Rainbow visual assignment to highlight the colors in the Wire. The point was to take clips from a show or movie that highlights the colors of the rainbow and string them together. This has been done before with the “Rainbow Port” post, but I decided to focus on episode 7 […]

I just listened to the Jennifer Ralston interview, and I have to say that was pretty cool. Its interesting to see the audio side to the episodes. I’ve only looked at it from a visual perspective. I’m such a visual person that I normally don’t think about the thought that goes into audio editing for…

Well four weeks down and I am still present! This week tested my capabilities of what I was made of and could handle. With making other commitments that would take me away from the space of using my tools to complete the assignments expected of me in DS106, I was forced to double time it […]

Over the weekend I went to Georgetown and visited the National Arboretum, a very expansive garden in D.C. I thought this would be perfect for the backyard safari photos assignment as my backyard is not interesting and the Arboretum had so much to offer. There were many different sections to the vast park: a bonsai […]

In brainstorming an idea for my take on a The Wire themed radio show I choose to approach the conscience of the listener. It is my vision that this show would address the greater implications of David Simon’s portrayal of social injustices through his artistic imagery in the mini series. Each segment would pair one […]

Week 4 A month of DS106.. This is a good thing. I should have baked a cake or something but this is special! I’ve learned so many different things. But let’s not get too sentimental because this was all about audio. Sound waves, not words. Which, if you’ve ever read my “about me” page, sound […]

For my last audio assignment I took on the reverse audio quiz. I took a song from Youtube uploaded the url to a Youtube to MP3 converted, saved it under my music file of my library, and imported that track to Audacity. Once that step was completed I went under the ‘effects’ tab and chose […]

Live Tweeting One of our assignments for this week was to listen to just the audio from one of the episodes of The Wire and live tweet it. I listened to Season 2 Epsiode 3. I had not watched the episode prior to this assignment so there were some parts I had no clue what… Read More

Something I noticed while watching the episode 6, season 2 of The Wire… The following photos are screenshots taken from the episode. As you can see, almost every time there was a large group of people- and the people, not the setting,… Continue Reading →

Because uploading to SoundCloud was an infringement of copy rights, I had to upload it right to my blog. The assignment was to pick a band and create a mash-up of what we believe to be their greatest hits. For mine I chose the Arctic Monkeys. They’ve been one of my favorite bands for years now… Read More

For my daily create today I put my favorite song into a photograph. I love both “La Vie en Rose” and flowers and thus combined them both in this daily create and had a lot of fun with it. I thought this song fit well for visual week as well as it makes you imagine […]

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I can not believe we are already a quarter of the way through the semester. Week 4 was an interesting one. I’ve never put so much thought into the audio side of things. It was tough at first trying to figure out Audacity and also it was really annoying when any music mashup I uploaded to […]

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9/22/14 TDC: Show us your favourite song in a picture. One of my favorite songs is “Silhouettes” by Colony House. I took this picture over by Trent Hill, making sure to capture the sunlight, the well lit part of the leaf, and the silhouette of the leaf. I used Pixlr to crop the photo and […]

Patent pending | Find something you really like and turn it into the kind of image you’d have hanging on your wall. That could mean making it look vintage, excising pieces, using it as the source for something totally new.… Continue Reading →

I think a “What would you do” radio show would be a fun and interesting topic to discuss. Prior to the discussion there would have to be a list of questions or situations that will be discussed. My thought was putting yourself in the shoes of one of the characters of the wire. You would […]

Oh, Daily Creates, how i’ve missed you. It’s only been a week since we’ve last spoken. So the daily create for today is showing my favorite song in a picture. Music to my ears. I was on my itunes as i looked up this assignment so i wanted to pick the song that i was […]

For my final audio assignment I did “One question.” I had to choose an open ended question, ask people the question, and record their audio responses. It was not too difficult of an assignment since our phones now a day can basically do anything you need. The question I chose was where would you like […]

Here’s My Story And It Ain’t Glory. Ah, the home stretch. I’m finally completing my final audio assignment. There were a lot to choose from but i wanted something interesting and personal. I saw the title “What’s The Story Morning Glory” and that caught my attention because really, what IS the story? I actually think […]

Yay for visual week! Although I’m learning to love audio, it feels good to be working with something this week that feels a little closer to home. For my first visual assignment of the week, I’m choosing to work on… Continue Reading →

My second to last Audio assignment was a Bumper for DS 106. I feel it is a little different from sounds I’ve previously heard but speaks to the messages David Simon addresses in The Wire. I thought of all the social injustice issues that are portrayed in the series and allowed this to be the […]

This assignment was to create a DS106 Radio Bumper. I had a lot of fun doing this. I used sounds from http://www.freesound.org/ which was the dial up and music box.I then recorded my own voice and played with some of the effects in Audacity. To get the HBO bumper I used YouTube to MP3 converter and downloading the audio… Read More

Another awesome assignment this week is to reverse a song and see who can guess it first! I thought this would be a fun little game so I decided to try it out. I first found the song, with the help of my room mate, I then tried to reverse the song in iMovie but…

Week 4: Audio Assignment #3 For my last audio assignment this week I wanted to do the assignment One Question from the DS106 Audio Assignment bank. Reading and listening to the same assignment done by another DS106er called “Where would you like to wake up tomorrow?” I thought it would…