Tonight I got to listen in on season 2, episode 5 of The Wire while live tweeting with a bunch of the class! It was actually way more fun than I thought it was going to be. (Ha.) To promote… Continue Reading →

Welllll, here is my final audio creation for this week. The assignment description is found here. But when I read it I knew I had to do it. It is exactly like my favorite scene from Pitch Perfect, the Riff Off! How they could think that stuff up on the fly was beyond me. It […]

First Daily Create : Take a Picture of a Stranger. So I meet this girl, as my friends friend; she is a complete stranger to me, but now I know that her name is Cora. She is actually the second person that I asked. The first person wouldn’t let me get a picture of them […]

“You need to brainstorm an idea for a 20-30 minute Wire-themed radio show” Thinking about the coolest thing that I could do for the Wire-These Radio Show…. I really liked how groom played the bumper of different people saying D.S.1.0.6 but put it all together, I really liked that. But something that could go on […]

Freesound I made a Freesound account! Live Tweeting On Wednesday night I listened to Season 2 Episode 3 of The Wire on DS106 Radio and live tweeted it.  Reflection to lecture Here is my reflection post to the Jennifer Ralston interview: Sound is Under Appreciated Assignments Here are the three assignments I completed this week […]

This is a compilation of 5 songs that were from Bruno Mars’ latest album Unorthodox Jukebox. These are 5 top charting hits that are all on just one album, which shows how good of an artist he is. Many of you football fans may have seen him perform these songs during the last Super Bowl […]

Very short bumper created for the audio assignment, “Create a DS106 Radio Bumper.” I first found the kind of sound I wanted on SoundCloud by searching for Creative Commons EDM mixes and then clicking around in songs to find their buildups. There’s ALWAYS buildups in EDM. Then I headed over to Freesound and search for […]

Can you guess the song? Its by a member of New Edition. It’s from 1989. Title is pets elttil yrevE

I made the above graphic using GIMP and the well-known #DontShoot image taken at Harvard University (http://michigancitizen.com/mc/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/HU-students.jpg) Planning the Project Our group (Team 1) chose to do this module as we felt like “hashtag activism” was something that has currently been contributing to the spread of news. Users use hashtags…

September 17, 2014 For yesterday’s Daily Create, “Show us a feeling!,” we had to convey a feeling in some sort of embodiment to make others understand. As I was inspired by the instructional cartoon, I decided to convey my feelings in a cartoon also. This week, I visited the Blackstone…

I remember scrolling through twitter last week and Groom posted an enthusiastic tweet about this interview with Jen Ralston. I didn’t know that it would be a full on investigation of sound and The Wire. My reflection is going to consist of how cool sound is and its major effects on sets. Sound and Actors: I […]

I thought long and hard about a discussion topic for the radio show project that is soon upon us. I wanted to wait until I had finished all of the episodes for this week to come up with my idea and I am glad I did, as I got a lot of insight from these […]

Reflecting on Jennifer Ralston’s Explanation of Sound Editing Listen to the interview below: Simply watching a show does not do the full design of the work (that is, the show) justice. When you put yourself into the role of a viewer, you tend to only view the outer layer of…

I decided to do the Audio Assignment where you tell your morning story through sounds. It was really fun and most of it was actually me getting ready to start

For today’s Daily Create, I had to take pictures of 3 different stacks of books that I feel reflect me as a whole. So I chose the things that I am most fond of: science and fantasy. I also included some old comics as my guilty pleasure.  

9/18/14 Daily Create: Create your sorted books self-portrait This is an accurate self portrait of myself through the books I have here in my apartment. I don’t really read much for fun. However, when I do, I commit myself to the series, as you can see here, I am on the 2nd book in the […]

Self Portrait Told In Library An interesting Daily Create assignment: Go through your personal library and make three stacks of books that sum up your self portrait and make a photo collage.  Easy enough to do, snap photos with cell phone and snag them off of Dropbox, plot them into Photoshop as separate layers, nudge, […]

I keep seeing what I think of as “young” themes of childlike elements recurring in episodes of “The Wire”. Maybe it’s child-like innocence? Maybe it’s an innocence that’s lost, or wistfully hoped for but never attained in our view into inner city Baltimore. My vision for an audio project is a radio show episode of […]

So I did the daily create yesterday “Show us a feeling.” At first I was like oh, this will be easy. Then I started thinking about how exactly one would draw a feeling and I realized it was a lot harder than I thought. I thought about drawing “happy” but I was like eh, that […]

I did today’s daily create, which was to create a sorted books self-portrait. I used some of my favorite books that I always bring with me to school. I was a little bummed that my photo collage options made it so some of the book titles were cut off.

…as of 5 minutes ago. Whats The Story Morning Glory? What’s your morning sound like? Tell a narrative of a regular (or abnormal) morning using the movements and sounds from getting off the bed, to starting the day. (No outside noises,… Continue Reading →

Here is my daily create! The bottom are my pleasure reading books, which also happen to be related to my job. The middle has been my life recently! Taking two chemistry classes can be a struggle. The top picture is...
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I’ve been seeing these maddenGIFERATOR images in my Tumblr stream, so I thought I’d try one with a quote from The Wire. Apparently “I tell your wife, you tell mine” is an illegal use of words, so I had to … Continue reading →

I tried to choose a song that everyone in the class would know. It was kind of popular and some might even say it was overplayed on the radio. This

I wanted to take a moment to post a few thoughts I had after listening to the interview with Jenn Ralston, sound editor for The Wire. First off– how cool is this!! So sweet of her to take the time out of… Continue Reading →

Ok so as intimidating as Audacity looked, it’s bite wasn’t at all as bad as it’s bark. I did have some frustrations with the time absorption with putting together this first audio assignment. I chose to do the sound effect story as suggested by the villain, Jim Groom! I’m sure this is very entertaining for […]

  You really gotta be happy when you pass that test you studied for. Especially when you work hard, and pass it with flying colors. I just wanted to add this picture up for a daily create; it really summed up a lot of happiness that is generated on campus (at least academic wise). Let […]

I’m not really sure what I want to do for the radio show yet. One thing I think I will definitely incorporate is in depth conversations about certain scenes in an episode. Often on the radio people are  discussing current events. I think having a “current events” having to do with The Wire is a […]

Today’s Daily Create – My relief after getting home from work and being in my favorite chair with my favorite blanket