This week’s assignments were created with the radio show in mind, and so I made a bumper for our show, as well as a commercial for the cookbook I am trying to incorporate into my segment. These were pretty fun to make in Audacity, and I used music tracks from …
I am so excited and happy about where my group is going, but can I also say that I am feeling a little overwhelmed at how to do my bit? I have chosen time management and microwave cooking. The time management bit, I am beyond ready and prepared for. The …
Me: Violet, what are you telling the cats?
Violet: They just asked me to help them come up with a new password!
Me: well, what did you say?
Violet: pspsps#ds106 #tdc3555 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/at5RTkBgqb
— [email protected] (@1kid3pets1hub) October 6, 2021
Fig, you remind me every day to see the humor …
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Wow! What a week. I sincerely enjoyed this week’s work. I got a head start this week, unlike previous weeks, and jumped right in on the Daily Creates. I also got a few assignments done earlier that I had been able to in weeks past, which was a refreshing …
One thing that struck me, both from the videos and the Vignelli reading, were how important typeface is to design. It seems pretty simple when you first begin to think about it, but as you think deeper about the meaning, motivations, balance, contrast, size, etc. that surrounds the typeface of …
Aside from the fact that there is no fruit known to mankind that is colored the way this cereal is, the aim of the colors of the word “fruity” is to make the purchaser know that there is, indeed, multiple flavors of fruit inside this box. …
A phrase I heard my grandma say about me and my cousins was “So and so is just growin’ like a weed” and basically meant that they were growing up so fast, you couldn’t hardly keep up with them. I lovingly say this about my own son now, and I …
My amazing little lion cat Basil, who is as gentle and noble as any housecat could possibly be, sits and looks out at the yard. I can only imagine that he is hoping and wishing for the courage to one day venture out and attack one of the birds or …
Aside from the fact that The Princess Bride is among the most beloved films of all time, this scene is one that is very special to me and my husband. We both grew up watching this fantastic film, and we love these characters sometimes more than we care to admit. …
The VOGUE summer special children’s edition cover is ready to be sent off for proofing! I made sure that they would have enough room to add the title page headlines and themes they want, but once they let me know what those are, I will go ahead and add them …
So, every week I struggle to blog come the end of the week. My strategy has been to work on assignments all week, but then do most of my blogging all at one time, usually on Friday when I have the afternoon available. Well, this week I thought I might …
First, let me start by saying that this week was hard for me. I have never done any sort of audio editing, and I found this to be very intimidating at first. You know what that means: YouTube is to the rescue once again. I really relied on the additional …
As our radio show will have 20 to 30 minutes to talk about one thing, and it should relate to our course theme, I am thinking how much fun a craft activity or cooking show might be. It doesn’t have to be very complicated, but I think that creating something, …
One of the things that makes watching Julia Child such a joy, is her ability to admit defeat, and own mistakes in the kitchen. She actually celebrated them, which would never happen with Giada. Similar to Bob Ross, and the idea that mistakes are only mistakes if you label them …
Just an ordinary afternoon, or so you think. A woman who is just making herself a cup of tea is disrupted by the phone, and after opening her door to see what is happening, she realizes there is a riot outside her door.
I used Audacity to create this story, …
Flamingo Plays Bingo by Russell Punter, is a book that I grabbed off the bookshelf in my son’s room. I knew it would have some characters to work with, and that it wouldn’t be too long of a story so that I would have the opportunity to read the whole …
I listened to the story and commentary about Three Skeleton Key, and I was blown away by the new lens I was listening to this story with. What surprised me I think, was the level of importance to the background noise, and how much purpose each sound within the story …
I know that I am not the world’s best whistler, but can someone please help me get this sound out of my head? I have been stuck on it for a while, and can’t remember the name of the song so that I can listen to the whole thing, and …
Don’t let my choice of title scare you away, or think that I did not in any way like this story. I thought it was fascinating! Let me explain. There are events or moments in history that have 50/50 outcomes possible; where things could go really well or disastrously. We …
I knew immediately, when this I read about this assignment, that I wanted it to be a little bit quirky, a little bit public radioish, and above all fun! I listen to NPR on my phone and in the car almost every day, and some of my favorite shows have …
Can I just take a moment to say that this week’s daily creates were a little more challenging for me to complete? I struggled with choosing which ones I wanted to do, because in the moments in between classes I was way under prepared for the amount of creativity they …
I know that last week I said it was a week of “Oh, Mylanta’s” and that I was busy as a three legged cat in a sandbox, but whoa was that an understatement. I knew this time would come; when the classes begin to get challenging, and things start to …
I just got home from taking one of the animals to the vet, and I was tired. My nerves were tired. My body was tired. Mostly though, my mind was tired. The end of the week, and I was almost done. I pick up a kitty and begin to destress, …
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Poor Pipet was just doing what any loyal lab would do. If you don’t know who Pipet was, they were the black lab (ish) dog that was in the earlier part of the movie Jaws. Pipet was fetching …
Searching throughout my house for something that could be used for this assignment – which I thought would be pretty easy – led me to realizing that I had a Bob Ross in my refrigerator! The assignment was to find anything in the house, and let your imagination create an …
The alarm clock goes off at 5:45, and unlike anyone else in my house, my eyes pop open, and I jump out of bed. Do I like doing that? NO! Do I also like being the first person to wake up so I don’t have to socialize, YES! I get …
I took this photo many years ago. To be honest, I do not know this little girl’s name anymore. She was an identical twin who was the daughter of my friend’s cousin, who gave me permission to take photos of her daughter since she was so interested in my camera. …
Wrapping up the fourth week of the semester, and boy oh boy was it a busy one! Multiple presentations/projects/essays due this week. It’s that time we are all familiar with, when the real work begins, and so too does the pressure. I found a brief respite though, in my daily …
