The radio show assignment was a very fun assignment to do. It made us work together to create something that was fun and interesting for people to listen to, and required a lot of creativity. For our groups radio show, we all met up to decide on our theme and organize ourselves. We decided that … Continue reading →

For October 5th’s daily create, the assignment was to find an example of pareidolia. For my pareidolia, I search google for images of one and stumbled across this one. Its a picture of an elephant, monkey, horse, dog, cat and a mouse all in one. I thought it was pretty clever of how the outlines … Continue reading →

“Find an audio clip from a show or movie outside of the Twilight Zone. See example from the Everybody Loves Raymond episode, “Standard Deviation.”” For the Teezee Reference audio assignment, I had to find an audio clip from a show or movie, so I decided to find an audio file for the dark night rises … Continue reading →

“Try to convey a certain emotion, such as fear, stress, sadness, etc. by combing sound effects. They can be human sounds, such as crying with laughter in the background, to maybe express someone’s fears or being embarrassed, or you can get really artsy and try to convey an emotion by sound effects– like loud noises … Continue reading →

To create my bumper for the radio show, I first wrote the script for what I was going to say. Then I started searching for background music for the bumper. I wanted to find a song that didn’t have any lyrics in it so it would not interfere with my talking. After searching on YouTube … Continue reading →

For my radio commercial,  I started out by creating a script of what I was going to say. Then, once I created my script, I timed myself reading it until it was at the appropriate length. Then once the script was done, I started searching for music to put in the background of the commercial. … Continue reading →

This week was all about design and making progress for our groups radio show. I learned a lot about different concepts of design from colors to the meaning of the design itself. The design process was a lot more time consuming than I thought it would because of all the little details that go into … Continue reading →

@ds106dc #tdc1365 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create because I am dynamite! pic.twitter.com/A5WSqM6QHi — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) October 4, 2015 For Sunday’s daily create, the assignment was “If you were in a toy store what would your packaging be? Show us in a photo.” After searching Google Images for ideas on what my packing … Continue reading →

During this week, I found some designs that use some of the concepts for designing.   The first design I came across was a Nike ad for a shoe. This ad uses the concept of typography which “is the visual component of the written word.” In this image, Nike tells a story to create the image … Continue reading →

In the Vignelli Canon, by Massimo Vignelli, Vignelli states that there are three aspects in Design that are important to him: Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic. Semantics is uncovering the meaning of the design. Syntactic is the discipline that controls the proper use of grammar in the building of phrases. This can be seen within graphic … Continue reading →

“Take/Find a picture of a couple who are obviously in love. Use the picture to tell a story. Give the story some background and maybe even create a dialogue between the two or tell the story from each point of view. Just give it some detail and create a background to your photo! It can … Continue reading →

“For this assignment, you get to design your very own t-shirt! Find a blank t-shirt template, then add a picture or some text. It could be a joke, a pop culture reference, a movie quote, or anything else you want.” For the “Create A T-Shirt” Assignment I decided to make a swimming t-shirt. I’ve been … Continue reading →

“Make a card for someone through an online design program.” For the design assignment titled “The Best To Spread Cheer Is Making Cards For All To See” I decided to go with a Happy Halloween card since it is very close to that time of year and I am in the Halloween spirit. I decided … Continue reading →

“Create a banner displaying your favorite superhero character.” For the Superhero Banner assignment I decided to go with Green Arrow because he is my favorite superhero. I like Green Arrow because of his look. I wear hoods every time I get the chance and I’m also a huge fan of bows and crossbows. So Green Arrow … Continue reading →

    “A common exercise in design school, take typographical elements (perhaps even the words of a story) and bring them to life.” For the “What The Font?” assignment I chose to make a pumpkin out of the phrase “HappyHalloween.” I decided to make a pumpkin for this assignment because Halloween is at the end … Continue reading →

  “Have you ever seen those crime shows that organize a case using a suspect board? Like Scandal or Blacklist? Well, that’s exactly what this assignment is. You will create a suspect board (or a board that connects different characters) to show interaction between the people. Feel free to add text, objects, and locations that … Continue reading →

This week was all about photography and how to improve our photo taking skills. I learned that you can use the environment around you to an advantage when taking pictures, and that you can manipulate the environment to better your photos. I also learned that taking a good picture is not as easy as it … Continue reading →

We were assigned to pimp up our Flickr pages and see if we could figure out how to embed a set into WordPress. To embed a set into my blog, I googled the html code for how to embed sets into WordPress. By doing this, I found a website called flickerslideshow.com that takes the link to your … Continue reading →

Throughout the week, I used some tips to help me better exhibit my photography skills: Change My Perspective By Changing Yours: Find different and unique points of view. Look down, up, lay down on the ground. Seek perspectives of lines. Look to the light. Probably the most key lesson- be aware of light that works and what … Continue reading →

What could be worse than a killer whale or a polar bear? How about a polar whale? For the assignment titles “Here Kitty Kitty” the task was to Combine two or more animals together to make it an unusual type of animal and place it in it’s natural habitat. I chose the polar bear, and the killer … Continue reading →

In the visual assignment titles Your Very Own Spubble, the task was this: “Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh—but I must acknowledge there are other … Continue reading →

This visual assignment was called  Apophenia and the task was to find something in my house. Take a picture. Let my imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head. For the object in my house, I decided to go with a razor. I chose the … Continue reading →

This assignment was very interesting and I enjoyed it since there was an aspect of spontaneity to it. In this assignment we were tasked with a fun exercise to try out our visual interpretation skills. There was a list of subjects that we had to try to capture in a photo within a 20 minute … Continue reading →

@ds106dc #tdc1354 latte art! pic.twitter.com/ybD6kg1Eyv — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 23, 2015

This week was all about one thing. Audio Audio is probably my least favorite way of storytelling when I have to do it myself since I am very nervous when I have to talk to a lot of people, like giving a presentation in a classroom. So putting my voice out on the internet for … Continue reading →

For my third assignment I chose the Good Morning Message For The Village assignment. To record my good morning message, I used Audacity. At first, my greeting was just a very simple “Good morning Mary Washington, I hope you have a wonderful day,” but that to me seemed very dull. I decided to go with … Continue reading →

In this audio assignment, I chose Text Impersonations because it seemed like an assignment that could be made humorous since I have a lot of funny conversations with my mother and sister. For example, my mom was making fun of me one day because I used to be obsessed with Crocks when I was around … Continue reading →

For my very first audio assignment, I decided to do Phone Conversation with Myself because it looked very fun but simple to do. I started by thinking of ideas for conversations. At first I was thinking of a conversation with a friend who I haven’t talked to in a while so the conversation would just … Continue reading →

Five Card Story: Construction to Inventor a Five Card Flickr story created by Adam Hoff flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by capohanka This story starts out at a piano bar at the Fan Gallery where two construction workers were talking about ideas … Continue reading →

For the Listening to Stories assignment, I chose to listen to Talking to Machines by Radio Lab. In it, they talk about the fine line between what is considered a machine, and what is considered to be alive. And about how some people are fooled into thinking that robots are actual human beings. Also, Radio … Continue reading →