You know, if all group projects came together this beautifully, I might not hate them so much. Our radio group consisted of me, Daniel, Crystal, Paul, and Rob (who was thrown to the wolves into our group at the last minute), and from the moment that Daniel asked if I’d be interested in doing the ...

I AM SO GLAD THIS IS TAKING OFF YOU GUYS!! I even have plans for a challenge NEXT week. But since I started this madness, I’m gonna participate too, and this is the post that will be tracking my comments. First off though, I’m gonna ramble a bit about why this sort of thing is ...

It would probably say something like this: LFHIESHLGFHSLKDHGLJHFSLKJselhflwherf3wlieffjksldhfiewlek I HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO CAN First up, My Design Safari… These are the four images I took to capture different elements of design: unity, typography, color and dominance, respectively. I had a great deal of fun taking this pictures, all told. There are actually three ...

Well I’ve found three of them. The fourth one is probably out with that awful young man from that… that ska band,or whatever they’re calling it. Honestly, sometimes I just sit and ask myself where I went wrong. World Vegetation Vegetarian Day I misread the title of this Daily Create initially, but liked the picture ...

“Design safari.” So I’m doing a title that’s a parody of David Attenborough? Get it? HAHAHAH. God I’m tired. So let’s start with something my life doesn’t have much of right now, and move on to… Unity,  rhythm, balance and proportion The majority of buildings you come across have a certain sense of “togetherness” about ...

This week the inimitable Team RadTASTIC (which everyone spells differently depending on the day, making it even more RAD and TASTIC) met in the DuPont hall recording studio last week to discuss how we were going to pull together our rather ambitious zombie radio drama. Daniel got us set up in studio and hooked up ...

Team RadTASTIC’s radio show poster! Obviously all is not well wherever this DJ is broadcasting from… It’s the zombie apocalypse, and this is the last radio station you’re bound to pick up for a long, long while. With that as the theme of our team’s radio drama, I immediately thought of creating an in-context poster ...

Yeah. It’s pretty self-explanatory. The assignment to create a warning sign was by far the easiest design assignment from this week, but I also learned a surprising amount getting it done. Creating the sign was easy enough: I found a simple Hard Hat Area sign, drew over the original text with white and red, respectively, ...

My contribution to the ds106 Weird Book Room. It seemed like the sort of thing someone named “Paisley” would write. I love book covers. I love them so much, you don’t even understand. There’s that trite old phrase about judgement, sure, but the fact is the cover of a book (or a movie, or an ...

Meet Jond. Bames Jond. He’s a dude who knows where he’s going—namely the top of that light switch. I feel like I could have stuck a little closer to the heart of the Light Switch Art assignment, worked with the constraints a little more to create something that really used the shape and space of ...

(Considering my title is actually internal slant rhyme… well.) FINISHED! And it only took me… another hour and a half. Yeah, this week isn’t getting done on time. Great. For the Movie Trading Card Assignment, I knew I had to go for The Thief and the Cobbler, an epic animated film by Richard Williams, guy ...

That way when GIMP decides to crap out (because it will. It will.) and you are faced with the Immovable Filters Menu and nothing works even though your Task Manager says the program is running, you will not end up whimpering pathetically in front of your laptop and staring at this: I’m going to re-do ...

I FINISHED AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK. I REALLY DID.Except I screwed it up and did a general bumper sticker instead of one for our radio show because I thought you were supposed to do both. Hopefully I can do the second poster and it’ll count as 4 stars overall? Maybe? PLEASE?!? This is my ...

Guys. Guys I am about to throw things. In desperate need of assistance from the brilliant creative hivemind that is ds06 OR I LITERALLY CANNOT COMPLETE ANY OF MY WORK FOR THIS WEEK. I was cleaning up my laptop and accidentally managed to delete the “My Pictures” location from my “Pictures” library. Cue some panicking ...

So today’s Daily Create was to draw, from memory, the floor plan of the house you grew up in. I gave it a shot: That’s a closet in the upper right-hand corner, by the way. Obviously, I am not an architectural savant. The first thought that went through my head when I’d finished this drawing ...

I HATE WEEKLY SUMMARIES. I HATES THEM, PRECIOUS. Nasty, fat, stinky summaries... I think part of it is that it feels like I’m just cutting down and re-hashing all the hard work I did throughout the week, which for me is super frustrating. I already DID this stuff, I don’t wanna do it again! At ...

BEHOLD! My Daily Creates from this week. This Daily Create happened kind of spontaneously. I read the assignment (Record someone making music!) with a friend in the room, and on the subject of ridiculous things I could play and/or sing to complete it, she busted out this bawdy little ballad. I simply HAD to user ...

For the Real Life to Cartoon Collage assignment, my brain immediately brought up the words “wire bird.” A couple of quick image searches brought me to the two pictures I wanted, and then it was just a matter of slapping them together in GIMP with a slightly opaque eraser tool. Voila! Collage, iconic  images, 4 ...

I watched the most incredible TED talk last night. It was led by this super-intelligent Japanese high school student named Ami Mizuno. She was talking about the superheroine group the Sailor Senshi and how they reflect a more feminist, egalitarian and shame-free view of femininity, especially in the ways that femininity relates to literal power ...

For an assignment that I didn’t enjoy nearly as much as I thought I would, I certainly went a bit overboard with it. There’s another newsprint blackout poem under the cut, as well as my own spin on the art form. Weirdly, I think the reason I found this assignment less awesome than I initially ...

Oh man. I love the Random Album Art activity. I’ve done it at least three times and it never gets old. I actually started this assignment over because the first Wikipedia article I got was about a real album, so I figured I should try another random article. I’m delighted that I did–the next article ...

That’s right boys, girls and zombified ex-humans: we’re bringing you the zombie apocalypse in faux-real-time radio drama form. Team RadTASTIC consists of myself, Daniel, Paul, Crystal, and our newest addition, Rob! The zombie apocalypse theme is a well-explored one, and came up fairly early in our brainstorming over what kind of radio show we wanted ...

I was a little worried about completing the 20-minute photo blitz since all I have in the way of a camera right now is the crappy little thing in my cell phone. It can’t even upload pictures directly to a computer without a bit of a backdoor hack. While I know it’s the photographer who ...

… and leave it at that, shall we? Sometimes weekends are horrible, and sometimes that means even the best classes will get neglected. I apologize, but we are MOVING RIGHT ALONG (since the theme of this weekend was basically coping via songs from The Muppets) and getting to this weekly summary. Aaannd it looks like ...