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  1. aetherbunny

    A migraine in two minutes

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    Although I had more intense, intimate stories I could have used for the Life In Two Minutes assignment, this was the only one I was comfortable putting out there. It shows, too–everything from the My Life Is True project, which was the assignment’s inspiration, hits a lot harder. I hope that at the very least ...
  2. aetherbunny

    Exit, pursued by Creeper Oberon

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    My One-Girl Shakespeare Scene ended up starring the creepiest version of Oberon ever (also a profusion of tinkly fairy sound effects). The scene I chose was from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and involves Hermia confronting Demetrius over the whereabouts of her lover, Lysander. When Oberon enters to discover that that his servant, Puck, has mistakenly ...
  3. aetherbunny

    “The teams with names always die first.”

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    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 ...
  4. aetherbunny

    Magnificent 7 (Comment) Challenge

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    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 ...
  5. aetherbunny

    The D Chord Song

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    I changed up the Make Music DAMNIT assignment a little, and instead of talking about the first song I ever learned to play (that was probably something random from a kid’s music book on the piano), here I talk a little bit about the first song I ever made up on the guitar. OH HEY ...
  6. aetherbunny

    Tumblr could articulate this feeling

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    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 ...
  7. aetherbunny

    Me and Radio WRTZ

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    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 ...
  8. aetherbunny

    Better late than… post-apocalypse?

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    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 ...
  9. aetherbunny

    I should probably just staple this to my forehead

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    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, ...
  10. aetherbunny

    The Noble Radish

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    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 ...
  11. aetherbunny

    Sketchy guy climbs wall; story at 11

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    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 ...
  12. aetherbunny

    Never trust a guy who only speaks in rhymes

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    (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 ...
  13. aetherbunny

    PROTIP: SAVE YOUR WORK

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    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 ...
  14. aetherbunny

    So much digging we’re gonna hit China!

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    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 ...
  15. aetherbunny

    HELP ME DS106, YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE

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    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 ...
  16. aetherbunny

    Memory’s floors

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    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 ...
  17. aetherbunny

    Bunnies hate summaries

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    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 ...
  18. aetherbunny

    Create-a-rama

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    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 ...
  19. aetherbunny

    Juxtaposition with feater and wire

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    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 ...
  20. aetherbunny

    Ami Mizuno presents: Sailor Moon and the Gender of Power

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    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 ...
  21. aetherbunny

    Other people’s words

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    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 ...
  22. aetherbunny

    Hit list

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    Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Behold! My list of favorite photos, fresh from Flikr (and alliterative to boot)! I used flickrSLiDR to create the slideshow, in case you’re wondering. All the photos I chose for my ‘greatest hits’ set are either images I feel represent my best photography in a technical sense (good composition, lighting, emotionally ...
  23. aetherbunny

    Coming soon on RadTASTIC Radio…

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    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 ...
  24. aetherbunny

    Blitzed out

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    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 ...
  25. aetherbunny

    Let’s just call me fashionable

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    … 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 ...
  26. aetherbunny

    Create through the crap

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    I LOVED having the chance to listen to Ira Glass discuss his early work in radio, and then hear an example of how stilted and awkward he was even eight years into the business. What he said about beginning any creative endeavor with good taste, about knowing that the work you’re producing isn’t up to ...
  27. aetherbunny

    Live from balmy Canuckistan, it’s ds106 radio!

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    LIVE with CanuckIndie Friday with @hanksoda — DS106 Radio (@ds106radio) September 22, 2012 @ds106radio @hanksoda I CAN DIG IT — Haley (@doodle_muse) September 22, 2012 @ds106radio @hanksoda This is by far the best playlist I’ve heard so far! #ROCKON — Haley (@doodle_muse) September 22, 2012 @doodle_muse #ds106radio thanks!More to come … stay tuned! — Hank ...

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