For my second INSPIRE post this week, I shared a post by Amanda Layton. Her post Let’s Get Blitzy was her photoblitz design assignment. Below is what I wrote about why it inspired me: I was inspired by Amanda Layton’s “Let’s Get Blitzy” post which includes a bunch of pictures that describe certain concepts in art. She … Continue reading cupcakes are pretty inspirational →

the 3 daily creates i did this week were, the different sides of yourself, abstract art of your favorite moment of the past week, and the ransom note if jim groom were kidnapped. the first one was the different sides of me. For this daily create i chose to depict 3 of my different selves. … Continue reading different abstracts of groom →

  3 stars: I worked with July Laszakovits and we combined not only our characters, but also our assignments. We created a story map to depict the traveling that occurs during this story assignment that includes 10 random words and an animal of our choice. The ten words and the animal are underlined (the first time … Continue reading A Trip and a Fall →

The first post I chose for Inspire was July Laszkovits’s audio assignment post: DNA: A Poetry Reading. I was on July’s page looking for posts about her noir character because we plan on meeting this evening to work on our 10 collaborative character stars. One of our mutual friends who knew we were both in the class had previously … Continue reading inspireDNA →

House of Noir was the first radio show I listened to. While I liked the show, especially the creepy/crazy fangirl, I had a little trouble following. Most of my issues were with the volume. Some of the characters or commercials were so low that I put my volume up on high, then it switched to … Continue reading House of Noir We There Yet →

(the title of this post answers the question of week 6’s title.) Weekly Summary 7! How has it already been 7 weeks?? This week we had to complete 3 daily creates Joy  where I shared a video of 5 things that bring me joy including my adorable noir cat! (2) Lady eagles in which i made an … Continue reading Cause 7 was intimidating →

Week two was a lot more intense than week one for us. We texted a lot to try to get together, divvy up the commercial and bumper responsibilities, and figure out how to set up our show. We met up Wednesday in my apartment to add the dialogue of the script to the plot of our … Continue reading MaNOIRpulate-done →

My third daily create of the week was to make in image suitable for an action film poster by turning it orange and teal. The picture I chose was an action photo of myself shooting a reverse layup. In order to make this picture, I duplicated the original file and opened both in the photo-editor … Continue reading Lady Eagles →

This is a video of 5 things that bring me joy. I made this video for one of my daily creates this week First there are two clips of my cat who always makes me happy whenever I’m home. Next is a baby who I used to babysit, her name is Natalie and she is … Continue reading Joy →

Weekly Summary 6 Post Radio Show Progress: For our radio show this week, we came up with a name, and background story. We met this morning to discuss dialogue and more of the story. I posted about our progress yesterday, but since then we have agreed on a lot more. Anyway, I don’t wanna give too … Continue reading Why was 6 afraid of 7 →

For another post related to my character, I chose Autotune Something (1 1/2 stars), in which you have to pick something that is not generally musical and autotune it. I chose this post because i only had 1/2 star left to relate to my character and this was to fill that little gap. I also picked it … Continue reading Tune-saw →

Another Audio Assignment i chose to do this week was Make it 800% slower (3 stars). I chose this because I wanted to see if a song that I slowed down would sound as good as the one that music producer Nick Pittsinger slowed down, U smile. When I first started this assignment I was trying to … Continue reading Slow-Mo →

Sound Scapes (4 1/2) stars told us to use only found sounds in order to create a sound piece. I chose this assignment because it reminded me of one of the assignments we had done previously in this class, so I had a basic idea of how to start it. Another reason why I chose it was … Continue reading Try to escape →

For 2 1/2 stars this week, I did the Reverse Audio Quiz assignment. I chose this because it looked like a fun thing to do, and because I was curious about how some songs would sound backward. While doing this assignment, I ended up messing around a lot. I recorded myself saying a whole bunch of palindromes (words … Continue reading Can you guess this reversed song? →

Below is the bumper sticker I created for our radio show! I chose to do a bumper sticker because I like this form of promotion. They are simple and to the point, but also intriguing; they give a little more info than a logo, but less than a poster. They are a happy-medium. The picture … Continue reading Don’t get MaNOIRpulated! →

This week our group (Kendall Parker, Brianne Comden, Amanda Layton, and I) started thinking about our Radio Show. We came up with the name “the MaNOIRpulators. We texted a lot, sharing ideas and tweaking each other’s to come up with a summary that appropriately combined our characters’ stories. I’m very excited about what we came … Continue reading Progress →

1. my reflection of the vignelli canon in which I cover my thoughts on some of Vignelli’s intangible and tangible concepts. 2. wrote about my views on copyright issues 3. Created a design blitz in which i shared the art of a couple of my roommates and wrote about the design concepts of color, unity, rhythm, and balance. 4. Three … Continue reading 5 Designs-and Rings →

The built environment the Big Lebowski consists of a lot of different styles of buildings. There’s dimly lit, but fancy and clean mansions on one end, and then old pawnshops and dirty rooms on another. It is not necessarily the dirty-ness of the built environment, but some parts aren’t necessarily sparkling clean. I think the … Continue reading Lebowski →

I think the copyright law is an important aspect in the world of writing, but the digital world makes it more and more difficult for copyrighting to stay safe. So many things are available on the internet against copyright, trademark, and other laws. I know if my work were used without my consent, I would … Continue reading Stop Copying Me →

The first thing I noticed about this booklet was how many times it said “fellows” in the introduction. I haven’t heard that word in a while and it is a good word with a positive connotation to it, so I think we need to bring that back. Intangibles I found the writing on semantics very interesting. … Continue reading Vignelli sounds like a pasta →

For my last design assignment for the week, and my other assignment relating to my character, I chose ink (3 stars). I chose this assignment because I thought it would be a good assignment to relate to Edie and give another glimpse at who she is. She has this tattoo (about the size of a man’s palm) … Continue reading Edie Inked →

I chose to create a website banner (4 stars)  for one of my design assignments this week. This website banner is related to my character, Edie Waz. It is a combination of some snippets of her life. Her bar, where she grew up, some things from the stories I’ve posted about her already, etc. I chose this assignment … Continue reading Edie’s life banner →

For one of my design assignments this week, I chose Professor Groom Poster (4 1/2 stars). I am using this assignment as my “4 stars or higher” assignment in the 12 required stars. I chose this assignment because I thought it would be fun and because we had to pick an assignment with a high rating. In … Continue reading Jim Groom- Noir Detective →

In honor of the holiday, for the daily create today “play with your food!” in which we had to make jewelry out of real food,  I chose to make a ring with a heart. I used a noodle to make a double band for my ring and sliced a red apple up to make a … Continue reading Valentine’s Ring →

For the “show is your super power” daily create, I chose to be Ms. Wolverine. Right now with trying to get my wrist healed up, doing stretches, and working on range of motion and strength, it would be very nice to have Wolverine’s healing abilities. The titanium screw in my wrist just isn’t cutting it … Continue reading Ms. Wolverine →

For my first Design Assignment I chose to use a cartoon character (3 stars) to help advertise a product. This assignment because I thought it would be fun. In my head I’m always thinking of things like this, taking ideas and adding them into completely separate ones. One night, while studying, my roommate and I even remixed every … Continue reading Of Bananas and Minions →

For one of my daily creates this week, I chose “Draw a David…that David” to contribute to David Kernohan’s birthday post! I absolutely love birthdays and definitely helping others celebrate theirs! So David, I hope you enjoy my drawing, or at least my attempt at one! Happy Birthday!!!

1. Audio reflections  in this Post I reflected on the audio in storytelling. I watched the opening shots of the movie “touch of evil,” I read about sounds and film noir, and I listened to the radio broadcast “double indemnity.” I did however miss the live tweeting session with one of the radio shows. I actually didn’t … Continue reading Fantastic Four →

Audio plays a huge role in storytelling.  It is used in film and video to portray what is going on in scenes as well as the emotion that is occurring within them. In noir, audio depicts moments of hostility, intense moments between characters, gunshots, jazz music, screams, crying, footsteps, the vernacular of the period, and more. … Continue reading Listening to Mirrors →

For another one of my audio assignments I chose the Family table. This post included a dinner table conversation of your family in which you acted out every part. Although mine is fictional I think it is pretty accurate. It includes my sister Amanda, my two brothers- Tom and Matt, and my parents (me too).  In … Continue reading Shut up Tom →