After two long weeks of the investigation of NoirCat, we finally found her. However, to this dismay of Maggie, NoirCat will not be returning. We at BWA took on NoirCat as a client and helped her disappear with a new identity after finding her and getting the scoop on why she left to begin with. … Continue reading Case Closed

Yet another few days have passed and our investigation is still under way. We have yet to actually located NoirCat but we did have a close call at the Cat’s Closest down on Caroline street, this location came in from an unknown source. In the process we came across some interesting evidence such as Meowdred’s … Continue reading Just another day in the life of BWA

This week has actually been a lot of fun trying to piece together the evidence and create a story behind the evidence that we have. Me and the girls met to discuss all of our ideas and everything seemed to flow smoothly while we all agreed on our plans of action! There’s not much we … Continue reading BWA at your service

After receiving our case file from the Noir106 crew, we, The Black Widow Agency, met to discuss our take on the case and how we were going to handle the situation. We decided our first plan of action was going to be to actually visit some of our suspects: Daphne and Groom. This is where … Continue reading Collecting the Evidence!

I was ecstatic when Jewel called and informed me that we had been given an investigation involving the mysterious disappearance of Meowdred Pierce. Meowdred Pierce a.k.a. NoirCat mysteriously disappeared from Maggie Black’s care and Ms. Black decided to file a case report on her beloved cat’s disappearance. Through some very superficial evidence gathering, we, the … Continue reading Investigation Underway!

This was a pretty light week, you know considering we’re forming agencies that are going to follow us for the rest of our DS106 Careers and all! I’m so glad I got back with my girls and reunite to form an official agency! Our agency is called BWA (Black Widow Agency) consisting of our Founder, … Continue reading Weekly Report!

Characters Resume – 3 stars For this assignment, I just compiled together all of my achievements. It might sound a little braggy but after all, it is a resume, you’re suppose to put yourself on a high horse. I used Microsoft Word and picked a resume template and saved it as a webpage. Check me … Continue reading Sylvia Resume

1. Let’s Drive Somewhere 2. I’d like to apply 3. Arnold Winter’s Pinterest 4. Birthday cards and book covers 5. Black Widow Baby 6. Be mine, all four of you, please 7.  John’s Resume  8. Design to Shock 9. It wasn’t a joke 10. ElephantZebraDog

Your Pinteresting Character – 2 stars For this assignment, I made a pinterest! This is by far the coolest invention ever and I truly believe that every female should have one.. I hope this doesn’t give away too much about my job though… OH well! Check out my pinterest and learn more about me!

Buzzfeed Quiz Assignment – 3 stars For this assignment, I used my gmail account ([email protected]) to create a Buzzfeed account, which if you don’t know what Buzzfeed is…definitely check it out in your free time! I used the make quiz option to make a quiz on which member of the BWAgency you are. Figure it … Continue reading Which MaNOIRpulator are you?

Daily Create #1 – Happy Birthday, Black!  For this daily create, I found a picture of a black cat off of the internet using a google search. I found the fiercest noir cat I could find and using picmonkey.com to overlay the wording and little graphic! Daily Create #2 – Kindle Cover For this, I … Continue reading Two Dailies

2 stars – Business Card for the Agency With the new agency developing, we’ve been trying to get set up as best as we can while making everything super official. Nothing too fancy but I’ve been getting into making the designs and getting the word out about our agency. Say, if you need someone to … Continue reading So Official

This week has been absolutely crazy! So much to do, so little time! Let’s do a quick run down of all of my ingeniousness this week. So many Video assignments Zoolander-esque Video Assignment – 3 stars A Letter to My 16 Year Old Self – 4 stars Today it’s all about me – 2 stars … Continue reading Switching Over, Over.

This is my interview with the board of the agency Black, Bond, and Burtis. Oh yeah, I guess there is Groom too but we did not get that far in the interviewing process. I don’t like being grilled with questions.. Hopefully one day the media will hop off my case but for now, I’ll remain … Continue reading Meet Me, Sylvia Stone

3 stars – Zoolander multiple Faces For this assignment, I thought about myself and what kind of faces I tend to make on a day to day basis. This was pretty easy given that I have very unique facial expressions! I hope you enjoy. I used photobooth to record my lovely facial expressions.

Daily Create #1 – An Inspirational Poster For this daily create, I chose one of my favorite pictures of my dogs and added a quote that pertained to dogs and life, I then used the picture and edited it on PicMonkey to overlap the words to the picture. Daily Create #2 – Tree Art For … Continue reading Daily Creations!

1. Interstellar Trailer  2. Daily Creates as Lilah 3. Spencer’s Group  4. PSA for Robber 5. Tree Art, Inspiration, & Batman 6. An Interview 7. Marcus & Layla 8.  Life Matters Daily Create 9. I want to be Me!  10. We’re back at it!

4 stars – Dear 16 year old Me For this assignment, I decided to cinematically write a letter to my 16 year old self. It was a different time back in my younger years and looking back I made a lot of mistakes but, hey, you live and learn right? For this I used iMovie … Continue reading Letter to Little Ole Me

2 stars – Today it’s all about me As the name suggests, this is a video talking alllll about myself. Yep, that’s right it’s all about me and my likes about myself… perhaps even a confession.. shh… it’s top secret. For this I used my agency laptop and recorded myself using recording tools such as … Continue reading Tooting my Own Horn

As the name of the post suggests, I, Sylvia Stone, and my fellow MaNOIRpulators: Edie Waz, Margaret Pinualt, and Jewel James will be returning to make a debut once again! We are all very excited about this decision to reconnect and hope we can woo the DS106 world once again with our charm. Let’s be … Continue reading The Return of the MaNOIRpulators

3 Stars – Dream Vacation Obviously, every stylish, vivacious, and classy broad like me needs to go on crazy vacations every once in a blue moon. My personal dream destination would to be to get out of this crazy Chicago town and go West to somewhere warmer! For this assignment, I used some pictures of … Continue reading Ultimate Dream Destination

3 Stars I thought using some meaningless words would not get the point across properly until I started thinking about myself “WWSSD” aka what would Sylvia Stone do? Then I got to thinking about my girls, my maNOIRpulator girls and our shenanigans. So the words I picked were (1) Crazy (2) Men (3) Get (4) … Continue reading Little Words, Big Meanings

This week was really fun! I actually enjoyed doing the video work. Especially actually being about to watch movies and reading about the cinematic techniques. Anyways.. Let’s see how it went! Radio Listen along and Tweet along As always, it was a pleasure to be able to listen and tweet along to the radio shows this … Continue reading Time flies when you’re having fun – Week 9!

4 stars For this video assignment, I decided to do a tutorial for opening a lock in 30 seconds (or less!). I was successful at completing this task. To record, I used my photobooth app on my laptop and moved them over into iMovie so I could do overlapp...

4 stars For this Video Assignment, I did the character description assignment where you’re supposed to use found video clips to compile a video that would describe the personality of a character. I put a little twist on this assignment and used Jessica Rabbit to portray the character of my Noir Character Sylvia Stone! Sylvia … Continue reading Jessica Rabbit as Sylvia Stone

First off, I’m going to start this by apologizing for the amount of um’s and hair flips you’re about to witness. For this assignment, I decided to go ahead and pick a scene from the movie “A Postman Only Rings Twice”. My first thought was to go ahead and YouTube the clip of the movie … Continue reading Essay… in the form of Video

Aw, this was a fun run with radio shows but unfortunately even good things have to come to an end. Like I’ve said in many of my posts before, I was really concerned when I saw that there was a group project for an online class! It threw me for a bit of a loop. … Continue reading Final Frontier of The MaNOIRpulators

This week for the radio show listen along, I listened to both Noir at Night and Silk Road. I know we’re technically only supposed to discuss one of them but I feel really compelled to discuss both of them because after all I did listen to BOTH OF THEM! For Noir at Night, I thought … Continue reading Radio Listen, Take Two

Daily Create #1 – Step goals For this daily create, I thought of my biggest goal that I want to achieve in the near future and it is actually to get into veterinarian school! It’s been a childhood dream of mine as far as I can remember. So I just took some sharpies and made … Continue reading I’m Making Art, Damnit.

This week was pretty hectic especially since I did not keep up with all of my assignments during the week as I usually like to. However, I still thought everything from this week that I did turned out pretty well, let’s check it out! Daily Creates #1 – The things that make you LOL video … Continue reading Week 8 Coming to a Close