Final Presentation – Impress Me!

Final Presentation – Impress Me!

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
December 21, 2021

It’s hard to believe we are at the end of the semester. I feel I’ve learned so much in this class and truly had fun learning all of it. I have a way better grasp on Photoshop than I did in August, and even this final project had me learning new things. During brainstorming IContinue reading "Final Presentation – Impress Me!"
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Week 6 Summary

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
November 26, 2021

Design Week couldn’t have fallen on a better week for me! After learning some more about design such as what to look for, gain inspiration from, and include in my own work, I was ready to go out and identify some design techniques. I happened to be going out of town the same weekend andContinue reading "Week 6 Summary"
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Week 7 Daily Create

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 12, 2021

For this Daily Create, we were to take a close-up picture of something in our environment. I decided to take a photo of my dog’s fur. She has varied coloring throughout the year, but right now she is primarily tan, white, and black. She squirmed plenty, so I was just glad you can tell what’sContinue reading "Week 7 Daily Create"
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Week 7 Summary

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 12, 2021

Most of my posts this week are strictly bland, text posts and for that I apologize. Due to some complications in our group being able to brainstorm our show together (among others of my own), some of this week is still in progress. I know what I am going to be focusing on for myContinue reading "Week 7 Summary"
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Vault 106 Logo

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 11, 2021

Originally, I was going to create a logo which could be put on a bumper sticker as well. Instead, I wound up creating a more square logo and I liked how it came out for both a logo and for a square shaped sticker. It reminds me of the band stickers I used to covetContinue reading "Vault 106 Logo"
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Audio Assignments (placeholder)

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 11, 2021

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I have not been able to complete the audio assignments for this week. Both will be used in our radio project and so I wasn’t able to finish these without knowing for sure what we would be doing. I plan to do one assignment worth 4 1/2 stars for myContinue reading "Audio Assignments (placeholder)"
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Birth of Vault 106

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 11, 2021

We have been discussing how to go about the radio show project over the past several days. I think there was a lot of confusion on how to get started at first, so the group didn’t fully come together until Friday evening. Over the next couple of days we chose to make a show comprisedContinue reading "Birth of Vault 106"
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Week 6 Daily Creates

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 6, 2021

My first daily create this week was to make “bad art”. I’ve heard it said there isn’t bad art in the same there are no stupid questions. . .but, come on, a stick drawing with no effort involved? That’s pretty bad right? For the Belt of Beverage, I made a gif of the never-ending cycleContinue reading "Week 6 Daily Creates"
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Moon VHS

by @ashstvnz

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2508, ds106, Syndicated
October 5, 2021

For today’s design assignment, I chose to create a VHS design for a movie released after 2005. The idea was to make it look like it was manufactured in the 80’s. I’m still not sure I hit the 80s mark, but I don’t think it looks modern either. I chose the 2009 movie, Moon. IContinue reading "Moon VHS"
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Design Blitz!

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
October 4, 2021

Over the weekend my boyfriend and I visited Colorado Springs and were able to find a great many examples of design. I took lots of pictures but narrowed it down to the photos and concepts below. Space The hotel we stayed in had a few examples of design elements scattered around. One of the firstContinue reading "Design Blitz!"
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You’re Invited!

by @ashstvnz

| designassignments, designassignments1750, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2021

Parks and Recreation is one of my favorite sitcoms and so when I was trying to think of a fictional couple to create a wedding invitation for, Leslie and Ben came to mind. This design assignment is worth 3 stars and asks you to create a wedding invitation as if you were going to beContinue reading "You’re Invited!"
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Bark This Way

by @ashstvnz

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2485, ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2021

I love correcting records, so this ds106 design assignment felt like it was right up my alley. For this 3 1/2 star assignment I needed to pick out some photos, personal or found photos, to use to create a “rad” collage for fictional album art. After digging through the cobwebs of my phone’s camera gallery,Continue reading "Bark This Way"
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Week 5 Summary

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 27, 2021

This week was all about audio! My first ds106 audio assignment involved reordering a musical I know. The idea was to either completely reverse the order from end to beginning, or to mix the songs around in an order of your choosing. I kind of did both. As I explain, I decided to reorder WickedContinue reading "Week 5 Summary"
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Yappy Little Trees

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 27, 2021

Bob Ross might be famous for his happy trees, but as this episode of Radiolab will tell you, the real things are more yappy than happy. First I just wanna say that I had no idea fungi and trees worked together to feed one another. That alone was pretty interesting. I also didn’t realize thatContinue reading "Yappy Little Trees"
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Week 5 Daily Creates

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 27, 2021

Today’s Daily Create asked us to replace the word “love” with Monty Python. I felt Rihanna’s We Found Love In A Hopeless Place was a great mashup for the peasant scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I used an online meme creator to complete this one. Over the weekend, I created a ransomContinue reading "Week 5 Daily Creates"
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This Is Halloween

by @ashstvnz

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2613, ds106, Syndicated
September 25, 2021

In preparation for my favorite holiday, I decided to complete this #ds106 Audio Assignment which had me mixing together different spooky sounds. I used FreeSound to find different public domain tracks and Audacity to mix them together. I focused on creaky wooden steps, ghost whispers, group whispers, spanish whispers, and something more phantom-like. I’ve neverContinue reading "This Is Halloween"
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One Wicked Remix

by @ashstvnz

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments2144, ds106, Syndicated
September 24, 2021

For this #ds106 Listening Assignment you are supposed to reverse a musical. The question is whether you can change the narrative by doing so. I didn’t think the story would necessarily change that match from simply reversing the order of the songs, at least not for my chosen musical, Wicked. Wicked already kind of startsContinue reading "One Wicked Remix"
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Shooting Desk Toys

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 22, 2021

I wasn’t able to go anywhere particularly interesting to take some pictures, but rather than use photos from previous trips, I decided to try out some of the composition tips right in my office. . . with desk toys! I have several different desk toys and decorations to keep me from getting bored or inContinue reading "Shooting Desk Toys"
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Week 4 Summary

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 20, 2021

It’s digital photography week! I have to say I was excited when I read the week’s topic. I have always had some interest in photography (haven’t we all?), but it usually was something I did with friends when I was younger or since did on my own. I definitely enjoyed gaining further insight into differentContinue reading "Week 4 Summary"
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Week 4 Daily Creates

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 20, 2021

For International Dot day, I used one of the cupcakes I’d made the day before! I considered trying to use food dye in some manner to create dots, maybe even a tie dye dot effect, however I knew this would take me longer than it should (not to mention, I’d probably end up with 99%Continue reading "Week 4 Daily Creates"
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Something Unexpected

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1882
September 19, 2021

This evening I found myself wandering around looking at everything I passed by wondering how each object might look super close up. I was trying to find just the right object (or animal, but my dog’s a bit squirmy) to take a very close-up photo which could trick an audience. This ds106 assignment was funContinue reading "Something Unexpected"
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Space (clipping) Mask

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments2560
September 17, 2021

Today, I decided to attempt my first Photoshop clipping mask based on this ds106 assignment. Did I know what a clipping mask was when I read the assignment description? Heck no. This called for a Youtube tutorial, stat! I very quickly found just the right video from Photoshop themselves. What do ya know, it didn’tContinue reading "Space (clipping) Mask"
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Jim Richardson

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 16, 2021

Today I tried to pick just a few of Jim Richardson’s photographs which I liked the best. It wasn’t easy to narrow down my choices, but I feel these each exemplify different compositional techniques. Each of these is taken from the Small World Gallery website and is linked in the caption. This photo is allContinue reading "Jim Richardson"
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On A Clear Day… in the Land of Ooo

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2722
September 16, 2021

For this ds106 visual assignment, I decided to use Bob Ross’ On A Clear Day, which I also use on the homepage of this site. Here you can see the entire painting however, whereas you only have the skyline on my homepage. The prompt for this assignment is to add some characters to one ofContinue reading "On A Clear Day… in the Land of Ooo"
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The Reincarnation of Photography

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 15, 2021

After reading Stuart Jeffries’ article in The Guardian, I’m left slightly divided. When I was in high school, there was literally no cooler aspiration than becoming a photographer. We didn’t have camera phones yet, decent camera phones yet and I don’t think any of us really expected them to evolve much beyond the grainy imagesContinue reading "The Reincarnation of Photography"
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Week 3 Summary

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 13, 2021

This week we focused on the storytelling side of digital media for our main projects, and kept things spicy with some more Daily Creates throughout the week. Watching Kurt Vonnegut define a story’s shape was both entertaining and enlightening. I doubt I’ve ever thought of a story in graph form before, but rather than minimizingContinue reading "Week 3 Summary"
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Week 3 Daily Creates

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated
September 13, 2021

This time around I did what we were supposed to do and went with whatever the Daily Create was posted for each day that I completed one. From now on, I’ll stick to this process. I definitely see the benefit of viewing what others create in real time, rather than archived submissions by people I’mContinue reading "Week 3 Daily Creates"
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The Wordy Foodie

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated, Writing Assignments, writingassignments1688
September 13, 2021

Ok. I will preface this post by saying that often when I study or do homework in general, I like to listen to various classical piano playlists on Spotify. There’s a reason that what I wrote has the tone it does and it’s no accident, though I didn’t totally realize what was happening until aContinue reading "The Wordy Foodie"
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Joy of The Apocalypse

by @ashstvnz

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2161
September 12, 2021

For today’s ds106 Writing Assignment, I attempted to leave a review of this paint set on Amazon. As I feared, however, reviews don’t go up right away anymore which means that my review of their paint set during a zombie apocalypse is now basically in limbo and will likely never see the light of day.Continue reading "Joy of The Apocalypse"
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Haiku of Champions

by @ashstvnz

| #writingassignments1764, ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments
September 10, 2021

The moon in the sky Shining bright on the water Flowers bend to wind And here I will sit Ponder with me if you please Not the sparkling stars, flying comets, or your existential questions. Instead let us ask What we yearn to know. Is this “haiku” enough yet? The wind whispers no. You mayContinue reading "Haiku of Champions"
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