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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Floor indicator at Kinship Landing hotelThe hotel we stayed in had a …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
