I chose Haymitch Abernathy for my character to portray. Wikipedia describes him as ” “paunchy, middle-aged man” who was the victor of the 50th Hunger Games (the Second Quarter Quell), which occurred 24 years prior to the first book.[3] When he was 16, Haymitch was reaped for the Second Quarter Quell, where four tributes from each district were forced into the arena. He became an ally to a girl named Maysilee Donner, who was the original owner of Katniss’ symbolic mockingjay pin, but was later forced to watch her die. During the Games, he discovered a wall of shrubbery at the edge of the Arena that concealed a force field, … Continue reading →

These video assignments were super fun! I loved making them on my Mac with iMovie. I was used to working with Windows Movie Maker on my old computer so this was a quick way to learn how to use iMovie. Which I ended up liking better. I completed a lot of stars worth of assignments. What do pets think about us? 2* Live here! 5* 5 Second Film! 3* Room Raiders 2* This is my story 3* and My Cooking Show 3* These were super fun assignments that I shared with my whole family, even my dog! We enjoyed making them as well as editing them. It’s always nice when … Continue reading →

When I saw this assignment I had to watch the videos on youtube with this tag, I was kind of confused. I watched a video of a dad and his daughter taking shots that made my boyfriend and I crack up. It was so funny. I figured I’d do something with my puppy because who doesn’t love puppies! I love him.  

This week I did a lot better about managing my time, this online class is actually proving to be challenging, which I didn’t think it would be. My Experience with video editing goes back pretty far. I used to make videos in middle school and actually almost got expelled for uploading one to youtube. I didn’t get kid’s parent’s permission to post the video online. All I got was a slap on the wrist though. I’ve worked with Windows Movie Maker and iMovie. I recently started using iMovie because I bought a mac. I seem to like Windows Movie Maker better though. I did my Jaws movie stuff in seperate … Continue reading →

Week 9 was kind of annoying, I always feel like I’m super busy during the week so I put all of the work off until the weekend. It’s always a terrible idea. Oh well… Listening to the radio shows this week was probably the hardest part. We had to listen to our own show and another groups show. Our show was interesting, we had two of the same subjects in there because of poor planning and we did not collaborate outside of online together because of conflicting schedules. However our show ended up pulling nicely together. We used all of our bumpers to kind of mediate between all the different … Continue reading →

These two weeks have been eh, I totally forgot about doing the daily creates until the end of the two weeks because we’d basically skipped a week of class! OH NO. I did do them though Our Radio Show project turned out to be an experience. Our group took to using Twitter and Canvas to do the whole show instead of meeting up since it was hard to get all of us together at once with conflicting schedules. What a task. There were times when I didn’t see the new comments on our discussions until 2-3 days later! I guess I just don’t get e-mails from canvas when important events … Continue reading →

I’ve gotten in the habit of putting off my DS106 homework til the end of the week. I can’t do that! Don’t let me do that! I loved doing all of the design work this week. It was a lot of fun. I did all of my design assignments, The Little Caption, Bumper Sticker, Cartoon Head, Letters in Your Surroundings, Lyric Typography, and Zombify Yourself. All of these were super fun to do, I loved making Brigid a zombie on PicMonkey, I especially loved making the caption photo as well. These all made me laugh really hard. Some more than others. My daily creates were actually fun as well, I … Continue reading →

When I saw that one of the assignments was to make a bumper sticker for DS106 I got super excited. This one of of my favorite classes and I couldn’t help but make something cute/funny. I googled ‘Bumper Stickers’ for ideas, I saw one that said ‘I brake for hookers’ I though… I would brake for DS106. I stop all other work for it anyways. So The product ended up being ‘I Brake for DS106′ I used GIMP again to create this. I made a 2 layer image one layer being yellow, one black, and inserted the text. Super simple.  

I did the assignment The Little Caption. I chose a picture from the Creative Commons portion of Flickr. I chose this picture because the small child on her dad’s shoulders looks really disgruntled. The first thing that popped into my head was &#8...

I chose to do the assignment Cartoon The Head. I had an old picture of my friend George who I used to work with. We used to call him barney! I used GIMP to paste Barney’s head on George. I pasted the picture into GIMP and added the barney head as a layer, I cut off the while part and discarded it and scaled the head to fit over top of George’s. It looks a little funny.  

I cheated a little on this assignment, not going to lie. I did this awhile back… a couple years actually. I made one for myself and my best friend Ryan for christmas. We have them hanging in our rooms, his in North Carolina, mine in Virginia, to ...

I chose to do the lyrics from Go Radio’s song Go to Hell for my Lyric Typography poster.. It’s a song I frequently listen to after a hard break up. It empowers me to move on from hard times. I chose to keep it simple because the song is very straight forward. The poster itself is on a black background with white letters to accentuate the red of ‘hell’. I also chose to blur the word ‘myself’ because the song might show empowerment after a break up but the singer is still broken, faded, lost. I might actually print this out and hang it on my wall. It is a … Continue reading →

I chose to Zombify my friend Brigid because I have a million pictures of her on my computer and I couldn’t find a decent face shot of myself. Plus, Brigid is scary gorgeous as a zombie. I used PicMonkey to Zombify this beauty.   Creepy huh? Imagine waking up with that staring at you.

I chose to do a truthful movie poster about Magic Mike, a movie about Channing Tatum’s career as a stripper before he became the most gorgeous actor on the market. It’s definitely a girls movie, granted I’ve never seen it. But who wou...

This week, along with most of the recent weeks have been extremely hectic. I have been working two jobs, battling school, and trying to do dodgeball and hockey. I got all of my work done though! The photography tips were semi-helpful. I run a shistey (shifty) photography business when I can. I don’t mean it’s shady, I just make money to give people quality photos.. for less. The tips were kind of helpful, I have trouble with depth of field. I tried to incorporate some of the ideas into a recent photo shoot. It turned out kind of nicely. My photoblitz was actually kind of fun. I got my brother … Continue reading →

For this assignment (only worth 1 star) we had to over-edit one of our pictures. I tried to find a picture that showed either my whole body/face head on. This is the result… Original… And the Over-edited version….

Returning to the scene of the crime is worth three stars on the assignment scale. I was super excited for this one, I think it turned out nicely. I couldn’t decide between the two of these pictures. One is of just me, at 2 years old. The other is of my brother and I before school one year, don’t know how long ago. Per @Cogdog ‘s request, I’m going to write a letter to myself in my younger years that goes along with these photographs. Dear Younger Me, Let me tell you a secret, nobody is perfect. That is the one thing that you need to remember. Never lose sight … Continue reading →