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  1. bbrady

    The End is Here!

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    It’s the end of DS106! It’s the end of the semester! It’s the end of college! Today is a great day! Alright, I’ll get to the point. I completed the final assignment for digital storytelling 106, as well as two tutorials. I’ll post the tutorials first. The first tutorial I completed was for the 256 Points assignment, Read More →
  2. bbrady

    Birthdays Are The Worst – Tutorial

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    This is the second of two tutorials I’m completing for the final week of DS106. The assignment is Birthdays Are The Worst. Everyone knows that birthdays never live up to expectations. For this assignment, you need to find a picture of yourself where you look upset and use photo editing software to add a birthday hat Read More →
  3. bbrady

    256 Points – Tutorial

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    This is the first of two tutorials I’m completing for the final week of DS106. The assignment is 256 Points. Today, we have the luxury of fast computers with lots of memory and power. However, that wasn’t always the case, and graphics designers had to make due with very limited capabilities. For this assignment, you are Read More →
  4. bbrady

    Week 11 & 12 Summary

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    We’re at the end of week 12 of the semester, so it’s time for the summary of the work I’ve completed over the last two weeks. I’ll get started with the daily creates and then move onto the video assignments.   I completed five daily creates over the last two weeks. @ds106dc Remixing my world Read More →
  5. bbrady

    A Morse Mystery (Morse Code Challenge Assignment)

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    This is a five-star video assignment for weeks 11/12 of DS106. That brings my total for the two-week period to…five stars so far. I’ve been busy, okay?! Here is the assignment page. I’ll include the instructions below as well. This challenge can either be completed as an Audio Assignment, or a Visual Assignment. Inspired by a similar Read More →
  6. bbrady

    Homework is the WORST!

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    My daily create from November 13th. This is my fourth daily create of the two-week period. "Impact" font for #tdc1405 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/H5g72zYBkr — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 15, 2015
  7. bbrady

    The Chelsea Hotel

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    This is my third daily create of the two-week period. I chose Leonard Cohen’s song “Chelsea Hotel.” The Chelsea Hotel #tdc1404 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/Kz0X4pa6rR — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 12, 2015
  8. bbrady

    Analyzing “American Psycho”

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    I looked through the list of scenes and decided on the scene from American Psycho. I’ll talk about the camera work, the audio, and how the two work together. Camera Work I just finished watching the scene with no audio. A lot of the what Roger Ebert wrote about is present in this scene. Here are Read More →
  9. bbrady

    Week 10 Daily Creates

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    I completed four daily create assignments this week. My first daily create of the week was on October 28th. The prompt is here. @ds106dc Quick math game for #tdc1389 pic.twitter.com/j48QY2OS3L — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 29, 2015   My second daily create of the week was on October 29th. The prompt is here. This was supposed to Read More →
  10. bbrady

    Wacky History Commercial

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    I had to create a commercial for the radio show I’m working on, Wacky History. I chose to use Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy as the background music. I recorded my audio on my iPhone, emailed it to myself, converted it to .wav format, and opened it in Audacity. I then imported the music track. I decreased the Read More →
  11. bbrady

    Wacky History Bumper

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    I forgot to create a blog post when I created my bumper for Wacky History, so here it is!   I wanted a background song that sounded a little wacky. What’s wackier than Brazilian psychadelic rock? I used the song “A Minha Menina” by Os Mutantes. I cut off the first 15 seconds or so of the Read More →
  12. bbrady

    My Lucky Day. Thanks Nic!

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    My daily create on October 15th. This is my third daily create of the two week period. I had to write a short story about my lucky day. I chose to keep it short so I could fit it all in one tweet. @ds106dc And then Nic Cage gave me 400 dogs, a farm where Read More →
  13. bbrady

    It’s Been a Good Work Day

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    My daily create on October 12th. This is my second daily create of the 2-week period. Four more to go. I had to show my mood today in a sketch. Feeling productive @ds106dc #tdc1373 pic.twitter.com/k3D6isIK0t — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 12, 20...
  14. bbrady

    Warm Weather Favorite

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    My daily create on October 8th. This is my first daily create of the week. Sitting on the porch is an excellent warmweather activity #tdc1369 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/J4VVjg2OBV — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 8, 2015
  15. bbrady

    I’ll Trade You Escape from Hell for the One Where He’s Drinking out of a Skull

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    For my 4 star design assignment, I chose to make trading cards for the movie Drive Angry. The assignment page can be found here. Here are the cards I created. I chose to use Drive Angry because I love ridiculously terrible movies and this is the best ridiculously terrible movie to grace mankind since the Sci-Fi original Sharktopus was released Read More →
  16. bbrady

    The Vignelli Canon

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    I spent a half hour or so reading through The Vignelli Canon. I liked that the book was split into tangibles and intangibles. The organization was appropriate for a book about design. He first wrote about the three most important aspects of design – semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. What stuck out to me here was that Vignelli took Read More →
  17. bbrady

    That Time of Year.

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    My daily create on October 1st. This is my second daily create of the week. It's that time of year. #tdc1362 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/XxHYxETS2w — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 1, 2015
  18. bbrady

    Photography Tips

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    This week, I tried to follow three of David duChemin’s tips for becoming a better photography. His eBook can be found here. The tips I tried out this week were Get Pickier Change My Perspective By Changing Yours, and Create Depth. The second tip lined up very well with the photoblitz assignment, where one of the Read More →
  19. bbrady

    The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword (Apophenia)

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    My third and final visual assignment of the week is the required assignment, Apophenia. It’s a 3 star assignment, bringing my total for the week to 9 stars. The instructions were Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others Read More →
  20. bbrady

    Artsy Photo or Not?

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    My daily create on September 26th. This is my third daily create of the week. I had to create a picture in the style of Chompoo Baritone. This may be the first time in my life I’ve taken the laundry out of the basket and thrown it all over my room. My "artsy" photo for #tdc1357 Read More →
  21. bbrady

    Presenting the New iPad

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    My daily create on September 24th. This is my second daily create of the week. I had to juxtapose old and new. Presenting the new iPad #tdc1355 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/AgbKGnU8fb — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 24, 2015

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