Landon is an awesome dude who I am privileged to personally know. His post of this wallpaper design really inspired me in the fact that this is actual proof of his improvement in digital imaging! In knowing him, I would have to be honest in saying that he was not the most tech-savvy individual that … Continue reading Inspired – Landon Epperly →

http://www.dshargis106.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IamGroom.jpg Sharla’s Post inspired me through the sheer humor and entertainment that I have received in looking at this image of Groom. Although the Groom’s face could have been edited a little bit more carefully, I believe the idea itself is what makes the image so awesome. Never in a million years would I have ever … Continue reading Inspired – Legend of Groom →

On Thursday night, I decided to listen to the radio show Noir Not The Father. I chose this radio show mainly because it was the only night I was available during the live broadcasting, but the name itself also caught my attention. My favorite aspect of the show was the content, it was hilarious! I always … Continue reading Noir Not The Father Tweet Along →

  As joking as this Warning Poster may be, the statements made in the design are, in fact, true. Yes Mount Everest is about 29,029 feet high, and there is definitely a possibility that you might die trying to climb it. There are also no lifeguards on duty there because Everest is freezing cold and … Continue reading The Ascent: Warning Poster →

  When you create a minimalist movie poster, it only seems fit to accompany it with a wallpaper for your desktop DS106 style. Thanks to the DS106 funding, we were able to make Operation Everest come to life. Click on this green sentence to learn about The Ascent. I whipped up this design using Adobe … Continue reading The Ascent: DS106 Wallpaper →

  Movie Plot: As mentioned previously in my blog, my character Sterling James is a wanted man who’s life is on the line. In his travels he encounters another character name El Jota who’s head is also wanted. They both come to an understanding that there is only one man who can save them, Jim … Continue reading The Ascent: Minimalist Poster →

  I have decided that I wanted to connect all of my designs this week and put them all into a series call The Ascent. I chose to complete all of my assignments from the design bank because it has been a while since I could create some new designs. Because this is a series, … Continue reading Logo Design – The Ascent: Operation Everest →

#ds106 #dailycreate Are you up for some emojination? http://t.co/K0CSNbO5pI #tweko — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) February 25, 2015 My Response: When you interrupt my Fifa Match:   #ds106 #dailycreate A unique #heelconcept http://t.co/YIB2S5hD2G #tweko pic.twitter.com/8jfWgfLTaA — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) February 28, 2015 My Response: #ds106 #dailycreate What Scares You? http://t.co/jhMx2W8ecw — ds106 Daily Create … Continue reading Daily Creates – Week 7 →

Here are some of the links that I have found and commented on, once again great stuff: http://delovelyames.com/ds106/week-sevens-end-ft-vixens-ventures-the-final-cut/#comment-92 Awesome job getting everything done so early in the day haha! What a beautiful view to start the break http://rhilaluman.com/radio-show/223/ What a champ, had food poisoning but still survived through the week.   http://umwteaching4tomorrow.com/assignments/how-did-we-do-it-or-did-we/#comment-132 The ITTC and … Continue reading Commenting Around the Community →

For this second week of Radio Week, it was time to make it all become a reality, yes folks, a reality. My group met up early in the week to get the majority of our recordings out of the way and boy was it a glorious time. We wrote out all of our commercials and … Continue reading Radio Show Progress Week Two →

Week Six – Radio Days This week has been pretty hectic with the whole snow situation, especially since I am a commuter! For the majority of the week I was unable to work on my assignments because I was trapped at home without the university tools needed to complete the audio assignments. Luckily I managed … Continue reading Weekly Summary – Week Five →

Radio Show Processes   Finding a Group: First thing’s first, I of course had to find my group members. Pretty easy, here’s our lineup: Brian Goulet (Me), Landon Epperly, Jack Eaton, Christine Loehr, Shannon Grubbs and Lexy Maratellos Radio Show Ideas: We decided to do a talk show inspired by Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show.  … Continue reading Radio Show Progress →

Commentary: Here is a logo that I have designed for our radio show Inside Talking. Since we decided to go down the route of hosting a talk show inspired by the Today Show, I thought it would be pretty cheeky to create a logo that imitates such quality. Don’t Worry, no copyright laws were broken … Continue reading Inside Talking Logo →

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/reverse-audio-quiz-2/ Can You Guess The Name Of This Song? This assignment had us talk a song and reverse it for others to guess the name of the song. To do this, I just imported the song of my choice into Audacity and used the reverse effect. Any Guesses? Here … Continue reading Reverse Audio Quiz →

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-capella-with-yourself/ For this assignment I sang a verse from Just The Way You Are in my garage, recording four different times using Audacity. For the first two vocal tracks, I sang using two slightly different tones, one being a little higher than the first. For the next two tracks, I … Continue reading Just The Way You Are – A Capella →

It was a fun experience to travel around the DS106 community and to be able to see all of the awesome work that everyone has been doing. It is always interesting to see what your peers are doing and it provides ample opportunity to learn from each other. Below are some comments that I have … Continue reading My Comments Around the DS106 Community →

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/ Lyrics: “Sitting in the dark I peel my bleeding heart Laying here alone Deep in the ocean My heart sits torn In a trench full of wishes With a soul that’s too worn Just a man who is breathing Yet living like he’s dead. (x2) Pondering what to … Continue reading Saved By The One – Original Recording →

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/ Lyrics: “Midnight Driving away without headlights I need to breath but it’s too tight This stress inside of my mind So much to do but no time Places to see but I’m not free No ones here to miss me Who am I Why am I How am … Continue reading Here For You – Original Recording →

This Design Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/word/   For this assignment, we needed to describe a word by using only a specific font that we felt illustrated the word in its own typography. One font that I am very pleased with is called Bebas. Naturally, it is an all-caps font and comes with a very … Continue reading Word Assignment →

This Design Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-ds106-wallpaper/ Process? I first began this piece by placing a sky picture that I have taken into Photoshop. I then duplicated the layer and then clipped the image into the shape of the DS106 text. The next step involved creating even more duplicates of the last layer and applying … Continue reading Create Your Own DS106 Wallpaper →

This Design Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/minimalist-tvmovie-poster/ This is a minimalist poster based off of my character dossier, Sterling James. The cross design was taken from my minimalist icon assignment: As this was a minimalist piece, simplicity carried the most impact on this overall design. That being said, I just played around with the space, … Continue reading Minimalist Poster →

What a week.

These Daily Create assignments are constantly trying to humiliate me…But I still agree to complete them? Oh well.

This Design Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/one-story-four-icons/ Meaning? For this assignment, we were asked to tell a story using only four minimalist icons that related to our character dossier. As stated in my previous posts, my character’s name is Sterling James. The tornado icon represents all of the disasters that have happened in Sterling’s life, … Continue reading Minimalist Icons →

I have been stuck between choosing either Time Traveling or Teleportation as my power of choice, so I decided that I would do both. In reality though, nobody really knows what they appear like, but here is my interpretation of how they may look in act...

Imagination fuels the creation of beautiful ideas in our world today.   I could tell you how I rendered this photo, but a magician never reveals his own tricks. I may not be a magician, but telling you the process behind this photo would defeat its original purpose, so I encourage you to use your imagination!

If we had to make an introductory song to the Sitcom of our Life, if our life was a show, what would your song be? Above is my response. I tried to make it as cheesy as I possibly could and I even improvised the lyrics along with the rap. (excuse my t...

Wow where to begin? Audio week has been pretty crazy as it was a form of media that I have not been too involved in. It placed many challenges for me while I was in the process of completing each assignment but even then they were all very entertaining. My favorite part of this week had … Continue reading Weekly Summary – Week Four →

Here are some ideas I have for a 20-30 minute radio show: Fictional News Emergency - I always thought it would be entertaining (not just for the audience, but for myself) to reenact an emergency news situation and to say the famous lines “This Just in!…” and then rant about something completely random while pretending … Continue reading Radio Show Ideas →