Got my mixup assignments done, the daily creates are on my twitter(bigwilly9001) and I created a tutorial for the 6 second video assignment. This was a good week

This is a tutorial for the “6 second art” video assignment. The first step is to record your video, just pick something fun and record yourself doing it. Length isn’t a huge deal, we’re going to speed it up next, but I wouldn’t make it longer than a minute or two as then it’s just … Continue reading "Assignment tutorial"

This one was a little harder, I tried putting C3PO in the background of the terminator army, but I think he he just contrasted too much. What do you think?

This was another quick and fun one, of Easter, Christmas, and Halloween

This one was quick and fun, I just threw a picture of Leo looking happy over some oscars.

Lets see, this week I did two daily creates(https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001), and I did the comments for kids assignment. Good lord but this was a tough one, I wanted my comments to mean something, so I searched for blogs that had posts within the last week. Turns out, thats only about 10% of them! I finally did … Continue reading "Weekly update"

This is me playing the game Civ IV, a game I’ve poured thousands of hours into. I guess watching it, it doesn’t seem like I’m doing much, but I just love losing myself in conquering the world, besting my opponents and managing a worldwide empire. I put it on double speed, to hopefully pack in … Continue reading "My favorite thing to do video assignment – 3 1/2 stars"

Here’s my video for the “6 second art” video assignment. This one was fun, and once I figured out how to navigate shotcut(the open source editing software I used) it was pretty easy.

These last couple weeks have been crazy busy for me, and I wasn’t able to listen to the radio show when it actually aired. Thanks to Dr. Genereux for uploading the show to his soundcloud so I could listen when I had time. Overall I really liked the show, made me laugh even though I … Continue reading "Week 9"

So we got everything recorded finally, I think it went great, everyone sounded good, and I know I had fun doing it. I didn’t get to listen to the live show because I had work, but my professor uploaded a copy to his soundcloud, and I’ll give that a listen this week.

Well this week was kinda crazy. One of my roommates screwed up while washing clothes and flooded the basement, and I had to work til 10 almost every night. As for digital media stuff, the group google doc started out a total mess(and got worse from there), and it took me deleting all of it … Continue reading "Weekly Summary 7"

To be honest, I don’t expect or even want feedback on my own work, at least not from people I don’t even know, so that’s why I comment so little on others work. I’m just not a social guy, online or in the real world, and social media is a foreign concept to me, I … Continue reading "Commenting"

Took me forever to get into the admin area of this site, I forgot the admin url. Finally did, though. Got my designblitz posted, I’d saved it as a draft instead of posting it. My daily creates are on my twitter(@BigWillyM9001) and all my design assignments are below!

I never had Digital Media 1, so my understanding of the design elements is a little rough. Here’s my take on  a few elements. This is my hat that I’m required to wear for work(in the meat dept. at Dillons). If you look, you’ll notice the whit discoloration on the bill, which is from the … Continue reading "DesignBlitz"

With the country like it is, I may just move north. For this one, it’s pretty easy to find a motivational poster generator(I used http://diy.despair.com/)

Here’s a menu I drew up that seems to sum up my diet pretty well while I’m in college…….

This one was fun. On the website, their example was a picture of nickleback, which made me the of their song “we all wanna be big rock stars”. I figured putting that on a picture of Elvis and attributing it to Bob Dylan would be pretty fun(and I was right). Here’s the end result:

For my quote, I chose the classic one from Back to the Future, “we don’t need roads”, as those movies are probably my favorite. This one was pretty simple, just download a picture and slap on a quote. The hardest part was getting the text to show up on the image, so I ended up … Continue reading "Movie quote design assignment"

Sitting here on my computer and I just realized I totally forgot to do the update for week 5. I think I got all the work done though, all three daily creates, all the assigned audio assinments, etc. Links for all that stuff are below. I really liked this week, it was a lot of … Continue reading "Weekly update 5"

Well a good one that’s on my mind right now would be copyright infringement, and how my content got blocked from soundcloud just because it sounded similar to a song I’ve never even heard of. Other topics….. how about everyone’s favorite candy, and how they’re wrong because it’s not reeces? Seriously though, lets just pick … Continue reading "Radio show ideas"

Here’s me in 30 seconds for the audio assignment.

I love me some Johnny Cash, and I love anything that makes me laugh, so “A boy named Sue” is great song in my eyes

Here’s a little taste of my southern accent for the speech of the west audio assignment

So, I had a nice little story all done up, and soundcloud automatically removed it, claiming it was copyrite infringement. It’s under review now, and should be up as soon as they approve it(I took all the sounds from freesound.org so there shouldn’t be a problem). I’ll post it when it gets put back up.

This is my short and sweet take on a radio bumper for ds106 radio. I’m from Texas, so I just had to find a way to throw that in there!

Lets see, I did 3 daily creates this week (all on my twitter, https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001), did a lot of reading of various things, a couple of visual assignments(below), and I went out to Indian rock and took some photos that I think turned out pretty good(also below). Overall I think this week was a lot of work, … Continue reading "Week 4 summary"

I went out with a buddy of mine, and we snapped a bunch of pictures of just random things around Indian Rock(I can neither confirm nor deny that he took most of the pictures, having a better eye for that than me). Here are a few that I liked the most, and you can view … Continue reading "Photos around Indian Rock"

This one was pretty fun, the hardest part was getting a decent picture of my eye. This one is just me holding my cameraphone about half an inch from my face, which explains the potato quality. Anyone that wants to do this and is more worried about quality might try getting someone else to take … Continue reading "Can you see what I see?(3 star visual assignment)"

Boy, this one was a pain, no wonder it was 5 stars. Took me forever to figure out how to extract the frames from the movie, but you can check out the end result on my twitter: https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001

I wasn’t in the visual literacy class, so I have no idea about elements of design or anything, but his photos of places and landscaps are very desolate and often shadowed/dark, while his photos of people are just of them happy and going about their daily lives.