Well its great to say that we have started and concluded our investigation with the missing Noircat. This week we started getting more hints and finding more clues to lead us to Meowdred Pierce and get down to the bottom of what happened to her. At the beginning of the week we were giving a hint … Continue reading End of the week and end of our case

Since my last check in on Wednesday we have gotten very close to finding Meowdred Pierce! While we were on William Street we found the tag and collar but what we did not realize was where they were leading us. We were lead to a very sketchy abandon building, we figured out that Noircat was … Continue reading 3rd check in ready!

This week was very productive and a great start to the beginning of our investigation. The Black Widow Agency was given the task to find and figure out what happened/ who catnapped Maggie Black’s cat, Meowdred Pierce. The gang started with the basics and went from there finding clues and evidence that went along with … Continue reading Week 12 is a wrap…

Some process has been made on our investigation since the last update on Wednesday April 8. The last time we checked in we had only the ransom note and just created our suspect board. Well since then we have gotten interviews with Groom’s dog, Daphne and after Julia found a box on the tv stand … Continue reading Cat update

So our agency was given a new case and it was no surprise that it had to do with Noircat. We came in contact with Maggie Black who filed a Missing Cat Report with our agency, the cats name is Meowdred Pierce. It was very mysterious to us when we realized that she not only … Continue reading On the case…

For this assignment http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/how-it-all-began/ I added the history and beginning of the Black Widow Agency and added it to the History section of our website : http://blackwidow.kendallparker.com/history/. You can find how we were really created if you could not guess from the maNOIRpulators which was actually what got it started. Thankfully, I had some background in owning a … Continue reading Beginning of the best thing

For week 11 it was quite fun getting the website for our agency and the assignment stars plus the daily creates and of course commenting on 10 posts. The week started with the creation of our website which you can access at Black Widow Agency. I did four assignments this week I did 2 for Web … Continue reading 11 is better than 7

I created  http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/bumper-sticker/ which was to make a bumper sign. I figured I would do this assignment because I had a catchy phrase that went with our group and I wanted to use it! I used our colors of black and red and then our black widow picture and put it in the bottom right corner. … Continue reading Don’t get bit

I did the assignment http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/buzzfeed-personality-quiz/ because I thought it would be interesting to see what character of our agency you got. Who do you really think you are or do you know most? It shouldn’t take you long to accomplish this short quiz and see which one of us mysterious four women you could be  similar too … Continue reading Who are you like?

I did the assignment http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/design-a-license-plate/ which was to create a license plate that described a character or group. What better group to make a plate for than the Black Widow Agency. I made our plate say WIDOWS because we are the widows and it would look great on one of our cars;). I created this by using buildasign.com … Continue reading Lets drive somewhere.

For this assignment we had to record ourselves having a conversation with myself; http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/have-a-conversation-with-yourself/. I did this by recording myself in two different outfits on IMovie. After I got the recordings I put them together to flow together and make a conversation . I did this assignment because who doesn’t want to have a conversation with … Continue reading Why you talking to yourself Margaret?

For this week I will not lie but I am not a fan of video, all of the star assignments went well but putting some of them together was too hard for me since I have no idea how to use this type of technology. I did four video assignments this week, yes I said … Continue reading 10 is bigger than 9….

This is my interview with our lovely professors. I mixed it up and did some from each one. This assignment was actually not too bad but I was not a fan of the whole interview scene. I don’t like people getting too noisy into my business. I just took each of the questions recorded my … Continue reading Ready, Set, Action…

This assignment was for me to tell a story through flashcards, http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/this-is-my-story/. For this assignment I wanted to tell my story about how I get what I always want. Yes, it might have been in the expense of my first husband but I got what I wanted at the end of the day. Let’s just say that … Continue reading Don’t get bitten ;)

How do you live in France your whole life and never go to the Eiffel tower? That was my thought exactly, so I decided it was time I took a trip since I now have some free time being alone and all. It was a great change of scenery and who would have thought but … Continue reading Lets go to the Eiffel Tower.

For this assignment I had to pick words that I could make a story out of and find pictures then create a video. I figured I would make something that I love most in life so I used the words 1. Margaret (I have to be included, of course) 2. love(s) 3.success 4. because 5. … Continue reading Words…. Story…. Pictures

Well if you thought you could get rid of us that easy you were sadly mistaken, The maNOIRpulators are back at it! We have decided to get together again after the last occurrence that we had at Edie’s Bar. Edie Waz, Sylvia Stone, and Julia James and I figured ds106 would not be the same … Continue reading We are back at it!

This week was kind of tough for me to get into the swing of things with Video. I really hate taking videos and speaking in videos. I started this week with my post on the radio show that we had done. Then I decided that I would do the first option for the video assignments … Continue reading 9 weeks later…

For this video essay I watched the movie by Alfred Hitchcock Notorious. In this scene from the movie it shows a lot of different camera angles which is a big technique described about in Camera Angles and Techniques video. It shows Devlin walking up the stairs with the camera angle being at the bottom to … Continue reading Video Essay

For this assignment I had to take a video and make it reverse http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/play-it-backward-jack/. I took a video of my friends kitten playing with a tennis ball and reversed it. Then I put it onto I movie and had to reverse it on there then uploaded it onto Youtube. In the video the first clip is … Continue reading Lets take it back now y’all

For this assignment I had to take assignments I have done in class and make a video of them. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/show-off/ I worked with Kendall Parker to combine our characters and make the video of both our characters. For this assignment we both took our favorite assignments that we did for our characters and then made a video. I … Continue reading I think its time to show off…

I know we made the show but actually listening too it on the DS106radio made it sound that much better! I was nervous at the thought of everyone hearing it because of the fear that no one would like it because you know everyone has that fear that they might think it is bad. Of … Continue reading MaNOIRpulators are not done yet…

For this week I listened to a show on Wednesday night called ” NOIR at night “.  The introduction at the beginning of the show was very helpful to give us a background on what was going to be happening in the rest of the show.I really enjoyed their idea and take on the radio … Continue reading Nighttime Noir

For this assignment Where do you want to go? I would love to and have dreamed about going to Ireland. I just did a bucket list for my friends Inter Varsity activity and my first thing was to travel the world and most importantly go to Ireland first! I am Irish and most of my family … Continue reading Lucky me

I enjoyed getting back into the swing of things with all the fun activities we had to do. I started off this week getting the radio show out of the way and I listened and enjoyed the one that played on Tuesday; Noir D&D. I made my own character’s Twitter account at @88BLACKWIDOW88 and I … Continue reading 8 down and counting….

For this assignment I was inspired by Amanda Layton’s Dory & Me. This was very creative and challenging and it inspired me because it showed me that you can accomplish anything you put your mind too no matter how many stars they are worth This was done very well and I could tell the different … Continue reading Dory is really inspirational :)

For this assignment I had to make a Pinterest account using my character and pin 20 post that go to my character. For this I used my character and Amanda Layton’s character Sylvia Stone and pinned 10 post for both our characters. This was not that hard to find things for my character but I … Continue reading Pinteresting!

For this design assignment I had to create an invoice for someone else and I decided to do mine using Amanda Layton’s character Sylvia Stone. I based it off my character helping ruin a mans life for Sylvia since she does not really do all that killing business. I seduced the man and went to dinner … Continue reading Heres a little invoice for ya

The radio show that I listened to this week was on Tuesday night and it was called Noir D&D. I am not going to lie to you I had no idea that it was a game until halfway through the show, I did not get the concept and or might have missed that small detail … Continue reading How about some Noir D&D?

For this assignment you had to use Google Maps to create a story and for this I not only used Kendall Parker’s character to work with I also worked on this assignment with Kendall. We did our story basing the backgrounds of both of our characters and it made it pretty easy since our characters … Continue reading Storrrrrrrrry timeeeeeeee.