Big Mac Meal in a Foreign Accent

Big Mac Meal in a Foreign Accent

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments383, Syndicated
October 9, 2019

This assignment I chose to do is called May I Take Your Order? where you must create a recording of yourself ordering something off of the menu at McDonald’s in a foreign accent while also being very picky. I chose to do the Big Mac Meal because it was the first thing that popped into […]
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Jelly Shoes Radio Commercial

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments2479, Syndicated
October 9, 2019

This assignment I did is one I created called 80’s Product Radio Commercial where you must create a 30-45 second radio commercial for a product from the 80’s and add some background music and/or sound effects to make it sound like a real radio commercial. I created this assignment for the purposes of creating content […]
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80’s Radio Show Bumper

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments36, Syndicated
October 9, 2019

This assignment I did is called Create A Ds106 Radio Bumper where you must create a 15 to 30 second radio bumper for the DS106 Radio. I did this assignment to create a bumper and content for my group’s radio show project. My group’s radio show is called “80’s Television Power Half Hour,” so I […]
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Weekly Summary: Week 6

by @butterball_4567

| Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
October 3, 2019

I really enjoyed learning about design storytelling this week. It was cool to learn how design is like a communication, in that, if your audience does not understand your message or end goal of your design, then you failed in your design and nothing else matters. This also showed me how much effort and time […]
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Design Blitz

by @butterball_4567

| designblitz, Other, Syndicated
October 2, 2019

I found the design blitz to be difficult because it was hard for me to find already made designs that inhabited these different design concepts (color, typography, minimalism, etc.). However, all of the designs I found ended up being posters on campus, so here is what I found and why each one is representative of […]
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On March 31st in History…

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments60, Syndicated
October 1, 2019

This assignment I chose is called On This Day where you must design your own Google-esque image by using either your first name or last name, the colors of Google letters, and integrate a theme that you find by searching “your birthday (day and month only) in history” online. For this assignment, I found that […]
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Honda-Walmart Merger

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments834, Syndicated
October 1, 2019

This assignment that I chose to do is called The Ultimate Merger where you must take two companies and merge their logos together. For this assignment, I just randomly chose two companies off the top of my head, and I chose Honda and Walmart. This actually turned out great and really funny in my opinion […]
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Apple vs. Samsung

by @butterball_4567

| #DesignAssignments1445, Assignments, designassignments, Syndicated
October 1, 2019

This assignment I did was called A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing where you must pick your favorite company and recreate their logo with their competitor’s logo design. For this assignment, I chose to do Apple because that is my one of my favorite companies. Therefore, that meant that I had to recreate their logo with […]
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A Scene From The 1980s

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments1111, Syndicated
October 1, 2019

This assignment I chose to do is called Change of Scenery where you take people from different pictures and fit them into a new change of scenery. For this assignment, I chose to use the scenery of New York City in the 1980s to tie into the 80s theme, and I took myself out of […]
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Design Thoughts

by @butterball_4567

| designthoughts, Other, Syndicated
September 30, 2019

After reading The Vignelli Cannon by Massimo Vignelli, I learned that design is like communicating. The viewer’s understanding of the meaning or end goal of the design is of most importance because if the audience does not understand the design, then all else fails and nothing else matters. Therefore, design is carefully thought out and […]
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Weekly Summary: Week 5

by @butterball_4567

| Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
September 27, 2019

This week was very interesting to me. I enjoyed getting to learn all about audio and sound effects. This week helped me to understand the importance of audio and sound effects and their profound impact on how a story is told. I came to realize how much sound effects help progress and drive a story. […]
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DS106 Radio

by @butterball_4567

| ds106radio, Other, Syndicated
September 26, 2019

Listening to the ds106 radio this week has been great. This has really shown me the unique and important art of audio storytelling. It has also shown me how dialogue can be elevated just by adding other produced works and audio clips to transport yourself into the action. This is definitely eye opening for me […]
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80s Synth Song

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments970, Syndicated
September 22, 2019

This assignment I did is called Sound Scapes where you must create a sound piece out of found sounds. So, I decided to use GarageBand on my iPhone because it is very easy to use and you can easily pick from lots of different sounds to create whatever music you want to create. Therefore, I […]
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Get Scared

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audioassignments1418, Syndicated
September 22, 2019

This assignment I chose is called Spooky Sounds where you must combine scary sound effects together for at least one minute in length of audio to make a scary track. I got all of my sound effects for this assignment from BBC Sound Effects. This assignment was not to difficult other than the fact that […]
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An 80s Tragedy

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Assignments, Syndicated
September 21, 2019

This assignment is called Sound Effects Story where you must create a story only using sound effects. So, I decided to create a tragedy set in the 80s to go along with the 80s theme. I got most of my sound effects from BBC Sound Effects, but there was one other I needed that I […]
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DS106 Radio Bumper

by @butterball_4567

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, Other, radiobumper, Syndicated
September 21, 2019

Below is the ds106 radio bumper that I created for the assignment Create A Ds106 Radio Bumper where you create a radio bumper for the ds106 radio. For this, I recorded myself saying the content for the radio bumper and then I added in some royalty-free background music that I got from Bensound. Then, I […]
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Radio Show Ideas

by @butterball_4567

| #radioshowideas, Other, Syndicated
September 21, 2019

I am excited for this radio show project. It seems really interesting and something way out of my comfort zone. A really cool idea for the radio show would be to create a narrative of something that happened to you in present day, and then recreate it as if it happened back in the 80s. […]
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Audio Reflection

by @butterball_4567

| #audioreflection, Other, Syndicated
September 21, 2019

Audio storytelling is a very interesting concept that I have never really thought about before. However, if there was never any sound in the background, everything would just seem bland. After listening to “Moon Graffiti,” I realized the importance of audio storytelling. Certain sounds elicit some type of emotion in us, and they tell us […]
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Weekly Summary: Week 4

by @butterball_4567

| Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
September 20, 2019

This week was somewhat challenging for me because I never usually go this into detail with techniques when taking or creating photos. Most difficult task this week was the Photoblitz because you only had 20 minutes to capture all the was required for each of those seven tasks, but I made it through. It challenged […]
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My Dog Sushi

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1729
September 18, 2019

This assignment I chose is called Your Love For Your Pet (Or Any Other Animal That You Love) where you have to make a photo collage of your pet or any other animal that you love. I chose to use pictures of my dog, named Sushi, who is a Yorkillon (Yorkie Papillon). I used pictures […]
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The Figure In My Eye

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1892
September 18, 2019

This assignment that I chose is called Can You See What I See were you must find or take a picture of an eye and take another photo and overlay it onto the eye so it looks like a reflection in the eye. For this assignment I chose to take a picture of my own […]
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A New Subway Logo

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments704
September 18, 2019

This assignment that I chose is called What A Crappy Font Will Do where you must choose a well known logo and remix it by changing the font. I chose to do Subway’s logo, and I chose an 80s style font called Streamster to go along with the 80s theme. I typed “Subway” into word, […]
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9 to 5 Barcode

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1986
September 18, 2019

This visual assignment I chose is called Create A Movie Barcode where you take a movie, convert the file into image clips, and input those image clips into a image generator that turns them into a barcode. This assignment seemed really cool, and I chose one of my favorite movies, 9 to 5, and it […]
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Photoblitz

by @butterball_4567

| #photoblitz, Other, Syndicated
September 17, 2019

The 20 minute photoblitz was a fun assignment that really tested my creative skills in trying to find ways to make photos to fit these requirements. It was no easy task for me, but it pushed me, and that was good. Here were my seven tasks. Square is hip! Lose the rectangle. A photo with […]
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80s Photo Techniques

by @butterball_4567

| ds106photography, Other, Syndicated
September 17, 2019

For looking at photo techniques, I chose to use the article 1980s Music and Pop Culture Photography. Below is one of the photos from the article. Right off the bat, I could identify contrast because it was a black and white photo, and that therefore made somethings stand out more than others like the hat, […]
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Photo Reflection

by @butterball_4567

| Other, photoreflection, Syndicated
September 17, 2019

My photo taking skills have always been pretty much the same. Currently, I do not take a lot of photos, and the ones I do take are of either the occasional nice scenery that I see outside or of my dog “Sushi.” I do not have a particular approach to taking photos other than to […]
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Weekly Summary: Week 3

by @butterball_4567

| Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
September 13, 2019

This week was a little challenging for me because it required a lot of writing, and I don’t enjoy writing that much, and it is not one of my strong suits. However, I do enjoy reflecting, and this week involved a decent amount of reflecting, so I enjoyed that. My most challenging task I had […]
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A Trip To Cabo

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1716
September 9, 2019

This writing assignment I chose is called Welcome to Paradise! where you have to write about your dream vacation, where you would go and why, and who would you bring with you. One of my dream places to visit is Cabo San Lucas in Mexico because I have never left the east coast before other […]
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The 5 Second Rule

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2303
September 8, 2019

This assignment I chose is called A Snapshot of a Story where you have to create a haiku about your favorite myth, legend, or tale. I chose the 5 second rule because its a very funny rule that many people follow sometimes, myself included, even though it is completely false. Here is my haiku on […]
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Steve Jobs: An Inspiration In The 80s

by @butterball_4567

| Assignments, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2084
September 8, 2019

This writing assignment I chose is called Who Inspires You where you have to choose someone who you admire or who inspires you and write about them and why you admire them or why they inspire you. I chose to write about Steve Jobs because he is a very inspirational person to me. Also, I […]
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