Here’s my Radio Show Commercial for “Ever Ready”. I listen to a lot of radio and the majority of the commercials I hear are for companies like this one that I made up. They always have some guy with a deep “manly” voice telling you that you need to get a new heating unit, new windows, home … Continue reading Radio Show Commercial

Here’s my Radio Show Bumper I completed for my Radio Show Group! I was going for a contemporary feel for our radio show so I wanted to make the bumpers similar to those that you hear on like NPR. Not necessarily the desired effect, but it’s not bad. Audacity makes things easy so I didn’t run into … Continue reading Radio Show Bumper

I liked this week! I also feel good about myself because I did ALL of the daily creates for this week. I think design is a really interesting topic and it was clear to me that after this week that there was a lot more that goes into design than I could have imagined. We … Continue reading Weekly Summary #6

Here’s the original assignment: Cartoon The Head Assignment When I think of beautiful scenery and animals I of course think of Johnny Bravo. It’s a shame that the Johnny Bravo TV series didn’t incorporate nature into their show more so I took the liberty of doing that myself. Behold. “Hey Baby”

Don’t sleep on the Sloths this year. They’re a shoe-in for this years title. Here’s the original assignment: Sports Team Logo Assignment

I used a simple photo editing and cropping tool to make this shirt. It’s definitely not pretty but I think the idea of is pretty funny. I’ve been watching a lot of old Simpsons episodes lately, as everyone should, and so that show in particular has been on my mind. There’s a lot of clever … Continue reading Emergency Advice From Homer

I think this might be a little bit too easy to guess, but if you can’t guess it then we wouldn’t be very good friends.

This story is about two adventurous people who have so much of life left to live. They are not focused on what’s in front of them, but rather looking back at the past and enjoying their memories together. What’s in front of them has endless possibilities and they will continue to enjoy life together and … Continue reading Love at First Shot

This week I photographed some objects that I felt exemplified some of the design concepts that we studied. It was interesting to look at ordinary objects and to think of them in a way that I had maybe not considered before. I took lots of pictures, but a lot of them I didn’t think represented … Continue reading Conceptualizing Design

Vignelli’s Booklet was an informative reading and helped me understand design in a more concrete way. He talked about three major principles of design being syntactics, pragmatics, and semantics. These three concepts he noted were the foundations of design and they should be considered and almost kind of have to be considered when designing anything. He wrote … Continue reading Vignelli Canon

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The weeks done! And it’s only 4pm? That’s about 9 hours earlier than I usually submit my summary. Unfortunately, I’m not submitting early because I was being proactive for the sake of being proactive, but because I’m leaving soon to go to DC for the afternoon and I wanted to make sure I did my … Continue reading Week 5 Summary

So I know I talk a lot about the outdoors and some of my other hobbies, but one big thing I’ve left out is baseball. One of the things I’ve noticed over the past couple of years as I’ve been “growing up” has been my continuing disinterest in sports and my focus on other things … Continue reading Harper for MVP

As soon as I read the description for this assignment, I knew exactly what poem I was going to pick! I love the poet Mary Oliver. My girlfriend ( who ironically enough, took this class and her assignment was the example pictured in the assignment description) told me about Mary Oliver a few months ago … Continue reading “What is it you plan to do with your one and precious life?”

After I read the description for this assignment I immediately started looking around the room for something that I could use as the main object. The first thing I saw was a pumpkin but I had some difficulty figuring out how to make a pumpkin more than just a pumpkin. But alas, Sitting right in … Continue reading Flower Power

This week’s best of pictures are filed under my “Best of” collection. These are the photos, excluding the photoblitz pictures, that I thought were my best pictures from the week. My favorite ones are from the hike I did this week in Crozet, Va. I have an ongoing theme in my life on how exploring … Continue reading This Week’s Best of Set

My first Photoblitz was a fun experience. It’s interesting how some of the pictures turned out kind of cool, even though my goal was just to complete the assignment. I’ve taken a lot of pictures that I was trying to make “cool” before but they didn’t turn out that way. I think having some guidelines … Continue reading First Photoblitz

This week I’m trying out some new techniques with my camera. I got the ideas for the techniques after looking at a photo story post by Rob Wall that you can view below. 8 Photo Techniques from Rob Wall All of the photos that I took were from this week, except for the last one … Continue reading Exploring Photography Techniques

I look out of my window, and I can see a woman. There was once a time when I walked with this woman through the mountains and forests that now also lay within my gaze as I look at her. The moon shines bright upon her face. I thought her to be beautiful, indeed she … Continue reading The Woman Outside of My Window

The week is done! I’m usually excited for the upcoming week at this point on Sunday nights but right now I’m just glad to be done. It was a long week and week # 4’s assignments didn’t help make it any shorter, but I will say that I enjoyed myself most of the time and … Continue reading Weekly Summary #4

Oh Dear…. So there’s this assignment. I really did not like doing it. It was simple to do but its always awkward when you wait until Sunday night to do an assignment and you’re spending the night at your girlfriends house. It’s also especially awkward when your girlfriends parents can probably hear you singing the … Continue reading Big Old Girl From Carolina

Check out the Original Assignment Description to see the details of this assignment! I think everyone did this assignment so I felt a little bit more comfortable posting it knowing that everyone else had to do it as well. If you’re following the string of these posts for this weeks assignments you’ll know that I don’t like … Continue reading This jazz station will sex you up

The first assignment I completed was listed in the assignment bank as “Spooky Dialogue”. In this assignment I was supposed to play around with audacity to change around a scary voice recording to make it even scarier. I HATED this assignment because I hate video taping or recording myself in any way shape or form. … Continue reading Spooky Dialogue Assignment

First and foremost before I get into the details of this story and about HOW it was made, I want to use the first paragraph to say how much I loved this story. This story connected with me and I felt inspired and even slightly changed after listening to this story. I think for any … Continue reading “Hit The Road” Reflection

I listened to a few of Ira Glass’s Storytelling Videos and was very glad that I did. He brought up a lot of interesting points about Audio Storytelling and he really got into some of the basics of why audio storytelling can be successful and also not so successful. In his first video he brought up the … Continue reading About Audio Storytelling

This week was fun! The assignments all shared a common theme of “storytelling” and so it was nice to focus in on one topic. Here’s my more in depth thoughts of what went on this week in my DS106 world! I found that storytelling to me can be a lot of different things. I think I … Continue reading Weekly Summary #3

Here’s my album I created in the Flickr group “Tell a story in 5 frames”. The first picture is from about 2 years ago and the last was just recently taken last month. I don’t want to explain too much to give away the meaning of the photos, but in two years time since that … Continue reading Capturing a Story in Images

I’m writing a reflection on this blog post by Emily S. May, 3,000 Miles in 30 Seconds(ish) First of all, I LOVED this video. I did almost the exact same trip this summer and tried to do this very same thing. I was a bit more ambitious and tried to take a picture every ten … Continue reading Reflecting on “3,000 Miles in 30 Seconds(ish)”

In this post I’m going to be looking at the show “The Price is Right”. After watching the video by Kurt Vonnegut I immediately thought of this show because the perception of people’s happiness show is much different than their logical happiness. Like many other game shows, contestants will go on the show with little … Continue reading Picturing a Digital Story

I have the very best house in town. Behind my window, lies an ocean whose sandy beaches connect directly with my backyard. And beyond this ocean lies an island that is plentiful in food and fresh water and in the middle of the island there is a great white house who people say contains the … Continue reading The Very Best House In Town