Cool Cat Cruisin’ License Plate ??

Cool Cat Cruisin’ License Plate ??

by @CarbonCarmen725

| designassignments, designassignments1645, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Assignment: Design A License Plate Design your own license plate! You can use an online site, alter a preexisting photo, or make your own from scratch. Make the license plate describe either your or a character. Your license plate design should have two part to it: designing the background for the plate and designing the Read More
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Fun BUT Difficult

by @CarbonCarmen725

| designassignments, DesignAssignments358, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Assignments: Our Story/FourIcons This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long standing popular ds106 assignment. The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your blog post up but do not give Read More
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Simplicity At Its Finest

by @CarbonCarmen725

| designassignments, DesignAssignments43, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Assignments: Minimalist TV/Movie CoversCreate a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography. I enjoyed making this assignment. Honestly, any assignment where I can express my love for The Lion King makes me happy. Once again, the choosing the right picture took a while but I am happy Read More
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5th Weekly Summary!

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

I reaaaalllly enjoyed this weeks audio assignments. It was so much fun to experiment with many sounds. I did try to limit myself with how many sounds I got because I feel that these limitations can help, creatively. There were one audio assignment that I wasn’t particularly happy with but I did learn a lot Read More
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Eerie Regularity

by @CarbonCarmen725

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

Assignment: Sound Effects Story Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. Another example (by a UMW student): http://ds106.us/wp-content/audio/audio_story.mp3 This was probably my least favorite audio assignment Read More
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Daily Create 2/14/20

by @CarbonCarmen725

| dailycreates, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This was an adorable Daily Create. I really enjoy the art DC’s because I can use my awful drawing skills to draw! When I start these DC’s I usually draw on regular notebook paper (rough draft) and then I upload it on my computer and into a drawing program (I used medibang) to complete the Read More
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Social Anxiety Through Simple Sounds

by @CarbonCarmen725

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments1551, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

Assignment: Emotion Through Sound Try to convey a certain emotion, such as fear, stress, sadness, etc. by combing sound effects. They can be human sounds, such as crying with laughter in the background, to maybe express someone’s fears or being embarrassed, or you can get really artsy and try to convey an emotion by sound Read More
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Radioooo Bump Bumper

by @CarbonCarmen725

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, radiobumper, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

My very first Radio Bumper! It was so fun to make but I also hated replaying my own voice. There is something very cringy about that….though I think I became numb to it after a while haha. Anyways please enjoy my creation!!! Used: https://freesound.org/people/joshuaempyre/sounds/251461/ TY! Read More
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Daily Create 2/13/20

by @CarbonCarmen725

| dailycreates, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

When I read today’s Daily Create, I laughed. As someone who doesn’t watch a lot of movies or shows I didn’t have many actors to insult….the one actor that I really love is Leonardo DiCaprio and I was going to insult him but I couldn’t. I don’t think there is anything wrong with him…other than Read More
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A Bit Creepy

by @CarbonCarmen725

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments1418, Syndicated
February 13, 2020

Assignment: Spooky Sounds For this assignment, make an audio track using found sounds or your own recordings that is creepy, spooky, scary, halloween-inspired. Make it more than a minute long so we have time to get scared! So! I was browsing the audio assignments and I saw one that caught my eyes. It was the Read More
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Daily Create 2/12/20

by @CarbonCarmen725

| dailycreates, Syndicated
February 12, 2020

This Daily Create was very interesting. I never realize the smell of my surroundings unless it’s something I’ve never smelled before or if it’s unusual for that smell to be in a particular place. For example, if I was at a restaurant I would be very uncomfortable by the smell of rotten food or if Read More
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4th Weekly Summary

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 7, 2020

I started off the week very poorly and I ended it quite poorly. I have been stressed out over exams, homework, and personal issues so I unfortunately wasn’t able to accomplish what I was hoping to accomplish, not just in this class but in all my other classes. Of course, falling behind builds to the Read More
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Characters Always Turn Out Sad..oh well

by @CarbonCarmen725

| FanficAssignments, FanficAssignments1022, Syndicated
January 31, 2020

Creating Your Own Character: Create a character covering all aspects of them. Write about a paragraph of backstory, cover their appearance, personality, likes, dislikes, and what their place is in their world. 5 star http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creating-your-own-character/ For this assignment I was supposed to make my very own character/ I was going to generate a basic character …
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80’s T-shirt Vibing

by @CarbonCarmen725

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1767, Syndicated
January 31, 2020

Create A T-Shirt: For this assignment, you get to design your very own t-shirt! Find a blank t-shirt template, then add a picture or some text. It could be a joke, a pop culture reference, a movie quote, or anything else you want.2.5 Starshttp://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-t-shirt/ I decided to choose this assignment because I thought it would …
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Tommy and The Grandparents

by @CarbonCarmen725
January 31, 2020

I’m Ready For My Closeup: Take a dramatic closeup of anyone’s face – an actor’s, a friend’s, your own – and superimpose a landscape or scene over the face. Since this is a mashup, get crazy with it. Take two completely unrelated images and put them together, then try to make a story out of …
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3rd Weekly Summary

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 31, 2020

My schedule was very off this week because I decided to sleep until the sun came up. Because of my poor decisions I have been sleeping as early as 3pm and waking up at 12am, staying up until 3pm and the cycle continued. In fact I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours today. Though I …
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2nd Week Summary!

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 24, 2020

This week was fun but also gave me a good measurement of how much time I need to allot for the assignments. You see, I thought I would be able to finish these assignments pretty fast but when I started my first assignment on Tuesday, I quickly realized that I needed to make a good …
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It’s Only a Superpower if it Makes you Lazier

by @CarbonCarmen725

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments2151, Syndicated
January 24, 2020

Assignment: Everyone has a superpower that they’d love to have. Show yours in a mashup by editing at least two photos together to show how you’d yours in an everyday situation. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/superhuman-in-everyday-life/ For this Assignment I thought back and forth about what my superpower could be, there are so many options available. Of course this …
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Animal Planet Meets Deer, John Deer

by @CarbonCarmen725

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments2379, Syndicated
January 24, 2020

Assignment: Use one brand’s advertisement for another brand by replacing the logo of one brand with the logo of another. Be creative and try to pick similar logos that could look correct in the advertisement if we did not already have the brand awareness! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/logo-switch-up/ This was one of my favorite assignments because I loved …
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A Powerful Musician: Stevie Ray Vaughan

by @CarbonCarmen725

| AnimatedGIFAssignments, animatedgifassignments1463, Syndicated
January 24, 2020

Assignment: Choose your favorite musician, and then head to Youtube and pick one of their videos to make an animated gif of. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-musician-gif/ So for this assignment I chose Stevie Ray Vaughan. For those of you who don’t know, SRV was a blues musician in the 80’s, though, he unfortunately passed away at the age …
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The 80’s

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated
January 17, 2020

The 80’s is a decade I don’t give too much credit…but I should. Looking closer into this decade, I find myself quite interested and fascinated by it’s cultural impact. It seemed to be a time of creativity no matter how different or weird. We often ridicule their choices in style but we have to consider […]
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Introduction

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 17, 2020

Hey guys! My name is a Carmen and I am a senior majoring in Biology. This week has gone by so slow though I don’t really mind since I have many assignments piling up as the days progress. It has also been a stressful week trying to get my graduation requirements out of the way […]
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Hello!

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated
January 17, 2020

Hey guys! My name is a Carmen and I am a senior majoring in Biology. This week has gone by so slow though I don’t really mind since I have many assignments piling up as the days progress. It has also been a stressful week trying to get my graduation requirements out of the way […]
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Introduction

by @CarbonCarmen725

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 15, 2020

Hey guys! My name is a Carmen and I am a senior majoring in Biology. This week has gone by so slow though I don’t really mind since I have many assignments piling up as the days progress. It has also been a stressful week trying to get my graduation requirements out of the way […]
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