Last week, I watched The 39 Steps on YouTube and the pilot episode of Burn Notice on Netflix. For one of this week’s assignments, I tried to find examples of some different aspects of photography is still shots from the features. Here is a list of some of the features with (a) photo(s) utilizing each feature. •   contrast […]

I rarely take photos. Pretty much the extent of my photo taking is taking screen shots of things that I want to check out later on my phone (like craft ideas I see while scrolling DM Scotty’s Facebook page). I’ve never been good about taking photos. Sometimes my mom encourages me to do so while I’m […]

Below you can find my list for the 20 Minute Photoblitz I completed: Take a close up photo of an object with unique texture or pattern; make us guess what it is. Your most prized possession. They’re all around. Make a photograph of a wheel near you. Take a photo of (or something that represents) […]

Introduction The focus of this week’s mission was writing, and many of the assignments I undertook were writing assignments. These assignments were somewhat enjoyable to complete, but were not that easy for me to force myself to do. I ultimately enjoyed the process of writing them, however. I think my favorite parts of this week […]

It’s been a while since I’ve been taken out of the cupboard and used. I don’t know why, it seems like my owner used to love using me. A lot of the times he’d decide to cook with vegetables, I’d get to come out and get put to use. I really miss that sometimes. Has […]

Aaron Brand gets back to his hotel at 7:32 PM; he is eager to get to his room and dig into the pizza he ordered almost an hour ago. Aaron loves pizza. He can’t get enough of it. But who can? He gets to his room, sets his belongings on the floor, and sets the […]

Dear Diary, It’s Brand. Aaron Brand. Today I had one of those close encounters that makes me want to leave this life behind. I’ve been in Canada for just over a week now, “uncooking” the books for a criminal organization’s, the Rizzuto crime family, gambling business. In other words, I’m making their financial records legitimate, […]

My name is Aaron Brand. I worked for the US government as a “forensic accountant” for 10 years of my life, although sometimes the job entailed more than just pouring through financial documents searching for fraud. Over time, my role evolved, and I had to learn how to keep aliases and defend myself just to […]

Last night I watched The 39 Steps on YouTube, and today I watched the pilot episode of Burn Notice on Netflix. I actually really enjoyed both! I watched The 39 Steps with a friend, who was expecting the movie to be boring, but we both had fun watching it. Although both these features are part of the secret agent […]

Today’s Daily Create was to create a FitBit-style device that measures something that can’t normally be measured with that type of device. My creation was a watch that shows you where you are in relation to the ChalkZone world from the tv show ChalkZone. @ds106dc Check out this sick watch that shows you where you […]

Today’s Daily Create had us go to this site and take the seventh randomly generated Bond film title and write a teaser for it. My randomly generated title was “ThunderSpy.” The name reminded me of Thunder Kiss ’65 by White Zombie (not my favorite song, but it did inspire some of my sickest dance moves). Anyway, my whole […]

Today’s Daily Create was to show off your “secret creative weapon of creativity,” or to basically just show off a source of creative inspiration you have. The first thing that came to mind for me was DM Scotty’s Facebook Group. It’s a closed group, but they’ll add anyone if you request it. @ds106dc (One of) […]

Introduction This week I personalized my blog a bit, read an article on writing assignment posts, worked on some Daily Create assignments, completed some assignment bank assignments, came up with an idea for an audio assignment, and communicated more with my peers in the class (Twitter can be pretty fun). Personalizing My Blog This week […]

This is the last assignment I did for this week’s assignments from the Assignment Bank. It’s called 106 Horror!, find it here. The idea for this assignment was to edit a picture with “DS106” in it to create something spooky, that would fit in with the horror genre. Rather than edit a picture with with […]

Have any of you ever seen the movie Double Down by Neil Breen? You can buy it from his website, here. All you have to do is follow the steps as if you’re buying his movie Fateful Findings, but write that you actually want to receive Double Down in the special request section of the order. Double […]

Okay, so I went a bit overboard with this one. I found this assignment in the Audio section of the Assignment Bank. Here’s the link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/spooky-dialogue/ (thanks Jason Nemeth!) And here’s the assignment description: “Create a track of surreal or scary dialogue. Use an audio editing program like Audacity to record your voice, then layer it with […]

Today’s Daily Create was to put yourself, and if you feel adventurous, one or more other people, in the Mystery Machine. You can find the wacky assignment here: http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1846/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Ok, so you all know about the Mystery Machine. But, what do you know about me riding with Jesus in the Mystery Machine. @ds106dc My latest wretched creation […]

Today’s Daily Create involved using a secret agent name generator and creating an image representing the result. Here’s a link to the generator: http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/2962#.WIpu_vkrKM- It turns out my secret agent name is “Agent Holefiller.” Not my first choice, but I can’t really argue with HQ. My response to the Daily Create is below. @ds106dc Not … Continue reading RE: #tdc1845 Secret Agent Name Generator

Today’s Daily Create consisted of creating a storyboard-like image of a YouTube video with a “bookmarklet.” The process was fairly simple; the bookmarklet was provided, and all I had to do was click on it while I had a YouTube video open. The part that took me a while was finding a video that I wanted … Continue reading Re: #tdc1843 Print Out a YouTube Video

Up until today, I was planning on dropping this course and taking it in the first 5 weeks of the Summer term online. I have a pretty busy schedule with classes and other responsibilities, so I lost some confidence in whether or not I could take the class from the initial email and what I … Continue reading Weekly Summary

The “secret agent” genre is not my favorite, but I have enjoyed it in the past. Most of my experience with the genre has been with James Bond movies, and I’ve mostly only seen the newer movies. One of my favorite video games of all time was James Bond 007: Nightfire, although I’m not sure … Continue reading Thoughts on Mission 106 Theme

This post is in response to an article by Austin Kleon. You can find the article here.  

Now that I have all my media sites set up, I’ll link you all to my introductory posts on each website. Flickr Photos: Soundcloud Intro: Youtube Intro: Twitter Intro: Hello Twitter, this is Cole. Prepare yourselves!#ds106 — Cole Hodges (@coleohodges) January 21, 2017 You can find my accounts through the hyperlinks I put in the names … Continue reading Multimodal Introductions

Welcome to my blog for DS106! I used UMW’s Domain of One’s Own for a class project a year or so ago, and now I don’t think I can change the root domain. I’ll look into it, but for now, here’s my subdomain, ds106.prestigioushacks.com!