For the design assignment Four Icons/One Story, I chose to use Stranger Things, set in 1984. I chose this design assignment because it sounded fun and engaging while giving me the freedom to add a 1980s twist to it.
I wanted to use Stranger Things as my story because …
This week in DS106, I had to complete a Design Blitz with my camera. I am currently out in Southern California, visiting some family and handling a heavy recent tragedy. While this week has been filled with sadness and heartache, the week has also been filled with happiness and strength. …
To kick off the week, we started with a couple noteworthy reads: The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli and A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd.
The Vignelli CanonThe first article I read was The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli. Designed as a quick guide and deep …
This week has been really fun learning the in-and-outs of Audacity, iMovie, and GarageBand as well as listening to Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad and his insights on what makes storytelling via radio so compelling.
Moon Graffiti was a very interesting podcast on SoundCloud. The idea of preparing for a disaster is …
I have never made a beat before and it is quite hard, not gonna lie. After watching a couple YouTube tutorials on GarageBand beat-making, I decided to give it a shot.
I played around with drums, trumpets, and some piano notes to create a pretty fun, upbeat instrumental. Here is …
Creating a story only using sound effects is very interesting. When starting off with ideas, I thought about doing a music concert or a spooky story. I decided to do a spooky story because I am more interested in that kind of content.
After deciding my concept, I went to …
Creating a short 10-30 second radio bumper was a lot of fun. Using BBC Sounds and Freesound, I was able to get two great sound effects. One being a laser sound to start off the bumper and an explosion sound to close out the bumper. Here is my radio bumper, …
It’s 1981. You took your high school crush to the Senior Prom. When you both got there, your date ran away to dance with another person for the rest of the night, forgetting you even exist. You run to the gymnasium bathroom and lock yourself in a stall, crying while …
Listening to Moon Graffiti by The truth podcast was very interesting. As a fictional piece, based on the true story of landing U.S. astronauts landing on the moon, it was very well done from a storytelling standpoint.
The re-enactment of Lance Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was enthralling from start to …
To start off our work for the week, we had to read Becoming a Better photographer and offer our input on how it can help our own photography skills.
This article and the included TED Talk video explained how pictures can be more than images. Photographs have …
When hunting Sarah Connor, the Terminator can sometimes make the wrong turn. For this visual assignment, we had to take a 1980s star and put them somewhere we would never see them. I used photoshop to place Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 1984 classic The Terminator. The movie is very dark …
Splicing two pictures together really led me down a weird path on this assignment. I created a brand new instrument, the Acoustic Squashtar. I pondered for a bit, wondering what two items I could splice together and I immediately knew I wanted to turn something into a guitar. So I …
When asked to combine 3 different but similar spies together for one fantastic meme, you can’t not use James Bond. In accordance with our 1980s theme this semester I wanted to use a James Bond from the 1980s. After finding the perfect image and creating the perfect wrong-dimension meme, I …
This piece was a lot of fun to photoshop. Believe it or not, I did not actually take this photo. Wild, I know. I scoured the interweb to first find a really interesting background. I stumbled upon this really …
I chose my Apple AirPods and a pair of old headphones I had laying around in my closet. The size and quality of the AirPods beats the old headphones in every way. It’s amazing how far technology has come …
In analyzing These Pictures Of American Malls In The 1980s Are Actually Incredible published by Buzzfeed, many aforementioned storytelling aspects can be found. When it comes to selection, the pictures show a wide variety of mall shoppers and the businesses they are perusing. The fashion style of the …
Over the years, I have taken thousands and thousands of photographs. My phone is always in my pocket on every adventure, lunch with friends, party, and even the occasional hike. I have never been a hobbyist of photography but if I …
Every great story has a rise, a fall, and a conclusion. But not every story has them in that order. Some stories have characters starting off poor and end up wealthy beyond …
Every new week brings new challenges. Navigating through the Assignment Bank was a new type of freedom I, as a student, have never felt before. this being my first ever online class has sure had its fair share of culture shock. Once the shock wore off, …
This week has been a wild ride. Usually the first week of classes are mainly reviewing the syllabus and securing textbooks but not this time, no way. The start of this semester started with creating and using my own website for the very first time. It is all very exciting …
Hi everybody, my name is Connor McClain! I am a senior studying International business and i’ll be graduating in May, very exciting stuff. I was not alive during the 80s but I do know it was an era filled with crazy colors and even crazier music.
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