This week’s assignments: The summary of what Glass and Abumrad talked about of audio storytelling is posted here. I listened to the Dagnet radio show, episode 2, Homicide. Here’s my summary of the radio story techniques I heard. And here’s my DS106 radio listening experience. My DS106 radio bumper. And Five Sound Story.   My Daily Creates: http://thechriskim.org/2012/09/19/daily-create/ http://thechriskim.org/2012/09/19/another-daily-create/ http://thechriskim.org/2012/09/19/last-daily-create-of-the-week/   Weekly Summary: The most difficult assignment was trying to figure out how to work Audacity for the radio bumper and the sound effect story. What was also kind of difficult to complete was the DS106 Radio listening assignment, as I didn’t happen to listen to any live broadcast, only ...

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I’ve never really thought about the mechanics of radio broadcasting until now. It’s really amazing how all of these sounds of music, stories, and other information can be streamlined to be heard everywhere by the radio. The whole DS106 class and other people involved with the DS106 radio can hear all live media from each other directly via the radio. While I was listening to the radio, I heard I song I just heard and liked (The Roots – You Got Me), and the sound of someone’s bird whistling a tune. @bsawhill I’m listening to you on @ds106radio ! Pretty bird! — Chris Kim (@thechr1skim) September 24, 2012 Other than ...

The first thing the radio show says is that the story is based on a true crime story, which incites a kind of excitement to the story. I remember when I would watch horror movies, they were much scarier when they are “based on a true story.” I would assume this is the same technique. Also, the story isn’t narrated like an anecdote but rather like a play or a T.V. show. The radio show has voice actors and theme songs between parts of the story. Sound effects are also used, for footsteps and door-knocking. The main character of the radio show is a police detective, who narrates the story ...

Ira Glass speaks about the two building blocks of telling a story to an audience. An anecdote, or telling a direct sequence of events can be used to bring in the audience’s attention. The anecdote builds suspense by presenting a question to the audience, and that goes into the second phase, which is to constantly present questions within the story and tell the audience the answer. Glass also talks about the kind of stories one would present, that as an amateur, making mistakes and bad takes are part of the learning experience. Much of good radio talking is luck, and that the more one attempts at it, the more chance ...

Storytelling is the passing of knowledge and/or imagination in the form of a narrative. It could be used to teach lessons and history and set examples, for example, Aesop’s fables. When I think of storytelling I imagine a world of impossibilities that provides a perception into another world. In a story, anything can change, whether it’s the characters or the environment. A good storytelling is like a big “what if,” and anything can be considered. Movies play onto this interest, and provide to the people a kind of escape from reality. The digital aspect of this class let’s us able to put our imaginations and the stories that go along ...

My first Daily Create was to draw a tribute album for a favorite band. I chose a simple album cover by Ratatat and freehanded it on Paint. I added similar colors for the clothes and added the green soundwaves to represent their sweet tones. With the name of the band in a cool font I think the whole tribute album art is rather nice. My second Daily Create was the easiest to do. My friend just had something lit and I asked him to blow the smoke over the light for a cool effect. Finally, for my third Daily Create, the only object I could readily come up with to ...

According to my research, Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization based in California that promotes the free sharing of any forms of media and art via the Internet without persecution of copyright. The owner of the work can negotiate specific copyright regulations so that others can share the original owner’s work if that owner is given credit. As a result, Creative Commons can amass a large database of free to upload, free to share media and make it available to Internet users. One of the biggest problems of the unlimited cyberspace is copyright issues, and opening up this whole new library certainly allievates it. For the individual artist, illegal downloading ...

Hi professor Burtis! I’m in your DS106 class. Sorry for the late introduction. @mburtis — Chris Kim (@thechr1skim) September 5, 2012

Hello, I’m Chris and I am a junior majoring in computer info systems. I’m from Fairfax, but I currently live in an apartment in Fredericksburg. I’m 5’8″, and was born in South Korea, but I consider myself more American. I like animals. I’ve had experience with Facebook and Tumblr but nothing as extensive as running a blog like this. I look forward to this class as it definitely has more interesting assignments than my other classes. One of the videos we had to watch for this week features Robert Hughes describing what art really means for humanity, that it is a means to reconnect the adult mind to the complex, ...