Recycle Dattt
I used my “5 Sound Story” as the first recycled media I chose to submit to the ds106phonar dropbox. This was a media file that I created for an assignment that required us to use at least five sound effects … Continue reading →
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Radio Roadtrip Finale
Sooooo the production of this radio show was pretty crazy and took a lot of coordination, input, and work from every member of the group. Each member of our group worked together to brainstorm ideas for the topic of our … Continue reading → -
6MusKeew
Design Safari I had fun with my Design Safari this week. Once I had a little bit of understanding and a grasp on some of the elements of design, I was able to notice them in things surrounding me. I … Continue reading → -
How I Met Your Mother
I saw this assignment on a random try! It was to design a minimalist poster for a tv show/movie. Immediately, I thought of doing something with How I Met Your Mother. I don’t know why that happened, it just did! … Continue reading → -
Name That Single
This assignment is an interesting one because you have to guess the song from the design. So like charades for DS106! This was cool to think about what song to design for. At first I thought it would be funny … Continue reading → -
Jack Johnson Filled Day
This assignment really intrigued me. I love music and I love the significance lyrics can have, especially ones from your favorite songs. So I decided to use a lyric from Jack Johnson’s “Banana Pancakes.” It just evokes a lazy Sunday … Continue reading → -
Pause [Four] a Moment
So I saw this design assignment by clicking on the “choose a random” button. I thought this would be fun to do. It called for taking a favorite picture you have of yourself and make a collage with four squares, … Continue reading → -
My Ohana
This design assignment was one that I was struggling with earlier in the week. I was trying to use Paint to place text over the image, but I couldn’t figure it out and it was really frustrating. So in order … Continue reading → -
Daily Creates Week 6
I saw this Daily Create yesterday when I was doing my Design Safari and I got really excited about doing it! This assignment asked you to draw the floor plan of the house that you grew up in from memory. … Continue reading → -
Roadtrip Radio – Week 2 Updates
Our roadtrip radio (digging the phrase coined by Kiersten) made some significant progress this week I think! Before this week, we had decided upon doing a roadtrip radio experience. We wanted to have a whole family going on a trip together … Continue reading → -
Roadtrip Radio Shirt
So for one of this week’s Design Assignments, we had to create a poster/bumper sticker/t-shirt advertising for our show. So I decided to just create a shirt because I figured it would be fun to do! I googled “design your … Continue reading → -
Green Viruses and Ham
This assignment was really difficult and frustrating. I thought it was a very cool idea and all of the examples were interesting. But with no instruction on how to do ANYTHING for this, I was completely lost and clueless. I … Continue reading → -
My Best Friend Is Pretty
Hahahaha omg I just turned my best friend into a zombie. Can’t wait til she sees this! This was a really fun and simple assignment: to turn a normal picture of a friend into an imagery of horror. So I … Continue reading → -
Design SAFARIIII
Dominance This poster really highlights the design element of dominance. Dominance is defined simply as the first place one’s eye looks when you see something. It’s the dominant part of the design, it captures your attention, your interest. This is … Continue reading → -
WEEKKKK 5IVEEE
Pimpin’ Up da Flickr Trying to figure out how to embed a set from Flickr was difficult.. I tried to work through the process and post it and see what happened. I did that a couple of times. But thankfully … Continue reading → -
Daily Creates Week 5
The first Daily Create I did this week was the bald assignment. At first I wasn’t quite sure what to do for this. I knew that this was the last Daily Create I wanted to do for this week because … Continue reading → -
Sketchy Kids
For my last visual assignment, this one we were told to take a picture and transform it to make it look like a drawing! So I used a picture that I already had on my computer to do this assignment. … Continue reading → -
Flower Power?
This assignment was to take a picture of a common object and to manipulate the colors. This is a picture of a flower I took during a walk with my mom at the beach this past summer. We thought it … Continue reading → -
Treyvaux…
This assignment was an interesting one! We had to follow 3 links to these random websites to get 3 random things: a band name (from an article title), an album name (from the last 4-5 words of the last random … Continue reading → -
Pop Art From the Heart
This visual assignment was about turning a normal picture into something extraordinary. When I first read this, I knew exactly what picture I could use. My roommate from last year edited this picture of us when we went to the … Continue reading → -
Baby’s Blue Balloon Makes Her Fly
This assignment was to take a photo and turn into black and white, but keep the original color for one single object. I kinda knew how to do this just from fiddling around before with the photo editing software, Picasa, … Continue reading → -
Photoblitzin It Up!
This Photoblitz assignment was really fun! My friend Grace and I decided to go into downtown Fredericksburg to do this assignment because we felt that we would get the most interesting photos there. Downtown Fred has all kinds of things: … Continue reading → -
Best in Show
I’m not really sure how to embed a set from Flickr onto a blog post… But I’m trying to see if I click on the URL to the set (when it’s been opened and you can see all of the … Continue reading → -
WEEK FOUR (not gonna rhyme this one)
Reflection This week I believe was the most challenging as of yet, just for me personally, at least. It was mostly so difficult or overwhelming because it was something completely new to me, I had never fiddled with anything audio … Continue reading → -
Daily Creates Weeeeeek4
The first daily create I chose to do this week was to represent either the number 3 or 3 items together. So I chose to represent 3 corresponding items because I thought this would be a cool take on the … Continue reading → -
Can’t Fight The Feeling
Wowwwwww so now that I know how to use Audacity, this audio editing is SO MUCH EASIER. I was so overwhelmed. Always am when I see a new program on the computer and have no knowledge of what to do … Continue reading → -
SURROUND SOUND… Indoor Concert Venue
So this was a daunting assignment. I was overwhelmed mainly because there was no blunt tutorial on how to use Audacity and the steps that follow to make the assignment for the 5 sound story. But, using my resources, I … Continue reading → -
DS106 Radio
I listened to ds106 radio on Tuesday night with my fwenddd Enisa! It was an interesting experience. We used iTunes to listen to the radio and it was cool because it was just like a regular song on iTunes but … Continue reading → -
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
After being introduced to audio techniques through sources such as HowSound’s Dissection Joann Rosser, Papermaker and cogdog’s clip of Radiolab’s Detective Stories (2007), I listened to my first audiostory: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I chose to listen to … Continue reading → -
Radio Expertz
I watched the four videos of Ira Glass on Storytelling. What stood out to me the most about these four videos is how he kept talking about the fact that one must acknowledge the fact that starting out, your work … Continue reading →
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