So this week we are doing a continuation of visual storytelling with a concentration in design! So for our daily creates I chose to do two of the three as visual stories. The first daily create I chose to do the assignment “Take a photo of someone that is nice and cozy in a blanket“. ...

So in this assignment we were asked to find some sort of street view and create a story from it. I didn’t want to make the story too long so I just started a short story and I think it has a great start. I chose a local bakery and just completely fabricated a story ...

In this assignment we were asked to find our name or part of our name in our environment. If we could only find part of our name we had to piece it together with other parts until it was completed. So for this, I went through my garage (which should add an extra star to ...

So for this assignment we were given 20 minutes to take pictures of the following ideas as well as two time pieces showing when we started and when we finished. We then had to upload them onto flickr Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural. Take a photo that makes use of converging ...

This entire week was dedicated to “visual assignments” and I have to say I had a ton of fun. I feel like I really understood this week’s assignments which I think let me take more of my time and invest it in the creative side of things. First thing on the list was to read ...

For this week’s assignments one we were asked to do was a Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge. As I am sure none of you know Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday! Valentine-less or not it’s a day dedicated to love, chocolate, and pink, so who wouldn’t love it! So for this assignment we were asked to ...

This whole week was dedicated to visuals, and improving our skills as photographers! Since our typical DC’s are usually visual assignments (or at least the ones I choose are), we stepped up our game in trying out new techniques. The first assignment I chose to do I tried to apply a tip from the recommended ...

So week 4 is complete. And this week we started our audio theme off with two very interesting clips from both Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad. The first clip was a four series video from Ira Glass, of which I watched the first two. I found that Glass’s video was a very new perspective on ...

And now for bumpers. To be totally honest I had no idea what a bumper was until today! First thing I did was look up what a bumper could be, once I figured out it was the small intro’s on radio stations that we typically hear between songs’s I realized it was something I had ...

Ok, so I would be lying if I said this was easy. I have a terrible habbit of trying to approach all of these assignments all by myself. It could be my stubborness or maybe just my independence but from now on I am using every resource possible. Whentrying to make my 5 sound story ...

In the first two parts of Ira Glass’ videos on storytelling through audio broadcasting, he dives into the “building blocks” of anecdotal stories. In the first video Glass speaks to the first two major parts of storytelling as both the sequence of actions as well as the “reflection” part of storytelling. I found this video ...

Week Three: Complete! This week I even got an early start so I will NOT be handing this in 10 minutes before midnight! For me I started out with my definition of what storytelling is. I go into more depth about this in my post “First, What is Storytelling“, but I really feel like this ...

This week we stepped up our DC game and ramped it up to 3! I chose the following 1. Finishing the sentence “My Biggest fear is…” My Biggest Fear My biggest fear is the forrest. While most people, especially in this state are able to find solace in the woods I am horrified by them. ...

Daily Creates Just started my first one today (may regret not jumping on board sooner) and it was fun! I loved other peoples from the previous days and even todays, these are definetly something I will be looking forward to in the future. And just incase we can’t get enough of my mindless rambling, punny ...

Daily Creates: I must say these daily creates are kind of fun! I have really enjoyed being able to add to my website through these daily activities and I really appreciate the fact that I get to choose which ones I want to do. The first daily create I chose to do was on a ...

So for this assignment we were asked to pay homage to previous Ds106ers. The first part of this assignment was to choose a story from last semesters student’s “Best Work”. The one I chose was a silent film version of Finding Nemo. Now I must say a large reason I probably chose this was because ...

Though I have never been one to fall in love with the typical girl meets boy, orphaned child, or enimies becomes friends story line. I must say that Kurt Vonnegut’s “Shape of Stories” is applicable to almost everyone. For me there is one story imparticular that I can really relate Vonnegut’s interpretation to and that ...

The other day, while pondering what I though storytelling was, my teacher said something to me that really struck a cord. She said that she believed storytelling to be something that happens when we tell one story but we can’t express all of it. And it is through this unquenchable need to tell more with ...

So here we are again, Weekly Summaries. Let me first start by stating that I was infact able to create an email forwarding address it is as follows: [email protected] When it comes to the customization of my blog this was by far the best part of this weeks assignments. I feel like this was the ...

Well the first week of DS106 bootcamp has been a crazy one. Even though there was a lot of catching up to do I think I have finally got a pretty good grasp on what this class is going to be all about! It sort of came as a surprise that some of these basic ...

Well the first week of DS106 bootcamp has been a crazy one. Even though there was a lot of catching up to do I think I have finally got a pretty good grasp on what this class is going to be all about! It sort of came as a surprise that some of these basic ...

Pumped about spring semester DS 106!

Pumped about spring semester DS 106!