I was very impressed with the radio shows that everyone made. They sounded very good and it seemed like everyone paid a lot of attention to detail.  Unfortunately, I had to work Tuesday and Wednesday night so I didn’t get to hear them live. So I found them on soundcloud and sent out some tweets … Continue reading Radio Listen →

My whole life I’ve wanted to be a rapper, the only problem was I am really bad at rapping. I spent endless nights trying to make a song that would put me on the map, but I could never get it right. I just wanted to be cool, but I always ended up rapping about … Continue reading TDC story →

For my web storytelling assignment I remixed a craigslist ad to be an ad selling the Lochness monster. I originally made an ebay ad selling the flux capacitor from back to the future, but I liked this one better. Basically what I did is use X-Ray goggles to edit everything on the page. I acted … Continue reading Lochness monster for sale (web storytelling) →

My whole life I’ve wanted to be a rapper, the only problem was I am really bad at rapping. I spent endless nights trying to make a song that would put me on the map, but I could never get it right. I just wanted to be cool, but I always ended up rapping about … Continue reading TDC story →

I decided to do the Three Moon Wolf story for my last web assignment. I had to go to the comment sections of a product on Amazon or Ebay and write a story about the product. I found a t shirt on amazon that had a picture of a giant sloth climbing the Empire state … Continue reading Three Moon Wolf Stories (3.5 star) →

For my first web assignment I created a buzzfeed quiz to see what Parks and Recreation character you are. I always thought these quizzes were fun and Park and Rec is one of my favorite shows.  I tried to come up with random answers so people wouldn’t be able to answer them to get the … Continue reading Which Parks and Rec character are you? (4.5 star) →

It took me a while to figure out which assignments I thought were the “best”. We’ve done a lot of cool, creative assignments this semester so I picked the ones that stood out to me the most. I tried to pick the ones I thought had the most attention to detail and creativity. The first … Continue reading Best of ds106 showcase →

Our progress was great this week. Since we created the structure for our radio show last week, this week we started by writing our own scripts and posting them to the google doc. We did our show in a speech format so everyone posted up about a page’s worth of audio .  Once we had … Continue reading Radioshow progress →

This week the main focus was getting our radio show done. We started by getting the general structure for our show together in a google doc. We made a talk show where the subject was the internet gene. It was set in the future where a new type of nanotechnology where the internet can be … Continue reading Weekly Summary 7 →

@ds106dc A picture of the main entrance at UMW in the fall #tdc1740 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/Zj3YorQ5Ha — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) October 13, 2016 Yesterday’s daily create was to take a picture of the fall weather. It was the perfect day for this in Fredericksburg since the weather was so nice. I waited until I got to … Continue reading TDC 10/13 →

An old ad for a German brewery, black and white, stone building, wood door. @ds106dc #tdc1741 #photoswithoutphotos — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) October 14, 2016 Today’s daily create was pretty interesting. Instead of actually creating something we had to use words to describe a picture. The tricky part was that we had to do it in … Continue reading TDC 10/14 →

The main focus of this week was brainstorming ideas for our radio show and getting the basic structure of it together. I really liked a lot of the ideas we had and am excited to start recording and getting our final product together. This week we cam up with our idea assigned roles and thought … Continue reading Weekly Summary 6 →

We’ve made some pretty good progress on our radio show, The Internet Gene. So far we have the structure of our show set up and are coming up with a lot of different talking points. Our show will be set up in a style much like a radio talk show. The topic of this show … Continue reading radio show progress →

For my last assignment I whistled a song that was stuck in my head. This was actually a challenge for me because I am very bad at whistling, but I gave it a shot. I tried to pick a song where the beat was very distinguishable so it would be easy for somebody to figure … Continue reading Whistle song 2 stars →

For this assignment we had to make a rhythm with something from around our house. When I was a little kid I like to make drums out of pots and pans so I decided to do that. I used a spoon and hit it against the pot and my counter top to make a beat. … Continue reading Rhythms with things 3 star →

I made a radio ad for one of this weeks audio assignments. I wanted to make an ad that could go in our radio show, The Internet gene. One of the topics in our show would be about the health risks of the internet gene. I decided to make a cliche radio ad about a … Continue reading Internet gene commercial 4 star →

@ds106dc Me trying to accomplish my goals without coffee. #tdc1731 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/Lk9v5HNiyx — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) October 4, 2016 On the 4th the daily create was to create a gif about coffee. For me, if I don’t have coffee I don’t feel like I can accomplish anything. When I try to do something I mess … Continue reading TDC 10/4 →

A concrete poem about silence @ds106dc #tdc1733 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/1IMlasWSuN — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) October 7, 2016 For yesterday’s daily create we had to create a concrete poem. Poetry has never been my strong suit, but I gave it a shot. I wrote something simple about silence since that was part of the assignment. The hard … Continue reading TDC 10/6 →

Just me and my twin…plus Zack @ds106dc #tdc1734 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/Avluw9L2k6 — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) October 7, 2016 For today’s daily create we had to take a panoramic photo and appear in it multiple times. This is something I have done before so I knew exactly what to do. I got my friend Aaron to take … Continue reading tdc 10/7 →

I made a poster for our radio show, The Internet Gene. I used an image of a DNA strand to symbolize the gene. I found this image on the internet and added the text with paint.net. I used green text because I thought it fit in with our show and complimented the blue. Also, I … Continue reading radio show poster →

Learning about design was a lot of fun this week. I never would have guessed how much time and effort goes into a graphic design. After learning about the process I think I can really appreciate what goes into the thousands of different designs that surround us in our every day lives. Thoughts/Ideas I thought … Continue reading Week 5 Summary →

The Vignelli Canon was a real eye opener in the world of design. I think the most important part of design when appealing to the masses is to make your design understandable to the masses.  Like Vignelli said “if no one understands the result, or the meaning of all that work, the design is useless”. … Continue reading Thoughts/Ideas →

Form/function/message- I took this picture while driving through the Harrison Crossing shopping center. The definition of form/function/message given by the resource page was the design conveying its message or potential use. I think the Petco symbol does a good job of this. The best thing about this symbol is that it makes it so that … Continue reading DesignBlitz →

The two chapters we read in Show Your Work were very interesting. Think Process, not Product talked about a lot of things that people practice in there work all the time, but don’t think about. I think it’s very true that people are more worried about the product of their work and not the work … Continue reading Show Your Work! →

#OldBooksIDareNotPartWith @ds106dc To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee #tdc1727 #classic pic.twitter.com/dQf4e4oLDy — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 30, 2016 For today’s daily create we had to find an old book that we can never let go of and post a picture of it to twitter. I immediately went to my bookshelf and grabbed To Kill … Continue reading TDC 9/30 →

If dogs could talk……like Spock @ds106dc #tdc1724 #ds106 #spock pic.twitter.com/YczqoPIE5p — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 27, 2016 For the daily create on the 27th we had to create an image of a dog quoting Spock in a text bubble. I went through the list of quotes that TDC provided for us and I saw this … Continue reading TDC 9/27 Dogs channeling spock →

@ds106dc An old photo of some cool looking clouds on my phone. #tdc1726 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/I74AyobAOO — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 29, 2016 For today’s daily create we had to take a photo or find one on the internet and give it the effect of looking old. I had this photo on my phone from a … Continue reading TDC 9/29 old photo →

For this design assignment we had to design a pair of shoes which is something I like to do anyways  since I love shoes. The easiest way to do this was to use the NikeID shoe designer on their website. It lets you customize a lot of their popular shoes with all sorts of different … Continue reading Design a pair of shoes (3 star) →

For the minimalist movie poster Design Assignment I made a poster for Inception. I really liked this movie and I thought it would be easy to do since it has a small symbol that I could easily outline for a poster. That symbol is the spinning top that Leonardo Dicaprio’s character used to tell if … Continue reading Minimalist Inception Poster (3.5 star) →

I did the missing person assignment in which you had to create a missing person poster for a fictional character. I chose to use Goku from Dragon Ball Z since it was my favorite TV show as a kid (and now…). I followed the missing person poster in the assignment bank as a guide.