Iceland 2014, Here I Come

Iceland 2014, Here I Come

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October 26, 2014

For my first web assignment, I chose to do the dream vacation board on Pinterest. I decided to pick Iceland as my hopeful destination. Follow Hope’s board Iceland Trip! on Pinterest. 3 stars I’ve been wanting to go to Iceland… Continue Reading →
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Daily Creates: Hair

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October 26, 2014

Daily Create 1 Like all Freshmen, upon entering high school I was determined to reinvent myself and make the next four years amazing. I obsessed over my first day outfit, because it was also picture day. And I got a… Continue Reading →
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How to upload your website story to wordpress

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October 26, 2014

For those of us doing the Storytelling Within the Web assignment, I wanted to create a comprehensive tutorial for how to go the extra step and upload the finished creation to WordPress. The directions given said that we should download the… Continue Reading →
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Batman Website Remix

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October 26, 2014

I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do for my website storytelling assignment. The examples given were all really well done, and I may or may not have spent several hours reading Amazon product reviews. I was flipping… Continue Reading →
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Weekly Summary: Week 8

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October 19, 2014

This week was an insane amount of audio assignments! In previous weeks I have absolutely detested the audio assignments we had to do, but I must admit, I enjoyed this week! WHAT DID I DO THIS WEEK? Daily Creates: So,… Continue Reading →
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Chaplin-Foley project

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October 19, 2014

Of all the sound assignments in all the classes in all the world, we had to do this one. I will be frank: I hated the Foley assignment. I could not get the timing on this to work to save… Continue Reading →
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Mary Hauntington Bumper

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October 19, 2014

I knew I wanted to do something ghosty for my radio bumper, so I knew that whispers and such were a must. I’m currently pretty sick and lost my voice, which surprisingly worked out well for this project! My raspy… Continue Reading →
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Daily Creates: Week 6 & 7

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October 19, 2014

Daily Create: DS106 Stationary I did this on Monday of last week, and I was incredibly proud of myself for remember to actually start my Daily Creates nice and early. It felt good, I won’t lie. The prompt was… Continue Reading →
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Craigslist Beat Poet Haikus

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October 19, 2014

2 stars For the remainder of my audio assignment stars, I did the Beat Craigslist assignment, where we read a Craigslist ad that has interesting wording, and then record it like a beat poem. I love Craigslist. The majority of furniture in… Continue Reading →
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Zombie University: We Give You Brains

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October 19, 2014

My final audio project for this week was the commercial for the radio project. Since our radio show is Halloween/ Spooky themed, I decided to do a horror movie inspired commercial. A lot of the subject matter for our show… Continue Reading →
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The Most Pressing of Emergencies

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October 18, 2014

911, what’s your emergency? 3 1/2 stars For my first audio project this week, I did the 911 call prompt. I’ve never gotten to call 911 before and it’s actually a little disappointing. This project was almost liberating, finally giving me… Continue Reading →
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Mary Hauntington progress

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October 12, 2014

I’m really excited for how well my group’s radio show is coming along. Our plan has been for a spooky/ Halloween themed radio show in honor of the upcoming holiday. The group met last week to discuss ideas, names, and… Continue Reading →
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Weekly Summary: Heck yes visual design

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October 5, 2014

Hands down, this has been my favorite week of DS106 yet. I’m a graphic design junkie. I design logos and layouts for websites, I do a lot of design for the school paper, and I’m the layout designer for the… Continue Reading →
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Design Blitz Safari!

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October 5, 2014

For this week’s designblitz, I mostly looked through magazines, newspapers, etc to find examples. I feel like these places typically have great design, and occasionally a really really bad one to serve as a warning. The examples I pulled this… Continue Reading →
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More Daily Creates, More Planning Failure

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October 5, 2014

Daily Create 1: TDC to the power of 10 It was actually surprisingly fun to go back through some of my Daily Create photos to put together this collage. We’ve only been at it a month, but there were definitely… Continue Reading →
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Return of the Bunhead: A new logo

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October 5, 2014

3 stars For the final design assignment of this week, I decided to make a logo for my site. I’m a fan of more minimalist design, so I may not necessary use this logo on the site, but it’s… Continue Reading →
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Minimalist Harry Potter

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October 3, 2014

3 1/2 stars So basically, I am a giant nerd and obsessed with all things Harry Potter. I chose to complete the minimalist tv/movie poster assignment, where we were tasked with creating a poster for our favorite story using minimal… Continue Reading →
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Lyric Typography Poster

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October 3, 2014

3 1/2 stars You never really notice how melodramatic your favorite songs are until you have to take the lyrics out of context. I had an obnoxiously hard time selecting a song for the lyric typography assignment, because everything I… Continue Reading →
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Greetings From DS106

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October 3, 2014

2 1/2 stars There is just about nowhere on this earth I love as much as Scotland. When I saw that we had the option to make a postcard from somewhere we wish we were, it was a no brainer… Continue Reading →
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ONE STORY/FOUR ICONS

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October 3, 2014

2 1/2 stars For my first design assignment I did the four icon story assignment, which asked us to take a story we know well and parse it down to four visual icons in a minimalist manner. I feel like… Continue Reading →
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Weekly Summary: Waffles at the Beach

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September 28, 2014

You know what setting isn’t very copacetic for working on a laptop? The beach. I’ve spent the weekend away from Fred-Vegas and at the beach for a family weekend, therefore forcing myself into this thing called time management and completely a… Continue Reading →
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Daily Creates: Week 5

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September 28, 2014

Daily Create 1: What is playing on 106 fm on your radio? This is technically from 106.1 FM, because I didn’t think a recording of static would sound very good. I recorded this very late at night while driving through… Continue Reading →
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Apophenia with my waffles

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September 28, 2014

Apophenia 3.5 stars For this assignment, we were instructed to take a normal, every day object and turn it into something else. I actually put off doing this assignment because I really didn’t want to do it. Something about the idea… Continue Reading →
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Photoblitz: Everything is easier at the beach (even picture taking)

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September 28, 2014

I struggled a little bit with this assignment, and didn’t take a whole lot of the pictures that I wanted. Admittedly, it may be because I got interrupted by waffles half way through, and waffles are my weakness. I make no… Continue Reading →
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Taking Better Photos

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September 27, 2014

8 photo techniques from Rob Wall For the “Becoming Better Photographers” exercise, I decided to upload three of my favorite photos that I took this week. I borrowed my sister’s Canon XTI which really made all the difference. Comparing these… Continue Reading →
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Guacamole: A Flickr Story

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September 27, 2014

Earlier this semester we learned that stories can come in all shapes and sizes, so for this Flickr set I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories: a recipe. In my experience, recipes can be very confusing and difficult… Continue Reading →
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Troll Quotes: On Writing

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September 23, 2014

For this assignment, I decided to do the “Troll Quote” prompt. We were told to take a picture of a famous person, add a quote by a second person, and attribute it to a third, unrelated famous person. I decided… Continue Reading →
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New Release: Archibald Clinkard

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September 23, 2014

So I have to admit- this is not the first time I have done this assignment. In my (freshman?) year of high school this idea was floating around Facebook and a ton of people did it, including myself. I had… Continue Reading →
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Weekly Summary: Week 4

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September 21, 2014

What do you call two 21-year old college students working in the ITCC on a Saturday night? DS106. This week was a little rough, I will admit. The easy assignment from last week spoiled me, and the audio assignments were… Continue Reading →
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Radio Reflection

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September 21, 2014

I love Ira Glass. I find him witty, hysterical, and endlessly entertaining. As I have discovered through this assignment, he is also full of much needed wisdom. In this video, Glass talks about the basic necessities of a radio program: telling… Continue Reading →
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