For the One Story, Four Icons assignment, I found these icons on The Noun Project, added them as layers to Gimp, scaled them, and aligned them in order for the story.  This one might be a little difficult, but I’ll… Continue Reading →

So for the lyrical typography poster assignment, I decided to follow the one tutorial on the page and used the pixlr web app to create a poster of the Bruce Springsteen song Racing in the Street.  It didn’t turn out so… Continue Reading →

So I found a few things I think showcase basic elements of design. First off, this Nationals poster I have demonstrates proportion.  The purpose of the poster is to highlight the best moments of the 9 seasons of the Nationals’… Continue Reading →

“So I bought a big case of donuts from Dunkin’ Donuts to celebrate me getting my fishing license.  There was seriously around 30 donuts in this thing.  So imagine my surprise when I wake up in the morning to discover… Continue Reading →

Reading just the first few paragraphs of Massimo Vignelli’s “The Vignelli Canon” makes it clear just how much thought and effort goes into those small symbols and signs we tend to think nothing of.  It’s incredible how many intricacies there… Continue Reading →

Getting Better at Photography – Using the tips to make better photos Photoblitz Best of Set Daily Creates Visual Assignments: Apophenia – 3 stars Album Cover – 3 stars Troll Quote – 2 stars Photos tell a story differently than audio does.… Continue Reading →

@ds106dc #tdc1355 https://t.co/F0vbDWWpFK — Jack E. Brooks (@Jbrooks5E) September 25, 2015 For this one we were supposed to combine an old painting with a newer image.  Here I took a painting of maritime battle and added a modern day boat… Continue Reading →

All tips credited to David deChemin. Change My Perspective By Changing Yours: This image of the side of my closet door was taken basically on my knees.  It provided a better perspective of how this photo could be called deep… Continue Reading →

Now this is an interesting assignment.  We’re meant to take a photo of a famous figure, put a quote from a separate, related figure, and attribute it to yet another separate, but related figure.  For this one I decided to… Continue Reading →

For this assignment, we were given a random Wikipedia article, a page of random quotes, and a random flickr image.  We needed to combine these things into an album cover.  Here’s my result.  The article name, which is supposed to… Continue Reading →

So for this assignment, we had to make as many augmented versions of something in our house.  I chose this (totally copyright free) jar of Planters peanuts: Now I can imagine somebody might really kind of despise peanuts.  Just starts… Continue Reading →

That wasn’t very hard. Really, I only chose these photos because I like them the best.  I have my apple photo from my photoblitz I like because of how neat it turned out when I didn’t intend it to be… Continue Reading →

I chose to do the photoblitz in my house at around 9:00 pm when it was dark and you can’t see anything outside because I meant to do it on campus but forgot to, and instead said screw it, I’ll… Continue Reading →

http://jackochikatana.com/uncategorized/on-audio-storytelling/ Audio storytelling isn’t just speaking the words of story in front of you.  Good audio storytelling involves immersing the listener with the use of voice inflections, sound effects, and music.  The human voice connects the listener to the storyteller,… Continue Reading →

This was a pretty simple assignment.  I took a quote from a famous tech developer, and tried to put a bit of feeling where I feel like it should be.  to what success, I don’t know, but it felt good… Continue Reading →

The story told through sounds of a pianist coming on stage to perform for many people before waking up from his dream. I didn’t just want to put a bunch of random sounds and hope someone could just make something… Continue Reading →

Conveying the process of wonder and coming to a realization. I picked the emotion of wonder because I thought it could be interesting to try to represent that process in sound.  Creating it was as simple as finding various sounds… Continue Reading →

Radiolab’s “Talking to Machines” used audio very effectively to convey its story.  Various techniques are used throughout the production, most notably the use of overlapping voices to maintain a steady momentum to the story.  Sound effects and music were used… Continue Reading →

I feel like audio stories best relate back to what I said in the previous blog post on storytelling of how a good story (at least to me) is when a storyteller can immerse the viewer through their words or… Continue Reading →

http://jackochikatana.com/thoughts-and-ideas/what-is-storytelling/ My notion of storytelling hasn’t changed much.  I had a very broad definition to begin with and it remains that way.  In terms of digital storytelling though, I can see the fact of exposing your work to other’s public… Continue Reading →

The Five Card Flickr Stories is a pretty fun challenge.  It’s not easy creating a beginning, middle, and end to a story in five randomly assorted pictures.  I tried to pick 5 that I could easily connect from the each… Continue Reading →

Five Card Story: Paying Respects a Five Card Flickr story created by Jack E Brooks flickr photo by hummingcrow flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching After a fine visit to… Continue Reading →

I liked this story because of the relation it creates to the actual time gap between Disney film releases and Pixar ones.  I can tell the creator spent a lot of time on the various resources for the story, all… Continue Reading →

Kurt Vonnegut’s way of simplifying stories into a single line graph could be easily used to explain the trajectory of many comedy films.  As it is explained in grade school language arts classes: tragedies start well and end horribly and… Continue Reading →

Storytelling has many different definitions depending on who you ask.  It’s as much a concept as it is an action.  Personally, storytelling to me is the idea of implanting settings and characters into one’s head, fictional or not.  A good… Continue Reading →

This week’s tasks were a little more intimidating than last week’s.   I completed the GIF (http://jackochikatana.com/uncategorized/people-always-say-the-same-thing-visual-assignment-1/) a reflection (http://jackochikatana.com/uncategorized/reflecting-the-knowledge-at-you-wesch-reflection/) and customizing the site. I also did four daily creates.   I had difficulty finding ways to write my thoughts… Continue Reading →

I don’t know the first thing about anthropology, but I do know a good amount about technology and being an unmotivated, apathetic student.  Michael Wesch’s talk about using new media in the classroom to keep student’s interested in learning and… Continue Reading →

Assignment:  Say it Like the Peanut Butter –http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/say-it-like-the-peanut-butter/ When we were tasked with creating a GIF from a key scene from our favorite movie, I knew pretty quickly which scene I wanted to use.  This is a scene from one of my favorite movies, “No Country For Old Men.”  It comes towards the end of … Continue reading “People Always Say the Same Thing” – Visual Assignment #1

I haven’t traveled too much in my time, unfortunately.  One place that does stand out was the Smithsonian Museum I’ve visited on occasion in Washington, DC.  It’s a place of great culture and education, and I’d recommend a visit to anyone with a remote interest in arts and history. I didn’t have any of pictures … Continue reading Exciting Place

I didn’t have a very difficult time with the first assignment.  I managed to create all of my accounts and set up my blog with little trouble.  The only difficult thing was thinking of a name for my domain.  I ended up going with the first word that popped in my head that sounded kind … Continue reading Weekly Summary #1