It was a pretty stressful week, starting with picking groups. I had no idea how it was going to work out but it seems to be going alright so far! The big things for next week are going to be getting everything into script form and then finally recording and editing. Which seems like a […]

I only had one star left to do for my audio assignment so I chose an easy assignment- the “Based on 1-Quote-A-Day Project” audio assignment for 1.5 stars. I really liked this assignment just because I already had a great quote picked out! I usually find a quote to serve as motivation to get me […]

Earlier this week, I tried to do a theme song for Isabelle for 4 stars. I ran into some copyright issues and thought I guess I just shouldn’t do this… But I still felt really inspired by the incredible job Tiffany, one of my group member’s, did with her character’s theme song so I decided I’m […]

This week one of the possible audio assignments was to a dramatic reading remix for 3.5 stars. I wanted to do this one again about my character, Isabelle. I tried to find a song she could potentially relate to and then make it even more dramatic. She’s a very naturally curious person so my first […]

This week started out with complete panic for me. I don’t really know anybody in this class in real life and the only people I’ve had much interaction are the people that participated in the tweet-alongs. So needless to say, I was pretty nervous to find a group. I definitely didn’t want to be added […]

  This week for the design project I tried to go fairly minimalist. I really like the minimalist designs in general because I feel like they’re cleaner and just as powerful if not more so. I took the title of our show “Get a Clue” and started racking my brain for how I could possibly […]

For my first audio assignment of the week I chose to the poetry reading assignment. It was pretty simple, not shocking given it’s only worth 1.5 stars. When I saw the assignment, I felt it would be relatively easy to find a poem that expresses who Isabelle Franklin is. She’s a scientist; she’s curious. Initially […]

This week was tough. I had two major exams in two really hard classes (instrumental analysis and physical chemistry aka what happens when physics calculus and chemistry have a baby). I put off my work for ds106 because I knew it would not majorly impact my grade in this class as much as it would […]

Alright, so here’s my design blitz breakdown for you guys. I kind of made an effort to take pictures whenever I could wherever I was this week. When looking at this poster the thing that struck me most was the color. The pink creates a sense of unity that pops out from the black and […]

Here is my final 4.5 star design assignment for the week! I chose to do the Professor Groom poster. The idea initially came to me when watching this week’s video giving us our assignments. I immediately thought of saving private ryan. Initially I wanted to photoshop each of the major player’s heads into place of […]

My third and final character design assignment I chose to do was One Story / Four Icons. It was one of the suggested ones and I already felt like I had an idea of what I could do for it based on the book cover assignment. I chose to emphasize again what would be emphasized in […]

Another assignment I chose to do was Minimalize Your Philosophy poster for 2.5 stars. I chose to use the quote that I also used on my book cover because it’s a great quote to live by for Isabelle Franklin. It was one of the original quotes I mentioned when beginning to outline who Isabelle Franklin […]

One of the design assignments I chose to do for this week was for my character, Isabelle Franklin. I chose to do the Autobiography Cover design assignment for 2 stars. I used a picture I actually took for my photo safari assignment of my friend, Kelly, working in the lab. I really liked the angle […]

I was really excited to read about the copyright stuff for the week because it brings me back to a discussion I had in Theory of Knowledge my senior year. Part of our final grade was to create a 20 minute presentation on a current issue and discuss through the 6 areas of knowledge and […]

Well, it’s undoubtedly a late start to the week. But with two exams worth 20% each in those classes I think ds106 was worth putting off. Just makes this weekend a little hectic, but do-able! So here we go, the first assignment of the week was to read the booklet, The Vignelli Canon by Massimo […]

Here I am wrapping up audio week. At the start of the week I was very nervous. Audio terrifies me and I have little to no experience with it. I started out the week just by learning about noir radio and reflection on my past experiences with audio. Even after learning more about it, I […]

Guess that song! I chose for my last audio assignment to do the Can’t Get it Out of My Head Assignment for 2 stars. I had seen the assignment earlier in the week and felt a little too self conscious to do it. I kept thinking about it throughout the week, however, and finally said […]

One of the audio assignments I chose to do this week was emotion through sound for three stars. I chose to do stress because it completely reflects how I’ve felt the past couple days. I’ve had assignment after assignment due this week and next week I have two exams worth 20% of each of those classes’ […]

Many noir radio shows were based from movies, but what about going in a different direction and basing it on a book? I’ve really been scratching my head all week trying to figure out an idea for a radio show. This morning I was talking to one of my friends who’s a Spanish/English double major […]

One of this week’s main assignments was to make a ds106 radio bumper. I started making mine by basing it around one song, I was interested in using some older style music so I initially went to jazz. I found this sort of scat jazz piece on freesound.org and decided to go that way because […]

This week one of our required assignments was to do the Sound Effects Story Audio Assignment for 3.5 stars. I had a lot of fun with this one. It was the first thing I did when I downloaded audacity. I know the digital knowledge center is a great resource and if I really do get stuck […]

Tonight, I listened to my first ever ds106 radio program! At first I was really nervous. When we first tuned in it was super sexual and I was wondering if I was going to need to tune in another night. But Tiffany‘s bumper finally came on and the show began! As the show went on, […]

I am honestly so nervous for this week to start. When I first read on the syllabus that we were having an audio week my immediate thought was “shoot. I hate listening to myself talk.” Watching the weekly video and reading the “To-do list” for this week put me somewhat at ease. Now, only Audacity […]

This week really was a lot of fun. I started out the week by posting about my previous photography experience. All in all that was pretty easy and it gave me the opportunity to learn about how I can improve my photography skills. I also got categories started on my blog and put all my […]

I am the biggest baby when it comes to scary movies. 10 minutes in I was already regretting my decision but I decided I need to get all my work in by Friday this week for ds106. So I sucked it up and went ahead. What initially struck me was the lighting. When the conversations […]

While watching the Killer’s kiss I had a lot of different ideas about how different things were portrayed through the film noir lens. So, let’s start at the beginning. At first, I found the movie a little slow. However, I did appreciate the realism the beginning of the movie brought by incorporating the day to […]

This afternoon I recognized I need to stop putting off this Photo Safari and just do it. I chose to wander around Jepson (home, sweet home) and try to create images that interested me. It was definitely challenging and really made me stretch my brain to capture images that fit the descriptors that we were […]

Well, honestly, not much. She tries to keep as organized as possible and in order to stay organized she tries to only carry with her what she absolutely finds necessary. The pen, pencil, and white out is especially important to her. She alway’s is taking notes and jotting down ideas and is a bit of […]

At the beginning of the year, my room mates and I entered the My room, My UMW photo contest. Sadly, we missed the submission deadline by two minutes despite the fact that no one else from Eagle Landing entered. I chose to make some use of the pictures and use them for the Focus on […]

            I did the Word Cloud Visual Assignment for my character, Isabelle Franklin for three stars. She’s very focused on what she does so I tried to really bring out the details that she would find important: the facts. She’s british; she’s an immigrant. I also used descriptors that she would […]