Allot of progress has been made this week, with much of it happening in the last couple of days. Our group is doing a horror show countdown.  Each of us are reviewing a good and bad horror film.  You could say our show is a bit subjective since we all look at thing through a different … Continue reading Radio Show Progress →

This is my design for a bumper sticker.  It promotes our radio show. The snake is the symbol for millennium. The text is self explanatory.  I didn’t want to add too much to it.  Since bumper stickers should not be a novel. I did this project by using Microsoft publisher. The assignment is worth 3.5 … Continue reading Bumper Sticker →

Here is a radio commercial for our upcoming radio show.  I grabbed the ax noise from http://www.freesound.org/people/PapercutterJohn/sounds/319989/ and the photo from Photobucket. I hatched this idea while I was talking to my new friend Melissa https://twitter.com/melissam88273 about our radio show. I turned up the volume on the ax chopping to be a little louder than my voice.  I altered … Continue reading DS106 Radio Commercial →

This is my radio show bumper for the return to radio.  I add my character to it in order to integrate him into the show. The return to radio week is a little challenging, mostly because it has so many different parts and involves multiple people.  So far our group is moving in a common … Continue reading Radio Show bumper →

This is my radio show poster for the DS106 radio show. I created it in windows publisher.  The purpose of our show is to countdown the best and worst horror films since 2000.  I borrowed the movie posters from the movies that made the list as either best or worst, and arranged them on a … Continue reading Radio Show Poster →

To put the tree in motion, I set my camera tonight mode and moved my hands while I held down the shutter button.  Putting the camera in night mode slows down the stutter speed which distorts and blurs the picture.

I went on a hunt for a pareidolia.  This looks like two angry eyebrows over two little eyes.  I took this picture on my deck today.  I wasn’t sure I would find anything today, so I’m pretty happy with this.

Week VI is finished. The very first part of this weeks assignment is to reflect on copyright as it relates to online works. This turns out to be a pretty complex topic.  The complexities arise out of differing opinions values and policies.  While reflecting on copyright I did a little research and came upon an […]

After going spending some time in The Vignelli Canon, I would have to say that the section that left the greatest impression on me was the section about responsibility. This section has reinforced something that I have always believed in and occasionally have strayed from in projects. The method is called KISS (Keep it simple […]

 This day I will remember forever.  We met on the playground, our parents were talking about work and cars.  Since they were busy we found our first kiss. This kiss I will remember forever, I will never forget.  It will rest on my heart forever. When your parents move for a job in a couple […]

The designblitz assignment asked us to take photo’s of various things to illustrate : color typography metaphors/symbols minimalism & use of space form/function/message balance rhythm proportion dominance This first photo represents  and emphasizes color. . The blue background, the blue type, the word blue and the blue rhino all represent the word or color blue. Overall […]

 Last night I watched Alien for the movie review assignment.  In preparing for the show, I made myself a Moscow Mule and popped a bag of popcorn.  This was a 1979 movie so to begin with we need to step back to 1979 in order to take a look at the effects and analyze some […]

Fall is here. Just as the leaves fall from the tree, it is now time to fall back an hour. This was not too hard to create.  I took a picture of a leaf in my back yard.

 This is a squirrel’s point of view while he is hanging upside down.  I turned over a picture from my trail cam.  Other than rotating the picture I didn’t do anything to it.  For some reason the light and camera angle did the rest.

 This assignment required you to create a signature symbol that represents your personality type.  I have a strong since of justice and believe that everyone should be heard. So I added the scale to the first letter of my name. I did this in Windows Paint. Once you have an Idea of what your symbol […]

For this challenge I poked a little fun at today’s political environment. If we can’t laugh at ourselves we will go crazy. I created this with Microsoft Publisher. None of the news is real, it’s just stuff I made up from my observations of people and events, so please don’t have a melt down or […]

To save space in the shoe store Nike and Adidas have merged. This merger will also save you time while shopping for your next pair of running shoes since you now have one less choice. I don’t really enjoy shopping, so less shopping is better for me. This is a 4.5 star assignment in the […]

Here are my four icons.  Can you guess the movie?  I will give you two clue’s. The composer for the movies music was Ennio Morricone. The movie is a western. I will explain my line of thinking on these Icons later this week.  If I told you now it would give away the movie.  If […]

The first thing I bought today was a chocolate chunk scone. I went with the chocolate over the raspberry because the chocolate just came from the oven.

I combined the Michelin man with rubber maid.  I did this because he’s made of rubber.

Week 5 has come to an end.  With the end of week 5 there is supposed to be awesome event with the moon.  Here is the Farmers Almanac link http://www.almanac.com/moon/calendar/KS/Lawrence/2015-09, you can put your city in and it should give you an ideal time to pay attention. This weeks assignments were focused on audio media. The […]

This is my ds106 radio bump assignment. The course is based on Horror, I used a small segment of the iconic “monster mash” song in the background. I hope you enjoy it.

The Last Laugh didn’t really draw me in. I guess because it looked like a comic book and had no sound. I really did not get any kind of emotional attachment to it.  For a matter of fact I was just hoping to get to the end of the story. I suppose it reached some […]

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-mitchell-1/the-truth-moon-graffiti Today I listened to Moon Graffiti.  What an interesting twist to the Apollo missions and a twist to the story.  I wonder how different the last 40+ years would be had the events actually followed the story.  What technologies would we have now? Would the space race have ended? It’s very interesting to listen […]

Today’s daily create was to put something modern into a old picture.  So I gave an ancient army a modern AH-64 Apache. You can find today’s daily create at http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1355/.

https://soundcloud.com/jmcmahan-595320758/story3 For this assignment bank photo I had to tell a story using 5 sound effects.  I hope you enjoy it.  You can find the assignment at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/.

https://soundcloud.com/jmcmahan-595320758/have-a-phone-conversation-with-yourself. This is a quick phone conversation that I made up.  I wrote a quick script, recorded it and modified my voice to make it sound like two different people were talking.  This assignment is worth 4 stars, you can find the assignment at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/have-a-phone-conversation-with-yourself/.

https://soundcloud.com/jmcmahan-595320758/911a You can find this assignment at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/911-whats-your-emergency/ and its worth 3.5 stars for this weeks assignment bank requirement.  I used audacity and my cell phone.  I wrote out a short script, read it and altered the pitch of my voice with Audacity.  It didn’t take too long and was easy enough to do. I do want […]

https://soundcloud.com/jmcmahan-595320758/spooky-night I found wolves howling, wind howling, owls hooting, and cats fighting on sound cloud.  I mixed then together in Audacity and uploaded it back to sound cloud. This was my first run at Audacity, I truly hope you enjoy it.

Today’s daily create was to “what do you want crossing Abbey Road?”  I put a little T-Rex on there.  Let’s hear it for the new Jurassic Park.