Last Letter From Camp
Dearest Mother and Father, I had really no idea what this class would be like. At the beginning, this class was an enigma. I was unsure of how it would be laid out and where I would fit into the … Continue reading →
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Letter Home
by Jolie Thomas July 22, 2012Dear Mom and Dad, This week was all about remixing and mashups. It was awesome and I learned a lot about the art of remix. It’s not a simple as it looks. Nor as new as most people think. The … Continue reading → -
Mashup Week
by Jolie Thomas July 22, 2012It was interesting to learn about remixing and how much goes on in the creation of a mashup. Also, it is amazing to see how much is actually “remixed” in real life. Such as the creation of the Macintosh. Not … Continue reading → -
Letter Home
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Here comes the Big Boss!
by Jolie Thomas July 12, 2012This loved this assignment. I found it was a little harder fitting movie to song. Yet, it is simply placing the videos together and editing them to fit the music. I used iMovie, it makes everything so easy. I really … Continue reading → -
Working At the…
by Jolie Thomas July 12, 2012I chose to do the song visualization assignment because I do it all the time. Maybe not in video format, but any song I hear, I get mental images of a story. This assignment was in the bag from the … Continue reading → -
Losing My Religion (and my sanity)
by Jolie Thomas July 8, 2012Dear Family, This week is been great fun at Camp. Yet, while all this fun is going on, my sanity is wearing thin. I have been on a whirlwind of a trip through the amazing world of audio and video. … Continue reading → -
Dear Sane People of the World,
by Jolie Thomas June 29, 2012Here are some pictures from my crazy trip. -
Audio Letter Home
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Reflection on TAL: Reruns
by Jolie Thomas June 23, 2012This American Life: Reruns I enjoyed listening to this episode of This American Life with the overall topic of reruns. It caught my attention because I love reruns. I watch my favorite shows hundreds of times and I read my favorite … Continue reading → -
Typical High School Story
“Tell a story using nothing but sound effects.” I used sound effects from Freesound.org to make this story. In Audacity, I complied them together into a recognizable pattern that would tell a story. I trimmed up sound effects where … Continue reading → -
Radio Bumper
This is my first shot at the DS106 Radio Bumper. For some reason, when I was creating the bumper I couldn’t stop thinking about the Looney Toons. I found the opening theme on Frogstar.com and added the theme in as an … Continue reading → -
You Can Call Me Al-vin…
Take a mainstream artist and chipmunk them I love those crazy woodland critters that can sing better than me. I have listened to many songs that have been chipmunk-ed. So I was highly excited to see this assignment. In Audacity, … Continue reading → -
Six Seconds Mashup
Take six very short fragments from six different songs and ensemble them into a single piece. To start off in Audio, I decided on the “Contest that nobody could win.” I love guessing games and especially musical guessing games. … Continue reading → -
Week 4: Design
Dear Mom and Dad, This week at camp I learned about Design. We started with the basic elements of designs: color, typography, balance, rhythm, proportion, symbols, minimalism, function, and unity. After an introduction to the basics of design, we were … Continue reading → -
Creative Commons
by Jolie Thomas June 16, 2012In my research on Creative Commons, I was surprised that I hadn’t heard of it. CC is a non-profit organization devoted to providing free and easy to use legal tools that work with copyright laws to reach the full potential … Continue reading → -
Everyday Safari
by Jolie Thomas June 16, 2012I found the different elements of design interesting. Some where obvious, but others elements I wouldn’t have thought of when it comes to design and how many different designs surround us every single day. Here are a few that I … Continue reading → -
Lost Mail
Dear Family of Jolie Thomas, We, at the pony express, deeply regret that your mail has been delayed in reaching you. The pony that was carrying the letters addressed to you got lost and was only found recently. We hope … Continue reading → -
Must the sky be blue?
Use creative commons licensed images to design a poster about how groovy Creative Commons is! Using Compfight, I found this photo by Ross Webdale. I added text and the Creative Commons icon in photoshop. I chose the back ground image because … Continue reading → -
Toucan Sam?
Take one of your own photographs, one from Flickr Creative Commons or one from the DS 106 Flickr group and caption it. I used a picture that I took last year for this assignment. In Word, I used Word Art … Continue reading → -
Picture Riddle Me This
Come up with a riddle, or even an every day phrase, and use basic pictures or icons to lay it out. Picture Riddle I created this in Word by inserting the images. After each insert, I went under Wrap Text … Continue reading → -
Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!
Take a famous character’s catchphrase and illustrate it into an image. I loved this assignment and had too many ideas, so I decided to make a tutorial. My sister and I love Lost in Space. We were introduced to the … Continue reading → -
Guess that Catchphrase!
This image was created in two parts. First, in Word, I created the body out of shapes and text. Second, in photoshop, I layered what I had done in Word on top of a rainbow background. Then erased the white … Continue reading → -
Venn in the DC Universe?
After struggling, for hours, to create a venn diagram in Word, Excel, and GIMP. I went and found http://www.gliffy.com/, an online diagram making software. It was simple and easy to use. You drag out the shapes, shift them into position and … Continue reading → -
Design Review
This is such a great design! It is based on famous sitcoms with a twist. The design is in balance created by the squares. No matter which way you look at it, 3×3 all the way around. The design is … Continue reading → -
Changing
I chose a blurry, badly accidentally taken photo of the ground and added the antique effect in iPhoto. Adding enough of the effect to make the photo look old, but not so much as to make it look like a … Continue reading → -
Sister Mary Dora Bridget
To create this photo, I used the picture of our foster dog as the background. Using the lasso tool, I selected my mom’s face and used the free transform function to make the selected space smaller. I then pasted the … Continue reading → -
Life is like a box of chocolates
I searched for a movie scene that everyone would know and was from a movie that I enjoy. I used Photoshop to insert myself in this famous movie. I used the scene as the background and used the lasso tool … Continue reading → -
Andy Warhol
I took this photo with Photobooth on my computer and added the pop art effect. Quick, easy, and simple! Finding the subject worthy of being Warhol-ed though was a different matter. There were so many things I could choose from, … Continue reading →
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