My last daily create for the week was to draw a cactus with my eyes closed. This was super simple. I got a piece of paper and a sharpie, closed my eyes and then attempted to draw a cactus. I have to say that it turned out better than I thought it would.

Today’s daily create asked you to create a picture that showed optimism vs. pessimism in the form of a glass half empty/full. Instead of doing a generic glass, I picked my Boston Strong Mug I bought in Boston several months after the marathon bombings in 2013. Growing up in New England I spent a lot of time […]

This week we were asking to do a photo reflection on our previous/current experience with photography. I never took a lot of photos until10th grade of high school. At my school we had to do end of the year assignments that we basically spent the four months prior creating. One of my best friends, Lindsey, […]

This week we had to pick and additional 6 stars of visual assignments to do. I did a 3 star one showing a tour of my room and the second one I am going to do is worth 3 1/2 stars. This assignment bank post is called splash the color. This assignment tells you to use an […]

In addition to the other visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week, we also had to pick six more stars of visual assignments to do. For my first of the extra stars I did a three star assignment called room tour. For this I took four separate pictures of different angles of my […]

One of the visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week was to recreate a famous movie scene. Of course the first movie that came to mind to recreate in a picture was the Titanic, but I decided to go with something a little different. This assignment instructs you to simply recreate the picture and […]

For today’s daily create we had to make an image that emphasizes the difference in size of two similar images. As soon as I saw this I knew exactly what I was going to do. For Christmas last year my boyfriend gave me a 5ft bear as part of my gift and 4 years before that he […]

Time for my third weekly summary! This week was a lot of writing!!! Being a science major I don’t do a lot of creative writing, it is mostly scientific research writing so this is good practice for me. In scientific writing we try to not use a lot of adjectives and try not to stray […]

By far my favorite thing that I did this week was watch this really quick four minute video of shapes of stories by Kurt Vonnegut. This video has to be from the 90s or maybe even earlier, but I loved it because he is so right! The premise of this video is that he has a chalkboard […]

The big task for this week was to learn a little more about westerns as well as read two western stories from a list provided. I first learned about old west legends. This website gave some great background information as well as some fascinating pictures of what the old west used to look like. After getting […]

Today I did my last dailycreate for this week! This dailycreate instructed you to pick an old west wisdom quote from the given website. I looked through them and liked the quote “when you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.” After picking the quote, I went through basically the same process that I did for yesterday’s dailycreate. […]

Today’s dailycreate asked you to make a visual representation honoring the late bronco rider Bonnie McCarroll. For this, I first googled a picture of Bonnie McCarroll. After finding one that I liked, I saved it then opened it using the iPhone app called Phonto. This app allowed me to put the quote at the top and […]

For my western character, I decided to make my character a rancher. I read through the different types of characters and I thought this was the one that I would be able to do the most with. My character is a rancher named Bob. Rancher Bob is 33 years old and is the owner of […]

My final assignment bank post of the week (worth 3 stars to complete my 6 star total) is a writing assignment called tell us about your future life. This prompt tells you to write about yourself as if you were a small blurb in a history textbook. It tells you to focus on college life and […]

For this assignment bank post (which is 3 stars) called short story with random words and animal. This assignment told you to go to a random word generator and select for 10 random words. I did this and it gave me the following ten words: noble, aquarium, blueberry, distant, aggression, teeth, hope, honey, diva and emergency. Once given […]

Dear future Julianna, So 10 years from now means that you are 32. Hopefully at this time you have graduated medical school and are nearing the end of your residency. I imagine that you did more than the typical 4 years of residency and went to specialize more specifically in your career (thus making it […]

Today’s daily create was to make a western warning sign. For this, I used the picture that was put on the daily create website and uploaded this picture to paint. Once in paint, I painted over the original sign and then added a clipart image of a snake. I wasn’t specifically looking for a rattlesnake, but could […]

Time for my second weekly summery! This week I was able to post on my blog a lot more.  First off, I wanted to start the week off early and try to get everything done as soon as I could for two reasons- my MCAT (test to get into medical school) is this upcoming saturday […]

Well everyone that just walked past me in the library while I was using paint to color a coloring book page of a cow probably thought I had SERIOUS issues haha. Today’s dailycreate was to wildly paint a cow and post it to twitter. For this I googled “coloring page of cow” and then uploaded that into […]

Today’s dailycreate mentioned “an old Western saying tells us not to approach a bull from the front, nor a horse from the rear. It also tells us not to approach a fool from either side.” With this quote in mind we had to create a picture or pictures talking about this quote. I went on google and […]

For my final assignment bank post for the week I decided to do an audio one. The one I chose was 1-Quote-a-Day which instructs you to pick a favorite quote and then recite it using soundcloud. So this is a big week for me- my MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) is this Saturday. I’ve been working towards […]

Today’s dailycreate you had to transform a verse of Home on the Range to a verse about #ds106. I first looked up the lyrics to the song (see previous hyperlink) then I googled rhyming words to see what path I wanted to go with. After this I used and app for the iPhone called Phonto to place the […]

It feels like yesterday that my family and I packed up my belongings and moved me to UMW for my first semester freshman year. The fact that I am a senior and about to graduate really puts in perspective how fast time moves and that I am about to be out in the real world. […]

Today I embarked on my first assignment bank post. I decided to go with the visual assignments, because I enjoy photography and taking pictures. So when going through the visual assignments, I was looking for a creative photo challenge of some sort, but I just had to do the winterize-it assignment because I wish it would snow SO […]

I would consider myself good with technology, but I am definitely not tech savvy. I look at this as an experience where I might better my technology skills. So first starting with the domain- I thought it was extremely cool and I was really excited that I would be starting my own webpage through UMW. […]

I tried to do something a little creative, by doing this before heading into work at the ER. I apologize for talking so fast in the video. I was actually running late for work ha ha.

So what do I know about westerns? Until reading the articles and watching the clips we were provided with, I knew absolutely nothing. As you can see from my post title, the only “western movie” I have ever seen is Back to the Future III, which I wouldn’t even count as a western. To me […]