Summary of Ira Glass’s Storytelling Parts 1 & 2 and Jad Abumrad on “How Radio Creates Empathy”. As a person who went through four years of writing interesting fictional and nonfictional stories, I know exactly what Ira Glass begins talking about. That’s the first lesson that you learn when writing, “show don’t tell”, “start with the […]

A Weird Moment – Not An Assignment For some reason, gifs on my site stopped working. So I decided to go investigate. Let’s take the example below. See how it’s not moving? So first, we go and edit the gif. Click the button and notice that the image is in the Medium size. Yeah, it’s […]

Daily Create Week 3 – # 4 Hashtag Peace Music Playlist  #ds106 #tdc1979 #ds106dc It’s the only one I could think of. I’ve heard it a billion times. https://t.co/bX9tyIi8bL ☮️ — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 10, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1979/ I mean, I was surprised this wasn’t the first one everyone thought of. I’ve heard it so many […]

Audio Assignment Week 3 – # 4 Sound Effect Story  http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ To begin this project, I opened up Audacity and selected my main background noise, which would be the Fire Engine Siren City Centre. I’ve always heard this type of background when it comes to describing a city, and after spending nights in cities on […]

Daily Create Week 3 – # 3 What are the Nordic Ministers Summoning? #ds106 #tdc1978 #ds106dc Obviously they called a reaper. The world just needs a little push to work together. 😝🛸 pic.twitter.com/gHSZ7QUHgG — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 9, 2017   http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1978/ I mean, seriously, the second thing I thought about was Nordic mythology, but then […]

Daily Create Week 3 – # 2 What Might Obama Say?  #ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1977 Why not make a poem? ✍🏽https://t.co/EjqcSG3rJn — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 8, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1977/ I wrote a poem. It’s as sappy as maple syrup. Every day is something new Sometimes awesome, sometimes I don’t have a clue DS106 is a story […]

Daily Create Week 3 – # 1 Ridiculous Latte  #ds106 #tdc1976 I call it Baymax Blackhole Latte. Courtesy of the universe being destroyed. 🌌 #ds106dc pic.twitter.com/ytPnFLsTaI — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 7, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1976/ I saw Latte, I searched google for art. I saw Baymax, my heart turned to marshmallow goo. I instantly thought, space, […]

Audio Assignment Week 3 – # 3 Make Your Own Ringtone   http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-your-own-ringtones/ As someone who always has her phone on silent, a ringtone really has no place on my phone. Really the only sound that comes out of my phone is an alarm to wake me up in the morning. Those ringtone sounds make […]

Audio Assignment Week 3 – # 2 Favorite Song   http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-song/ I have listened to this song a thousand or so times. It has the weirdest lyrics and I have to say that I love each one. To create this, I just followed the advice on this page and looked around through several different songs. Some […]

Audio Assignment Week 3 – # 1 Reverse Audio Quiz  http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/reverse-audio-quiz-2/ This, this is a song I’m sure so many of you have heard. Whether on youtube, in a store, or just staring into the abyss wondering why you’re listening to this song. I’ve had this song since middle school, where I had been very […]

Weekly Summary Week 2 Well, this has been a week. I didn’t spend that much time outside my house, except to go to the Exhibit at the VHS,  and felt like the incompetent sibling as my sister went to scholarship dinners and what another while I stayed at home studying for my summer courses, Praxis, […]

Daily Create Week 2 – # 4 Feet on the Ground, Head on the Stars http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1973/ #ds106 #tdc1973 #ds106dc He’s got his head up in the stars and I’m glad to be the stable ground, no matter how uncomfortable his nails are. pic.twitter.com/L6L1jqFBdg — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 4, 2017 Yes, this dog is indeed […]

Commenting and Such on Other Blogs. I feel like an alien. Okay, yeah, that’s a weird way to start out a blog post, especially with that title. I’m not an alien. Sadly. Anyway, this week I made my first comment on a peer’s blog. It deserves some celebration. It feels like, uh, the first day you […]

Design Blitz Week 2 This could not have come in a more strange week. Last week I had gone out so much in comparison to this week because I had to go shopping with my parents for my sister’s birthday, which took place on Monday. Yet this week, no, it was spent with my sister […]

Reading and Reflection Assignment Week 1 –  The Vignelli Canon This book starts out with Vignelli explaining the greatest aspects of digital designs, from semantics to equity. These types of phrases I have heard in a previous class at a prior school known as Art History, and it’s very neat to see the words transferred and […]

Gif Assignment Week 2 – # 2 Best Sports Play   http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/best-sports-play/ I have been having trouble installing GIMP, so I have scoured most of the Internet finding different ways to make a gif. For this gif, I used Make a Gif, a website where you can upload a video and pick what you want […]

Daily Create Week 2 – # 3 What Drink Defines You? http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1972/ #ds106 #tdc1972 #ds106dc Probably an orange soda. I don’t know why, it’s just my favorite, and a favorite’s gotta define me, right? — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 3, 2017   I don’t think a drink defines anyone, but, sure I’ll just put my […]

Daily Create Week 2 – # 2 ASCII Selfie http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1971/ #tdc1971 #ds106 Selfies…even in random symbols, still my least favorite thing to do. #ds106dc pic.twitter.com/IBMlCsCEop — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 2, 2017   Hey, my least favorite thing to do! It at least makes a little more sense than yesterday’s daily create at least… De  

Gif Assignment  Week 2 – # 1 Txt Gifs http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/txt-gifs/ I love gifs when they have contradicting phrases, so I quickly chose this assignment. I had two sets that can be interpreted as meaning the same thing. We, humans, crave being together, in a group, but really, at some points in life, we function better […]

Design Assignment Week 2 – # 5 Favorite Movie Quote http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-movie-quote/ As I said prior to this post, I am currently attempting to write a novel length story. This story’s main character is a twenty-something-year-old woman who is newly appointed a guardian of sorts and receives a few lessons in magic. It also takes place […]

Daily Create Week 2 – #1 Charles Atlas, Charles Schmatlas, My Creativity is Bigger than Your Muscles http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1970/ #tdc1970 I have no idea what exactly I’m doing. #ds106 #ds106dc pic.twitter.com/vuwIIToT4w — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 1, 2017   This was by far the weirdest thing so far. It makes no sense, I have no idea what […]

Design Assignment Week 2 – # 4 Contradiction Creation http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/contradiction-creation/ I’ve been trying to write a novel length piece for over, what, ten years? I have been rejected. I have heard every single word of doubt. I have watched people have the same idea and somehow perform better. It doesn’t matter how much time has […]

Design Assignment Week 2 – # 3 Minimalist TV/Movie Poster http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/minimalist-tvmovie-poster/ Hey, so I saw this design assignment and my head instantly thought of Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Not going to lie, I haven’t seen it, and I really don’t want to, seeing as I have read the plot and it reminds me […]

Design Assignment Week 2 – # 2 Noir/Pulp Book Cover http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/noirpulp-book-cover/ First thing first, I love making book covers. When I had taken a digital photography class before, we had to decide on a theme for our website, I decided on book covers. In the past few years, I have begun using a site known as Canva, […]

Design Assignment Week 2 – # 1 Are We There Yet? http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/are-we-there-yet/ What do I love more than space? My dog, as is possible to see the many posts that he exists in. Then I thought, why not combine the duo? Thus, Space Doggo was born! I laid out the background from simply searching “computer […]

Week 1 – Weekly Summary How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? I believe that I completed them to my best ability. That being said, I think that I did well to complete the requirements of this week’s assignments, though some of them I did not believe were explicitly […]

Change My Perspective By Changing Yours: Find different and unique points of view. Look down, up, lay down on the ground. Seek perspectives of lines. I decided to quite literally change my perspective by getting down on my hands and knees to take a picture of my sister’s cat. I simply found the cat standing still for […]

Photo Safari Week 1 Eight out of fifteen. Mainly, because I couldn’t find the others because I’m stuck at home for the day. The ones that I did do are listed below. Take a photo dominated by a single color. Take a photo at an unusual angle, e.g. looking up at something or looking down […]

Daily Create Week 1 – #3 Clear Up Your Life History http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1965/   @ds106dc #ds106dc Probably most parts of high school Freshman year. 😬#ds106 #tdc1965 #dailycreate — De. Norman (@de_normal1) May 27, 2017 Everyone has the embarrassing moments in high school with Freshman year. I would much rather forget them and never mention them except on […]

Spuddle Assignment Week 1 – Your Very Own Spubble http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-very-own-spubble/ Story time: I hate taking photos of myself. That’s it. That’s the story. Yet, here I am, in front of a camera, once more for a class. Wait, that sounds weird. What I’m trying to say is that when a class requires a photo of some […]