This star made out of newspaper comic strips was made for the Daily Create ‘Junk Mail art‘ to make art out of junk mail. My grandparents send me the comics from our local newspaper every weekend because I would always read them when I’m home. I lucked out because one of the comics had someone laughing, … Continue reading Comedy Star

For the Daily Create ‘Arty Blur photo‘ you have to take a photograph with an ‘artistic blur’ made with a slow shutter speed or by just wiggling the camera. I took this picture when I attended the convention Katsucon. I saw this person dressed as a cross between Iron Man and Umbreon and snapped a … Continue reading The Blurry Hero

The focus of this week was to use multiple ds106 characters in our assignments and to collaborate with other people in our class. The assignment I enjoyed the most this week was listening to the radio shows of other groups in our class and creating social media accounts for Shelley Layton. I was able to … Continue reading A Week of Collaborations

Today’s Daily Create was to Create a Lesson, so I decided to create a pictorial lesson on How To Draw a Cute Frog. This type of frog is very easy to draw and I doodle them a lot in my notebook. They are inspired by the design of the frogs in a manga series I … Continue reading Ribbit!

Mia and Kelsey’s You’re Invited design assignment inspired me through their successful use of the design elements of color and typography to greatly enhance a design that was already considered professional. They collaborated on this assignment so well together and their designs are so cohesive with each other that they inspire me to collaborate with … Continue reading Inspired by: Mia Boleis and Kelsey Roach

Lauren’s noir Valentine inspires me because it makes me smile every time I look at it because I watched Double Indemnity for ds106 and shortly afterwards I saw this and laughed because it makes a great Valentine’s Day card. The creative use of the quotes and the pink coloration of the text to match the … Continue reading Inspired by: Lauren Falkenstein

Kim’s cereal commercial for Kellogg’s Cocoa Kitties is one of my favorite assignments I’ve listened to this semester because of the thought that went into creating this commercial. The suspenseful sound effects, and dialogue along make it a very believable advertisement. The chocolate cat and raspberry cereal that can “bring out your noir side” also … Continue reading Inspired by: Kim Roehl

I decided to complete the Short Story With Random Words and Animal(s) writing assignment because it seemed like an assignment that is well suited to this week’s requirement of using multiple characters in my assignments. I was able to create a story in a word document using the first ten words I was given. Based … Continue reading A Random Sleuth Story

I had already completed the bad guy business card assignment, so I was inspired to create a business card for the Steadfast Sleuths as well. I adapted the Create Your Own Business Card assignment to fit this week’s objective of having all of the assignments relate to multiple noir106 characters. I incorporated all of the Steadfast … Continue reading The Sleuths’ Business Card

When I saw this assignment for creating a business card for a bad guy, I knew that I had to create a business card for Shannon Mills, the villain of the Steadfast Sleuths and more specifically, Sasha Kellogg. The inspiration for this card came from our group’s radio show, because Sarah and Shelley are given a … Continue reading Mills’ Business Card

For the You’re A Pinteresting Character Web Assignment, I teamed up with Kim and Lauren and their characters, to create a Pinterest board that would detail what each of our characters would be interested in doing if they went on a trip to San Francisco. We decided to complete this assignment together because we wanted to … Continue reading The Sleuths Head to San Francisco

Besides listening in to my group’s radio show, The Steadfast Sleuths, I also listened in on Monday to the radio shows of House of Noir and Noir We There Yet? for this assignment. Both of these stories have a lot of strong points and both stand alone as strong radio shows. House of Noir’s radio … Continue reading Listening to Noir

For the my different sides Daily Create, you have to to make a photo collage of different sides of yourself. I put these photos together in Powerpoint and used photographs from after my senior year of high school. Most of these sides of me are at Mary Washington and include various clubs, CCC, social groups, … Continue reading The Sides of Me

This Daily Create assignment had people illustrating your favourite moment in the past week and I chose to incorporate going home for Spring Break into the drawing. I made a sketch of my guinea pig Cocoa Puff because she reminds me of home and I would bring her to school to stay with me if I … Continue reading My Favorite Moment

This week wasn’t as busy as I though it was going to be, but I still had a lot of editing work to do on my assigned scenes. The editing of balancing voices with background noise was the hardest work I did this week, but I learned a lot about Audacity by trial and error … Continue reading Two Weeks of Radio, Signing Off

To recap, during the first week as a radio show group, we created the plot for the show, wrote the script, and almost finished recording the dialogue. On Monday, I recorded my last scene with Lauren and our group completed the dialogue for the radio show scenes on Monday. We then split the scenes evenly … Continue reading An End to Noir Cats

The Daily Create “A unique #heelconcept” prompts the viewer to take a photo of a unique #Heelconcept of using an everyday object as a heel. These three were already sitting as a pyramid in my house, so I figured that they would make a sturdy and comfortable heel. Not to mention that the heel is made … Continue reading Comfy, Cute Heels

The Deep Space 106 Daily Create had people draw what our DS106 Deep Space space station would look like. I decided to take the assignment further and make a noir model space ship for the Noir106 class of DS106. It could also be a smaller ship that the main DS106 station sends out for local space … Continue reading The Final Noirtier!

For the “Are you up for some emojination?” Daily Create, I used the random emoji generator to produce five image prompts that I turned into the short story below. The first couple of times that the images were generated, I ended up getting a majority of emotional faces, but I wanted a prompt with more … Continue reading An Emoji Story

My favorite part of this week was meeting up with my radio show group and planning what the show was going to be about, as well as writing and recording most of the show. Seeing all of our ideas come together in a single script was pretty satisfying and having our friends record their voices … Continue reading The Radio Show Has Just Begun!

This Audio Assignment is “Movie Voice Machines” and the guidelines for it are to create a voicemail for a character in a film or TV show. I altered this assignment for our group radio show and had my character, Shelley Layton, leave a message for someone in the radio show instead. Also, instead of hearing … Continue reading Did You Get My Message?

I had a lot of fun coming up with this assignment. I wanted to connect it with our upcoming radio show, so I based it around cats because two of the main characters of the show own cats. This Audio Assignment is the“ds106 Radio Commercial” where you have to create an item that would be useful … Continue reading Itty Bitty Kitty

Our group, titled Josie and the Noir Cats, is made up of myself (Kayleigh), Lauren, and Kim. We already knew each other outside of class so we formed our group fairly quickly. Our group met for our first long session on Wednesday of this week. During this time, we created the characters, plot, and name … Continue reading The Beginning of The Steadfast Sleuths

Shelley Layton now has a theme song as a result of the “Your Theme Song” Audio Assignment. I altered this assignment a bit because instead of creating a theme song for myself, I created one for my original character. The music and sound effects I used came from the freesound users soulman-90, yuval, cgeffex, qubodup, … Continue reading Shelley’s Theme

This week, I decided to complete the “Make Your Own Ringtone” Audio Assignment. for this assignment, you have to join different audio clips into one file and create a ringtone for your phone that isn’t longer than 40 seconds. At first, I tried animals sounds, like guinea pigs, but found that mixing the audio of herbertboland’s … Continue reading Ring, Ring Ringtone

I decided to create a promo bumper sticker for our group radio show that had something that was related to each group member’s original character. Shelley is represented by the black cat, Sarah by the mustard, and Sasha by the cereal. I wanted to design the promo in this way in order to make people guess … Continue reading Sleuth Sticker

This week was a bit hectic for me with other things going on, but I greatly enjoyed the design assignments this week. One thing I wish I could have changed was the amount of work I turned in later in the week, which I worked on earlier in the week. Unfortunately, I couldn’t work on … Continue reading Designing for Noir

For observing the design elements of film noir, I watched the noir film Double Indemnity. The city of Los Angeles frames the noir design of this movie is subtle ways like the California Spanish style houses, the skyline shot of LA, and the casual mention of LA neighborhoods like Glendale and Hollywood. The urban night-scene … Continue reading Double Design

I found the article pertaining to the history of copyright laws very informative and it was interesting to see how the public’s opinion and government’s opinion concerning copyright and fair use has changed so dramatically over the years. For example, back in the 1700s you could only have your work copyrighted for up to fourteen … Continue reading Copy Rights and Wrongs

Today’s Daily Create assignment was to “Play with your food!” where you had to create jewelry using food. I looked through what food I had in my room and found that pretzels were the easiest to manipulate into different shapes and you can break off different section of the pretzel to create open spaces to … Continue reading Pretzel Chic