E.N.D. Fiction: End of The End Final

E.N.D. Fiction: End of The End Final

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Writing Assignments
April 30, 2018

The year is 1978. Reclaim DNA Hosting has accomplished a great feat: birthing the first test tube baby. The program was headed by renown doctor, Shannon Hauser. It was celebrated everywhere and represented a new dawn for mothers who were struggling to conceive. What they […]
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S.I.I.L Broadcast: End of The End Prt. 2

by @laasarge

| FINAL, Syndicated, Video Assignments
April 29, 2018

If you not have seen the first half of this breakdown of the End and the E.N.D., refer to this post. It’s important for your safety and wellbeing to be aware of the infection and its possible causes and symptoms. Once you have, continue on. […]
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Week 13/14: The Ultimate End

by @laasarge

| blog posts, Syndicated
April 29, 2018

This is sadly what I think is my last post for DS 106. It’s been a whirlwind and I’ve enjoyed engaging with everyone on Slack, commenting, working together and sharing my own work. This is even more emotional because of my impending graduation and I […]
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S.I.I.L Flyer Found: End of The End Prt. 1

by @laasarge

| design assignments, evidence, FINAL, Syndicated, week 13, Writing Assignments
April 29, 2018

In the midst of my heavy investigations into The E.N.D. and all the evidence of the infection surrounding us all, I had heard rumors of someone from an organization looking into the same suspicious activities. It turns out this is true! Annalise Zerweier of the […]
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The End of The End: Part 1

by @laasarge

| blog posts, Syndicated, week 13
April 24, 2018

With impending graduation and impending doom on the menu, it’s been a little stressful lately. Not on my best work schedule but we’re getting through! I’ll get you guys up to date on what I’ve been up to and what I plan to do in […]
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Week 12: A MishMash of Media

by @laasarge

| blog posts, Syndicated
April 17, 2018

Did I survive? Did I make it? Just barely, I think. This week held a lot of challenges for me and it was difficult to get through but here I am, alive. I really feel like I went through The End. I accomplished three assignments […]
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A Beautiful Gif-t

by @laasarge

| design assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
April 17, 2018

The final assignment I did for my novel was the Apocalyptic Book Cover: Gif Edition, for 5 stars. I had an incredibly hard time with this assignment and I’m still not completely satisfied with how it looks but sometimes you don’t get the perfect result. […]
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A Story in Songs

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Visual Assignments, visualassignments, VisualAssignments46
April 17, 2018

The second media assignment I did for my novel was the Poetry Playlist assignment for 3 stars. I’m a sucker for all assignments involving playlists because I love music and creating playlists that evoke certain feelings or have more meaning than just a list of […]
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A Tangled Web

by @laasarge

| #WebAssignments, Syndicated, Web Assignments, Webassignments1703
April 16, 2018

For my first novel assignment, I did the Harness Relationships assignment for 5 stars. In this assignment, you are asked to use the website Kumu to create a web that connects settings, people and events from your chosen novel. The novel I did, Sea of […]
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Two Infections?!

by @laasarge

| blog posts, evidence, Syndicated
April 16, 2018

I have a strange occurrence to report that ties into some of my thoughts for one big theory–stay with me here! First off, I’ve been seeing weird remnants of food left in the fourth floor of the UC… it looks pretty gross. I documented it […]
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Week 11: Video Extravaganza

by @laasarge

| Blog Post, blog posts, Syndicated, week 11
April 10, 2018

Hello, folks! We’ve made it through another week. I feel the end of The End is near and that makes me both relieved and sad. So this week was another week of video and I made some amazing content that I’m really proud of. Video […]
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Notecard Story: Grab Your Tissues

by @laasarge

| Syndicated
April 10, 2018

For my second video assignment, I did the This Is My Story assignment for 4 stars.
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Life Hacks 4 Life

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2116
April 10, 2018

This assignment let me achieve my dream of being a beauty guru YouTuber. I thought of a life hack that I use in my life and looked up another to try and recorded them in my well-lit bathroom. Then I zoomed to iMovie to import […]
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Breaking CDE Interview!

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2220
April 9, 2018

This week we had to complete an interview with a doctor formerly with a team investigating what’s going on in these parts with the infection. Even though I was the one answering questions, I feel like I came out of it with a lot more […]
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28 DS106-es Later

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1232
April 9, 2018

I did the impossible. I made 28 Days Later look like a happy, totally normal movie. At the same time, I also created a sick ad for DS106. I’m insanely proud of what I did with this assignment so I hope you guys check it […]
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Assignment Creation Station

by @laasarge

| assignment creation, blog posts, Daily Create, media assignment, Syndicated
April 9, 2018

This week we were asked to contribute two assignments for our fellow classmates to be able to complete. We could make two daily creates, two media assignments or one of both. Funnily enough, I submitted my first media assignment on a whim just last week! […]
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Week 10: Now on VHS and DVD!

by @laasarge

| blog posts, Syndicated, week 10, week reflection
April 2, 2018

This week was the beginning of our two week exploration. iMovie and I became very well acquainted. I started out by watching 10 Cloverfield Lane and resources about analyzing films, which you can read here. I also completed two video assignments. The first was making […]
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Foley á Deux

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments, videoassignments655
April 2, 2018

I love puns. Anyways, the second video assignment I did this week was Charlie Chaplin’s Foley Artist, worth 4 1/2 stars. The assignment was to add sound effects for an originally silent Charlie Chaplin short. I chose one called Recreation, which was one of the […]
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Analyzing With Ebert: 10 Cloverfield Lane

by @laasarge

| media reflection, Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439, week 10
April 2, 2018

Hey, folks! This week I learned a lot about looking deeper into the visual aspects of films. I took a film studies class last semester and loved it so I was ready to roll with it. First off, I watched a video that drew me […]
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I Dreamed A Dream…

by @laasarge

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, week 10
April 2, 2018

For my first video assignment, I completed the Your Dream as a Movie Trailer assignment for 4 stars. Instead of doing my own dream, however, I decided to use one of the narratives from our radio show: Winston’s journey to stardom. Winston is an aspiring […]
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Week 9: A Week in Review

by @laasarge

| blog posts, Syndicated, week 9, week reflection
March 25, 2018

Hello, my fellow survivors. This week was a bucket of fun and I really mean it this time. I was satisfied with the time I had to do everything, pleased with the results, and I’m actually doing a summary post before Monday night. Amazing! This […]
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Word Cloud Remiiiix!

by @laasarge

| design assignments, designassignments, remix, Syndicated
March 24, 2018

A while ago I completed the 4-star design assignment called Character World Cloud. In my original blog post, I described how the word cloud generator the assignment linked to gave me a hard time. I said it fought me and I lost. So for our […]
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The Survivors at Sunrise Debut

by @laasarge

| Blog Post, blog posts, radio, Syndicated
March 24, 2018

This past Wednesday, our show: Survivors at Sunrise, debuted at 10 PM. It had laughter, it had tears, it had some sick beats and cool bumpers. To be honest, I was nervous to hear the final result. I had a good time recording with everyone […]
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Week 8: Recording, Bots and Daily Creates

by @laasarge

| Blog Post, blog posts, maybe, Syndicated, week 8, week reflection
March 19, 2018

It’s week 8 and yet it doesn’t feel like it at all! It’s almost weird not having a weekly post to look at, the normal influx of comments and the usual flow of work. And yet, I can’t complain because it was because of spring […]
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Sunrise Survivors Debut

by @laasarge

| blog posts, Radio Show, Syndicated, week reflection
March 16, 2018

This Wednesday we began the recording of the Sunrise Survivors official first (and last) episode. We met in the HCC and rented a USB microphone to begin our recording. I know many people have come up with scripts and we considered doing the same but […]
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Rise and Shine, Listeners!

by @laasarge

| blog posts, design assignments, designassignments, Radio Show, Syndicated
March 5, 2018

After a long struggle with internet following the insane windstorm this past Friday, I can finally share the beginnings of our radio project. Last Thursday was the first meeting of The Sunrise Survivors: Elaina, Jillian, Alyssa and me! We coordinated a time to meet at […]
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Week 6: Playing Catch Up

by @laasarge

| Blog Post, blog posts, Syndicated, Week 6, week reflection
February 26, 2018

By now, my desktop has become littered with saved images, PhotoShop files, drafts, transparents, half-edited messes and more. Spring break is calling my name and my computer would like a clean out, please. But I had an enjoyable week of doing one of my favorite […]
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Contradiction Creation

by @laasarge

| #DesignAssignments2075, design assignments, designassignments, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

For this design assignment, Contradiction Creation (2 1/2 stars), I wanted to take an apocalyptic and creepy Big Brother state approach. I wanted these contradictory text and image pairings to seem almost like propaganda while also showing the “truth” of the situation. I simply used […]
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Less is More: New Cover for Sea of Rust

by @laasarge

| design assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

This week we were supposed to create a new cover for the books we’re reading and I did just that. I’m really drawn to the minimalistic redos of classic books and I wanted to try to attempt that for my new cover for Sea of Rust. […]
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Word Twister

by @laasarge

| design assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

I’ll be honest. I fought a battle with WordCloud and WordCloud won. Although it’s meant to be a highly customizable and personalized wordcloud generator, I had a difficult time figuring out how to make it anything like the one in the example. I depended on […]
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