Some Ideas to Throw in the Mix
80s Pandemics
Since the crisis of the COVID-19, an idea is to possibly put together clips of history especially what pandemics hit in the 1980s. Before I added this new post, I went to the headline.com site and found this: https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-history#10 The 80s …
Redesigned
I decided to redo on this bank assignment since I was not too happy with it. I don’t think I put too much work into it as I should have. Here I changed the logo colors more to bright colors vice just keeping with the original black colors. The …
Be Conscious
Our county has closed schools until the middle of April.
My older sons’ are home from college.
The government has not shutdown, so that means I’m still going to work.
What’s the point? I go to work, mingle among everyone, and come home to my family who have …
Daily Creates
Radio Show Progress
Commenting on Other Posts
the gang does a radio show – pt. 2
Radio Show…
Voices of Generation X
Our two member group was not as bad as I thought it would be. I had a great partner. We both collaborated and got the job done!
We kept our google doc updated as we went along, making it more specific so we both understood what …
@ds106dc #tdc2983 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is pic.twitter.com/OPPWZiZZ8X
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) March 13, 2020
Following the 80s theme, the sunglasses are a nice touch.…
@ds106dc #tdc2982 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is an old phone. I’m not a drawer. pic.twitter.com/zR6sug0ym5
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) March 12, 2020
Following our class theme, I attempted to draw a phone. Enjoy.…
Whew! This week is almost done! Now on to editing and more editing on our group radio shows. We got some great materials for our radio show. This week, I concentrated on materials that went with our class theme and on our group radio show such as the design project, …
Voices of Generation X
In our group, we have two people, myself and one other person. We’re making it work by dividing and conquering.
Game Plan
The radio show is to tell about the 80s from the very people that lived it. They will be asked a series of ten …
80s Rubix Cube
For this audio assignment, I created an 80s gadget radio show commercial.
I stayed with the theme of the class, an 80s product that was the hit.
I wrote the voice script, making it enticing for listeners to want to purchase a rubix cube; mentioning the six …
Voices of Generation X
For this audio assignment, I created an advertisement for our group radio show. It’s to promote the radio show.
It’s a little over 30 seconds long to promote the 80s generation X voices.
I uploaded background music from the freesound link and drummer roll sounds. Then, …
The Voice of Gen X
For one of the audio assignments and to promote our group assignment, I created a radio bumper for our radio show.
Our group project is to interview people that grew up in the 80s. What is was like and what they remember about the 80s.…
Memorable Rocky
@ds106dc #tdc2963 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is of “Rocky” from the movie Mask. pic.twitter.com/EifzBU2zWq
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) February 22, 2020
Here is a daily create on memorable recognition. Rocky has a facial structure that is worth recognition. He played in the movie, Rocky, it was …
Humorous Initials
@ds106dc #tdc2965 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is Cheerful Looking Strawberries! (CLS)
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) February 25, 2020
For this daily create, you had to come up with words from your initials and to add a food. My initials are CLS. I came up with Cheerful …
If you were a disaster…
@ds106dc #tdc2964 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create will be like a torn quilt. She’s torn but fixable. pic.twitter.com/MVXiyJgKP0
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) February 23, 2020
If I were a disaster, how would you be described. I could think of no environment disaster but a …
Roses are Red…
@ds106dc #tdc2966 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is a cheesy poem. pic.twitter.com/uSESwAUEVS
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) February 25, 2020
This daily create is to hand write a poem. I’m not much of a poem writer so I wrote a Roses are Red poem. …
Stuck in Traffic, See that Bumper Sticker!
One of the assignment this week is to create a design for our group radio show. See our bumper sticker!
The bumper stick is the theme of the 80s, generation X, people born in the 60s and 70s, but group up in the …
Design Reflection
Bank Assignments
Daily Creates
I created more than 3 daily creates on twitter but posted only the three for the assignments.
Commenting on Posts
Wow! That’s neat!
— LaxMom07 …
Camera Buddy
Color
I ran to Harris Teeter to grab something else other than wine when this wine bottle caught my eye. The primary color, red, is what stood out among the rack.
The red color is bright and collaborates with the gray background and a slight tint of white …
Happy Belated Valentine’s Day
The bank assignment from Valentine’s Card to create a card that has a cool effect and someone would get a kick out of it.
I uploaded a picture of jaws and used PS Express to edit to change the color and add the sparkles to it …
Hint: it’s an 80’s film
Created the bank assignment from One Story / Four Icons, initially using a PowerPoint to create the icons and airdropping into my photos to upload into this blog.
The point of the assignment is to create 4 icons for others to guess the film. …
Bank Assignment
My assignment was picked from Logo Create using Tailor Brands. I have been quilting for about 20 years now, just for myself and to enjoy my hobby. I thought if one day, I could go into business and quilt others but I don’t think I will since …
Twitter Pages
@ds106dc #tdc2956 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is this secluded tree house! pic.twitter.com/FZmBIqJHmF
— LaxMom07 (@LMom07) February 15, 2020
@ds106dc #tdc2957 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is this My name are colors of green, my favorite color, red, maroon?, white, and yellow! Interesting. pic.twitter.com/UpcXwGS7H6…
Where the 80s music is at!
The collage above is from the Bank Assignment where you create a collage to make a music cover page with a band and album name. Using PS Express, I filtered the image with red but I think the cover looks better with the black …
Design Thoughts
Vignelli wrote a book on how designing takes planning.
Among other things, Vignelli’s three basic design gears are semantic,
syntactic, and pragmatic. Semantic is to know the definition behind the product,
basically the history of the product. Its main point is to drive home the
relationship between the …
Commenting on Other Posts
#tdc2955 #ds106 #dailycreate Heart within a heart … @ronald_2008 pic.twitter.com/uOpjgfUqfk
— KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) February 14, 2020
Audio Reflection
DS106 Radio
Audio Bank Assignments
Audio Reflection
Radio Shows
There are many ideas for short radio shows to be discovered, I’ve thought about possibly creating an investigative show as they are done in podcasts, create a new 80s movie reviews, talk about money, or talk about book reviews.
Investigative reports could be intriguing and put listeners on …
80s Radio Commercial
I completed this audio bank assignment creating a radio commercial on an 80s product commercial. Walkmans were the thing back then. I used free sound to upload 80s background music. Enjoy!…
Guess the Movie
I used the links free sounds and BBC sound effects to put the movie sounds together that I think are obvious in the movie. Enjoy!…
Audio Bank Assignment
Below is an audio bank assignment from Sound Effects Story, the assignment is to collaborate every day sounds no longer than 90 seconds. Below I included; nearby clapping, laughing nearby, pigeons fighting over food, airport announcement, metro train, and wind whistling. I never really paid attention …
