Last week like woah
Even though there was less to do this week, I felt like I was still struggling to get things done because I’ve been doing work for finals. But I can’t believe that this course is coming to a close!!… Continue Reading →
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My Name is Tribute
In D’Angelo’s perspective… Since I’m named after Donald Angelo Barksdale, the first black player on the ABA/NBA team called the Baltimore Bullets, I decided to do this assignment based off that. Favorite Sports Paraphernalia | Show a picture of your favorite sports team paraphernalia… Continue Reading → -
What if…
The Way It Should’ve Been | Do you know a book or movie that you love, but would have been so much better if just one thing had worked out differently? Take your idea and roll with it. 3 stars.… Continue Reading → -
Post-it Notes & Grocery Lists
Post-It Notes And Grocery Lists! | Choose a character, then, create Post-It notes in an image editor–multi-colored squares with handwritten-looking-text–that the character or characters in your chosen world would leave for themselves around the house. The Notes can be reminders,… Continue Reading → -
Water + Rice
After getting food poisoning less than 24 hours ago, water has quickly become my favorite inanimate object. I’m also just now wanting to eat again, so the rice isn’t half bad either. -
We google-hungout
Just finished a video discussion on Season 4, Episode 10 of The Wire. It was cool to talk to everyone about a specific episode–can’t believe I’ve waited this long in the semester to do it! We had a few issues… Continue Reading → -
Week 13 & 14 Summary
Hard to believe this is our second to last weekly summary!! This semester just kind of… happened. Woah. Daily Creates (4) Disturb the Comforted | Do Something | On a Scale of 1 to… Mashup (8*) Tangled Freeze (4*) | Kirk Watches… Continue Reading → -
You gotta protect it.
Create Your Own Magic Cards | Come up with at least 4 cards based on characters or locations from your favorite show, movie, book, or other story. This assignment is done from D’Angelo’s part of view. // Design category, 4… Continue Reading → -
Writing | Night Call Poem
Night Call Poem | Done from the perspective of D’Angelo Barksdale. Writing category, two stars _________________________________________ Peaceful Scrape Many are scared of the dark But I find peace when the sun goes down. The streets call to their nauseating… Continue Reading → -
On a scale of 1 to…
Daily Create | I always wanted to find out how these custom error messages are done. Do you know? Make one that could pop up when you forget to daily create. I went to atom.smasher.org/error/ to create my pop up… Continue Reading → -
Remix | ‘Stached App
Remix Assignment | Create an app, add a ‘stache! I find it kind of funny that I got this as my remix assignment… I literally tweeted the other day that I wanted an app to remind me to reply to… Continue Reading → -
Kirk watches Omar
Captain Kirk Watches… | Download this scary remix of Star Trek watching Miley Cyrus and replace that twerking with something really awful. It will take some editing that allows you to insert video (in iMovie enable advanced features for Picture… Continue Reading → -
TDC Submission // 10 Things
TDC Submission | 10 Things Keep your priorities in check: What are 10, non school-related things you want to do before you graduate? -
Design Submission // Create Your Own Business Card
Design Submission | Create Your Own Business Card We’re reaching a time in our lives where where professionalism is key. Create your own business card to advertise who you are. See the following for examples: -
TDC Submission // 5 in 1 Story
Daily Create | 5 in 1 Story Grab the 5 nearest books around you. (Novels or textbooks, whatever story you’re wanting to make.) In a blog post copy: The first sentence on p. 1 of the first book. The seventh sentence on p. 5 of… Continue Reading → -
Design Submission // Laptop Lingo
Design Submission | Laptop Lingo I know some of us (myself included) are a bit particular about the looks/cleanliness of our technology. But if that didn’t matter, and you had all of the resources at your fingertips, without any fear… Continue Reading → -
Tangled Freeze
Movie Mashup | Take a movie that you really like. Now think of a movie that has been compared to it, and make a new movie poster that incorporates the two! 4 stars. For this assignment, I chose to create a… Continue Reading → -
Do Something
Daily Create | Pick one an caption it with some DS106 words of wisdom. I chose this photo from Unsplash- a site that I was introduced to through this Daily Create, and will continue to use until forever. I love, LOVE… Continue Reading → -
Disturb the comforted
Daily Create | What do you do when the bell rings at 3:30 and you just need a creative, inspirational kick in the pants? Internet has been out at the house, and I’m just now having a chance to do… Continue Reading → -
Week 11 & 12 in a Nutshell
Hey Everyone! Had to run home for a dose of emergency drama this weekend so I’m just now getting back and posting my weekly summary just under the wire…hahaha! Loved the last two weeks. Take a look to see what… Continue Reading → -
Video Essay
Video Essay | For this assignment you need to select several scenes from The Wire, and edit them together and comment on some of the filmic elements of the scenes? Why do you like these scenes? What strikes you about them?… Continue Reading → -
Swede an Episode: D’Angelo’s Demise
SWEDE AN EPISODE | Season 2, Episode 6– “All Prologue” 4.5/5 stars Alright folks- here it is: the assignment that you’ve probably been losing sleep waiting for. Alison and I decided to work with the episode where D’Angelo is murdered. For… Continue Reading → -
My Favorite Vacation
It’s Vacation Time! | What was your favorite vacation? Don’t you wish you could relive it over and over? Create a video, sharing with us where you went! 2 stars After high school graduation, my parents and I were invited to a… Continue Reading → -
My (probably too detailed) Flag
Daily Create | What’s Your Flag? If you owned a country, what would your flag look like? Draw a flag for The Country of Me. I did this assignment by layering images on photoshop and then messing around with the so-called ‘kind’… Continue Reading → -
Can you guess?
Name that book! | For this assignment, use the app Vine to visually create a book title. 2.5 stars Hey everyone! I made a vine with hints (only 2 actually) that represent the title of a book. Can you guess what it… Continue Reading → -
Chipmunk French
Chipmunk Style | Take a clip from a film and either speed up the action or raise the pitch on the audio track for some high-pitched laughs. 2.5 stars For this assignment, I chose my scene based off of the elements that… Continue Reading → -
Coded Dragon
Daily Create | A geek magnetic poem, please? Whoever came up with this Daily Create idea was genius– I had so much fun with this one!! Not sure why.. maybe it was because I had never heard of the Geek Magnetic… Continue Reading → -
In honor of seeing Interstellar…
Daily Create | Make a photo. I thought the description for today’s daily create was a bit vague, so I decided to add my own twist to it by taking a frame from Interstellar and then adding a powerful line to the… Continue Reading → -
Bunny Sculpture
Daily Create | Create a small, large or very large tape sculpture or sculptures… I added some text on the photo to help you out in case you couldn’t exactly “see” it. I don’t know why you wouldn’t though, its pretty… Continue Reading → -
Week 10 Summary
You GUYS. Video week was so. fun. This might have been my favorite week yet. There’s just a whole MESS of video editing software out there and after spending a week with it, I still feel like I BARELY touched… Continue Reading →
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