Final Chapter….. Part 2 and Reflections

Final Chapter….. Part 2 and Reflections

by @ldeitrick

| ds106, finalcrisis, Syndicated
December 8, 2017

FIRST ATTACKS This map plots out the first four attacks. Originally thought to be unrelated incidents, as the number continued to grow and eye witness accounts were collected, a much more sinister picture began to emerge as the world began to realize some one or something was targeting the world’s superhero community. Detroit’s Silverdome …
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Final Chapter – part 1

by @ldeitrick

| Syndicated
December 1, 2017

For my final crisis project, I decided to do a remix on the idea that the world, and DS106 along with it, is ending. The specific apocalyptic viewpoint I’ll be creating is that an unknown source, entity, or villain is killing off superheros across the globe. I’ll convey this story in multiple parts using various …
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Weekly Summary 11

by @ldeitrick

| #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, WeeklySummary
November 10, 2017

This week had some roller-coasters for me, but once I was on a roll, it all coasted. – Darn, I’m clever. I started by week trapped in Iceland after a wind storm delayed my return flight by two days. But there are worst places to be trapped and I was surrounded by good friends – …
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Twitterverse and trolls

by @ldeitrick

| ds106, finalcrisis, Syndicated, Video
November 10, 2017

The American people are under attack form the inside out. Russian trolls and bots have taken over the internet are dividing Americans, pitting brother against sister, child against parent. Someone must save the day. Someone must put a stop to this – how do we heal the twitterverse? How do we united the nation 140 …
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Head in the Clouds

by @ldeitrick

| #meditation, #VideoAssignments435, #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments
November 10, 2017

I was pretty excited to work on this last project with my new found awesome editing software. I chose to do a variation of the Serenity Now challenge. I listen to guided mediation on YouTube on a regular basis, so that makes be qualify to create one, right? …..Right? Fairly repetitive in the process for …
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To the coffee

by @ldeitrick

| #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2030
November 10, 2017

After my first stumbling block with Windows Movie Maker, I ran into a brick wall for the my second project, “Where do your shoes take you?” the Window Movie Maker audio component wasn’t working at all. This baffled me, as I had just used the system yesterday without any difficulty, but after trying to find …
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Now Playing……

by @ldeitrick

| #Khatykra, #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1765
November 10, 2017

For my first project this week, I chose to create an intro to a movie about my superhero Khatyrka. As some of you might recall, I created a poster for the movie a few weeks back. I’ve now constructed the first scenes of the movie with opening credits. I began with the vision of showcasing …
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Weekly Summary #10

by @ldeitrick

| Syndicated
November 3, 2017

It was a new week and I was ready to CRUSH it. After a couple weeks of sub-par work (and living), I was ready to get back in the saddle as they say and hit one out of the ballpark. (I’m sensing a cliche theme here….) How to Read a Movie and Every Frame a …
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Day in the life and Poetry

by @ldeitrick

| #ds4life, #VideoAssignments401, #VideoAssignments748, #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments
November 3, 2017

Day in the life This was by far the most enjoyable project this week since I got to document my life experiences. I downloaded Adobe Premiere Clip, which is an awesome video editing application for your phone. This made compiling my videos and adding a soundtrack really easy and convenient. I highly recommend the free …
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Video Essay

by @ldeitrick

| #ds4life, #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, videoessay
November 3, 2017

Of course this assignment made me nervous. Would I have enough time to learn the logistics of creating a voice-over video? Would I pick a scene that had enough depth and character to analyze? Would the final product be something I could be proud of or something that would just be “good enough?” I started …
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Life Hack (and video lessons)

by @ldeitrick

| #ds4life, #videoweek, ds106, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2116
November 3, 2017

This was my first trial and error video editing. I found Filmora editing software to be a fantastic option for video creation. It works very similarly to Audacity, so the learning curve wasn’t as rough. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the trial version of the software would apply a rather large watermark across the video …
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Weekly Summary #9

by @ldeitrick

| Syndicated, webstorytelling, WeeklySummary
October 30, 2017

This week was a hot mess for me. I’ll spare the details, but this is what I was able to accomplish: Star Appeal Susan B. Social Media Antique Stapler
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Antique Stapler

by @ldeitrick

| #WebAssignments, #WebAssignments708, ds106, Syndicated, webstorytelling
October 27, 2017

For my final web assignment challenge, I used X-Ray Goggles to create an auction site page for a stapler. My auction site.
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Susan B on Social Media

by @ldeitrick

| #WebAssignments, #WebAssignments712, ds106, Syndicated
October 27, 2017

I chose to create a Facebook and twitter account for Susan B. Anthony. The Facebook page doesn’t look at realistic as I would have liked, as it appears to have to upgrade to a premium account on Class Tools to create an ad free site. It was fun it investigate some of Susan B. Anthony’s …
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Star appeal

by @ldeitrick

| #ds4life, #webstoryweek, ds106, Syndicated, webstorytelling
October 27, 2017

Using x-ray goggles was actually a lot of fun. My storytelling within challenge was a little ambitious. I chose to create a resume on IMDB site. I did not alter any of the linked pages. The most difficult part was removing information from the page. I also learned how to inspect other websites for embedded …
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Weekly Summary

by @ldeitrick

| audio, ds106radio, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 21, 2017

The past two weeks have been really stressful. On a personal note, my dog, Angel passed on the 7th of October. She was 24 years old and I’d had her since I was 19, so for 14 years she was my sole companion. It hit be hard and it was big adjustment and work, school …
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Suspense

by @ldeitrick

| #ds4life, audio, ds106, ds106radio, radio, radioshowweek2, Syndicated
October 20, 2017

I’ve been pleasantly surprise how easy the collaboration between most members of the group has been solely through online communication. I live and work in Arlington, so meeting in person wasn’t an option for me. And while online communication made my life easier, it also made me nervous about putting together a radio show. I …
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Weekly Summary #6

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, design, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 6, 2017

Read/Watch and Reflect Design can be used to tell stories a variety of ways. This week in ‘Fast Forward or Rewind,’ I explored Hassna Otsmane-Elhaou’s analyses of design elements used in comics to illustrate inner thoughts, change the mood, convey action, and even create time alteration. Creative anomalies in their usual structure provided the audience …
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Strike a Pose.

by @ldeitrick

| #designblitz106, #designweek, design, designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

Ok- I cheated a little on this one. I wasn’t able to get enough photos throughout the week, so I dug into my photo archives. I LOVE the cover of this book. At first glance, it looks bold and minimalist, but there is a little more to unpack. This book is about racial inequality in …
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Made of Words.

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, ds106, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

What makes a person who they are? What shapes you? These were the questions I asked myself when creating a word cloud based on Khatykra. I used WordArt to create the image, and I am very pleased with the results.
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Write It.

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, designassignments, DesignAssignments365, ds106, minimalism, minimalist, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

I’m a fan of minimalism. But I’m also known to occasionally have way too much stuff. What causes this divergence from ideal to reality? The same problem I face when designing something minimalist. I’m enchanted by the concept of clean lines and abstract visuals, but is it too little? Do I use more than 2 …
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You Could Cut It Will A Knife……..

by @ldeitrick

| #DesignAssignments2111, #designweek, #ds4life, design, designassignments, ds106, Syndicated
October 4, 2017

The Women comic strip I was a layout editor in high school, so I was excited for the challenge of creating a comic strip from a movie scene. I mean, that’s basically what yearbook editing is, presenting a year’s worth of high school action into a single book of head shots. I chose to work …
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Coming Soon

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, #ds4life, #khatyrka, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments43, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

Creating a movie poster based on Khatyrka, I immediately had the idea to show a woman’s shoulder with a tattoo of a quasi-crystal. The first mission was to find a quasi-crystal image I though would work. While googling for images, I came across some hard mental octagonal die, and thought about changing the concept …
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Fast Forward or Rewind?

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, #ds4life, design, designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

Design can be used to tell stories a variety of ways, including illustrating inner thoughts, change in mood, action, and even time alteration. In Strip Panel Naked: Negative Space in ‘Jessica Jones’ and Strip Panel Naked: ‘Unstoppable Wasp’ And Dealing With Complicated Layouts , Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou explores the use of design elements to signify the characters …
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Weekly Summary #5

by @ldeitrick

| #audioweek, #ds4life, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
September 29, 2017

I have zero experience editing audio. Zero. The closest I’ve ever come to being a sound producer was burning CDs on my desktop with Napster was still a thing. Needless to say, this week’s audio assignments were a challenge for me. The process was slow, sometimes painful, and on a steep learning curve. The greatest …
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Sound Construction Site

by @ldeitrick

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, #audioweek, #ds4life, #stripitdown, audio, AudioAssignments2019, ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

So, audio editing is a work in progress for me. I spent a lot of time working on each assignment, only to finally realize I wasn’t going to modern, electronic Mozart on my first try. My pieces aren’t going to sound like what I hear on the radio or at DJ event, if they did, …
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Rule the World

by @ldeitrick

| #audioweek, #ds4life, audio, ds106, superherosoundtrack, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

A superhero soundtrack was tough on me from a creative perspective. I really didn’t want to do a voice-over because I felt like it fit my character or her story. I didn’t know how I could adequately relay her story in a quick voice-over. Instead, I decided to go a very minimalist, abstract direction with …
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Bumper……. radio?

by @ldeitrick

| #audioweek, #ds4life, ds106, radiobumper, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

Technical stuff I used Freesound to download “Batman punches” and a surreal galaxy These are nods to both the DS106 superhero theme and my blog’s personal title theme. I voice recorded the intro using the SoundCloud app on my Samsung Galaxy phone. I find the sound quality from my phone’s microphone is light years ahead …
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Can You Hear What I See?

by @ldeitrick

| #audioweek, #ds4life, #jessicajones, audio, ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated, twitter
September 29, 2017

Have you ever closed your eyes while watching television? Or perhaps, you are like me and have a show tuned on while in another room just out of eyesight? In the virtual classroom, we mimicked that experience with a few minor differences. If we missed something or were unable to decipher what was happening based …
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Silence is the loudest sound.

by @ldeitrick

| #audioreflection, #audioweek, #ds4life, #silence, audio, ds106, Syndicated
September 28, 2017

“Moon Graffiti” grabs you right from the moment you start listening. The producers achieve this primarily using two distinct styles when introducing the story. NPR’s “How Audio Stories Begin” describe these techniques as diving immediately into the narrative and introducing a mystery. We are confronted with alarms signaling a sense of danger and urgency, as …
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