Howdy folks. I’m writing this with 30 minutes to go, so I’ll be brief, but I wanted to share my general advice for the course. First off, the work is very reasonable IF you start it at the beginning of the week. Just because it’s an online course, you may tend to put things off … Continue reading DS106 Course Advice

Well, this couldn’t have been submitted any closer. I’ve been working on this all day today, and all I can say is that I wish I started earlier. Basically, I tried to tell the story of Guts and the Band of the Hawk during the Golden Age (from the manga Berserk) through the website creator … Continue reading Final Project

  Time to report my progress! The idea of my final project is as follows: I’m going to take the character Guts, from Berserk (a manga I’ve referenced and utilized multiple times during this semester) and chart his arc, character progression, information, etc, by creating an interactive website using free website creator wix.com. I plan … Continue reading Week 14 Summary/Progress Report

The penultimate week is now over! I used the web and all of its tools this week to create our own stories, starting off with Storytelling Within the Web, where I edited the code of a webpage to change the narrative and purpose. Next, I told a story on an Amazon item for Three Moon … Continue reading Week 13 Summary

In this assignment, you use Google Maps to tell a story, whether it is historical, or something you personally experienced. I used Google maps to show my visit to Seattle, WA, which I did to watch The International, a multi-million dollar tournament for Dota 2. This was 2 years ago, and at the time, it was … Continue reading Web Assignment – Google Map Trip

I created an email advertising for tourism in Tombstone, Arizona, a town I’ve used a couple times in past assignments. This assignment uses the website Vertical Response to create this ad, and actually allows you to send it out to people, but a) I didn’t have emails to send it to, and b) I don’t … Continue reading Web Assignment – Email! Email! Read All About It!

This assignment has you create a story using an Amazon review. To find a product to review, I used the Random Amazon Product website, searching until I found something interesting enough. I ended up with this adjustable tree pruner, and it looked like a weapon to me, so I made up a fake review posing … Continue reading Web Assignment – Three Moon Wolf Stories

This assignment has you use the Mozilla X-Ray Goggles tool to edit elements of a website, and tell a story. I used eBay to represent the factual college essentials, not the nonsense that lists online tell you about. I originally wanted to use Google’s shopping page, but it wouldn’t let me edit images, so I … Continue reading Web Assignment – Storytelling Within The Web

This week, we were supposed to combine our daily creates to tell a story. I used mine to tell the tale of a man trying to court a woman, first with a trip, then with flowers. It appears to have worked at some point, because they ended up together, even beyond death. @ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate … Continue reading Week 13 Daily Creates

Thus ends week 12, and we near ever closer to the end of the class. This week was mashups and remixes, and I found the entire week fairly easy, so it was a nice relaxation week. I did three mashup assignments: Consumer Mashup, where I created a combination of a logo and a item purchased … Continue reading Week 12 Summary

For this assignment, you mash up two distinct movie scenes into one. I chose a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Godzilla. 2001 has many great shots, so I felt it was a fitting movie to try and find a background to Photoshop something into. Once I picked my scene, I thought of what … Continue reading Mashup Assignment – This Doesn’t Belong Here (with Tutorial)

For this remix assignment, you take someone’s existing assignment, and make it pink in some way. I used Natalie’s drawing of a flower, and decided to add some color to the petals. Her original blog post is below. Talie’s Six Second Art To do this, I first downloaded her video, then took it into Photoshop. … Continue reading Remix Assignment – #SixSecondArt (Pretty In Pink)

🇺🇸🚀💥🛰 #dailycreate #ds106 #tdc1549 — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) April 6, 2016 @ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1551 pic.twitter.com/vWdjzYDFPW — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) April 7, 2016  

A simple enough assignment, taking elements of your 3 favorite holidays, and combining them into one image. If it wasn’t clear, I went with Halloween, Christmas, and Independence Day. I’ve always been a fan of Halloween; I love the combination of Autumn weather and the atmosphere around the holiday. Christmas is associated with family and … Continue reading Mashup Assignment – Holiday Mashup

I’ve done this assignment before, but we needed to use something existing in one of our assignments. The remixed option I received was The Opposer, in which you do the opposite of the assignment; considering I had merged the NBC and Twitter logo to create an NBC appearing Twitter bird, I thought to do the … Continue reading Remix Assignment – The Ultimate Merger (The Opposer)

This assignment is very similar to the design assignment The Ultimate Merger, so I have some experience working with logos. However, I connected the assignment to my character this time, so changing it up a bit. I took the logo of Smith & Wesson, a gun manufacturer, of which my character owns a gun from. … Continue reading Mashup Assignment – Consumer Mashup

Video crew part deux! This week is up there with the closest to finishing everything on time, considering I had to do everything but the three daily creates today (incredibly busy week, borderline finals amount of work). I initially had trouble incorporating my character with video assignments, but I think I got a lot more … Continue reading Week 11 Summary

This assignment has you create a short 1-2 minute documentary about a certain person close to you. Most people did their western characters for this, but I wanted to try something a little fun. I chose my favorite character from my favorite video game, Dota 2, or Defense of the Ancients 2. Zeus, much similar … Continue reading Video Assignment – Mini Documentary

In this assignment, you take a clip from a movie, and try to make it look like a film out of the silent era. This is usually accomplished by removing the sound, turning it black and white, and adding some sort of filter, while adding in background music and title cards. I chose the shootout … Continue reading Video Assignment – Return to the Silent Era

For this assignment, you create a video montage of your favorite assignments that you have done so far. I decided to compile all of my assignments dealing with my character, Luke, and put them in one video. First off, the music I chose is Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone, featured in The Good, The … Continue reading Video Assignment – Digital Story Compilation

This assignment is to create a video tutorial for origami. The original theme was halloween, but I decided to connect it with my character, crafting him a paper gun for when his trusty Smith & Wesson isn’t around. I found how to make the gun from a tutorial online. Since I don’t have any proper … Continue reading Video Assignment – Origami

@ds106dc #tdc1543 #ds106 A subsidiary of ACME, Sodexo is known for their "explosive" food choices. pic.twitter.com/rEkVHx9jr3 — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) March 30, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1544 a glitch in the matrix pic.twitter.com/dnt8K75Syg — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) March 31, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1545 dreary selfie for a dreary day pic.twitter.com/YtCWkTyg2O — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) April 1, 2016  

My week of reckoning! The video group worked together on a lot of the ideas this week, and I’m glad to have been part of that. I had seen some of these videos focusing on the intricacies of film before, but I really enjoyed Tony Zhou’s videos, and will continue to watch them beyond this … Continue reading Week 10 Summary

For this assignment, you have to use sign language to spell out a word or words. I wanted to connect this to my character, Luke Nelson, so I spelled out his name! I had never done sign language before, so it was actually quite difficult for me, even when I was looking at a sheet … Continue reading Video Assignment – Signing Words

This is my brief analysis for the gas station scene from No Country for Old Men. I’ve used the scene before, creating a gif of the coin toss, but it’s so good that I can’t let it go after one use. I explain a few elements of the scene that stand out to me, but … Continue reading Video Essay

This was the assignment I suggested in our group, so I felt obliged to complete it myself. I chose No Country for Old Men, since that was the movie I watched to analyze this week. I’m realizing I should have made the assignment a minute or less, because I easily went over the 30 seconds, even … Continue reading Video Assignment – Spoil A Movie In 30 Seconds Or Less

@ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1535 cactus and tumbleweed pic.twitter.com/xy7USUSgQA — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) March 23, 2016 @ds106dc #dailycreate #tdc1534 pic.twitter.com/u8L5xlApNn — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) March 22, 2016 &nb...

This video assignment asks you to take a scene from a movie and make the characters sound like chipmunks. I went with the ending soliloquy from Blade Runner, a scene that’s very powerful normally, just to see what it was like chipmunkified. I originally wanted to go with the “Do you feel lucky?” speech from … Continue reading Video Assignment – Chipmunk Style

First video assignment of the entire class! For this assignment, we’re supposed to take a serious scene from a movie, and then dub it with audio or music from a comedy. The serious scene I chose was the Raptor in the Kitchen scene from Jurassic Park, and I dubbed it with the song Yakety Sax, … Continue reading Video Assignment – Why So Serious?

Week 9 over! This was supposed to our relaxation week after creating our radio shows, and for the most part, it was. I got to listen to all the shows everyone created this week, and really enjoyed them. I went into detail about TombCast here. Our assignments for this week had to incorporate not only our … Continue reading Week 9 Summary