This was a cool assignment.  I used Audacity to make my own sounds to imitate the beginning of a thunderstorm.  I made the wind myself, the rain was my fingertips on a Diet Pepsi can, and I also did my own lightning strikes. (Sorry could not figure out how to make thunder.  Everything with my […]

Spooky Sounds: (3 Stars) This was a fun assignment to work on, especially right at Halloween time!  I found most of my sounds that I wanted to go with on Freesound.org.  The following tracks were downloaded: Uncle Sigmund:  “Chainsaw” tcrocker68_girl:  “girl screaming” Puniho: “Chainsawing” Spoonbender: “Wind through trees” All of the files were uploaded into […]

In this audio assignment, I am to reenact a scene in which I play all the characters parts. (3 stars)  I wanted to use an episode from The Wire, so I decided that I would use the episode in which Frank and Nick have a discussion overlooking the port.  This scene is from Season 2 […]

My Original poem:  “The Wire” (3 stars) This poem was written in Microsoft Word and then I recited the track directly into Soundcloud.  My poem was written to talk about the game.  The characters that we watch in each episode are all players in a the game of life.  This game they play is separated […]

This week was a very crazy week.  I worked very heavily this week to get all of the assignments for the design week completed.  Design assignments tie so many concepts together.  In many of the design assignments, there were elements of visual, ideas of creations, and what tools do you use to create the assignment.  […]

In my designblitz, I hope to use images to explain my interpretation of design terms.  There are several terms that we were given to research and try to catch images of at least five of them.  The terms are color, typography, metaphors/symbols, minimalism/use of space, form/function/message, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, and unity.  I hope that […]

A Motivational Poster.. For me, a motivational poster could be represented by no one else other than my favorite character, Omar.  I wanted to pull Omar into this assignment.  I used one of the images that I had used for the “Where are they now?” design assignment.  I inserted the image into pizap and added  […]

A Celebrity Life…  In this assignment, we are to paste our face on a celebrity or a person that we would like to be.  My person that I have selected is Galadriel, the Elven Queen, from Lord of the Rings.  I downloaded an image of Galadriel from Google Images.  I then used piZap to paste […]

This design assignment was really funny and it seemed pretty easy to do.  We are to paste someone’s head on an animal’s body.  I wanted to also make this related to The Wire so I did my assignment by portraying Frank Sabotka as a lamb.  The Greek is always referring to lambs and lambs to […]

This was an assignment that was not difficult in design but more technical in information.  In a Venn Diagram, the design assignment recommended to pick three top Pop culture figures and tie them together in topics. The overlapping areas of the circles would be information that the circles share together.  Instead of using pop culture […]

Keeping up with the cast of The Wire.  (3 Stars) Where are they now?  What projects have they moved on to?  This required some research on www.imdb.com to research the characters that I chose. I wanted to portray the characters not only by their images but also by a brief description of each characters shown.  […]

Had to take an opportunity and pull our Halloween skull glasses out for this daily create. My Video of “Water in a Glass”

This week was all about visual.  Visual is very important but as we have learned this week, visual can be deceiving.  When we covered audio, audio allows your brain to put the pieces together of the scene that the producer is trying to portray.  Visual can be altered though.  Some of the projects that I […]

This was a very fun assignment.  I enjoyed finding the topic of each picture.  Sometimes you had to be creative.  I started my photoblitz at 11:44 am and ended at 12:04 pm.  Luckily, I was able to creatively take a picture for each of the requests. The first picture is of my list and my […]

This assignment really had me deep in thought.  What would be my perfect day?  I hit google images to try to explain to everyone what my idea of a perfect day would be…. My perfect day would begin with a view like this from my bed waking up next to my husband… (after adult time […]

This was a fun assignment.  I took three different pictures of myself making sure that I was the only thing in the picture that moved.  Once I had all three pictures, I used piZap to clip and merge all three pictures together.  I then uploaded the picture into Flickr.

I loved this assignment.  It was so funny to work with images and to place random images into my panorama of the view from Monroe towards the fountain.  I took the panorama picture with my phone.  I found random images on google and used piZap to merge them all together.  I then uploaded the picture […]

Audio.  This week we focused on Audio.  Audio is a topic that we each have over looked previously.  Never have I sat and thought about the work that goes into just making the sounds that we hear on movies, tv shows, and even audiobooks.  Sounds help us to identify with the characters, to feel their […]

Took the time yesterday to completely listen to the interview with Jennifer Ralston again.  I wanted to focus closely on all the details of the interview.  I was amazed over the details given to the audio recordings.  Some of the concepts that were covered in the interview were completely contrast to what I would have […]

Guess the reversed song..  Can you guess this song?   Give you some hints… It’s a duet,  From the Country hits, and He’s not afraid to get a little mud on the tires…   Loved doing this.  I had to find a kind of back way into this.  I could not get my uploaded song […]

  Here is the link to my Radio Ad for DS106 Radio.  I used a trance demo from Freesound. org that was created by Oceanictrancer titled “Deep Melodic Beat”.  I loved the music.  I used Audacity to blend my voice with the music track.  Once the file was saved as a .wav, I used Itunes […]

This afternoon, while sitting at my desk at work, I found myself deep in thought over what would be an interesting topic to talk about if I were to run a “Wire” themed radio show on the ds106 radio.  I listen all day to talk radio so I know the importance of always having a […]

Sound Scapes: This is my sound scape to take you directly to the docks of Baltimore’s ship harbor.  If you close you eyes, it will sound exactly as if an episode of Season 2 from The Wire is about to start.  I collected my sounds from Freesound.org.  They are a mixture of sounds but I […]

Checking in this Sunday evening to fill everyone in the week here from my view of the roof.  This week I feel like I got a lot accomplished despite illnesses and family issues with one of my children. My first assignment, I completed a 5 star assignment.  This was a very useful assignment that could […]

Zzzzzz, hisssss, ssss….. Sound like a snake… Ziggy, you move like a snake, Sneaking looking for a quick cash deal Selling stolen goods, moving like a sneaky snake… Ssss, zzzzz, hissssss……

Triple Troll Epigraph: The quote was done by Jimmy McNulty.  He quoted this while drinking his 14 shots.  He was referring to Rawls and his hatred of Jimmy. (Episode 2 in Season 2) The scene is between Cedric Daniels and his wife, Marla.  Marla is always concerned about how Cedric’s past can come back to […]

http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=0AgQ2e-ma-vMOdExHTGhEUk9MVEdGVzBUa2Jkb0lDeXc&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&height=650 The above link is to my Web Assignment discussing the use of the two primary colors red and blue in Season 2 Episode 1.  I have created a Timeline JS going through 11 photographs taken from the episode.  Each photo has been time stamped with it’s corresponding time slot in the episode.  Red and […]

Hello everyone.  This week was an eventful week.  I learned so much this week while making the six gifs.  This is a skill that I never thought that I would need or learn. :)  My kids are highly impressed since so many of the youtube videos that they watch have gifs in them or the […]

GIF  Tutorial Hi everyone!  This is going to be my tutorial on how to create a gif.  I don’t have any illustrations but I hope you can follow along. The most important things to remember before starting this project: If you don’t have the software to create the .gifs I recommend downloading two programs: MPEG […]

After a great deal of trial and error, I can now say after creating six gifs that I am now a gif pro!  They take a great deal of work but it was fun creating this assignment. My episode is number 9 in season 1.  The title is “Game Day” and the quote for this […]