My second inspire post was Kelsey’s Is it time to Post-it? (and no I’m not just saying any of this cause she’s one of my best friends. she’s actually the bomb.com. No playing favorites!!!) I picked this piece for a few reasons. The main reason, was her write up. Kelsey does an AMAZING job narrating her […]

Guess who tweeted along to three fabulous radio shows last night? THAT’D BE ME. Last night’s triple feature included the maNOIRpulators, Dead Silence, and the Steadfast Sleuths. All three were fantastic, and I’m pretty sure I tripled my number of tweets, but it was well worth it. The night started off a little shaky. It […]

This week, we must do 10 stars of assignments from the assignment bank….HOWEVER we can do 10 stars from any category, but the catch is that all 10 must relate to our character and be collaborated with someone else’s character.  AND WE GET EXTRA POINTS IF WE ACTUALLY WORK WITH THE PERSON WE’RE COLLABORATING WITH. […]

Today’s Daily Create: Your favorite moment in the past week Make an abstract sketch to illustrate it. My favorite moment in the past week was my boyfriend’s annual Fire Department Company dinner. He’s in the Hook & Ladder Company (no clue what this really means but he puts out fires and stuff and cuts holes […]

For my first inspire post, I decided to choose Lauren’s cheesy radio ad for UMW. You can check out more of her work on her website HERE. I really liked this ad, and how her audio flowed. It not only persuaded me to go to UMW (even though I already do), it also reinforced that […]

Today’s Daily Create: Show us different sides of yourself and put them together into one final collage. Here is my collage. featuring: Me and my main squeeze Pierre. Me holding a dead blowfish in my boss shirt. Me as a princess…aka me in my natural state Me turning 22 with a fishbowl in a pitcher because they […]

IT IS FINALLY  SPRING BREAK YAYYYY  (well after I finish this post, which I am doing on Saturday at 10 am, not Sunday at 11 pm). This week has proven to be challenging, AND FUN. I originally thought that I would hate everything about a group project, but I didn’t. We met up the first day […]

I just love commenting on people’s pieces. It was definitely more challenging this week, since there ere significantly less posts than usual. I’m almost done with all my assignments for the week AND I’M SO HAPPY. But everyone’s Daily Creates and Radio Show updates were on point, and I’m really impressed with how creative all […]

How I feel about our Radio Show Progress This week has been a whirlwind of trying to get everything done before spring break. We used google docs, which are probably the only way I actually have survived college at all. If you aren’t an avid user of google docs, you’re doing college wrong. We met […]

Today’s Daily create was What if DS would stand for Deep Space? What would our space station Deep Space 106 look like? Well, my recent obsession with the Little Einstein’s Theme Remix inspired this beautiful piece. Featuring Bond, Burtis, Groom and Noir Cat! Enjoy!

Today’s Daily Create was to Select 5 emojis and use them as a prompt for a unique story. So here are the emoji’s I was given by the internet And here is my short story- Grandma had to choose the best prince for me, the beautiful princess. I wanted a dozen roses and romance but she […]

Today’s Daily Create was to make a video that showed 5 things that bring you joy. Here is my video, featuring my top 5 things, and a minor mess up in editing at the end. yolo. (featuring a slowed down version of T-Swizzle’s Wonderland)

This week was pretty long, but not too complicated. I procrastinated as usual, and attended a conference at Mary Baldwin, but I’m doing this at 7pm instead of 11pm, so I’m getting better, right?   This is how happy I am that  I’m done so early: Anyway, here is a summary of the long week […]

This week, we were told that we don’t comment enough so we had to comment on 10 blogs! Here are the lovely posts I commented on. Shelley’s Theme Cocoa Kitties UMW advertisement Tune Squad Logo Abandon Commercial Emotional Sounds Alcoholic Anonymous Commercial Noir Buzz Bumper Sticker Black Theme Song Clue Poster I really enjoyed commenting […]

NOIR not the father- Maury style talk show Characters: Stella Vaughn – Talk Show Host Blair Morgan – Crime Scene Clean-up Informant Billy “Saw” Steel – Suspect in killing wife Jackie Michael “Ol’ Mick” Bretton – affair with Jackie, Jackie and “Ol’ Mick” plan to murder Steel Plot: Stella hosts talk show to unravel the mystery […]

    I really do love tweeting along to DS0106 Radio. These shows are always entertaining, and they give me something to do that is a little more fun than homework. Here are my tweets from Feb 19, which is when I tweeted along. You can find out a lot more about the tweet- along […]

ONE MORE ASSIGNMENT worth 4 stars! This assignment is called Your Theme Song. The task is as follows: If you had the opportunity to create your own theme music, what would it sound like? Get creative and create your own sounds or select an instrumental from Youtube or any other source that represents you well. I […]

Creating a commercial is not as easy as you would think. For 3 stars I did the assignment entitled DS106 Radio Commercial.  The task: Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include […]

This week, we are working on forming our radio shows. We had to create a poster/logo/etc for it. Creating a poster for our radio show proved to be a lot of fun. The title is Noir Not the Father. Our radio show is a Maury style show, where Stella Vaughn is basically trying to cause drama […]

Audio week is back again, and the assignment bank is back in action. This week we are required to do 10 stars, with at least 5 dedicated to our character. While this assignment is not dedicated to Blair, it was still fun and worth 3 stars. The assignment was entitled So and So’s Greatest Hits. […]

Week 5 is OVAAAAAA!! Every week I say I’m not gonna procrastinate next week, and every week I end up procrastinating…. Oh well. I got it all done though, so whatever works? 1. Read and Reflect on The Vignelli Canon: I read & reflected. I found this to be very interesting, and it really tested my […]

Copyright and plagiarism seem to go hand in hand. You would never quote a book in a paper without proper citations, but what about when you use a picture for an assignment or a powerpoint? How often do you give the artist credit? In today’s society, we rarely give credit where credit is due, especially […]

For this week, we were assigned to read The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli. I definitely learned a lot from the Vignelli piece, and it also made me think a lot about design as a whole. There were so many things said in the piece that stood out to me, but I am only going […]

Today’s daily create was to make jewelry out of food. I used my FAVORITE parmesan goldfish, some ribbon, and some glitter glue to hold it all together.

So this design blitz really had me itching my head. I was so busy this week because of my tests, that I really didn’t think about it too much until today. I captured some photos around campus, but I also found some photos on my phone that I felt fit the concepts REALLY well, and […]

Watch some films: Your choice: How does space help frame the design and style of noir in these films? What design elements of noir are not specific to a particular time and place? Categorize this post under “Thoughts and Ideas”and tag it “filmdesign” (no quotes). This week I watched Double Indemnity because I listened to it on […]

I FINISHED MY STARS I FINISHED MY STARS! The last assignment I chose to do was entitled Postcards from Magical Places (worth 3 stars.) The task: Design the front and back of a postcard that might be sent from the location of a movie or a work of fiction. Both sides of the cards must be created […]

Gimp is still not my friend, but I am definitely making progress. This assignment, entitled Professor Groom Poster was worth a WHOPPING 4.5 stars. I can attest to it being worth that much, because I put a lot of time and effort into my piece. I struggled with what I wanted to do for this because […]

Design Week is kicking my ass, just like every week. This assignment is entitled Newspaper Design (worth 3 stars.) The task?: Design a newspaper. Using word, photoshop, or whatever make a fictional newspaper, and put together the front page for today. You can use real articles or you can write your own, but the design of the […]

Everyone has a favorite song, or songs. I know if you asked me to pick just one, I couldn’t. This assignment, (worth 4 stars) is entitled Lyric Typography Poster. The task? Choose one of your favorite lines from a song and illustrate it using only typography. Consider how the font, color, sizes and placement of the […]