Week 7 has come to an end, and spring break is finally here! Last week, I wasn’t to0 detailed with my assignment posts, so I tried to fix that this week. Lets start with daily creates. @ds106dc spy mask selfie! #tdc1878 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/kFW361toR3 — Maria Ingea (@mingea8) February 28, 2017 Meet Mumford and Cows, They … Continue reading "Week 7 Summery"

For my final assignment, I decided to do Sound of your Day.  It was rated 4 stars. It is not the sounds of my day personally, it’s the sound of our wonderful agent Mac. She didn’t have a very eventful day from the sound of it. I recorded everything using the memo app on my phone and … Continue reading "A day in the spy!"

For our Radio Show Bumper Sticker, we decided to do a simplistic look. The background color is red (because DUH spies) but it has a bit of paint splash look so it’s not too basic. We put in a little spy on the side (becuase DUH spies.) Our title, which I talked about in my progress blog … Continue reading "Radio Show designs"

So week 7 is almost done and I think we have a pretty good basis for our radio show. I am in a group with two people that I already know and one whom I dont know. We been emailing back and forth, and we have also had a few private messages about how we want … Continue reading "Radio Show Progress"

For the second assignment from the audio assignment bank, I decided to the One Question. This assignment was rated 3 stars. I decided to relate this to the spy theme of the course by asking the question “If you were a spy, What would your spy name be?” I went to work and asked my … Continue reading "One Question, Many Answers"

I did the Sound Effects assignments from the bank. The assignment was rated  3 1/2 stars. I randomly chose this assignment and tried to think of ways I could relate it to our spy theme. I kept drawing blanks until I thought of a typewriter. I had just gotten this new chrome extension that makes your … Continue reading "Typewriter sounds"

This week was a little hard for me to do because I left Friday night to a conference, and came back on Wednesday. So a lot of it was done at midnight after coming back from the conference, tired. But alas it was done! I started off straight into the assignment bank by doing the Contradiction … Continue reading "Week 6 Summery"

For my reflection, I decided to read The Vignelli Canon, the booklet by Massimo Vignelli. Right off the bat, I really enjoyed the cover page of the book. My favorite color is orange, and I tend to enjoy simplistic things, so the cover really aesthetically pleased me. In part one of his book, he explains that … Continue reading "Design Reflections"

For this week, we had to complete a DesignBlitz, which is to take photographs of objects and things to illustrate four concepts. The concepts I chose were Color, Minimalism, Rhythm and Unity. For color, I took a picture of a painting I recently did this week. I am not a painter, but I really enjoyed … Continue reading "DesignBlitz"

For my last assignment from the bank, I decided to do the Most Wanted Design. I changed it up a bit and tried to relate it to my spy, Mac. To do this, I used Canva, and found a nice background that every most wanted poster had, and I got a picture of my spy … Continue reading "Wanted Poster"

The assignment I decided to do was the Minimalist Movie Poster, and for some reason, I was instantly drawn to Thor. Mind you, I am not a big avengers fan but have you seen the new poster? It’s so cluttered and I feel like it doesn’t need all that much. Really it only needs a … Continue reading "Thor"

For my first assignment, I decided to do the Contradiction Creation assignment. I chose to do a concert picture because I thought it was pretty funny to do a contradiction of that since I am currently at a conference all about campus activities and my role is the chair of productions, so I do all … Continue reading "Concerts suck!"

Man, honestly this week was hard! I started out by downloading audacity but I didn’t really experiment with it, I just started out with an assignment and hoped for the best. The first assignment I did was from the assignment bank and was rated 3 1/2 stars titled Cooking Dinner. I think it was a … Continue reading "Week 5 Summery"

I have always wanted to do a radio show, so I guess this is my chance. Some  ideas of radio show ideas include: Talking about different types of spies, real and fiction Counting down the best spy movies Counting down the best real spies What makes a spy movie great What are characteristics of spies Those … Continue reading "Radio Show Ideas"

When I first read that we had to do this assignment, I was a little nervous because I personally do not like to use my voice for audio related thing, but then I realized that I don’t have to use my own voice! I have my friends for that! So I recorded one of my … Continue reading "DS106 Radio Bumper"

For the Audio assignment, I decided to do a mash-up of an original song and a cover of that song. The assignment was called Mixing Songs like batter and was rated 4 1/2 stars. I think It deserves a 5 because it was pretty fricken hard! I attempted to take Eleanor Rigby performed by the Beatles and … Continue reading "Eleanor Rigby"

I live tweeted for the first time! That was an experience. I am not a really big fan of live-tweeting because it takes a lot of work and I don’t like to multi-task while watching something but since it was just listening, it wasnt too bad. Listening to limewire was pretty cool! It’s a very well done podcast … Continue reading "Live tweeting!"

I decided to do the Music Mash Assignment that was to take two or more songs that are similar and mash them together into a conversation. I decided to do a conversation between Adele and Taylor Swift. So a little bit of background into this conversation is that adele is pretty obsessive and really wants … Continue reading "We are never getting back together"

For this assignment, I tried to get the sounds of the daily routine of someone cooking dinner and setting up the dining room table. This was my first time working with audacity, and I don’t think it was too hard. All the sounds I used were from Free Sound. I uploaded the sounds and played … Continue reading "Cooking Dinner"

Moon Graffiti was a really cool listen. The sounds used created an image for the listeners to follow. After they crashed and had just gotten out of the craft, you could tell something was going to happen because of the change in music. You can hear the dust kicking, the clicking of the camera, and when … Continue reading "Audio Reflections"

Visuals man! How cool. I started out by writing my Reflections on Photography. I had to look back on my old photos to do this which was kind of cool! It made me realize that I need to take more pictures of my surroundings. I did the Who Said What Assignment, I had a lot … Continue reading "Week 4 summery"

When I first looked at the assignment prompt, I can honestly say I was not excited. It just didn’t seem all that fun. I knew I wanted to try and make it funny but I didn’t know how so I first went to go look at pictures. I was originally going to use a picture that … Continue reading "Love at First Tinder"

My prompt for the photoblitzer challenge, I thought was perfect for today’s weather. My challenge was all about the weather!  The first was to take a picture that represented wildernessThat was the closest thing that in my opinion, represented wilderness Next was a crowd scene  I didn’t really like this one cause I wasn’t in a crowded … Continue reading "Photoblitzer"

For the assignment bank visual assignments, I decided to do Family Friendly Billboards. I decided to try and relate it to the agent I created by making the billboard about them. Fun fact about my agent, she is an actual human being who I work with (and got permission to use her face/characteristics) as my agent. So my … Continue reading "We Lost our Agent"

I chose to do the Who Said What assignment because I honestly felt like it was the funniest one, and I would really enjoy it. It was rated 2 1/2 stars and I feel like that’s an accurate rating. I first picked my quote because I felt like I could base my next character off … Continue reading "James Bond has Immunity"

Photography has always been an interesting concept to me. What makes a good photographer vs a bad one? what’s a good shot? In reality, there aren’t any correct answers to those questions. Photography is subjective in a way. There is a lot of technicality that goes in it, the composition, lighting, exposure..etc.. Many of those … Continue reading "Reflections on Photography"

Man, this week was tough. So many things to do. I started out by doing the assignment back writing assignments. I did Assignment 2055, the everyday life of a spy which was 3 stars, I titled mine, Mission 106: Find Amy. Log 87. I then did assignment 1924 also rated 3 stars, which was to … Continue reading "Week 3"

Mac was one of the best. When she was 17, she got recruited to be part of the Brazilian special forces. She was honest, hard-working, and a team player. When she wasn’t out on a mission, she was walking around the office with a legal pad in one hand, a glass of red wine in … Continue reading "Special Agent Mac"

The thing about spy movies is that they are all kind of the same. They follow the same storyline that everyone loves and enjoys. Vonnegut explains this in the youtube clip about the shape of stories. Spy movies follow the same arch like many others do. An up, down, up story, or down, up, down, and … Continue reading "The Thing about Spy Movies"

Have you ever looked at a spy in the face? Like really looked at them? Well, I have. I look at myself in the mirror every day. I see brown hair, brown eyes, a tiny nose, one eyebrow slightly thicker than the other and bags under my eyes. I see myself like a normal girl, … Continue reading "A Spy’s Face"