Familiar Sound

Familiar Sound

by mis-tery
October 21, 2012

We all sure have sounds that are so familiar to us, but very strange to others. For me, this familiar noise is was this banging noise….my roommate and I figured it was the same ghost from freshman year following us and making himself comfortable in our new apt. We even named him Go-Go because that’s ...
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Over Dramatic Reading

by mis-tery
October 21, 2012

I chose to read an article off of cracked.com about the 4 crucial touchdown etiquette’s ….and #1 was the best so i focused more on it. Then I recorded a dramatic reading, read in a way that alters the message Sarcastic Tone…Which was...
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May I take your order?

by mis-tery
October 21, 2012

Using my best british accent, I pretended to order something off of McDonalds and it was very picky.
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Mutli Personality

by mis-tery
October 21, 2012

For this audio assignment, I pretended that was three different people having a regular conversation. Scenario was that a 20 yr old college student Monica just found out that she was pregnant and she was telling her best friend Jess about it then Monica’s mother comes for parents weekend to see the best friends…..Listen to ...
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Weekly Summary #6

by mis-tery
October 7, 2012

Trying to do design safari, 15 stars worth of design assignments, complete the daily creates as well as write about our radio station at first sounded so RIDICULOUS…but as always, IT WAS FUNNN!!!! So here is how week 6 went. 1. We had to understand the concept of DESIGN….the goal was for us to develop ...
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My Autobiography Cover (2 stars)

by mis-tery

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October 7, 2012

For this assignment, we had to create our Autobiography cover page using any software we wanted. This was worth 2 stars and here it is…. I chose the picture I took when I was at the Semain Mountains in Ethiopia because A. it was something I will never repeat. B. The scenery was sooo beautiful ...
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Radio Show T-shirt (2 stars)

by mis-tery

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October 7, 2012

To help promote our radio show this semester, I decided to go ahead and design a tshirt for this part of the assignment. It was worth 2 stars and this is what it looks like… Our radio stations, Senioritis106, will be focusing on the activities…troubles…difficult times…Our seniors might have during there last year of school. ...
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What Culture Means To Me (2 stars)

by mis-tery

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October 7, 2012

Culture is defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners,scholarly pursuits, etc. Coming from a very cultural background…this assignment was more of a reflection/appreciation of what I have, because not everyone can say that they have a culture. These are pictures I took this summer when I went back to visit Ethiopia after 5 years. I took a road trip ...
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Warning Labels (3 stars)

by mis-tery

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October 7, 2012

Everything these days have a warning label. Some make sense while others actually tell you that the product you’re about to use cause more harm than help. This is what I came up with….. Coming from the procrastinating queen, I wait to do EVERYTHING last minute. I swear I try my best to do things ...
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Light Switch Art (3 Stars)

by mis-tery

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October 7, 2012

The light switch….Simple but yet has so much that can be done with the metaphor (The plate). For this assignment, I chose to do a picture that portrayed most men in college. Here it is….. When I thought about this assignment, I was at first going for the simplistic, “The mind” with the lightbulb and ...
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Album Cover (3 stars)

by mis-tery

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October 7, 2012

This assignment was 3 stars worth and I honestly did my best to make a cover…..I don’t even sing/play an instrument/ or Dance. This Album includes all the songs you’d like to hear during that Last Minute Cram Session. Midterms are around the corner and everyone knows that it’s REALLY stressful, SOOOOO….why ...
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Design Safari

by mis-tery
October 7, 2012

Moving our way into design was an amazing experience this week. For this assignment, I picked four design concepts to focus on this week. Here they are… For starters, I LOVE PAINTING MY NAILS….so this part of the assignment wasn’t hard at all. I love working with Bright…Bold…Neon like colors. When you add black ...
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Weekly Summary #5

by mis-tery
September 30, 2012

WOOOOT WOOOOOOT!!!! ….for starters, the #5 is my favorite number so I knew this week couldn’t get any better than it was. This week we got to play with a lot of visual things. We got to read about how to become a better photographer and learned some skills that would help us ( helped ...
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Love: In Three Frames

by mis-tery

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September 30, 2012

LIVE Live like it’s your last day on earth….hoping that everything will eventually turn out as you want it to be. LAUGH Laugh like you’re watching the funniest comedy movie called life…..featuring you as the main character. LOVE ...
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Technical Difficulties

by mis-tery

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September 30, 2012

To honor all the many failures DS106 is going to have technologically, I created a simple display picture to be used next time the site goes down. I remember my grandfather getting angrier and angrier as his vintage TV went on and off during a soccer game …SO this one is for papa!! How I ...
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AJ William’s Buddy Photo

by mis-tery

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September 30, 2012

FUN TIMES WITH MY BOB!!! For this 2 star assignment, I had to find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that I can carry around with me. Then I had to use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. It’s football season so OFCOURSE i’m going to be enjoying ...
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Warhol Something

by mis-tery

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September 30, 2012

Andy Warhol was an iconic pop art mastermind….This week I tried to be one too! I took a photograph of myself and created a piece of pop art. This assignment was worth 2 stars. I chose to do two different type of pictures because of what andy warhol said …”In the future everyone will ...
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Normal To Extraordinary

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September 30, 2012

Normal To Extraordinary For my first visual assignment I chose to do a 3 Star assignment. I chose my sisters as my person and changed her normal pictures into something extraordinary (Hopefully). I love the movie Funny Face by the fabulous Audrey Hepburn. It’s the story of how a simple store girl became this ...
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Pimp my Flickr

by mis-tery
September 30, 2012

We’ve been using Flickr for pretty much every picture we had to take. From daily creates to random visual assignments, Flickr has been there to support me every step of the way. So for this week we had to pimp our flickr (customize URL, account settings, etc…) and then create a set on Flickr that ...
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Photo Blitzing

by mis-tery
September 30, 2012

Start Time… 10:25 pm It’s a Friday night and my friends from HS are getting together to celebrate one of my other friends 21st Birthday in Richmond VA. I got there around 10 pm and everyone was busy getting ready for the party, so I thought, wait…this is a great time to do my photo ...
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Sound effect + No visual = Sound effect storytelling

by mis-tery
September 23, 2012

My story was supposed to be about those rainy days where you wake up on a sunday afternoon and all you hear are those rain drops on your celling and all you want to do is stay in bed. BUT NOO you have class the next day and assignments to finish, so you pour yourself ...
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Radio Bumper

by mis-tery
September 23, 2012

Urghhh!!! At first I thought this would be such an awful idea because Technology + Me = Epic Fails…but after downloading Audacity, I thought this assignment was too much fun….UNTIL…my audacity software started acting up. I didn’t know how to save the file so I had to directly record my sound effect from audacity to ...
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DS106 Radio

by mis-tery

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September 23, 2012

I had a hard time finding time to actually log in and listen to a live broadcast but I finally did it. I honestly didn’t think I would love it but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Here are my tweets on I made as I was listening to the live ...
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Lucy and the Bike Girl

by mis-tery
September 23, 2012

This was a short story written and produced by Hillary Frank, made by combining fictional narration with real interview tape. It was edited by Julie Snyder, and orginally aired on This American Life. First off, I loved how this story was narrated from someone else’s point of view (narrated story). The sound effects were very handy. Having ...
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Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad

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September 23, 2012

Ira Glass is the guru of radio sound effects so it was amazing to hear his advice on how to make the radio come alive. He mentions how anecdotes are like the events/scenes we would see in a movie so in order to create these scenic images in ones head ANECDOTES were necessary. He also ...
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Weekly Summary #4

by mis-tery
September 23, 2012

It’s been a month already!! Four weeks in this course and every week I start off thinking that I won’t be able to accomplish everything but in the end, a miracle happens, and POOF weekly summary is Complete!! #1 : Audio Story telling For this week, we had to listen to some experts at radio ...
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A Story Based on Someone Else’s Daily Create Photos

by mis-tery
September 16, 2012

———-> I found these two different picutres from the daily create photos other DS106 students posted. Here is my story…. There was this perfect world, where everyone had the right to eat everything and anything they wanted. Fast food or Healthy food, people bought what they preferred, mostly unhealthy fast foods, and made sure ...
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Appreciating Past DS106 stories

by mis-tery
September 16, 2012

I’m Batman by Thomas Ella After making my first Animation GIF last week, I found this post on Batman, with the GIF animation actually on the rain and not the picture, very impressive. This animation is also special to me because Batman is my favorite DC comic and I appreciated the digital effects added to ...
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Kurt Vonnegut and the shape of stories

by mis-tery

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September 15, 2012

Mulan For starters, I’ve seen the movie Mulan way too many times and not to dedicate this blog to her would just be wrong. She was a young lady who was supposed to be this perfect wife for a warrior one day. She even tried to doll it up and actually go through with the ...
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Digital Storytelling

by mis-tery

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September 15, 2012

STORYTELLING & DIGITAL I remember the first thing my friends said when I told them I was taking digital storytelling this semester. Their faces had this confused look trying to figure out why a bio and psych major would go to the art field. Comments ranged from “you know ...
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