Until then, from all of us here

Until then, from all of us here

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 23, 2022

Well, this is it. The last week. Hopefully we’ve all come out a little wiser, a bit better at time management, and better equipped in the realm of digital storytelling. Of course, to fully appreciate how far we’ve come I suppose we should start in the traditional place, the beginning. The first week of this …
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Almost There

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 18, 2022

This past week I spent focusing on my final project. This started life as a story that would include hyperlinks to audio and visual artifacts that filled out the story and ended as a new subdomain that allows people to submit ideas and makes the story open sourced. I did make a few visual projects …
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Grounded

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
April 18, 2022

This project started as a hyperlink story and ended the week as a new subdomain that I plan to turn into an open source story, with other people able to send in ideas to the email I set up for the website. I spent a lot of time on some of the introductory pages. The …
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Lets Mix It Up

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 8, 2022

I really liked the assignments this week, but I think that was mostly down to the fact that I’m spending less time getting frustrated with different editing software and more time actually creating, which is the point. I have stopped shopping around with different programs and have even started doing some creative projects on my …
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Battle of the Blackbeards

by @nalujoprojects

| #MashupAssignments, #MashupAssignments2037, ds106, Syndicated
April 8, 2022

I think a lot of people went through a pirate phase at some point in their life. Honestly, I never really left it behind. I’ve made other posts about Black Sails before, and it’s one of my favorite shows, but one of the best recent shows that I’ve watched is Our Flag Means Death. Both …
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Stuff Artie Says

by @nalujoprojects

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments1862, Syndicated
April 8, 2022

It’s almost a law of nature that anyone who has a pet narrates their daily lives in funny voices, probably to the never ending annoyance of said pet. I do it with my cat and, at least in part to keep from missing her too much, I decide to make a compilation video from clips …
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Vote Fonzie!

by @nalujoprojects

| Remix7, RemixAssignments, RemixAssignments1236, Syndicated
April 8, 2022

Forget Uncle Sam, Fonzie wants YOU to vote in the next election cycle! This poster encouraging you to vote was styled after several 1950s voting posters I found online and incorporated Fonzie from Happy Days as a celebrity spokesperson. Many of the posters used black and white photographs with bright, contrasting lettering. Most of the …
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Party in Pink

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Remix25, RemixAssignments, RemixAssignments4351, Syndicated
April 8, 2022

This poster may be an advertisement for a sauna party, but the photo used in the background is of a group of swimmers getting ready to jump into the frigid waters of Newport, Vermont this past February as part of the the annual . The photo was taken by Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe. …
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Drawing in Motion

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 1, 2022

This week was exhausting but in the most satisfying way. Daily Creates Video Assignments This week I got a bit caught up in animation and while it was very time consuming and tiring, I think it’s some of the best work of any kind that I’ve done in a long time. I hope you agree!
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Her story will be told

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2740
April 1, 2022

This is perhaps the coolest thing I have ever made. I have always enjoyed drawing but never been very good at it, and because of that I was always a little scared to try animation. I’ve never even more than dabbled in digital art, and never with very impressive results, but I took a chance …
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Gardening for Beginners

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2785
April 1, 2022

While I do enjoy gardening, it can be hard to keep plants alive with a busy college schedule. Bouquets of cut flowers are a little easier, but they only last so long, and what do you do with them after? Throw them away? What if you attach emotional importance to physical objects way to easily …
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Week 10

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 26, 2022

Daily Creates Video Assignments
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Scenes Cut Short

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments608
March 25, 2022

One of my favorite movies, Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón, makes almost religious use of long, winding shots that stay on the characters far longer than the viewer realizes. Cuarón loves to use these kinds of shots on all of his films, and the technique has become synonymous with his directorial style, but …
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Yum!

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2645
March 25, 2022

For this video, I filmed clips of my breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a day. Rater than filming myself eating I captured how I made my breakfast and dinner and how I prepared my dinner, which was take-out sushi. I tried really hard to take very short clips that catch some of the cooler sounds …
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Connecting the Past

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 18, 2022

This week involved a lot of looking back, which I was very grateful for since there were definitely some things I wanted to revisit and improve, especially my project ideas. The Daily Creates were a lot of fun this week, though I did have to work a little to connect some of the. The biggest …
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Trial by Sound

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, radiolisten, Syndicated
March 18, 2022

I listened in to the first night of radio shows this week. One of the shows played was the one I worked on, The Coroner’s Tale, but the other was Death of the Painter, a murder mystery told through a court trial. Different characters gave testimony, there were twists, there were turns, and all around …
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Back to Bio

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, ds106rework, Syndicated
March 18, 2022

The first time I used Pencil Photo Sketch I made a view through a microscope look like a medieval walled city. This time, I made a picture from chemistry look like something from one of my biology class, or maybe a class on alien biology. There seem tentacles extending from a swirling center, like an …
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Hold Me to the Ground

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, projectideas, Syndicated
March 18, 2022

In a previous post I started to outline a story about a woman trying to get back on her feet after escaping an abusive relationship while secretly planning to get revenge on her ex. I still really like this story, but there are a few parts that I looked back on and don’t like so …
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The Days Disappear

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated
March 18, 2022

This week we were tasked with making three Daily Creates and connecting them in some king of story. Norster is part of a fantasy world afflicted with a blight that seemed at first to be a blessing. No one dies in the traditional sense anymore. Rather, they fade away, losing pieces of themselves bit by …
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New Construction

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, ds106rework, Syndicated
March 18, 2022

Way back in January I used a Visual Assignment as motivation to finally build a respectable Minecraft house. Of course, that isn’t the only building you usually need in a Minecraft settlement and my next project was a storage building. I wanted to use a different color pallet but still one that would complement my …
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Tuning In

by @nalujoprojects

| Syndicated
March 12, 2022

Both of my Daily Creates this week were just little jokes that made me laugh through what has been a very stressful few days. Working on The Coroner’s Tale has been one of the most exciting projects I’ve been a part of for quite awhile. Our group hit it off right away, and I think …
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Radio Show Update 2

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, radioshowweek2, Syndicated
March 11, 2022

It’s almost done! The first stage of our creative process was a brainstorming session on discord last week, which amounted to all our group members shooting ideas back and forth for a couple hours one night. We decided on a sci-fi show, like I talked about last week, and got to work. I recoded my …
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Roadside Pitstop

by @nalujoprojects

| Syndicated
February 25, 2022

Daily Creates Radio Show Posts
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The Coroner is Fine

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, radioshopromo, Syndicated
February 25, 2022

No they’re not. Never will be again
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A Coroner’s Progress Report

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, radioshowweek1, Syndicated
February 25, 2022

This week was a bit of a whirlwind. When my group got together on discord and started discussing ideas, it became quickly obvious how big of sci-fi nerds we all were, so it was an easy choice to go in that direction, but where to from there? We ended up getting inspired by a mix …
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The Yowl

by @nalujoprojects

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2298, ds106, Syndicated
February 25, 2022

My group’s radio show is centered around a dangerous, monstrous alien wreaking havoc on a spacecraft and evading capture. I thought of an edited dog howl I heard a long time ago that was made to sound creepy and figured I’d have a go at it myself, but with a cat’s meow. I think what …
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Walkie Talkie Bumper

by @nalujoprojects

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2302, ds106, Syndicated
February 25, 2022

I made a bumper for midway through our radio show, The Coroner’s Tale. Because we plan to tell a lot of our narrative through some kind of radio communication between our characters across a spaceship as they try to solve a mystery, I thought a bumper that sounded like I recorded it on a walkie-talkie …
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Week 6: This One’s Juuust Right

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 18, 2022

I had a lot of fun with the assignments this week, and I really enjoyed using design as a tool for storytelling in some ways I hadn’t thought about before. Daily Creates: This seems a strangely old fashioned way for an interplanetary explorer to let their family know they’re alright, but perhaps they enjoy the …
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Thoughts on Design

by @nalujoprojects

| Syndicated
February 18, 2022

The readings this week were an interesting introduction to design. Though neither of them did a whole lot to address my design preferences, and they were a bit simplistic in many cases, I nevertheless appreciated taking the time to learn a bit more about the theory behind why certain things just seem to work and …
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Design Blitz

by @nalujoprojects

| designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
February 18, 2022

These images are a few examples of design elements put to good use that I have seen throughout this week. Balance Color Rhythm Typography Proportion
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