Put it to Paper

Put it to Paper

by @nalujoprojects

| #DesignAssignments2111, designassignments, ds106, Syndicated
February 18, 2022

I made a comic book page of one of my favorite scenes from TV. This is an abridged version of the last scene of the first episode of Black Sails, a show about outcasts raging against the ropes of civilization. I know that sounds dramatic (because the show is) but it’s the best TV show …
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The Color of a Word

by @nalujoprojects

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2694, ds106, Syndicated
February 18, 2022

If you’ve read very many of my other blog posts you might know by now that I love the idea of translating one medium into another. Audio to visual and visual to audio, incorporating text into imagery, and in this case figuring out the color palette of a word. I used the PhotoChrome website to …
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Novel Noir

by @nalujoprojects

| designassignments, designassignments1618, ds106, Syndicated
February 18, 2022

I created a cover for what I think could be a very compelling noir pulp fiction novel about a woman in the early twentieth century taking revenge on a series of past acquaintances scattered in different cities across the U.S. who she feels are responsible for the tragedy of her daughter’s death. Will the authorities …
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Painting with Sound

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 11, 2022

As someone with an interest and some experience with making music, this might have been my favorite week so far. It was so much fun to paint a picture in my mind’s eye and then translate that to sound as best I could. I am really proud of what I made this week, especially my …
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We’re Live!

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated
February 11, 2022

We could be on the radio?! Seriously though, I really enjoyed tuning in to the radio programs and seeing the live discussion on Discord at the same time. February 8’s show was a great example of audio storytelling, and it was great to see everyone’s analysis. The way the production mixed sci-fi and naturalistic sounds …
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What to say, what to say….

by @nalujoprojects

| #radioshowideas, ds106, Syndicated
February 11, 2022

Radio Show Ideas Tell a story: Act out a story the group writes or adapts from another medium. Interview each other either as ourselves or as characters, maybe ones we’ve come up with for this class Roundtable talks: Video games we played growing up-nostalgia trip for us and the audience Topic of interest-pick one topic …
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Lunar Doodles

by @nalujoprojects

| #audioreflection, ds106, Syndicated
February 11, 2022

The Moon Graffiti episode of the podcast The Truth is an excellent example of audio storytelling. The episode starts with a cold open of the Apollo 11 mission crashing into a meteor and losing contact with ground control. The production sounds tinny and chaotic in the crippled ship, until Buzz and Neil switch to radios …
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Tune In!

by @nalujoprojects

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2616, ds106, radiobumper, Syndicated
February 11, 2022

I was of course inspired by the radio bumpers already on DS106 radio, as well as several other examples I found and a lifetime of listening to the radio, but I also tried to make this bumper my own. The background music is Reckless by The Spin Wires found at freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Spin…ingle/reckless. I edited the audio tracks …
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It’s coming …..

by @nalujoprojects

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2615, ds106, Syndicated
February 11, 2022

I was really feeling the scary vibes this week. My Sound effect story is kind of an extension of my Nightmare Soundtrack from earlier this week. You’re running through a moving train, jumping from one car to the next to escape the thing coming towards you. Just as it catches you, the train crashes and …
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Nightmare Soundtrack

by @nalujoprojects

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2613, ds106, Syndicated
February 6, 2022

I used a few audio tracks from http://freesound.org as well as a .bmp image as a raw data file in Audacity to make this creepy ambiance. I used the fade in, fade out, and amplify effects to mix the tracks together and get the balance I wanted. I really liked how the .bmp file added …
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Out of this World

by @nalujoprojects

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2734, ds106, Syndicated
February 5, 2022

I used the Song Maker in Chrome Music Labs to make this short clip of a song: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/5467698036736000 I started of by just making a face in the middle of the song, which ended up creating some pretty good chords, added a squiggling percussion track, and then added some decently satisfying intro and outro chords. …
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Portrait of a Week

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 4, 2022

This week was a lot of work, but overall enjoyable. The assignments made me get out of my head a bit and stop worrying so much about making mistakes, which I think was the point. Daily Creates: Photography: Visual Assignments: Photoblitz:
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Better Photography Points

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, ds106photography, Syndicated
February 4, 2022

Perspective: Balance: Background/Foreground: Moment: Depth: Lighting: This article had a lot of really interesting and useful advice in it, but I think the main point is to make sure each image has a purpose, tells a part of the story you are trying to convey. I think this kind of mindfulness is important for any …
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My Favorite Photo

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152
February 4, 2022

This is my favorite photo I’ve ever taken mostly because of the the subject, my cat. Artie doesn’t often sit still long enough to get this kind of portrait of her. I also really liked the lighting. This was probably taken one day when I got home from practice just a few minutes before sunset, …
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Many, Many Me’s

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments943
February 4, 2022

In this universe, many me’s have joined together as partners in crime. Earth 27 me has just stolen the milk out of your fridge for Earth 42 me’s cereal, and Earth 212 me drove the getaway car. I used Gimp to edit multiples of myself into one photo. Each photo was a layer, and for …
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Save Me From Myself

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2502
February 4, 2022

If I ever met myself, I can’t imagine we’d get along terribly well. And I imagine we’d be laughing the whole time. This panorama was a bit difficult because it kept clipping when I jumped on or off the chair. I tried it a few different ways and this was the best result. With some …
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Time Beyond Doubt

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments11
February 4, 2022

Time beyond doubt living, energy rising capture or kill I didn’t have a physical newspaper or any way to print one out, but I did have the front page of tomorrow’s The Times and a small drawing tablet, so this is my blackout poem. Most of the scribbling is nonsensical, but I tried to draw …
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Portrait of a Living Room

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1038
February 4, 2022

This collage is made up of photos taken one step apart from each other walking into my living room. The main design principal I tried to stick to was the rule of thirds, but much of that was lost in the collage by virtue of what free collage templates are available for ten photos. I’ve …
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Photoblitz

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated
February 4, 2022

This was a really interesting challenge. Sometimes when taking photos it can be easy to get caught up in getting the the perfect shat and taking 50 photos when you really only need the one. My photoblitz prompts were as follows: An interesting shadow. Make a photograph that illustrates the weather where you are. Make …
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Writers…. Not Block?

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 28, 2022

I went to the Wadsworth Atheneum a few years ago with my parents midway through a trip visiting family. We stumbled upon it one afternoon with a few hours to kill, and after running around until closing and still having at least three exhibits left, I made my mom promise we’d go back. Of course, …
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Pull Me Back

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, outline, Syndicated
January 28, 2022

Three years ago a young woman was reeling from the loss of her mother, whom she had a complicated relationship with, when she meets a young man who offers her support and an escape. Three years later, she plots her revenge on that young man from a friend’s couch. This story will tell what transpired …
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From a Wave

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2303
January 28, 2022

from wave’s foamy crest she emerged, sharp tongue and eyes love made incarnate a haiku As simple as it is, I love the “A Snapshot Of A Story” assignment. I grew up loving mythology, and I always wanted to share that love with my friends and families but anyone who has tried to explain a …
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How’ve You Been?

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1813
January 28, 2022

For the “Letter From Out of the Blue” assignment, I decided to write a letter to my good friend and former boss who I know enjoys sending and receiving letters. She likes cats and the color pink, so I themed the letter design around that, and I talked about what I’ve been up to for …
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Zombie Apocalypse Terms of Service

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2163
January 28, 2022

Last updated before the end AGREEMENT TO TERMS These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and the hospital staff trying to maintain order (“we,” “us” or “our”), concerning your participation in the zombie apocalypse as well as any other activity or …
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Just For You

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1503
January 28, 2022

It had been three years, five months and twenty seven days since he had walked into my life, and two months and fifteen days since he had left me on the roadside two miles west of a Wal-Mart supercenter. That last screaming match had been a doozie, and I gave as good as I got, …
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Week 2: Oh Joy!

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

Throughout this week, I completed Daily Creates on Twitter, which were surprisingly fun ways to spend a few minutes every day. To complete the “Back to the Basics” design assignment, I built a cozy cottage in Minecraft. You can see a tour here: https://naomiljones.com/blog/ds106/extreme-home-makeover-minecraft-edition/ For the “By Any Sketch Of The Imagination” assignment, I went …
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Guess! That! Myth!!!!!

by @nalujoprojects

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebAssignments2300
January 21, 2022

I’ve illustrated a story you might know-especially if you were a Percy Jackson kid-with some GIFs and pictures you’ve probably seen. See if you can guess it by the end! Several children passed in this manner. Fatherhood doesn’t come naturally to everyone. One fairly gruesome fight later: And so, Zeus became the king of the …
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Bio Any Sketch of the Imagination

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2690
January 21, 2022

I used the Pencil Photo Sketch application to alter a photo I tool in a few different ways with very different results. I’ve included two here. Can you guess what the original image was?
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Extreme Home Makeover: Minecraft Edition

by @nalujoprojects

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2618, ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2022

Unlike you in this class who play Minecraft, I didn’t create my first world 8 or 9 years ago. I didn’t buy the game until about 10 months ago, when I needed a break from cramming and I hadn’t had a creative outlet for awhile. At first I did a lot of exploring, but I …
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Week 1 Summary

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated
January 14, 2022

This week was a lot of setting up account and making introductions. My introduction post included links to all of my new social media accounts, as well as some of my old projects I’m really proud of. I also watched “A Spring Touched Day” and wrote about some of Bob Ross’s timeless bits of wisdom. …
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