October 6, 2014 For this daily create, called “Your weird and wonderful DS106 letterhead”, I used GIMP to create a letterhead that included some of the things we’ve done so far in the class. Starting with a blank white layer, I downloaded a frequency image (to represent The Wire) from…

Overview This week was a very busy and hectic week for me. With mid-terms, projects, and papers closing in along with work my week was packed with events! Upon hearing news about my sick dog, I was also very stressed about his health. On Wednesday I participated in The Wire…

Design Blitz After reading the doc about the different elements of design, I grabbed my phone camera and looked around my friend’s room to find objects to describe some of these elements. Some were easier to find than others, but I included some of the best below. I realized that…

Design Assignment #4: Paste Someone’s Head on an Animal (3.5 stars) For this assignment, I wanted to portray Stringer Bell as a predatory, but cautious character. Stringer is smart, but lately on The Wire he has been calling the shots and making incriminating decisions. The worst part is, no one…

Design Assignment #3: You’re Invited… (3 stars) After watching Season 2, Episode 10 of The Wire, I felt like Kima and Cheryl needed a baby shower invitation. This assignment reminded me of my high school days of Photojournalism, where I would play with colors, fonts, and design. Using DaFont I…

Design Assignment #2: How To… (3 stars) For this “How to ______” assignment I wanted to model the iconic “For Dummies” books but include elements of McNulty on the cover. Using GIMP I uploaded images from the covers of the “For Dummies” books as layers. I painted the background of…

Design Assignment #1: Animate a Classic Painting (4 stars) For this assignment, I chose to use The Scream by Edvard Munch to animate. I either wanted to animate the figure’s screaming face, or the boat in the background. I felt like animating the boat would bring more attention to the…

October 1, 2014 To create my water and glass moving around, I used my iPhone to capture (in Slow-Mo!) me pouring water into a glass. The results are pretty cool! October 2, 2014 I realized this week was a pretty busy week for me, but the reward for getting most…

Week 5 Summary Photoblitz After reading we had to do a Photoblitz assignment, I had no idea what this was. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this assignment. It’s like a race to show your true creativity in photography! Take a look at the photos I took…

September 26, 2014 For one of the Daily Creates this week, I was excited to draw a picture of our professor, Jim Groom! I used an app on my iPhone called Inkflow for this drawing and uploaded the finished product to Flickr. Hope I drew him well! ...

Week 5: Visual Assignment #3 For my last visual assignment this week, I chose to GIF animate my day like Ben. I used my iPhone to capture videos that told the story of my day well, however I made the mistake of not reading the directions thoroughly. This assignment called…

Week 5: Visual Assignment #2 Choosing and Brainstorming For my second visual assignment, I chose to create an Opposites Attract Meme by taking two opposite animals and creating a hybrid animal. I immediately thought about lions and zebras (I’ve seen too much National Geographic), and thought the combination would create…

Week 5: Visual Assignment 1 For my first visual assignment, I chose the Backyard Photo Safari assignment because I absolutely love taking photos of nature and I knew I was going home this weekend. At UMW, my backyard isn’t interesting at all (I live in the Eagle Landing apartments) as…

September 23, 2014 Creating an uncropped road sign was one of the most amusing Daily Creates I’ve ever had to do! Seeing my other classmates’ uncropped road signs was hilarious… some great ideas out there. I chose the construction sign and immediately thought, elephant poop. I used GIMP to copy…

Photoblitz! Make an artistic closeup photo of an ear- human, animal, whatever. Toilets get little respect. Make an interesting photo of a toilet (keep it G rated). What does disappointment look like? Glasses help many folks bring the world into focus each day. Using a picture taken today, add a…

Week 4: Audio Assignment #3 For my last audio assignment this week I wanted to do the assignment One Question from the DS106 Audio Assignment bank. Reading and listening to the same assignment done by another DS106er called “Where would you like to wake up tomorrow?” I thought it would…

Brainstorming for Wire 106 Radio I have to admit that I’m getting used to working with GIMP. It’s a really fun program! I made the logo below for Wire 106 Radio using GIMP, images downloaded from the web, and fonts downloaded from DaFont. My “schedule” for the segments that would…

Week 4: Audio Assignment #2 For my second audio assignment, I wanted to experiment with recording sound. I found the assignment “What’s the Story Morning Glory?” and felt it would be a fun assignment to complete, as no dialogue was allowed, only sounds. To record the sounds of my morning,…

Week 4: Audio Assignment #1 For my first audio assignment, I really wanted to experiment with Audacity and also include music. Looking through the DS106 Audio Assignment Bank I found an interesting and fun assignment called Greatest Hits Storytelling (3 stars) in which you tell a story using an artists’s…

September 19, 2014 Although National Dog Day was on August 26th, this Daily Create assignment was to show what you do/did with your favorite pet. I have a black, white, and tan pure bred chihuahua named Paddington who is 8 years old. Even though he’s 8 years old, he’s still…

I made the above graphic using GIMP and the well-known #DontShoot image taken at Harvard University (http://michigancitizen.com/mc/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/HU-students.jpg) Planning the Project Our group (Team 1) chose to do this module as we felt like “hashtag activism” was something that has currently been contributing to the spread of news. Users use hashtags…

September 17, 2014 For yesterday’s Daily Create, “Show us a feeling!,” we had to convey a feeling in some sort of embodiment to make others understand. As I was inspired by the instructional cartoon, I decided to convey my feelings in a cartoon also. This week, I visited the Blackstone…

Reflecting on Jennifer Ralston’s Explanation of Sound Editing Listen to the interview below: Simply watching a show does not do the full design of the work (that is, the show) justice. When you put yourself into the role of a viewer, you tend to only view the outer layer of…

For this brainstorming activity, I decided to use GIMP to create a Wire 106 Radio “logo” (or “banner”) with a background of Baltimore cargo containers to accompany the ideas that came to me about what a Wire-themed show would include. For a show 20-30 minutes long, I came up with…

Reflection on “Web 2.0 Storytelling” and “Shapes of Stories” Bryan Alexander’s chapter on Web 2.0 Storytelling brought to light something I never knew blogging and other social media was used for. The Internet tends to become overloaded with news about the world, politics, celebrities, and more. It’s refreshing to see…

After reading the chapter “Web 2.0 Storytelling” from Bryan Alexander‘s book The New Digital Storytelling, I was opened up to a world where various social media platforms still used today (Twitter, blogs, etc.) are used to tell actual stories, both fictional and non-fictional. From my understanding, what makes Digital Storytelling…

For my last DS106 assignment this week I decided to do the Visual assignment called The Wire Everywhere, in which we’d have to capture a prevalent image from The Wire and show a real world example. In Week 1, I recall taking a screenshot of the beginning scene of the…

For my second DS106 assignment this week, I decided to choose the Web assignment “You’re a Pinteresting Character” and portray The Wire character, D’Angelo Barksdale, using Pinterest. Although I’m currently not active on Pinterest, I do have an account and am familiar with the process of “pinning” images, links, quotes,…

For my first DS106 assignment for The Wire this week, I chose to tell the story of who Stringer Bell became after The Wire using a GIF animation. The assignment can be found here. Although we have just worked with creating GIF images, I was interested in this assignment because…

September 11, 2014 For today’s Daily Create I created an image of my favorite mathematical equation/expression using images of numbers and symbols found on the internet. Being a Business major and having recently sold my soul to Principles of Finance (it was a challenging class), a formula that I had…