Wow! Good week work wise. Time wise, not so much. But, you’ve got to know, I’ll do the work even if I’m a week late! Anyways, I really enjoyed some of the Design assignments where I could really get lost in the work, especially the Pokemon Card Assignment.
Radio Poster: …
Balance and Symmetry
This photo represents what is known as Radial Symmetry. This means that the design elements wrap around a central location and keep expanding. This creates a circular pattern filled with Design elements and can be a powerful way to illustrate a point in such a way that …
So far we have been busy and have been involved in planning for the Radio Show. My plan is to make at least one bumper and at least one commercial for the show. I have a character in the show, whose name is Paul. Paul is sort of the jokester …
The link for this assignment is here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ds106-radio/
I really enjoyed making this poster for our radio group. I feel like it entertains the creepy aspect of our theme and contains some elements that give it an odd feeling, which is what we want to do. I got the original …
I found the assignment at this link here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/word/
Thanks Rabia Aman for a cool, simplistic assignment! I love playing around with words, and fonts. Simple things such as typefaces can say so much about something. This is what this assignment captures so beautifully, without the need for flashy pictures, …
The link to this assignment is here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/zombify-yourself/
I found the tools to complete the ZOmbification here: http://creative.avatarlabs.com/zombieland/zombify/
I saw a tweet by Alan debating whether to Zap this or related assignments, and I can’t say I blame him…
Ready to zap #ds106 Zombie assignment. Sure kids have fun …
The link to the assignment is right here… http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pokemon-card/
So this assignment here was my very favorite one to do. I probably spent the most time on this, being fueled by a load of passion. I can remember spending an unearthly amount of time as a kid collecting Pokemon cards, …
Here’s a nice little poster in regards to finding Dr. Oblivious! Oh no! He’s gone missing, what will we do?!?! I found the assignment at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/missing-persons-poster-for-dr-oblivion/ .
First off here, I opened up a blank canvas and entered different pixel values to enlarge the canvas until I was pleased. I …
This assignment was super awesome. I’d always wanted to try my hand at something like this, so I felt I had struck gold here. I took a scene from Star Wars with C3PO and company, and decided on added the Anthony Hopkins character “Hannibal Lecter”. I took a picture of …
Daily Creates: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/daily-creates-week-cinco-13-of-the-way-there/
Splash Color: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/splash-that-color-2-stars/
Meme Assignment: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/make-your-own-meme-2-stars/
Fat Cat: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/472/
PhotoBlitz: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/comet-cupid-donner-photoblitzen/
Path Less Traveled: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/visual-assignment-path-less-traveled-2-stars/
Common Everyday Object: http://blog.themanthemyththepaul.us/2012/10/01/visual-assignment-common-everyday-object-2-stars/
This week was a lot of fun! I got to get my feet back in the water with the visual assignments, and with the photo editing software. It …
Daniel Zimmerman and I decided to do the photoblitz at the same time. We did it in our basement here at Payne Street. It’s pretty wide open, plus we have the upstairs here at the house, which we made good use of. I really like the photoblitz because for one …
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/splash-the-color/
I always have fun with these Splash of Color assignments. It is so cool to take a photo that is in black and white, and add a burst of color to it. Your eyes just zone in on the color when you look at it, which is pretty powerful. …
Ohhh those Fat Cats. They are something else. Funny, adorable, obese… Anyways, I decided to throw my hand in at trying this assignment. I started by uploading both photos into photoshop: 1) the Alexandre Cabanel work of art, 2) the fat cat picture.
I left the piece of art as …
Caught my buddy Daniel Zimmerman off guard here. His blog is linked here: http://danielzimmerman.net .
I love to joke around with him, known him for a while. Sometimes he takes it better than other times :p. Anyways, I used the site cheezburger.com to make this meme. I took the photo …
I saw this assignment and saw a really awesome opportunity. I figured I would use one of my photos that I was less fond of, and incorporate it into an assignment. I figure it is best to make use of it rather than be ashamed of it. So I went …
My inspiration for doing this assignment was pretty simple. I have a bottle of hot sauce that my roommate brought back for me from Cozumel. It is the BOMB, for sure! I picked it up from my desk and decided to photograph it. I used Photoshop CS6 …
So this week was a fun one in the digital storytelling realm, yet pretty demanding. It was a good time going back and forth with our group members for the radio project about topic ideas and all that fun stuff. It was also good to get back into using Audacity …
I picked to listen to RadioLab’s Space episode for this listening/reflection assignment. Here is the link: http://www.radiolab.org/2007/oct/22/ .
I found a few things interesting while listening to this episode. Firstly, the radio workers on RadioLab do a fantastic job of using underlying sounds while telling a story. Many times there …
I had fun with this assignment as well. It look a little bit of maneuvering concerning how to time each sound, and what sounds would be effect when underlain. It also took some time browsing www.freesound.org for sounds relating to the story I wanted to portray. It isn’t anything out …
I found this assignment a ton of fun because I got to try my hand at creating a bumper, or short audio clip designed for radio shows, in order to remind listeners of the station, and in my opinion, to reach out to listeners and emphasize the …
Ds106 radio is a cool creation. You get to listen to all these different hosts at different times, and really get a dose of their perspectives. Jim Groom, CogDog and many people I have never heard of go on their and put on live shows, and they range from very …
TDC 253: Create a sound clip that plays a song backwards, with a 3 second silence, then followed by the short original clip.
For this Daily Create, I thought to use a Dance song that I really love to listen to called No Beef. It was a cool chance to …
As part 1 of this assignment, we, the students of DS106, were asked to listen to Ira Glass’s perspective on what makes storytelling great.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
…and also Jad Abumrad’s opinion on how radio creates empathy.
Both Ira and Jad presented interesting points on …
I always like to give attention to bands that I come across that really hit something special within me. I would like to introduce Young the Giant here on my blog, performing a live version of their song “Islands”, which is one of my personal favorites. I highly encourage anyone …
This week was filled with lots of fun activities, including four daily creates, our input on what storytelling is, an activity using either five photos of your own or random photos, or two photos from the Daily Create archive to create a story. Although it was time consuming and a …
It’s pretty cool how Kurt Vonnegut explains this whole concept that stories have a shape to them. He is correct, because many stories follow this model, moving from beginning to end, with a main character usually fluctuating on the “Good-Ill” spectrum, depending on the plight of that character, and the …
Storytelling is a broad term, but an important one at that. It encompasses many different forms and has existed as long as humans have. Storytelling requires people to spread their adventures, creations, and so forth. Personal perspective is part of what makes a story a story. Both the person telling …