Well the end up the year is coming up quite quickly. I suppose this will be my second to last weekly summary and I have to say this class has been a blast all semester. This week working on the final stages of the final project was a lot of fun. We recorded the rest … Continue reading Weekly Summary →

This week was actually a lot of fun. Our group No Stain No Problem recieved its fist case this week so we all go together to plan out how we were going to execute it. We first discussed what media types we would be using and I beleive we settled on primarily using video with … Continue reading Weekly summary

This week was a good week. The Noir Not the Father (NNTF) group has officially transformed into the No Stain No Problem (NSNP) group! While I will certainly miss creating things related to the NNTF story-line I am excited to begin the new journey with NSNP! The website that we created can be found here. … Continue reading Weekly Summary

For this assignment I cut noddy here out of his picture using photoshop and added him into this nice field of flowers. I tried to draw in some similar flowers to help blend him into the image For this assignment I found an umbrella sketch photo that I liked and cut it out of its … Continue reading Daily Creates

Along with the resume, Jack has made business cards to hand out as well! looks like Jack is moving up in the world!

Little warning poster I did for the NNTF show

  Jack Sadler Resume: Profile: My name is Jack Sadler. I currently live in Chicago Illinois but I grew up in a town called Lincoln not too far from the Mississippi river.  I left Lincoln when I was 19 and moved to Chicago. I got a job as a dishwasher at a local bar and began … Continue reading Resume for Jack Sadler

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So this week was fairly busy but ultimately a lot of fun. The NNTF group came together to create our video project which ended up being a bit more work than I think any of us bargained for. I’m sure some of the people who chose to work solo these last two weeks were able … Continue reading Weekly Summary

So NNTF all met today to work out the script and general setup of our video show. We decided to continue off of the story we created in our first show adding new twists and turns and including back stories for all of the characters that everyone has gotten to know and love. We met … Continue reading NNTF The Reunion Show!

So I believe that the NNTF group is coming back together once again for a final installment of heart wrenching drama! I have decided to create my agency with my NNTF group members and think that it will go really well. Despite our characters differences on the shows, the actors behind these genius characters get … Continue reading Agency of… NNTF

This week for my daily creates I chose the 15 second batman challenge, the tree art assignment, and the talk to a stranger assignment. The 15 second batman challenge was my favorite daily create this week. As I have mentioned before I really enjoy any assignment that deals with drawing so this one definitely stood … Continue reading Creations this week

So I just finished up the noir character interview assignment and let me say that it was just as straight forward as I thought it would be but it was much more time consuming than I had planned for. Part of the reason for that was my computer dying just as I had finished cutting up … Continue reading The Interview (with jack sadler not the movie)

So this week was a pretty good week as far as DS106 is concerned. I was pretty excited that Noir Not the Father (NNTF) is coming back together to do a group video project. I had a great time doing the radio show and I think that a video production will go really well. Here … Continue reading Weekly Summary

For my second daily create I chose to do the motion blur assignment. This assignment was pretty straight forward. I couldn’t seem to find a shutter speed option on my phone camera but I was able to get the effect by moving the camera while taking the picture

So the radio show weeks are coming to a close but Noir Not the Father lives on! Listening to the show live was really awesome. We had a few technical difficulties but overall it went great! I think the show sounded good and all the editing really payed off. Tweeting along with everyone listening was … Continue reading Final thoughts on Noir Not the Father

Just listened to Noir at Night and Silk Road and both were really awesome! Noir at Night was a creative way of expressing the opinions of the noir characters on noir-esque movies. The audio was a bit choppy but the sound effects added were really great and added to the overall experience. The accents also really helped … Continue reading Noir at Night and the Silk Road

Today I chose to do the junk mail art daily create assignment. I thought that this was a pretty unique and cool idea for a daily create so as soon as I saw it I began brainstorming. Unfortunately we didn’t have much mail in the mailbox but we do however keep the hard copies of … Continue reading Junk mail art??

This week was actually a lot of fun. I had such a great time hearing how other peoples radio shows turned out. There was seriously such variety in the shows and nothing I listened to could have been considered bad. If the few shows that I listened to can reflect on the class as a … Continue reading Weekly Summary

One of my daily creates this week was to draw an abstract image of something you really enjoyed over the last week. Well I thought back to it and decided that I had truly enjoyed listening to some new music I had found and decided to draw this moment in the most abstract way I … Continue reading Daily Create!

Another one of my daily creates this week was to create a ransom note for Jim Groom. I used a ransom note generator that I found online for the text and used an image I had on my computer for the background. Saved the image at the end and cut out the boarder before posting … Continue reading Daily Creates!

One of my daily creates this week was to create a “how to” image. I chose to create a short little how to draw a geometric image that I enjoy drawing and expanding off of from time to time.

For part of my 10 stars of assignments for this week, I chose to do the you’re invited project. The assignment was to create an invitation to some sort of event. I saw this as a perfect opportunity to create a invitation letter to my character Jack from the Noir Not the Father radio show. … Continue reading You are invited to Noir Not the Father!

So for another one of my assignments this week I chose to do the sharing the credit assignment. Now I know that this assignment was specifically supposed to be between two actual people but I bent the rules a little bit to make it work well with my character. I also did a little more … Continue reading Emails sesh with Jack Sadler

So for part of my 10 stars of assignments dedicated to my noir character, I decided to do the story map assignment. For all of my assignments this week I wanted to continue to build my noir character by using the themes set in place during my groups radio show “Noir Not the Father”. In … Continue reading Story of Jack and Jackie

This week listening to the radio shows was a blast! I thoroughly enjoyed listing to my groups show live and had a lot of fun with the tweet along. I was able to listen to three shows other than my own but only live tweeted during one of them. I admit that I found it … Continue reading Radio Week 1!

This week was mostly consumed with finishing up the radio show project. Our group met twice this week and was able to finish up the project with plenty of time to spare. More info about the process can be found here. I honestly had so much fun with the radio show project and I’m kind … Continue reading Weekly Summary