This week I have received many compliments on my daily creates and how much I have improved, which has been really encouraging. I also have been enjoying making daily creates a lot more now that I know how to use Photoshop Elements 11 as well as other tools that have helped me develop my internet voice. […]

   Here is the prompt to this assignment.    “Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head.” As you can see, I took a regular TV stand and turned into a tee-pee, ice cream […]

Where and Why I Chose to Photoblitz So I chose to photoblitz at my boyfriend’s apartment. There is several beautiful plants landscaped outside of his complex so I thought it might be a good place. I also knew that the photoblitz list asked for unusual objects to capture and for whatever reason, there are some […]

Visual Assignment called “Splash the Color” 3.5 Stars “Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List.” The photo I chose to use […]

Here is the link to the original assignment. 3 Stars Take any picture in the entire world and change the color hue of the picture to completely change how it looks! Then post it on flickr to show the world! So this is a photo I took a few years ago of a yellow monarch […]

“Write a blog post and see if you can figure out how to embed a flickr set into your blog post. Write about the reason why you selected those photos. Write about the story you are trying to say with any of them.” I picked these photos to make a flickr set because I personally […]

  Here is the prompt to today’s Daily Create. Unfortunately I do not get the extra internet points. @ds106dc #tdc1355 #dailycreate Why is the motorcycle inside? pic.twitter.com/nMZn1fQooX — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 24, 2015

Here is original prompt for today’s Daily Create. I’m too college poor to buy my own latte with art, so I settled for making my own..kind of. @ds106dc #tdc1354 #dailycreate I must say, I'm pretty great at Latte Art. pic.twitter.com/B86MnEzPQZ — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 23, 2015

Prompt to today’s Daily Create is here. I thought it might be interesting to see dinosaurs walk around London! But also slightly terrifying. @ds106dc #tdc1353 #dailycreate Just taking it back about 65 million years ago. pic.twitter.com/fNCQWy9TCZ — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 22, 2015

I believe a few animals must have escaped their own exhibit to come chill with the super cool flamingos… Some more animals popped up in the flamingo exhibit at the zoo! @ds106dc #tdc1352 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/dREhOYxf0u — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 21, 2015

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? This week’s assignments were thoroughly enjoyable. I loved all of the Daily Creates I did and the Audio assignments turned out to be more fun than I had originally anticipated. Also being able to listen to so many different stories on the […]

Favorite Song (1.5 Stars) “Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess. “ I was more than happy to do this assingment. I have always wanted to know how to take lyrics out of songs and now I do! I will […]

Sound Effects Story (3.5 Stars) “Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. “ I thought this was an exciting and challenging assignment for me to try. […]

Have A Phone Conversation With Yourself “Using Audacity or another audio editing software, record yourself holding down both sides of a conversation. Using the pitch changer and/or other effects, change your voice so it sounds like two different people are talking.” This is by far the most embarrassing assignment that I have done. I know […]

Listening to Stories For this particular assignment/reflection, we were asked to listen to several different radio stories from different sites and pick up on each one’s audio techniques and what we thought about their their techniques. From American Life: How I Got Into College I sincerely enjoyed this story itself and all of the audio […]

Jad Abunrad’s perspective on radio storytelling is quite enlightening. I loved the metaphor he used of someone over the radio making a painting when telling a story but they are not the ones holding the paint brush, it’s the audience. That is precisely why he considers the radio “co-imagination” and I would say that books […]

I found Ira Glass‘ advice about storytelling on the radio extremely helpful. He pointed out some useful tips that can make any boring ordinary story sound fascinating and intriguing, which he demonstrated quite well. It was great that he let all young or aspiring storytellers know that it is okay not to have amazing stories […]

For today’s Daily Create we were asked to fill in the lines of this drawing: Naturally I chose the incredibly iconic Beyoncé and her hit video Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it). @ds106dc #tdc1348 today's Daily Create featuring Beyoncé (kind of) pic.twitter.com/g3fgay1Bmh — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 17, 2015  

Here is the prompt to the original Daily Create for today. Below is the original tweet. You can almost hear Frank Sinatra playing in the background. Am I right? @ds106dc #tdc1347 Call me irresponsible… pic.twitter.com/JLCPbfe0cN — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 16, 2015

Utter boredom because best friend Wiley the pit-bull wasn’t there to play.

Ever feel like you’re just stuck in a rut? Like you just keep going around and around on a never ending ferris wheel? Well this new self-help book is the perfect book for you! Enjoy! 

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? There were quite a few assignments this week compared to the past couple of weeks but I feel like I met the requirements for each one. I used slickr-flickr this week even though it took forever to get the plugin to work, […]

We’ve all been there. Those times where it seems like giving up is such an easier option, however, it is usually times like that when we need to keep persevering, which is exactly what my brother, Roy did. It was his senior year of high school and everything was going just his way (as usual). […]

Story in five photos. Here is the link to my story in the Flickr group and I added a slideshow of it too  

The blog post I chose to read was written over three years ago and it is called Mirror, Mirror. I chose this digital story at first because the assignment name sounded fun, which was “The Way It Should Have Been,” and it asked bloggers to reenact stories from movies, books, or TV in a way that […]

It was really great looking at other student’s blogs and I was able to learn quite a few things about the people in my class and even some different ideas for my blog. One thing I learned that I found incredibly helpful was another way to make a gif. One girl that I saw made her gif […]

Here’s my daily create for the day. I’ve embedded the link into the prompt. Enjoy. Write a short story about an ocean at the end of your backyard…   There’s an ocean in my backyard. I do not know how or why it got there. One day I woke up and there was an ocean […]

After watching this video, write a new blog post and explain a story that you’re familiar with in terms of Vonnegut’s approach. Pick a movie, TV show, book, poem, song, etc. The idea is to outline the shape of that story in a visual and descriptive form. Use some kind of media to do this, make it […]

  Today’s Daily Create was pretty cool because everyone wrote a poem together via Twitter! What a creative way to bring people together. This is my contribution to the poem.  

 “Make something to cheer Kelsey up.” Sorry that your computer crashed! Try to keep calm and do not worry your life away!