The past 4 days has been the longest 8 years of my life. It was a lot of work getting my final story done, and some of it (lookin’ at you, GIF) didn’t actually need to be done. I like to think it added to my story, though. I hope. The Secret World of Arriet-flea … Continue reading It’s over. Go home!

The Secret World of Arriet-flea For most of my media pieces, I’m hoping I’ll be able to provide thorough walkthroughs of how I went about making them. I’ve been putting everything together in galleries since sometime in week 2, since I tend to take a lot of screenshots as I go and I don’t want to … Continue reading Five final tutorials.

Let me start off by saying this: humans are dumb. They are so self-centered, they think that only they could be smart enough to be historians, or spies, or the great thinkers. I’m living, hopping proof that anyone can be brilliant. I’m a flea, and I’ve got a tiny conspiracy theory to share with you. We … Continue reading The Secret World of Arriet-flea

Reflections Reading Movies Look, Listen, Analyze Video Assignments Six Second Art (4 stars) Narrative Ambience (4.5 stars) Daily Creates TDC1984 TDC1985 TDC1986 TDC1987 Okay, well I didn’t really procrastinate the entire week… just Monday and Tuesday, and then we got hit with a poopstorm of unpredictable events. An emergency doctor’s appointment (all good now), an internet outage, … Continue reading Week 4: Not for procrastinators.

HORRIFYING!!! This daily create! The more details I added, the nastier it got. I hit undo a bunch of times to get rid of the… folds…. #ds106 #tdc1987 who is she 😩😩😩💕💕 time to wash my eyes (๏д๏ )" pic.twitter.com/KpJEYIJYpy — Rebecca S (@rivy3ds) June 18, 2017

The second and final video project I chose to do this week is the 4-and-a-half (?!) star Narrative Ambiance assignment. I chose it because I thought it would be easy. I was dead. wrong. I like to film the weather – if it’s raining, windy, snowing, you know I’ve got a few minutes of video of … Continue reading Snow on the rainbow bridge

Blarg. I chose the picture I wanted to use before I went for a headline. I just couldn’t pass up the cats in party hats album I found on flickr. This cat’s name is Shakespeare and the photo is apparently from his 6th birthday party (7 years ago). Happy birthday to mew, Shakespeare! 🐈 #tdc1986 … Continue reading Clickbait Daily Create

The first video assignment I chose to do for the week is the 4-star Six Second Art project. I’ll say right now that I’m no artist – I can’t draw for beans, I can’t paint, I can’t dance, and I can’t sing. I have shaky hands so anything that requires a gentle touch is out the … Continue reading Origami SPEED-RUN! No zen allowed!

Today’s daily create was… demanding… I saw it when it was first posted and had no idea what to do for it. I might have gone a little too outside the box (or outside the assignment), so I’m kinda feeling like my mermaid statue sitting on the dock right now, thinking “what have I done…?” … Continue reading Mer-woes.

For the Look, Listen, Analyze assignment I chose Kids in the Hall’s The Monkeys. The video in the playlist was disabled, so here’s a version from the Nerdist. I love Kids in the Hall and wish it was still on Netflix, so I’m really excited to look at/listen to/analyze a skit. Looking The scene opens to … Continue reading I’m letting the monkeys loose!!!

A few years ago I took an international film class at UMW. We talked about film techniques, movements, themes, all that stuff.  It was just a summer class, but I thought I was so smart because I got to watch and analyze a buttload of classic movies. What I didn’t realize was that I didn’t actually have … Continue reading The ONE time it’s okay to keep pausing the movie.

Today’s daily create: “I am nervous.” Me: a shivering chihuahua. A decorative sunken ship at the bottom of a fish tank with “nervous wreck” painted on the hull. Both things I thought of AFTER replying to the Daily Create. Facepalming myself into oblivion right now. #tdc1984 #ds106 what is this strange, new tunnel vision inducing … Continue reading The daily anxiety

Assignment links: Summaries & Reflections Ira Glass & Jad Abumrad TED Radio Hour & Scottlo’s Lo Down Moon Graffiti Audio Assignments Sound Effect Story – 3.5 stars Make it 800% Slower – 3.5 stars B-Flat – 3.5 stars Cheesy Radio Ad for Your School – 4 stars Daily Creates TDC1976 TDC1977 TDC1979 TDC1980 I had … Continue reading Week 3: Audio… fun but frustrating

Right off the bat, Moon Graffiti forces you into panic mode alongside the engineers at mission control. It begins with a reenactment of the worst case scenario – a “moon disaster.” There is a rapid beeping, signalling critical error, and the static message from the astronaut giving mission control a program code that they aren’t … Continue reading The greatest speech never given

This week’s final Daily Create is all about logical fallacies. I jumped on “bandwagon” (har har har) and chose to use critically endangered animals as the subjects. It’s hard to say “everyone is doing it” when there aren’t a lot of people in the first place. Also, that’s just not a good reason to explain … Continue reading Logical fallacies – but maybe the hat really is cool.

Commuter Carmen has the cushiest job in radio. She gets to complain, and she gets to do it twice a week! Of course, she has to say something nice about the place she’s complaining about before she starts going off. Sometimes I wonder how she can come up with the nice things to say. It … Continue reading Dream job: complaining about parking to a captive audience

I mentioned in my about me page that I like cartoons… and one of the cartoons that I’m crazy about (like a lot of other people right now) is Steven Universe. I can’t help it. I love the songs, the gems, the fusions, and the neverending possibilities for conspiracy theories. One question gets answered and … Continue reading You guys sound a little off

Today’s daily create asks for us to contribute to a peace playlist. I tried to think of peace songs that hadn’t been submitted already, but came up short. Then I realized that I had lots of ideas for songs that were narrations of moments of personal peace – something I think is just as important. … Continue reading Peace on a small scale

If you slow the song down by 800%, you’ll hear a secret message. Oddly enough, the song is Icelandic pop sensation BABBA’s Disc– I mean, Swedish supergroup ABBA’s Dancing Queen. I’ve always been a big fan of hidden messages. When I was a kid, I remember finding out about backmasking: playing records backward. Hearing Stairway … Continue reading Rumor has it, if you slow the song down…

It’d been a long day full of fun outdoorsiness. We set up camp by the river, as we usually do. It was a long walk from the park’s welcome center, carrying all our gear and swatting mosquitos away for what felt like 600 years, but we finally made it to our favorite site in the … Continue reading What’s the scariest part about camping?

You thought he was cool before. You followed him on Snapchat. You follow him on Twitter. Michelle, too. When you got an email with his or Michelle’s signature, you kept it, and you still have it. Is it just me? But now we find out… he’s been chillin with us the whole time!!! NICE!!! #tdc1977 … Continue reading Barack’s big secret… (clickbait title ahoy)

Today’s TDC was all about ridiculous lattes… I’ve never actually had a latte that was decorated, even with the regular art that looks like a fern. Now all I want is a latte with a pokemon on it. That’s the ONLY kind of latte I want. excited for the new pokemon games coming in november!!! … Continue reading Fancy schmancy lattes

Wow, that was a lot of listening!!! I really enjoyed the Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker piece. The format of “here’s what to look for/here’s the story/here’s the analysis” was a HUGE help for me in understanding how audio shapes the way we understand stories. The way the sounds are edited in really help tell the … Continue reading Part 2: Paro, Scottlo, radio

A few weeks ago, my dad and I drove from Spotsylvania all the way south to Orlando. It was a 13 or 14 hour drive, and we listened to radio dramas most of the way down. We make this drive every year or so to visit family – I’m the only one left who isn’t … Continue reading You’re not an old-timey newscaster, ya nerd.

Assignments: Reflection on the Vignelli Canon Design Blitz Daily Creates TDC1969 TDC1970 TDC1971 TDC1972 Design Assignments Are We There Yet? Honest Video Game Cover Contradiction Creation Minimalist Movie Poster Computer Book for Kids Animated Gif Assignments Sticky Note Animation – my personal favorite of the gif assignments Goof Gif This week was tough. There was a … Continue reading Week 2: Design… is hard.

Full disclosure: I waited way too long to do this blitz. I actually ended up staying home every day this week, so what I ended up doing is turning to one of my all-time favorites… looking at magazine ads. After all, what good is an ad if it looks bad? The design elements that I’ll … Continue reading So much design, so little time.

Saturday’s Daily Create… what drink would define me? The one that puts people to sleep. Also it’s delicious. at this time of the evening i might as well just be this bear. time to snooze 💤 #tdc1972 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/iPSl0ntb4H — Rebecca S (@rivy3ds) June 4, 2017  

For my final design assignment this week, I’ve chosen to make a Computer Book for Kids. The one I ended up making would have really helped me out when I was younger, and now I’m kind of mad that it didn’t exist before. When I was a kid, I used to get in internet fights all the … Continue reading He’s hungry alright… for tears.

The first thing I noticed in the Vignelli Canon is how uniquely the book itself is designed. It’s not just a book about design, but the book itself is a design and it has been designed. The pages aren’t just leaves of paper that exist for words and pictures to be slapped onto like the 22nd edition … Continue reading Intent is everything: the Vignelli Canon

For the fourth design assignment, I chose to make a Minimalist Movie Poster – I really like the look of minimalist posters, ads, art, makeup, etc., so I thought I’d try my hand using a movie that I’m a big fan of. I actually didn’t see the movie until I was in high school, probably 5 … Continue reading That’s just offensive. Let’s watch it.