A long time ago in the magic Kingdom of Bahrain a super saluki was born. He was the son of champions. He was a true son of the sands. His ancestors were famous hunters sought after for their stamina and hunting prowess. Saiph was special. […]

Saiph the Super Saluki’s Personal Story. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/personal-stories/ This 3 Star assignment was lots of fun. The primary program I used was MovieMaker on my Sony Laptop. Using my photo and video gallery on OneDrive, where I had uploaded all of my photos and video from […]

SALUKIZIM Productions needed a snazzy logo.         http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-logo/ For this 3 Star assignment I downloaded a saluki sketch from online, placed it into a PowerPoint, added Text and save...

Wouldn’t you know it, Lufthansa misplaced Saiph’s crate and he was missing for 1/2 an hour.         http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/missing-person/ For this 3 1/2 star assignment I spun my wheels for 1/2 an hour trying to find a free missing person template on line. […]

Saiph’s 24 hour trip to America. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-day-in-the-life-of-your-character/ I started this 3 1/2 Star assignment first at http://freesounds.org and searched for sounds that would tell my story without vocals. I downloaded the files and then imported them into Audacity. After a bit of editing I was […]

A little coordination goes a long way especially when confirming overseas flights. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/have-a-phone-conversation-with-yourself/ For this 4 1/2 assignment I wrote a short script with me talking to the gentleman in Bahrain who was taking care of Saiph and was shipping him to the United States […]

Saiph was welcomed to the United States with a giant billboard:           For this 4 star assignment I went online to the internet and found an image of a billboard and downloaded it and saved it to a PowerPoint slide. I […]

Week 4 Fueled by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, vast quantities of black coffee, and one or two adult libations (dirty martinis) I powered through this week. I refused to get frustrated by software and programs that were not senior citizen friendly. Years ago when […]

This four-star assignment was great fun. It provided me with significant challenges and opportunities to excel. I took the video while out on my 0600 morning walk with my pup Nelly. I used my iPhone to record two separate video clips. It took me no […]

This 4 1/2 star assignment captures one of the fundamental aspects of my personality. I am a saluki hound aficionado. I have had saluki hounds for over 55 years of my life. I received my first saluki as a child, growing up in Saudi Arabia, […]

How to Read a Movie by Roger Ebert I think that Ebert’s basic visual strategy is very interesting. I do not watch a lot of movies or television so I am not grounded on the intricacies of videography the way he is. However, as someone […]

The Good The Bad and the Ugly (Cemetery Scene) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHEu7HusG4&list=PLRxOxWTx2sTWXlPjwkcXN-tREmsQWd-Sc&index=12 It truly is amazing what your eyes see without sound and what you hear when you are not visually distracted. This was a unique experience. By turning off the sound and watching the visual effects […]

This was the week that was!!!! In the midst of everything else the wifi on my computer crashed. I’m now hooked up to an ether net connection that is less than optimal. Talk about old school…at least it isn’t a dial-up connection…that would be rich. […]

This 4 1/2 star assignment was actually relatively straight forward and fun. The most difficult part was writing out a quick script and then recording it using Audacity. I decided that there was no point in doing two separate tracks since the natural flow of […]

This 1 1/2 star assignment was fun as well as eye opening. My two resources were the online McDonald’s menu and Audacity. After going to the McDonald’s website and picking out three items I would never order, I decided to change the order around. My […]

To make this sound bite I use my iPhone’s voice memo application. I played the various recordings into the microphone I have attached my computer and then manipulated each of the recordings using my new best friend, Audacity. This recording starts with my daily 6 […]

This 3 1/2 star sign assignment provided me with the opportunity to take an imaginary round trip excursion to the grocery store in my Land Rover. In preparation for my excursion I spent a few hours getting familiar with Audacity. One of the hints given […]

I just completed listening to “Moon Graffiti”. Wow, what a powerful story. Shutting my eyes and allowing my sense of hearing to take over, I was transported back to that event in July 1969. For me this event was real. My parents and I were […]

Wow! This was well worth the time to listen to. I really appreciated ScottLo in Saudi Arabia. Having spent a significant portion of my life there and having listened to more than one call to prayer it was nice to hear the call of the […]

Ira Glass opined that the building blocks of storytelling are: 1) Anecdote – a sequence of actions in which one action leads onto another. He noted that in good anecdotes the storyteller uses bait to constantly raise questions that the storyteller answers, which raises more […]