This week, Donnie Rawlen’s character has been exposed for a bit longer than my typical approach of fleshing him out via shorter assignments.  I’d previously planned to use smaller assignments to create pixels, hoping to end the semester with a...
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Art is movement. It makes the audience feel something, for better or worse. It’s about giving them something to talk about, to be inspired by, to make you overjoyed, or even furious. Invoking some sort of response is ultimately the basic goal...
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Sebastian is expecting an article at The San Francisco Chronicle today. I wrote him my rote process in the form of a haiku, instead. I folded it shut, and left it in his mailbox, where I would usually leave my weekly...
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You need to watch this video. For my final inspiration post requirement, I chose Lesya Melnychenko. First off, that’s a sweet name. But even better, she has a plethora of skills on display in the video she created for the Have A...
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I was bored earlier in the week, so I decided to make some more GroomArt.  Being a Star Wars fan, I originally thought about making him into a Wookie, but seeing as he is already tall enough, I thought I’d shrink...
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Brenda Levoy’s invoice for Noir We There Yet? Radio really made an impact on me by breaking the fourth wall. An invoice, really Spencer? Yes. An invoice. Invoices are such important documents for accounting departments that it really shattered the...
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Considering this week is all about collaborative work, I wanted to introduce the idea of sharing credit to DS106. We’re a community of creators, so why not make an assignment to demonstrate that? I was hanging out in the ITCC...
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For 3 stars this week, I completed the Cartoon You assignment, including Emily Bostaph’s Cecilia Alva in the process, since Donnie is in contact with her regarding her late husband’s death. I took a pixel art approach, similar to Code...
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This week, I overheard Burtice the brawny dwarf scaring the Dun-noir-gens and Dragons Radio group into a bar brawl. This is pretty much how I thought she looked as a result of the provided description: wow. i feel so loved....
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For my third and final daily create for the week, I wrote a poem, “Filling the Void”, attempting to describe the role of music, and How music changed my life assignment.   I really wanted to add a few of the mathematical...
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This was my second daily create of the week, the ransom note. “If Groom were kidnapped, what would the ransom note say?” I think Groom would Ransom of Red Chief whoever tried to kidnap him, so I wrote it as...
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Savanna’s site really inspired me to really delve into my own domain’s layout.  Specifically, I think she used a very good photograph as the header with a font overlay that makes me want to explore more of her blog. She has...
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One Republic’s “I Lived” and Requiem for a Dream usually wouldn’t be associated with each other. Though, the brilliant Miss Stephanie Henderson found a way to relate them to one another, with a phenomenal result. Her dramatic reading of “I...
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For my first daily create of the week, I completed the “My Different Sides” assignment. I found a nifty site, befunky, to help collage my pictures. I chose to include a few of my interests that make up who I am...
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Bring on Spring Break! This week was pretty tedious. I could feel the pressure of my decision to volunteer for writing the script for “Noir We There Yet?” throughout each day. But, I started out my daily creates for the...
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I’m really starting to feel like the required comments for this course have commenced a lot of communication between all of the separate sections of the course; they really add to the community vibe of DS106. Like strangers just giving...
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The second week of the radio show went pretty smoothly.  “Noir We There Yet?” is full of organized people, and our personalities and the roles of our characters played out extremely well.  Really, it was one of the best groups...
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  Yeah, my daily create looks terrible. But, I had a few issues with incorrect layering that kept me from doing much more, since I try to stick to the 15 minutes as closely as possible. I wanted to add...
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Upon seeing the Daily Create for Thursday, this was me: Seriously. I made this last week on the snow day:   But, I’d already created that, and I wanted to stick with the Daily Create’s motif of creating daily. So,...
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This week has been so ridiculous in terms of weather that it really messed up my usual schedule of going to campus at night and working on assignments. It’s a lot less distracting to work in an un-cramped space like...
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I, like many of the other students in DS106, was rather apprehensive about the prospect of a group project, but Noir We There Yet? is progressing very well. My group joined together on Monday and we decided to “meet” on...
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For my final assignment of the week, I tried something a bit new.  Seeing as this is a “digital storytelling” class, I decided to write a little story with the caveat being it had to contain a plethora of homophones....
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I saw the What’s Your Story Morning Glory in the assignment bank, and decided that it would add a bit of humanity to Donnie Rawlen’s persona.  He has to wake up every morning, just like everyone else, and I thought about...
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For my third assignment of the week, I kept my acoustic guitar out after using it in my commercial. I wanted to mess around with it, since I recently discovered I was lacking a cable to my old amp. So,...
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For my second assignment of the week, I became a hipster. Seriously. I made a commercial about buying a new fedora. There’s probably more hipster-y things than this happening all the time, but, of course, I’ve never even heard of...
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I chose a bumper sticker for my radio show promotion design this week because what better medium is there to advertise for a radio show that you can listen to in your car than the bumper of the car in front of...
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I had an absolute blast this week.  I started off by reading and responding to the Vignelli Canon, which had a lot of great information about design that helped me throughout the week.   My first completed assignment was my...
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I chose The Big Lebowski for this week’s “required” movies to watch–I’ll gladly watch it any time. It’s one of my favorite movies, and one I’ve been familiar with since its release. I used to go bowling regularly with some...
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This week I had a ton of fun with the daily creates. The first one I completed was “What’s Your Superpower?”. I chose fire manipulation because, well, I’m kind of a hippie at heart. I have more of an anthropological,...
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First off, I had once again misread directions, so I thought I was supposed to find all 10 elements for the design blitz this week. I reread the post before I left to complete it, luckily, so it took less...
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