How to Be a Better Photographer. This was the title of one of the paragraphs of the week 5 instructions by Alan Levine.
Years ago (twenty maybe) I took an evening course in photography. I was still trying to get a foothold in the engineering profession and did this just for …
I created a set of my photos I like most on flickr and posted this to my blogger account, as it was recommended for a 5th week task, although I am not sure if this was, what was required. It is also possible to create a slideshow on my blog, but …
When I read about this assignment and looked at the postcards provided I thought creating one of these might turn out as a joke. I wont sent any of the people I love a postcard like this. Yet, I found one somehow neutral and tried to be as unspecific as …
A week 5 weeklycreate
I often go to the parks of my city and take photographs. Strangely enough while the streets are crowded the park is nearly empty. For one of the visual creates of ds106 I used three photos taken at a winter day. The suggestion in the assignment …
Photoblitzing Assignment
For this week five assignment we were supposed to go to a place and and to shoot photos after a given general description:
Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural.
Take a photo that makes use of converging lines.
Take a photo dominated by a single color
Take …
Summary of week 4
This was the fourth week with ds106 and all about audio. I think the hardest part was to listen to so many radio broadcasts. I am not a native speaker in English and when there is no visual information it becomes more difficult to follow a …
One one this weeks assignments of ds106:
Create a sound effect story – tell a short story using nothing but sound effects.
Here I collected some sounds on freesound.org and combined them in audycity.
I imagined a world under water like in Captain Nemo. The peace of this world is attacked …
ds106 Radio Bumper
A weekly create assignment of ds106:
Create a ds106 Radio Bumper – a 10-30 second short audio.
This week with ds106 is all about audio. We were recommended to listen first and after I did so intensively I started creating audio with audacity. The bumper is one …
Summary of week 3
I have started the week with making out what storytelling is to me. After this I have learned even more about storytelling, while having some practice and listen to others about their thoughts around storytelling, when I watched the ds106 Show. I wondered about how deep storytellers …
For this I have to say whatever story I got interested in was something I needed to continue my own story. This way I searched the in[SPIRE] site and the Best Work storage to find something which add to my experience around storytelling. I’ve just watched a …
This story I was once given by my elder sister for a birthday present. I have just noticed that there is an animated version, too. When I read about the weekly stuff to do I remembered the story and now try to analyse …
A dailycreate of ds106: Make a blue screen of death message using type only.
I once did a piece of art concerning Schubert’s Winterreise, and this was about a certain shade of the color blue. When I read about this daily create I felt reminded on …
Always the first thing which I associate with storytelling is something I’ve learned from a Hawaiin. “E komo mai.” means something like ‘Welcome, come in.’ but also ‘come in and tell your story’. I love the idea of welcoming people to tell their story.
Then I know the term from the …
Summary of week 2
This week I started with reading the “weekly stuff to do checklist” page which is designed for the UMW students of Alan Levine. I read through the week 2 page and sorted what I may do as an open online participant and what not and I definitely …
Take a photo of the ONE thing you MUST see, do, eat, hear, etc. everyday!
When I read this dailycreate suggestion I knew at once this must be a photograph about tea. I really must drink some black tea in the morning …
Summary of week 1
This is about the weekly summary which regular students of ds106 https://ds106.us/ are obliged to do to gain some grading. As an open participant I am not, yet, may decide it is not just useful for grading issues but to get out most of the great opportunity I …
Capture love in a photograph. Give it a title.
I needed some time to think about this task. It became clear to me that any photograph I took and which was good was touching and by this love. However I decided to …
A writing dailycreate assignment:
making a banana sculpture, paper out of banana, banana ice, banana puree for infants, weapon prop, convenient place to stay for bird-eating spider (or banana-eating?), monkey meal, yellow part in a fruit bowl still, funny symbol of certain male organ, murder weapon (deliberately placed banana skin), fancy …
DailyCreate suggestion by ds106:
Draw a picture of one of the first memories you have growing up.…
DailyCreate suggestion by ds106:
Take a picture of your favorite thing in the world to do, however simple or complex.
There is so much I want to do in this world. When I started thinking about it I felt depressed and …
This is a stopmotion animation inspired by a dailycreate Suggestion by ds106: Find nearest over-looked everyday object. Fabricate a story about it being a key part of your childhood.
I bought felt tip pencils some time ago to make me taking notes rather than figuring out anything just in my mind. I used them some time, …
The first dailycreate suggestion by ds106: Take a picture of your favorite place to work…
Hi, most welcome visitors of my Blog about storytelling inspired by the open online course ds 106.
I may upload any finished assignment here starting today, Jan 14. 2013.…
