Art de Comida (Daily Create)

Art de Comida (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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November 2, 2014

The daily create for today (11/1) is Make Food Art. The goal of this was to take a picture of food as a work of art. Planning the photo to make it 3D and pleasing visually. In my personal opinion, almost... Continue Reading →
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It’s All Comin’ Off (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 30, 2014

The daily create for today (10/30) was Hung Out to Dry. The task was to draw a clothesline, simple enough right? To do this I simply took a blank piece of paper and started drawing. I first drew the two end... Continue Reading →
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A Lil Bit of Pre-Production

by tmobaird

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October 28, 2014

One our tasks for this weeks was to do some pre-production work for our future Video Assignments. This includes, first off, choosing two Video Assignments that seem appealing. And then setting up the framework for these assignments. The first assignment... Continue Reading →
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Week 9 In Da Books

by tmobaird

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October 27, 2014

Sheeeeeeeeeesh is it crazy how fast the time is passing. I can’t believe that this semester is more than halfway over. But as far as week 9 goes, the workload wasn’t too bad, which is good considering it was Homecoming... Continue Reading →
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Two 4 One (Daily Creates)

by tmobaird

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October 27, 2014

This is my post dedicated to my last two daily creates Emoji Come Alive! and A Free Pass to Changing Your Past. For Emoji Come Alive! I took the easy route. I chose the thumbs up emoji: Then I simply took a picture of me... Continue Reading →
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MJ Making A Comeback???

by tmobaird

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October 26, 2014

Woahhhhhh, Michael Jordan’s making a comeback??? Only kidding, this is the web page that I edited to create this post. I did this using the Firefox X-Ray Goggles tool. This tool is actually pretty nifty, it allows you to edit... Continue Reading →
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Walter Mitty’s Google Maps Journey

by tmobaird

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October 26, 2014

The next assignment that I decided to do was Google History Maps Story. The general idea of this assignment was to use Google Maps to create a map displaying a journey of a historical or literary character. The character I... Continue Reading →
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Today…

by tmobaird

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October 26, 2014

The first Web assignment that I chose to do for this week was Create An Host An Interactive Story Using Twine the goal was to use the app Twine to create a story. Twine allows you to create a story board... Continue Reading →
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Week 7 & 8 in the books, ya dig?

by tmobaird

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October 19, 2014

So it looks like week 7 & 8 are officially over. These past two weeks haven’t been, particularly, too busy (ds106 homework wise). These past two weeks, have been mainly based around our group radio project. Apart from our group... Continue Reading →
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Call Me Mick Foley Sounds

by tmobaird

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October 19, 2014

One of our assignments this week, was to take a snippet of a clip from the Charlie Chaplin movie The Circus. Being that I was born in August, I was to use the 00:31 second to 1:00 second snippet of the clip.... Continue Reading →
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Window Silhouette (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 19, 2014

The daily create for today (10/19) was Make a miniature window silhouette. The objective was to take a picture looking out of your window, and add some silhouette image effect to it. To do this, I simply took a picture out... Continue Reading →
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Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 18, 2014

So the daily create for today (10/18) was Ctrl-X CTRL-L in RL, the task was to create a real life example of the computer shortcuts “cut” and “paste”. To accomplish this, I took two pictures of shelves in my house, and... Continue Reading →
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Carl Vs. Juan Pablo (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 17, 2014

Today’s (10/17) daily create, What happened to Carl?, was to create a story for the given poster. Here’s the poster for us to create a story from. My story is titled An Epic Story, essentially because it is a pretty epic story.... Continue Reading →
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Dancin’ in Septemberrrrrrrrrrrrr

by tmobaird

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October 17, 2014

The next Audio Assignment that I chose to do was Make it 800% Slower, where our task was to slow down a track to the point where it becomes ambient. The song that I chose to do for this is... Continue Reading →
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The Best of Blink

by tmobaird

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October 16, 2014

The first audio assignment I chose to do this week was So and So’s Greatest Hits. Due to the fact that I’ve been listening to a lot of Blink-182 lately, I figured they were a perfect group to create a greatest... Continue Reading →
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Picante Radio Personal Responsibilities

by tmobaird

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October 12, 2014

Our task for this week was to create a write up displaying our planned contributions to our group, for our radio project. First off, our radio station is Picante Radio, and it is composed of Kevin Le, Ryan Lacey, Daniel... Continue Reading →
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The Wire (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 9, 2014

So the daily create for today (10/9) is (Don’t) describe #wire106. The premise of this was to explain a show that is completely different from what HBOs show, The Wire, is about. Here’s my description of The Wire (The Gameshow): The Wire October... Continue Reading →
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Week 6 is in the books

by tmobaird

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October 5, 2014

Week 6 of DS106 was based around the idea of design. We were given plenty of information about design and how to apply different styles of design, and manipulate design. The area I learned the most this week was in... Continue Reading →
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My Design Blitz

by tmobaird

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October 5, 2014

One of our assignments this week was to do a design blitz. This means take pictures of objects, ads, signs, etc. that display some of the design qualities that we have been given. We have been given nine design qualities,... Continue Reading →
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What Song Is It??

by tmobaird

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October 5, 2014

For my fifth and final design assignment for the week I chose the assignment Guess The Song, where the idea is creating a poster for a popular song, without telling the name of the song, and incorporating an image of you... Continue Reading →
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My Best Of & I Feel Like a…

by tmobaird

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October 5, 2014

So this post is dedicated to my daily creates from yesterday (10/4) and today (10/5). For yesterday, the daily create was TDC Powers of 10. Yesterday was the 1000th daily create, so our task was to make a compilation of our three... Continue Reading →
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Strength…

by tmobaird

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October 5, 2014

The fourth design assignment that I chose was Motivational Poster! The objective of this assignment was to create a motivational poster, something similar to this: Something simple, but something that conveys a point, and a general idea. To start this assignment, I... Continue Reading →
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Turtle Power

by tmobaird

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October 4, 2014

The third design assignment that I chose was One Story/Four Icons, where our task was to take a movie/story/or popular event and reduce it down to four simple icons. I thought plenty of different movies when deciding which to do. I... Continue Reading →
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A Dream Inside A Dream Inside A….

by tmobaird

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October 4, 2014

For my second design assignment for the week I decided to do the Minimalist TV/Movie Poster assignment. Our task was to create a Minimalist style poster that captures the essence of the story for the selected Movie/TV show. For this assignment... Continue Reading →
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The Dog Who Loved Me

by tmobaird

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October 3, 2014

This week we were assigned to a total of 5 design assignments, totaling up to 15 stars. As I was perusing through the design activities in the assignment bank, I came across The Best Bond Is A Dog assignment. Being a... Continue Reading →
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Trace Yourself! (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 3, 2014

Today’s (10/3) daily create, Trace Yourself, was exactly what it sounds like. We were to trace a picture of ourselves. I found this fun, because tracing can be pretty cool seeing that it is much easier to make a good drawing.... Continue Reading →
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My “Mostly” DS106 Empathy Map (Daily Create)

by tmobaird

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October 2, 2014

So for today’s (10/2) daily create, we were to create an empathy map, keeping DS106 in mind. To do this I used Google Draw to make an animated version of it: I generally had different shapes for specific reasons. In... Continue Reading →
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Week 5 Summary – A Photographer Was Born

by tmobaird

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September 28, 2014

Ok ok, maybe I was being a little over dramatic with the title of this article. I believe I definitely took some good photos, but I’m no pro (not yet). The main focus of this week was on Photography, through... Continue Reading →
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How I Practiced Becoming a Better Photographer

by tmobaird

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September 28, 2014

This week we were given many different tips on how to become a better photographer. Here are some of them: Get Pickier: Instead of using your camera like a rapid fire machine gun, spend more time pre-composing in your mind. As... Continue Reading →
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Back To Basics (With My Dawg)

by tmobaird

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September 28, 2014

For my last Visual Assignment of the week, I chose to do the Back To Basics visual assignment. This assignment, is essentially to take any picture you want and edit it to make a stencil style version of the picture. If you... Continue Reading →
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