So I have chosen and completed my two daily creates that were required for this week and here they are… I chose Monday’s daily create which was to “draw a stairway to your biggest dream and write what it’ll take to get there on each step.” I chose to do this daily create because I’ve … Read More

So tonight, St. Patty’s Day in 2015, Get A Clue aired on DS106 radio. Here is how I felt before the show in a nutshell… I'm actually nervous and my heart is beating really fast LOL #noir106 #ds106radio — Tiffany Yowell (@tyowell29) March 18, 2015 I wasn’t sure how everyone would follow the show or … Read More

The sound effects in this radio show were so on point it’s ridiculous. They went along so well with each scene and the one in particular that stuck with me was during on scene while following Vixen through the swamp, the bugs in the background really made it feel as though I was in the … Read More

I chose option 1 to do 8 stars of video assignments with 4 being attributed to my character and another character from the class. So for my first video assignment for the week I chose to create a lyric video (3 stars). I decided to sort of connect this with our radio show which airs … Read More

Although English is my least favorite subject and I actually hate writing when I have a specific prompt to write about, I really enjoy free-writing and being able to let my creativity thrive through words. For that reason, I have created a writing assignment in the assignment bank titled “Your Last Words.”  As you will … Read More

I’ve made all of my weekly summary titles rhyme for many weeks now and I enjoy that fact. ANYWAYS Radio Show Listen-In I tuned into I believe 3 nights of radio noir this week but I only blogged and tweeted about the first one because I just wanted to listen to the others.  I listened … Read More

For my final collaborative character assignment I chose to create A Story in Alphabet (worth 2 stars).  The assignment includes creating a story (that makes sense, if possible) with each sentence using the next letter of the alphabet…ex: A cat jumped…But he fell…Cats are clumsy…etc. I once again chose Victoire Absinthe to be the inspiration of … Read More

So for my first daily create this week I chose to show the different sides of myself. I had all of these pictures on my instagram so I just screenshotted them on my phone to have them for the collage. I put the pictures together using PIc Stitch (an app for iPhones).  As for the … Read More

So for this design assignment, I had to create a Children’s Book Cover (worth 3 stars).  Spencer Scott’s character, Donnie Rawlen is an established writer so I thought this would be the perfect way to incorporate him with Lawrence.  The assignment was to create a children’s book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. I downloaded a paint … Read More

So for my second assignment involving my character and another character this week, I chose Me and Bae (worth 2.5 stars). The description of this assignment was to find a picture of a celebrity couple, crop out their faces and place the faces of “you and bae” into the picture and then write a description of … Read More

I decided to create an animated TXT GIF (worth 3 stars) for my first collaborative character assignment this week. The assignment entailed creating a GIF that shows two contradicting thoughts in 2 or more frames which I think mine does exactly that. I chose Megan Rosengrant’s Victoire Absinthe as the collaborative character for this first assignment because … Read More

Inspire Website Link The Fifty Shades of Hallmark post by Janelle was really humorous and fantastic. Even being a fan of the movie and the book series, as I am, I still found this quite enjoyable and was laughing the entire time.  I didn’t realize how someone could take audio from a movie trailer or … Read More

Inspire Website Link This Daily Create by Emily really moved me emotionally because I, too, have recently gone through a bad break up. Emily basically wrote down the feelings that I can’t gather into words and put them into a picture with a description. She inspired me to really open up and use my feelings … Read More

First off here is the link to my post on the Inspire Website I chose Spencer’s Photo Safari as one of my “Inspires” because I love photography and the photos that Spencer took of downtown Fredericksburg are awesome.  I love how he used the black and white aspect of photography to really embrace the noir … Read More

“House of Noir” I really enjoyed listening to this show.  There was just the right amount of drama and “fan-girling” for my taste and it was nicely done!  Whoever voiced the fan-girl did a really nice job…I really got the feel of a girl who is desperately in love with someone she has no chance … Read More

* I would first like to say that on the Inspire website, it didn’t show the stuff that I wrote about each of the four that I chose so I will reiterate what I said in my blog posts.* So for my first “Inspired” post for this week I chose Landon’s Ruins.  This was actually … Read More

The third daily create I chose for the week was to edit/ create an action movie poster using only teal blue and orange hues.  I thought this sounded cool, which is why I chose to participate.  First I looked up action movie posters and I was shocked to see how many of them actually already … Read More

Daily Creates This week we had to complete 3 daily creates.  The first daily create I chose for the week was to write a poem tribute to ice weasels for Grant Potter’s birthday.  I enjoy writing poems so this wasn’t difficult, but here is the result! The second daily create I chose for this week … Read More

The second daily create I chose for this week was to create an emojination (2/25/15).  The assignment entailed choosing 5 emojis and using them to create a unique story. There was another option of using the Emojinate website if you were on Twitter. Since I have a twitter for the class I decided to use … Read More

Today’s daily create (2/24/15) was to write an ice weasel tribute in honor of Grant Potter’s birthday today.  Grant Potter is the man who created ds106radio.  I like poem so this is why I chose to do this daily create! Happy Birthday, Mr. Potter! You’re a wizard!!!!!!

Day 1 Today, for me, was quite eventful.  I went to school for my three classes then came home to find that Megan had started the scripting for our show on our new Radio Show Script google doc!  She made the whole layout of the broadcast, which I must say was quite awesome and made … Read More

Let me just start this post with how I thought I wouldn’t be doing it until Monday morning because Saturday night was a really bad night for me.  I got locked out of my blog three times for 20 minutes because the way I usually log in didn’t work so I had to try another … Read More

For my final audio assignment for the week I chose to create a Polyphony (worth 2.5 stars).  The assignment included recording yourself singing a polyphony, which is a song that has the same melody going on at different times (also called a round).  Ex: row row row your boat.  I chose a song that I … Read More

So for my radio show design project I chose to make a poster!  First I will show what my poster looks like… The radio show that my group and I are creating is titled Get A Clue, hence why they are the big words in the middle.  I won’t tell what the story is about but my … Read More

For my 3rd audio assignment this week I decided to create a radio bumper (worth 2.5 stars) that was specific for our radio show that we are creating!  I wanted to make one specific to our radio show so that we could include it at the beginning to sort of introduce the show and set the … Read More

For my second audio assignment this week I chose to create Your Theme Song (worth 4 stars).  This is the other assignment that I chose to dedicate to my character (total 6 stars towards character this week).  The assignment included having to create a theme song using instrumentals, sound effects, etc.  It was hard to choose … Read More

The first audio assignment I chose for the week is DS106 Rap (worth 2 stars).  This will contribute 2 of the 5 stars that I have to dedicate towards my character this week!  I chose this one because it sounded fun and I like to rap so I thought I’d give it a shot! First … Read More

It was a cold and snowy night, that night when groups began to form.  Who knew what a stressful night that would be for a young girl who had class in the morning then work right after…only to come home to a twitter feed full of “group” talk.  This young girl was so lost and … Read More

Design Assignments As with any week, I like to get what I think will take the most of my time out of the way first so this week, I decided to get the 12 stars of design assignments done quickly!  I started out with the assignment over 4 stars which was The Ultimate Merger (4.5 stars). … Read More

I chose to watch Blade Runner to look for film design because I thought I’d be interested in it the most out of the 3 choices we were given.  I recorded it on my television using Xfinity On Demand instead of buying it from Amazon because recording it on my TV was free  The only … Read More