My last daily create for this week was from yesterday and it required you to write a poem that detailed how music changed your life. This was an easy assignment because I listen to music all the time and even right now I’m listening to something on Spotify.   My muse is not tangible, Nor is it seen. It is… Read more →

I’m not much of a T Swift fan but I enjoyed Janaye’s mash up of her songs to present her greatest hits. I hadn’t seen this particular audio assignment in our audio bank but now that I listened to this, I can’t wait to do it. I don’t know why this inspires me other than the fact that it sounded… Read more →

After listening to the epic Dead Silence, I was proud of my fellow DS106ers and what they created. It had a plot that twisted and turned and it was full of many noir elements that we learned this semester. The plot began as a simple heist but was instead full of love, revenge and jealously. I loved how they made… Read more →

I decided to make an I’m Sorry card from Layla to Damon because I was like “Why not?” This all happens some time after this but I don’t exactly know how or why. So there’s that. I wanted to make the card as childish as I could to show that Layla was at least trying when she gave him the card. She has… Read more →

I was happy about this assignment. Not the whole dying part but, you know, the nostalgia. I also decided that this would be a perfect opportunity to incorporate my noir character and someone else’s. After looking through some character dossiers I decided on having the person who “died” to be Rick Shannon, a character created by Ben. His dossier can be… Read more →

Two of the daily creates I’ve done so far are listed in the title. I started with the DC that required us to show people the many sides of us. I thought it was a simple task and I just put together pictures of myself that had been uploaded to Facebook and Instagram. I enjoyed it because I know I… Read more →

This assignment involved writing a diary entry for a disney villain. However, I changed it to suit the Collaborative Character assignment we needed to do. Instead of a disney villain, it will be from my noir character, Layla Arkwood. This particular entry is a continuation of my group’s radio show which involved Layla being kidnapped. This entry encompasses the effect the… Read more →

This assignment required you to create a warning poster for anything. I decided to use this as a collaboration between Jonathan Polson’s noir character and my own. It is a slight continuation of my group’s radio show which can be found here. It ended with Damon and Layla escaping from Bev’s “interview”. This poster is a result of that encounter… Read more →

This week required us to do so much but at the end of the week I was proud of what I had done. Now that our radio show is done it feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.   Radio Show: Our completed radio show can be found here. As such, my narrative and process of the… Read more →

In addition to the movie poster daily create, I did one that simply required you to prop your foot up on an everyday object that was near you. I quickly looked around and found my box from Bath and Body Works that recently was delivered to me and put my foot up on that. You can see their catch phrase… Read more →

Here is my group’s completed radio show that we spent the last week on. To find out more about the process visit here and here.   Read more →

Tuesday, my group and I met at the convergence center to finalize some details and to hash out a script for our show. We got along well and we were able to get a lot of work done while still having fun. We created a skeleton script that we recorded off of and added some sound effects to it. I… Read more →

This daily create required us to transform a movie poster into one that uses the color scheme of blue, teal and orange. Apparently those colors are the definition of action movies. I’ve never heard of a movie genre having a particular color scheme but I guess I just never researched it before. After the mysterious colored dress fiasco, I try… Read more →

This week was less work filled because of our preparation for our radio shows. It was a lot of fun getting into groups and kind of weird since I’ll probably never meet these people. However, we communicated well and brainstormed ideas for our show. As such, lets get down to the nitty-gritty of this week.   Radio Show Progress: Like… Read more →

  With Jonathan having already done a sticker, I thought to add my own logo to the mix. I already had the idea of pasting the words NOIR TALK onto a background but I didn’t know what. So, I thought back to a word cloud assignment I did for my noir character and chose to use that as the background.… Read more →

My group includes Mariah Young, Jonathan Polson and myself. So far, we’ve brainstormed excellent ideas for our radio show, settling on a conference between our characters. Masked as an interview by Mariah’s political character, my character and Jonathan’s are held against our will for a reason only known by Mariah’s. We’re still working out the kinks but that is our… Read more →

I was very skeptical about this assignment. I knew how much editing needed to be done to fuse the three tracks and that made me pause slightly. However, I couldn’t help but feel curious about the assignment. So, I decided to try it out. I chose one of my best sounds to sing which was “Beautiful War” by Kings of… Read more →

I had a little fun creating this radio commercial. I decided on the show Sleepy Hollow to create a product for because it is one of my all time favorites. I noticed how much the characters needed to know where the different horsemen were and how they always found them at the end of the episode. So, I created something… Read more →

This was so embarrassing. I’m able to do accents but the voices of men allude me. I just sound like a really deep voiced woman. My voice is already kind of low so it wasn’t that much of a big deal. But a male Russian? Geez. I pick the worst characters to imitate. I chose to incorporate my noir character in… Read more →

When I saw this assignment, I knew that I needed to read a poem from Robert Frost. He is my all time favorite poet. Additionally, when I saw that we needed to relate this to a story in some way I thought to create my own poem out of stanzas from others. It worked for a time but then I… Read more →

I did the audio assignment where you mash together sounds to create your day. I decided that this would be a perfect one to incorporate my noir character. For simplicity’s sake, I chose to start her day from morning to when she went to bed. It gave me a nice kind of anchor. I began with an alarm clock waking… Read more →

The aspects of design this week didn’t interest me as much as it should have. Maybe it was because this week was kind of unenthusiastic for me. Eh. However, like always, I enjoyed our assignments for design. I particularly enjoyed putting Professor Groom’s face on Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball. The rest of my design assignments can be found… Read more →

I had previously enjoyed the noir photo shoot that we needed to do for the visual aspect of storytelling so when I saw this assignment I got excited. In all honestly, I had to reread the descriptions for the specific categories that we needed because it just wasn’t sinking in. I understood color and typography and stuff like that but… Read more →

A lot of things go into copyrighting. It’s so much that I don’t really understand it all. However, what I do understand is that there is mostly copyrighting, kind of copyrighting, and free to the public copyrighting. As such, copyrighting can be circumstantial with parodies disrupting those concrete laws. Copyrighting has struggled to find a proper balance between the owner… Read more →

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is a futuristic sci fi film about rogue replicants, humanoid robots who were previously used as slave labor, that threaten to tip the balance of the film’s dystopian society. As a noir film, there were different designs and elements that made it such. Its tactical use of a much darker city filled with skyscrapers and industrial… Read more →

I couldn’t resist creating a cover for my all time favorite novel, The Great Gatsby. I gathered inspiration from the various covers out there and decided on recreating Doctor Eckleburg. He is the derelict billboard that looms over the Valley of Ash between West and East Egg. Only a pair of spectacles and eyes, he stands out throughout the novel. He symbolizes God’s… Read more →

I have to be honest here, I actually intend for my two main character, Marcus and Layla, to get married one day. It won’t be that easy of course but I had to indulge myself in this one assignment. We had to create an invitation to something and I decided on Layla’s wedding. She would become Layla Arkwood-Harvard of course.… Read more →

Layla enjoys the color red. Given the fact that her hair is a blazing red and she enjoys the same color, many have taken to calling her the Flame Princess. However, regardless of her mood or outfit, she always wears two things: her mother’s necklace and Mikhail and Nikolai’s gift. Her mother had given her that necklace the day she… Read more →

Left 4 Dead is one of my all time favorite video games. It’s gameplay is heavily driven on teamwork and communication. It is so heavily influenced by it that one bad teammate will bring the rest down. As such, when playing online, it can be hard to talk to people since they might not have microphones. However, there is that… Read more →

I know the assignment said TV/Movie poster but I couldn’t resist. This immediately popped into my mind. I know we’ve never met, Professor, but I present to you: Miley Groom Read more →