The Long Way Home: The Final Summary for DS106

The Long Way Home: The Final Summary for DS106

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December 14, 2012

It’s been one heck of a ride. I’m going to really miss this class. Despite doing a ton of last minute work, the work I’ve done for this class has been by far my most enjoyable of my college career. … Continue reading →
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Daily Created!

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December 8, 2012

Here I’m going to tell you of the two daily creates that I have submitted at this point. I hope I’m doing this right. Tell us your favorite joke. This was my first idea. It was an audio assignment. The … Continue reading →
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My Very own Assignment 2: Electric Boogaloo

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December 8, 2012

Oh boy, I created another one! I’ve seen a few examples of this on the internet now, which kind of sucks because I thought I was being original when I came up with it. I guess it’s true what they … Continue reading →
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My Very Own Assignment: Where’s My Soda?

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December 8, 2012

WOO! I created my very first assignment today. It’s called, “Where Did the Soda Go?” which was inspired by reddit’s very own board of the same name. This post will also serve as a tutorial of sorts to help you … Continue reading →
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5 Stars: Swedeing Fightclub

by winenf

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November 18, 2012

For my final assignment this week, I have chosen to recreate my favorite scene from Fight Club for the “Swede a Scene” assignment. Oh wow. Wow. Haha. Wow. Now you all know why I’m not a theatre major. I can’t … Continue reading →
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3 Stars: Cooking with Wine

by winenf

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November 18, 2012

Video number 2 this week is my very own cooking show, performed for the assignment “Cooking show“! Featuring me having a mental breakdown! How fun! More exclamation points! But yeah, once I realized that I would be doing all of … Continue reading →
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3 Stars: A 5 Second Disaster

by winenf

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November 18, 2012

Hi everyone! It’s been a while. I’ve been busy working on a few of my videos for these 2 weeks’ assignments. For the first assignment, I made a “5 Second Film.” This is a short film I like to call … Continue reading →
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Preparation for Week 11

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November 4, 2012

Alright, time to prepare for next week. We’re supposed to pick 2 assignments we want to do and describe our creative process that we’ll be going through. So here are my planned assignments! Plinkett Review I was a huge fan … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates: Week 10

by winenf

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November 4, 2012

Here are the daily creates for Week 10! TDC 298: Forced Perspective For this assignment, we had to make something seem bigger than it really was. I wanted to take my UMW eagle and have him take a drink of … Continue reading →
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Cloud 9: Weekly Summary for Week 9

by winenf

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October 28, 2012

So glad the week is over! I’m battening down the hatches for the coming hurricane. Not looking forward to that. Anyways, on we go! Daily Creates Here was my little narrative for daily creates. It wasn’t really good. Sorry about … Continue reading →
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Google Translatin’! 1 Star

by winenf

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October 28, 2012

For my final star, I chose to do the “Google Translate Fail” assignment. I speak a little bit of French (yay foreign language requirements) and decided to go to french wikipedia and translate that back into english. So here we … Continue reading →
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Hurricane Sandy Bypasses East Coast, Baffles Meteorologists

by winenf

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October 28, 2012

Storytelling within the web! This assignment would have been really fun if I didn’t have a massive case of writer’s block when I decided to get down to it. I decided to remix a cnn webpage as if the coming … Continue reading →
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Twice the Creates for Twice the Fun! Daily Creates for Weeks 7&8

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October 21, 2012

Here are my daily creates for weeks 7 & 8. TDC277 Here we were supposed to draw an emotion with our non-dominant hand (left for me). I drew an angry man, who I am naming Mr. Grumpy Frowny. He has … Continue reading →
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2 Stars- Welcome to McDumbass

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October 21, 2012

This is… just awful. Ok, I did the assignment “May I take your order” that was worth 2 stars. We were supposed to record an original conversation of us ordering from McDonalds with a faked accent. For mine, I chose a … Continue reading →
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3 Stars: Audio Dream Stories

by winenf

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October 20, 2012

Hi all! Sorry that it’s been a few weeks since my last update. I’m lazy. Anyways, for this assignment, I chose to do the “Audio Dream Stories” assignment that was very similar to the sound effects story that I did … Continue reading →
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Here Comes the Radio Show!

by winenf

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October 7, 2012

This post will serve to display both my poster for the radio show as well as outlining my planned contributions for the upcoming radio show of #SpiritXpress. (this way I can siphon off more hits, haha!) First I’d like to … Continue reading →
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Design Blitzing

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October 7, 2012

Above is the complete slideshow of all the design elements I chose to look at. These designs also included so many other elements in their products that it was hard to single out just one part to talk about. Unity … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates for Week 6

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October 7, 2012

Sorry for the lack of a good headline, but I’m running a little on empty in terms of creativity. Anyways, on to the creates! TDC267: World Vegetarian Day This daily create was to take a picture of something that commemorated … Continue reading →
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2 Stars- MacGuffin-ing it up

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October 6, 2012

This was for the “Messing with MacGuffin assignment that said to change an important moment in a movie. I can think of no more crucial moment in a movie than the choice Neo, I’m sorry, Mr. Anderson makes in the … Continue reading →
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3 Stars: Coming Soon

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October 6, 2012

This is my favorite thing I’ve ever done. Let’s just say I’m very proud of the way this turned out. I decided to do the “Truthful Movie Poster” assignment from the design repository. Before I go any further, I will … Continue reading →
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3 Stars: I choose you!

by winenf

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October 3, 2012

So, for today’s assignment I chose to make a Pokemon card for a cool, breezy 3 stars. We had to choose a good picture of ourselves and imagine ourselves as a Pokemon. Here is the Wino’s pokemon card. Abilities include my unique ability … Continue reading →
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2 Stars: The Tragic Tale of Mr. Wine

by winenf

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October 3, 2012

It was early morning on June 6, 1991 when the tragedy of Nathaniel Francis Wine began. For this assignment, and to kick of design week, I chose to do the assignment “Design a Cover of your Autobiography.” It was a fairly easy … Continue reading →
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Trying for 5: Weekly Summary from Week 5

by winenf

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September 30, 2012

I am not very good at modifying photos unfortunately. That is probably the big take away I had from this week. Gimp and I do not get along. I need to learn how to better modify my pictures and adjust … Continue reading →
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2 Stars- What’s the Meme?

by winenf

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September 30, 2012

Yes, internet memes. The bottom rung of the comedy ladder. Nevertheless, for 2 stars, I’ll gladly suck it up and make a simple one for you all to see. This… actually wasn’t that simple. I had a hard time trying … Continue reading →
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3 Stars- Returning to the Scene of the Crime

by winenf

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September 30, 2012

This was a picture that I took back during the snowstorm that happened my freshman year (January 2010?). It was taken right outside of Seacobeck dining hall. I had never actually realized how much has changed in the 2-ish years … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates for Week 5

by winenf

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September 30, 2012

Here are the daily creates for week 5: TDC266: Yellowfied world! This is an old shirt I had from last year. I actually took it from the Underground at school (sorry!). But it’s just about the only yellow thing I … Continue reading →
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2 Stars- Let’s Get (De)Motivated!

by winenf

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September 28, 2012

Alright, this was my first demotivational poster. I followed the guidelines set out in one of the tutorial posts. I went to the website http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php which has a nice little template that makes this two star assignment incredibly simple. I chose … Continue reading →
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Bump(er) Up the Volume

by winenf

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September 23, 2012

This was my first foray into the world of audio editing. As such, it’s not quite up to the quality I’d hope. I plan to mess around with audacity a bit more in the future (maybe try to make my own mashups … Continue reading →
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On the Radio

by winenf

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September 23, 2012

Today, on this beautiful sunday afternoon just before football got started, I began listening to #ds106radio! Our awesome professor, Alan Levine (a.k.a. Cog Dog) was DJing this morning, and we had a brief conversation via the air waves and twitterverse … Continue reading →
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This American Life: Two Steps Back

by winenf

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September 23, 2012

Today, I listened to This American Life: Two Steps Back as told by Ira Glass. Ira had previously reported on Chicago Public Schools and some new teaching initiatives at Irving Elementary that were paying serious dividends in terms of student … Continue reading →
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