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.  With that being said, there’s no time to get misty …

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 premise is really easy, no restrictions, just tell us your …

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 along with creating your very own infomercial …

Here are the daily creates for Week 10!

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 water.  With the help of my friend Andrew, we were …

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 hurricane-apocalypse mix was going to miss the east coast.

That’s …

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 a nasty soul patch, some crooked eyes, and a distinctive …

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 poorly performed southern/hick accent.  It’s not quite Georgia, but …

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 earlier in the year.  Basically, we had to …

My poster for the upcoming DS106 Radio Show!

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 discuss the …

Unity

Form/Function/Message

Metaphors/Symbols

Typography

Minimalism

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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

I found that this …

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 World Vegetarian Day. Now, I could’ve taken it easy and …

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 Matrix.  What would happen if Mr. Anderson didn’t go down …

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 say that I genuinely enjoy Clint Eastwood.  I think he’s …

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 to not give a shit (note, not …

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 assignment: just choose a picture that you think …

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 contrast and brightness.  Anyways, on to the work!

Photoblitz

This…

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 to get the outline around the text in gimp right.  …

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 that have passed since then.  That bush that was covered …

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 own.

TDC265: Interruption

This was just a silly thing I …

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 Office Space because it never fails to remind me …

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 and some remixes).

I started by importing a …

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 participation.  This was a story told in two acts: 1994 …