Bringing On the Tears

Bringing On the Tears

by @Chris_tastrophe

| comedy, ds106, Photoshop, Syndicated, TheMatrix, Weekly Summaries, Wool, zombies
January 29, 2018

So, what did my blood, my sweat, and the tears of others accomplish this week? Well, week two of ds106 is coming to a close, and it’s been an emotional week – not for me, but for those who read my content. First, I did a flash fiction post and started strong with this ‘lil […]
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Much to Digest

by @Chris_tastrophe

| BBCEndDay, ds106, Reflections, RoutledgeSF, Syndicated, Wool
January 29, 2018

End Day Throughout the five apocalypse scenarios (tsunami, asteroid, eruption, virus, and “strangelet”) I noticed how the main character got closer to his goal each time the day reset. Also, the strangelet cascade was the only apocalypse explicitly produced by man – every other apocalypse was natural. Perhaps the episode implies that, even if humanity […]
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Solitary Eden

by @Chris_tastrophe

| Assignments, ds106, fiction, ShortStory, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2160
January 28, 2018

Every clang on the vault door wracked her conscience. She leaned against the door observing the pale walls of the vault, recalling the last four days of pleading to the wardens through tears and snot and spit, “Open the door you damn cowards, he’s going to die!” But it was forbidden. With a start, she […]
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Surviving the Second Week of The End

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, umw, weekly update, Weekly Updates
January 28, 2018

This week, I started out by completing two Daily Create’s! For the first Daily Create, which I completed on Tuesday, we were to write a fictional story in 240 characters or less, due to the fact that 240 characters is all you can use in one Tweet. For the second Daily Create on Thursday, we […]
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Apocalyptic Fiction and A Weekly Update

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, california novel, ds106, edan lepucki, end day, izombie, routledge, Syndicated, the walking dead, zombies
January 27, 2018

This past week, I have explored apocalyptic fiction in several different mediums. I watched an episode of a BBC Docuseries called Horizon which came out in 2004. The episode I watched showed five different possibilities of how to world, as we know it, could end. The first scenario was a massive tsunami. The second was a […]
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Zombies Are People Too

by @KatieHartraft

| ds106, Syndicated, tell it/tweet it, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2160
January 26, 2018

“So you … corralled all of these zombies into this mall?” “I prefer to call them biters, but yes I did.” I stand with a teenager named Kelly inside of an abandoned mall. Abandoned may not be the best word for it, since it is filled with dozens of zombies, or biters as Kelly calls […]
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Turn me into a Zombie not my Family !!! I made it through week TWO!!

by @jetjenk43

| ds106, questionoftheweek, Syndicated, the end, Weekly Summary Post, WeeklySummary
January 26, 2018

In the event of a zombie apocalypse, would you rather be turned into a zombie or have everyone you love turned into a zombie? Why? I would say without a doubt turn me into a zombie. I would say turn me into a zombie in hopes that my family could get away unscaved. That in …
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The Night My Life Changed Forever

by @eafinto

| brendon urie, concert, death of a bachelor, ds106, panic at the disco, panic!, Syndicated, WritingAssignment2160, writingassignments
January 25, 2018

My life changed in the best possible way on March 3rd, 2017. My best friends had surprised me with Panic! at the Disco concert tickets for one of their tour stops in Baltimore at the MGM Theater. They surprised me in the fall. I thought I was dreaming. One of these amazing best friends introduced me […]
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Walking Straight into The END

by @Anne Armour

| ds106, Syndicated, Weekly Blogs
January 22, 2018

So the first week of The END is almost officially over! To say I’m a little lost may be the best way to describe this…
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Animals Doing Funny Things (GIF)

by @charlottelfish

| AnimatedGIF, AnimatedGIFAssignments, AnimatedGIFAssignments1789, Best Work - Assessed, ds106, Syndicated
January 22, 2018

When you walk past a classroom your mate is in and you’re trying to distract them… For this assignment, I had to produce an animated GIF of an animal doing something funny. I found this video on an Instagram from … Continue reading →
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The World is Ending and Here’s How I’ve Prepared

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, digital storytelling, ds106, shaun of the dead, Syndicated, the hunger games, the walking dead, umw
January 21, 2018

The apocalypse. Everyone’s heard of it. We’ve feared it’s arrival. And now… it’s here. When I was about fourteen-years-old, I was first introduced to what apocalyptic life might be like when I watched Shaun of the Dead (2004) with a few of my family friends. Of course this movie is a comedy, and almost parody, but […]
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Rockwell had the idea…

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated, The Twenty Days of Turin
January 21, 2018

Yesterday’s Daily Create involved using an online application to stylize an image. I had seen something like this before and thought it was pretty cool, so I gave it a shot. I used an image from the Church of San … Continue reading →
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La Vie En Rose 2018-01-21 04:53:00

by @Jessieb55762060

| ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

I am the girl who constantly swims against the tide....It's fucking exhausting!I have this theory though that if you swim against it long enough you will develop muscles you never knew you had.As a woman in the beauty industry I see women striving for ...
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My Disney Remix

by @eleanorjo

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignment2102, Best Work, ds106, Syndicated
January 20, 2018

For the audio assignment I chose the Disney Lyric Mash up as I am a massive Disney Fan. I know all of the words to the songs (pretty much) so it was kinda easy to chose the songs which fit together. Firstly I download the songs I wanted, this was quite hard just picking as […]
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Google Draw Something

by @eleanorjo

| Best Work, ds106, Syndicated
January 20, 2018

For this web assignment is chose to do the google draw something challenge as I looked like a fun game and I liked trying new stuff. When I first opened the game I thought I was clever a tried to skip the instructions, this lead to me thinking that you could draw what you wanted […]
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Superhuman In Everyday Life

by @charlottelfish

| #MashupAssignments, Best Work - Assessed, ds106, Mashup/ Remix, MashupAssignments2151, Syndicated
January 19, 2018

This assignment was to put the superhero you would be in an everyday scenario and why you want to be them: My choice of superhero would be Ironman/Tony Stark. Seen as I’m not male I’ve found a female version of … Continue reading →
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Auditory Hell (Audio)

by @charlottelfish

| #AudioAssignments, audio, AudioAssignments2140, Best Work - Assessed, ds106, Syndicated
January 19, 2018

For this assignment I had to think of the worst sounds I’ve heard or could think of, and put them into one soundtrack which would make anyone cringe. The process: Firstly, I thought about the sounds I disliked or make me … Continue reading →
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Patient Zero

by @KatieHartraft

| About, ds106, intro, me, Syndicated
January 18, 2018

I'm Katie, a sophomore at UMW double majoring in Creative Writing and Communication/Digital Studies 🤖 So excited to see how this Digital Storytelling course goes and what comes out of it! #ds106 #theend106 @theEnd106 — Katie Hartraft (@KatieHartraft) January 19, 2018 I have been infatuated with apocalyptic narratives for longer than I can remember. It […]
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Video Story Problem – Hours & Hours of Snowblowing!

by Ben Rimes

| digital storytelling, ds106, estimate, Mathematics, Number Sense, snow, Syndicated, video story problem, winter
January 18, 2018

It’s 2018, there’s a ridiculous amount of snow swirling around the United States, and I haven’t blogged in a couple of months….that must mean it’s time for a video story problem! I’ve complained about snow in previous video story problems, but for this one it wasn’t so much complaining as it was…..oh hell, it was […]
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Video Story Problem – Hours & Hours of Snowblowing!

by Ben Rimes

| digital storytelling, ds106, estimate, Mathematics, Number Sense, snow, Syndicated, video story problem, winter
January 18, 2018

It’s 2018, there’s a ridiculous amount of snow swirling around the United States, and I haven’t blogged in a couple of months….that must mean it’s time for a video story problem! I’ve complained about snow in previous video story problems, but for this one it wasn’t so much complaining as it was…..oh hell, it was […]
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Video Story Problem – Hours & Hours of Snowblowing!

by Ben Rimes

| digital storytelling, ds106, estimate, Mathematics, Number Sense, snow, Syndicated, video story problem, winter
January 18, 2018

It’s 2018, there’s a ridiculous amount of snow swirling around the United States, and I haven’t blogged in a couple of months….that must mean it’s time for a video story problem! I’ve complained about snow in previous video story problems, but for this one it wasn’t so much complaining as it was…..oh hell, it was […]
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Minimalist TV/Movie Poster (Design)

by @charlottelfish

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments43, ds106, Syndicated
January 16, 2018

Still in design I have now completed this 3.5/5 stars assignment. This assignment consists on designing a minimalistic movie poster: Trying to go with the sense of minimalism I have used 2 icons as my images, some text for featured … Continue reading →
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Motivational Poster (Design)

by @charlottelfish

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments1887, ds106, Syndicated
January 15, 2018

For this assignment, the aim was to create a motivational/humourous/sarcastic poster. This is worth 3 out of 8 stars. My finished product looks like this: Two things that made me create this: I first thought i’d do a different Ice … Continue reading →
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Combophoto (Visual)

by @charlottelfish

| ds106, Syndicated, Visual, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2050
January 14, 2018

For this assignment, I had to use the assignment bank to create peices of visual work thats added up to an 8 star rating. My first is this project: Although all the examples I saw looked very professionally done and … Continue reading →
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We’re All Friend’s Here

by @jamesrxss

| Assignments, Best Work, ds106, family friendly billboard, social media production, Syndicated, tech2002, Visual, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1973
January 3, 2018

Billboards are found all over in America, but not very often in the UK. Often, on social networking sites such as Facebook, memes are made from funny, supposedly real billboards. These funny or mildly offensive billboards, whether real or fake can often do wonders in helping a company or brand go viral in it’s advertising, […]
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A day in the life of a night prowler

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated, tdc2179
December 27, 2017

Our Daily Create today was End Sounds. For whatever reason, the first thing I thought of was the voice at the end of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell album, saying “Shazbot! Nanu nanu.” Someone actually made a supercut of the endings … Continue reading →
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Stanky Bean

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, mississippi fred mcdowell, Syndicated, tdc2175
December 23, 2017

Today’s Daily Create says to “Colorize a Photo with a Silly Color.” Sounds like fun. First I needed a silly color. If I were creatively inclined, I’d probably make one up, but since I’m lazy, I googled “invent a color” … Continue reading →
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Getting Ready for a Trip to the Moon!

by leighwh (Leigh Watson Healy)

| Creative Challenge, Daily Create, dailycreate, ds106, gif, moon, Syndicated, tdc2169
December 22, 2017

Hope you enjoy a little GIF from the delightful short silent film by Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon. The post Getting Ready for a Trip to the Moon! appeared first on Chop Wood Carry Water.
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Final Project

by @jjprime1994

| ds106, Syndicated
December 13, 2017

For my final assignment, I decided to make a gun sync video. What is a gun sync video? It’s basically having gun sounds from video games to be in sync with the music. In this video, chose the music Fade by Alan Walker. The process of this video was to first record me using multiple …
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Designing a Logo Final

by @jayce_hovis

| Creative, ds106, Syndicated
December 12, 2017

I decided to design my own logo and came up with these results, please feel free to give me some of your thoughts/ideas. I decided to design a Logo and this is what I came up with. Everything was made by me and/or CC0, in which means i was able to re-modify and use it.... Continue Reading →
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