Watch “Silicon Valley”, it’s a great movie about how computers came to be, and the people that made it happen #ds106

Let me introduce myself. I’m Will, but you can call me Lord Morgan the Conqueror, King of the Americas, and by the grace of God, Imperator of all mankind #ds106

Here are the links to my stuff flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/143174252@N02/ twitter – https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001 soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/stream youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosuWC4gMqkXrtrGxScO4Hg  

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I have set up various social media profiles for school related content. I also helped record an informative audio track to be played in Clyde Kansas during the town’s anniversary. I uploaded this picture of my cat to flickr. The most interesting thing I did this week was create this trailer on my Youtube Channel. […]

Pretty much a test post

So far I haven’t been horribly busy with school work. This current lack of work has given me an opportunity to help a few people out. Here is a very simple design for my girlfriends graduation invitations. Now don’t worry, I’m going to touch it up. This image is only the template for the invitation. […]

I haven’t been very good about making regular blog posts for a long time. I aim to work on that this semester. We have a good bunch of students in Digital Media Technology this year. My 2nd year students are studying digital storytelling with me and the DS106 community. This semester’s theme is “This Is … Continue reading First Daily Create for Fall 16 →

I will be using this blog for DS106.

Syndication test for DS106

Recently, I created a video showing my process of Posterizing an image in Adobe Illustrator using only the pen tool. Here is the before and after image: My friend, Peter Barnes, allowed me to use one of his images from his photography business – Intrepid Visuals. http://www.intrepidvisuals.com/ Hope you enjoy the video and I will […]

This weekend, I had the pleasure of spending my free time doing something I love: painting. It took me close to six hours to draw and then paint this artwork. I have created a video for all to view of the process to create the image featured above. Enjoy!  

Jack Black Soundboard http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/jb/1 The different categories of sounds made this one stand out to me, as opposed to the random assortment of some soundboards. SGT Hartman Soundboard http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/hartman/2 This soundboard added different colors and more organization to build on the theme of categories. Death (Family Guy) Soundboard http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/fg/death The typography is atrocious, but this … Continue reading Cool Soundboards

Listed below are a few examples of soundboards I have found that I believe are interesting and can be used as inspiration for a future soundboard I will be creating. 1. Portal 2 Sounds The Portal 2 Soundboard was created by Frustra Software Design, based on the Portal 2 game. This soundboard interests me because […]

Sh*tting Sparkles Monica Daniels http://monicaedits.tumblr.com/ Monica Daniels’ colorfully named blog features her, a professional video editor, dumping her thoughts about several different things, along with some Q&A. She mostly sticks to things related to the world of editing, which is what attracted me to her blog. Digitalfilms Oliver Peters https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/ Here we have a blog … Continue reading Digital Media Blogs

The following blogs listed are the top blogs that I follow to find inspiration in my daily life and my designing. Felicia Day – Geek and Sundry Felicia Day is a well-known actress, appearing in Supernatural, The Guild, and more. She is also an author, a gamer, and a co-founder of the hit YouTube Channel Geek […]

Most people have been to a 3-Dimensional movie. Families would gather together with their 3D glasses and watch as a movie came to life before their eyes as characters started to pop out of the screen. This was an amazing new experience that came out in 1922. What if I told you it’s become even […]

“Stick is the hottest new toy on the market. Kids love Stick. They can’t get enough of Stick. Stick sells millions of units every month.It’s sweeping the nation! At least it will when you and your marketing machine convince them it is. Forget that it’s really just a common stick that you would find at … Continue reading The Stick!

Over the years, You Tube has become a cultural sensation. It’s made some gamers into millionaires, every-day musicians into pop stars, and even created its own culture. It has become the go-to website for anything that has to do with watching videos. Oh, and it’s free to host your content on there, making it a … Continue reading You Tube: The Digital Media Haven

We all know the experience of a first-person shooter video game, but what would it be like if it was a movie instead The following article, published by IndieGoGo, presents the first ever first-person action movie that was released in September of 2015. This first person movie follows the adventure of a cyborg, trying to […]

For this project we had to create something to help sell our product – The Stick. I created a poster to advertise the product (I’m terribly sorry for presenting this eye-sore.). The poster has a natural green background. The text is outlined with eye catching, crazy colors to draw attention to it. Again, I am […]

In this project we had to find a magazine article to recreate using the Adobe Suite. The following image is my recreation of the magazine article “2011 Creative Hotlist” from Digital Media magazine. The original design was created by Matt Lyon. His original design can be found on his website” c8six.com/Digital-Artist-magazine

It’s no secret to the world of design that Comic Sans is absolutely atrocious. Me, being someone who likes to question group think, looked deeper into why Comic Sans has such a bad rep. I stumbled upon a video that captivated the story of Comic Sans fairly well and looked into why it has been … Continue reading Comic Sans- The Infamous Typeface

In a recent article, published January 29, 2016, an eMarketer interview contacted David Anderman, Chief Business Officer of Jaunt. Jaunt is a virtual reality company working to create 360-videos to the public. Current media and technology using this “virtual reality” method include the Oculus Rift and even YouTube videos. One such video “Interactive Paranormal Activity […]

In the article, “The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding”, Gregory Ciotti explains how different colors are used throughout advertisement to persuade the customer or sway their thoughts in a certain direction. Ciotii describes how snap judgments are often based on color. Different marketing companies use certain colors to make their company seem appealing […]

In my Fundamentals of Visual Literacy class, we made designs that are being sent out to be cut into a metal design. I decided to go with the Skyrim logo. It’s simple, easy to do, and recognizable. The process is quite simple, I just created the design with the pen tool and colored it black.

Cubism is a type of art that found its beginning in the early 20th century after some innovations by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It consisted of small tiles or shapes put together to make a bigger picture There are two types: Analytic and Synthetic Cubism.  Analytic Mostly geometric shapes and limited to a number … Continue reading Cubism

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