For this assignment, Favorite Song, the action was to take your favorite song, and remove the lyrics. Since the assignment said to use one of your favorite song I decided to use my actual #1 favorite song. You were also suppose to play only around 30 seconds of it so people could guess what song it […]

This assignment ended up being pretty easy for me. I was just roaming around audacity and stumbled upon the effects for this assignment. All I had to do was change the vocal pitch to be lower than the original song. Naturally I chose He Man and the most annoying song ever. It’s not quite as […]

This assignment was very complicated for me. I’m not very experienced with audacity so I struggled trying to remove the lyrics from this song. The song I decided to take the words out of is called Tumblr Girls by G Eazy. The main reason I like this song is from the beat. It’s just really […]

B-Flat Assignment Link to assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/b-flat/ Following this week’s theme of audio, I decided to do something with music. This assignment requires me to take the vocal line of a song, and make it flat. I chose to do one of my favorite songs, Man in the Box by Alice in Chains. This assignment was relatively … Continue reading Pitch Shifting Alice in Chains

This is my response to the Real Housewives Tagline assignment, worth 3 stars. I had to create a tagline to be used in a hypothetical situation where I am the next star on Real Housewives. Here is my tagline: I wanted to go with something kind of goofy, but kind of flirty at the same […]

Audio plays a huge roll in our daily life. We may no notice it, but trust me, it does. Think of watching a movie without the background music. Think of watching any Star Wars movie ever and not having any sound effects. Without the sound effects and music the whole vibe of the movie is […]

Audio in storytelling is so important!! After listening to my favorite podcast, The Basement Yard, for coming up on a year now, I just got used to not hearing anything in the background. But then, after I listened to Moon Graffiti, it changed the whole game! I got so into the story that they were acting out. […]

In this assignment, Dramatic Reading Remix, we were assigned to take a song and dramatically read the lyrics. Then put them with different music to make it sound different. At first, I misread the instructions and dramatically read a songs lyrics to the song’s own music. I did Eye of the Tiger at first and then […]

The Daily Create for today was pretty interesting. Given a prompt from an idea generator website, we were supposed to write a blog post. A couple of people shared titles that had to do with the Amish and DS106. These two things, a religious group that eschews technology and a digital storytelling course that is centered … Continue reading What The Amish Can Teach You About DS106 →

I listened to Moon Graffiti as an example of audio storytelling. It is a radio drama about what would have happened if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had crashed on the moon and remained there forever. There is far more going on that simple verbal dialogue. The voices are distorted to sound as though they […]

Today, out of curiosity I searched Google for ‘Kansas State University’ and the screencap shown below are the very first results I saw: Unfortunately, a K-State student was recently expelled over a very distasteful post she made on Snapchat. This student had attended K-State for three years (a pre-med student), and boom, just like that she was … Continue reading Why Mom Was Right About Internet Stupidity →

For this visual assignment you had to use Photoshop to change the hue, saturation, lighting, and contrast to edit/change a photo’s feel. I used a photo I had taken over the summer of a dock in Rocky Mountain National Park. Before: After: I played around with the photo in Photoshop trying to make the overall […]

For this assignment you had to take an image of anything you want, whether it be a cartoon character or an image from a movie and change the colors around in Photoshop. I found a picture of the powerpuff girls and change their original pink, blue, and green colors to purple, green, and red. Along with […]

Being very busy, I wasn’t able to complete the assignments for #ds106 to my full potential but I finished what I could and have added links to the blogs I had completed for this week: Daily Create – Twelve of Something https://kyliedeeart.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/daily-create-twelve-of-something/ Daily Create – International Dot Day https://kyliedeeart.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/daily-create-international-dot-day/ Daily Create – Different Planet https://kyliedeeart.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/daily-create-different-planet/ … Continue reading 9/19/2016 Weekly Summary

Scott Kelby is a photographer who created the book “The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes.” In his book, he explained multiple techniques to create better photography images. Being a nature lover, I went out and took some images of the natural world using some of his photography recipes. The first technique I tried … Continue reading Photography – The Scott Kelby Way

Even though this week I had negative time to work on things. Like this week every moment that I had free time, I would be doing homework and I was still pretty crunched on time. It seems I say this every week, but that’s the college life I guess. If you take a break for […]

Jim Richardson is an artist who lives in lindsborg, Kansas. He worked thirty years for National Geographic. Casks filled the distillery courtyard when I visited Ardbeg Distillery on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. Recent rains had left little pools of water on top of the thousands of oak casks soon to be sent to the … Continue reading Jim Richardson

Lets see, I did 3 daily creates this week (all on my twitter, https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001), did a lot of reading of various things, a couple of visual assignments(below), and I went out to Indian rock and took some photos that I think turned out pretty good(also below). Overall I think this week was a lot of work, … Continue reading "Week 4 summary"

I went out with a buddy of mine, and we snapped a bunch of pictures of just random things around Indian Rock(I can neither confirm nor deny that he took most of the pictures, having a better eye for that than me). Here are a few that I liked the most, and you can view … Continue reading "Photos around Indian Rock"

This one was pretty fun, the hardest part was getting a decent picture of my eye. This one is just me holding my cameraphone about half an inch from my face, which explains the potato quality. Anyone that wants to do this and is more worried about quality might try getting someone else to take … Continue reading "Can you see what I see?(3 star visual assignment)"

This week was another productive one. It was based on visual assignment and photography. I was able to check out a new camera and learn quite a bit about picture taking in just a few days. One thing I knew going into the week was that focusing in photography is a huge deal. What I […]

Everyone who lives their daily life around media (Facebook, television, magazine spreads, etc.) has witnessed the “Photoshop Phenomenon:” however, are they aware of what it is? What ways it can effect our living and societies view of beauty? What is the Photoshop Phenomenon? Photoshop Phenomenon is referring to when media agencies take one image of … Continue reading Photoshop Phenomenon

This week, my Digital Media class was assigned to accomplish a few assignments of our choice that would equal up to 8 stars total (the difficulty of assignment is measured by stars; 1 being easy and 5 being difficult). Makeup Your Pet The first assignment I did requested for us to give our loving pets … Continue reading Assignment Bank Creations

This was my final assignment for the week. It was worth three and a half stars, which got me to a total of eight stars. The instructions were very simple, use five circles, four lines, and only one curved line to create an image. This assignment really worked with my imagination. There were an endless […]

This is my response to The Forrest Gump Project assignment. I had to photo-edit myself into a historic photograph. I really like how it looks like the kid driving the car is giving me the stink eye. I imagine he is thinking “Who is this with her futuristic looking clothing?” The other kids look like […]

This is my response to the That’s Not What I Expected assignment. I had to take a close up shot of an object in a way that it is difficult to guess what that object is. Can you guess what this is? The hardest part of this assignment was getting a decent picture when zoomed […]

Scott Kelby’s book The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes has a section on shooting a single flower. I used tips from it to shoot this image: Okay, I’ll admit this isn’t a flower, but it is the nicest looking plant I could get get my hands on. That, and I don’t think my […]

Boy, this one was a pain, no wonder it was 5 stars. Took me forever to figure out how to extract the frames from the movie, but you can check out the end result on my twitter: https://twitter.com/BigWillyM9001

I wasn’t in the visual literacy class, so I have no idea about elements of design or anything, but his photos of places and landscaps are very desolate and often shadowed/dark, while his photos of people are just of them happy and going about their daily lives.  

Fellow Kansans, I point you to Jim Richardson as an example. He is a photographer who works for National Geographic. He has a studio in Lindsborg Kansas called “Small World Gallery.” He posts his work on Flickr. This photo of his immediately caught my eye because of its novelty. How do cars even get stacked like […]