After Reading the Vignelli Cannon it has helped to shape my Idea of what it takes to create for a large audience. The idea of discipline meets creativeness, the rules one might create or follow to produce timeless art. It’s a good read. #designthoughts #ds106 http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf

For this assignment I had to find a photo from my favorite movie and add a quote from the movie onto the photo. I decided to use an app on my phone called WordSwag. Its fairly simple to use. You pick your photo, crop it down if you want it cropped and then enter your wording. ...

Hit this button ASAP if you wish to always be safe on the internet. #ds106 @ds106dc #tdc1723 pic.twitter.com/4AxYTuiW2O — Mark Madison (@kipdoe) September 26, 2016

Daily Create 9/26 Digital Safety is important to all users! Make the internet a safe place for everyone. @ds106dc #tdc1723 Cyber bulling is a punishable crime!!! Don't be an online bully! #ds106 pic.twitter.com/MVJLWSMZH0 — abby hunt (@abbissss) September 26, 2016

I have officially completed the first 1/4th of the fall 2016 semester! As far as Digital Storytelling goes I’m off to a pretty good start. I really thought that I would struggle terribly in this class. Not only because its my first online class, but also because I am such a dork when it comes … Continue reading "Week 4 Summary"

Fashion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   So I’m totally obsessed with everything fashionista. I Follow over one hundred fashion accounts on my Instagram and I love them! There is really just so much to include when talking about fashion. Theres the new, the old; the pretty, and the ugly; the functional, and functional. This radio show can showcase everything … Continue reading "Radio Show brianstorm!"

#ds106 #tdc1722 @ds106dc Tunes 🎶🎶 before I go to church Sunday morning! pic.twitter.com/OrKPK0VP11 — Mark Madison (@kipdoe) September 26, 2016

      Radio Bumper Make Your Own Radio Commercial! Celebrity Speed Dating Daily Create 9/23 Daily Create 9/22   Radio Show Ideas Daily Create 9/19 Moon Graffiti Think About Audio Storytelling A Day In The Life Of Your Character Sound Effects   I LOVED THIS WEEEK also I tagged all the limetown stuff on […]

Warning: NSFW. This one was a little more tricky because I wanted to add more voices and play with more off the features Audacity has to offer. I’m very sorry this Commercial was highly inappropriate but in the moment it seemed like a really good (but bad) idea.

I am coming right down to the wire this week. I was really busy with my other classes, my birthday was this Wednesday, and I’m visiting my family this weekend, so I spent a good chunk of today in the car. Fortunately, I managed to get everything done just in...

Some random possible ideas for radio show stuff: People watch a terrible and have to explain why it’s a masterpiece The above but with any other form of media Cool things/resources you’ve found on the internet New tech things on the horizon How events in history would’ve been different if the people...

Another very simple assignment. I used my friend to record our interaction. I was plain old regular me, and she was the one and only, TSwizzle (Taylor Swift). I feel like Taylor Swift also pertains a lot to the internet just because of the active use of social media has really put her and her […]

  This one was pretty simple. I don’t casually have a monkey around to make a monkey noise that I can use for something. So I used my roommate’s talented voice to show that BOOM. I now have a super bomb sound effect of a monkey.

Confession time: I procrastinated this week. I had a pretty significant amount of things going on, and I just kept putting it off. I seriously, seriously, regretted that come Thursday. Learn from me, fellow kids. Don’t do shit like this.   First up, the daily creates: #ds106 #tdc1717I… don't know what to do with this … Continue reading Weekly Summary: Week4 →

What a process. So this is the first time I have EVER done anything with audio. And… I LOVE IT. I surprisingly love audio much more than I do visual. Audacity was tough to use but it was MUCH easier than photoshop. Plus I feel like you can tell more of a story and do […]

This was a fun week. I really learned a lot about audio editing and how sound really effects a story that we tell. Audio Storytelling These were my thoughts on Audio Storytelling. I really thought that the audio part was going to be harder than it thought it was.  Though overlaying sounds in Audacity is […]

Radio Bumper This was so hard. I’m still not sure it sounds like an actual radio bumper, but it’s better then the alternatives. I used part of “The Normandy Reborn” from the Mass Effect Two soundtrack– the very beginning of when the music starts to swoop as Shepherd looks down on the second Normandy. I teared … Continue reading Radio Bumper →

★★★★☆ Now for what would normally be a 4-star assignment: the Radio Bumper! I went onto freesound and got myself a little jazzy tune, because that seems like the radio thing to do. I recorded the voice part of the bumper in audacity and put the two together, giving me...

One word, Wow! I didn’t know how much I can learn so much in a week. This week’s work was a blast. I enjoyed the audio work I published. I was creative and learning about audio storytelling was exciting. Definitely the best week of ds106 work to learn about. Lets talk about my journey of … Continue reading “Week 4″…Is in the Books!

This week was audio week. Over the last couple days, life has been a blitz of assignments, getting reacquainted with Audition, and cramming in projects…

I few ideas I have for a radio: A short open mic type thing were people can share a short piece. Or have a section where we share a few six or ten word stories. Or share interesting blog posts from the week. The first two would take a little work because we would have […]

Random Idea Time! Over the past 24 hours or so (since I listened to the ds106 radio show), I’ve been casually coming up with thoughts…

★★★½ Fun fact: I love space. So, for my sound effect story, I made this: Essentially what goes on is someone is in their spaceship and they leave the space station they’re in. They cruise in hyperspeed for a bit before they receive a distress signal. They drop out of...

This. Was. Amazing. Where do I begin? The passion and feeling in the actor’s voices. The difference in recording voices. The space “music” and sounds. I thought this was really well done it made it clear that the setting was space and a very intense environment. And to think they portrayed this through a few […]

First off, if I ever buy music from Google Play again, I’m an idiot. Trying to do things legally is such a pain in the ass, and I am never leaving iTunes again. I almost burst into tears of frustration more than once trying to a) ascertain if I had even bought the damn track … Continue reading Down Under →

This was, by far, the most daunting challenge of the week. As a general rule, I don’t do voice-overs. I’ll record anything, but the sound…

This is the assignment about what a song means to you. I choose “Looking too Closely” by Fink. And here is my soundcloud speech about what it means to me.  

In my opinion, the people who claim the radio is “outdated” and  “old” and “boring” are completely wrong. It’s one of my favorite forms of storytelling. Nothing is better than getting in my car for a long road trip and turning RadioLab on. The different topics and descriptions, as well as the sound effects, bring […]