Well, I will admit it. I ran out of time plain and simple. One part underestimating how easy it would be to procure a camera and two (or three) parts procrastination. Still, the week wasn’t a full waste. I obtained a good amount of knowledge if not a large amount of experience. I enjoyed analyzing […]

Paranormal…hmmmmm. Dark and scary? unnatural? It is a very broad topic, so I settled with dark. Being extremely low tech, I eventually realized I could add some darkness to a photo by putting a tuft of hair (i.e. from a comb or brush) up against the lens. I wanted to see what it would look […]

This was a particularly difficult assignment for me, largely due to the circumstances. As mentioned earlier, I have very little photography experience, and no portable photography device. To compound difficulties, my work+school keeps me busy during the day, so I had to complete the challenge at night with a borrowed smartphone. This limited somewhat my […]

(^The End by Grizzly Beatz^) To start with, I’m an awful photographer. I have shaky hands, I always seem to unintentionally crop things out and its usually blurry. There is a scratch on the camera lens of my phone so I usually get a friend to take the picture for me and then email it … Continue reading – How to Photo More Better :D –

This week was very entertaining for me in regards to the assignments.  I must say I did enjoy completing them, particularly watching the Shining; I have not watched that movie since I was a little girl and it scared the mess out of me then. Jack Nicholson is one of my favorite actors, it’s funny … Continue reading Weekly Summary

The Bride of Frankenstein has several good examples of lighting throughout. The bride of Frankenstein does a fairly good job at deliberately utilizing depth, light, and the lack thereof for keeping the scenes engaging. To complement the deliberate choices, the relatively poor quality of the black and white cinematography contributes to the eerie connotations of […]

I have theoretical knowledge of a lot of random things in life. Photography however, is not one of them. I can explain how light interacts with the chemicals on camera film, but not what specific ordering makes the image appealing to the average viewer. I do not take photos. I do not own any handheld […]

So today I went into my laundry room and there was a ghost! If you don’t beleive me check out this photo I took! Pretty paranormal if you ask me. Its not like I put a tissue with sharpie on it over my Haruhi Suzumiya figurine and put it behind a drying shirt with long … Continue reading Ghost in my Laundry Room??!

For the 5th and final Assignment Bank project of the week I did the “What A Crappy Font Will Do” project (worth 2 stars). The title is pretty self-explanatory. I just had to choose a font that made the logo look less professional and just overall worse. I found that most fonts actually looked fine … Continue reading !~SOUNDCLOUD ~V~ FoNtAfiDe~!

This week was all about photos and the use of them to tell a story. The capturing of a moment through photography is difficult and I had never been good at it as a child, you can read about that in my history and future with photography post here. I watched The Shining this week … Continue reading Week 4 Summary →

For my 3rd Assignment Bank project titled “Honest Game Cover” (worth 2 stars) I made an Honest Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS game into Legend of Link: Destroyer of Pots because he is quite a problem child. Its not exactly professional quality but it gets the message across^^

This week I did three daily creates: The first one was a picture that evokes an emotion for which I chose a picture of my dog dressed up because it evokes happiness in me! This picture evokes happiness in me, it's not my birthday right now I still get happy seeing it. @ds106dc #tdc1346 pic.twitter.com/9PVzARH88q … Continue reading A Week Worth of Daily Creates →

This week was all about photography.  This assignment asked me to tell a love story using three pictures.  So here you go:   I went with the simple story of love which transcends time by showing children who can feel young love in a sense of having someone so they aren’t alone and afraid, to teenagers in love who are … Continue reading Love in three frames

Today I watched the shining and am reflecting on the cinematography of the movie. In no particular order here are some scenes That I feel show some great points of cinematography. This scene is super cool because of the repetitiveness of everything. In the background the walls are covered with a wallpaper that is just … Continue reading The Shining Cinematography →

There is nothing like being down on the farm.  But this is what can happen when the jack rabbits get into the pig pen! I am beginning to be able to navigate Microsoft paint well enough to accomplish these assignments with not too much difficulty.  For this one I cropped the head and tail off … Continue reading My Animal Planet

This week was hard for me! I was not feeling that great at the beginning of the week and put off the majority of my work load until Thursday.  Luckily, I took off from work on Thursday so I had a whole day of catching up on DS106 to do.  I was not too stressed […]

The beginning…. Take a photo of a toy in action: My niece, Lucy at the beach this past Summer.  I had this picture saved on my phone but I had to go searching for it.  She was playing with a water squirt gun toy. Take a photo that visually represents a sound: My blow dryer! Take […]

(^Ace by Taemin^) For this Assignment Bank project titled “Pop Star Out of Place” I chose to put my favorite pop star, Lee Taemin from the Korean boy-band Shinee, in space because why not space? I used the photo-editor Pixlr again because it is the best and its free. I did struggle a little bit … Continue reading $~Taemin in Space~$

A photoblitz is when you take a list of photo themes and for 20 minutes you take photos for those corresponding themes, learn more here. Today I did a photo blitz and it was interesting to say the least. Here are some pictures of the lists and start and end times for my blitz: The … Continue reading Photoblitz →

Can you find the six things that are different in these two images?

This assignment was a joy ~ I love food!  I was able to find all the food images on Google Images.  Finding something that was a fairly common food item for each letter is trickier than you think.  I used upside down cake for U, quiche for Q, and an Asian soup entitled xiom for … Continue reading Foods from A – Z

I watched the Bride of Frankenstein from 1939 for the purpose of reviewing the cinematography.  Specifically how the film inspired emotion through the use of contrast, lighting, and foreground/background to make their point.  Because this film is black and white there was much use of contracting dark black and stark white clothing to emulate who were … Continue reading Cinematography Reflection

For my 2nd visual Assignment Bank project I did the “Common Everyday Object” assignment. (worth 2 stars) I took a picture of a few generic eco-friendly coffee filters because caffeine is my drug of choice. I then used a filter on Pixlr to make them multi-color!

A Couple days ago my daughter showed me the new lenses features in Snapchat; one of the lenses caught my eye. I thought, Wow, this is perfect for my ds 106 class. I used the animated filter took a picture of myself which it looks horrible and I am even scared to look at the […]

#[email protected]/BbDGpXBs3o — Alexis Zirpmoulis (@azirpmoulis) September 18, 2015 @ds106dc #tdc1347 pic.twitter.com/IKimalT5gi — Alexis Zirpmoulis (@azirpmoulis) September 16, 2015 http:// #tdc1346 @ds106dc because …. I’m happy 😁 pic.twitter.com/uARQeJ0aVi — Alexis Zirpmoulis (@azirpmoulis) September 15, 2015    

My List 1.) Power plugs are ubiquitous. Can you make a creative photo of such a common thing? 2.) Get closer and fill the frame. 3.) Take a picture that reminds you of your childhood, 4.) Make a photo of a thing is not like the other two in the picture (e.g. 2 dogs and … Continue reading Photoblitzer! →

So for this Assignment Bank task called “Your Love for Your Pet” I made a collage of my new kitty Crowley! (worth 3.5 stars) We call her Princess Crowley sometimes because shes a bit of a diva. She won’t eat any food unless her bowl is completely full. -_-‘ Anyways, we got her only a … Continue reading Meet Princess Crowley! ^^

(^Rogue- Ultimatum^) For this photoblitz, I had to take pictures of the things listed below within 20 minutes. I actually finished about 5 minutes early but I waited until it was 20 minutes later to take the last photo. I used photovisi to create the collage if you couldn’t tell by the watermark. Someone else’s … Continue reading %~Photoblitz~%

Today, I captured a photo of the ghost of Nicolas Cage peering into my room. His stuck his ghostly head through the door and what he saw infuriated him. Apparently, ghosts hate messy rooms and I have a feeling that the ghost of Nicolas Cage will be haunting me after seeing the mess that our … Continue reading Ghosts Checking Up →