For this visual assignment I had to use my favorite poem and put it on top of an image that describes the poem. I decided to use The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and found an image that I thought described the poem. I changed the saturation, temperature, and contrast of the image to … Continue reading Visual Poetry

Assignment For this assignment, we had to create a collage of our pet. I used Be Funky to create the collage, and gathered all of these images from off my phone. My dog is named Spencer, and he is a dachshund. He is almost 11 years old, and he is one of the things I… Read More

For this visual assignment I had to take a picture of the contents of my bag and then describe each item. Here is the picture of my amazing bag and the things I stuff in there: So I keep my wallet in my bag because it has my ID and means of payment in it. … Continue reading What’s In My Bag?

This assignment was super fun but also kind of difficult. I found it exciting because I was literally running around my apartment taking pictures and checking things off on my laptop. I found it difficult because I had to run to the University Center for one of the pictures and then run back, which took … Continue reading Photoblitz Fun

Assignment For this assignment, we had to find four pictures that describe what would be on our bucket list. I used the Be Funky website to make the collage, and found the pictures off of the internet. I previously did a writing assignment for my bucket list (linked here), so these are the same ideas, but… Read More

When I saw that this week in ds106 would be about photography, I was excited, as taking photos has been one of my favorite activities for quite some time. In high school, I was on the yearbook staff, so it was a requirement to take hundreds of pictures each week. I also purchased a fairly expensive… Read More

This is a place to live! Daily Create 9/12

(^Merry Go Round of Life from Howl’s Moving Castle^) My daily create for today (9/12/15) was to “create a retreat at the top of a mountain that is your happy place, with all the features you’d want in your peak utopia.” My mind immediately went to Howl’s Moving Castle because whats better than a massive … Continue reading My Mountain House Utopia

This week I was really bad and left a lot of things til the last minute. Shame shame, I’ll be better in the future. Anyways- in the effort to save time lets get on with the summarizing!~ Reading of Horror: This week I read and responded to The Lottery and Last Respects Vonnegut on the Shape … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9/11/15

I felt a lot more relaxed about the course this week. I think I have almost found my bearings online and have a better handle on my time and the assignments. I started out in this course as not a big fan of horror, and I can still say that that is true. Although the … Continue reading Week 3 Summary

For my last 2 star Assignment Bank challenge for the week I present to you all The Taking Down Google project! I will update this more later in the future! I’m a terrible writer but I tried guys -__-‘ ~Introduction~ The date is June 3rd 2089, and earth is not at peace. The great Worldwide … Continue reading The End of the Googlean Empire

Weekly Journal September 11 – God Bless America Please take a moment to remember. I once had a pre-calculus professor that impressed upon his students these five small words that had an enormous impact – One Step At a Time … Continue reading →

(~*Music for you my dears*~) **~Greetings young reapers and welcome~** I will be filling in for HeadReaper for the time being. You can call me The Red Reaper. Yes, yes I know you are all excited to watch those we are to carry over to the netherworld meet their untimely end— but try to contain … Continue reading ~*~You are in my hands now~*~

I may have said the same thing last week, but I truly believe this week I’ve outdone myself. I even took on a couple of extra projects for the heck of it (a visual one and another web assignment). Aside from that, I focused my readings on the comic “Last Respects” and the story by … Continue reading Week 3 Summary →

I really enjoyed this video and thought Vonnegut was hilarious! I think it’s really interesting to connect his ideas about stories to “The Lottery” story that we had to read this week. That story seems to defy all of Vonnegut’s shapes of stories. It starts out a little above average and seems to just stay … Continue reading Vonnegut on the Shape of Stories

The Vonnegut Shape of Stories video was quite amusing and thought provoking. As I went about my day, I visualized the G, I axis and B, E axis and applied it to a meeting and an agency picnic. Using the … Continue reading →

This week’s content assignments were new and interesting to me. I started out by doing the readings (I read the Poe story myself along with viewing the video). I found these readings fascinating, not only for their content, but also because of how they sharply contrasted each other. I had never read a comic before … Continue reading Reading and Viewing Horror: My Struggle

Ho hum.. this week. I thought I started off so strong! Getting most of the readings out of the way early in the week, but I let the Writing Assignments go by the wayside and was up to the last... Continue Reading →

Daddy never loved me. He told me I killed mama when I was born. Every day he told me he missed her, and he’d never loved me. “You were a mistake anyways,” he’d say. It made me sad. One day daddy kicked me so hard I bled too. I thought I was gonna die just … Continue reading Hello World

As week three has come to a close there is much to reflect on with what has been accomplished this week. I started off with with reading “The Lottery” and “The Last Respects” with this assignment I choose these two reads not only because I truly enjoy reading but the fact that with reading it […]

Have you heard of the TV series Grimm? Yea? Me too! I love that show! But have you ever heard of Grime? No? That’s ok.. It’s similar to Grimm, but instead of seeing Wesen, Nick sees the filth. Everywhere.   Talk about... Continue Reading →

Friends in the Fall A street-scape in a small country town in 1908. Two friends separated by an illness are reunited to say good-bye. A simple postcard sent to the hospital with glad tidings and fond memories. This quite rural … Continue reading →

Victor Barethean. A man of indeterminate age (though he looks to be mid-30’s). Short, dark hair and a thick mustache. No one’s sure what his eye color is, but some reports suggest that he suffers from heterochromia: one eye is said to be green and the other… changes. At times it will appear blue-ish gray. Other … Continue reading Introducing… →

(^I went looking for creepy music and found this. I’m happy.^) Ghost Town- Your So Creepy I actually found myself laughing while watching this. I completely agree that you can model stories based on the happiness levels over time. I graphed Last Respects using the Vonnegut Theorem and have made the conclusion that it follows … Continue reading *The Vonnegut Theorem*/

Arggghhh ughhhrrrrgg hhhhaaaarrggh eeerrrrrgggghhhhhh aaarrrhhhhh haaaaarrrrghgh   Hi there! My name is Sally Slaughterhouse! I’d like to introduce myself. I’m the translator for your new host, Walter the Walker! He can be hard to understand sometimes, so that’s why I’m... Continue Reading →

I wasn’t sure what exactly the title of this video meant, but Vonnegut’s explanation of shapes won me over in the end. Every good story has its arcs, and while they need not necessarily follow the same flow, more formulaic ones will and they fit the mold Vonnegut speaks on. From there, I want to … Continue reading Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories →

Film Review The Grim Reaper (1961) Cast: Boris Karloff, William Shatner, Natalie Schafer, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allen, Scott Merrill, Fifi D’Orsay, Paul Newlan, and Robert Cornthwaite Director: Hershel Daugherty Review: A Boris Karloff thriller of its time, The Grim Reaper. … Continue reading →

I loved how this week’s readings, videos, and assignments were all connected. For the readings I read “Last Respects” from Tales from the Crypt and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. I enjoyed both of these readings and liked how they provoked emotions other than fear. I also really enjoyed watching the video about Vonnegut’s method … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9/11/2015

This piece didn’t necessarily strike me as creepy or spooky or outright frightening but it still retained an element of horror that I felt was more subtle: the unknown. One thing Jackson did well was giving us enough information about the characters present to feel as though we could begin to know them without having … Continue reading Response to The Lottery by Shirley Jackson →

This week featured the subtle, whether it be horror hosts (http://ds106.emorelleum.com/uncategorized/morliums-storied-mausoleum/) or old stories (http://ds106.emorelleum.com/uncategorized/wand-the-enemy-is-us/). We are what we consume, and when we consume this material over a length of time, sometimes we surprise ourselves. Despite the horror theme, I must always go to my roots when doing free form assignments, which means I often […]