Tuesday, April Fools Day! Today I woke to the sound of puppies whining.  Those little beasts will soon delivery me a one of a kind, truly black and white fur coat to enhance my wardrobe.  I live for fur, I worship fur. After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn’t? My breakfast … Continue reading Dear Diary

In the creation of the virtual world have we created an eternal exists for ourselves?  We put our thoughts, pictures, and comments out there for the world to see . . . but, do we want them to be seen forever? My mother-in-law passed away five years ago.  Today she still has a facebook page.  … Continue reading Data of the Dead

Cinderella’s Story This week I watched a youtube presentation by Kurt Vonnegut where he discusses The Shape of Stories and how there is no reason stories can’t be fed into computers.  His point is that stories have common elements such as a scale that has good fortune at the top of the scale and ill fortune … Continue reading Cinderella and Elizabeth

  In this blog I am introducing you to my host character who will become part of future stories.  For fun I created her as a comic in Bitstrips.  Give it a try. Esmerelda is a fortune teller who can see the deep dark truths of the past, present and future.  She gazes into her crystal … Continue reading Meet Esmerelda

This weeks posts will be focused on writing and raving about things read. The first thing I did this week was read a horror comic, Last Respects from Tales from the Crypt #3 and I left a comment on the site.  The fictional horror story seems to be effective at startling its reader and the ending may even induce … Continue reading Rave Reviews

This week’s work was definitely more fulfilling in my opinion. I found a new scheduling tool to streamline my social media use, Buffer, and have messed around with it a little bit. After doing that I posted about it here! I’ve been enjoying analyzing our different viewings and readings, too. I found them to be … Continue reading Weekly Summary →

Here are just a few comments I made on some pretty great posts this week. Scary Stories as Told by a Scaredy Cat Gabbing Gabi’s Blog Aaron’s Adventure That Spooky Blog Definitely enjoyed learning about some new ideas. We’ll see … Continue reading →

This week was also pretty tough for me like last week. There was a lot of different things to do this week that I didn’t keep up with and track of. I liked the variety of things we got to do this week but the videos and things we needed to read were very time […]

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The week started with enthusiasm! I explored the blog pages and daily creates 1 & 2 were done two consecutive days in a row. Weekly assignments were identified and I started creating and having fun learning some new techniques and … Continue reading →

 Guinness Book of World Records: “MOST CHEERIOS FIT ON ONE FACE” For this world record, the person trying to break the record must see how many cheerios he or she can fit on his or her face. The cheerios are not allowed to be glued or stuck to the face in any way. The current […]

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Oh Boy. This week was.. Stressful, to say the least.  And it’s only week 2!!! I guess this is what senior year does to people. Although I was not sick this week (yay!), I still felt swamped with work and... Continue Reading →

This week was a little less stressful and a little more fun for me! I think having a lot of choices in what I was able to create really helped me in succeeding in doing some of these assignments. Watch and Respond: I was really upset at first about having to watch three different scary episodes, … Continue reading Week 2 Summary

After reading both articles about the Slender Man and Web 2.0 Storytelling, it is clear that we have entered a new era of storytelling: Digital Storytelling. However, this new era begs the question, “Is this a new means of storytelling?”... Continue Reading →

When a non-living items (dolls) become distorted, lifelike creatures that threaten one’s life, it  invokes emotions of fear and terror. What makes a film or video scary is the use of make-up and sound. The background music, changes in volume, … Continue reading →

DISCLAIMER! EMBEDDING THIS TWEET WITH THE GIF IN IT WAS THE ONLY WAY I COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO HAVE IT ON THIS POST ;/ Once there was a girl, minding her own business, just walking. She was determined to reach her destination. She only looked forward. All of a sudden she came upon an … Continue reading An Almost Tragic Kerffufle

All I can say is this week went by super-fast!  I can most definitely say that week two was much smoother than week one was.  After a lot of practice I think I may actually be getting the hang of WordPress.  I really enjoyed using the assignment bank this week.  At first I was kind […]

  The three dolls above were shown in three different shows I watched this week. The first one starred in a movie called Trilogy of Terror 1975 (the Amelia part). What makes the first doll effective is that it truly in ugly. It’s teeth are scary and kind of look similar to those of a […]

Digital storytelling is a world without boarders. It’s open, fluent, instantaneous, sexy, scary, happy, and sad. Storytelling existed thousands of years ago from ancient cave drawings to the spoken word. The digital age has taken us to a vast new … Continue reading →

(^Some upbeat music this week XD (music starts 15 secs in)^) Nico Nico Douga- Ryuuseigun Aloha, So this week a lot went on. I made 3 DailyCreates (1, 2 (below cuz I forgot to blog it oops XD), 3). #ds106 #ds106dc #tdc1334 ToastLife pic.twitter.com/mVqWgR2RI6 — Head Reaper (@TheHeadReaper) September 3, 2015 I am still working on … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9/4/15

As a little girl I would have never portrayed dolls as being harmful.  I mean dolls were very important to me when I was little and I took them everywhere I went.  I believe that the media views dolls, especially porcelain dolls as being frightening, harmful or possessed.  Generally porcelain dolls have distinct facial features […]

Another week of digital storytelling by blog in the horror genre!  This week placed greater demands on the use of digital mediums and definitely broadened my skillset for the use of audio and visual software applications.  I am truly thankful for the low tech assignments but twice as thankful for those who provided tutorials for how … Continue reading Week 2 Summary for welcome to my nightmare

The first link that was provided was pretty much an explanation of today’s modern internet and the things students and adults use to communicate.  I think this informative link was helpful to ascribe all the different techniques we have nowadays to communicate and stay connected with one another. I like the part that talks about […]

After viewing the three short episodes all about possessed dolls I was highly disturbed for a verity of reasons. First of all, inanimate objects having a life of their own is already creepy but for some reason dolls just make it ten times worse. “Living Doll” from Twilight Zone was probably the easiest to watch for … Continue reading Phobia

I thought the Million Penguins project was fascinating! Out of the entire chapter that was the section that most caught my eye although the whole chapter was pretty interesting.  The fact that anybody could continue the story and that parallel worlds pretty much came into existence as far as the wiki world goes is amazing. The … Continue reading Oh Slendy~ #webstory20

When you wish upon a star, your dreams will take you… It doesn’t have to be very far. A place – on a beach or in the mountains with family and close friends would be the ideal dream vacation. Mornings … Continue reading →

Week two has made me feel even more in touch with the internet. I have learned great picture editing skills thanks to some assignments I did including the Fast and Furious Cars mashup , burnt toast, and Nicki meeting the Royal family. I used the program GIMP to edit the photos and then they were uploaded to … Continue reading Week 2 Summary →

For this post I watched three old movies which used evil dolls to depict a horror story.  As instructed, I am providing my review of these films. I love the old Twilight Zone movies.  The use of black and white film, the music and the narrator are epoch and make a great impact on the movies.  The one I … Continue reading Phobia Movie Response

(^Very appropriate music.^) Aki ni Somaru from the anime Hell Girl Today I watched the Living Doll, The Doll, and Amelia. Hmmm I wonder what they could all be about. -_- Honestly these stories shouldn’t be that scary but I’m a bit of a wimp and get the sympathetic pain. For example if someone gets … Continue reading The Horror of Dolls. #phobia