For today’s daily create we had to take a selfie at 1:06. I did this by first setting an alarm on my phone for 1:05PM so that I didn’t miss 1:06PM. Then I took a selfie with my iPhone next to my microwave with the time. Super easy. You only get to see half my face because […]

I completed this assignment to be featured on our class radio show, ds106 radio. It is based on my western character I created this semester. Her name is Talie and she is a cowgirl in a little western town who runs the family ranch. You can read more about her here. She takes care of … Continue reading Radio Show commercial!

Besides just doing audio this week we are also required to design some sort of promotion for our radio show. I decided to do almost a flyer type invitation. I created this using canva.com and just changing the color scheme so it’s more of a western feel. Clearly I changed the text that was given … Continue reading You’re invited!

For this assignment Sally narrated a radio bumper for her upcoming group show by The Gals of the West. The background music is from freesounds.org. This is hopefully to be used in the final radio show product with a commercial following this bumper. I really wish my laptop microphone wasn’t so bad because at the … Continue reading Sneak Peak of our Radio Show

You’re tired and you see a house ahead. You don’t think it’s following you anymore. Until you hear it. The unsettling sounds that it never left. You quickly get inside the house and find somewhere to hide. But you still hear it. It seems to be going from room to room. What is that noise … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Spooky Sounds"

For today’s dailycreate we had to create a hashtag story by overusing hashtags. I first googled “blank ecard,” saved a template and then uploaded it to paint. Once in paint I just added some random text that I thought of off the top of my head. Following this, I uploaded the picture to twitter.    

Today’s daily create challenge! @ds106dc #tdc1506 #ds106 One very short story and a little advice! haha pic.twitter.com/gGeZwy8UST — Natalie Motley (@NatalieCPSC106) February 22, 2016

This week we began creating a radio show for our class radio, ds106radio. In order to promote our show and radio station I created a poster that hopefully entices people to tune in and give our story a listen. I used this site to create my poster. Our story is a murder mystery that takes … Continue reading Radio show Promo!

I completed this audio assignment based on my western themed character. Earlier this semester we created a character that would fit into the western theme. As such, the character I created is a western cowgirl named Talie. You can read more about here here. But, for this assignment she walks you through her daily routine. … Continue reading A day in the life of Talie the cowgirl

I had a blast creating this assignment, I am incorporating my character by again using her “ex” boyfriend. She is saying to him she is over it and never wanted to sing about it because she didn’t want him to think she still liked her. Good luck trying to guess the song – its really … Continue reading "Can’t Get It Out Of My Head"

*For the assignment I decided to take a country song and sort of tie it into my southern belle. She is singing this song to her old bf to remember all the good memories they had together. I chose the song remember when by Alan Jackson and got the Selena Gomez the heart wants what … Continue reading "Dramatic Reading Remix"

This week is all about the creation of our very own ds106 radio show, however this first assignment has no connection to it whatsoever so I decided to get it out of the way. This was a snippet of me whistling a song that always gets stuck in my head and it’s sung by today’s … Continue reading Whistle while ya work

My daily create challenge for today was to make this poster. But, I feel the meaning it portrays applies to everyday. @ds106dc #tdc1505 #ds106 Today's #dailycreate make a Loesje poster. One of the worst things to fear is fear itself. pic.twitter.com/9SiW6ByFqp — Natalie Motley (@NatalieCPSC106) February 21, 2016

*This assignment immediately caught my eye. I decided to mash up my favorite song (at the moment) and then the most impressive speech. So I chose MLK, I have a dream speech. I had to listen to both recordings a couple times to make sure the mashing up went together. Surprisingly enough I really liked … Continue reading "Remix A Song With Some Speech"

I am in a group with Sophia Therriault and Kelly Hendricks. While we don’t exactly know what we want to do for our radio show, we have started developing ideas. The ideas that are being thrown around are being a traveling caravan and we could talk about old western celebrities. Also talking about different western … Continue reading "Week 1 for Radio Show"

For this assignment, I started by picking a character with a catchphrase from a show that I enjoy. It took a minute to come up with one, but once I thought about this line, I knew it was perfect. I made a few changes in my initial design decision, but the basic theme remained the […]

Here is my daily create for today! Beware of the outlaws! @ds106dc #tdc1504 #dailycreate My comic dialogue! Stay away from Jesse James! pic.twitter.com/67HUwfZsf8 — Natalie Motley (@NatalieCPSC106) February 20, 2016

So, for this assignment there were two basic elements that went into completing it. The first, and by far the most difficult was thinking up the content. I had the idea to put Tyrion in the center right from the beginning, but I had some trouble thinking of ways to describe him that let me […]

So, for this assignment, I decided that I would add a couple layers and do it slightly different than the two people before me. They both used xbox avatars to complete the assignment, but it didn’t expressly say to do so. I started to make an avatar of myself elsewhere, but I figured that it […]

So, when I saw this assignment, I knew exactly what movie I would pick and I knew for sure the first icon. I will leave it at that so that I don’t ruin the fun of guessing. Probably anyone who has seen the movie will recognize it, but I will provide a few additional clues… […]

The movie posters almost exclusively do not feature “western typography.” Many of the fonts are unlike those featured in the stills of western typography.  The fonts in the posters are, however, strikingly similar, and I am curious as to whether if I was shown just the typography from one of those posters if I would […]

So, this week I was more house prone than normal due to life circumstances and did not have an opportunity to photograph and designs. The one time I did go out, I left with my phone too dead to get a photo of the flyers in Monroe that displayed dominance, or the typography on a […]

In the publication, Vignelli took a rather abstract tone, which given the subject matter, seemed entirely applicable. I took a digital design course once as a part of my journalism major at Wichita State University where we covered, although using a different frame work and different terminology, many of the thing that Vignelli discussed. Before […]

This week has been all about design. Because of a class I took earlier, some of it has been just a reinforcement and refresher, which is actually pretty useful given a natural tendency to forget things I do not use. I think to this point, the rule of thirds, rules about typography, and dominance were […]

I cannot believe it is week six already. So far, I have learned one basic thing; this class is quite intriguing. Not only am I learning about different forms of media (audio, visual, design, etc.) but also the west. It’s interesting how the class combines both to allow me to learn. Hmm. Well this week, […]

This assignment called for us to reflect on The Vignelli Canon and DesignBlitz, that we worked on earlier and to answer what themes or trends we saw in the design of Western. After going through the links provided for the assignment, I noticed how each artist had one thing that they focused on the most. […]

Designblitz Western Design The meaning of life to me is the beginning of baseball season @ds106dc #tdc1501 #ds106 (Go Pirates!) pic.twitter.com/7WiKQBsog1 — Andrew Slupek (@aslupek40) February 20, 2016 My favorite side of the clouds is from the top of them! @ds106dc #tdc1502 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/mOaEO9PSd3 — Andrew Slupek (@aslupek40) February 20, 2016 The only thing I […]

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MISSING PERSON!!!!   3.5 stars