Today was the best day ever, yeehaw! This little lady is not normally one to have a man by her side. I strongly believe in not needing a man, but today I met the guy that I might spend the rest of my life with. As I was walking down to my house I bumped … Continue reading "Make My Day"

Today’s daily create asked you to create a picture that showed optimism vs. pessimism in the form of a glass half empty/full. Instead of doing a generic glass, I picked my Boston Strong Mug I bought in Boston several months after the marathon bombings in 2013. Growing up in New England I spent a lot of time […]

  *I had a lot of fun with this project, I asked four friends to pick their favorite emoji and imitate the face. Then put into a quote what they think “their” emoji would say. They enjoyed this project as well. I thought it was a great way for you and your friends to be … Continue reading "Emoji This"

Here’s a tour of my humble abode in Fredericksburg. I decided to live off campus for junior and senior year and I think the coolest part about doing that is being able to decorate my house and room however I want. So, this is my room and as you can tell one of my favorite … Continue reading Welcome to ma crib

*I thought this assignment was fun but definitely took up a lot of time. I had to use face in a hole because I don’t have photoshop or anything, but it was really fun looking up silly pictures of my good friends and putting it all together. Then I thought of being creative with the … Continue reading "We’re The Real Life Brady Bunch!"

As I have already stated in a previous assignment, I am obsessed with my dog so how could I not complete this assignment. It required me to crop my dog anywhere on campus and I thought simple enough. This assignment was actually fairly easy for me because I found an app on my iPhone called Fotobom which allows … Continue reading Kya comes to UMW!

Have you ever heard someone say that in todays day and age we are no longer living in the moment because we are too focused on trying to capture that moment? It’s like people think that taking a quick picture is making the memory of less importance. And I don’t think that is true at … Continue reading Capture Life

This daily create was a no brainer. There is a little pizza shop in my hometown called Half Full, and not only is it the cutest little restaurant but they also have the best pizza in Delaware! Here's a little pizza shop from my home town, as they always say the glass is half full! … Continue reading

As a sweet western belle, a girl has always have to carry her purse. But what’s in the purse? My western books, to learn up more on how to win a rodeo. A notepad to write down all my great ideas. My inhaler because sometimes when a cowboy tries to come in here and shoot … Continue reading "What’s in your [saddle]bag?"

Remember Riza from last week? Well she’s back! And this time she wants to share with you what is in her purse. These are her essentials to get her through the day. For those of you who don’t recall meeting Riza, you can click here to find out what she is all about. Starting off […]

Today my husband and I went to Harry Potter world, we have never been there before but we had so much fun! We walked into the bookstore, and they let us grab different wands to see which ones would fit our personality. After holding a couple of wands, we found our right fit. I felt … Continue reading "Love at First Shot"

This week my writing group was chosen to pick out five posts that we considered to be the best of the week. We all picked out different ones, because we either related to it, liked the idea, thought the person was creative etc. So here are the people in the spotlight: The West in the … Continue reading "Showcase"

This week we were asking to do a photo reflection on our previous/current experience with photography. I never took a lot of photos until10th grade of high school. At my school we had to do end of the year assignments that we basically spent the four months prior creating. One of my best friends, Lindsey, […]

My experience with photography has been pretty minimal. I rarely ever took and photos or videos before I got my iphone about four years ago. When I first got an iphone I used the camera to take some photos, but not many. As the years passed I became more familiar with the phone and began … Continue reading Photoreflection: Response to photography resources

This week we had to pick and additional 6 stars of visual assignments to do. I did a 3 star one showing a tour of my room and the second one I am going to do is worth 3 1/2 stars. This assignment bank post is called splash the color. This assignment tells you to use an […]

In addition to the other visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week, we also had to pick six more stars of visual assignments to do. For my first of the extra stars I did a three star assignment called room tour. For this I took four separate pictures of different angles of my […]

One of the visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week was to recreate a famous movie scene. Of course the first movie that came to mind to recreate in a picture was the Titanic, but I decided to go with something a little different. This assignment instructs you to simply recreate the picture and […]

For today’s daily create we had to make an image that emphasizes the difference in size of two similar images. As soon as I saw this I knew exactly what I was going to do. For Christmas last year my boyfriend gave me a 5ft bear as part of my gift and 4 years before that he […]

Today’s daily create challenge was to make an image that emphasizes the size difference of two similar objects. So, I chose two books, one small and one large. I feel the size of the book isn’t necessarily important. It is the information, knowledge, and the story within the book that is valuable.

This three star assignment was to take an image from the daily shoot and write a haiku about it. After searching through a few images, I chose this one because it seemed the easiest to relate to the western theme. I don’t think I have ever seen a western movie that they didn’t eat beans […]

This 3 star writing assignment was to write a story in alphabet.  The challenge is to write a story using a word starting with each consecutive letter, the more sense it makes, the better.  X is a real problem though, and there are only two ways around it that I can see…  Either forego literal […]

This two star  assignment was to write a terrible death ending for a choose your own adventure style book. It was a great assignment to incorporate the western theme; no shortage of deaths in gun battles in westerns. It was fun to take a typical western finale scene and create a silly twist that meant […]

Your Hopes, Dream and Fears is an assignment to write a letter to myself in ten years, that I might be able to look back and reflect upon it later when I read it.  I am old enough that I think my goals are static, whether I achieve them or not is another matter, but […]

Merrell Shale is a mean looking but warm spirited man in his late thirties. At present, he is a gambler, but his outward appearance deliberately reflects his more humble beginnings. He is the son of a miner, his mother died from cholera at a young age. His father worked very hard to provide for his […]

This week, I spent the first portion of my time revising my website. I used a WordPress site for a previous class, but shy of distinguishing between pages and posts and adding a timeline to our page, we did very little to flush it all out. The first things I did this week was to […]

The above curve represents, in Kurt Vonnegut’s mode of story analysis, a representation of the story, “Moment of Vengeance” by Elmore Leonard. In the very early story, they allude to an earlier elevation of the protagonist. I decided to include that because it was discussed, although the associated action was already finalized. Afterward, there is […]

Hi y’all this is the work I completed this past week. Daily Creates: @ds106dc #tdc1480 #ds106 This is my cattle brand! Its my initials- AMS pic.twitter.com/pYYJWfmUfT — Andrew Slupek (@aslupek40) January 28, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1481 #ds106 Hey Y'all, not much more western than the class avatar as my computer wallpaper right? pic.twitter.com/Y4oLqSU1GE — Andrew Slupek […]

These were my seven photos I was to take. I began my Photoblitzer challenge in my home at 11:15. I then took a rustic looking photo of a few posters on my wall in my house in black and white. I then took a picture of this Coca-Cola wall hanger that I got in Egypt […]

What a busy week this one was. Time management is key to success in this class. I now realize this. For this week I completed a couple assignments: the monologue for a toolshed, the alphabet story and the letter to my younger self. Monologue I believe the monologue of a household tool was the most […]

Kyle Masala was inducted into the 37th infantry regiment of Kentucky in September of 1865. He was born September of 1848 in Kentucky. Growing up in Kentucky, Kyle devoted his life to the family ranch. In his late teens he joined the Union. After leaving the army in his thirties, Kyle Masala grabbed his Colt […]