When I was little, one of the commercials that ran locally featured Detroit Pistons guard Isiah Thomas teaching kids about electricity safety. In the commercial, Thomas asked a little boy, “Look up.” To that, the little boy responded, “But I don’t see anything?” The commercial went on to discuss looking up for power lines. However, […]

Back to the storyfying quest…As part of my morning get-ready-for-work schedule, I queue of recent audio posts on NPR to listen to and get caught up on the world, as NPR defines current events.   I recall listening to a piece about an “interesting” advertisement that Senator Mitch McConnell had recently released.  The article pointed out […]

For the Design Safari, carried my camera around with me this week, collecting images that aligned with the different the different themes we reviewed as part of this week’s topic material.  Below, I’ve embedded three images along with summary of the elements and what makes them effective.  I’ve also linked the titles to the actual Flickr […]

I am a photo hoarder. I love to travel and I take lots of photos. An average day would yield over a hundred  new photos. After observing me snap photos of seemingly mundane things, someone once asked me, “Will you … Continue reading →

While the VA Department of Motor Vehicles has an online site where one can pay to renew car registration and order new plates, the process is not as simple as having a payment method on hand. One has to get … Continue reading →

For my first Design Assignment I decided to do the One Story / Four Icons challenge. I think the hardest part of this assignment was deciding which movie to use! I love movies and love the idea of taking a … Continue reading →

This week I had the opportunity to search for and observe various designs though the eyes of the design elements document. The first design element I found was Typography in this adorable invitation for a baby shower hanging on my fridge. … Continue reading →

When I first heard the Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon,”  I thought the song title was “Carmel Chameleon. “ Because it contained my first name, I instantly liked the song. Later, when I realized the actual title, I still appreciated the … Continue reading →

I will admit while this poster looks like it took about 4 seconds to make, it actually was more of an involved effort than first appears…First I had to think of a movie.  I looked through the past few year’s worth of Oscar winners and while I could think of a few sarcastic things to […]

We had a Netflix movie that needed to be watched, so movie night it was.  I had read some of the assignment ideas earlier that day, and while I hadn’t intended to make the movie I watched the subject beforehand, I started to think about as I was watching and began noting words that could […]

I kept my eyes open this week and snapped some designs that caught my eye as well as including a “design” of a building that I’ve always loved. Rhythm:  I am redoing the powder room in our house and was looking through wallpaper samples this past weekend (which is also a key marker I am […]

For this design assignment I used two prompts from the DS106 Assignment Bank: Letters in Your Surroundings (with 3 star difficulty rating) and Pictures Into Words (with a 2-star difficulty rating).  Both prompts are similar, to use photos that look … Continue reading →

This is my favorite time of the year in the D.C. area and I took the opportunity during this morning’s sunrise photo trek at the Tidal Basin to also complete the design safari assignment. One of the first signs that … Continue reading →

Adjusted April 13, 2014 Background A few weeks ago, I was browsing Amazon Prime On-Demand movie listing and came across the movie title graphic for Forrest Gump, an image of a man sitting alone on park bench looking up into space.  I remembered that this was one of my favorite movies for a lot of different […]

Adjusted April 13, 2014 Background For this week’s assignment, I chose to create a Children’s bookcover, I had a conversation with a friend the other day about the world of computing from our eyes and how it differs from what the current high school generation is going through.  One of the thing we noted was […]

This is a gallery of photos taken with an iPhone from the perspective of light which I felt made an interesting assignment. I had …

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I decided to do the Color Splash assignment – in this assignment I needed to remove all the color from a photo and then turn the color back on for just one part of it. I chose to use a photo from my trip to the ocean because kdlsjf;ds flkdsj f;dsa fd safd safdsa dsafdsafa.

If only this week came with 14 days, I would have been better able to space out four incredible digital storytelling assignments with coast-to-coast client travel and managing a parent’s medical care. But I managed to complete the assignments while … Continue reading →

  My first one came by mail quite unexpectedly, crossing the Atlantic in one of those foam envelopes. There was no special occasion to warrant it. Rather it was one of those “I was just thinking of you” gifts that … Continue reading →

This week we took our first step into the world of photo blogging.  We started with a few tips and tricks for composing a photograph, allowing us to appreciate the communication potential and dimensions of photography.  We started by reviewing different photography tips and including them in our own photography.  I took this as an opportunity to […]

Nike Run Write another blog post summarizing what you found that might or might not work for something that could use a story approach to make it more effective. Explain why you chose it. Even if you are not sure if it will work, keep the ideas going.   When I think about images that […]

Do you remember when you were little, out for the evening with the parents?  At the end of the night and the fun, they’d strap you in the car seat and before you knew it you’d be home, having fallen asleep in the car on the way there.   This post is like pulling into the […]

I have to be honest–I am really struggling with coming up with ideas. My classmates have some great ideas so I know it can be done…I find myself either shooting ideas down because they are too boring or because they have already been “told”. At one point during the week I had a few ideas, […]

As we wrap up a week in which we enjoyed some beautiful spring DC weather, and anxiously await the cherry blossoms while dodging tourists, I reflect on quite a week in the ds106 world. I took full advantage of the … Continue reading →

Week 2: The New Batch (of assignments) was another fun and interesting week. If I had to pick a theme for my blog this week i’d say it was food which is fine, as long as it is not consumed after midnight. I started the week off by refreshing my memory about layering in images and…

Every year I struggle with my deck garden. In the theme of my blog, an idea I had of something that would be better represented in a story, would be the growth of my garden. This is a bit risky, as I … Continue reading →

The blitz part is definitely accurate! Truth be told, I was a little lukewarm on this one before starting, but as I saw the clock ticking down, I got more and more into it. I ended up racing around my apartment trying to get all the shots in time! I thought this was a cool […]

  For my second visual assignment of the week, I decided to complete the Illustrating Odd Auto-completes challenge. When I Googled “I love…”  I didn’t come up with much. I continued to add to the search until I came across “I love … Continue reading →

I completed the Chimeratic Composition assignment as one of my visual assignments for the week. I’ve titled the above image “Balloon in the Mirror.” It was inspired by the thought that sometimes when we’re headed for rough times, we can sometimes … Continue reading →

I pulled this from my earlier Photoblitzing Safari exercise. It was the image that was “dominated by one color” and so I thought it would flip the original intent and mute that dominating color to see what was left behind. The effect was a blue emphasis on SunTrust shaded in the afternoon sun. Though the […]