To start of the week I read The Vignelli Canon  by Massimo Vignelli. I thought that it was a very interesting booklet to read and take in. The upside was there were many pictures to look at, so I was never bored. I took down some notes while I was reading through it which helped to …

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Greetings….fellow agents. This week entails designing plans to sneak into a fortress of solitude in order to get the crystal of zepher. There are apparently embedded directions in these pictures to show me the route and I need your help to find them! What a strange…uh…picture. It has minimal open space between all the letters. […]

At first when I was making the post card, I used some image from a European city because I’d like to go there some day! And plus, it’s really pretty. But then I realized that I need to come up with something more creative! I’m a scuba diver so I saw this image and thought ... Read more

For my first assignment, I decided to do the Contradiction Creation assignment. I chose to do a concert picture because I thought it was pretty funny to do a contradiction of that since I am currently at a conference all about campus activities and my role is the chair of productions, so I do all … Continue reading "Concerts suck!"

For this week, we had to do 10 stars worth of design assignments. I have a total of 8 stars so I choose the assignment to satisfy the requirement for the week since it was rated 4 stars. This assignment was to design a newspaper and add a story to it whether it was real […]

For this design assignment http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-crime-scene/, it was rated 4 stars. It was to create a crime scene using a scene that you personally know. After several clicks through the assignment bank I came across this gem.  I always thought the process behind searching the crime scene was interesting so I thought it would be fun […]

For this assignment, I had to create a TV or movie minimalist poster. The hardest part for me was picking a movie or TV show that I wanted to create a poster of and as a result I choose the Beauty and the Beast. I absolutely love the movie ever since I was a child […]

I love Annie’s song, Tomorrow. I have never actually seen the movie (which I should!) but everytime I hear the song, Tomorrow, I get goosebumps. Not only because the singer puts all of her emotions out there, but it’s also because the message and the way it is depicted radiate beauty. There is sincerity in the portrayal of someone who …

This image was so pretty I just had to use it for my assignment. I use Paint again for image adjustment and writing implementation. It was fun to search pictures of the country that I know and grew up in, and I was very surprised upon finding this image because I never thought that Korea can display such beautiful colors. …

This is my favorite movie ever and you can probably tell that I love music. I love the G clef for its simplicity yet compelling element. There’s something about G clef that says more than just a music note; instead, I feel like it brings all of them together. The color of the font also complements G clef’s simplicity well …

This is Agent Nice Guy’s favorite movie (hint hint) because it helps her release stress at the end of the day. The images also depict how her last Thursday had ended (from previous sound effect story–major hint!). This assignment was fairly easy to do–I found icons from Google Images that were relevant to the movie and used paint as a …

@ds106dc #tdc1868 Obviously the best poster ever created since my name is on it. Go see the senior show! Dupont Gallery! pic.twitter.com/Lktqq47WwP — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 18, 2017

Well, fellow spies, as you can guess, I’m going to go ahead and say it’s been yet another difficult week. On the other hand, this was very different from anything I’ve done in school before. I had the benefit of having already used Audacity and GarageBand and already having been into radio shows/podcasts, but there […]

Listening to the Limetown radio show was a pretty interesting experience. I unfortunately had to miss an episode due a class time conflict, but the overall impression I got was positive. The show had pretty excellent quality in terms of production. The audio was all very good quality (although at times the writing was a […]

For the Remix a Song With Some Speech assignment, I chose a speech made by Senator Ron Paul in 2011 set to free use music by Jon Watts (found at the Free Music Archive). This is one of my favorite speeches ever made. Of course, it’s a controversial speech, and you may not agree with […]

“Moon Graffiti” was a great example of modern radio drama. I actually listen to The Truth podcast as often as they add new episodes, along with some other podcasts from Radiotopia.  I was actually really surprised I’d never heard their pilot episode. While not quite as polished as their recent work, “Moon Graffiti” was a pretty fantastic […]

This is the radio bumper I created for DS106 Radio. I recorded three tracks of myself using GarageBand. The rest was edited with three sound effects (an affected horn, affected violin, and a clock ticking) found on FreeSound.org, with the help of users...

This was a fun week! I’ve never gotten the chance to mess with audio much, and I enjoyed it a lot. Working with audacity was really neat and I learned a lot of the basics really quickly. The tutorial on the audio resources page helped me a lot and was incredibly effective at describing uses … Continue reading "Sleuth Summary 5"

At first I thought this week was going to be really hard because I have never done anything with audio before, but after tinkering around, it turned out to be pretty fun. I was unsure because I don’t like hearing my own voice! I really liked listening to the radio show, it was really entertaining (even ... Read more

This is the Daily Create I took on from today. Today’s Daily Create had the pretty broad theme of time crystals, a form of matter that was recently discovered. @ds106dc Time crystals have been around for a while… https://t.co/Hwj3wStCwW#ds106 #tdc1867 pic.twitter.com/4oOQgQuaYN — Cole Hodges (@coleohodges) February 17, 2017 For this assignment, I posted an image […]

This week was a big challenge for me, but I did have some fun with it. Like I said in my Moon Graffiti post, I am not really audio-inclined, and I really prefer having something in front of me to see when I am creating something, so that added even more difficulty to just coming … Continue reading Week 5

This is the Daily Create I took on this past Wednesday. Our directive was to take and image of something upside down (or turn and image upside down) to create something we thought looked cool. You can find my submission below: @ds106dc class has really been turned upside down today. #ds106 #tdc1865 pic.twitter.com/1p7HIUro9Y — Cole […]

For this Tuesday’s Daily Create, I added a caption to a Valentine’s Day card (illustration, whatever you’d like to call it). I thought this was a pretty great assignment for Valentine’s Day. You can find my creation below: @ds106dc @Cali4beach My favorite picture out of the bunch. #ds106 #tdc1864 pic.twitter.com/aBqUA1cCzz — Cole Hodges (@coleohodges) February […]

@ds106dc @Cali4beach because some people just can't appreciate a good pun #tdc1864 pic.twitter.com/XXMN1UdV2S — Hannah Bruns (@hannahbruns7) February 15, 2017  

Pigs for everyone. They are clean, can do tricks, and cuddle. Having one would improve humankind I promise! @ds106dc #tdc1866 pic.twitter.com/XZuFImmi5C — Hannah Bruns (@hannahbruns7) February 17, 2017  

Birth stone time crystals. They take you back to your actual day of birth @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1867 pic.twitter.com/9IRzOXl2TU — Hannah Bruns (@hannahbruns7) February 18, 2017  

Introduction The theme of this week in DS106 was audio. I’ve had a lot of fun recently and in the past editing audio and mixing stuff together, so I was able to enjoy creating in that form of media this week. Think about Audio Storytelling One of the assignments this week was to listen to “Moon […]

I really love animals – I mean you kind of have to if you’re gonna raise a pig like I have! It would be really cool to have a radio show involving animals in some way, whether the characters are actually animals or the story is about animals. The sound effects would be really fun ... Read more