@ds106dc #tdc1857 this image reminds me of a better happier place on the internet. It reminds me of a forest of knowledge at your fingertips pic.twitter.com/bz74LGH2YV — Michael Ryan (@mjryanonline) February 7, 2017

This is a selfie that I took with my sweet basset hound puppy dog, Ginger. She is one of the few loves of my life and even though she is 13 years old, she will always be my little puppy dog. I have had her since I was in 6th grade. We adopted her from …

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Archives I chose this particular assignment simply because I have so much fun creating these. Mixing a photo, a quote, and a person-all different but similar enough characters that its hard to figure out who actually said the quote is fun and challen...

This is a collage of photos of my room. I live off campus with 3 friends. I absolutely love my room! I love the colors of my room; lots of teals, and corals and other bright be achy colors. I think I have a lot of cool personalizations like my collage wall with some of …

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Archives This was an easy assignment for me because my two best friends immediately came to mind. Meet Kat and Mike. This picture was taken at their wedding 3 years ago and while a lot has changed since then, their obvious love for one another has not. This is the classic story of high school sweethearts. It drives Mike crazy but I always like to take credit for their love story. We were sophmores in high school when the guy I was dating mentioned that Mike was interested in my very best friend, Kat. I set them up on a […]

Believe it or not I take very few photos, and I have never really been much in to photography. I try to use applications such as instagram in order to take more photos and post them more often but it never really ends up working out for me as I find myself too uninterested to …

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I think I have always been pretty fond of photography. I like taking pictures, as well as having pictures taken of me. I am not a professional photographer by any means, but I love to go out and do photo shoots with my friends. Mostly when taking pictures I just use my iPhone, but sometimes ... Read more

This was a great assignment because I got to focus on one of my favorite things- my yellow lab named Thor. I may be a little biased but I think he is one of the cutest things on this earth. He such a sweet and goofy pup which makes him an A+ dog in my …

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I am a huge GOT fan, so this was a great assignment to do. This is my finished sigil: I used my last name as the house name because I think it is a pretty strong name. The icon is some sort of bird that I thought was really cool and I used House Tully’s …

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Shadows are fun things to use when taking photographs. I found this amazing picture online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQge4ib4WI. I think this is an amazing picture because shadows can be used to show what the time of day is but these shadows show years in the past. These shadows show what these two people were in their past. …

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This was an amazing assignment to do. I took three of my favorite spy movies and created something that I think is really special. First I took a still from the movie Get Smart that has to be my favorite scene in the entire movie. At the beginning of the movie it shows us that Max …

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Hugh and Martha have been by each others side for as long as they can remember. They met one day at a coffee shop when someone mistakenly took her drink and he offered to buy her a new cup. They sat in that shop for hours talking and laughing the day away. They married on …

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When I was younger I was never one for photography, but in recent years I have come to really love it. It is my favorite form of art. I do take a lot of pictures, nothing special just with my iPhone, of my dog, landscapes, family pictures, etc. I don’t ever really have a particular …

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This week’s mission starts with some advice for new photographers. I have very little experience taking photos, and even on my phone I’m hesitant. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by all of the photos that flood my social media feeds in the past few years, and I find that enjoying a moment feels more pure […]

@ds106dc #tdc1853 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/BUgIRaBJZx — Taylor (@tmckenzierich) February 4, 2017  

This week was kind of difficult, just because the site wasn’t up and running on Friday which definitely set me back, and writing about spies was kind of difficult because I don’t know too much about the genre as a whole outside of the occasional James Bond movie and what not.  Overall this week was […]

This song is relatively new to my playlist but I feel like its definitely up there in my top 10.  The way it starts off with the beat slowly coming in is just really dope in my opinion, and then of course the rest of the instrumental gets me so hype, it’s a very unique […]

Read my fortune cookie.  I am actually on vacation right now so hopefully this help will be a relatively small task.  I rest the cookie on my napkin and continue to slurp my noodles.  I tip the waiter and make my way back to my hotel.  This was much needed, I thought I would never […]

Photography has always been an interesting concept to me. What makes a good photographer vs a bad one? what’s a good shot? In reality, there aren’t any correct answers to those questions. Photography is subjective in a way. There is a lot of technicality that goes in it, the composition, lighting, exposure..etc.. Many of those … Continue reading "Reflections on Photography"

Bond was just informed that he would be traveling to the Philippines for his new mission.  Apparently the someone from the inside has stolen the most classified of information and plans to use it to trigger a worldwide sellout of information such as government security codes, the secrets of the CIA, and detonation codes to […]

Alex Bercek is a 22 year old motorcycle mechanic, standing at solid 5’11” with a very athletic build.  She has brown skin, striking bone structure, and piercing green eyes and her hair is shaved on the sides with dark brown curls at the top.  Alex works as a secret agent for the CIA and although […]

  Well, it looks like it was another difficult but interesting week. I think I’m getting the hang of this a little better. Unfortunately, I ran into some technical difficulties late in the week (had to have been the Russians again) and couldn’t access any of the blogs, the assignment bank, my own blog, etc. […]

If I could choose any time and place to live, I would probably pick somewhere in Europe in the 13th century. I am a huge nerd for medieval history, so I would probably love it. Ideally, I would live in a castle or defensible manor, where I would eat roast pheasant in my awesome dining hall […]

Kurt Vonnegut (who I started reading around middle school) has some great advice for storytelling. In my post this week on my character background, the arc that Roderick Rush has followed thus far is on the path for the “Cinderella” story arc. Rush’s story starts relatively low on the “happiness” line due to his personality. […]

This is a photo I did not take of the ambassador of an unnamed country meeting with the CEO of a biotechnology firm and a representative of an organization known as ORION. The CEO sits in a sleek, suede chair in the corner of a hotel suite with a large window, a billionaire philanthropist to the […]

Writing three haikus Is much harder than it seems Like rocket science Thinking of the words, Five syllables first and last, Seven in between Hey, I’ve got this now I feel like William Shakespeare ……Refridgerator?

You may have never heard the name Roderick Rush, but most spies have. The intelligence community believes Roderick Rush was born in South Carolina in or about 1990. Based on what records have been collected, Rush attracted the interest of several organizations while in school, where he scored in the genius range in several intelligence […]

My spy character, Roderick Rush, is inspired by several other spies from literature, television, and film along with a lot of my own invention. In large part, I based him and part of his backstory on Jason Bourne. Although I’ve never been as big of a fan of the Bourne novels or movies as some […]

The third week in #ds106 was a great week. I accomplished a lot of tasks. One of the tasks I accomplished was creating a dossier of my secret agent which can be found here. The hardest part about this was being creative and coming up with a secret agent profile. But every week my creativity …

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