“One Day More!” he shouts, as his final day closes in. Barack Obama, the last man on Earth, has survived as long as he can. His resources are gone, he has no friends or family left. He knew this moment was coming, but he had hoped it would not be so soon. They’re closing …

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Create a life for a tool or household object. I sit on these counters and stare at these walls day in and day out. So far I have only ventured into two other rooms of the house, but the mother of the household admonished my freedom giving children so harshly for letting me explore the …

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@ds106dc The ominous tale of a tribe living in the clouds, a mysterious rainfall, and how their lives would be forever changed #tdc1844 pic.twitter.com/4uhUi1MRKq — Katey Matragrano (@kateybug17) January 25, 2017

Since my first assignment was a brand new concept I decided to try another more in my previous experience. I decided to pick the Animal’s Doing Funny Things GIF assignment. Before this class I had already created GIF’s for other classes, as well as had the honor of helping with a GIF workshop for incoming freshmen. […]

For my last assignments, I decided to do a BuzzFeed Personality Quiz on What Movie Spy Are you to try and connect it to our class theme. I have never made a BuzzFeed quiz before so this was a challenge for me trying out a new software. Going into it, I thought it wasn’t going to be … Continue reading "What Movie Spy Are you?"

For this #VisualAssignment I chose to do #VisualAssignment1971 which was to create a game of thrones style house banner. At first I thought I should be serious about this as it could turn out really cool but it wasnt working out too great so I went the silly route instead and created something that I …

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@ds106dc A Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy + python for dummies = A hitchhikers guide to dummies #tdc1844 — Michael Ryan (@mjryanonline) January 25, 2017

For my first ever assignment bank assignment I decided to tackle the Harness Relationships: Make a Map with Kumu. I had never used Kumu before but I had seen people use it before and was curious to check it out. Seeing it in the assignment bank I was excited to try it out.  I remembered […]

Archives For this assignment, we had to pick a song, take the lyrics out, and record a short (30 seconds or less) audio clip. The clip needed to be enough that people would be able to guess the song from it. I’ll be honest, a big part of why I chose this particular assignment is because it seemed like one of the few in this category that I was capable of doing. Not to give any hints, but I also thought it would be a good assignment to use to tie in the “mission106” theme! The hardest part was trying […]

@ds106dc #tdc1843 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/UBMugQpDoJ — Taylor (@tmckenzierich) January 24, 2017

#ds106 #tdc1842 something like this probably pic.twitter.com/bUcY7aR8cs — Taylor (@tmckenzierich) January 24, 2017

This week was a good week in the world of ds106. I learned that the students this semester are going to be able to help plot where the semester goes. I was put into the writing group with a few other students and when we collaborate we will be able to help take this course …

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Today’s Daily Create consisted of creating a storyboard-like image of a YouTube video with a “bookmarklet.” The process was fairly simple; the bookmarklet was provided, and all I had to do was click on it while I had a YouTube video open. The part that took me a while was finding a video that I wanted … Continue reading Re: #tdc1843 Print Out a YouTube Video

It’s always sunny in philadelphia, except when it rains. The assignment that I have chosen is to create a scene poster from a movie or TV show.  Not much else detail was given for directions other than be creative which is a given.  With so many options, so many good TV shows and movies out …

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The resemblance between this Photoshop masterpiece and my original Paint masterpiece is insane. Never did get any better at drawing…

This blog is now more “me”. Organized and to the point.   I had trouble installing the plug-in Akismet so I will definally be re-visiting that when I get a chance. I also explored the assignment bank and thought that there were a lot of good ideas on there that I am going to keep …

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@ds106dc #tdc1842 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is this picture which would emulate one of my very first pictures. pic.twitter.com/rIvMJ3tno1 — Kyle Bynum (@KBCOLLECTS) January 24, 2017

I wanted to try and experiment with gifs for the second assignment so I browsed the animated gif assignments and picked the favorite musician gif. The assignment reads: Choose your favorite musician, and then head to Youtube and pick one of their videos to make an animated gif of. Try to use the best quality video possible, preferably HD. I … Continue reading "Angel Wings"

For my first assignment, I chose to let fate choose what assignment I do. I clicked the random button and it took me to the assignment from the writing assignments called Emotional Lyrics. This assignment seemed interesting so I stuck with it. I have never really thought about what songs caused certain emotions, or what I … Continue reading "Songs that Elicit Emotion"

I learned quite a bit during these first few assignments. I have no experience with Domain of One’s Own, so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that UMW students get a domain hosting service. I want to eventually use the domain as a personal website with a portfolio and a separate blog, so I …

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This semester’s theme is “Secret Agent.” I’m excited about this theme because I enjoy the aesthetics of similarly themed content. Although I have my problems with some of the misogynistic tropes of the genre, there is a lot of room to work with creatively. My favorite movie with the theme is actually a satire, OSS 117. …

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I really like the overall message of Austin Kleon’s post, “10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered: Lessons from my book ‘Show Your Work!‘”. It’s important to put yourself out there to develop your own voice. There were three points that resonated most with me: 1 .   Share something small each day .  …

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Up until today, I was planning on dropping this course and taking it in the first 5 weeks of the Summer term online. I have a pretty busy schedule with classes and other responsibilities, so I lost some confidence in whether or not I could take the class from the initial email and what I … Continue reading Weekly Summary

The “secret agent” genre is not my favorite, but I have enjoyed it in the past. Most of my experience with the genre has been with James Bond movies, and I’ve mostly only seen the newer movies. One of my favorite video games of all time was James Bond 007: Nightfire, although I’m not sure … Continue reading Thoughts on Mission 106 Theme

This post is in response to an article by Austin Kleon. You can find the article here.  

Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/147792464@N08/shares/f294J0 Twitter: Hello ds106! #ds106 — Yun Jang (@yjangabc) January 19, 2017 YouTube: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-356393755/hello-ds106    

This week was a very interesting start to the semester, mostly because of this class. The overall structure and thought process and freedom is so great that you can’t relate it or work on it like any other class. It really stresses creativity and overall management skills, but in a new and interesting way. I […]