This is the Highlight Reels assignment, worth five stars. This is my second of the required five video assignments for the two-week period. This brings my total to 10 stars. The directions are below. Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athete, set it to some music, and add an intro. First, the … Read More →

This is a five-star video assignment for weeks 11/12 of DS106. That brings my total for the two-week period to…five stars so far. I’ve been busy, okay?! Here is the assignment page. I’ll include the instructions below as well. This challenge can either be completed as an Audio Assignment, or a Visual Assignment. Inspired by a similar … Read More →

My daily create on November 14th. This is my fifth daily create of the two-week period. Homework is limiting my ability to enjoy this nice day. #tdc1406 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/PHQMuGbiTd — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 15, 2015

My daily create from November 13th. This is my fourth daily create of the two-week period. "Impact" font for #tdc1405 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/H5g72zYBkr — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 15, 2015

This is my third daily create of the two-week period. I chose Leonard Cohen’s song “Chelsea Hotel.” The Chelsea Hotel #tdc1404 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/Kz0X4pa6rR — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 12, 2015

This is the first of my two video assignments for the week. I chose to complete the Classical-Modern Mashup assignment. It’s a four-star assignment. Here are the directions. Ingredients: 1 piece of classical music 1 modern music video How to make: First, strip or mute the music out of the modern music video. Then layer the classic … Read More →

I looked through the list of scenes and decided on the scene from American Psycho. I’ll talk about the camera work, the audio, and how the two work together. Camera Work I just finished watching the scene with no audio. A lot of the what Roger Ebert wrote about is present in this scene. Here are … Read More →

I completed four daily create assignments this week. My first daily create of the week was on October 28th. The prompt is here. @ds106dc Quick math game for #tdc1389 pic.twitter.com/j48QY2OS3L — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 29, 2015   My second daily create of the week was on October 29th. The prompt is here. This was supposed to … Read More →

This is the second of two required web assignments this week. This assignment is worth three stars, bringing my total for the week to seven stars. The assignment page is here, but I’ll include the instructions below as well. For this assignment go on Youtube and pick either your favorite video or a totally random one. … Read More →

I chose to complete the Buzzfeed Personality Quiz assignment this week as one of the two required web assignments. This assignment was worth 4 stars. The instructions are here, but I’ll include them below as well. Have you taken one of those fun personality quizzes on Buzzfeed? Now make your own! Sign in with Buzzfeed to … Read More →

I had to create a commercial for the radio show I’m working on, Wacky History. I chose to use Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy as the background music. I recorded my audio on my iPhone, emailed it to myself, converted it to .wav format, and opened it in Audacity. I then imported the music track. I decreased the … Read More →

I forgot to create a blog post when I created my bumper for Wacky History, so here it is!   I wanted a background song that sounded a little wacky. What’s wackier than Brazilian psychadelic rock? I used the song “A Minha Menina” by Os Mutantes. I cut off the first 15 seconds or so of the … Read More →

We’re getting to the end of the two week period for the radio show and I’ve realized that I forgot to do the additional two audio assignments! The first assignment I’ve chosen to do is the Have a Phone Conversation with Yourself assignment, worth 4 stars. The assignment page can be found here. I’ll include the … Read More →

My daily create on October 17th. This is my fifth daily create of the two week period. I had to come up with an idea for an eighth day of the week and create a poster to promote it. The newest day of the week. @ds106dc #tdc1378 pic.twitter.com/1JGmYiSW...

My daily create on October 15th. This is my third daily create of the two week period. I had to write a short story about my lucky day. I chose to keep it short so I could fit it all in one tweet. @ds106dc And then Nic Cage gave me 400 dogs, a farm where … Read More →

My daily create on October 12th. This is my second daily create of the 2-week period. Four more to go. I had to show my mood today in a sketch. Feeling productive @ds106dc #tdc1373 pic.twitter.com/k3D6isIK0t — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 12, 20...

My daily create on October 8th. This is my first daily create of the week. Sitting on the porch is an excellent warmweather activity #tdc1369 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/J4VVjg2OBV — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 8, 2015

For my 4 star design assignment, I chose to make trading cards for the movie Drive Angry. The assignment page can be found here. Here are the cards I created. I chose to use Drive Angry because I love ridiculously terrible movies and this is the best ridiculously terrible movie to grace mankind since the Sci-Fi original Sharktopus was released … Read More →

I spent a half hour or so reading through The Vignelli Canon. I liked that the book was split into tangibles and intangibles. The organization was appropriate for a book about design. He first wrote about the three most important aspects of design – semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. What stuck out to me here was that Vignelli took … Read More →

My daily create on October 1st. This is my second daily create of the week. It's that time of year. #tdc1362 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/XxHYxETS2w — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October 1, 2015

This week, I tried to follow three of David duChemin’s tips for becoming a better photography. His eBook can be found here. The tips I tried out this week were Get Pickier Change My Perspective By Changing Yours, and Create Depth. The second tip lined up very well with the photoblitz assignment, where one of the … Read More →

My third and final visual assignment of the week is the required assignment, Apophenia. It’s a 3 star assignment, bringing my total for the week to 9 stars. The instructions were Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others … Read More →

My daily create on September 26th. This is my third daily create of the week. I had to create a picture in the style of Chompoo Baritone. This may be the first time in my life I’ve taken the laundry out of the basket and thrown it all over my room. My "artsy" photo for #tdc1357 … Read More →

My daily create on September 24th. This is my second daily create of the week. I had to juxtapose old and new. Presenting the new iPad #tdc1355 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/AgbKGnU8fb — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 24, 2015

My daily create on September 23rd. This is my first daily create of the week. Latte for #tdc1354 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/Mc9xxI9RMA — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 24, 2015

Radio hosts use several techniques to bring their stories to life. Many were used in the Radiolab show Detective Stories and the TED audio hour episode posted in the week 4 instructions. Listening to the two sound clips, I was able to pick out several uses of audio techniques that brought the stories to life. The technique … Read More →

My daily create on September 20th. This is my fourth daily create of the week. I had to make a Five Card Flickr story. Five Card Flickr story for #tdc1351 @ds106dc http://t.co/rRIPUYxuoH — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 20, 2015   Five Card Story: Out of the Suburbs a Five Card Flickr story created by Bbrady1992 … Read More →

My daily create on September 15th. This is my second daily create of the week. I had to take an emophoto. Distraction emophoto for #tdc1346 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/FrCofVmv3b — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 15, 2015

My daily create on September 14th. This is my first daily create of the week. I had to create the cover of a bad self-help book. A self-help book I think a lot of people could use. @ds106dc #tdc1345 pic.twitter.com/SQlFXevDCi — Ben Brady (@BBrady...

Only three hours left in week three, so it’s time for the weekly summary. Overall, I’m enjoying DS106 more than I thought I would. It’s actually turned out to be a lot of fun to mess around with different digital media. I think it will only get better as the course goes on because I’ll … Read More →