For one of my assignments this week, Erin Clark and I decided to do the assignment, Who Called? that was submitted by Demi Fulcher. I collaborated with a fellow ds106er Erin Clark to complete this assignment! Erin and I met when we worked on our radio show together and our characters have a lot in […]

For my second collaborative character assignment I chose to do the “WANTED Poster” assignment worth two and a half points. For this assignment you were to use an online poster maker and create a wanted poster for a character of your choice. I chose to make the wanted poster of Janelle’s character, Sebastian Crane, and…

This week involved looking at and playing off of other students’ work. I submitted four examples of work I admire to the ds106 inspire site. I spent the bulk of my time working on 10 stars’ worth of “collaborative” assignments, somehow involving both mine and someone else’s character. So I had Braddock watch a movie about Donnie and then he… Read more →

The Daily Create Assignment for Wednesday 3-11-2015 was to reflect on your favorite moment in the past week and make an abstract sketch to illustrate it. My favorite moment in the past week was when my co-workers and I went to dinner after work during my spring break. It was great being able to catch […]

The Daily Create Assignment for Tuesday 3-10-2015 was to show different sides of yourself and put them into a photo collage. I used pic stitch to put two photos together. I used a picture of my front side and one of my back side so I think I took the assignment literally, but I have […]

So I think this week was a good week to ease us out of spring break. The pace was just enough. I’ve found it easier to start the week out with commenting, cause it get me working and motivated by seeing how far other people have come. It also helped me with the Inspire assignment, … Continue reading Week 8 summary →

Stars: This assignment asked us to write an origin story for an unusual superhero. I turned this into a collaborative assignment by continuing the story from the role-playing assignment, and having mine and Stephanie’s character play a role in the birth of The Clown.   The day his father died, Thomas Hinckle resolved to take matters into his own hands.… Read more →

On Thursday, I listened to the NOIR not the father radio show. I liked it a lot. It was a Jerry Springer type of show with a noir mix to it. The students’ characters were fighting about who was the father of a child and one character was very adamant about taking as many tests...

For my first collaborative assignment I am doing the “You’re a Pinteresting Character” assignment worth four points. For this assignment I used my character, Spence, with some inspiration from Janelle’s character, Sebastian Crane. I found that Sebastian and Spence are actually quite similar. I drew from the 1940’s era, in which Sebastian would have been about…

Butler: Yes, I was the one who did it. Everyone just look past me. No one ever cares. The Lawyer would just pass me by. He never cared. He only wanted my services and nothing more. So, yeah I killed your dear friends. And I don’t feel any remorse at all. They all deserved it....

Lukas had been so bored for the last couple days. Mack’s gang hadn’t been as active as they had been the previous weeks and there were no other notes detailing new missions. So, what could he do? The local bookstore was open and he decided he would read some book from the 1940s. Maybe he...

This week we were to submit four different people’s work who have inspired us. I haven’t really been inspired by any of these just yet, but I do think that the quality of work is exceptional and I will be inspired in the future. Janelle’s character dossier has inspired me to dig a little deeper…

Stars: This assignment started you off with a story about a clown. I turned this assignment into a collaborative one by having the clown get murdered and having Stephanie’s character, Emma Marie Callaghan, investigate the murder. As you will soon see, it also involves my character, though Emma doesn’t know that yet.   “…It was time to have a word… Read more →

This is the Who Called? assignments that is 4 points. I collaborated with Sharla and her character Mack. She has the first half of the conversation and I’m the second part. I did a previous assignment with her character, but this one is slightly different. In this one, Lukas isn’t trying to catch Mack but...

HOW TO GIVE A FRIENDLY HUG Pick out a stranger from a crowded place (parks are highly recommended). Establish eye contact. No matter how long this takes, you NEED them to realize you’re trying to make eye contact, otherwise the rest of our steps are going to just make you look creepy. And we don’t … Continue reading How to Give a Friendly Hug →

Story Time: 2015 Nicolette was done with Lukas’s shit. She needed the money and he was unresponsive. For the past two weeks, she had been calling him non-stop. See, she did a hacking job for him. He gave her the job and told her not to ask any questions. So, she followed his instructions but...

  For our other collaborative assignment we did the “Most Wanted” assignment. Lilah and Rex have been partners in crime, except this time, Rex and Lilah got caught, at least Rex did. And now the word is out and Rex is in trouble. Lilah sees this and splits, waning to save her own skin. I … Continue reading Most Wanted (2 1/2 stars) →

Story: Lukas Jones was running as fast as he could. Pushing people in the crowd aside. He was chasing a criminal named Mack. Mack had just robbed the local bank and had escaped with a large wad of cash. Earlier that day, Lukas had gotten a note telling him that he would have to stop...

  So for one of our collaborative assignments, me and Patrick chose to do the “Who Called? assignment.  My character was a prostitute, and is needy, and his character is macho and sleezy, so we decided that the interaction that most made sense is to make them in an unhealthy relationship. It’s obvious how unhealthy … Continue reading Who Called (4 stars) →

  So the assignment here was to find an existing post card/card/note and create your own story surrounding it. This card was discovered by this guy who found it in his Grandmothers belongings. It was a cryptic letter that’s taken him 20 years to figure out the pattern. The pattern is that she uses the … Continue reading Post Card Assignment (4 1/2 stars) →

Dirty Mouth? Clean It With a Biscuit? For this assignment, Kelsey and Mia collaborated. The acting was really well done and they only did it in two takes. The writing was really good. I like how they expanded on their radio story. I was inspired by how well they edited the audio and mixed all...

The Dangers of Undiagnosed Schizophrenia I was looking through posts to comment on and I found Lesya’s. She was doing a character collaboration and she was playing another person’s character. Her and her friend’s acting was amazing and the video editing looked like to took a while. The writing was also very typical noir which...

Stories Through Song: The Sebastian Crane Modern Music Tag I like Janelle’s work a lot because everything seems like she spent a lot of time on it. She always seems to think of a different and creative way to approach an assignment. This one was especially good because of the work she put into it....

My first inspiration post for this week is about Janelle! Her work always goes the extra mile which is something to truly admire. The assignment I choose to upload to the inspire site is her audio assignment: Remix a song with Some Speech. She used Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 and the […]

This week we were asked to comment on at least 10 others post like the previous couple of weeks. I looked at recent posts and ones from this week. I found a lot of inspiration in everyone’s posts. I loved seeing the creativity of my fellow students. The assignments looked like they had a lot...

For my second daily create I made a ransom note for Groom. When making this ransom note I used the website http://www.ransomizer.com/ to create the font. For my demands I tried to think of both ds106 things and things that I would enjoy(which I guess makes me the Groomnapper!). I came up with the following: […]

This daily create was to make a ransom note for Jim Groom being kidnapped. I decided to play in publisher with different types of fonts, colors, and such. Thought I would play off the fact that he has the Atari. He seems to be having fun with it. I cropped the text boxes for each … Continue reading If Jim Groom were kidnapped… →

For my second assignment of the week, Cuyler Matteson and I collaborated to “Create a Warning Poster” for 3 stars. Here are the instructions. For this assignment, Cuyler and I incorporated both of our characters: Billy Steel and Michael “Ol’ Mick” Bretton. The idea of this poster is that Ol’ Mick, a detective, is informing… Read More

The first assignment I did this week was called “Create Your Own DS106 Wallpaper”. This assignment was worth 4 stars. Here are the instructions. For this assignment I used the image editing software Microsoft Paint, and my final product is a composite of several images and text phrases. On the wallpaper I included, not only my… Read More

This week once again I did three daily creates. Who wants to see them?! I did my first daily create on Tuesday. The instructions said to make a collage that showed the different sides of me. I didn’t know whether to take this literally or figuratively, so I tried to do both! My photos encapsulate… Read More