We went back to the basics this week with the typical assignment bank prompts, daily creates, and a few other posts. It was a nice return after the two weeks of radio show work, although I enjoyed doing that tremendously. Speaking of radio shows, our first task for this week was to listen in to … Continue reading Eight is Great, Let’s Create!

Daily Create: How music changed your life We were down eight points and very behind, Our team was exhausted, and also whined, All hope was lost, we didn’t know what to do, Then someone blasted the song, “We will Rock You” We had spirit, we had hope in our hearts, We played hard, despite our…

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This week started out bad because I was probably the only person who did not do the tweet along. I am mad at myself for not doing it. I love doing the tweet along but I had so many things going on on all four of the days that it was happening. I did however … Continue reading The week 8 that was my life

The Original Teapot I thought this was very creative because there is already a poem about teapots and she just connected the pieces on this work. The point of the assignment was to create instructions for an everyday item and she already had hers made. This inspires me to look outside the box because the … Continue reading Inspired by a Teapot

When searching for assignments together, Brianne Comden and I came across the “Google History Maps Story”, which we thought would be perfect for our characters, as they were connected in our radio show as grandmother and granddaughter. We also thought it would be great to collaboratively work on this assignment because it would allow our … Continue reading You Follow the Map…It Knows the Way!

When searching for assignments that would ideally combine my character with another, I found the prompt, “You’re a Pinteresting Character”, which states: Build a Pinterest page of at least 20 pins for a character of your choice. Search for pins that relate to your character and things that he or she would want to pin for themselves. … Continue reading Can I Pinterest You in Our New Board?

This week I listened to DS 106 Radio on Thursday. “NOIR Not The Father” and “NOIRTalk” were on that night. Both of the shows were phenomenal! Here’s my write-up about both of them: http://ds106.christineloehr.org/radio-show/ds106-radio-listen-along/ The next task for the week was to submit 4 different pieces of work on the DS106 IN[SPIRE] page. 1. The … Continue reading Week 8 Down

We have a very talented group of individuals in this class. It is always great to scroll through and look at everyone’s work. Here are the posts that I commented […]

  This assignment was to take a picture of an everyday use bag and its items. I chose to make a bag that would be in our characters vehicle. I imagine this walmart back of items to be placed in the center console of their truck for back up reasons. The Zest soap would be … Continue reading Whats in Conway and James’ Bag →

I found this picture on someones flicker and loved it. I looked at the daily creates and found the picture that I liked under My different sides. It is called Self portrait by Maxwell Johnson. I love this picture. It is so different than anything I’ve seen by anyone else in the class. I love how he […]

Interesting work this week further creating my character, Jack Neff, and bringing him to life a little bit more. I added to Spencer Scott’s song “Donnie’s Zen” on a fun theme music hybrid assignment. I added depth to Jack’s back story with the old postcard assignment. I did the whistling song assignment as my character, … Continue reading Week 8 Summary →

The last daily create I completed was my guide on how to be the perfect lesbian. The daily create asked that we make a “lesson” for something. What better than making a 101 guide to becoming the perfect u-hauling homosexual?! … Continue reading →

Abigail created this poster of my character on a wanted poster. I picked out the picture and she created the background. If I was really Rex, I think this is what I would look like because he is tough, but simple. I might be lacking hair but I always get what I want because I … Continue reading Most Wanted

This picture of the UMW Rugby Family Tree, it inspires me because it shows how joining a club or sport here in college can be like joining a new family which is important when you are far away from your family back home. I believe this is a representation of club sports here at Mary … Continue reading UMW Rugby Family

    So Rex and Delilah have a bit of an argument over this voice mail. Rex is the one that calls to say, where you at, then he leaves this message like only Rex can. Rex also calls again and then finally Delilah picks up and they have a conversation about what happened the … Continue reading The VoiceMail

Today’s Daily Create was to Create a Lesson, so I decided to create a pictorial lesson on How To Draw a Cute Frog. This type of frog is very easy to draw and I doodle them a lot in my notebook. They are inspired by the design of the frogs in a manga series I … Continue reading Ribbit!

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 first … Continue reading Post Card

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Another picture that I chose to add to the inspire page is called Intergalactic Gasoline by Kim. I really liked how it looks so different than everyone else. She did not combine two common logos but rather two completely different ones. I also love how well the logos go together and how they look like […]

I already used this piece from Spencer Scott for his character Donnie Rawley in an assignment this week, so I thought it would be a good one to choose for these posts. I’m a reasonably active musician, so I naturally love the hand-craftedness here. The Eastern influences are awesome, and the subtle, relaxing qualities of … Continue reading This is Cool: Donnie’s Zen →

Wow, we did a lot this week, huh? Okay let’s run down the list: 1. Listened to a radio show. D&D Noir. Pretty good, my thoughts are there. 2. Inspirational things. 3. Collab assignments. I didn’t actually involve other classmates, but I did a lot. Here is my magazine cover, audio remix, and video. These … Read More →

LOGO DESIGN – THE ASCENT: OPERATION EVEREST (By: Brian Goulet) I really liked Brian’s post because of how much he focused on simplicity. He designed one simple image to go along with all of his assignments for the week. I like how he plans to bring everything together through one simple design. This inspired me … Continue reading Final Inspiration

Here’s the original post. And here’s the inspiration post. This post really inspired me because of the first statement that opens the post. “We’re reaching a time in our lives where where professionalism is key.” It’s really hit me recently that I’m growing up really quick and reading this was just another reminder. I really … Continue reading Inspiration #3

After viewing the video this week, I thought that the “Design an Invoice” assignment would be perfect for the work that Julia James does for women who are verbally abused by their degrading husbands. She has to get paid for her services, so an invoice is crucial. The prompt states: Create an invoice for a transaction that … Continue reading Give Me Your Money! Seriously…Here’s an Invoice.

The last assignment that we did was called Make My Day worth 3 stars. Chelsea and I did this one together as an alternative ending to our radio show. This would be as if Shadow and Caleb did not die and they did one more heist together so they could run away and live happily. […]

106 Horror! (1 star) This is our idea of “DS106″ in the genre of a horror movie featuring Caleb, Harvey, and Shadow which can be seen in the background of the poster. This was a collaboration piece with Abigail Dunn. We took a picture of shadows and Photoshopped “DS106″ into it. This was inspired by … Continue reading OMG DS106!

Mia and Kelsey’s You’re Invited design assignment inspired me through their successful use of the design elements of color and typography to greatly enhance a design that was already considered professional. They collaborated on this assignment so well together and their designs are so cohesive with each other that they inspire me to collaborate with … Continue reading Inspired by: Mia Boleis and Kelsey Roach

Professor Groom Poster (4.5 stars) Here is a poster of Jim Groom created by Abigail Dunn and myself. In this poster we have Groom day dreaming about my character Shadow because that bad boy is just that attractive, how don’t you dream about him? We decided to put Abigail’s character Caleb as Sebastian because Caleb … Continue reading The Little Groom

For this assignment, it was to take a picture a create a meme out of it. I used a picture of Stephen Weidman’s and my “characters” shooting their weapon. This is to represent their target practice for their job. There is a saying that states aim small miss small, meaning aim at a small target … Continue reading Whats the Meme? →

Another image that I loved and decided to post up in the inspire page was another daily create. The image was called My Hazel Eye by Janelle Pierangelino. This eye picture looks so interesting. There is shadows around her face that just looks so mysterious. The eye itself looks like it is changing and hiding […]