1. Oh My Gott

    Things Are Moving FAST

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    There was a lot of work to do this week, but it went by pretty quickly as I enjoyed working on virtually all of the assignments. Let’s recap. Design Safari I spent much of this week analyzing objects around me for design principles. The majority of my pictures ended up being from my house or ...
  2. mbutlerr

    weeek six! (almost there!)

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    This week was being testy for me. Although I tried a couple of times throughout the week to download GIMP, it was being more difficult than helpful. I managed to use to for leftover design assignments but since it took so long to get working, it made it hard to make the most of it. ...
  3. Ms. Parker

    Dailies

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    This week, I only got three daily creates done. Monday The task: Take a photo of someone that is nice and cozy in a blanket. She is always under her warm blanket. If someone is in the living room, they are using this blanket. Warm and cozy for sure! Thursday The task: Represent your fondest ...
  4. Ms. Parker

    A Blitz of Design

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    This week, I had to find things in my environment that represent different aspects of design. Unity The Principles of Design by Joshua David McClurg-Genevese: The concept of unity describes the relationship between the individual parts and the whole of a composition. Items in close proximity to or aligned with one another tend to be ...
  5. mbutlerr

    Radio Show Plans

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    Here’s a sneak peak at our plans for the radio show! Thus far, it’s only me and @confusedeasily, however, if our group members are reading this…please feel free to come back! We’ve done a significant amount of work, such as our group logo (we chose Jazmin’s!) However, here’s mine in case ya wanted to check ...
  6. mbutlerr

    Rugby on!

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    The bumper sticker assignment…Is it okay to say that I firmly love bumper stickers? NO SHAME. i thoroughly enjoy doing bumper stickers and collecting them in my own free time (which I will post a picture of on flickr so that no one thinks I’m obsessed without merit…) ANYWAYS, so I couldn’t resist doing this ...
  7. confusedeasily

    Truth=Freedom?

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    The six word memoir poster was a good one for me. I think my motto is going to be simple is better because that is what I was thinking when doing this. I found the font on dafont and I think that this font is really good because it looks like that the words are flying away ...
  8. mbutlerr

    do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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    How much fun is GIMP? Well, when its not crashing, incredibly fun. I especially had fun manipulating the layers during this assignment. Although GIMP decided to give me a hard time, it was well worth the wait. I went through a couple sayings in my mind before I settled on this one, a little tease ...
  9. confusedeasily

    Happy Birthday To Me!!

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    When I saw the what the font assignment I knew what I was going to do from the get go. I figured since my birthday is getting really close I would do one about my birthday. I needed a lot of help with this so I went to YouTube and it was very helpful I ...
  10. mbutlerr

    W-w-wooooord

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    The assignment was to take a word and emphasize, with just the font. No frills, no bells, no whistles. Instead, use the size to manipulate the way it would appear. I picked poppysmic (poppysmic: produced by smacking the lips) to stress for this assignment. I used Didot, a sort of rough font because I envisioned chapped lips ...
  11. confusedeasily

    I was born where now??

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              I was born in Germany Landstuhl if you could not see. This was the first time I used GIMP to make  a GIF and it was fairly easy. I got the background from Google and also the Ambulance which was also a German ambulance truck. I made it move fast to represent ...
  12. Oh My Gott

    All Out Blitz

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    The Design Safari assignment made me more cognizant of the various types of designs I encounter everyday. I was on the lookout the past few days for good examples, and here is what I came up with: Unity With this photo, I wanted to capture the, “similarity, proximity, and alignment” of the rug design. The ...
  13. mbutlerr

    Designa Safari-a?

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    Design is everywhere. Just like audio, and visual except design is up to each person to decide where it comes from. However, rather than to let us go off on our own tangents about what we think design is, we learned a couple of essential design vocabulary so I didn’t have to run around like ...
  14. confusedeasily

    Word

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    When I say this assignment I was thinking that it would be really hard and I saw some examples and they were all interesting but I think that everything is better when it is simpler. It was very easy I did it in Microsoft word using the word art. There is really no more to say about ...
  15. confusedeasily

    Illustrate a Catchphrase

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    Let me just tell you this and that when I grew up I used to watch the Simpsons all the time so when I saw the illustrate a catchphrase one I knew exactly which one I was going to do. I would tell you more about which one I did but I think I said enough. I used GIMP ...
  16. Ms. Parker

    And they lived happily ever after — ??

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    For this assignment, we had to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take the visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. I wanted to do a story instead of a movie like most other DS106ers this week. With a story, though, I needed to think of ...
  17. confusedeasily

    I think I need to do a double take

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    The first time I looked that the wait were’d did that come from I immediately thought of where’s Waldo but I did not want to do that because I always lose I can never find him. Therefore I did a much easier one for me to spot the difference. I used Gimp to “set” the children in the ...
  18. confusedeasily

    I am everywhere!!

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    I normally do not like taking pictures of my self. But i loved this picture so I did it anyways. I first used the original the in another one I used the newspaper filter form GIMP because I like how it splits the sharp colors on my face making me seemingly lighter. I also did one the erases every even ...
  19. mbutlerr

    Daily Create’s!

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    Design week + DC’s, who doesn’t love that combo? Design week is almost as good as visual, not as good but close enough. So I tried to incorporate it into my DC’s but I also wanted to have some fun with them. I started off with the picture of cousin’s dog, Chico. As many pictures ...
  20. Girl Without A Net

    Design Blitz in Three Parts | Part 3

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    The Assignment: “Design Safari:” Carry your camera with you this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate one of these concepts. At a minimum, provide an example of at least four of the concepts listed above. Share all your photos on Flickr and tag them designblitz. In addition, add a link ...
  21. confusedeasily

    You Scream, I Scream, We all Scream for ICE CREAM!

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    I was looking through the assignment bank and I came upon the ultimate merger I knew exactly what I was going to do. First of all I love ice cream there is no doubt about that. Personally I think everyone loves ice cream and frozen yogurt, (unless they are lactose intolerant ). So I went with the merge of Cold Stone and Sweet ...
  22. Girl Without A Net

    Design Blitz in Three Parts | Part 2

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    The Assignment: “Design Safari:” Carry your camera with you this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate one of these concepts. At a minimum, provide an example of at least four of the concepts listed above. Share all your photos on Flickr and tag them designblitz. In addition, add a link ...
  23. mbutlerr

    Six-Word Memoir

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    This was the six-word memoir, the assignment details are here. A huge part of my personality is my heritage. Although I’m second-generation American, I’m still very aware of my Mexican culture and all that it has to offer. So I decided to take an image of the border, and I added a layer of shading ...
  24. confusedeasily

    Propaganda

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    When I saw that we had to do the ds106 Propaganda Posters I found the World War 2 poster that I like the best. I used GIMP for the first time here, and I think that it was a great job out of me. I did a statement that I knew very well sense I was someone ...

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

Welcome to Paul Bond and Jim Groom’s Spring 2024 ds106

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