Let me start off this post by saying that I totally wish I was British.  If the accents weren’t enough some of the most adorable people ever are from there (think Sophia Grace and Rosie and One Direction).  So when … Continue reading →

This week we had to do three daily creates again.  Here are my three.. 1. Take a photo of someone that is nice and cozy in a blanket I guess he isn’t exactly in a blanket but this is my dog Bailey.  My … Continue reading →

So we have officially made it to design week.  For this week we have to get fifteen stars (and I’m kind of freaking out a little bit).  I decided to get an early start of this week since I have awful at … Continue reading →

The war on education has arrived and we need more production!! For my propaganda poster, I took this WWII image I found on Google and transformed it into something less violent: I used GIMP to erase (or rather stamp) the … Continue reading →

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I chose ten photos so far to put in my ‘Best Photos’ set on flickr. All of these photos I feel have a story behind them and are each unique in their own way. I chose The Openness of Columns because I liked the lines and the shades in it. When I took it, I ...

Each go around of ds106, one assignment seems to take off in popularity, with no real explanation why. Previously we have seen bursts around Say It Like Peanut Butter, One Story / Four Icons, Splash the Color, and Messing with the MacGuffin. I’m guessing, maybe wrongly, we will see a burst around the Six Word Memoir assignment, hot off the press. It mixes the challenge of a SAix Word Story with designing a graphic poster of it, as recently shared in Brainpickings. Our assignment is: How would you tell your life’s story if you could only use six words? Come up with a six word autobiographical story and then design/illustrate it (more than just a photo). See examples from Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students from Grade School to Grad School. The idea for the six word memoir is credited to Larry Smith’s Smith Magazine back in 2006, and plays on ...

I find it very funny what I get really into and what I don’t, especially when it comes to school. It’s not secret that I really enjoy this class, but when I first saw Design week I was a little intimidated by what was to come. I wasn’t sure exactly what it entailed, so I (continue reading...)

As someone who loves doing photography, I loved our photoblitz assignment. Being at Mary Washington where there are tons of nifty things to look at and see, I had many places where I could photograph but chose the exterior of Ball Hall, my residence hall. When all was said and done, I took 32 photographs ...

This week was almost all photography dailycreates and so I ended up doing only photography for ones. I tried to apply a few of the tips for being a better photographer (lighting, changing perspective) but I still don’t think I … Read More →

All sorts of photography improvements this week! This week I tried using my newly improved photography skills in two of my daily creates and in part of my photoblitz! Here are the pictures I tried some new things with: (All … Continue reading →

The journey through visual week definitely tops that of audio week. Although audio week taught me a lot that I didn’t know, visual week brought me back to comfort zone, because who doesn’t love taking pictures and would rather do that than hears themselves? Definitely me. It was a bit overwhelming since I was sick ...

The visual assignments for the week were challenging because I was supposed to be improving my photography skills.  The main issue here was that I have no camera (right now I’m operating with a mighty fine iPhone cam), but aside … Continue reading →

My week was so long I was struggling the whole time it took me more than a day to even find my group member and to come up with a name. My photoblitzing activity was the hardest I think out of all the work this week. I think next time I am going to pick a better ...

This week we got a lot more suggestions on how to be a better photographer and they really did help me with the key points. The one that I found most helpful were good lighting. Good lighting seems really important because how are you suppose to have a good picture without  having good lighting? I ...

I wish I could chalk these late posts up to me just being a slacker, but alas no.  I’ve been busy, AND I’ve been procrastinating. Yes, I admit it.  I am a procrastinator sometimes. But seriously I have been looking. This week was all about visual storytelling.  Chock full of adventures for my eyes! ———————————————————– ...

 

I chose these pictures because I loved them duhh I thought that these were all planned out and executed very well. I chose my collage of faces because all of them were different and they all had a different meaning behind them. I chose the one where I drew a picture of me fall down the stairs ...

I actually never realized that taking pictures could be so hard before, especially when I am in a rush. I thought that my room had a lot of different things that I could take pictures of but boy was I wrong. So when I started my timer and after the first one I was done ...

Review the suggestions for photography. Pick at least 3 to try in the context of doing other visual assignments this week or just for practice, and write a blog post showing the results. Add the one that you think helped you the most, and summarize in our shared Google doc How We Are Becoming better Photographers ...

DC’s are the best, especially during visual week. There’s more effort going into it because you know it’s visual week so you really have no option! Also, this week I noticed my flickr images are finally showing up on the DC’s assignment page, so snaps to me for that! I also really got to practice my photography ...

For the Valentine visual assignment I chose to caption the following picture I looked at all of the other cards in the set and thought of captions for a few of them but in the end I chose to do … Read More →

So this week, I got more into flickr and uploaded a ton of photos. It was actually a lot more fun than I thought it would, especially since I already enjoy snapping pictures on my own phone. My flickr is http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbutlerr/, and I promise you that you will not be disappointed in my photography skills (despite ...

For the PhotoBlitz Assignment, which is where you had to photograph as many pictures as possible in twenty minutes but rather than focusing on the artsy fartsy side, really just to have fun and be creative with the entire assignment. I was actually limited because I was stuck in my room with a cold. However, ...

I haven’t taken many photos, not really much into photography but these are, what I think, my best photos so far. After looking at this picture again I started to notice all the different colors in it. I didn’t notice … Read More →

Radio Show Groups- I officially grouped up with Kaitlyn, Kelsie, Brooke, and Sarah for our radio show group. We officially named ourselves the Fab Five. https://twitter.com/kncrotty/status/302076587858354176 Kelsie made an awesome A-Z photo collage that I absolutely loved, Katilyn did a really a ton of really awesome color … Continue reading →

As soon as I saw the We’ve Found Your Match assignment, I immediately thought of my friend Morgan. I always tell him that he looks just like Paul Rudd, especially in the movie “Our Idiot Brother“. To most of my friends, he doesn’t look him but every time he grows his hair out, I always call ...

I tried doing this assignment SO MANY TIMES this week and couldn’t come up with anything.  Even this one isn’t too original (I don’t think), but it’s all I could think of.  This was a silly, fun assignment though, and … Continue reading →

Group Name The 5th Dimension Group Comments Although I have a new group this week, the members essentially stayed the same with the exception of one. Fairuz shared the same liking for the photo blitzing assignment that I had. She had some great pictures, especially that elephant shadow photograph; check it out. Casey did a ...

Photography!  When I saw what we were doing this week, I was so relieved!  Not that audio wasn’t fun, but I’m much more comfortable with taking photos. To start off the week, I joined a Radio Show group on Canvas. ...