@ds106dc My beautiful dollhouse, covered with dust and missing a shutter. It made a great home for my Barbie collection. #ds106 #tdc1961 pic.twitter.com/RpKMTpmuzK — Madeline Coughlin (@Shes_Maddie) May 23, 2017

Let us take a little safari thru…my house. So (not) very exciting! I had thought about going somewhere for this but decided that finding things around the house would be plenty hard enough for me. Let’s start with the time. That seems a little late doesn’t it? Well, you know what they say. Early bird...

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Weekly Summary #1 For me, the best word that describes my experiences this week would be, bittersweet. It started off as overwhelmingly stressful, just because at a glance there was a plethora of tasks that we had to accomplish.  The hardest part for me was setting up the blog itself. I kept running into complications. Read More

Visual Storytelling Reflection For week 1 I did a total of 5 different visual storytelling assignments. These assignments included Shadow of Doubt (2.5 stars), Create GoT House (3 stars), Room Tour (3 stars), Bucket List (3.5 stars), and Spubble (1.5 stars).  Each assignment challenged me in different ways. For example, Shadow of Doubt and Room Read More

Commentary on Social Media & Blog There’s a first time for everything! This week I tested the waters with setting up all of the social media required and setting up my own domain. The social medias I had never used prior to this week were SoundCloud and Flickr. Once I set up the account and Read More

Here is a playlist of some of my favorites.  Feel free to have a listen.

I’m looking forward to a great summer!  Let’s get started, DS106! Saying hello to all of my #ds106 friends! Let's make it a great summer semester! pic.twitter.com/MhzArrtQy9 — Madeline Coughlin (@Shes_Maddie) May 23, 2017

For today’s daily create we had to come up with a story for the correlation between two different graphs. When I saw the one about margarine I instantly thought, “Well, butter is better so that makes sense.”   @ds106dc Study shows that substitutes for butter lead to unhappy marriages. #ds106 #tdc1966 pic.twitter.com/0nhj58LEIy — Andrew (@Andrew21663620)...

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As in everything in life, slowing down and taking the time to breathe the air and enjoy the moment cures more ills than hastily diving in and mucking things up. I found the advice in the, “How to Be a Better Photographer” section of the […]

For this visual assignment I’ve taken an up close picture of an item. My task for you who is reading this is to leave you answer in the comments. Once someone gets it right I’ll update this post and let the rest of you know. What could it be?!

Game of Thrones popularity is something that has always surprised me. I never expected the show to have such a strong following. Reading the books was what got me into it originally. Seeing the show had made me want to finish the books, or rather catch up(hurry up and finish them R.R. Martin). This assignment...

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Spoiler: I don’t think so. It’s been more like “I’ll show you a picture, and leave you confused.” Aaah! It’s been a long week. Setting up the blog itself and connecting everything was something of a logistical nightmare… I can’t remember the last time I’ve had so many tabs open. I was hesitant at first … Continue reading Week in review… did I live up to my blog title?

My name is Brandan Herlinger, and currently I am a rising- senior at the University of Mary Washington.  I am 21 years old, and play on the varsity soccer team. I hope you guys find out a lot about me, and like my content.

I think that of all the things this week, the photoblitz is what I was most nervous about doing. The time limit made me anxious, and rightly so. I didn’t finish in time! I began at 11:13am and went three minutes over the limit. I think I’d blame that on my location choice (way too … Continue reading Reflection on a photoblitz

I played this one with a handicap I think. I took an old Pikachu plush around as a prop and tried to tell a story through the safari. I definitely wish I had done it on the day I had intended to, because I wanted to use sunlight liberally. Huge mistake on my part for … Continue reading Fat Pikachu’s photo safari

Week 1 – Weekly Summary How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? I believe that I completed them to my best ability. That being said, I think that I did well to complete the requirements of this week’s assignments, though some of them I did not believe were explicitly […]

My deployment to Afghanistan in 2007 was great fun…I made many lasting friendships and experienced the best and worst of humanity. I will always remember my terrific living accommodations in the Square House, a safe house right beside the American Embassy.         […]

Change My Perspective By Changing Yours: Find different and unique points of view. Look down, up, lay down on the ground. Seek perspectives of lines. I decided to quite literally change my perspective by getting down on my hands and knees to take a picture of my sister’s cat. I simply found the cat standing still for […]

In 1973 this song was the height of double entendre. It played day and night on the radio…I think we got it!         VisualAssignments  VisualAssignments190

Photo Safari Week 1 Eight out of fifteen. Mainly, because I couldn’t find the others because I’m stuck at home for the day. The ones that I did do are listed below. Take a photo dominated by a single color. Take a photo at an unusual angle, e.g. looking up at something or looking down […]

I enjoyed this week’s assignments once I got into the swing of things. It was overwhelming at first, but once I sat down and knocked out a few posts I felt better about it. I feel like I completed the assignments to the best of my abilities, although the visions I had for my final …

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Welcome to my week 1 weekly summary. This week proved to be very challenging. I got off to a bad start by jumping ahead of myself by creating a website and blog that I paid for. As soon as I published it on the World […]

I’ve been trying out the photography tips from this week’s ongoing assignment and yesterday I think I caught something really cool using some of the tips. I had gone outside with my dogs (both are very clingy and like company, even when doing their business… and one can’t be trusted not to jump the fence) and … Continue reading Photo op!

At the beginning of the week my friend and I went to a diner. While waiting for our fries I decided to play around with my phone camera. To my surprise it had a selective focus feature, so I tested it out and took a picture of our milkshakes. Little did I know that I would learn Read More

Week 1 Tips This week we were required to have visuals for most of the required assignments. Throughout this time span I used many different websites such as, Aviary, BeFunky, Flickr, etc. All of these websites required these visuals. For each picture I tried to test the tips and tricks that were mentioned from the Read More

Miss Nelly takes UMW by Storm!!!         Assignment: VisualAssignment, VisualAssignment 1884

My Three Amigos Dani, Willow, and Nelly       Assignment: VisualAssignment, VisualAssignment 1729

Can you guess what this is? Let me know 🙂           Assignment: Visual

“If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there.”- Paul Kantner I did not exist in the 1960’s, and was not even a twinkle in my mother’s eye who was born the first year of the psychedelic decade. Thought, I’ve always had an appreciation for the decade. From the music, social justice […]

27 May 2017 This afternoon I decided to take on photo Safari challenge. By carefully planning each of the shots I was able to complete the assignment in approximately 10 minutes.                     First photograph that to […]