Audio #1: Sound Effects Story How many of us have walked into a pet store and are saddened by the lack of dogs there? My audio story is based on an owner who goes to pick up her puppy from the pet store groomer. However, when she walks into the pet store she doesn’t immediately pick Read More

Reflection: Moon Graffiti The Moon Graffiti audio has been my favorite audio, thus far. It did a very good job of painting a picture for the audience. It included the teachings that Glass suggested. It had a very good storyline and it also included the moment of reflection. The effects in this story were phenomenal. The Read More

Reflection: TED Radio Hour & ScottLo The audio for the TED Radio Hour was interesting compared to ScottLo. The TED Radio Hour had all these different elements within the audio. For example, the  different tone of voices was a brilliant thing to do because it keeps the audience engaged. Other things that I noticed included when Read More

Reflection: Glass & Abumrad If you ask several millennials they’ll probably tell you that the radio is not as relevant as it once was. This is because now-a-days many use other applications that provide them with what they want to listen to at that particular moment. However, hearing Glass and Abumrad talk about the radio with Read More

Daily Create #8 Hulka Selfie #ds106 #tdc1975 #tdc30day pic.twitter.com/kYnHD2QLtR — Camila (@cgarcia2580) June 6, 2017

Audio Assignment Week 3 – # 2 Favorite Song   http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-song/ I have listened to this song a thousand or so times. It has the weirdest lyrics and I have to say that I love each one. To create this, I just followed the advice on this page and looked around through several different songs. Some […]

Ira Glass opined that the building blocks of storytelling are: 1) Anecdote – a sequence of actions in which one action leads onto another. He noted that in good anecdotes the storyteller uses bait to constantly raise questions that the storyteller answers, which raises more […]

Audio Assignment Week 3 – # 1 Reverse Audio Quiz  http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/reverse-audio-quiz-2/ This, this is a song I’m sure so many of you have heard. Whether on youtube, in a store, or just staring into the abyss wondering why you’re listening to this song. I’ve had this song since middle school, where I had been very […]

This week I think went better than last week. I feel that I was better prepared for the assignments and I knew more of what I was doing in regards of the actual blogging. This weeks main focus was on the design of things and I feel that I was better at the design of...

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Let us take a look at some designs of ads. While all ads are designed for the same purpose, to sell their product, not all ads go about this endeavour in the same way. Some use the concepts of comparing their product to another, others like to be very minimal in their design because they...

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Reflection on Vignelli Canon: http://mbarnes1503.umwblogs.org/2017/06/02/reflect-on-the-vignelli-canon/ For this assignment, I reflected on how I felt concerning Vignelli’s view on what went into design and what was necessary for it to be succesful and effective. . http://mbarnes1503.umwblogs.org/2017/06/03/my-week-in-a-design-blitz/ For this design blitz, I had to take a number of pictures of different things I... Read more"Week 2 Summary"

Reading through Vignelli’s Canon showed me a good bit more than I had originally thought about when it came to what goes into design. Usually when I think about design I only think about the basic concepts of color, shape, size, and wording, when Vignelli describes all the concepts of design in concise detail I...

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This was a very busy week. There was a great deal to learn and ample opportunity to push myself way out of my comfort zone. My posts this week consisted of: Reflection on the Vignelli Canon:   http://salukizim.com/weekly-summary/reflection-on-the-vignelli-canon/ DesignBlitz: http://salukizim.com/pictures/design-blitz-challenge/ Daily Creates: https://twitter.com/GeorgeWZimmerm2/status/869720013518798848 https://twitter.com/GeorgeWZimmerm2/status/870050371519086595 https://twitter.com/GeorgeWZimmerm2/status/870707736006115328 […]

I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do for this one so I just went simple with it. Sometimes you just have to keep it simple, or take a walk, just feel the ground beneath you.   Feeling the grass between my toes. #ds106 #tdc1973 pic.twitter.com/Gdaja01VIG — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 4, 2017

I have always found motivational posters, or more often seen, demotivational posters as a really entertaining form of media. For this assignment worth three stars I had to design a motivational poster around an image. So I chose an image based on something that happened in the last session of D&D that I played. My...

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This was an interesting Animated GIF to create. At first, I created my two contradicting thoughts using Power Point. I saved the two slides as JPG files. Then using the tutorial posted on the USMAN Ownz Blog, with a one major modification I was able […]

For my second animated gif assignment, I chose to make a gif of someone celebrating too early. I could only think of sports things for celebrating too early so I went over to Youtube to search for some sports players failing at the last moments, and I found this video of some early celebrations. I...

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For the mandatory design assignment we had to take an image that we have and change it to be something else. The original image is of me and my brother during Christmas many years ago. The image I used to change it is of snow covered mountains. The reason I did it this way is because...

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This was challenging! Thank goodness for the tutorials. I ended up purchasing Adobe Photoshop to make this first animated GIF. For my subject I recently received a video from a friend of a crazy cockatoo that loves to dance to Elvis tunes. I picked about […]

Assignments: Reflection on the Vignelli Canon Design Blitz Daily Creates TDC1969 TDC1970 TDC1971 TDC1972 Design Assignments Are We There Yet? Honest Video Game Cover Contradiction Creation Minimalist Movie Poster Computer Book for Kids Animated Gif Assignments Sticky Note Animation – my personal favorite of the gif assignments Goof Gif This week was tough. There was a … Continue reading Week 2: Design… is hard.

Full disclosure: I waited way too long to do this blitz. I actually ended up staying home every day this week, so what I ended up doing is turning to one of my all-time favorites… looking at magazine ads. After all, what good is an ad if it looks bad? The design elements that I’ll … Continue reading So much design, so little time.

For one of my animated gif assignments I chose to do the three star assignment, where you combine a gif of Clint Eastwood with another to make something funny. I combined the Eastwood gif with a gif of Ryan Haywood from Achievement Hunter. The gif of Ryan always makes me laugh. It’s apparently making fun of...

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This week was definitely more challenging for me than last week. However, I also enjoyed the assignments a little more than I did last weeks. The Vignelli Canon was actually a very interesting read for me. I have enjoyed photography for many years, but I mostly took pictures because the subject appealed to me or …

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I’ve got my head in the clouds… or does it just look that way? @ds106dc #tdc1973