Well, I fee like if I explain this, then it loses it’s meaning. I’ll tell you that I tried really hard to do Eye of the Beholder, but couldn’t come up with anything. Two and a Half Stars! Owners of … Continue reading →

I’m not the largest connoisseur of poetry, though I did take an Art of Literature course with our Pulitzer Prize winning professor before she won any major awards. She even read over some of my poetry. I like to tell people … Continue reading →

I even went with the Deep Field photo from the assignment prompt, because I love the deep field photo. It’s something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about. It’s the closest most of us will get to Time Travel. … Continue reading →

  Bumper Sticker Difficulty= 3.5 stars I made this bumper sticker based off of the “Midnight Sun” episode of the Twilight Zone series.  I took a picture of the thermometer and coupled it with the slogan or tag-line of the bumper sticker.  I think that bumper sticker relates really well back to the theme of the ...

I did this assignment for a number of reasons, but mostly because only one other person has done it and it’s one-star, so it’s unlikely anyone else will. I thought it might be fun to up the game a little. … Continue reading →

Create A READ Poster Difficulty= 4 stars Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell reading books as cool by showing celebrities reading their favorite books. You can read about the history of this promotional campaign here. Experiment with this tradition, introduce a celebrity with a book who hasn’t been recognized yet, but ...

Scott LoDown 005: This podcast talked a bit about participation and the comments that have been flying around the blog. It was discussed that your site should not be generic, because that is your only way of being known in … Continue reading →

The elements of design surround us no matter where we go; we are constantly being reminded of the design choices of others by observing the world around us. Where as a design is the overall function of a piece of … Continue reading →

So I needed one more star to finish my audio assignments for the week and it had to be related to The Twilight Zone.  I was looking around at the 1 star assignments not really finding any that I could … Continue reading →

Thoughts & Ideas Scottlo Cast: See my reflections here! Creative Commons: I thought that I had CC all figured out until Jim Groom encouraged me to look at the criticism of the Creative Commons. There is so much more than meets the eye. You can find my review of the Creative Commons here! Design Safari: ...

  I created this One Story Four Icons image about the Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun.” The image of the woman represents Norma and her feeling very hot and as though the world was about to melt. Then the image of her dreaming is a representation that the world melting was in fact a dream. ...

Week 2 Summary We got to watch some great Twilight Zone episodes this week which were, “Time Enough At Last” “The Eye Of The Beholder” & “The Midnight Sun” Scott’s Lo Down during Week 2- People complained about the substance in the earlier podcast which wasn’t an issue for me but it did really start ...

  I took this assignment (Deserted Island..) which was more asking whatI would take if I could take three things if I was stranded on a deserted island. I decided to put a twilight zone twist on things and come up with what Henry Bemis in the episode, Time Enough At Last may bring to ...

Week 2 Reflections So I dropped the ball big time and I listened and took notes on the podcasts but didn’t have time to post comments every night! Episode 7: The play idea sounds very interesting! I can see how it might become a large time commitment but I think the end result would be ...

  I did the assignment titled “Illustrate A Catchphrase” in order to fulfill both a design requirement for DS106, but also a twilight zone requirement. I took an image off of google images which was the result of my search “people holding bees” and decided to take the literal meaning of the cliche (or catchphrase) “beauty ...

It’s been 6 hours since @jimgroom was on twitter, something must be wrong.

We would have such a good friendship we would need a secret handshake like Troy and Abed from Community.

I decided to do a mashup for this audio assignment titled “Sardonic Mashups,” my first ever audio assignment, and my first ever mashup. The assignment was to use some sort of apology speech or something of the sort and add music to it to make it funny(?). I transferred the youtube video of Anthony Weiner’s ...

Creative Commons is an organization that describes itself as “a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.” They offer copyright licenses to those who wish to share their work with the … Continue reading →

To my understand, we are protected as a class because we are producing works for educational purposes and not for profit but we must always credit the source. Something along the line as a simple sentence like, “All right belong to so and so…” I got a better understanding about both copyright and CC in ...

The manipulation of color here gives off a euphoric/ psychedelic feeling. The pattern gives off a rhythm like the groove in a head-nodding record. The symmetry gives good balance to this photo. Section of churches tend to always have good balance....

This book is a sci-fi version of Moby Dick, where instead of a vast ocean and a whaling ship, the story takes place in a wasteland of illogical and dangerous train tracks called the Railsea. In this version of Moby … Continue reading →

    I did the assignment titled “Cartoonize Bubba (or Fluffy)” which required me to “cartoonize” my favorite pet. This is a goat that lived on my property in Africa when I was abroad there. I used the recommended site BeFunky to make the original more clear and to cartoonize it. Then I used fotor to create a ...

So this week Jim asked us to go on a “Design Safari” to learn more about the concepts of design that DS106 encompasses.  Below are my four examples of: form/function, unity, typography, and color. I found my design elements and … Continue reading →

Daily Create #510 In the sequel we discover that the catastrophe was caused by a radioactive explosion. As a bizarre response to the radioactivity in the air the books begin to speak for themselves. Bemis need only open to the correct page and the book will begin to read itself. There is, in fact, time ...

So I based this audio assignment off of The Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun.”  The assignment was to create a fake 911 call which I did by myself on garageband. The actors are a skeptical operator and a victim of … Continue reading →

Daily Create #511 @IamTalkyTina wants to be everyone’s friend. Make a photo that represents that kind of friendship After a long work week Talky Tina and I like to unwind with a tequila shot! (For the record I am 21+) How would you celebrate your friendship?    

  I did the assignment titled The Ultimate Merger under the design section of the assignment bank. In this assignment we were to create a logo that merges two like companies or two ironic companies. I decided to merge the logos of the two leading coffee companies, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. Assigment difficulty: 3.5 stars Total ...

So this assignment was called “Taking Back Spam” and it was pretty simple: to find a piece of spam and read it out loud in our own way.  I added a little extra sentence at the beginning to convey my … Continue reading →

Taking Back Spam Find some spam. Could be email spam, could be comment spam, whatever you want. Read it aloud. Make it your own. Try to make sense of it or make it more absurd than it already is. This spam came from the comments section on my blog! Wow doesn’t Nike shoes sound AMAZING? ...