I really appreciate the examples that are relate-able, and bringing up Little Big Planet to emphasize user driven design and content really grabbed my attention. Another game that succeeds in doing the same thing, being more accessible  and on a larger scale is Minecraft. These types of digital environments help to drive the need to share with ...

I found the episode, “The Invaders,” of the Twilight Zone to be freakin hilarious! I miss my childhood when Dubstep didn’t exist. I used MPEG Streamclip to trim my scene, exported it as images, imported in GIMP as layers, scaled images, and saved as .GIF. BAM!

  This is my daily create from 5/23/13. It expresses good times. This particular photo shows me and my siblings smiling after I got home from school from the summer.

  What do I have to say about..  Gardner Campbell’s essay and video The impossible is what the brain tends to struggle grasping. The ideas that are beyond an individual’s knowledge create this atmosphere that they are unable to accomplish it or it is just that, impossible.  Our world struggles with this concept, of thinking ...

  OMG!!! I just learned how to create my very own GIF!!!!!!! I am so proud of myself!  Ididnt even know what a GIF was and I just made one for the Twilight Zone: Invaders! I am honestly so amazing with myself!! This is such a simple thing to do! I thought was going to ...

Interesting that the concept of the audio portion came to fruition in Scott’s head at 5 am. I don’t think I could operate at such a time. Good stuff!

Episode 5 Reflection I found today to be especially helpful because I was able to directly communicate with Scottlo through twitter afterwards along with TinaTalky. I really appreciated the help with setting up my blog! I also benefited from the 6 Pointers for Newbie Bloggers. Listen to the podcast here! Episode 6 Reflection I liked ...

Michael Wesch’s Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: New Learning Environments for New Media Environment Reflection For this assignment I am focusing on what I consider to be three of his biggest points in his lecture: Media changes relationships Simple individual actions can become global actions The potential for global collaboration I was moved when he mentioned that technology ...

This week I had a lot of trouble. I am not familiar with photoshop or flickr or any of the things we used so it definitely took me a while to get everything figured out. For the design assignments I did 4 seperate assignments. the assignments I did for this were: celebrity life worth 2 stars […]

Here is my very first daily create. We had to take a picture from a different point of view. This point of view is pointing down from the cieling, watching my do my DS106 work! http://flic.kr/p/emDAsM

Nuala says happy birthday to the “Today’s Daily Create” It is the 500th Daily create! http://flic.kr/p/enUfH4

This is my 3rd daily create. I took a picture of my dog Nuala, because I feel like she is the perfect example of carefree fun! http://flic.kr/p/epZvMb

This is my daily create number 4. In this photo, I had to take a picture of something old and new of the same object. The first thing that came to my mind was to take a picture of an old piece of fruit and a new piece, but we had no old ones, so […]

Here is daily create number 5. I had to write my name only using my foot! This was very difficult and it looks really messy but it was so fun, I even had my whole family doing it! http://flic.kr/p/esbTi5

I made a GIF to represent the Twilight zone episode the Invaders. In this episode, the invaders are little action figures but actually turn out to be the US, and the person ends up being a giant! Threw a little twist in things, huh?! Here is a little animated GIF I made to represent the […]

  Take any person, thing, or animal and apply a cartoon character head to it. Be creative!   This is a compilation of an owl and the red angry bird! Enjoy!     http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8836070575/in/photostream/

http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc503/#comment-6551 Using your foot and a pen write out your name on a piece of paper (or heck an iPad   http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8836518822/in/photostream/

Can you  tell what movie this is? flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8835756043/ assignment details: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/one-story-four-icons/ The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your … Continue reading →

Holy cow am I tired! Sorry guys this is a late night post and I am just so tired! Listening to ScottLo as I type! I did a billion and one things! I went to get my Prom dress hemmed and had to pick out flowers! It is so stressful doing this stuff!! I had ...

assignment details: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/design-an-invoice/ Create an invoice for a transaction that has happened in a film, TV series, etc. This invoice is based on The Twilight Zone episode “The Invaders.”   http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8835499463/

  I found an awesome app for this assignment called Cut Me In.  Its free on the app store and there’s a pretty big variety of places to put yourself in.  Decided to crop myself into Madagascar to chill with some lemurs. Here is a link to the assignment. Difficulty: 3 1/2 stars

Assignment Details: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/minimalist-book-covers/     This book cover pays tribute to the twilight zone.

  Here is a regular Redbull. And voila!   A mega Redbull. Here is a link for the assignment. Difficulty: 2 stars

This is my Picasso Yourself photo.  If you were wondering, the title is a random ASAP lyric that gets stuck in my head.  I thought the alien space theme worked well with the paper smile I happened to find in my room.  My favorite part of the picture is the closet because it kinda looks ...read more

This is an old ad that I used Color Splash on! http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8834155266/   Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green … Continue reading →