I haven’t really been out much this week, so I have not seen any real signs that depicted the design principles.  So, plan b was to look around my house and my stuff and I actually did find some things! Typography The main effect of this design element is to show certain meanings just based on […]

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The presentation by Kelli Anderson was great. I truly enjoyed it. She brought up great points regarding how society takes in information. For the most part, people already have expectations when it comes to the basics of life. In one of Ms. Anderson’s projects, she created newspapers promoting a positive world full of peace and happiness that mimicked The New…

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As always, I start with the assignments I have completed. Daily Creates Five – Interesting photo of the light reflecting off a fixture on to the dining room ceiling. Six – Explain Twitter to someone 100 years ago. Seven – Not able to complete. Eight – Silly cow jokes. Also why seven didn’t happen. The […]

I first went about looking for objects  with my mind on positive aspects – what works for a particular object? Or at least, what has worked for me personally? I came up with my first 2 objects this way – my main monitor (a Samsung SyncMaster T22B350) and my current mouse (a Razer Naga 2014 […]

And now we have completed out second week! Thankfully, this one went a lot smoother than the first. I feel as though this week I had a firm grasp of how to complete assignment and post them correctly. I was actually able to relax and have fun with the assignments! The feedback that I have […]

Alright, y’all ready for some insane cheesiness? I’m sure that cows would be utterly shocked that people pasture up the opportunity to live in the wide open country and instead move into the city. Who wouldn’t want to milk all of the advantages of nature? I’m sure they would be sour with all of the insulting cow animations. Some of them probably […]

Color I am in New Orleans at the Essence Festival and they are promoting James Brown’s movie “Get On Up” and they had different images of James Brown. In front of one of his posters they had Ebony hair products and accessories in color that is I am assuming James Brown used on his hair. […]

This week my daily creates ranged from the creation of new laws to cow jokes. I have hyperlinked each daily create! I had a lot of trouble creating a new law because I felt like nothing that I created would work out but I am glad I chose that one and I loved the feedback I received. New Law Addition… Read more →

We are done with our second week! I almost can’t believe it! I feel like this week was so much easier and smoother than last week! I think a major part of that was that I could actually find that assignments this week and didn’t have to go searching for them for hours, but I […]

Design Assignment 1  Design Assignment 2 Design Assignment 3 TEDxPhoenix Response Comment Feedback Daily Creates: 1 2 3 4 Compared to last week, this week has been MUCH better since I know how to do everything for the most part. I think I’ve completed my assignment pretty well this week. I struggled a little finding […]

I actually didn’t receive that much feedback, but I do know that the one I really found helpful was the one left on my weekly summary for the first week. It was basically a helpful hint on how to find and save the assignment pages. I found that so helpful this week! It was so […]

These four elements are often the backbone of superhero origin stories – the film I chose for this assignment isn’t such an origin story, but it certainly contains these four elements, in that order. The protagonist is born to a loving family that is later torn away from him in a horrible accident (no, this is […]

Below are the photos I took on my design safari this week. The first photo comes from PetsMart. The color is a burgundy/beige color. That type of dim color could affect the customers mood by making them sad. I actually noticed that the cluttered aisle and bleak colors made me rethink my purchase. Also there is a very basic font with… Read more →

Okay so honestly, the only reason I did this daily create was because I needed to do one more and this was today’s. I didn’t really want to do it because I couldn’t think of a joke Cow’s would say about humans, so I sort of incorporated something that happened to me today. One of […]

Haha so I actually had some fun with this assignment because I was just randomly taking pictures in the metro stations and it was just really fun. Some of the girls here helped me decide which pictures to take and we just laughed the whole time. I hope you guys like the ones I chose. […]

This is perhaps one of my greatest pet peeves on the road – people who don’t use their turn signals. I’ve been driving for 5 years without any sort of accident happening to me or because of me, and I think at least 10% of that 100% success rate is because I LET PEOPLE KNOW […]

When I first read this assignment, i expected it to be really challenging. However after I began to look for different design elements, I found that it was actually quite easy to spot different elements in common signs or messages. The first design that I found represents a common symbol. For this class, it was stated […]

This talk was lead by Kelli Anderson. She is an artists and she talks about how she makes things and why she composes them the way she does. Anderson discusses how important the small things are. How we should take how things are normally portrayed and disrupt them. How we should take different types of media and reinvent them. For… Read more →

Summary of Week Two I felt as though this week went a lot more smoothly than the first week of class. Now, I check The Daily Create every day, looking for intriguing assignments, and I have also been listening to Scottlo’s podcast. I received a lot more feedback this week than the previous week, but […]

So there are two cows eating grass on a farm and two pleasantly plump people watching them. Girl 1: Wow look at how big those cows are Girl 2: Yeah I see, they look like they will make a nice meal Cow 1: Wow look at how big those cows are Cow 2: Shakes head   Here is the link… Read more →

[Courtesy of The Daily Create] “Today’s Daily Create assignment is: Write a Joke that a Cow Might Say About Us Humans” “Jokes on y’all!” Can also be viewed at: http://tdc.ds106.us/writings/jokes-on-yall/

“An avenue to “better” is through a million, teeny tiny disruptions, whatever is sitting in front of you.” “…that the world is full of order that doesn’t necessarily deserve our respect.” Those two quotes represent what stood out most to me from this speech – the core of the idea Kelli Anderson presents, the idea that […]

Well another amazing week has past in the ds106 Summer Bootcamp and I am surviving. Surviving so well in fact this class makes educational survival fun. We finally got down to the real creative process this past week with learning … Continue reading →

Reflection on Tedx Phoenix Talk: http://www.oaminzay.com/uncategorized/tedx-phoenix-talk-reflection-post/ Design Safari:  http://www.oaminzay.com/uncategorized/design-safari/ Design Assignments (I did four accidentally) 1# http://www.oaminzay.com/uncategorized/one-story-four-icons/ 2# http://www.oaminzay.com/uncategorized/the-big-caption-design-assignment-2/ 3# http://www.oaminzay.com/uncategorized/read-poster-design-assignment-3/ 4#http://www.oaminzay.com/uncategorized/cartoon-the-head-design-assignment-4/ Giving and Getting Comment Feedback: This week I made comments on both Sarah French and Anna Cotuna’s page.  On Anna Cotuna’s page I noted that I really like the use of her pictures for her design safari. […]

Today’s daily create is to create a joke that a cow would say to a human. Cow to Human: Got milk? *evil glare* Yea…don’t make a cow mad.  This reminds me of the time when our neighbor’s bulls got loose one day and they ran around terrorising the streets.  Talk about your local gang!

Or so says Monkey D. Luffy (pronounced Loofy) whenever asked about his goals in life. Assignment here. One Piece, an anime that many people love, isn’t really one of my favorite series, but it does have compelling characters, Luffy being one of them. He has a very straightforward goal in One Piece’s universe, but that […]

Skipping number 7 because I honestly wasn’t able to get TDC909 working. It definitely wasn’t a 15-20min assignment, after trying to first download the Beatles video, convert it to a format that video editing software (in this case Movie Maker) would accept, trying to find images of me to stick in the video or make […]

Today’s daily create was to write a joke about what a cow might say about humans? How many humans does it take to make a civilization?  7.174 billion, as they are still going strong!

I picked the character Tweety Bird because he is so adorable and when my daughter was a baby, she had Tweety Bird characters all over her room. I Thought it would be nice to name my book “Tweety – Learns How To Use A Computer to Tweet” :). It was pretty difficult, because I had […]