I was so inspired in the article when she discusses about her personal life and how technology really helped her. Her husband gets cancer and had to take care of her 12 year old son. She felt so alone and needed someone to talk about her problems. So she started up a blog. She felt … Continue reading "Key point in “Why a Domain of One’s Own”"

while looking over the article, beneath the cobblestones… A domain of one’s own by Audrey Watters, I was immediately hooked by her interpretation of innovation. she believed that “Perhaps because innovation is increasingly defined as something that comes from industry and not the university, something that is fostered in the private sector and not the … Continue reading "A domain of one’s own response!"

     While reading the article, Beneath the Cobblestone…A Domain of One’s own,  an idea Audrey Watters mentions which stood out to me is about technology and magic. She states, “What’s magic: the ability to connect to other people — and connect in deeply meaningful ways — even though separated by physical space.” She shared … Continue reading "RESPONSE: A Domain of One’s Own"

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pop-star-out-of-place/ The Ds106 project I would like to do is the pop star out of place one, to do this you will need a photo editor.  Then cut out the background by cutting around the person then pasting the cut out onto another completely different picture.  The link to this assignment is above. Tweet Share … Continue reading "Pop star out of place"

My Ds106 assignment is based on the link below, I really enjoyed making gifs and i thought it would be very cool to show the emotions one goes through when coffee prices are raised. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ds106-reacts/   Tweet Share on Tumblr

In class I edited this picture using photoshop. I decided to use Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones. I used these two characters because they never met on the show and I really want them to because they’re my two favorite characters.What I did was cut out Daenerys from her background by … Continue reading "Photoshop In Class"

I am almost embarrassed to share this. I really want to. For the first time in my life I tried creating a Gif Through Photoshop. To be honest Photoshop is a pretty intimidating tool that I feel is best left in the hands of professionals. However throwing all caution to the wind I decide to … Continue reading "My First Time…"

I found a really cool animated Portrait project on tumblr that I think would be really fun to make. I’d use some of my favorite authors for this. Edgar Allen Poe and maybe some H.P. Lovecraft.  I’d like to remake some portraits of them to reflect the titles of these stories. This would be the … Continue reading "Prospective Project"

I used an app called imgPlay to make this gif. This is something I hear all the time within my friends, family and including myself. Working out and eating right are two things some people always talk about doing but never do it. Hopefully, next summer will be the year my body will be on … Continue reading "A little humor"

I actually did this using an app I found in the App Store; the name to be exact is the glitch.er. I enjoy creating or editing pictures and videos of nature and animals.           img_2701 Tweet Share on Tumblr

I’m the type of person who has extremely vivid dreams, call me Lovecraft. I decided to combine two assignments from DS106. Take any image and change the color & Write about a dream. My dream was long and extremely confusing because it consisted of other dreams, apparently I was having an Inception moment. I was … Continue reading "Mr. Sandman"

This is a tutorial which serves as an introduction to Photoshop which will allow you to complete a couple different assignments from the ds106 repository – Pop Star Out of Place and I’m Ready for My Closeup. With the help of the class we chose the pop star assignment and yes someone encouraged the use … Continue reading "By Request…"

Assignment: Motivational Poster My mother once told me that a hungry woman is not a free women. What she meant was that she had been fasting all day and it was almost time to break there for she had not time or energy to focus on any words coming out of my mouth. Which I … Continue reading "Motivational Poster"

I set myself on a quest this past weekend. The goal was to make one of my favorite Korean dishes that contained many nutritional and Beauty  benefits. What is this dish? Kimchi What is Kimchi? Kimchi is  Korea’s national dish. Kimchi is considered any kind of fermented vegetable. The more familiar version of kimchi is … Continue reading "Activity for the Weekend…"

After taking a shower and blowing out my au naturale black hair, I decided to create this GIF by taking a fierce selfie with my Samsung cell phone. I edited the photo by using the Gallery’s built-in Vintage effect. Next, I used the Glitch! app, which I downloaded using Google Play. I used the 3D and Animation options simultaneously, then … Continue reading "Life’s a Glitch!"

This was the original photo I used from the anime Your Lie In April. I had a good time using the apps from my phone to kind of mess around with the photo. It was interesting and I just picked what I liked the best. This one I used an app called “Color Recolor” I … Continue reading "Digital Color Messing Photo"

A few things stood out to me while reading Beneath The Cobblestones… A Domain of One’s Own. They mentioned how having your own domain isn’t just a blog. How it offers more than the traditional learning system and how to control your own digital identity. Two quotes which I took from the reading which caught … Continue reading "A Domain of One’s Own"

For this DS 106 assignment I had to edit a picture so only one part of it has color and the rest is in black and white. Hence the name of the assignment Color Splash. I started off by obtaining a picture from the web, which I got a photo of Daenerys Targaryen from one … Continue reading "Color Splash Daenerys"

After reading Domain of one’s own I now understand a little more of the concept. I thought it would be really helpful towards incoming freshman’s to be able to look at something like this as a guideline on how college is suppose to be and how to improve academically (the way they should right essays, … Continue reading "Review time"

l3D images are really cool and brings me back to my childhood. I remember going to the movie theater and watching 3D movies (Jurassic Park). They look so real and life-like that it seems you’re in the movie with them. I really wanted to try this, but most times it was done on photo shop … Continue reading "3D fun!!"

After watching Beneath the Cobblestones, “A Domain of One’s Own” I learned why having a domain of your own is important. Number one reason why is because you create your own personal space. Creating a domain allows you to create whatever you want on your website. She talks about how blogging helped her get through a rough … Continue reading "Privacy"

i download  a app called Glitch! its a very interesting app  which customizing pictures in all types of different ways  like 3D ,Wave,Paintbrush,pixel,scanner,Ghost, the list goes on. I really like how the app works in Glitch  ,it makes you do so many things ,even thou some features are in app purchases ,but it  fun to … Continue reading "Smartphone Tools"

It is a given that in the future technology will pervade the currently untouched parts of our life and existence. It is either incredibly exciting or unbelievably scary depending on your point of view. Here’s peek into Ab’s life of the future.

So earlier I posted my first ds106 assignment and I chose Create a Movie Barcode, which was fun! Then I stumbled across a submission by Kenny Campbell, which was to create and print a 3D vehicle. What?!! I would absolutely love to learn how to do that. I know it would be a lot of … Continue reading "3D Printing"

So Art is my life…I’ve been drawing and painting, creating and innovating since I was 7 years old. There is nothing that has had more of an affect on me than the beauty and freedom that is translated through art. Food comes in second on my happy list but …that’s not the point. Music, dance, … Continue reading "Dope art makes Me HAPPY…"

So I chose 3 different pictures to edit using photo apps I downloaded on my phone. One picture is of my kitten Simba, I edited this picture by using the app PhotoLab. Using that app I was able to add a special background to my picture, so Simba is on all the big TV screens … Continue reading "Photo App Edits"

I want to learn how to add myself in a gif, if that is even possible. I don’t know much about digital storytelling, this is all new to me. I never understood any of it, so this is something very interesting to me. I hope I will learn how to do this because the younger … Continue reading "What I want to learn"

After reading Audrey Watters’s presentation: Beneath the Cobblestone…A Domain of One’s Own, I was able to point out the important things she stated in her reading. There was couple of interesting things that I read from her reading. One thing that caught my attention from the reading is that when you try deleting something from the web … Continue reading "A domain of one’s own: Reflection"

Now that I am starting to get the hang of how to do this, ai am really enjoying it. I am findingbout yhat the more time I put into it, the better I am beginning tobunderstand it and exactly what I am doing. Ivstill have a couple of little qwerks to work out but I … Continue reading "Beauty at its best"

Use the HTML <img> tag to add an image (including animated GIFs) to a comment. Copy and paste the code below into the comment field. Then replace the – URL of an image – text with a URL. Be sure to keep the quotes around the URL. Try it in the comments! [crayon-57d84f39131c9070530760/] Tweet Share … Continue reading "Add GIFs to comments?!"