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Mash It Up
For the third module, i chose to work with the Adaptations, Remixes, and Mashups module. This was an interesting choice for me because i’m not very good with GIMP and photoshop! We first began this...
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The Social Networks
this module was by far the most difficult module of them all. What did i know about network visualization? Really, almost nothing at all. I began this module by opening up the resource links that were...
View Article#ProgressivenotAggressive Reflection
For our first module, i chose to be a part of the “#trolling” channel. This sounded like the most fun module and i was really curious as to what my group could really do with it. The first thing we...
View ArticleA revised Programmer’s Guide
As a Communication and Digital Studies major, I have had time to reflect on the endeavors that I will embark on after obtaining my Bachelor’s degree. Across a variety of fields that I could potentially...
View ArticleFinal Project Proposal
Rationale I will be collaborating with Brian Goulet for The Big Project. We will be exhibiting a tour of campus in two fashions through song and video. Our song will be about the campus and the overall...
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Iteration: Remix, Mash-up
for my iteration project, i decided to continue with the module i previously worked on, which was remixes and mash-ups. The reason i wanted to continue this was because i seriously had a killer time...
View ArticleThe Big Progress Report
The project that was conducted by Brian Goulet and I, was one that took a lot of attention and effort and we both were putting more than we had originally expected it would take. In the beginning when...
View ArticleThe Big Reflection
Rationale I collaborated with Brian Goulet for The Big Project. We exhibited a tour of campus in two fashions through song and video. Our song is about the campus and the overall experience students...
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The First of Many
Lots of work! We’ve done a good amount of setting up for this semester already! Let’s start by talking about our statement of values. This was a very interesting assignment for our class to complete....
View ArticleMy Peripheral Vision
I was awarded the daunting task of teaching four chapters from our course’s reading The Peripheral by William Gibson. Randomly I was selected to teach chapters 49, 60, 72, and 114. All of the chapters...
View ArticleProgrammer’s Manifesto
As a Communication and Digital Studies major, I have had time to reflect on the endeavors that I will embark on after obtaining my Bachelor’s degree. Across a variety of fields that I could potentially...
View ArticleYou Can Feel It In Your Bones
For this Digital Deformance assignment, i struggled to think of a good way to digitally present Midnight Robber. About 4 or so days before our assignment way due, my idea finally hit me. The best way...
View ArticleMy Coding Environment
To set up my coding environment, I first downloaded Anaconda and the Python launcher. This was the main part of my configuration of my coding environment. I thought that my computer would be the best...
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The Breakdown
I was very interested in the journalism module, because journalism has been something that I have wanted to do for a very long time. The reason why it’s so special to me now is simply the fact that I...
View ArticleJournalism
For the third module I decided to join the journalism group. I thought that it would be rewarding if I looked into the side of journalism that is more in touch with social media. Journalism has always...
View ArticleNot So Revived Digital Identity
As the spring semester of 2016 comes to an end, I sit at my computer in the library studying. As I peruse my notes, my books, my texts, my canvas, I realize that one thing has not changed since the...
View ArticleDispatch from the dark: Audio layering
For this week’s dispatch, I made a video out of my Audacity window so you can see audio layering in action. Just like in Photoshop or GIMP, layering is where it’s at in Audacity. You can mute them and...
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Killer’s Moon
For our final live tweet-along, we had a double feature of The Killers and Moon Grafitti. Some of the participants had read Hemingway’s story, and were caught off guard by how much Siodmak’s version...
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Case file: The Cat Conundrum
In this file I will collate some of the evidence that has developed over the past few weeks, and list some of the questions that it raises. The cat appeared early on, but went unnoticed: I reported on...
View ArticleEvil editing
The story on Touch of Evil is that the movie studio took Welles’ film, re-edited it and re-shot some scenes. When Welles saw what they had done, he wrote a letter, 58 pages long, explaining what needed...
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Wanted: Kidnapper
Someone’s gotta get this guy. Someone who knows the true value of a dutch oven. I grabbed his picture from the video with MPEG Streamclip and trimmed out the background in Photoshop. I googled for the...
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Ready set design
Blade Runner has some fascinating set design. It seems like most science fiction up to that time either presented a clean futuristic utopia or a primitive post-apocalyptic dystopia. In Blade Runner,...
View ArticleDispatch from the Dark: Design
Wow, the sound came out bad on that one! I should have done it over, but I ran out of time. I mention The Non-Designer’s Design Book as another source for learning about design. Vignelli was writing...
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No wire hangers
We had a great live tweeting session last night with Mildred Pierce on DS106radio. Everyone seemed to be involved and enjoying it. A few things stood out to me. The first, as we have seen (heard...
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Big Mama
For our third listen-along session this week, we heard the Lux Radio Theater production of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious. This was a little different from our earlier shows. Except for Moon Grafitti,...
View ArticleCall me Jack
We had another great ds106radio listen and tweet session last night, this time with The Adventures of Philip Marlowe – Red Wind and a Mystery Playhouse tale of Jack the Ripper. I didn’t really preview...
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Tales from DS106
Jim wrote a bit about sharing comic books with his kids and talked about making an animated GIF out of one of the covers I want to have the dude who is buried alive slamming on the coffin, need to talk...
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Guardian of the galaxy
Groom wrote about his favorite Groom art, which included Sharla’s revisioning of I Am Legend. But since I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend, I had to interpret it differently. At first I...
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The mark of Cain
Inspired by Jim’s post from the other week, I picked up the EC Archives Crime SuspenStories Vol. 1. This volume contains the first six issues of the series, four of which feature stories indebted to...
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Home of Elvis and the Ancient Greeks
University of Memphis writing professor Sonja Livingston sent me this clip the other day, asking for my thoughts. She was actually interested in the singer, Valaida Snow, while I was curious about the...
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Haves vs Wants
NoirCat by Grant Potter and Talky Tina One of our ds106 Noirsters regrets missing last night’s broadcast: Gah, apparently I chose the wrong night to skip on the radio shows. Sorry, creators...
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Report from the field
cc2012 Roger from https://www.flickr.com/photos/71380981@N06/7692058706 As you know, I was away on a mission over the past week. My investigations took me to Portland, a town crawling with dirty...
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Commie?
I think some left-coast reporter has been casting aspersions on my character: #StirrupJack @phb256 Has a commie hoodie. Can’t even trust his briefing on Jack. #noir106 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/4uj4fE9Bvd...
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The Night Driving Killers
When I saw a screen shot of Night Driver it immediately made me think of the driving scene in The Killers that Jim giffed a while back. I started thinking about how to combine the two. You could use...
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Caution: Crawford
The Black Widow Agency has identified a connection between NoirCat and noir icon Joan Crawford. Caution is advised. No wonder NoirCat is in hiding.
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Noir-view mirror
I’m not sure where the knight fits into D’Angelo’s worldview, but that’s the part I’m going to play as I attempt to sidestep my recent lack of blogging and jump forward a couple steps. ds106 is always...
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dsnumber6
@Prisoner106 has proposed a Prisoner themed summer ds106 experience. I’m trying to think of how it might go. There are so many potential angles… The basic story, as I recall, is about a secret agent...
View ArticleNew Year, New Me!
Hello World! As of now my website is under reconstruction. My home page is still the place where I have my about me section, which I will be changing. I’m still trying to figure out how to make...
View ArticleHow Did We Get Here??
How in the world did we get to where we are now?! Going into the Animated GIF module I had no idea what to expect. What I think threw me off was using slack. I don’t say that with any ill intent or...
View ArticleRelevance With Today (Neuromancer Response)
The theme that was the most prevalent to me in Neuromancer was technology and freedom. The thought of cyberspace has a connotation with a space that is wide open and people are free to do whatever they...
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Explaining Neuromancer
For the Explaining Neuromancer assignment, my group decided to do a power point presentation that would be a story through gifs. We made a google doc and each made our own gifs in which we tried our...
View ArticleLabor Behind the Labor Module
To be honest, going into Module 2, I had no idea what to expect. My mind was all over the place coming out of the animated GIFs Module and starting over brand new. I scrolled through the Modules page...
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Slavery to Modern Technology
In class, my group was on the opposition side of the argument, which was to stop using technology that was produced through slavery. I personally chimed in with a thought about if it not be technology...
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Small Group Communication
Interestingly enough, I am enrolled in COMM 206: Small Group Communication, this semester. Throughout the development of the current semester we have been studying all of the components essential to...
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Map Quest
This was probably one of the most fun, but also exhausting projects I have ever done. From the first day it seemed like our group was destined for hardships. All of our screws for tiny and almost all...
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