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Archive for January 2015

Life on the Beach

Growing up in Miami has its pluses… Jota is right on the beach in his Florida home. For this visual assignment, I had to take a photo and use an app to crop me somewhere else. I also decided to make this assignment for my character, Jota.

Jota took a …

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Visual Assignment- 3 Frames of Love

This visual assignment was to find 3 pictures that defined love.  For this assignment I used one of the first pictures ever taken of my husband and I.  Then I used our wedding photo and I finished up with a photo we just took in May of our family.

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Thirsty?

For this Visual Assignment,you had to take the last three objects you had your last three drinks in and arrange them in a pyramid, then telling a story about the three objects. Here are my three:Classics, huh? Hahah so let me tell you bout my night last night…

Its …

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Pants?

My Professor has been hiding his location, not just from me, but the entire ds106 community. Even Jim Groom doesn’t know where he is… Somewhere in the Pennsylvania mountains.  We need to find his location to make sure he is wearing pants, (inside joke) right Jim? This is my second …

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Seeing Light Through the Darkness

When scrolling through the assignment bank this week, I didn’t have to look far in order to find one that piqued my interests.  I’ve mentioned before that I’ve had to read a lot of children’s books, being a father.  So I immediately thought of those books, and how my child …

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Telling a story with Pixels – Photoreflection

Photography has always been a part of my life because of my dad. He has been a photographer for a majority of his life as a hobby and has a lot of knowledge about a wide array of photography topics. We actually have a photo-studio in our basement at home …

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“Your face is going to stay like that!”

I’m not super big into photography. I can appreciate beautiful photos, and I know how to compose something technically good, but I tend to not really care. When I take photos, I use my phone and I capture a moment. Most of the time, it’s selfies. I tend to have …

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I watched Killer’s Kiss and Chinatown in order to get more of an idea of noir this week.

I watched Killer’s Kiss first, and I am really happy I that I did watch them in that order, since this movie is older than Chinatown. I felt like the cinematography in …

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