Posts by hungrymax
Week Eight Summary
This week involved looking at and playing off of other students’ work. I submitted four examples of work I admire to the ds106 inspire site. I spent the bulk of my time working on 10 stars’ worth of “collaborative” assignments, somehow involving both mine and someone else’s character. So I …
Read More“Collaborative” Assignment: Unusual Superhero
Stars:
This assignment asked us to write an origin story for an unusual superhero. I turned this into a collaborative assignment by continuing the story from the role-playing assignment, and having mine and Stephanie’s character play a role in the birth of The Clown.
The day his father …
Read More“Collaborative” Assignment: Role-Playing.
Stars:
This assignment started you off with a story about a clown. I turned this assignment into a collaborative one by having the clown get murdered and having Stephanie’s character, Emma Marie Callaghan, investigate the murder. As you will soon see, it also involves my character, though Emma doesn’t …
Read More“Collaborative” Assignment: Movie Review
Stars:
I’m turning this movie review writing assignment into a collaborative by writing it in the voice of my character, after he’s watched a movie about Spencer’s character, Donnie:
So I’ve started this thing, this blog thing. I don’t know many people here in the city, and Bill down …
Read MoreDaily Create 3/11/15: Favorite Moment
This photograph is an abstract representation of my favorite moment this week (so far). What was the moment? That’s none of your business
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Read More“Inspired”
This week we were asked to look over our fellow students’ work and write a SEPARATE blog post about each, DETAILING why they “inspire” us, and submit them to the ds106 Inspire Site. Well first of all, you can’t assign inspiration, you can’t force inspiration, and you can’t grade inspiration. …
Read MoreDaily Create 3/10/15: My Different Sides
I used photoshop to create this composite self portrait.
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Read MoreWeek Seven Summary
This week my group completed our DnD-noir themed radio show for ds106radio, for which I created commercial bumpers. It can be found on soundcloud. I made commercials that related to our storyline, much in the style of Prairie Home Companion, at least one of which is quite noir-ish. I used …
Read MoreWeek Five Summary
This week was focused on design. I took to the streets Monday night to complete the “designblitz” and captured some examples of effective and less-than-effective signage. Then I read through and thought about the Vignelli Cannon, a sort of design guidebook written by a master in the field. We watched …
Read MoreDaily Create 2/15/15: Food Jewelry
today’s daily create was to create some jewelry using real food. I made this one out of unraveled paracord and a raw egg. Spring is just around the corner, and the egg symbolizes spring, birth, and life. The egg rests in a loose and frazzled hammock symbolizing the fragility of …
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