design safari collage- March 5, 2013

Here it is. My design safari collage that I created. I probably missed a picture or two when creating this, but it's difficult to keep track of everything that I've done in the last couple of days.

Minimalist Book Covers- 3 1/2 star rating ds 106 Feb. 26, 2013

Minimalist Book Covers - *** 1/2 (3 1/2 star rating)- Feb. 26, 2013

Compilation Album cover and song list. 2 star rating

This is my design for the compilation album cover design assignment on ds 106 ** (2 star rating). I know this is one of the lesser star rating assignments, but couldn't resist adding a touch of long forgotten wax cylinder records and 78's (my hobby).

Why did I write "The Joys of Digital Storytelling" on twenty 2 minute black wax cylinders? And what are cylinders, exactly?

Black wax cylinders (records) were just two minutes long with just enough room for the announcer to say who the artist was and the song title. In these very early days of making records Edison held the market along with others such as Everlasting, Oxford, Columbia, etc. And in order to make a series like that of a lecture, then one would need a lot of cylinder records on hand. Back in the day they even had home-recording equipment designed for these black wax cylinders. To my knowledge, Edison dropped the announcer sometime during 1909/1910. So if there are black wax cylinders that cut right to the song, that explains why. The announcer (I've read thus far) was Len Spencer, who was also a frequent artist on the Edison label. Now for the songs (and some of these I made up). Here's my list of ten:

"You'll Be Back" (You'll Come Back- Stella Mayhews Edison 2 minute black wax cylinder)
"Nobody Told" (Nobody Lied- Marrion Harris)
"Twiddles-two step" (Toodles- one step Lopez and Hamilton's Orchestra)
"The Joy of Digital Storytelling" (Around the World on a Phonograph, 2 minute black wax cylinder, Thomas Edison)
"No! We Have No Homework" (Yes! We Have No Bananas- Billy Murray)
"ds 106 blues" (St. Louis Blues- Al Bernard, Edison Diamond Disc)
"The digital hour" (The Wooing Hour- Edison Diamond Disc)
"Yesterday in the computer lab" (Last Night On The Back Porch I loved her best of all- Fox Trot)
"That's a lot of art, damn it!" (That's a lot of Bunk Fox Trot- Ernest Hare and Billy Jones)
"Jump drive shuffle" (Shuffle Along Medly Fox Trot- Edison Diamond Disc)

Snow day, Monday Feb. 25, 2013

This is just part of the Design Assignments my digital media 1 class is doing for (last week Feb. 20) and this week, if I read my assignment correctly. Since today was a snow day and the campus was closed, I decided to work on more of my Week 6 Design Assignments and have been super busy with the fifteen stars worth of design assignments. Most of them are harder than they appear, others only seem easy at first. I never did figure out how to create an animated comic book using a GIF. The last time I tried to follow GIF instructions on the internet, my computer was stricken with malware as a result. It was the most annoying time I spent with hijacked browers. I finally got that cleared up once the weather improved and was able to get the needed software to tackle that.

Instead of doing two daily creates like ususual, I did more than that, but wanted to wait and do some over the weekend as well before posting my daily creates, so here they are:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiquemystique/8501922943/in/photostream   Feb. 23, 2013

http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiquemystique/8499567154/in/photostream Feb. 22, 2013

http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiquemystique/8496943882/in/photostream  Feb. 20, 2013

I've also been tagging on the design safari on part of this week 6 ds 106 assignment. However, it took me some time to figure out how to use the document to add in my Twitter handle and upload my flickr photos to the assignment. I listed mine under the "found examples" of color, metaphors/symbols, minimalism/use of space and form/function/message.

And while I was doing my fifteen stars worth of design assignments, I was unknowningly tagging them as "designblitz" instead and thought that these were part of the design safari. I reviewed the other examples submitted by others on the ds 106 website and stayed up late to post a few of my own. Since I'm snowed in I had to rely on stuff in my own environment for the time being and the assignment was confusing me at first. I have not officially turned in this design safari week 6 assignment yet, because I might find more found examples to add to the list. Plus, I'm not sure how many from the list we're supposed to find on the design safari or if its just a few, like four, for example. I've been keeping track of what I've submitted thus far for the design safari.

Carol Yeager's Iconic You Feb. 23, 2013 Design Assignment

Carol Yeager's Iconic You. Create an iconic image/design for your own site that somehow represents you.

What's In Your Head Design Assignment feb 23 2013

What's in your head? Design Assignment for ds 106 and part of the Design Assignment for digital media 1. Feb. 23, 2013

Minimalist TV/Move Poster- Dr. Who

Here's my minimalist TV/Movie poster for design assignments 43.

Weird Book Room Assignment- Design Assignments ds 106

A cover design of a book that might be found in the weird book room.

Ven Pop Culture Design Assignment 596 Feb. 23, 2013

Here's my Ven Pop Culture design that I did in Adobe Illustrator. I did it kind of fast without paying attention to editing the photos. However, I was amazed that I got the photos to overlap and blend. This is my take on pop culture of three early silent film comparisons: Buster Keaton's "The Garage", 1920, Harold Lloyd's "Get Out and Get Under", 1920, and Eddie Boland's, "Non-Skid Kid", 1922. I decided on this out of the many design assingments on ds 106 because it looked like a lot of fun to create and this for my recent assignment for my digital media 1 class "Design Assignments".

Merit-a-badge-daily create assignment

I did an extremely quick Merit-a-badge for a daily create assignment.

Write a poem on Twitter and tweet it out at 11 AM on Feb. 8th

I don't see the Daily Creates until well after 7 pm. Needless to say that this daily create didn't make it on Twitter at all, much less at 11 AM. I have to gather my stuff and head out the door. Therefore, I created something off the top of my head. Nothing special or unique. Missed the boat Forgot the Daily Create Don't check my email 'til very late Don't know the tags Seldom Tweet Can't go back to think This really isn't a poem Oh, well *shrugs* antique_mystique