It was a long grueling 7 hours, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Definitely the most fun and fulfilling projects to date, but it was a LOT of work. I learned a lot about audio editing, and I think my workflow would have been cut down to half the time or less if I had more experience or more expert skills to be more efficient.
As always, here are my daily creates for the week.
For today’s daily create I am ruining a book title by changing a single letter of the title. The book I am choosing to use is Moby Dick. Instead, the new title is Moby Sick. This new novel is about Captain Ahab’s adventure to discover why Moby is sick and what is causing his sickness. The captain goes through great lengths to study Moby’s behavior. The end of the novel is quite shocking, you don’t want to miss it.
As I look back at the week the first thing that stands out to me is the progress my group has made on the radio show. We have a couple of radio bumpers and introductions ready to pick from to incorporate in our radio show. All of our radio bumpers and introductions were made on audacity. We also talked about including ads in our show. We haven’t recorded anything yet, but our plan is to lay out all of our information we are going to talk about. Each person in the group is going to talk about their character and their day in the life as we all have different types of characters. Our plan is to use Audacity to record all our radio show. Audacity has been a great tool and I’ve started to like t more and more each time I use it. Creating the logo for the show was fun and interesting. Using design.com I messed around with numerous different color schemes, design layouts, etc… As far as weekly creates go my favorite would have to be todays daily create. I enjoyed creating a new design for a bicycle. I wanted to give my new design a futuristic look. Overall, this week was a lot of planning and prepping for next week. I am looking forward to next week. Until next time!
Saturday, I posted the promotional poster for the radio show group I made Friday. When I was making it on Friday I sent the picture to the radio show group for thoughts. I am not the creator of Dr. Ravioli, and I wanted the creator’s thoughts. Summers approved of the cat.
Mid-week it was brought to my attention I put the name of our radio show out of order. It is Ravioli Radio not Radio Ravioli. I edited my poster to put the name to rights.
On Friday I did a mad scramble to finish up my projects. I started the week so strong by getting work done and out of the way too.
This was the 1st Audio Assignment I finished a fictional ad.
This week was all about my group’s radio show, Aggressive Testimonials. This week was busy for all of my classes, so I was worried about completing all of this. Luckily I know more about audio and photo editing than I did during the last assignment so everything went smoothly.
This week was really cool because I got to start working on the radio show with my group. Our show is called “Logic Pod: The Tech Podium” and is all about discussing the good about AI and what it can do to move forward etc. Also, as I mentioned in my show update post, I have a great team with Robin, Melea, and Mustafa and I don’t think I could have asked for a better group. They have phenomenal ideas, and their characters will create some fun dialogue with mine. I am looking forward to recording with you guys next week.
This week I had to make a logo for our show, and I had a great time using Canva. That program is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it. Anyway, here is the post about my logo design.
This week I also made a new bumper for our show. I liked the one I did before for DS106, but I wanted to advocate for the show within the show. Idk why, just seemed fun. I also made a commercial for the site 3D AI Studio which was the program I had my character try to have Aggressive Technologies acquire last week. Thes audio assignments were fun because I got to go back into audacity after a few weeks of not using it. Here is my post about them.
I also did 3 TDCs this week. Not much to say other than it was really cool to look up dying languages and give them some representation. Here is my TDC post.
All in all, it was a very successful week. My group had some great collaboration and some great ideas, and I am looking forward to getting more work done on it next week.
This week was the start of our DS106 radio show group projects.
I went into the majority of the process in the Radio show progress post below. The main thing we did was get together on Discord to figure out which narrative direction we wanted to take the show, and what to complete for week 1.
As an addition to this post, I just wanted to mention that we’re thinking of taking the podcast into a different direction, where the recording process would not be as much of a hassle. I will document this more in the week 2 post if we decide to go with it. We may not be directly having a dialogue with each other, rather, we may have our own segments and splice those together, but we would still be reacting to the other participants.
For the design assignment, I decided to make a poster for our podcast.
These were relatively quick and easy to make, but I know that we’re gonna have to make a lot more of the audio transitions and background sounds to fill the show, so that’ll be a challenge for next week. I especially liked writing the script for the Hwei commercial to sell AI augmented body parts, and I think we’ll be doing a lot more of that scriptwriting in our actual show.
And of course, here are my daily creates for the week summed up in a neat package.
All in all, this wasn’t a crazy busy week, but I know that next week will be one of the most hectic in all of DS106 history, as we’re all going to be scrambling to finish our radio shows.
Creating the promo poster was the most fun of the week. Before uploading a Google image into Adobe Firefly, I attempted to AI generate an image of a dark-haired woman in a recording studio with an orange cat in the room. The generated imaged were not my vision for the poster and were cartoonish. It worked better to edit an image that I liked, by typing in separate commands to add elements Radio A.T. Promo: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com).https://mashable.com/review/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses
My post on our group’s progress for the radio show is sitting here at Groupie Experience: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com). A new radio bumper was uploaded Bumper Wk 9: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com). My only struggle this week was that my Premiere Pro was locked up and would not play. It took a chunk of time Tuesday night, but I figured out how to change the dashboard display panel, then I shut it down. When I re-opened it, I was back in business.
Looking back at this week it was definitely a short one. I felt like I was able to complete my work in a timely manner. The three daily creates I did for the week were fun and interesting in my opinion. My favorite would have to be the one about something we can’t go a day without. I felt like everyone could relate to this daily create. I said my addiction was coffee. I always have a cup in the morning, as it helps me get through the day. I feel a good amount of people definitely could relate to a coffee addiction as it is essential for me and others. For my AI proposal to Aggressive Technologies, I chose to go with Gemini. Gemini is a text AI by google that provides a large amount of publicly available data and can communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of questions. I chose to use Gemini because I have used this AI in the past and it is easy and simple to use, so I thought it would be a perfect fit for Aggressive Technologies. For my radio show I am working with Jackson Beale and Andrew Johnson. Our show’s objective is to talk about the day in the life of our AI created characters for DS106. I am excited to work with them to give an inside scoop of our three different types of characters. I’m eager to get a start on our show and look forward to the results. Overall, this week was short but intriguing. I’m looking forward to week 9. Until next Time!
So, this week was kind of tough for me because I was out of town for work. I would leave my room at 6am and I wouldn’t get back until about 7pm so very night I had to scramble to do the daily creates and other class assignments before the deadlines. That was an interesting challenge to navigate. I was glad this week was light on the work so I could get everything done, despite having to do some of it in an airport. That was a new experience for me so I’m glad I got to do it.
So, the first thing I did was the daily creates. I was worried I wouldn’t get these done because of the time difference and I didn’t know how they would be counted if I missed the mark. I feel like i did them on the right days, but I’m not so sur since my computer time didn’t change with the regional time. Here was my post about them.
I also wrote my character’s proposal for an interesting AI tool that could generate models form words or images. This was interesting since I didn’t really see the value in the tool outside of toy making until I got into my character’s head and thought a bit more critically for the future of the tool. Kevin’s optimism for AI is making me think differently and I kind of enjoy that. Here is his proposal to Aggressive Technologies.
I also joined a group with Robin, Mustafa, and Melea for the radio show project. Our show is called “Rikaro’s Thoughts – Featuring….”. We will put in the character names when the group is finalized, I’m pretty sure. I thought this would be good because I feel my character is highly opinionated on AI and a forum to discuss his thoughts is exactly what he wants. To get his voice out there and recruit for his cause. He is confrontational so this will be interesting. We intend to communicate through text and email and discord to work together to make a great show. I can’t wait!
So, overall, this was a successful week. It was rough trying to get the stuff done while traveling, but I managed, I think.
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