Here is my final project. I really enjoyed it and focused on revisiting some assignments I had enjoyed in the past. I may have taken the “story” aspect a bit too liter

ally but by picking a silent-era actor this was the only way I felt I could …

Here is my Tutorial for my Congratulations! It’s A… Err… assignment

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d here is my Tutorial for my Budding Entrepreneur assignment

I figured I could contribute the most to the ds106 universe by creating tutorials for assignments no one has ever done before (as I …

Here are my assignments for this week, and I created them all by myself!

I did the Budding Entrepreneur assignment I created here

This stemmed out of my love of cooking up (literally and figuratively) different product idea’s, and, as per usual, the final product doesn’t exactly match up to …

Here is my RemixThis post

And here are links to the 7 points of Mashups:

–Barking on Sunshine

–Upselling an Ibex

I chose to do a recycled media assignment separately here.

Here is my Remixed assignment, it was a lot of fun.

I have a feeling that …

For the Recycle the Media assignment, I took a video listing different words in “waterfall” form and tried to match up the words with corresponding images from discarded images. I then set the video to a mashed up song of sorts I found on the recycled media page.

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I saw the “Buffalax!” assignment and thought of one of my favorite foreign youtube videos “Arguing with an Ibex” and, using my best Windows Movie Maker caption skills, tried to portray the man attempting to sell the ibex an extended warranty (something I myself get frustrated …

I saw the “Local Commercial Mashup” and my mind immediately wandered towards those really sad SPCA ads, and I thought to myself, “why not make that a little more upbeat?” So I took an SPCA ad off of youtube, pulled it into MPEG Streamclip, deleted the audio files, …

I watched “Everything is a Remix” Part 1 and Part 3. The author presented an interesting argument about “remix” and how common it is, being the basis of most recent innovations. I guess the real issue for would-be remixers is to make their derivative work “substantially different.”

For examples …

For my final project, I’d like to focus on Buster Keaton. I watched a fair bit of his work in high school and was amazed at how humorous and relevant it still was. For anyone unfamiliar with h

is work, here is a compilation of …

15 stars worth of video assignments:

–You Shall Not Pass (5)

–Chaplin Foley Time (4)

–Anakin is Going the Distance (3)

–You Ate my Brownies Dave (3)

I think out of the above my favorite assignment was the “Return to the Silent Era.” I think scenes …

Joining the Conversation

For this assignment I picked a back-and-forth scene in one of my favorite movies, 2001: A Sp

ace Odyssey and I took the place of the HAL-9000 computer. I spliced the clip into much shorter pieces in Windows Movie Maker and the clips in which …

Watching Movies with the Stereo On

For this assignment I had an itch to use star wars. I pulled a clip off of youtube from the podracing scene of Star War

s episode 1 and found that it went surprisingly well with a “racing song” of sorts …

Charley Chaplin’s Foley Artist

For this assignment, I found a great clip of Charlie Chaplin at the Hotel Ev

ergreen on Youtube. I downloaded it, then removed the sound with MPEG Streamclip and played the video back with Audacity running so I could narrate his actions (I …

For my Storify assignment I decided to create a tribute to one of my favorite movies (the sequels haven’t aged as well), Back to the Future. I found Storify really intuitive and easy to use.

[View the story “Forward to the Past” on Storify]

Using the built …

For my Mainstream Chipmunk’d assignment, I decided to commit sacrilege and chipmunk the late Johnny Cash (I wondered how it would sound on a deeper voice) and the results don’t disappoint.

I pulled the song into Audacity and upped the pitch to the desired chipmunky-ness.

3/5 stars…

For my Movie Voice Machines assignment I tried my hand at a Yoda impression.

I tried to keep it short and sweet, my Yoda voice tends to break down over time. This was a pretty standard process recording of recording in Audacity and cleaning it up with the Noise Removal …

For my rendition of Seuss It I picked a childhood favorite of mine, Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

As far as the process is concerned, I found the text of the book online and read it one run through Audacity. I the ran the noise removal application to …

For my Jingle Jangle I decided to embody some Christmas spirit into a favorite product of mine. Nutella is a healthy part of any balanced diet (until they got sued for saying that). Regardless, its delicious, especially so on a frosty morning.

I reworded a verse from “Walking …