1. Mai

    1 Quote a Day

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    I read quotes daily since i follow accounts that tweet quotes everyday :)Here is a happy quote of the day.JustWannaSayItJust Wanna Say Itā„¢Happiness is a perfume. You cannot spread on others without getting a few drops on yourself, so always be happy ...
  2. Kozue Miura

    Visual Assignments 24

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    Assignment: Troll QuotesI found a picture of Harry Potter and thought that it would be funny if I combined it with instruments of Sailor Moon.It was my first time to use Photoshop so? my friend helped me with it.So I cut image of the stick first, and...
  3. Kozue Miura

    Visual Assignments 24

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    Assignment: Troll Quotes



    I found a picture of Harry Potter and thought that it would be funny if I combined it with instruments of Sailor Moon.
    It was my first time to use Photoshop so my friend helped me with it.
    So I cut image of the stick first, and replaced it to Harry's right hand.
    Then I delited his part of fingers to make it as he is holding the stick.
    I did the same process for his tiara.
    Finally I used Aviary Tool to add the quote from Sailor Moon.


  4. Erin Carroll

    Commenting

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    If I haven't commented on your blog, I'm terribly sorry. Once I'm finished peeling back my fingernails (AKA writing a presentation for a 12-page paper, finishing aforementioned 12 page paper, then finishing 3 - five page papers, plus readings, my job a...
  5. Erin Carroll

    Commenting

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    If I haven't commented on your blog, I'm terribly sorry. Once I'm finished peeling back my fingernails (AKA writing a presentation for a 12-page paper, finishing aforementioned 12 page paper, then finishing 3 - five page papers, plus readings, my job a...
  6. Miyuki

    Google Translate Fail

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    Google Translate Fail by Steven Q. Dangerfist from ds106Personally, I do not use Google Translate because it is really bad :(But when I tried to translate the lyric "You Raise Me Up" by Celtic women, I wanted to make sure if my understan...
  7. Miyuki

    SongStory: Audio Assignment

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    This is SongStory from ds106.The direction of the assignment is:My memories fade over time, but sometimes there is a song that can take me back to a place that revives the memories of my past. The song allows me to remember things I thought I had forg...
  8. Mayu K

    I hope I "Haiku it up"ed.

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    ds106      Haiku it upboushi  mom will get angry. I'm told not to buy them, but ...i love them so much.  ? some of my hats I wear in winter.For some reason,I LOVE hats.I'm somewhat addicted to them.I don't...
  9. Mayu K

    I hope I "Haiku it up"ed.

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    ds106      Haiku it up


    boushi

     mom will get angry.
     I'm told not to buy them, but
     ...i love them so much. 



     

    ← some of my hats I wear in winter.


    For some reason,
    I LOVE hats.
    I'm somewhat addicted to them.
    I don't remember when this began,
    but when I realized,
    I was surrounded by hats.
    While my friends check out the clothes that the mannequin is wearing,
    I check the hat that the mannequin is wearing.

    I collected so much of them
    that my mother told me not to buy them anymore.
    If I buy a new one, I have to toss one away.

    ((I know. She is so cruel.

    The assignment was to take a simple dailyshoot assignment 
    and use that as an inspiration.
    Since hats are always around me, 
    I thought this would be a good picture (for me).

    Writing haiku in English was hard.
    I remember doing something similar back in elementary school,
    thought it was fun,
    but somehow I feel it is very hard.

    Maybe this is because I already learned ways to write haiku in Japanese.
    I am used to the rhythm of Japanese haiku,
    and some words in English changed that rhythm.

    Japanese characters each have distinct syllables,
    as for English, one word can have 2 or 3 syllables.

    While rereading my haiku,
    I was always feeling that something is not sounding right
    in the first line.

    The words I use in the second and third line 
    each has one syllables.
    But for the word 'angry' in the first line, it has 2.

    (I hope this is making some sense)

    Also,
    What we call haiku must have some seasonal word in it.
    i.e winter: ski, snow

    I thought about this before writing this blog,
    but after looking at other people's works, 
    I decided to submit this haiku.

    In Japanese, these writings with no seasonal words are called ' senryuu ' (川柳)

    Senryuu are very interesting,
    because since there are no rules of seasonal words,
    it can be based about anything.

    I feel like I am going off topic so I guess I should end here.

    I had fun doing this assignment.
    ...I hope I did the right thing. haha.

    (`=ω=´)ノシ
  10. Mayu K

    I hope I "Haiku it up"ed.

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    ds106      Haiku it upboushi  mom will get angry. I'm told not to buy them, but ...i love them so much.  ? some of my hats I wear in winter.For some reason,I LOVE hats.I'm somewhat addicted to them.I don't...
  11. Yuki Komuro

    4 Icon Challenge!

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    The Four Icon Challenge!I chose this one for my very first ds106 assignment.Here is my work. What movie this is? It is actually a series of movies but... anyway can you guess??If you could guess, you might be a fan. If you even can tell which episode i...
  12. Yuki Komuro

    4 Icon Challenge!

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    The Four Icon Challenge!
    I chose this one for my very first ds106 assignment.
    Here is my work. What movie this is? It is actually a series of movies but... anyway can you guess??

    If you could guess, you might be a fan. If you even can tell which episode it is, you might be a BIG fan.

    ~How I made it~
    1) Draw icons.
    2) Put glow effect on icons and light sa....... something.

    I used Adobe AfterEffects.
  13. Justin Rigsby

    Google Translate Fail

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    Original text would translate to "I also love Mexican food" or more literally "I also love Mexican cooking." Her weird use of a comma is probably what threw the translator off. Either way, the word "cooking" was completely dropped which in turned threw...
  14. Justin Rigsby

    Google Translate Fail

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    Original text would translate to "I also love Mexican food" or more literally "I also love Mexican cooking." Her weird use of a comma is probably what threw the translator off. Either way, the word "cooking" was completely dropped which in turned threw...
  15. Justin Rigsby

    Triple Troll Attack

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    There are some common threads between the three characters (afterall, its the links between them that make a good triple troll to me). All three are from Shonen Jump. All three are excruciatingly long, yet entertaining series. All three prett...
  16. Justin Rigsby

    Triple Troll Attack

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    There are some common threads between the three characters (afterall, its the links between them that make a good triple troll to me). All three are from Shonen Jump. All three are excruciatingly long, yet entertaining series. All three prett...
  17. Justin Rigsby

    Lazy Man’s Haiku

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    Original Photo Before Haiku: LAZY DOG by paddynapper through CC Licensing

    怠け者が書いた俳句
    あいうえお
    かきくけこ、わを
    さしすせそ

    English translation:
    Haiku Written by a Lazy Person
                                                  ABCDE
                                                  FGHIJK,LM
                                                  NOPQR

    The haiku actually came to me a few days before this assignment was posted to DS106. I have a really long train ride to school/work. Sometimes, when I'm on that long sleepy train ride, I get these silly ideas. I was thinking about how haiku are a little more easy in Japanese since the language is built around speaking in clearly defined syllables (as in one character in katakana or hiragana will always be one syllable). 

    I thought about how easy it could be because the basic Japanese alphabets are effectively made of lines of five syllable combinations. That would net me 15 out of the necessary 17 syllables, but what could I choose for the remaining two? That answer was solved pretty quickly because the "w" line only has "wa" and "wo." Once upon a time, there were "wi, wu, we" syllables, but they are as long gone as "yi" and "ye." Actually, Yebisu Beer still uses the "ye" syllable on their logo, but people pronounce it as just "Ebisu." Also, the "Yen" as we know it is pronounced "En" for probably this same reason. Its like how "going to" became "gunna" and "catsup" became "ketchup." Actually, spell check thinks that "catsup" is wrong but accepts "ketchup." Irony. 

    In the original draft of the haiku, I used the "t" line instead of the "s" line. I never actually learned the alphabet in order (because there actually isn't any need to since its completely phonetic). The original format is the one that's still the desktop to my computer at work. My co-workers have gotten a good laugh at it. Some say there is beauty in simplicity.

    I also came up with the English version on the same train ride. The truth is, any time you say or write something in Japanese, Japanese people ask you how you say it in English. I had to come up with something clever to say. It works out since "W" is the only letter in the English alphabet that is more than one syllable in length. 

    Admit it, you just ran through the whole alphabet in your head and checked. No worries, I did right before I typed this out.

    The original assignment does say to use a dailyshoot picture, but I used a flickr CC License search for the word "lazy" instead. I stand by my decision. The words were simple just typed over top of the picture using MS Paint. 

    It turns out that Japanese people are surprised that we know what a haiku is. They really are great tools for learning pronunciation and syllables in general. That's why we learned them in elementary school. They're also great tools for creative thinking. Its a tough fight to be able to say something meaningful within such a confined and structured space (its far worse than twitter). 
  18. mome

    Together, part 8: Consequences

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    This is ds106 assignment on writing a fanfic about another blogger, taken one step further by being a continuing story written in parts without prior planning, and via the revolving effort of 2 bloggers going back and forth.Par...
  19. Rimi Morita

    Based on #1QAD part11

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    I wish to stay on earth with her. by moritatuj17 "Life ... without Meg ... even immortal life ... would be ... empty...I wish to stay on earth with her. I finally know where I belong."...So, no ideas for this one?

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