Which season of the Wire is the intro song clip from?

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-favorite-teams-mashup/ For this assignment I decided to find two teams (Heat and Redskins) and combine their logos together. I used PowerPoint to make the logo, and managed to fit them over each other to be like a Redskin comet. In the end, I decided on the team name the Heatskins. I decided on these teams […]

Apollo 13 has inspired space disaster movies, including one the most recent and very popular Gravity. This takes many of the aspects that made Apollo 13 great and includes better visuals.

This assignment was a to take the original assignment “Computer Books for Kids” and remix it as a mood swap.  It’s from the original Dr. Seuss story “Green Eggs and Ham” which is a journey of learning that prejudices and closed minds limit your ability to learn and experience new things. In the end, we […]

Here is a happy Carrot ghost to keep all the food people entertained.

My sister repeatedly always tell me if anything is near her boots or her shoes, “Dude don’t touch this!” She’s...

Margaret Mead once said, “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” It’s true though because without working...

This assignment was perfect to show how much Herc has changed since season 1. Although there were so many moments I could have picked from, I picked what stood out to me the most. The first thing I remember of Herc was the incident with the desk. Then, I loved when Herc was talking about how different the times are,

George Allen, Sr. once said, “Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.”...

The usual Nike quote is, “Just do it”. I’m really sorry for posting this late, I’ve been busy with tons...

I suggested a new Daily Create assignment: DS106 Stamp It! where you design your own postage stamp, ds106-style.  For fun, I made this one using the DS106 Radio Logo as an example, with the online app at Zazzle:

10 Second Song Mash up  – Check Out Here                     3 Stars The Contest Nobody Could Win – Check Out Here           2 Stars Lip Read  – Check Out Here                               […]

It’s been nice being home for Thanksgiving break, but I must admit the internet out here in rural Virginia is crawling and has definitely slowed me down when it comes to getting assignments done. Yesterday, I ended up taking a three hour nap while I waited for everything to upload … Continue reading

Ziggy ruminated on the inevitability of being unable to escape his past through the creation of his theme song which merges the shooting that got him incarcerated with Gnarls Barkley’s “I Might Be Crazy.” He shared this on Tumblr, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter.

“Bumper Sticker” DesignAssignments, DesignAssignments961 (3.5 stars) Omar: Yo, yo, yo… Wassup.  I this here assignment, Melinda helped me design a bumper sticker for my main man, Renaldo’s cab.  Renaldo and I spend alot of time in this cab.  I want to tag it as ours.  This bumper sticker is marked with my favorite saying.  If […]

This is a tutorial for the Design Assignment 1445, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.” The requirements of the assignment are listed below: Imagine your favorite company whether it be food, clothing, or any other company. Now imagine their enemy or competitor in the business. Your goal for this assignment is to take your favorite company’s […]

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing  (3 stars) ( DesignAssignments, DesignAssignments1445 ) In this assignment, Omar wanted to mess wit yo head by designing a pack of Newports dressed in a Marlboro box.  Pretty tricky yo.  Ain’t nobody gonna get one over on Omar.  You gotta problem wit dat you better speak yo mind. Take over […]

For the Parallel Plot assignment, I decided to assemble clips of the kids from The Wire season 4 to Childish Gambino’s “Outside.” I think a lot of struggles Childish Gambino references in the song as well as the EP it appears on are seen on The Wire. Whether or not the kids on the … Continue reading

Here is a mashup of two teams out of Baltimore just like The Wire. I took the logos from the University of Maryland and the Baltimore Orioles and blended with a photo blending app to create this assignment before uploading … Continue reading →

Since I spend a lot of time on Tumbler looking at blog posts or online listening to music, I decided to merge the two together. So with the help of screen shots of both Tumbler and Sound Cloud, as well … Continue reading →

For the last of my 8 stars for weeks 13 and 14 I chose the “10 Second Song Mashup”. This was difficult because with choosing five favorite songs or songs by a favorite artist you get caught up listening to the music. Clipping out two seconds can prove to be next to impossible. After listening […]

In Olympus Has Fallen, Roma said, “Olympus has fallen, Olympus has fallen, Olympus has fallen!” It’s been a heck of...

For the first two of six stars that my Wire character completed was “Celebrity Life”. After locating a pic of Muhammad Ali, I transferred it into Pixlr and trimmed a pic of Cutty’s face which I inserted onto Ali’s face. The fit was close to exact seen below: I also posted on his twitter and […]

For the Dramatic Reading Remix [Remixed]: Media Bender assignment, I decided to do a dramatic reading of William Beckett’s “Pick Up the Phone.” Originally, the assignment called for the dramatic reading to be underscored by some other music, but since this is a media bender, I decided to pair it with … Continue reading

For my first and final “Remixed” assignment, i searched hard and long for the perfect assignment. I was actually confused on the whole process of remixing and assignment so i had to read up on that. I ended up enjoying the idea of recreating a “Classic Album Cover”. If you don’t already know, music is […]

  For this assignment, I used an app on my phone called iMashup to smash up two songs I had previously purchased on iTunes. Once that was done I cropped it down to 10 seconds and uploaded it to Sound … Continue reading →

  The remix that I came up with and submitted a remix card for was a merging of the comedy that I find funny with the comedy of my kids (even though I can’t pretend that I don’t like Sponge … Continue reading →

Platform – Stand together, and no one #$%&* with us. Candidates we support – Joseph Stewart. Candidates we oppose – Those who stand against us. Principal Donors – New Day Co-Op —– http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-superpac/ So, this took some editing in Powerpoint and a picture off of Google. There were all sorts of interesting pictures available, and I […]

I decided to do the Techno Viking Music Video mashup assignment. I figured the Techno Viking clip would fit well in a music video that included people dancing. I immediately thought of Cobra Starship’s “Send My Love to the Dancefloor, I’ll See You in Hell.” I’ve been a fan of … Continue reading