For my final project I did a spin off on the Disney princesses having a bad side. At first it was difficult to come up with an idea, but as I created each small piece of the final product more ideas started to flow in. What I want others to …
For the pay it forward, I though it was a good idea to do a thought on how I expected the class to be and then briefly hint at a few issues I ran into, such as leaving my work till the end of the week, and how I thought …
When everyone thinks of the Disney princesses, they think of the picturesque life that is often coupled with the magical time seen at Walt Disney World. Often times people don’t realize that the princesses had a rebellious time in their lives. A preview for this rebellious time for the princesses …
Once Disney movie production received the ransom note from Pixar, along with the video displaying the Disney princesses in their rebellious years, they quickly decided to pull all movie releases for the month leading up to the release of Toy Story 3 along with the month Toy Story 3 was …
Pixar was intimidated of Disney and was coming out with their new movie Toy Story 3 and was concerned of the competition that Disney could bring. To limit their competition Pixar sent this note, coupled with the video discussed in the The heart of the blackmail blog (http://ashstegemiller.com/wordpress/2012/12/02/the-heart-of-the-blackmail/) …
As earlier stated, in the previous blog containing the poster for The Princess Rebellion (http://ashstegemiller.com/wordpress/2012/12/01/the-rebellious-princesses/) Disney has done their best to hide the rebellious years of various Disney princesses, but their rival movie producers, Pixar was able to plant hidden cameras to catch the rebellious princesses in action …
Many people have heard of the various Disney princess and most of the time they are depicted as the perfect image of what every little girl wants to be. They have their picture perfect life, after have gone through some turmoil in their Disney perceived life. Most people don’t know …
For weeks 13 and 14 the main theme was remix and mashups. Before this week I used to think of mashup and remixes as taking specific things and mixing them together to create something new. It didn’t cross my mind until after I watched a few references provided by my …
When creating two assignments I chose to do a visual assignment and a design assignment. For the visual assignment I chose to do a season based creation where a person would have to take a photo taken during a different season and winterize it! The second assignment I created was …
When I was coming up with a design assignment I thought it was a good idea to do something that people could possibly relate to and would be fun. The first thing that came to mind was how obsessed some people are with the show The Walking Dead. The show …
The idea for this assignment came from the environment around me! It has clearly started to get colder and the christmas music has started to make its appearance. I thought the perfect assignment would be to take an old photo, preferably one from the summer or spring and convert it …
To create my tutorials I wrote a general point by point direction to make it easy to follow. I coupled my points with screen shot images, which I uploaded onto flickr and then embedded into my blog. I then tagged both tags with ds106tutorials so they would be recognized by …
For a final project I thought It would be cool to create a timeline kindof theme of my family through the years! I would start off with me and my sister at a young age and slowly progress through the years. To encorporate various media in it I was thinking …
This assignment has proven to be rather tricky to have to use others recycled material to create your own art. What I did was found a sound clip labeled street sounds and used that as my background noise and bases for my idea. I then looked for images where this …
To get a remix assignment I went to http://remix.ds106.us/ and pressed the remix button where it game me an assignment that I previously did but with a twist! It was the Mashedup Children’s Book with a twist of changing the language. I started by finding a Dr. Suess book, The …
For my final mashup/remix assignment, I decided to do the Consumer Mashup. I instantly thought of McDonalds and how they have the annual Monopoly event and then I thought how much there sales probably increase from this coupling. McDonalds isn’t known for being the healthiest fast food restaurant so not …
Looking through the mashup assignments I came across, Mashed-up Children’s Book, and instantly thought of Dr. Suess. Growing up reading all the Dr. Suess books I thought remaking one of the books was perfect. I googled a list of Dr. Suess book and found the one I thought would be …
When looking through the mash up assignments I came across the Remix an Album Cover assignment and thought this would be a cool project! It was instructed to use an iconic album cover and remix it have a new perspective. Growing up listening to the oldies with my parents (lets …
Kerby Ferguson explains a remix is a way of combining or editing existing materials to produce something new. There are many ways in which a remix can occur, through music, images, ideas, etc. After watching the references
Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
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Most of the work that I did for this week I did at the end of week 11. The professor commented on my blogs and I edited them afterwards to make the overall story of the blog better. I also added in examples by other students of each of the …
When I first came across this assignment, Return to the Silent Era, I didn’t want anything to do with it. It looked really difficult, first choosing the movie, then figuring out how to edit the media so it looks old, and then adding title cards to display what the characters …
Many people have family traditions, including myself, but when I saw this assignment, Yvonne’s Family Traditions, I instantly thought of my summer job and how every morning we have camp dances to get the kids excited for camp and the day ahead of them. All the counselors have to learn …
When I first saw this assignment, Watching Movies With the Stereo On, I had trouble thinking what movie and song I could possible mash together. So instinct set in and I went onto pandora, where the first song that came up was Allstar by Smashmouth. The song was perfect! It’s …
When I saw this assignment, Supercut it, I instantly thought of Friends and Joey’s famous saying “How you doin’.” I have grown up watching Friends ever sense I was in elementary school. Joey was my favorite guy character because of how personable and funny he was. It never failed that …
When i first saw this assignment, Play it back jack, I thought it would be cool to microwave a marshmallow, watching it blow up, and then reversing it. After thinking about it though, there wasn’t much of a story behind blowing up a marshmallow in a microwave. I ended creating …
The video editing tools that I have at my disposal include iMovie, MPEG Streamclip, itunes, GIMP, online convertors, GarageBand and Audacity. The past few weeks I have become more familiar with GIMP and Audacity, which can help to add images to the videos to be created and background noises. The …
The two creates I did this week included “Stormy weather- Show us your best photo or representation of The Big Storm” and “Forced Perspective- make something small look big, or something big look small.”
For the Stormy weather representation I was driving home with my dog and friend right before …
This week we were suppose to do all the preparatory work for the Video Assignments we need to complete for next week. The first thing I did was find two assignments I thought were cool, these assignments include “Supercut It” and “Play it Backward, Jack.”
For Supercut It (http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/supercut-it/…
