This week I got to combine two of my current favorite pieces of media, Neil’s Puppet Dreams and Macklemore’s music. These worked well together, I discovered, when doing the Four-Star Watching Movies With The Stereo On assignment. To do the assignment, I used KeepVid to download NPH & JOE MANGANIELLO crash DAVID BURTKA’S DREAM BUMP ...

For my final project, I’m proposing doing “NPH and the Search for the Rainbow,” which will be an examination of color in a storytelling narrative. I want to use NPH, aka Neil Patrick Harris as his is portrayed through various media including as a character in Neil’s Puppet Dreams, as well as in some film ...

This week, we were tasked with remixing some of the previous work of ourselves and other students from the Chaplin Foley assignment from weeks 6-7 and using them to remake the Charlie Chaplin clip for the Charlie Chaplin Foley Artist assignment. I chose to remake the clip using a mix of sounds from my classmates, trying ...

For the 3.5 star One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds this week, I chose to focus on the archetype of females who kick ass. I’d worked on this assignment when I was doing the preplanning last week. My video features snippets from New The Hunger Games Trailer Official 2012 [HD] – Jennifer Lawrence by clevvertv ...

I’m not going to lie. I’m not the biggest fan of film or videos. I’m not a movie person. Sure, I watch films on occasion but I strongly prefer live theatre over filmed media and television programs over movies. That being said, I knew that this week may be a bit of a struggle, and ...

Thursday, March 28, 2013: Take a photo of an unexpected object found in the earth (think secret treasures!)   Saturday, March 30, 2013: Draw a picture of the best present you ever gave or received.

One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds To prep for the One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds assignment I first had to pick an archetype, which is easier said than done. Many of my ideas were too specific but I eventually settled on the “Badass Female” archetype, which is something I’ve studied a little bit being ...

After examining movie generas this week, we were asked to look at this list of YouTube Generas and either add an example to a previously listed one or to add one of our own. I am not a huge fan of YouTube but when I watch videos on the site, they tend to be clips ...

After my analysis of a clip from The Social Network, I was asked to look more indepth at the film. On IMDB I discovered the following facts: The Winklevoss twins were played by Armie Hammer and Josh Pence, Hammer played Cameron and Pence played Tyler. Hammer was shot speaking all of Tyler’s lines and during post ...

For our Look, Analyze, Listen assignment this week, I chose to watch a clip from The Social Network, which I saw shortly after its release in 2010. The first time I saw it, I hated it. I just did not get why it was getting rave reviews. I chose to revisit it for this assignment ...

This week, we finally premiered our Digital Dynamite radio show, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. You can find my evaluation of the show here along with my evaluation of the show from The Fifth dimension, both of which can be listened to in this post on the ds106 main site. I was able ...

This week, we were tasked with incorporating our Daily Creates together to make a story. Knowing this at the onset, I chose to focus on the character of Bagman, created by Brian Short for ds106, and theme my Daily Creates around him. This resulted in Waiting for Bagman. Tuesday, March 19 2013: Take/Create a photo of a license ...

Digital Dynamite While I knew that our radio show would be great, I was amazed and just how great it was. All of our segments were cohesive and used interesting and proper sound effects. The sewing machine sounds which were recorded while I was sewing on my serger sounded better than I thought that they ...

When I first saw the Telling Stories Within The Web assignment, I thought that I may redo Reddit using html, as seen by various characters from Musical Theatre interacting with each other, but soon abandoned that idea when I found the code to be too tricky to modify. I then decided that I should focus ...

Today I leared that my favorite baseball team, the New York Mets once played at Shay’s 84380 Radium. Knowing the history of the Mets, I can assure you that they never played at a nuclear site, or anything like it. That failed translation was one of many I found when translating the mlbkorea.com page for ...

I was not sure what I wanted to do for the 4-star YouTube it Your Way web assignment but as I was going through videos on YouTube, I found that I had favorited this video of  a guy jogging while wearing a horsemask during Hurricane Sandy and decided to base my assignment around that. I ...

I survived Audio Week! I’m not a huge fan of doing audio, but it was neat to experiment with. I found myself using both Audacity and GarageBand depending on what audio I needed to do and relied heavily on Voice Memos on my iPod Touch to record audio as I have noticed that my Macbook likes ...

Thursday,February 28, 2013: Pick a vowel. Write a one paragraph story avoiding words that contain that vowel. I can’t be a Unicorn… I am an ant. I am a bird. I am a wasp. I am a cat, a dog, a frog, a fish in a pond. I am alive. I breathe. I am not a ...

I really liked the SongTag assignment that I found but when I started crafting mine, I realized that I was creating a story basically, so I decided to make a new assignment, based off of the StoryTag assignment. For my SongTag Story, I used some of my favorite guilty pleasure music to craft a story ...

When I was little, I briefly wanted to be a Foley Artist. This assignment has changed my ideas of how easy I thought that it would be. It was tricky. I was assigned 1:31-2:00 from this clip and made all of my sounds using my voice and body. I recorded them in one take with Voice Memos ...