And Then The End {Amen}

And Then The End {Amen}

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, semestersummary, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 18, 2022

Welcome to the infamous, the legendary, the spectacular DS106 Roller Coaster Ride! On this interactive trip, we will take you all around the highs lows and middles of this here semester of Digital Storytelling in Spring 2022. First, we will start off with the best place to begin, the beginning! Here we get a good look […]
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Pulling Back the Final Curtain…

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 13, 2022

So, this is the weekly summary for the final project week. I’m putting the gimmicks up on the shelf for this one, here you get my process, and hang tight, it’s a long one. Also, spoilers ahead, I’m talking in-depth about what I did for my final project, obviously. To begin, I already had some […]
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Swim Meet Results W12

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 7, 2022

Welcome to the recap of our very close but not close enough to the last swimming event of the year! Our athletes have worked hard to improve themselves and keep up with this year’s intense training schedule. To give our swimmers an appropriate challenge, we choose more difficult events for this past meet. The first […]
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High Afternoon on Monday the 31st of March

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, remix, RemixAssignments, Syndicated, writingassignments
April 7, 2022

The salty air whipped through his lungs and he breathed deep, letting it fill him to the brim. Exhaustion blanketed him, pressing him down. He sank into the sand, burying his hands into it, the warmth from the fine white grains seeping first along the pattern of thin scars still healing, then into his calloused […]
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Two New Characters for the Price of One!

by @Bendire Thrasher

| #AudioAssignments, ds106, RemixAssignments, Syndicated, VideoAssignments
April 5, 2022

For this remix, I wanted to tell more of my final project story, and figure out more of what is happening. So when I saw this remix, it just fit! But instead of one extra character, I added two for the price of one, but just their voices. To make this, I wrote out a […]
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bugs and cats and a distinct lack of rats

by @Bendire Thrasher

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
April 5, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3734 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is so fun! pic.twitter.com/edgOewoadV
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) April 3, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3735 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is Jurassic Park (1993): yes pic.twitter.com/EdScZnrFOS
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) April 4, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3736 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is fruit salad.
{and all god's people said yummy-yummy } pic.twitter.com/mqIML2YeCE
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) April 5, 2022
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Filthy Blueberry Brow Disaster

by @Bendire Thrasher

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments2652, Syndicated
April 5, 2022

“Mashup two (or more!) songs that are similar to each other, by either the same or different artist(s). Do your best to show the similarities—edit parts of the songs next to each other. If it’s possible to do this without making it sound terrible, try to overlay the songs at parts to highlight how much […]
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Dancing Queen of Moonlit Times

by @Bendire Thrasher

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments1495, Syndicated
April 3, 2022

“Make your own song using other lyrics. Complete this assignment by combining the lyrics from at least 5 different songs in order to make a song with flowing lyrics. This song should be at least 2 minutes long.” Making a Song I know, I know, this isn’t two minutes long. It’s about half that, but […]
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Weekly Index 11

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
April 1, 2022

Cars, 14 Commenting, christmas, 2 crash, 8 creates (daily), 19 eating, 35 milk (and honey), 38 recovered, 23 scenes, 49 video (lyric), 1...
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set 2 video 2 | Ted Lewis and Permissions

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments462
April 1, 2022

“Make a how-to tutorial about something you are good at like a sport or hobby. Add a song that fits and narrate it”! How To Tutorial Again, I might have gone a little off-book, but this week was for video, not writing. I chose this assignment because I wanted to do something that related to […]
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Rats, Hearts, and Cars

by @Bendire Thrasher

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
March 30, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3727 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is pic.twitter.com/bj5A4oKMpK
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 28, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3729 Today's #ds106 Daily Create. He was the best of the best when it came to card players. He was so good he did not even need to cheat and use surveillance drones or hidden cards, unlike the other players. His name, or lack thereof, is permanently in the newspaper. pic.twitter.com/OB4EhUQOyV
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 29, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3730 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is that it took me way too long to realize that the piston cup from the movie Cars was an actual piston and that those were an actual thing in cars.
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 30, 2022
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It Is All Keira Knightley

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments770
March 29, 2022

“Music video are only the best way to listen to your favorite song because it give you the added visual dimension. Have you ever listen to a song and said ” oh this would be great with such-in-such movie”? Your task is to use video clips, NOT still shots, to create a music video for […]
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now i just have to wear it…

by @Bendire Thrasher

| #VideoAssignments2032, ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments
March 28, 2022

“This was inspired from the 30 second documentary assignment. The object is to make a documentary showing how to do something. Wether that’s how to make something, what your/a job is like, trying something new, showing yourself doing something you are terrible at or even really good at.” ds106 Assignments: 2 Minute silent documentary True […]
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Simple Enough,

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 24, 2022

I reacted to the words, and the fantasy worlds, {and i made some too} I acted on screen, and behind the scenes. I looked back, and a little bit around. After all of this mess, I’m gonna go have a lie-down.
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Just Some Exposed Code, (to make the poem work)

by @Bendire Thrasher

| Syndicated
March 24, 2022

http://katiereif.com/classwork/video-show-plan-specially-safara/#comment-61 http://digitalstorytelling.worldempress.net/uncategorized/branching-off/#comment-86 http://taytustar.com/uncategorized/its-the-remix/?unapproved=50&moderation-hash=e3591c11df8d8f04731ae8f3c5c4803c#comment-50 http://cpsc106.ceciliachianese.com/week-10/what-i-eat-in-a-day/#comment-73 http://katiereif.com/classwork/project-ideas-2-the-one-in-which-i-hijack-the-ideas-of-others-for-my-own-use/#comment-63 http://lcooper4.com/uncategorized/video-show-pt-1/#comment-46 http://digitalstorytelling.worldempress.net/uncategorized/the-asu-wants-you/#comment-89 http://amymcmanama.com/uncategorized/by-far-my-favorite-assignment/#comment-88 http://digitalstorytelling.worldempress.net/uncategorized/haunted-video/#comment-91 http://cpsc106.ceciliachianese.com/week-10/what-i-eat-in-a-day/#comment-76
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What Happened on March 31st?

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2742
March 24, 2022

“Create a short documentary, no more than 20 minutes in length. Make it on any topic of your choosing! Be sure to cite your sources, though! Make it on anything that interests: history, sports, music, movies, etc. Just make it informative and engaging!” Create A Short Documentary So just to start off, I did make […]
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Monday the 31st of March

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments2509
March 24, 2022

“For this assignment, take a video no longer than 90 seconds from the point of view of your character. Make sure to weave it into the story you are telling and include actions/materials that your character would use. Also, you could edit it in iMovie and add music.” Point Of View So this is just […]
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REWIND that Back

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
March 22, 2022

So here is my first and probably only attempt at a video essay. I really enjoyed making this, not only because I love editing videos, but because this scene left a very big impact on me, and at the time, I didn’t know why. After this week’s readings and watchings, I was able to look at […]
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Watch the Growth

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2407
March 22, 2022

“Make a collage of something growing up, or growing bigger. Now this takes some time-you must have some video footage of the object, person, pet, etc. growing older. It can be a stop motion of a plant, or if you have puppy pictures and now a full sized dog, put them all together and make […]
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Pineapple = Fight

by @Bendire Thrasher

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
March 21, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3720 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is beignets and pineapple pic.twitter.com/0mqYLSRnTM
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 20, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3721 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is the first rule of ds106 club is don't talk about ds106 club. The second rule is when in doubt, art it out.
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 21, 2022
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Book it, Fred

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, projectideas2, Syndicated
March 20, 2022

I read through a lot of ideas and I am definitely inspired for my own project now! The gears are turning… FINAL PROJECT IDEAS – Amy’s Online Thoughts For the idea above, I kind of have to talk about it because the idea is all about books and I love books! I would definitely listen […]
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blueberries have always been very polite to me

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 17, 2022

To make a successful fried Week 9, one must have the best recipe. This is my great-great grandmother’s recipe for deep-fried week 9, and she got it from her great-grandpa so it’s been in the family for ages. Ingredients: 1 1/2s ear of listening corn, chopped. a blueberry pie , which could be substituted for lemon […]
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MTV stands for Monster Tele-Vision inc.

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, ds106rework, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2747
March 17, 2022

To be fair, I loved this assignment when I did it, so this isn’t so much a revision as it is a part 2. I wanted to make a completely new second cooking video, but honestly, there is not much I can make in my dorm room that isn’t just like cheese on crackers. The […]
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Captain Pi-eyed Bill, a Biography

by @Bendire Thrasher

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
March 17, 2022

Captain Pi-eyed Bill is not one of the most feared pirates ever, but he is the most vicious. If anyone or any country gets in the way of his search for buried pies and mythical bakeries of civilizations past, they are not long for this earth or these oceans. Captain Pi-eyed Bill sails on his […]
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Totally Normal Teenage Boy Take 2, Electric Boogaloo

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, ds106rework, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2289
March 16, 2022

Originally, this assignment, Totally Normal Room of a Totally Normal Teenage Boy, was 948 words. I am a creative writing major, so this isn’t too shocking. When it comes to the written word, I have a lot to say. But, more often than not, revision in the writing words is cutting. Editing is a process […]
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An Even More Impish Outline, if you can believe it.

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, projectideas, Syndicated
March 15, 2022

I really do like my original project idea, but one thing I learned while doing the podcast was how much I love editing audio. I did some work with audio in high school and I have forgotten how I enjoy the whole process so much. So though I love following this rollerblading apocalypse survivor, I […]
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Paint Knife in a New Light

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, radiolisten, Syndicated
March 15, 2022

I used to listen to no podcasts, then my roommate recommended me the Magnus Archives and that is the only one that I have really listened to, well, besides the Bald and the Beautiful, but that is a whole other thing. I am not the most knowledgeable on podcasts, but as of recently, I have […]
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Bird-Mart

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 15, 2022

Hello, thank you for shopping at Bird-mart. Great prices, better products! Everything here is absolutely free! Our management would like to inform you of some technical difficulties that our stores have been experiencing, everything should be running smoothly now. We hope. To find fresh ingredients for a delicious main course, visit aisle 1. Completed radio […]
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Voice Acting and Shovel Pt. 2

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, radioshowweek2, Syndicated
March 11, 2022

Most of this week’s challenges were voice acting and equipment rentals. There weren’t any audio equipment kits at the HCC, but there was a video equipment kit that had a microphone in it. So I used that. Again, give a bird a shovel and he will dig his way under every wall. This week I […]
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Hot Air Balloon Sing-Along Anyone?

by @Bendire Thrasher

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
March 7, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3706 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is https://t.co/hPue824Mev
I would like to think one traveler sings this song in circles until his companions invest in earplugs
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 7, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3707 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is air travel. I would add state-of-the-art hot air-ballon airports at each star. pic.twitter.com/IniVy71ELn
— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) March 7, 2022
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