THIS IS THE LAST SCHOOL RELATED THING I WILL EVER DO!!!!! I’m graduating and could not be happier about it! Let’s take a look at what I did this week including my tutorials and my character creation story. First are my tutorials. The assignments that I made tutorials for were the One Shot Assignment and the Poetry Art … Continue reading Weekly Summary 15 and 16

Anyone who has ever read or seen anything related to the Guardians of the Galaxy has wondered who Peter Quills (Star Lords) father really is. In this scenario, we will find out how Peter will meet his father and what will happen when he does. First, Peter needs a way to get to his father! … Continue reading Alternate Star Lord Story

Welcome to the tutorial for the One Shot Assignment! This assignment can be tricky so I’m making this tutorial to offer my advice and instruction on a simple way to complete it. What you will need: A photo with multiple subjects Microsoft Word A photo cropping tool Step 1: Choose your photo Either take a … Continue reading One Shot Tutorial

Welcome to the tutorial for the Poetry Art Assignment! This tutorial is titled Poetry Art Tutorial for Dummies because I will be using some very simple and easily accessible software to complete the assignment. What you will need: Microsoft Word (seriously) Photo Editing software with a cropping feature. I will be using Picasa (It’s free) Your … Continue reading Poetry Art Tutorial for Dummies

Remix  Here’s my Remix Reflections that includes the audio of my thoughts on remixing Here’s my randomly generated Remix Assignment Remixes and MashUps this week were fun to work with and after this week I came to realize how much I had been doing these things already without really knowing it. I think Remixing is used a lot … Continue reading Weeks 13/14 Summary

Original Assignment I mixed together a few songs that I thought were very dissimilar and the result was pretty cool. I just uploaded all three songs into audacity and proceeded to clip and edit tracks until I had the first part down. The last part of the song is just the song “thunderstruck” because it … Continue reading Music MashUp

Original Assignment I mashed together the new trailer for the movie “The Good Dinosaur” and the audio for “Jurassic World” and the result I thought was pretty funny. I just used Windows Movie Maker and imported the audio that I had clipped in audacity to play over top of the video portion. The beginning started … Continue reading The Good Jurassic Dinosaur

Original Assignment I attempted to make this scene from Saint Vincent funny but it was pretty difficult to do. It’s a sad movie and no amount of laughs really made it much less sad. Just found a laugh track on youtube and converted it to an mp3 and then I mashed everything up in Windows … Continue reading Saint Vincent Stand Up Comedy

Original Assignment I looked up a cool techno beat and then let my imagination run wild with the ad. How can you resist? I thought the result was funny, and I liked the concept of this random assignment. I always have a hard time choosing which assignment to do so it was nice that in … Continue reading But Wait There’s More!

Here I try to explain what I learned abou remixing. I think it’s funny to look back on all of the work I have done in this class and then add in the concept of remixing and it seems like almost everything I’ve done has been a form of a remix or another. I think … Continue reading Remix Audio

Original Assignment I chose this assignment because I will take any excuse to listen to more music! I love the band “Haken” and I listen to all of their songs all of the time. They make concept albums which are one long story themselves so I thought they would be perfect for this assignment. The … Continue reading Lip Sync Assignment

Weeks 11/12 is over and the semester is starting to wind down! I will be graduating in just a few weeks and I could not be more excited. This week in ds106 was full of video assignments. Some were challenging and frustrating, and some were easier and fun. In regards to video storytelling, I learned … Continue reading Week 11/12 Summary

After watching the example video for this assignment, that can be found here: Range of Emotions Assignment, I said to myself; how can I not do this assignment? The guy in the example video looks like he was having a lot of fun so I decided that I wanted to join in. Here’s my range of … Continue reading Range of Emotions

That Time We Fell Out of a Canoe. This was a memory from my girlfriend from a little over a year ago. I convinced to go on a canoeing trip with me and promised her that nothing bad would happen. You can probably guess from the title that something bad happened. Here’s the original assignment: Recording … Continue reading That Time We Fell Out of a Canoe

Surprise! It’s Surprise Pippin! Isn’t he just the cutest? Check out the original assignment here: 1 Second Video Assignment. I chose this assignment because it was relatively quick and easy and I got to include Pippin who’s super cute. The process for this assignment was really simple. It didn’t require any editing or anything else besides just … Continue reading Surprise Chincilla

This is my dramatic Conversation with myself! It’s only 30 seconds long, but boy oh boy does it tug at the heartstrings. I was inspired to make this video because I was wearing my work uniform at the time (I work at a State Park) and I decided one of the characters to be an authority … Continue reading Dramatic Conversation With Myself

Behold! My Old Fashioned Star Wars Trailer. The assignment can be found here: Return to the Silent Era Assignment. The Assignment was worth 4 1/2 stars but I thought it was easier than I thought it should have been. It still took some time to figure everything out in Window’s Movie Maker and to find all of … Continue reading Silent Era Star Wars

Week’s Over. It’s late so I’m going to keep this summary a little bit shorter than usual. It was also a fairly short week in terms of how much total work there was, although each individual assignment took longer than usual. First we looked at Rodger Ebert’s piece on “reading movies”. Everything is explained in … Continue reading Weekly Summary 10

The Original Assignment I chose this assignment because I will take any excuse to listen to more music! I love the band “Haken” and I listen to all of their songs all of the time. They make concept albums which are one long story themselves so I thought they would be perfect for this assignment. … Continue reading Lip Sync Assignment

The original Assignment I chose this assignment because I really really like movies and I think there a lot of inspirational movies out there that I want to share with people. Movies should be watched not just for entertainment, but they should be inspirational resources or they should make you expand your thoughts. I chose … Continue reading Movie Clips and Reflections

I watched the ending scene of the 3:10 to Yuma three separate times. The first time with no volume, the second time with the screen turned off, and the final time with nothing turned off. I have already watched this movie about 10 times before so it was nice to study something that I was … Continue reading Sensory Shootout

After Reading How To Read A Movie by Roger Ebert, I came away with a couple of immediate thoughts. My first being that Ebert’s ideas on analyzing and “reading” movies is a very interesting concept, and I love interesting concepts. His idea that you can better understand and “read” a movie by slowing it down, stopping it … Continue reading Breaking Down Movies

Week 9 already? This semester seems to be going by really quickly! This week was stressful because of personal stuff but in regards to this class it was a pretty easy week I thought. The Mozilla ExRay Goggles was such a cool idea to play around with. I really enjoyed that assignment and it will … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9

I listened to the Wack History Radio Show It was a clever show I thought it was a good idea to make the show about history. Making the show about a subject as endless as history allowed a for a lot of opportunity for dialogue and interesting topics. I have a few criticisms of the … Continue reading Radio Show Reviews

Meet Walter. You can check out his profile and see if he might be a match for you. Walter only has so much time left, and hopes you wouldn’t mind traveling to Northern Vermont to meet him. Steller is a really cool App! I didn’t know it existed until now but I had a lot … Continue reading Love Doesn’t Always Need to Be Hot

Here you’ll find Larry’s Resume. Be sure to not contact him for any type of work or job information. He’s perfectly content living in his mansion. Larry’s Resume by his butler using Microsoft Word and fulfills a 3 star assignment. You can find the original assignment details here Thank you for taking the time to view … Continue reading Not Looking for Work

Thinking about getting engaged? You have to check out my friends at Mordor Jewlers. Find this great new ring on their website right here. This particular ring is really hot right now. Get it for only 299.99. A bargain. I used Etsy because the format is relatively simple. Using the XRay Goggles was really easy … Continue reading Perfect Engagement Ring

Weeks 7&8 are done! I had something come up yesterday with my family so I’m submitting this post 1 day late. I had actually done a pretty good job of spacing out the work over the 2 week period that we were given and had some fun with the Radio Show Midterm! Let’s start with … Continue reading Weeks 7&8 Summary

Here’s My joke in Spanish It wasn’t all that funny to start with in Spanish, and I can’t imagine that I made it any funnier. It was a good joke to pick though because it was short and easy to get. I just grabbed a couple of audio clips from SoundBible and added them in … Continue reading Now I’m unfunny in English and Spanish

I chose this Mystery Song because it’s pretty popular and I think just about everyone has heard it before. When I played it backwards, I will admit that it’s pretty hard to figure out what it is so I’ll try and make my clues helpful. My clues are: The songwriter is a man who likes … Continue reading Mystery Song