This tutorial covers how to do the Sardonic Mashup assignment on ds106.   Please be sure to visit all clarifying FAQs and Youtube videos to get the full effect of other people’s hard work covering the different programs required to make this assignment really ‘pop’.  I hope this helps.  

For this assignment, titled Historical Selfies, I wanted to create a reverse of something that politicians do all the time.  They think that by placing themselves in front of historical art or monuments from the past that it will add credibility to what they are saying or doing at the time.  In this famous painting by John Trumbull […]

For this assignment you are asked to do the following: “The concept is to mashup something along the lines of a public apology, a commercial, a pandering political speech or anything you’d like to mock for the public good.”   I used Academy Award Acceptance Speeches from Cuba Gooding Jr, Michael Moore, and Marlon Brando (Little […]

For this assignment, you are asked to create a recipe using haiku. “Write an entire recipe only in haiku. Stick to the 5/7/5 syllable pattern as much as possible, but don’t leave out any key instructions!” When I think of recipes, there is one that stands out in my mind – mainly because of how […]