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Hope Racine 2015-01-01 15:53:33
Happy New Year! Two things have come to my attention: that I have a problem finishing things, and that I don’t take very many pictures of myself. I’m a 22 year-old female, so I of course take more than the… Continue Reading → -
FINAL PROJECT: Oh Christmas Tree
For my DS106 final, I decided to tell the story of Christmas trees. This is my favorite holiday of the year, and picking out a Christmas tree is the best part of Christmas. But when I go to the lot… Continue Reading → -
Weekly Summary: 13 & 14
I have to admit, I really enjoyed the remix section of DS106. It as a lot of work, but genuinely really fun. I talked about it a bit in my What is Remix? post, but I think that remixes and mashups are… Continue Reading → -
What is a remix?
After learning and reading about remixes, I had my boyfriend sit down so I could explain them to him. While I (may) have coached some of his questions, I wanted to focus on the concept or remix culture as a… Continue Reading → -
Apple Loop Song
For my new assignment, I decided to make an audio project that utilizes playing around with loops that come with Garageband, or that you can find online. I feel like most people with Garageband have attempted to make a song… Continue Reading → -
Photo A Day Assignment
For my second new assignment, I decided to create a mash up assignment called “Picture A Day.” The idea of the assignment is to take a picture of yourself every day for a week, and make it into a video.… Continue Reading → -
Popcorn Maker Tutorial
I know that I had a horrible time with Mozilla Popcorn Maker, and from some of my classmate’s posts, it seems like they did too. So I decided to make a tutorial to help future DS106-ers at the task. Maybe… Continue Reading → -
MEXICAN PARASITES ARE COMING FOR YOU! More at 5
It took me forever to find a remix project that I wanted to do, but I finally succeeded and selected the “A Place I’ve Never Been” assignment, remixed with the Fox News remix card. The first example I saw was… Continue Reading → -
How many times can I insert Eminem into a song?
3 stars At least four times, by my count. For the Vocal Instrumental Mash Up assignment, I decided to mash up ‘All Apologies‘ by Nirvana with ‘Lose Yourself‘ by Eminem, and ‘Summertime Sadness‘ by Lana Del Ray. I pulled the… Continue Reading → -
Viking Dubstep Cat
For the first of my mash up assignments, I decided to do the Techno Viking Music Video assignment. We were asked to take one video with music in it, and place a clip of a dancing guy inside it. It… Continue Reading → -
Hope Racine 2014-11-27 22:46:43
So….Popcorn Maker is the worst. Using it for the “Where Should Alan Go On Vacation” project was one of the worst experiences I’ve had in this class thus far. In theory, it’s a very simple program that you can use… Continue Reading → -
Weekly Summary: Video killed the DS106-er
So…..video assignments suck. I thought I would get in there and get started and realize that it’s not so bad and iMovie isn’t difficult and with enough hard work and effort I could master video projects! Wrong. This week sucked… Continue Reading → -
Daily Creates
DAILY CREATE #1: This assignment was to make a flag for our own imagined country, so I decided to make my flag incorporate some of my favorite things: polka dots, teal, and tea! I made this very quickly using photoshop.… Continue Reading → -
Lily waits for snow
4 stars For my final video project I decided to revisit the first video I ever tried to make. I saw the Life as An Animal assignment, and inspiration struck me. Last year my sister and I filmed a bunch… Continue Reading → -
60 second day
4 stars I decided to do the 60 second day video, because I like the idea of having a documentation of my day. The assignment was to take 60 one second videos of your day. I chose it because I… Continue Reading → -
Talking with myself
5 stars Wow, this assignment was the absolute worst. I played around in iMovie for forever, but I couldn’t find a way to merge my two videos realistically at all. I saw on a classmate’s post that they used something… Continue Reading → -
Silent Velociraptors
4 1/2 stars For the silent film assignment, I decided to focus on Jurassic Park, as it is my favorite movie ever. I saw that someone had already made a trailer of it for this assignment, and I didn’t want… Continue Reading → -
There She Goes
3 stars For the “Where Do You Want To Go” assignment, I decided to put a spin on things. The assignment calls for a picture slideshow of the various places we would like to go in the world, but I… Continue Reading → -
Weekly Summary 10
WHAT DID I DO THIS WEEK? Daily Creates Three Time Viewing Ocean’s Twelve: Behind the Scenes Youtube Genres Potential Video Assignments Mary Hauntington Review: Putting together this show was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had with a group… Continue Reading → -
Daily Creates: Week 10
Daily Create 1: I didn’t feel like exposing to the world how horrible of a drawer I am, so I decided to draw the various coffee mugs around my room that currently need to be taken out and “washed.” No,… Continue Reading → -
Youtube Genres
I was blown away by how many genres students had listed in the Youtube Genres doc, but as I read through, I realized that there were way more genres that could be added. I thought of a bunch of examples… Continue Reading → -
Ocean’s 12: Behind the Scenes
Ocean’s Twelve (2004) is the sequel to the 2001 hit thriller Ocean’s Eleven, which was a remake of a 1960 movie. Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Contagion, Magic Mike), the film is the second in the Ocean’s trilogy, which… Continue Reading → -
3 Time Viewing: Ocean’s 12
I chose to analyze a scene from Ocean’s 12. I specifically chose a movie that I’ve never seen before, so that I would have fresh eyes and an objective view while watching it. I’ve done the “three time viewing” approach… Continue Reading → -
Potential Audio Assignments
Let me begin by saying that WOW there are a lot of video assignments. Pages and pages worth! I went hunting for two specific types of assignment for next week: one easy, and one challenging. I typically like to leap… Continue Reading → -
Weekly Summary: Batman, Netflix and Dream Vacations
In terms of previous week’s workload, this week in DS106 was a veritable cake walk. It helps that the radio shows were pushed back until next Thursday, which was less work to do this week- but I liked the lighter… Continue Reading → -
So, October was kind of a bust
[View the story "Where You Lead, I Will Binge Watch" on Storify] 2 stars For my second web assignment I decided to do the Storify It assignment. The prompt was to use Storify to pull clips from around the web… Continue Reading →
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