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 average joe, but the vast majority never see the light …

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 and my family runs straight for the big tall pines,…

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 way more prevalent in our lives than we …

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 possible venue for stealing or copyright infringement. I personally don’t …

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 using the loops at one point or another- I know …

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. Not only should it be a week long effort, but …

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 I was alone in this, but one of the most …

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 from Sara, who made a collage about Mexico…

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 instrumental of ‘All Apologies’ …

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 seems easy, but the real trick was to make sure …

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 to create some pretty nifty things. As a …

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 and I never want to revisit it ever again.

WHAT…

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. I found the polka dot as a background online and …

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 of clips of my dog Lily and had planned …

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 don’t have a lot of experience generating my own video …

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 called “Camtasia” so I checked it out. It …

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 to copy them, so instead I made an entire scene. …

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 decided to take it a step further and …

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 project. Each member had a very cohesive and clear idea …

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, I don’t have a problem.

Daily Create 2:

I’m so …

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 I could add to existing genres, but I decided to …

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 spanned from 2001 to 2007.

The film is billed as …

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 before, as I’ve taken classes in the past on film …

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 in head first with a challenge, but video and I …

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 workload! It was a very welcome reprieve after the hecticness …

[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 to tell an original story, or tell a …