I added text to this movie poster in GIMP.  Truthful movie poster assignment found here. This is a link to the original poster. Difficulty: 3 stars

Woke up today feeling great.  Sitting next to all my friends in the freezer.  Its nice and cold in here and I love it.  Hopefully today isn’t the day… Ten minutes later. Im being defrosted and I think I’m going to the grill.  Yup, on the grill…  Its not that bad though.  I’m really warm ...read more

This is a picture I took in England that demonstrates good use of space and balance. The natural colors in the flowers really stand out in this photo taken outside of a pub. My friend Joe demonstrating proportion. This is an amazing example of symmetry taken inside Kings College in London. I selected a building ...read more

This is the Contest Nobody Could Win assignment.  Try to guess the songs I picked and leave comments if you know any. Difficulty: 2 stars

  I took this picture at Kings College in London.

  I made a motivational poster to mock the Twilight Zone theme of the  “Eye of the Beholder” episode.  I think the poster speaks for itself.  It demonstrates how straightforward main idea was in the episode.  To make this project I took Andrew’s advice and used the motivational poster generator. Here is a link to the assignment. Difficulty: 3 ...read more

  This is my six-word memoir about the Twilight Zone episode “Eye of the Beholder”.  The main point I took away from the episode is why is it necessary for people to feel the need to conform to societal norms and compare themselves to other people they consider better.  What’s wrong with being different?  I added ...read more

I had the invaders take over teen magazine and Justin Bieber’s face.  I edited this magazine cover in GIMP with the lasso tool. Here is a link to the assignment.   Difficulty: 3 stars

As defined on creative commons.org, Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization working to increase the amount of available online resources for students or others to use.  In a nutshell, it gives people permission to reuse and possibly edit your work as long as they site you as the original author.  There are six different licenses ...read more

I peeked inside this big metal machine and it seems to be some sort of scalding death trap.  I can feel the heat waves sting my eyes from all the way up here.  What could this possibly be used for?  There’s something inside, but what is it?  The object is getting darker now, but I ...read more

Episode 8 I definitely want to start playing with some of the found sounds and mashups as I begin working with the assignments.  The examples Scottlo used were very well put together.

Episode 7 Thanks to the open online participants for contributing to the class by posting your expert assignments.  It has been helpful to compare my projects to professional ones.  

  Scottlo Radio Blog Scottlo gave us some great pointers in the later podcasts this week and I thought some of his bantering was quite entertaining.  I didn’t mind putting on one of the podcast to listen to while I worked on creating my assignments.  Although it was very difficult writing reviews for the first ...read more

  I found an awesome app for this assignment called Cut Me In.  Its free on the app store and there’s a pretty big variety of places to put yourself in.  Decided to crop myself into Madagascar to chill with some lemurs. Here is a link to the assignment. Difficulty: 3 1/2 stars

  Here is a regular Redbull. And voila!   A mega Redbull. Here is a link for the assignment. Difficulty: 2 stars

This is my Picasso Yourself photo.  If you were wondering, the title is a random ASAP lyric that gets stuck in my head.  I thought the alien space theme worked well with the paper smile I happened to find in my room.  My favorite part of the picture is the closet because it kinda looks ...read more

  Just some good clean fun with Obama’s face.  I’m sure he wouldn’t have it any other way.  Not one of Dave Chappelle’s best movies in my mind, but he is always entertaining.  I edited this in GIMP using the lasso tool and it fit right in. Here is a link to the assignment. Difficulty: 2 ...read more

A couple of my friends and I watched “How to Train Your Dragon” the other day and for a kids movie I thought it was really good.  It has a bit of a cheesy moral, but I guess that’s what can you expect from a G rated movie.  I decided to put the main dragon ...read more

  This is one of my biggest pet peeves.  Since when was it cool for your car to be really loud? One of my friends got rid of his muffler.  Whats the point and why is this necessary? Made this in GIMP and thought I would add the Jackie Chan rage face to help you ...read more

  This is my Ultimate Merger assignment where I have combined Nike and Google’s catch phrase and logo to send DS106ers a message to “Just google your ds106 questions.”  I put these together in GIMP by cropping, rotating and resizing these logos. This is the link to the assignment. Difficulty: 3 1/2 stars

Episode 6 I’ll have to start playing with the iTalk Recorder as well as Audacity. Hope you enjoyed your chicken.  Thanks for holding it down Talky Tina.  The info about the quality of video recordings and file types is helpful as well. Keep it coming!

Episode 5 Great idea to incorporate Netvibes to organize all the students posts.  I made sure to revise my “about me” page after listening to this podcast.

Episode 4 Looking forward to getting started with some of the audio editing tools.  I don’t mind the podcast format and find the archived posts very convenient.  It would be tough to tune into the radio show everyday at the same time.  I will make sure to join in on the google hangouts soon.  

  Wanted to show the Invaders have arrived in my graffiti post.  This is my favorite type of generic alien, so I thought I would incorporate it into the invaders posts.  I cut the alien out in GIMP and downloaded a graffiti font from here. A link to the assignment. Difficulty: 2 stars

Professor Michael Wesch drew me in by beginning his speech with a few questions that I know professors have been asked before such as, “How many points is this worth?” or “Will this be on the test?”  He explains the problems associated with students just wanting to do the bare minimum to get by and ...read more

  This is my Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary book cover.  I decided to make the space background white instead of black to make the picture more plain and minimalistic, but I thought I would add some aliens for the Invaders effect. I edited this picture in GIMP by placing the text over the star background ...read more

  This is my Twilight Zone bumper sticker explaining that we have now fully entered the DS106 zone.  I used an image I found on the internet as a background and cropped it in GIMP.  Then simply entered some text and found a font that looked similar to the Twilight Zone one.  This font is called Goudy Old ...read more

  Thought I’d creep into the Invaders episode to say hi.  I used GIMP to edit this photo and it was pretty simple.  Tons of helpful directions online.  Quick tip: make sure to save your file in GIMP then export it so it can be supported as a .jpg or .png file when uploaded.  Good ...read more

Edited this photo a bit to enhance the background and I just thought layering it with the dots looked cool.  Let me know what you think.

My favorite part of the Invaders episode was definitely watching Agnes Moorhead chew on the chip, or whatever it was, in the beginning.  This clip captures the eerie mood as she stirs her smoky cauldron and begins to hear strange noises. I built this gif in GIMP using the tutorial.  I found these directions tremendously helpful ...read more