I looked into a variety of sources for inspiration I wanted to do either a project looking into the history of leicester or video of old and new. I looked into shinli art’s half n half project ( https://www.shinli-art.com/ ) that incorporated two pictures taken in the same context in different places at the same […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ds106-reacts/ ‘Make the perfect reaction gif and create a story that it fits around or perfectly describes. React to whatever to want with your gif!’ so making a reaction gif, i usually use reaction gifs in my every day conversations with people through social media to emphasis a point or to make a joke, I […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sports-heroes/ Make a Gif of your favorite sports hero! I made a gif of my favourite sports person, Michael Phelps winning the 4×100 mens relay at the 2008 olympics in bejing. This gif wasnt hard to make, i found the clip on youtube then using the Giphy tool convereted it into a gif, if i […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/animate-2600-mashup/ Jim created the excellent Animate 2600 GIF assignment. Now it’s time to riff on it and remix & mashup classic 8-bit video games from the Atari 2600 era. Mashup two or more different games into the same animated GIF. I always liked pacman, I found it fascinating that such a simple game could be […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/two-movies-into-one-mashup-trailer/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_I_Wake_(2016_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(2016_film) Get two movies that have a similar theme and create a mashup movie trailer out of it. Throughout the trailer, it has to show the theme of the story and it’s got to be creative! Have fun as well! I have created a fusion of 2 film trailers that both came out in 2016, […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sixsecondart/ Six word stories, six word quotes, and six word poetry are all the rage. So why not six second art? Using any method of video, stop motion, or other visual medium, produce a six second video of you creating art. It could be digital art, physical art, or performance art, just create a six […]

My Inkle Story Here http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/inklewriter-storytelling/ Tell a story using the free Inklewriter program found here:http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/ Inklewriter is perfectly designed for choose your own adventure-type stories. It offers numerous tools to create detailed interactive fiction narratives. It is similar in concept to the popular tool twine. Twine, however, is more focused on choice complexity and gaminess, […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-your-own-mixtape/ Mixtapes can come in different forms–sometimes a mixtape is just a collection of one’s favorite tracks, sometimes it is a collection of tracks put out by a sinlge artist. Sometimes they have small edits made to them, like a DJ saying their catchphrase. Try creating a mixtape of your own. Mixtape is broadly defined […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/one-story-four-icons/ This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long standing popular ds106 assignment. The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your blog post up but do not give […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/?s=bad+guy&post_type=stufftodo&assignmenttypes=designAssignments Apparently, street gangs in Chicago, like the Hell’s Devils, used to have calling cards. This makes me think that poor marketing gives evil-doers a bad image. Help some of them out by creating business cards for them. But not the Joker – that’s too obvious. I was going to make a business card for […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/the-ultimate-merger/ Businesses merger together all the time (at least that’s what Mad Men has taught me). For this assignment create a logo in which you combine to famous logos. Humor is encouraged. for this I chose to use xbox and playstation being 2 rival companies and that it would be rather comical to have the […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-a-crappy-font-will-do Fonts say much more than the text they display. Fonts are full of style and meaning. Take a well know logo and remix it using a different font. The crappier the font, the better. Or maybe you think a different font might even improve the logo. Either way, change it and see if it […]

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http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/say-it-like-the-peanut-butter/ This is a gif made from the film blade runner in the ending scene where our main character Deckard isn’t sure whether he is human or replicant, the origami unicorn is a symbol of him being a replicant and is a recurring theme making him question his reality. This gif is of him screwing […]

Some of my daily creates @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1742 pic.twitter.com/2gmCifveSd — Roy Mark Weller (@RoyMarkWeller) October 15, 2016 @ds106dc @ds106dc #tdc1743 #ds106 Keep a bullet journal! — Roy Mark Weller (@RoyMarkWeller) October 18, 20...

@ds106dc A half full mason jar with water droplets on the outside of the glass, distorting the objects behind it. #ds106 #tdc1741 — Roy Mark Weller (@RoyMarkWeller) October 14, 2016