Having good posture and standing all day is an awful experience. #standingdeskproblems w/ #ikeahack #standesk2200 and the mods from @jinyk…

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Week Five:

Tutorials:

Dancing Jim All Over The World(kind of a remix, riff, tutorial all in one):

http://placchetti.net/2013/06/02/dancing-jim-all-over-the-world/

Huge Ridiculous Awesome Thing (I think it turned out well):

http://placchetti.net/2013/06/23/chimera-assignment-crossover-battle-royal/

Newly Created Assignments:

Daily Creates:…

This was a disaster, but the video looks fine enough, I used a pitch altered version of David Bowie’s China Girl and my own General Tso’s recipe. I spliced in some images of the ingredients close-up to give people an idea of what they need, but otherwise it’s a fast-paced …

So, I decided to use an app-for-that and get a quick video of my Kierkegaard finger-puppet being mauled by my cat in stop motion. I make it look like the doll is moving across the room only to be swiped away from my and inbetween frames. I hope you enjoy!…

So, I guess remixes are the riffing section of the course. That should have been obvious, but it wasn’t. Once again I took to riffing on Jim Groom, because I don’t think anybody should be above the #ds106law I took his, comparatively to what I’m about to do to it, …

I thought I would do this assignment because it looks easy and I may have tuckered myself on the last assignment. Also it looked kind of fun. I choose the X-files and some canned laughter off of soundboard.com and then got to work. It didn’t take long to insert the …

Does anyone know if @jimgroom is alive?…

This is a video of me working on some independent research into the field of parallel computing, by way of beginning with a single-core processor. It’s a lot cooler than it sounds and it’s what my other blog is all about. The other blog is also very empty which …

http://placchetti.net/2013/06/16/whats-your-skills

Four Stars!

http://placchetti.net/2013/06/16/do-the-hitch-cut/ 

Four Stars!

http://placchetti.net/2013/06/16/return-to-the-silent-era

Five Stars!

http://placchetti.net/2013/06/16/speed-up-your-work-day/

Two Stars!

What was the LoDown 

I’m so sad to hear Scott Lockman leaving his post. But I can appreciate his …

This was a fun assignment, mostly because I got to pick something futuristic and make it not so much. This wasn’t too difficult with the kdenlive, which had built in filters for making old timey videos out of regular ones. I did render the video and then run it through …

Well, I decided to do this assignment expecting to have access to better clips, unfortunately, I was forced to make due with what we have here. Still great, with some doubtfire and taken, but I really wanted some of those great xfiles phone calls – apparently copyright is this thing …

For this assignment I decided to not show you my mad skills at reading literature or coding websites, lucky you.  Instead, I made a video to show you my cocktailing skills. I used Serge Gainsbourg’s Black Trombone for the background music and kdenlive to cut and mix all the clips …

3 Time Review

The making of a movie

Youtube Genre

Possible Video Assignments

Daily Creates

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I took the scene I used from Night Call and analyzed it. I’ve decided that this is a drama with hints of psychological and fantastical horror. What’s really compelling about the story isn’t the realism of the other end of the phone call, we could probably edit those lines out …

I think this is a great assignment. Andrew, you’re the man. I’m planning on taking a scene with Mulder and Scully from the X-files and splicing in scenes from Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and something …

I added a genre, which I think makes me super cool. I kid. But I do get to point out my favorite genre – infographics. How is this not a genre on this list already, I feel like ds106 would love to have an assignment about infographics. Maybe I should …

I chose the Twilight Zone episode ‘Night Call’, which I found to be a great Twilight Zone episode. I mean, I doubt Jim would have chose the episode if it didn’t have some degree of merit, but this one stood above the other two chosen for the week, not only …

TDC521

Epic Poem about my black belt

TDC522

Photo of my Quince at Sunset

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#ds106radio !…

The hardest part of this assignment was figuring out whether I was leaving the message or setting a voice-mail greeting. There seemed to be equal versions of both in the assignment bank. I decided that I should go for the voice-mail greeting, but I also decided it should be the …