Final Weekly Summary
I’m not sure if we needed to do a weekly summary for these two weeks because we only had one post to do. But, I figured I’d do one anyways, just to be safe. These past two weeks we did... Continue Reading →
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If You Smellllllllllllllll What The Rock is Cookin’
Many people may know who Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is, but only a few know the true legend behind The Rock. The epic history of an unstoppable force. If you do not know who The Rock is, here is what... Continue Reading → -
Week 13 & 14 Summary
Gooooooodness gracious, I can’t believe that we’re this far into the semester. Only two weeks left til the semester and ds106 is over. It’s been a fun ride that’s for sure. But, this week was based around remix and mashup... Continue Reading → -
What is a Remix?
What is a remix? What about a mashup? Those are two very good questions that have a wide variety of different definitions and such. According to dictionary.com, the definition of remix is: remix – to mix and re-record the elements of... Continue Reading → -
Random Words Short Story
The next assignment I created and completed was the writing assignment, Short Story With Random Words and Animal(s). The goal of this assignment is to utilize 10 random words, and a random animal of your choice to develop a short story... Continue Reading → -
Bust A Move
So this post is dedicated to my creating of a video assignment and completing of that video assignment. The video assignment I created Create A Lyric Video. The goal of this is to take a song and create a video displaying... Continue Reading → -
Working With Popcorn Maker
This post is dedicated to my experience with the remix assignment using Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker. The goal in this assignment was to take a video that was pre-created and remix it, adding images, video, and audio to it. I really... Continue Reading → -
How To: Create A Mashup Trailer
This post is a detailed tutorial of how to complete the assignment Mash-Up Trailers within the Video Assignments bank. This tutorial will be heavily based around the use of iMovie, which should definitely help the Mac users out there. This tutorial... Continue Reading → -
Up With Monsters
The next I assignment I completed was Movie Mashup. The goal of this assignment was to create a movie poster based upon a mashup between two movies. This assignment was pretty difficult for me considering photo editing is one of my weak... Continue Reading → -
Signs Watches Sinister
The next assignment that I completed was One Movie Watches Another. The idea within this assignment was to create a video where essentially a character from one movie, watches a scene from another movie. To complete this, I had to think of... Continue Reading → -
The Joker (Remix an Album Cover)
The next assignment that I decided to do was Remix An Album Cover. The goal behind this assignment is to take a classic album cover and remix something within it. Whether it be the title, image, or aesthetics of the cover.... Continue Reading → -
Mashup of My Favorite Movies
This post is dedicated to my completion of the mashup assignment The Contest Nobody Could Win (Video-Mashup Edition). The idea of this assignment was to take 2 second or less clips and compile them into a video of clips from your favorite... Continue Reading → -
Star Wars w/ Inappropriate Laughter
This post is dedicated to my completion of the Mashup Assignment Inappropriate Laughter. The idea of this assignment is to take a serious scene from a movie or tv show, and add “inappropriate” or “untimely” laughter to it. To do this... Continue Reading → -
Life is like a mountain…
This post is dedicated to my daily create for today (11/25) Caption an Unsplash Photo. The goal is to take a Unsplash photo and caption it with some ds106 words of wisdom. To accomplish this, I simply downloaded a photo from... Continue Reading → -
Honest Abe and Arnie
This is my post dedicated to remixing a ds106 assignment. To do this, we used the remix generator. The remix generator essentially gives you a random assignment from the ds106 assignment bank, and gives you a remix card that lists... Continue Reading → -
Week 11 & 12 Summary
These past two weeks have been based around video assignments. We had a wide array of video assignments to accomplish over the past two weeks. Along with this we also had a group of daily creates to accomplish this week.... Continue Reading → -
A Happy Conversation With Me
The last video assignment I have completed for the week is Have A Conversation With Yourself! The goal of this assignment is to make a video where it appears you are having a conversation with yourself. To do this assignment, I need... Continue Reading → -
Pick a Pet and Change It
So the daily create for today (11/16) is Pick A Pet And Change It. The goal of this was essentially to take a picture of your pet and add something to change its face. So, for this I chose to use... Continue Reading → -
Better Late Than Never (2 Daily Creates)
So this post is dedicated to the daily creates from the past two days. I had completed them over the past two days and completely forgot to post them in a blog so here they are. The first is from... Continue Reading → -
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the Silent Era
The next video assignment that I chose to complete was Return To The Silent Era. The goal of this assignment was to take a scene from a modern day movie and turn it into a silent movie style video. To start... Continue Reading → -
8 Days A Week
The next assignment I did this week was Movies by Numbers. The goal of this assignment is to represent a number using artistic representations and music that is related to the topic. Now to start off I needed to chose a... Continue Reading → -
Bird Losing His Mind. Up In Here, Up In Here
The next video assignment that I decided to do was Animal Dance Off. The goal of this assignment was to take video of an animal(s) dancing and put it to music to make it look like the animal is actually moving... Continue Reading → -
Lets Go Bulls
So the assignment that this post is dedicated to is the Sports Team Pump-Up Video assignment. The goal of this assignment is to essentially create a pump-up video for a sports team of our choice. A couple weeks ago we were... Continue Reading → -
Burgers, Weights, and Protein Shakes
The daily create for today (11/11), What’s Your Flag?, was to create a flag for your country, if you were to have one. For my flag, I chose to mix the American Flag and some of my favorite things. Those are,... Continue Reading → -
Godzilla Vs. The Incredible Hulk
Alright, so for my first Visual Assignment of the week, I decided to do the assignment Mash-Up Trailers. I chose this assignment, because I think it is a very cool thing to do, that requires a lot of creativity. Now, the... Continue Reading → -
Weekly Summary Numero Diez
Damnnnnnnnnnnnn, I can’t believe the 10th week of the semester is already over. Senior year’s flyin by. But this week and the next few weeks are going to be focused on video assignments. The majority of this week was learning... Continue Reading → -
Shleeeeeeeep (Daily Create)
Our daily create for today (11/2) was Share Your Best Sleepy Shot. So here’s the photo I uploaded: This is my dog Lobo passed out in my family’s living room (I wish I was doing the same). Til next time everyone! Gotta... Continue Reading → -
Any Given Sunday In Depth
The movie Any Given Sunday was released in 1999 and was directed by Oliver Stone. Stone has directed many other movies including Savages, Wall Street, and Platoon. For those of you who have never seen Any Given Sunday, it stars Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid,... Continue Reading → -
Any Given Sunday Speech – Analysis
The goal for this assignment was to take a scene from a movie and analyze it in 3 different steps. Analyze the camera work Analyze the audio track Analyze it as a whole The clip I chose, is from the movie Any... Continue Reading → -
The Genres of YouTube
One of our assignments this week, was to take a look at the Example of YouTube Genres Google Doc and review the genres & examples, and add any that feel fitting. Overall, I really liked this list, I thought it took a... Continue Reading →
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