radiointro https://soundcloud.com/mchrist2-1/ds106radio-intro Create A DS106 Radio Bumper Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned ...

obama https://soundcloud.com/mchrist2-1/obama-voicemail Movie Voice Machines Difficulty= 3 stars Create a voice mail message for a character in a film or tv show. Use samples, impressions, and/or music to create your message. See a video version of Cheech and Chong doing a message I used the hail to the chief intro music, and did my own ...

911 call https://soundcloud.com/mchrist2-1/911-call 911, What’s Your Emergency? Difficulty= 4 stars Most people don’t get to call 911, and you never get to call 911 unless it’s a true emergency. Well here’s your chance to “Call 911″ and have some fun! Create a recording of how you think a 911 call would play out. It doesn’t ...

Autotune https://soundcloud.com/mchrist2-1/autotune Autotune Something Difficulty= 2 stars You’ve heard Carl Sagan. You’ve heard Bed Intruder. You’ve even heard Gardner Campbell autotuned. Now it’s your turn. Take something not typically musical and autotune it. I had to find someone with a high voice to say the twilight zone intro. My voive was too low. Autotuned it ...

Socks https://soundcloud.com/mchrist2-1/socks Jingle Jangle Difficulty= 2 stars Write a jingle about a product that you like and then use your imagination. Extra points if you use an instrument. I used audacity and my guitar to record this jingle for socks.  Wrote a simple Jingle and put a reggae beat to it with my guitar.

In a world https://soundcloud.com/mchrist2-1/in-a-world Use The Voice Difficulty= 2 Stars Don LaFontaine was legendary for hos deep voiceover intros to movie trailers (“In a world…”). Make a recording that uses his style that describes something ordinary or everyday. See the TV tropes listing for ideas or expressions or model it after one of the thousands ...

The Creative Commons (CC) is a way that helps all of us share our work and knowledge with the rest of the world through any sort of sharing methods.  The Creative Commons allow you to gain support in legal and technical actions that make it so that you can using your work and knowledge to ...

The sequel picks back up with poor Henry, back to the idea of ending his life. What did he have to live for? Alone…the world has been devastated, and the one thing he could ever want to spend his free time doing had been rendered impossible. After years and years of cruel nagging from his ...

  The Little Caption Diffuclty= 2 Stars Take one of your own photographs, one from Flickr Creative Commons (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/) or one from the DS 106 Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/ds-106/) and caption it. I used my own photo that I took of my dog for this assignment.  I used Photoshop to create the caption, and place the ...

  DS106 Bumper Stickers Difficulty= 2 stars Remix classic bumper stickers to promote the cause(s) of ds106, ds106radio, and ds106tv. For this assignment, I used photoshop to create this bumper sticker representing DS106.  I used the logo of the DS106 site so that everyone could recognize it instantly!  I think it sums up DS106 pretty ...

  Minimalist TV/Movie Poster Difficulty= 3.5 Stars Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography. For my last portion of the Twilight Zone design assignments, I chose to do the Minimalist TV/Movie Poster.  I thought that this would be an easy way to convey the theme ...

  Bumper Sticker Difficulty= 3.5 stars I made this bumper sticker based off of the “Midnight Sun” episode of the Twilight Zone series.  I took a picture of the thermometer and coupled it with the slogan or tag-line of the bumper sticker.  I think that bumper sticker relates really well back to the theme of the ...

Create A READ Poster Difficulty= 4 stars Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell reading books as cool by showing celebrities reading their favorite books. You can read about the history of this promotional campaign here. Experiment with this tradition, introduce a celebrity with a book who hasn’t been recognized yet, but ...

“Write a story from the point of view of your favorite food, but don’t say what it is. Make us guess.”   It started out just like every other day, cold, quiet, and a lot of people passing by me.  However it all changed in a quick second.  Out of nowhere someone grabbed me and ...

Click to play! Seriously this was the weirdest attempt to upload anything. Took me an hour to finally figure out I was uploading to the wrong blog……..awkward

*Updated to include GIF that I was previously unable to embed. Twilight Zone GIF http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/how-i-feel-about-this-gif/ Visual Assignments http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/a-hazy-afternoon/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/focus/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/fastball-inside/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/26/larger-than-life/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/26/118/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/26/111/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/23/73/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/23/focus-on-one-color/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/23/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things/ Design Assignments http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/24/benny-the-jet-rodriguez/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/24/the-cat-with-an-ipad/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/24/82/ Daily Create http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/24/daily-create-502-new-beginnings/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/23/the-daily-create-501/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/23/the-daily-create-500/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/22/22/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/daily-create-504/ http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/daily-create-503/ Relfections http://turn2blog.markchristiansen8.com/2013/05/27/gardner-campbell-personal-cyberinfrastructure/ This week was a tough week.  I found that in that short time between ...

I think that this song pretty much says it all for if I was to write a letter to my 16 y.o. self.  I hope this is okay in the way I’ve connected media to my experiences and blog.

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The idea of change or a “face-lift” that Gardner Campbell introduces into his lecture and article is something that I think everyone no matter what level ofa  technologically savvy person you are, you definitely have experienced some sort of this change or face-lift.  Whether it was your grandparents first getting a computer to when you ...

  How I See You Visual Assignment Difficulty= 2.5 Stars (Listed in the description as 3) You now wear glasses, and without them everything is completely blurry. Create a 1st person image that shows how you see someone through the lenses of your new glasses. Everything outside of the glasses should be blurry. Get creative ...

  Looking At Yourself Visual Assignment Difficulty= 3.5 stars Draw, photograph, or paint your self portrait.  Make it interesting, in some way tell a story about yourself within the image.  You can use one or multiple images to complete this assignment. For this photo I used Photoshop to crop down the image, and then add ...

Caught Mid Action Visual Assignment Difficulty= 2 Stars Take a picture that catches something mid action, and makes it appear different than it normally would. This picture I was lucky enough to capture at my brothers baseball game.  Caught mid action as he delivers the pitch to the plate. You can really tell how its ...

  Larger Than Life Visual Assignment Difficulty= 2 Stars Take a picture of an everyday object and make it look larger than life. This assignment was fairly easy to complete.  I just used the camera on my smartphone to take the picture.  In order to get that larger than life look, it requires you to ...

  Is That A… GHOST?! Visual Assignment Difficulty= 3 Stars Take a photo in which there is a ghost like subject by either using a long exposure or 2 different pictures in a photo editing software. For this work, I used Photoshop to create multiple layers of soldiers to place on top of the background ...

  Draw It. Visual Assignment Difficulty= 2 Stars Take a photograph of something (If you take a picture from the internet, make sure to be nice and cite the original) and transform it through GIMP, Photoshop, etc, into a drawing. For this assignment, I used Photoshop to turn this photo into a painting.  It is ...

Take a photo that shows together an old and new version of the same item Old grown tree with a new sprout growing at its stump.  Father and son you might say.

  Movie Trading Cards Design Assignment Difficutly= 4 Stars Design trading cards for your favorite movie. Grab a screenshot from a film of your choice to create a trading card in the spirit of the classicStar Wars movie trading cards. Also see the imagined trading card forThe Shining here for some inspiration. This assignment was inspired by ...

  Computer Books For Kids Design Assignment Difficulty= 3 stars Take a well-known kids book and recast it as a computer book. Look for inspiration here: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/childfriendly-computer-books.php For this assignment I thought lets go with a classic and bring it back to the future with a 21st century twist.  I took Dr. Seuss’ book the Cat ...