Letter Home; Week 9
Switched up my style a little. How ya, like it?
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Design Assignment: Hark! A Tapestry!
Tell a Tale on a Tapestry: Go to Bildwirkerey von Bayeuxbe at , where you will find the “Historic Tale Constrvction Cit”, a web-based app inspired by the Tapestry of Bayeux. Follow the directions to create your own tapestry, then … Continue reading → -
Remix, ximeR, Rmiex
Remixes are everywhere and they are unavoidable. Some remixes are easier to do and others are simple. While watching some of these videos, I got a understanding how HOW TO do some things I never thought of before. It is even more interesting to know just how creative some people are to come up with remix ... -
Mashing Up Movies Underwater
Sadly, I don’t really watch too many movies, but the few movies I watch are mainly animated. Why? I am a big kid at heart and animated movies has a way of keeping me young. Well, that is my story and I’m sticking to it. The assignment that allowed me to mash up movies, was ... -
Post Card Home: Week 6
by Abir Ibrahim July 20, 2012Here we go again. I can’t believe it’s week 6 already. This is all happening so fast. These past few days have been really hectic, not because of DS106 but also because final exams for my classes in Tanzania are … Continue reading → -
Radio Bumper
by Abir Ibrahim July 20, 2012Let’s just say I had no idea what the heck I was doing with this assignment. Not because it was difficult, but because my mind was all over the place with this one. While I was in Tanzania, I fell … Continue reading → -
REMIX; Creating a NEW assignment
This week we are doing a lot of remixes. When I got my Remix assignment, I was a little afraid. I didn’t know how exactly to remix a “5 seconds of fame” video. After thinking and thinking a thinking, I finally came up with a remix assignment. This assignment is called “IDENTIFY THIS SOUND” The ... -
Remixed Album Cover
Rihanna is my favorite artist(if you all haven’t noticed by now) and I know every single one of her songs. When I saw the album cover assignment, I knew exactly what to do. Rihanna has a song called “S&M” which in reference to sexual acts. It stands for Sadism and Masochism-The practice of using pain ... -
Vintage Educational Video Project
I laid out my idea for a vintage educational video along with a script in this post, and only had to change a few little mistakes I made before recording the real thing. My son John played the roll of … Continue reading → -
Return to the Silent Era: Mean Girls
Please view my Pre-Production post to see how I first set up this video. After completing the tasks mentioned, I then changed the video to black and white. The hardest part for me was figuring out how to slow down and fast forward the clips. They were both options under “Clip” in iMovie, but for ... -
Letter Home; Week 8
The BEST letter home.. = ) -
Audio Story
by Abir Ibrahim July 12, 2012Observing how someone speaks, moves and interact with their surroundings demonstrates a person’s true nature. Sometimes it’s not what is being said, but what is being meant. Non-verbal cues are important to understand. For this audio assignment I created a … Continue reading → -
The Daily Create 185 – Draw a Tornado
First off… one week of TDC’s, challenge accepted CogDog. Got a little carried away with my tornado drawing. Started by wanting to add a real background, which I took with my iPad out the window of the car dealership waiting … Continue reading → -
Vintage Educational Video Project
This project sounds like great fun to me, and I figured I would mix the old style video with some current cutting edge science and tech. The video will be titled Curiosity: Your Friendly Robotic Explorer. My inital script is … Continue reading → -
Carding a Deeper Me
My story is simple. A good girl, lost in a bad world. Not knowing whom to turn to and when. Wondering why no one understands that not all my days are good days. Even though I pretend as if they are. When I saw this assignment, I thought about it for a long time. I ... -
Animated Rock Starts
Phineas and Ferb is the best cartoon known to man. For those who aren’t big on cartoons, you should really consider watching it. It cones on at random times on Disney Channel and is on a lot. When I saw the assignment to animate a music video, I honestly almost fell out of my bed. ... -
Sweet Music on DS106 Radio
TweetAudio Assignment 36: Create a bumper for DS 106 Radio. I had such a good time participating in the DS106 class radio productions. I think the satisfaction of making something out of nothing but a thin thought wisping through your … Continue reading → -
World of Remixes.
Kirby Ferguson’s videos about remixed material was amazing. He took some songs and movies that I thought were original and showed where the artist or directions got their inspiration from. Many times younger directors and artist want to create an “original film/song” but they get their inspiration from older films that were thought to be GREAT. If a ... -
The Seventh Seal: Mindful, Minimalist Movie Poster
Tweet Design Assignment 43: Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography. Inspiration I’m no Bergman connoisseur nor real film buff for that matter, but Bergman’s The Seventh Seal has a … Continue reading → -
Story de Words = )
I am a very random person. I love saying random things at random times, just because its funny. When I saw this assignment I instantly became excited because I had a chance to be random. For once in my life, I can use my randomness for something productive. I chose 10 words off of the ... -
Letter Home; Week 7
People around me were sleeping, so I tried to be quiet. Hope you can understand. -
Preparing…Myself…
1. Play by Play I like sports, so I am planning on doing a “play by play” of a video of when Shaq broke the backboard when he dunked in his younger days. I just need the video of the event and use a video editor that allows me to record my voice over top the video. ... -
How to Read a Movie: The Sound of Music
For the Week 7 “Reading Movies” assignment, I chose The Sound of Music from AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies, a list of the 100 best American movies determined by The American Film Institute (Where is Mean Girls on the list? Kidding…). The Sound of Music was one of my favorite movies as a child, and continues to be. ... -
A Little Creative Commons Love
Check this out! I used an image from flickr as part of my I Can Read Movies design assignment. I credited the photographer who took the original image in my blog post, and somehow he found it. Check out his … Continue reading → -
Digicamp Radio Piece
My initial idea for a DS106radio segment was to do a cooking segment. Yes, I’ve watched too much Food Network and especially too much Good Eats. I have a picture of me and Alton Brown hanging in my kitchen and … Continue reading → -
AI and Design Theory: Before and After
TweetDesign Assignment 366: Design a film-based cover using the aesthetic framed by Spacesick. I have admired Spacesick’s ingenious “I Can Read Movies” book covers and the amazing interpretations by DS106ers like Chad and Scottlo. Well, I like a challenge so … Continue reading → -
Return to the Silent Era: Pre-Production
For this assignment, I chose to use a trailer from one of my favorite (trashy) movies, Mean Girls! I found the trailer on YouTube and used the tutorial (from the Magic Macguffin website) “How to Download YouTube videos” for help with downloading the MP4 file. I used PwnYouTube. I did not have the correct updated ... -
DS106 Radio
I had a great time putting together my little group’s ds106radio show last weekend. Cris and Kavon, my bunkmates from the Naked Lunch Bunch, each submitted a summer-themed piece to me (and did it on time!) which were completely different … Continue reading → -
Reading [TAKEN]
My favorite movie of all time would have to be “TAKEN” that came out in 2008. It is a movie about a retired CIA agent, who’s daughter gets kidnapped when she goes on a trip to Europe. He has to go to Europe and use his skills to hopefully find is daughter alive. The reason why I ... -
My Life. Told Through Song. Listen Carefully
How it was created… 1. I collected some of my favorite songs that spoke the words I NEVER could say. 2. I edited the parts of the songs I wanted and simply placed them in the selected boxes. 3. I then uploaded the pictures where my facial expressions or body language reinforced the words of ...
