This assignment called for subtly mashing together two iconic movie scenes into one image. In order to accomplish this, I took this pileup scene from the Blues Brothers and added in a little Terminator. He’s looking out of one of the upside down cars, biding his time… I had a bit of a hard time … Continue reading Something’s Different… →

This week, we only had to complete 2 Daily Creates! First one: @ds106dc ⛪️👹🙍🏻✝ #tdc1549 #emojimovie — Carlee Budd (@cbudd_ds106)

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This week was all about remixes and mashups with a tutorial thrown in for good measure. As usual, daily creates up first! April 4th: I put myself on a billboard and in front of one too. @ds106dc #tdc1548 I'm on a billboard for a gym! pic.twitter.com/APwFl4gb7w — Tierra (@wildwebds106) April 4, 2016 April 5th: I … Continue reading Weekly Summary 4/1 – 4/8

This assignment is very similar to the design assignment The Ultimate Merger, so I have some experience working with logos. However, I connected the assignment to my character this time, so changing it up a bit. I took the logo of Smith & Wesson, a gun manufacturer, of which my character owns a gun from. … Continue reading Mashup Assignment – Consumer Mashup

This week is over and I can gladly say, this week was by far has been the easiest week in #ds106. I really enjoyed the variation in mashup/remix assignments. I started off the week by completing my daily creates. Daily Creates for 4/8 I then worked on creating a tutorial for an assignment I enjoyed. […]

As the title suggests, he’s just chilling like a villain. For this assignment we were required to do a side by side comparison of an emoji and a person. Here they are.

My next mashup assignment involved changing up an iconic album cover. I chose to use the Abbey Road album cover and made the street water and the crosswalk a wooden bridge they have to walk across. I used GIMP again for this assignment. I changed the color of the road to be blue so that it … Continue reading "The Beatles Go to the Lake"

I took a picture from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and added a giant horse to it. The picture I chose was a city and I added a giant horse, because a normal sized horse would be eh. It would be normal, because in NY you can still find horses, but a giant horse, no you cannot. […]

For this mashup assignment, we were required to combine three of our favorite holidays into one picture. To do so, I chose Halloween, Christmas, and Easter, and looked up pictures on Google pertaining to all three. I made sure they had a transparent ba...

For my last assignment of this week I am going to provide you with a tutorial from an assignment I did awhile back. It’s a desgin assignment on making your own custom shoe. The assignment is not too challenging but I know it’s always nice to see before hand what you are going to get … Continue reading How to make a shoe!

For my next assignment, I chose to mashup two different sports team logos. I decided to use the curly W for the nationals and the Wizards logo for mine. I’m not super into sports so I just asked a friend what his two favorite sports were  and decided to use those logos. I used Gimp … Continue reading "Capital Wizards"

For this assignment, I had to create a mashup of one of my favorite characters and some scenes they have been in. I chose to do Chandler from Friends because he’s awesome. I chose a bunch of my favorite scene’s of him. My all time favorite is when he gets stuck in an ATM vestibule … Continue reading "Chandler Mashup"

This week we focused on mashup and remix assignments which I found enjoyable. I would say this is one of my favorite weeks of the semester! I felt like I could be creative with these assignments. Starting off the week we first had to make a tutorial. At the beginning of the semester I did […]

For my last daily create you had to use some medium to create a negative sketch of a leaf or leaves, by outlining them and turning the background dark. I worked in the ER most of the day so I didn’t get a chance to go outside and collect leaves to do this on paper so instead […]

Remix It Assignment: Create Your Own Room Original Assignment Description:Ever thought of creating your own dream room? Now you can! Using pinterest find rooms, furniture, colors etc. From there write a blog post about why you chose everything! This is your dream so make it as crazy and out of the box that you can think […]

Assignment: 10 Second Song Mashup Assignment Description: This is some sort of variation on Katy Chase’s The Contest That Nobody Could Win assignment, but instead of clips from a TV show or movie, do clips from your favorite songs and see if anyone can guess what they are. Or atleast the artist. Do two or three second […]

Oh, Haley Assignment:A Changing Character 4.5 Stars Assignment Description: For this assignment you need to pick any chacter and follow thier progression that they have had (TV characters from a long standing TV show will probably be best).  Use video clips to show how the character has changed and grown up over time.  Try to make their […]

Assignment: Mashing Friends and Emojis 4.5 Stars Assignment Description: For this assignment you are to take a picture of one of your friends or just a person that is in the moment doing something exactly like an emoji and then mash them together for comparison. Love of my life:  Hey y’all, Dr. Wisdom here! This was a great photo taken […]

I created this diptych as a means of remixing an assignment which has you change the color/hue of a photo to make it look surreal. The remix I got for this assignment was “Media Bender:” “Change up the media for the original assignment- take a video assignment into audio or design.” I chose this assignment because … Continue reading Seaside Diptych →

Okay, so for this visual assignment I had to choose an image and add text in some way which read “Go Vote” but then I remixed it and I was told to contradict myself. At first I was confused, but then I got it. I created an ad to go vote using a man laying […]

For this writing assignment, I was instructed to write about where I see myself in ten years, whether a letter or goal list, but when I remixed this assignment, I was told to add a backstory, so what I thought would be the best idea was to tell you a little about myself now, and where […]

Here are my daily creates for week 12 ending on 4/8. I first worked on creating my own billboard (which had to have me in it somehow and I used my arm) to advertise Lima, Peru, a country which I have visited various times. The second daily create I completed was posting a video of […]

I found this week’s assignments to be fun and somewhat challenging. This week I learned about the differences between mashups and remixes and completed assignments in each of these categories. I feel by completing these assignments it has reinforced all of the new techniques I have learned over the semester and I had to apply … Continue reading Week 12 Summary

For my second remix assignment of the week I chose to remix the visual assignment titled, “Larger Than Life”. The remix of this assignment was to include Waldo within the picture of one of an already completed Larger than Life visual assignment. So, I picked one of the completed Larger than Life visual assignments that … Continue reading Find Waldo! That was easy!

I liked the make up of week 12 a lot. Ever since I first heard a musical mash up on

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For my second remix, I chose  the website title mash up. I chose to use Facebook and Instagram because those

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For my first remix, I chose the favorite sports team mash up. I am from Charlotte, North Carolina, home of the

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This week wasn’t bad at all for DS106! I stepped up my commenting game, I enjoyed the Daily Creates, and

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For this assignment, I remixed a Visual assignment that I did weeks back. Originally, as you can tell by the

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For this last mashup assignment I was to take a picture of something/someone in the moment that was similar to an emoji. I was then required to put them side by side for comparison. Well it just so happened that I walked in on my roommate being extremely studios. Like books out, notebook open, laptop … Continue reading #nerd