Well, I’ll be honest. I haven’t watched any Breaking Bad. Honestly, I haven’t watched a lot of popular shows or movies. Which means, when doing the Mashup Children’s Book assignment (2.5 stars), I had pretty much no idea what to do! It was a fun idea, and I love looking at these kinds of mashups (even […]

Mashup two or more of your favorite websites using Firebug or Photoshop. Try to be creative, giving the page a new name, and having attributes of both sites in the page. Take a screenshow of your work to share it. For this 2 star assignment I used the social media sites Facebook and Myspace to create the … Continue reading →

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 clips using 4 or 5 … Continue reading →

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. I chose this 4 star assignment because it seemed very simple to do. To start it, I went on Facebook and … Continue reading →

Instead of writing up an explanation of what you learned, instead formulate your own understanding about remix and mashup, and record a video or audio of you explaining it to someone who is not familiar; this could be a family member, friend, neighbor, random stranger. The point is to capture a recording of your explanation … Continue reading →

This “Remix” assignment required me to go to the ds106 remixer site at http://remix.ds106.us/ and follow the link for the Remix Generator. This program randomly chooses one out of the hundreds of ds106 assignments, but with a twist. The assignment it chooses is accompanied by a “remix card” which are little extra tasks thrown onto the assignment. When I … Continue reading →

Maria. “I’m a jazz dancer. No, not Nat King Cole kind of jazz… Jazz-jazz! Spirit fingers kind of jazz.” Also, she wakes up to “What A Feeling” every single morning at 5 am. Her next door neighbor should know. #LRod #Leotard #Bailando

Gus. He ain’t scared. He’s just shaky. #LRod #PeopleAtTheCafé #Dogs

Angela. Once stepped on a snail accidentally and killed it. She still has nightmares about it. #LRod #Nightmare #WCW

Katty Paws. Broke the Guinness record for highest Tetris score in the feline world when she was three. Little known fact: She’s dairy intolerant. Favorite dish: Gluten-free pizza with extra anchovies. #LRod #Cats #TGIF

Mona. Anotha’ day, anotha’ rolla’. #LRod

Donatello. No, he’s not sad. That’s just his face. #L.Rod

Riley. She knows all existing dog breeds by heart and can recite them in alphabetical order. She also lives in a trailer park with her mom and her little brother. #LRod

Donna. A donut a day keeps her sorrows away. #LRod

Benito. He collects cacti and names them after his favorite rockers. #LRod #CactusCollector #TBT

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? Mashups and remixes proved to a fun assignment for the past couple of weeks. I feel that I finished each assignment to completion and to the best of my abilities. They all seemed to turn out quite nicely. What gave you trouble? […]

Vocal Instrumental Mashup-3.5 Stars The prompt for this assignment is: For this assignment, you’re going to take the instrumental of a song and mash it up with the VOCALS of another song! Here’s the main challenge with this; both songs have to have similar beats per minute (bpm) to work properly together. The Work Itself […]

On The Cover Of A Teen Mag [Remixed]: Go Emo- 6.13 Stars The prompt for this assignment is: Take a popular figure from politics, education, that you would not expect to be there, on the cover of a teen fan magazine. Bonus points if the cover includes a heart throb of initials JB and a […]

10 Second Sound Mashup- 4 Stars The prompt for this assignment is: 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 at […]

This Doesn’t Belong Here- 4 Stars The prompt for this assignment is: For this assignment you need to mash up two different iconic movie scenes. However, you should aim to be as subtle as possible. Perhaps a famous prop that simply doesn’t belong or a character that looks a little out of place. The Work […]

Explaining to Ashton about Remixing This audio is a recording of my friend and I discussing remixing. She is a little shy and was a little nervous so you don’t hear her speak much but she was there! Promise! One of the videos we were asked to watch for this assignment gave a pretty clear […]

Instead of writing up an explanation of what you learned, instead formulate your own understanding about remix and mashup, and record a video or audio of you explaining it to someone who is not familiar; this could ba a family member, friend, neighbor, random stranger. The point is to capture a recording of your explanation […]

Giant Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head http://theprosperousdaisy.com/daily-create/giant-raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-head/ @ds106dc #tdc1408 #dailycreate Once I was in a place with giant raindrops and tiny umbrellas as plants. pic.twitter.com/Xq2bNIXcMn — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) November 16, 2015 This prompt asked us to draw a place we’ve been to in our dreams. There was one dream that came to mind […]