Recycle the Media “ mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video). The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content”   I got my media from here to create Serene Scenes of Fredericksburg: When looking through to recycled media I tried to find a theme, and the most obvious one to me was scenes of Fredericksburg. Then I found the sound clip of birds chirping and thought that would fit well in a video … Continue reading →

By far my favorite video we were asked to review this week was Disney Used to Explain Copyright (here be the clip): . I liked this video so much because of its tact, I shared it with several friends. Since … Continue reading →

As earlier stated, in the previous blog containing the poster for The Princess Rebellion (http://ashstegemiller.com/wordpress/2012/12/01/the-rebellious-princesses/) Disney has done their best to hide the rebellious years of various Disney princesses, but their rival movie producers, Pixar was able to plant hidden … Continue reading →

This is mashup assignment 746, “Recycle the Media” is it worth 3 stars. The assignment read: “During the Fall 2012 iteration of ds106 taught at UMW, we collected media from students that was unused in their previous work uploaded to http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the password was “photos4life” newly added media might take some time to be moved- ...

Mashup week was actually one of the simpler weeks for me. I expected it to be difficult since this involved using more than one media and mixing them together. However, these assignments didn’t take me very long to do and I feel I got very good results. When I first looked at the week 13 […]

Do you hate Excel? Well, that sucks, because I don’t and I’m about to show you the Spreadsheet Invasion assignment! This assignment tells you to reclaim Excel and use colors as your medium…Essentially, make a movie of art creation in Excel using those pesky little cells and a lot a bit of COLOR! WAIT, THIS ISN’T DESIGN WEEK!!!! RRRRRREEEEEEMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIXXXXXX! If you didn’t hate Excel before, and if you tried the Spreadsheet Invasion assignment already, how about putting a remix card with it? Let me show you how it’s done! My Spreadsheet Invasion was remixed with none other than the Dr. Suess It. Introduce a character, quote, or other element inspired … Continue reading →

The goal for this assignment was to take an actor, and show him getting older, as sort of a metamorphosis or transformation (hench the title).  I chose Christian Bale for this assignment because I know he has done movies at … Continue reading →

What is a remix?  I think to put it simply is a mashup or combination of a bunch of similar, or different things to make a new thing, usually some sort of new story.  I really liked Austin Kleon’s idea that … Continue reading →

This is 4 star mash up assignment “Ben Harwood’s Track blazing troubadour” it is mash-up assignment 135. The assignment read: “Make a movie trailer by taking a trilogy, or any series of movies (LOTR, Saw, Final Destination etc.) and combine scenes from all the trailers to make one trailer…” I chose to use Toy Story, ...

My understanding of remix and mashups, after watching the video was simply taking an existing audio/video and adding your own twist to it. After watching Disney Describing Copyright, you can see remixing at its best! The creator of this video did an … Continue reading →

Remix References First I watched Everything is a Remix (Part 1). this video was very interesting to me because I have never noticed how common remixes are in everyday life. This video showed that in the entertainment industry especially, almost everything is a remix. I never considered knock offs and covers remixes until Kirby Ferguson ...

This week our main focus is on the idea of “remix”. Remix can be defined as “combining and editing existing materials to create something new” according to the first video I watched by Kirby Ferguson.  Remixes can be found anywhere, … Continue reading →

So for one of our assignments this week, we had to go to the remixer site for ds106 and click on the blender on that site. This used a past assignment and remixed it in a certain way. You could … Continue reading →