My mashup assignment combined a process of randomly creating an album cover and the critique of a snobby artist. Disclaimer: no hate to the actual artist. I’m just doing the assignment. Here goes nothing:   This Album Cover is so drab! … Continue reading →

Mashup Those Movies I realized after doing this Mashup that I already had 7 stars. But, why not publish it. So here it is. I mashed up two movie posters. They are both robot movies but completely different. WallE is … Continue reading →

Recycled media to make a new story  http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO has a pool of recycled media from unused art of all ds106ers (and beyond)   I found this audio in the pool or recycled media. I decided to theme my project using it. … Continue reading →

I created a Mashup assignment! This was a difficult assignment category to create a new assignment for. However, I was up for the challenge. I went through several ideas trying to create a mashup. A lot of failure was because … Continue reading →

For the Recycle the Media assignment, my story is of a typical UMW student. Most likely the student is female. So I choose a picture of a bookcase of heels (lucky duck). Then I choose the stair case because most … Continue reading →

Yo Mama Tweet “generate a series of images representing the voices of past figures if they could express themselves in twitter.” Remixed with: “Give an assignment a sassy Yo Mama Joke flavor” I decided to put The Grinch and S...

Mashedup Children’s Book “Mashup a children’s book based on another cultural artifact.” I decided to mash the Bearenstain Bears with Smokey the Bear in a children’s book cover: I made this remix by finding a picture of the Bearenstain Bears on google (which I referanced above) uploading it in Picasa, editing it with the Picnik software in Picasa to create the flames and fire hose and then adding the text with the Picasa editor. When I saw this assignment in the assignment bank I liked the examples on the college humor website but had trouble thinking of a childrens book and cultural artifact to mash up myself.. so I googled children’s … Continue reading →

I came across the assignment What Color is your World? and thought it could turn out interesting. At the beginning of the semester (well it actually started last year) came up with a specific color combination we wanted to decorate our apartment in. Our main colors are teal with accents of pink, green, and yellow. My ...

Consumer Mashup “Think of anyplace you spend money, and what you most often buy at that place. “ I mashed McDonalds logo and it’s delicious coffee: I LOVE the mornings I can get myself out of bed 5 minutes early to stop at McDonald’s for coffee before class. I’ve never been much of a caffeine junky, but this semester I think I’ve entered adulthood and needed it more mornings then not. I made this mash up by finding the McDonalds logo and coffee through google (links above) putting both pictures in Microsoft Word, changing the M’s settings to be behind text and the coffee settings to be in front of text. … Continue reading →

I watched Everything is a Remix Part 1 about Led Zeplin’s attempted remixing, which I found out was more copying then remixing. Zeplin did not give credit to original artists, and did not make fundamental changes in order to be able to claim the media was there own. They were sued Then I watched Everything is a Remix Part 3 which says everyone must copy in the beginning in order to ground ourselves in the fundamentals. Most great inventions are not completely original ideas, they are a continuum of ideas building on each other, remixes! The end of the video was most interesting to me. It gave a number of examples in … Continue reading →

  The way I understand a remix is that it is usually music that is created into something new, but it is now being converted into something else, like the first video suggests. I thought the base line from Good … Continue reading →

Originally I thought taking Thanksgiving break completely off from all work was a good idea. Then I re-entered the real world on Monday completely behind in most of my classes!! I missed the proposal deadline , but I’m back now and ready to propose some ideas! I have decided my focus is going to be Italy, I went there last spring and have already included it in some of my projects but have plenty more to create and elaborate on. The assignments I think I am going to do will be… Web: Storytelling within the Web, What they would have done in Social Media; Visual: Flashing Neon GIF, Optical Illusion; Audio: Spring … Continue reading →

I used the ds106 remix site to find a remixed assignment. It came up with a new assignment using the assignment Remixed Game Covers and added a twist to create a dull powerpoint presentation. I have made many powerpoint presentations in my life so I feel I have gotten pretty used to the normal aspects ...

The assignment Recycle that Media involves taking at least 7 different previously unused works from other ds106ers and create it into a whole new story out of it! I first went through all of the 153 items to see what was available to use. My first thought was “what the????”. I had no idea how to ...

When I was coming up with a design assignment I thought it was a good idea to do something that people could possibly relate to and would be fun.  The first thing that came to mind was how obsessed some … Continue reading →

The idea for this assignment came from the environment around me! It has clearly started to get colder and the christmas music has started to make its appearance.  I thought the perfect assignment would be to take an old photo, … Continue reading →

First begin by opening up a photo-editor website such as picnik.com or picmonkey.com. Press “Edit a photo” and upload the photo you would like to transfer into a Warhol image. Once your picture is uploaded click on the chemistry bottle … Continue reading →

Often times when using such websites as picnik.com or picmonkey.com people are trying to improve how they appear in a picture.  For this assignment you are attempting to do the opposite.  To get started begin my opening up picmonkey.com and … Continue reading →