I missed posting about episode 005? How does this happen to me? I’ve heard this one like five times. Podcasts… Back to the home studio in order to keep up the podcast structure, which I personally appreciate. He talks about … Continue reading →

I missed posting about episode 005? How does this happen to me? I’ve heard this one like five times. Podcasts… Back to the home studio in order to keep up the podcast structure, which I personally appreciate. He talks about … Continue reading →

Recently, I was exposed to reverse-animated GIFs. I must say, some are hilarious. Find a video clip, or shoot one of yourself, and then make it playback in reverse over and over again as a GIF. Try to find a … Continue reading →

Movies are often based on books. Not this time. Design a book cover that is based on a movie. DO NOT use an image of the actor/s. Try to find or create imagery that captures the essence of the movie … Continue reading →

Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell reading books as cool by showing celebrities reading their favorite books. You can read about the history of this promotional campaign here. Experiment with this tradition, introduce a celebrity with … Continue reading →

    Instead of Cartooning myself, I cartooned the doctor from the episode of the Twilight Zone called “Eye of the Beholder” the assignment was: Remake you (or someone you know and love) into a cartoon character. Draw you on … Continue reading →

Photoshop someone(s) (or something(s)) into a picture that isn’t supposed to be there. Here’s the original inspiration for the project: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20110629_1.htm Link to assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/wait-whered-that-guy-come-from/   Original photo taken from the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last”. Rod Serling’s head … Continue reading →

There are a lot of element to designing something correctly. You can’t just hash down some random shapes and expect to have good results. You must take a lot of things into consideration: color, typography, metaphors/symbols, minimalism & use of … Continue reading →

Take the audio from one movie, the ambient sounds, a few words, etc.Remix it into something entirely new. assignment link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/context/ I chose the Lion King as the movie to Remix.  

Metaphors/Symbol- I took this picture when I was walking by the river.  This picture is of a family of turtles represents the symbol of “family” and “kinship”. The turtles are very close together in the center of the frame and … Continue reading →

CC stands for Creative Commons. Creative Commons is an organization that functions as a non-profit and allows the sharing of copyrighted materials. A creative commons license allows the author of a work to give permission to others to share use … Continue reading →

“The concept is to mashup something along the lines of a public apology, a commercial, a pandering politcial speech or anything you’d like to mock for the public good. Here are the steps-1. Pull the audio as an mp3 from YouTube using Zamzar or something similar. 2. Import it into audacity or any audio mixer ...

Turn a comment stream on a site into a narrative! Post your comment at this post and copy it here. This is a variant of ds106 Telling Stories in the Web assignments such as the Amazon 3 Wolf Moon T-shirt. Link to assignment: http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc509/ … Continue reading →

“There are some bands/musicians/artists out there who constantly make solid songs/albums. Using Audacity, pick a band/musician/artists and create a mash-up of what you consider to be some of their greatest hits. It needs to be at least 5 songs (if you can’t find 5, then they might not be as great of a band as ...

So I decided to leave a phone message for Henry Bemis form the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”. You can watch that here. It would ruin to the plot to tell you why the message im leaving Henry … Continue reading →

Back in the 1800s, stereograms were a popular way of creating the optical illusion of depth in a static image by placing two very similar images side by side. they could be viewed using a stereoscope to create the illusion. … Continue reading →

Take six very short fragments (less than one second each) from six different songs and ensemble them into a single piece. Expect others to guess which six songs you have used. Link to Assignment page: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/the-contest-nobody-could-win/   Can you guess the … Continue reading →

Do I decided to auto tune an episode of the Twilight Zone “Time enough at Last”  For the #ds106zone. Since auto tuning the whole episode would be to long to listen to, I only did part of the episode. I auto … Continue reading →

An imitative polyphony can best be described as when you were younger in music class and the teacher would have one side of the class start singing “row row row your boat” and then part way through the song have … Continue reading →

Using Audacity, trim, join end-to-end (cut/paste), and/or play side-by-side audio files in order to create your very own ringtone. Ringtones should be a maximum or 40 seconds to conserve phone memory (besides, most cell phones don’t ring longer than 30 … Continue reading →

This is my dialogue mash-up of “Time Enough at Last” and a clip from “The Venture Brothers”. Using MPEG Streamline and Audacity, I was able to cut bits and pieces of the dialogues apart and paste them together in ways … Continue reading →

You’ve heard Carl Sagan. You’ve heard Bed Intruder. You’ve even heard Gardner Campbell autotuned. Now it’s your turn. Take something not typically musical and autotune it. Link to assignment page: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/autotune-something/ I did Rod Serling, the host of the Twilight Zone. … Continue reading →

Using Audacity (or any other sound editing program) create an audio mashup with 2 very distinct songs. According to wikepedia these mashaps may fall under “fairuse”. Link to assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/music-mashup/ I chose songs “All That She Wants” by Ace of Base and “Just … Continue reading →

I’ve started this habit, where I load Scott Lo’s netvibes site and click on every blog that has a real name. Then I comment and every post made in the last day and a half. It’s kind of nice. I … Continue reading →

Listen to the scottlo cast here #ds106zone Damn it is hot there. 113 F? was only 85ish F here in northern Virginia. That is some good info on  the saveing methood of audacity. I really don’t want to lose any of my … Continue reading →

I have decided to create a sequel to the Twilight Zone episode “Time enough at Last”. You can watch it here if you need a refresher of it. So lets get started. Henry Bemis was distraught. The loss of his glasses … Continue reading →

There are some bands/musicians/artists out there who constantly make solid songs/albums. Using Audacity, pick a band/musician/artists and create a mash-up of what you consider to be some of their greatest hits. It needs to be at least 5 songs (if … Continue reading →

This is a simple mashup that searches Freesounsd and flickr for the same word. It then display the sound and picture. You can reload either until you get an image and sound you like. This can be added to a … Continue reading →

In my sequel to “Time Enough At Last” Henry Bemis goes on a quest to find new glasses and return to the library.  On his trip he gets sidetracked by C3PO (from Star Wars) and they go to a Wendy’s to get burgers.  They eventually find glasses for Henry at a shopping mall and begin ...read more

I really liked the idea of this assignment and thought that it could easily be applied to the episodes of The Twilight Zone that we’ve all been watching. For some reason I did “The Invaders” instead of “Eye of the … Continue reading →