1. Sean Placchetti

    Scott LoDown 005

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    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 his netvibes and how its a great tool for teachers …

  2. Sean Placchetti

    Scott LoDown 005

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    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 his netvibes and how its a great tool for teachers …

  3. amcandre

    AnimatedGIF Assignments: Turn A GIF Into A FIG- 4 stars

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    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 situation that is absolutely mind-blowing when played backwards.
    Link to …

  4. amcandre

    Design Assignments: Create a Read poster- 3 stars

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    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 a book who hasn’t been recognized yet, but …

  5. amcandre

    Design Assignments: Cartoonize You- 2 stars

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    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 a piece of paper, on a tablet, take a photo …

  6. amcandre

    Design Assignments: Wait, Where’d That Guy Come From?- 3 stars

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    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 is on the right side of the frame, which …

  7. andrewthomas

    The elements of design

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    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 space, form/function/message, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, and unity are all…
  8. amcandre

    Design Safari/ Design Elements

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    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 showcase the unity of their group.

    Balance- I took this …

  9. amcandre

    Creative Commons

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    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 or change the original work. This license also protects the …

  10. kriscorpus

    Justin Bieber Likes Turtles

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    “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 …

  11. kriscorpus

    So And So’s Greatest Hits

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    “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 …

  12. andrewthomas

    A phone message for Henry Bemis

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    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 Bemis this message. The message itself could also be …

  13. amcandre

    Animated GIF Assignments: StereoGIFs- 1 star

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    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. The New York Public library has an extensive collection of …

  14. andrewthomas

    lets auto tune the ZONE

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    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 tuned the last 3 minuets which you can watch …

  15. amcandre

    Audio Assignments: Row Row Polyphony- 3.5 stars

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    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 the other half of the class start singing from the …

  16. amcandre

    Audio Assignments: Make your own Ringtone — 2 stars

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    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 seconds or so…the extra 10 seconds is just in case). …

  17. happyfuntimeblues

    Twilight Zone Dialogue Mash-Up

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    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 that might be humorous.

    I’m still finding it difficult to …

  18. Sean Placchetti

    Comment Troll

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    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 hope everyone is doing this. Every time I do I …

  19. andrewthomas

    Number 13 scottlo cast reaction

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    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 work. This info could be a life saver. …

  20. andrewthomas

    The sequel to “Time enough at last”

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    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 was crushing him. He had so much time now …

  21. amcandre

    Audio Assignments: So and So’s Greatest Hits- 3.5 stars

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    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 …

  22. amcandre

    Audio Assignments : FlickrSounds- 2 stars

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    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 list, and the exercise repeated. Once you have a set…
  23. kshavala

    Time to find your glasses

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    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 …

  24. happyfuntimeblues

    Twilight Zone Venn Diagram

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    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 Beholder”, but I’m okay with that. I tried to take …

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