Believe it or not this one was impulse. I saw the sign when I was out for a walk and thought. “Hey that’s my street!” I promptly snapped a shot. I see this as an assignment and well I got lucky. Now I have been getting bored of the regular assignments so I decided to do a ...

This is my first gif. The wiggle stereoscopy! It took me a couple of tries, I eventually got it. It seemed like forever. I felt bad using something from inside again, but it was 6am and I had nothing else better to do before my chem lab. My love of coffee mixed with  with my enjoyment ...

Adapt a famous artist’s work to change or reinforce its possible message. Can you tell what this famous work of art is?   http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8833478800/

  Just some good clean fun with Obama’s face.  I’m sure he wouldn’t have it any other way.  Not one of Dave Chappelle’s best movies in my mind, but he is always entertaining.  I edited this in GIMP using the lasso tool and it fit right in. Here is a link to the assignment. Difficulty: 2 ...read more

  A summary of  your reflections upon the media we asked you to review this week (Scottlo’s Podcasts, Gardner Campbell’s essay and video, and Michael Wesch’s presentation) along with links to your blog post(s) about them. scottlo casts links http://andrewmichaelthomas.com/wordpress/blog/2013/05/20/reaction-to-the-first-scottlo-podcast/ … Continue reading →

Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cat-breading/ “The latest bizarre trend blowing up Facebook mini-feeds everywhere? Cat Breading. (Think LOLcats, but with a trippy twist—each adorable kitten has been adorned with a slice of bread, which encases their little feline face.)”     This is post-breaded … Continue reading →

A couple of my friends and I watched “How to Train Your Dragon” the other day and for a kids movie I thought it was really good.  It has a bit of a cheesy moral, but I guess that’s what can you expect from a G rated movie.  I decided to put the main dragon ...read more

 Acrostic Pictures Make an acrostic poem collage.  Use each letter from your name and go onto flickr and search for a picture that represents you.  Then you any photoediting to make it a collage. Edit it to make it fun and creative.  See if people can figure out what your name is! All of the ...

  I’m sure I’ll get flack for butchering the twilight zone title screen. If you never had a valid reason to hate comic sans, now you do.   This was a rather simple assignment. It was to take something like a company logo or text based and use an awful font or one that didn’t fit. I really couldn’t think of ...

See, what did she have to kick in down the ladder for? A ll the poor guy wanted was a cup of sugar! People these days…       For those that don’t know this is a screenshot from The Twilight Zone “The Invaders”. He just got of his little flying saucer that landed on her roof or

Visual Assignments: A-Z Photo Collage Make an alphabetically themed collage. Compile images to represent each letter of the alphabet within a chosen subject area or theme. Create a collage. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-z-photo-collage/ Thi...

Guess that film! to.. This challenge is a great way to challenge your brain to pick out 4 pictures that describe a movie! Pick 4 photos and collage them together to make your own movie scene. I watched this film recently! I thought it was a tad weird but I liked it! I Googled 4 ...

  This is one of my biggest pet peeves.  Since when was it cool for your car to be really loud? One of my friends got rid of his muffler.  Whats the point and why is this necessary? Made this in GIMP and thought I would add the Jackie Chan rage face to help you ...read more

This bumper sticker is as silly one for those of us who are very tired of people following entirely to close.       The challenging part for this one is trying to image in on a car. Yeah, anyone can go to through photoshop and slap this together, but you have to make sure people can actually read

What A Crappy Font will Do Fonts say much more than the text they display. Fonts are full of style and meaning. It’s an assignment based on this: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Not-strong-mark/5226613 Take a well know logo and remix it using a different font. The crappier the font, the better. Or maybe you think a different font might ...

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Standing Tall, a photo by SeanPlacchetti on Flickr. The desk, one more screen towards completion.

  This is my Ultimate Merger assignment where I have combined Nike and Google’s catch phrase and logo to send DS106ers a message to “Just google your ds106 questions.”  I put these together in GIMP by cropping, rotating and resizing these logos. This is the link to the assignment. Difficulty: 3 1/2 stars

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8790135662/ This picture is to celebrate daily create’s 500th posting. There are 500 puzzle pieces in this creation..go ahead…count em’!

  Assignment details: http://assignments.ds106.us/add-directly/?aid=46224 Inspired by reddit’s “Where did the Soda Go?” board at http://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago, create a gif of a hilarious infomercial moment that illustrates how ridiculous some infomercials can be.   my animated gif: http://amcandre.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/asseenontv.wmv Can’t stop spilling! This is my animated gif from the as seen on tv video. It’s of people spilling stuff on ...

Hear it here at http://scottlo.com/?p=1574 So which recording software did you find the best? seems like you used a few different ones over the week. Other wise good podcast. Nice that there was a reminder about the weekly write up that … Continue reading →

Putting Disney into Focus Put a famous object from any Disney movie into focus. Blur everything around it, make the color pop out, BE CREATIVE! In your blog post, explain why you picked that object to focus on. I decided to take some liberty with this assignment and move the Disney focus towards the Invaders ...

From The Twilight Zone, And Beyond …Assignment, this is when the lady strikes the “invader” out of the attic. click here for the gif: twilight zone   http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8830466692/

Episode 6 I’ll have to start playing with the iTalk Recorder as well as Audacity. Hope you enjoyed your chicken.  Thanks for holding it down Talky Tina.  The info about the quality of video recordings and file types is helpful as well. Keep it coming!

Episode 5 Great idea to incorporate Netvibes to organize all the students posts.  I made sure to revise my “about me” page after listening to this podcast.

Episode 4 Looking forward to getting started with some of the audio editing tools.  I don’t mind the podcast format and find the archived posts very convenient.  It would be tough to tune into the radio show everyday at the same time.  I will make sure to join in on the google hangouts soon.  

What’s the daily challenge? tdc498: Using your foot and a pen write out your name on a piece of paper (or heck an iPad) Confused: I think this is suppose to be tdc503 but that isn’t what ds106 Daily Create @ds106dc hash tagged it! But hey I’m going with the flow! This #tdc498!! Okay this ...

  Wanted to show the Invaders have arrived in my graffiti post.  This is my favorite type of generic alien, so I thought I would incorporate it into the invaders posts.  I cut the alien out in GIMP and downloaded a graffiti font from here. A link to the assignment. Difficulty: 2 stars

Beautiful people, so much can be said about this topic.  Since the stone age beauty has been high priority  on everyones list.  So much time and effort is given each day on recreating oneself makeup, pills, lotions, even plastic surgery.  Rather than … Continue reading →

Professor Michael Wesch drew me in by beginning his speech with a few questions that I know professors have been asked before such as, “How many points is this worth?” or “Will this be on the test?”  He explains the problems associated with students just wanting to do the bare minimum to get by and ...read more