I wanted to see how cinnamon taste. so I attempted to be the first person to eat it without showing any reaction. But that did’nt turn out how I would have liked.

I wanted to touch base – As many of you know I was unable to come to class last week due to an emergency. Despite my California experience ending in a “bang” I was able to participate or attend several interesting conferences pertaining to our class. In LA I got a scholarship to go to ...

I would have to say of all the activities I did for the semester my favorite would have one I did for the DS106 Sardonic Mashup audio assignment. This was an assignment I enjoyed doing the most, because firstly it was a spoof of an apology of a ridiculous situation and secondly it was working […]

As I mentioned before I have an obsession with vampires. I took a pciture of “Queen Akasha” from the movie ‘Queen Of The Damned” and made a png file of her sitting on the throne. Here is the original file and the stripped PNG file. I honestly thing I did a terrible job. For some ...

I had a lot of fun with this project. I used a clip from my current obsession HBO’s Game of Thrones, at the end of season one when Eddard Stark, lord of Winterfell and hand of the king was executed … Continue reading →

My favorite type of digital storytelling activity was from the Daily Create. I chose the “TDC395: Rename a title from a movie poster”, because I think it caught my attention to try giving a new name for a movie to either … Continue reading →

I decided to channel Lucille Bluth’s nonchalance into a horror scene. For this project I used iMovie to take out the cut of Gob begging his mom for attention and replace it with Jigsaw (from the saw movies) showing up … Continue reading →

For this assignment we were asked to find a case of copyright infringement or fair use that deals with a popular art design. I decided to choose the copy right infringement case about the hit sitcom animated series “South Park”. In July of 2011, South Park creators found themselves in the middle of a copyright ...

Fair Use?   French street artist Invader recreates Joel Brodsky’s iconic Jim Morrison photo with Rubik’s Cubes   There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about “fair use” on the Internet. Everyone thinks they know what fair use is, but not even attorneys, … Continue reading →

This past week, we looked at what exactly copyright means in modern society. Unfortunately, to learn about copyright also means that everything in our society is pretty much grounds for

This is an audio file called “What If” the audio was substrated from different video files. the reason why I chose this type of project is because I wanted to see the difference between, watch a video and listen to the audio only. in the pass i edited a video using the same footage and placing different voice over different people. it was cool to see the a girls face over a man voice. so now is was just listening to the voice and imagine the person behind that voice. I also include a Spanish song on the background, the song is called Creere which mean I believe in english.

The example of copyright infringement I chose to write is the controversy between “Weird Al” Yankovic and rapper Coolio in the early 90s. “Weird Al” Yankovic is known for making parodies of hit songs from the late 80s to present. In 1996, he created a parody of Coolio’s smash “Gangsta’s Paradise” called “Amish Paradise”. Yankovic ...

Digital storytelling acknowledges the creativity that goes into a project. My favorite assignment I worked in was the supercut it montage. My first experience was about a week ago. I have seen videos of actors a specific lied but i … Continue reading →

Copyright and infringement gives the right full owner a chance to defend their work if they feel like someone used their original piece and is now making money of it. For educational purposes some people might get lucky with the … Continue reading →

The semesters almost over and honestly I don’t know how I feel about that. It is perhaps the greatest understatement to say tis semester has been short. My first semester felt like it went back in the blink of an eye, we only had 12 or 13 days of class, granted each class was 2 ...

In response to CT101s post Fairness and Fair Use, I chose to look at the current ongoing case between popular Wu-Tang rapper/ producer and now recently actor and director Robert Diggs aka RZA or Bobby Digital. RZA was the producer for Kanye West’s single “Dark Fantasy” from his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The […]

Growing up i always heard this line from my cousins. I only recently saw the movie ‘The Dead Zone’. It was a great movie but i wish i gave it my undivided attention. Anyways, lets move on towards something a … Continue reading →

In response to Prof. Chloe’s post this Friday gone. I watched the James Gee video on video games and interacting with media. What stood out for me is the evidence which found that text books have been the least successful tools.  I remember back home in Barbados having similar discussions with two former co-workers. One […]

So I know its been a while since i last posted anything on the blog, so here we go I been trying to make up my mind on what to use for this popcorn video along with having my own issues to the not so easy use of popcorn in regards to videos. Any how […]

Hello Peeps, writing from sunny, sunny California. Just spent the week at the AERA (American Education Research Association) conference and saw as one might expect some fascinating presentations on technology and the future of education. The bay area breaths the internet and it makes for a very inspiring atmosphere. I was invited to go to a presentation on ...

I drew a self-portrait of myself. dailycreate, tdc479

A partner and I made Puppet Trolls with iMovie which turned out pretty cool. We found an image of Patrick from Spongebob with a surprised look on his face and inserted it into a clip from a Knicks game. It … Continue reading →

Week Ten Summary   As a team of two, we cut out a picture of of puppet, shot it against a green background and downloaded to computer. We then got a basketball game and cut out a clip where a … Continue reading →

So I made a Graphic Gift and I wanted to use a cool throwback image so, I decided to use a pic of Sailor Moon! Sailor Moon was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid so this is pretty … Continue reading →

Week Seven Summary We worked in a group of three to create a five minute radio show that solves a problem using satirical approach that is either utopian or dystopian. The issue highlighted in the show was bullying because bullying … Continue reading →

Week Five Summary The Horse Needs Shoes During a live session, I was a part of a 3 member group among 16 students that worked in five groups to create sounds for 30 to 40 second portions of a particular … Continue reading →

Me and Jonathan decided to use the infamous “Grumpy Cat” for our assignment. He is all over the social network sites and he has at least 1,000 different memes today with his face. 1st we took an image of the Grumpy Cat from Google. Then we found a video that we wanted to insert him into Green ...

For this ds106 activty, the task was to create a music video for any song. I decided to use Three Days Grace song- “Riot” and Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds,” to display the rebellious behavior of these angry birds as they fight us back. The overall message of this video is to stop animal abuse and treat ...

Fairness and Fair Use Vanilla Ice vs Queen & Bowie Vanilla Ice became a household word for a while, not because of his talent, but because of the copyright infringement that occured in 1990 when it came to light that he had sampled Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” without consent or license. Ice Ice ...