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Storm’s Stormy Cover

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I’m finally getting to some of the design assignments. This is my animated comic book cover for a Storm from X-Men.

I became interested in doing this assignment because of ds106 home page introduced us to mwalker version of the comic book cover Flash.

I found this assignment to be fun and very easy. I used the program Gimp, i then proceeded to search for an interesting picture of storm that i can used. i used storm because I enjoyed watching her control the atmosphere it was so powerful and cool. I only used two layers and had the original image on the first layer then the second layer I colored in the lighting with a plum purple shade that matched the original background. Then you click filter->animation-> clickback, and enjopyed my final product.

This was a very fun assignment to complete definitely encourage it. Good Luck!!!!

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They’re Here!

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I loved Linda McKenna’s assignment to make a ds106-themed movie poster, so I started searching through some of the classic horror movie posters over the years. I didn’t have much time because I still have an Animated Comic Book Cover GIF to do, so I was looking for something quick. When I saw the movie poster for Poltergeist I figured why not just replace the hockey game on the TV screen with the ds106.us website? I did a quick screen shot of the ds106 website, but proceeded to spend about an hour messing with the layers anyway between tracing out the TV screen, cropping the added layer, messing up a few times, etc. In the end it’s still far from perfect, but I think the idea of ds106 as an alien that abducts your soul not unlike TV is made clear. What’s more, this little known alternative tagline for the film sums up my whole idea of the class

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Up Up And Away

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Design Assignment: Animated Move Posters

For this assignment, I created all my images in Photoshop. To move the balloons, I first had to cut out the balloons by using the quick selection tool and move it into a new layer. Then for just the background, I used the cloning tool to erase the balloons from the picture. Once I just had a plain background and the balloons in a separate layer, I was able to create multiple images by moving the balloons and it’s shadow for each screen shot.

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Join in the brand

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Me and the gals learned to stop worrying and love the propaganda.

Because we’re in DS106 now.

This is an ANIMATED propaganda poster. I used Photoshop and very crudely selected out the bits I wanted to erase, used the eyedropper to select the background colour and filled in parts. This was not satisfactory in some sections so I had to use the rubber stamp tool to clone and get the right variety of colours. Thanks to @cogdog I was able to use the opacity animation feature to make a layer 100% to 0% visible across the animation timeline. I never knew that was there! There are also animation ability for position which would have made my bread head assignment way easier to do, instead of using nudge, you can just set key frame position and Adobe figures out the tweening for you.

Learning, learning, always learning! (hmm…sounds like another propaganda poster)

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Who Watches the Watchmen?

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Who watches the watchmen? If teachers are to be held accountable now for every single result that their students achieve on any and all testing, who makes sure that every single teacher in a school building is bringing their “A” game every single day? If it falls upon the administrators, then who is it that makes sure those principals and evaluators are able to observe every single teacher, each and every week, in order to maintain at least a semblance of consistency? If each and every state is going to hire external monitors, pay for expensive testing protocols, and report data in a near-constant stream to the public, which oversight body of elected officials or bureaucrats is going to have to spend every waking moment following through on this? If all of these measures are going to cost millions, if not billions, of dollars, where is that money coming from, and what could it be paying for in education in it’s stead? Who are the tax payers and voters that ultimately have to hold this entire process accountable, or at the very least, know enough about it so they can shut it down when it becomes far too cumbersome, inefficient, and completely irrelevant to predicting students’ success in the real world?

My fear, is that nobody is watching the watchmen, and they have run amok with our schools.

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Photo It Like Peanut Butter: Visual Assignment 347

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I wanted to make something that related to the class. I don’t know if you can see it but the ds106 site is on the screen. Also, sometimes I feel like my computer is my pet and this really brought it to life. Made it seem like it was snuggling back in its bed to sleep!

How I made it

My friend CharlieRocket showed me a ds106 tutorial a few days ago on how to make a GIF, which I used to make the GIF on my main site. I used the same tutorial, but cut out the whole first part about MPEG Streamclip and just imported the images as layers and, boom, my computer is packing itself up.

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Pokemon Card

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“NORBERT WIENER, I CHOOSE YOU!”

DS106 Assignment:

Create your own Pokemon card.

Process:

For this particular assignment, i used a flash based pokemon card generator (http://www.mypokecard.com/en/). It’s a very simple “program”. Simply choose a picture from your computer and enter the name/attack/level/etc. After clicking the “process” button, i saved the image to my computer then uploaded it directly to this wordpress post.

Story:

I decided to go with Norbert Wiener (aka child prodigy / genius) for the Pokemon Card assignment. He was in his own league, to say the least. He was a mathematician, engineer, and philosopher. He graduated high school at the age of eleven, and was awarded a Ph.D at Harvard at the age of seventeen. Now, what was i doing when i was seventeen?…..Well, there goes my self-esteem. Oh yeah, did i mention he was also the originator of cybernetics? Wiener himself defined cybernetics as ”the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine”. I found it to be more than necessary to award a man of such calibre with his very own Pokemon card. His “attacks” consist of what he was best known for; cybernetics and mathematics. While i was looking through google for an appropriate picture, i was very pleased to have come across a picture of him looking like he’s ready to attack. He was a truly a gifted individual who contributed a great amount to the field of technology.

“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.“

-N. Wiener

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Vocaloids: Gateway to Geekery

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Why it’s Daunting:

For fans of the William Gibson novel “Idoru”, her rise was foreseen. She topped the charts with a number two album in 2009 and a number one single on iTunes in 2012. Her name in Miku Hatsune, and she is a Vocaloid. Vocaloids are synthetic music software programs that anyone can purchase and use to edit and create songs. They can then upload the song to the web or make a CGI video with an avatar dancing and performing the song. Miku’s most popular web videos where compiled into albums and a devoted fan base developed. Americans find it strange to be a fan of a digital entity that doesn’t really exist. In an industry that auto tunes most acts anyway, there can hardly be said to be a difference.

Where to Start:

Miku’s first viral video was of her singing a Finnish polka song “Ievan Polka” while animated in Japanese “Chibi” style, waving an onion. The plucky electro pop beat and quick lyrics are quite catchy. This is also an example of the irreverent nature of her open source contributors.

Miku’s iTunes chart topper “Tell Your World” is fairly standard Jpop. The natural sounding piano instrumental combined with her buzzing vocals makes an uplifting, inspirational piece.

Next Step:

Her fan base originated on the Japanese site Nico Nico Doga, a video media streaming service. She propagated to Youtube from there and reached a larger international audience. All told, tens of thousands of users have created content for the Hatsune Vocaloid. Finding what is appealing is a matter of a short web search. She is used quite well in the electronic and trace genres, fitting considering her electronic origins as a robotic researchers voice software. “Lost You” is a deliciously chilly progressive trance track, probably my favorite.

“Sky High” is a deep ambient piece, with a ghostly disembodied other worldliness in the vocals.

If you tire of the endless computer searches and want to enjoy an evening out, you can purchase Miku Hatsune concert tickets. That’s right, a virtual idol has live concerts. She’s projected as a hologram on a stage and performs her most popular songs with a live band. She’s had shows in Tokyo and Singapore

To get the full Miku Hatsune experience, you can buy the program and make Hatsune songs yourself. This is what is so profound about her. Anyone with talent can produce there own music and have it performed by a beloved national idol to the adulation of tens of thousands of fans any where in the world.

Where Not to Start:

Miku Hatsune Death Metal

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Vocaloids: Gateway to Geekery

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Why it’s Daunting:

Where to Start:

Miku’s iTunes chart topper “Tell Your World” is fairly standard Jpop. The natural sounding piano instrumental combined with her buzzing vocals makes an uplifting, inspirational piece.

Next Step:

“Sky High” is a deep ambient piece, with a ghostly disembodied other worldliness in the vocals.

Where Not to Start:

Miku Hatsune Death Metal

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Any Threes?

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This seemed to be the best way I could find to comment on Alan Levine’s Animated MacGuffin which is now a “MacGIFfin”. And if you know this scene in The Sting, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) set’s up Harry Gondorf (Paul Newman) with a hand of four threes, which he is to beat with his setup hand of four nines. But Gondorf is the better cheat, substituting four Jacks. Go fish Lonnegan!