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Police Beat

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Submitted by: Tom Woodward

Essentially, identify an innocent seeming song that advocates some odd/criminal behavior and reformat it as a police report style article. My example based on “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” is below.

Example
Eddie Kendricks, 46, was arrested at his former residence, 12 Jones street, at 4:37AM. Kendricks is accused of stalking and violating an order of protection filed by his former wife, Angela Berry, after their recent divorce.

Kendricks is accused of sleeping on the doorstep of the residence they previously shared. Kendricks is also accused of actively preventing Ms. Berry from leaving her home. Witnesses report that Kendricks often appeared incoherent, at times sobbing and begging at the door of Ms. Berry’s residence for hours at a time.

“At first, it was funny,” reported Berry’s neighbor, Ron Paxton. “We’d laugh at him, a grown man, behaving like that. But then he just wouldn’t stop. Poor Angie couldn’t even leave the house. Something had to be done.”

Prosecutors say more charges may be pending for Kendricks who has defied previous restraining orders and was out on bail at the time of his latest arrest.

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Mission: Defamiliarize

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Submitted by: Brian Short (andessurvivor.com)

Make a set of ten photos which take something familiar to you–a town, building, object, etc.–and defamiliarize it, make it seem foreign. Use a mix of extreme closeups, weird lighting, foreground/background focusing and odd angles and other effects to make something that you know very well seem like something you’ve never seen before, something spooky and/or luminous and/or magical.

See an example at http://www.andessurvivor.com/2012/01/23/mission-defamiliarize/

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Gateways to Geekery

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Submitted by: Brian Short (andessurvivor.com)

Make a “Gateway to Geekery” post (in the style of The Onion AV Club’s posts) about a favorite director, actor, band, musician, writer, etc. Give an overview of his/her/their career(s), including sections on “Why It’s Daunting,” “Possible Gateway,” “Next Steps,” and “Where Not to Start.”

Feel free to include Creative Commons photos, screenshots, embedded YouTube videos, etc. to liven up the text. Have fun!

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Brian Metcalfe’s Image with a Message

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Submitted by: Brian Metcalfe

Demonstrate that “a picture is worth a thousand words” by superimposing a famous quotation over a “Creative Commons” licensed image.

Make certain to include the author’s name and the licensed image web address in your visual remix to provide proper credit and acknowledgement.

Detailed lesson steps, together with supporting web sites, samples, and activity handouts are available on my blog at: http://life-long-learners.com/image-with-a-message/

Take care & keep smiling :-)

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Bad Guy Business Cards

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Submitted by: phb256

Apparently, street gangs in Chicago, like the Hell’s Devils, used to have calling cards (see the gallery: http://bit.ly/pyuOEl). This makes me think that poor marketing gives evil-doers a bad image. Help some of them out by creating business cards for them. But not the Joker – that’s too obvious.

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Create Your Own SuperPAC

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Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith

Do you have a cause/candidate you are aching to support? Why not build your own SuperPAC? Can’t think of a name and/or a mission? Well the folks at WNYC can help you out with this SuperPAC name generator. After you’ve got you’re SuperPAC name it’s time to mashup up some media to support your cause. Use a piece of fiction or reality to start sculpting your message! PSAs, Radio spots, Posters, anything and everything is fair game for this assignment.

Check out The Dude’s SuperPac

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Patty Pioneers

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Submitted by: Adam

Simply put, this assignment involves editing a picture of any Computer Pioneer so that it looks like they are eating/about to eat/holding a burger or similar types of fast food.

For example, instead of using a hamburger as I did in the example photograph, you may wish to use a hot dog or french fries. Anything that you may find at a local fast food restaurant is acceptable. Drinks may be used as well, however, you must incorporate fast food within your picture.

Here are some tips when selecting a picture:

1) Try to pick a photograph where the person is already holding something in the picture. This will allow you edit the picture more easily, effectively, and helps make the picture more realistic looking after editing.

2) Try to match up the quality of the images you are working with so that they will be more ascetically pleasing, as well as more professional looking. If you are more technically capable, you may want to distort the image of the food item by inserting a layer of noise on the photo and then blurring the edges around the food item in order to make it blend in to the background. Remember, layers are your friend!

4) Don’t be intimidated by photo editing. The internet is your friend! Use a web search and find some tutorials on your favorite image editing software. It’s actually quite an easy assignment to do.

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the origins of…

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Submitted by: dkernohan

Make a super-hero origins strip about your online persona, or the persona of someone else. You might want to use Pixton (http://www.pixton.com) – you might want to use something else, or draw it freehand if you are super-talented. But capturing the mood and making the story “feel” right are key, you might want to track down some super-hero origin strips to get the idea.

See the originas of the Apocalypse

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Three Word Wednesday.

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Submitted by: Giulia

Go to http://www.threewordwednesday.com/ and find the three words for this week.
from the site:
Three Word Wednesday gives writers, poets and those who journal a mid-week jolt of creativity.
Each week, three words are selected; you create something with the words. Then come back and post a link to your contribution.
The idea is to create an online writers’ collective, where feedback is offered and received.
All rights to the contributions rest with the author.
This is a place to stretch your muse, test your dreams.
Get writing, you.

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Your DigiArt Tells a Story

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Submitted by: Sandy Brown Jensen

Using a digital art application of any kind that lets you draw and/or paint, create at least four images that tell a digital story. Use captions and use your words to move the reader through the trajectory of the story.
Here is an example:
http://pln.lanecc.net/mindonfire/2012/01/15/lady-pig-sassy-crow/