Assignment Idea

Local Commercial Mashup

_cokwr: Find a local place/business that you love! Create a commercial for it using video you've captured and mash it up with audio that provides a discordant experience. For example, mashing up video footage of a children's carousel with heavy metal music., _cpzh4: Mashup, _cre1l: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDW3KP5KrOg, _chk2m: Ben Rimes, _ciyn3: 145, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Over-Dramatic Reading

_cokwr: Choose any written material (a song, poem, short book, excerpt from a novel, scene from a television show, news article, etc.) and record a dramatic reading. Read your selection in a way that alters the message of the original material (at an odd pace, overly excited, sad, etc. -- be creative, make it your own). Make sure you mention what it is you are reading, and who the author of the material is., _cpzh4: Audio, _chk2m: Chris Randles, _ciyn3: 112, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Google History Maps Story

_cokwr: Use Google Maps to tell a story! It can be the story of a trip you took, a trip you would like to take, a strange occurrence, a war, anything you like! The only rules are that you have to use Google Maps proper in order to tell your story, and post it here. For a much fancier version that predates mine, see: http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/, _cpzh4: On/In the Web, _cre1l: http://deliberatelysnarky.com/blog/archives/177, _chk2m: David (Mr. Thimble), _ciyn3: 105, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

SuperHero – Super Villain Your Friends

_cokwr: Turn your friend into a superhero or a super villain by preplacing an existing character's head with your friends. Or mix and match any variety of body parts, super powers, etc. for effect. Also consider adapting a character's quote to suit your friend's personality and include it in the image., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://yfrog.com/mfr95xij, _chk2m: Michael Branson Smith (for CogDog), _ciyn3: 198, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Warning

_cokwr: Lots of things today have warning labels. Create warning labels for things that exist only in movies or your imagination. Examples, _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2011/02/science-fiction-danger-awareness.html, _chk2m: Tom, _ciyn3: 87, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Playlist Poetry

_cokwr: Write a sentence (preferably somewhat coherent, yet on the nonsensical side), a poem, or a quick story using the titles of songs you have in your Windows Media Player (iTunes may possibly work as well). Print the screen. Paste it in Microsoft Paint (or some higher-end equivalent). Save it, upload it, and share. If you could even respond to the one I originally created as a challenge (possibly even embed it as a comment on that blog entry), that would be even cooler., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://nogoodadvice.somethingkindaooooh.com/2011/02/04/visual-assignment/, _chk2m: callean, _ciyn3: 46, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

An Album Cover

_cokwr: So here's something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band. Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page. The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album Lastly, go here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put them over top. However you wanna do it. Make it look cool., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://blog.thecrazyleghero.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Stallion.jpg, _chk2m: Crazylegs, _ciyn3: 44, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

d&ds106 Monster Manual

_cokwr: Take one of the people from ds106 and make them a monster profile a la Gary Gygax's classic 1977 Monster Manual. Make it a playing card, using a series of pre-defined qualities from the manual. You can see an example of this here: http://bavatuesdays.com/the-ds106-99-47-dds106-monster-manual-cogdog/ , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2011/05/dds106_cogdog_front.jpg, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 130, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Spreadsheet Invasion

_cokwr: Excel is usually a place where people go to suffer. It is time to reclaim it. Animate a scene using colored Excel cells as your medium. , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: vimeo.com/16845078, _chk2m: Tom Woodward, _ciyn3: 1, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Reimagined Road Signs

_cokwr: Reimagine the scene in a road sign. What is going on outside the iconic depiction in the sign itself? Find a road sign image online or photograph it yourself. Redraw it to show the rest of the scene you imagine, and show us the before/after on your blog., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://is.gd/8qUpyK, _chk2m: Cheryl Colan, _ciyn3: 139, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3: