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On This Day

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8 votes, average: 2.00 out of 58 votes, average: 2.00 out of 58 votes, average: 2.00 out of 58 votes, average: 2.00 out of 58 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5
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  • Submitted by: Stephanie
_cokwr: Design your own Google-esque image using either your first or last name. Use the colors of the Google letters. Pick your topic by searching for "on this day in history" using your birthday (month and day only). Be sure to say what the event is below your creation! , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://blog.stephlefferts.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/sesame-street-image.jpg, _chk2m: Stephanie, _ciyn3: 60, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Greetings From DS106

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9 votes, average: 2.89 out of 59 votes, average: 2.89 out of 59 votes, average: 2.89 out of 59 votes, average: 2.89 out of 59 votes, average: 2.89 out of 5
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  • Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith
_cokwr: Tell us where you are, where you're from, or simply where you'd rather be and build a greeting card., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/5373077131/in/set-72157612012225072, _chk2m: Michael Branson Smith, _ciyn3: 137, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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News on the March

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  • Submitted by: Alan Liddell
_cokwr: Create a 30's/40's-style newsreel about anything at all. Just make sure it's heavy on the propaganda feel., _cpzh4: Video, _cre1l: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfuJfC3Tw_0, _chk2m: Alan Liddell, _ciyn3: 153, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Your very own Spubble

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  • Submitted by: Jim Groom
_cokwr: Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh---but I must acknowledge there are other possible emotional responses that may be just as acceptable. Think of it as lolcat, save it's a human (namely you) and there is nothing compelling anyone to abuse the letter z in the speech bubble text. Picnik.com or Aviary.com would make this assignment dead simple., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2011/10/Picture-14.png, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 190, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Seven-character Story Treatment

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  • Submitted by: Lisa M Lane
_cokwr: Create a seven-character team in the tradition of Justice League, Murder by Death, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and write a brief treatment for a potential movie or TV pilot., _cpzh4: Writing, _cre1l: http://lisahistoryds106.posterous.com/seven-character-story-treatment, _chk2m: Lisa M Lane, _ciyn3: 82, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Troll Quotes

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  • Submitted by: Mikhail Gershovich
_cokwr: Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the official site: How It Works 1) Get a picture of someone people idolize. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do. 2) Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a quote from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica. 3) Attribute the quotation to a third character, from yet a third universe. This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once. , _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://www.trollquotes.com/, _chk2m: Mikhail Gershovich, _ciyn3: 24, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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ds106 radio

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  • Submitted by: Jim Groom
_cokwr: Come up with an aesthetic for ds106 radio. If you were to create a shirt, bumper sticker, poster, etc. what would it look like? See WFMU as an example/inspiration., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://wfmu.org/, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 50, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Make a Scene from a Horror Film

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  • Submitted by: shannotate
_cokwr: Recreate (or make your own!) scene from a horror movie. Whether you recreate the "Hereee's Johnny!" scene from The Shining or create a new idea all together is up to you. , _cpzh4: Video, _cre1l: http://words.shannotate.com/?p=128, _chk2m: shannotate, _ciyn3: 157, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Redub The Audio

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  • Submitted by: Alan Levine
Take a classic movie (or heck any movie you like), and rescript the audio of a key scene. You will want to re-write the lines to change the meaning or intent of the scene, delete the original audio, and record your own (this can be done many ways, voiceover in iMovie, recording the audio and editing the track in any other movie editor). For my example, I took Howard Beale's on camera rampage from "Network", and changed it to a diatribe on being bored in school., _cpzh4: Video, _cre1l: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZcMucXO7es, _chk2m: Alan Levine, _ciyn3: 131, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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I made tea.

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  • Submitted by: Tim Owens
_cokwr: We need to learn the value of stripping things down, removing the cruft, making more with less. Take a large body of text and reduce it continually until you’re left with something that still holds all its meaning but is much more succinct and approachable. Use this tool to make a visual representation of these edits: http://www.telescopictext.org/, _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://www.timmmmyboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-1-580x322.png, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 10, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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