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d&ds106 Monster Manual

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Submitted by: Jim Groom

_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: DesignAssignments130, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials130

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Spreadsheet Invasion

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Submitted by: Tom Woodward

_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: DesignAssignments1, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials1

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Reimagined Road Signs

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Submitted by: Cheryl Colan

_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: VisualAssignments139, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials139

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Movie Trailer Mashup

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Submitted by: duncandonuts56

_cokwr: Take your favorite movie trailer and mash it up with a different trailer to completely change the meaning of the original trailer. For example, if you have a funny movie trailer, give it the sound of a terrifying movie; or vice versa. You may need to clip the audio or the visual, use imovie and audacity to cut the clips to give you what you need. Good luck!, _cpzh4: Mashup, _cre1l: http://donuts56.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/mashup-finding-jaws/, _chk2m: duncandonuts56, _ciyn3: 125, _ckd7g: MashupAssignments125, _clrrx: MashupAssignments, _cztg3: MashupTutorials125

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The Wayback Machine

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Submitted by: Tim Owens

_cokwr: Remember what the web looked like in 1997? You might not, but it was retrofabulous! For this assignment take a modern website or web service and downgrade it back to 1997 standards., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2011/12/08/once-upon/, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 215, _ckd7g: DesignAssignments215, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials215

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The Big Hip Hop

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Submitted by: Tim Owens

_cokwr: Take any photo from The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ and overlay it with lyrics from a Top 100 song. Similar to The Big Caption project., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.timmmmyboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sickofbeingserious.jpg, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 12, _ckd7g: DesignAssignments12, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials12

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Find Yourself

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Submitted by: Chris Randles

_cokwr: Find your name in the environment around you. Look for your first name, parts of your first name, or even the individual letters that make up your name in the environment around you. Take photos and crop them together. Share. Enjoy!, _cpzh4: Visual, _chk2m: Chris Randles, _ciyn3: 119, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments119, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials119

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Based on 1-Quote-A-Day Project!!

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Submitted by: Rimi 'Kookaburra' Morita

_cokwr: First of all, see this following link (assignment introduced by mome). http://ds106.us/2011/10/16/1-quote-a-day/ Quotes could be nice only by its own, but it might go further when it went beyond written words. Read your quote for a day out loud, and record it! Do not forget to give an appropriate feeling to it. Tone of voice could be a helpful hint for answerers to guess where your quote came from. Mimicking the original tone could be nice enough, but you also can add your own feelings to it as well. :), _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://morita-tuj.blogspot.com/2011/11/based-on-1qad-part12-soundcloud-direct.html, _chk2m: Rimi 'Kookaburra' Morita, _ciyn3: 210, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments210, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials210

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Phake Tweets

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Submitted by: CogDog

_cokwr: Use the Twister tool from ClassTools (http://classtools.net/twister/) to generate a series of images representing the voices of past figures if they could express themselves in twitter. Notch it up, and recast a historical event with a new plot line, and notch it up again, but making it a back and forth between two figures (use @person!) - my example is not developed as a fanfic, but should give you an idea of what to do (okay, okay, I will do a real assignment, sigh)., _cpzh4: Fanfic, _cre1l: http://cogdogblog.com/2011/03/17/phake-tweets/, _chk2m: CogDog, _ciyn3: 99, _ckd7g: FanficAssignments99, _clrrx: FanficAssignments, _cztg3: FanficTutorials99

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Messing with the MacGuffin

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Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith

Wikipedia defines the MacGuffin as "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction." For this assignment forever change the plot of a movie, tv show, etc. by changing a single line of dialogue. Put this new line of dialogue below a screen-cap of the moment in the movie you're changing. Credit to Tom Woodward for posting an example of this idea in the #ds106 Twitter stream.