This is my third and final audio assignment. I did a gong and flute mash up. It’s supposed to represent the cool down period of my tiff with audio this week in my DS106 course. Thanks.
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This is my third and final audio assignment. I did a gong and flute mash up. It’s supposed to represent the cool down period of my tiff with audio this week in my DS106 course. Thanks.
For my greatest hits, I did my best to mash together songs about love and loss by Tegan and Sara. I chose them because a lot of their songs have similar sounds so they would be easier to put together. As well as the fact that I already had numerous amounts of there songs downloaded. It does not sound quite the way I want it too but I believe it gets the point across. While I am getting better with audacity, it is a tricky little devil. So I think it will take me a bit more time to learn all the ins and outs.
https://soundcloud.com/rjonesss/ts-1
For my final audio assignment I decided to do the 911 call. I mashed up a 911 disptacher video, a 3 year old arguing with his mom, and a grandma singing wrecking ball to create my 911 call. I hope you all enjoy it.
So I can’t get this to upload to Sounndcloud right now, and I’m not sure why (I’m hoping it is just taking a while and will show up later).
This is the Music Mashup that I made for an assignment this week. I decided to use two very different sounding songs, that both talked about Rock and Roll. I used Bill Haley and His Comets’ “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock”, and Fall Out Boy’s “Save Rock and Roll.” I really love both of these songs, even though they are so different. I honestly had a much different idea going into this, but I really couldn’t figure out how to do it on audacity. I wanted to have the Fall Out Boy lyrics over the Bill Haley music, but it wouldn’t work, so I did it this way instead. For my first attempt at music mixing, I’m going to tell myself that this isn’t that bad, but I really hope I get better at this as we go, so not all of my assignments are this weird.
Using audacity, I imported the songs from my itunes library, and then trimmed away the pieces I didn’t want, lined up the other parts, and adjusted tempo and volume a little.
I’ve decided to make a short mock trailer inspired by this video assignment to depict the death of Wallace, a tragic moment from season 1. I also decided to include the effects on D’Angelo and the immediate aftermath. They were both very similar, as they both had a sense of innocence and moral good that is rare in the criminal world. And as can be shown, this mindset doesn’t last long in that environment.
The song used is “Before” by the amazing Jeremy Zuckerman.
The Wire: Wallace from Ien Harris on Vimeo.
A payphone
I was at Westmoreland State Park with my family today and I saw a payphone by the visitor’s center and immediately thought of The Wire Everywhere assignment for ds106. It’s interesting how the payphone is becoming a vestigial technology in a society where the majority of folks carry one in their pocket—in addition to it also being an extremely powerful computer.
I love the aesthetic of the payphone, and it’s a staple of season 1 of The Wire, so I figured I would document just that. It’s interesting how something as ubiquitous as this technology 25 years ago has all but disappeared in the wake of the mobile revolution. The idea of vanishing technology like the payphone is fascinating to me, and when Grant Potter set up #ds106radio so that you could broadcast to it from a payphone through an 800 number, I thought that was the coolest mashup of old and new technologies I’d ever seen. The absence of payphones is one of the more telling signs of the transformation of communication technologies over the course of a generation.
I can’t give myself any star credit for this assignment because I already did it, and it was just a picture.
Here we see Valchek and Sobotka going at each other, but the quote is from Little Big Roy where he’s speaking about the shipping ports and how everything is becoming more automated. The good old days are gone. The Greek tends to speak with better grammar, so I thought this was a good mash-up.
Well this was interesting to do! This is a picture for the Creative Mashup. The Wire picture comes from S2E01, and the painting is Getrude Stein by Pablo Picasso. Truth be told, I’m not even certain why I chose this picture from the wire. I was looking for anything having to do with McNulty looking at something (it might just be me, but he looks at things strangely… in a kind of funny way). Then I figured I should find a painting that would be looking back at him, and blamo! We have this picture! Let me know what you think!
For this assignment, I told myself I would pick something random and do whatever came up and make it about The Wire. So what do I get? The Contest Nobody Could Win (Video-Mashup Edition) The directions are to: Create a mashup of 6 video clips (either TV or Movie) no longer than 2 seconds each. See if anyone can guess your favorite films! Since we already know it’s about The Wire, it sort of defeats the purpose. So I picked an episode, not necessarily my favorite one, and tried to pull six clips that don’t give away which one it is. Can you figure it out?
I used MPEG Streamclip to grab the clips. The Edit->Select In and Edit->Select Out functions marked the clips, and then File->Export to Other Formats saved them. I did this for eight clips, then imported the six I liked the best into iMovie. There, I pulled exactly two second from each one and put them together. Here is the result:
Mashup Children’s Book: Mashup a children’s book based on another cultural artifact.
I really wanted to do something with If You Give a Mouse a Cookie since it was one of my favorite books growing up. Since the author made numerous sequels about pigs and pancakes and moose and muffins, I knew I had to keep the pattern of having sweet food given an animal. Immediately I thought of Donkey from Shrek and how he sat on Shrek’s armchair talking about how he wants to make waffles in the morning, and so I mashed up the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie with the movie Shrek to get If You Give a Donkey a Waffle.
Since I have no talent in the field of drawng, I knew I had to look for Creative Commons images or even better, public domain images. I went to Pixabay, which has a bunch of free images. There, I searched for donkeys, waffles, armchairs, and wood paneling that way the cover could emulate the scene from Shrek. Once I found my images, I went to Pixlr, an open and free image editor web application that is less advanced than Photoshop but better in my opinion than Gimp. I layered my images together, added the title text in font that kind of reminded me of powdered sugar, and then saved it. I really wanted to convey that this cover is definitely for a children’s book, so I stuck with cartoon/illustrated images instead of realistic photos. I think the cover turned out really cute, and I would have totally read this as a kid.
