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Thumbs Up For Ebert

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Submitted by: Alan Levine

Just a week after the Spring 2013 ds106 class applied Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie to analyze scenes of movies, he went on to that big movie theater in the sky.

For this assignment, create a tribute to Ebert’s love of movies; but do more than just make a montage of clips of him. Put him in context with film characters, musicians, or place him inside one of the movies he loved or hated. Or mash him up, Do anything to show some respect for Ebert’s devotion to not only appreciating film but teaching others.

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The Future of Humanity: A Demotivational Collection

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Another adventure with Random Assignment Ideas! This time, it’s demotivational posters! Both were created using Motivator.

So my dad is a mall Santa, and this past Christmas my stepmom and I went to spy on him while he was working. When it was the turn of a little girl and her brother to visit Santa and get their picture taken, she immediately started crying. To calm her down, one of her parents gave her their iPhone to play with and she immediately stopped crying. And completely ignored Santa, the photographer, all attempts to get her to look at the camera. Her attention was completely consumed by the phone. So I snapped a picture of her (yes, that’s my natural-bearded Santa dad in the picture).

I could comment on how it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when kids are more interested in technology than imagination, but honestly, I remember being terrified of Santa at that age. Weren’t we all? And it’s great that technology can serve as a distraction and comfort for frightened children. Though the Brothers Grimm might disagree…

Many moons ago, I saw this entertaining juxtaposition of Tweets and found it so funny I took a screencapture. And then it sat on my phone for a long, long time, until I was looking through my photos to find good demotivational ones. And I saw it, and thought “YES!!!”

In the ed tech community, Twitter is touted as a great networking tool and way of building community. It’s not uncommon for professional group discussions to be held on Twitter with specific “chat” hashtags, every event has a Twitter back channel, and even ds106 uses Twitter as the fastest way to reach out to other students/participants and the instructors. It’s great for connecting with people!

It’s also a social networking site originally made popular by celebrities (or their personal assistants posing as them) and features such pop culture gems as #yolo, the #BigBird presidential debate fiasco, the timely marketing campaigns during the Super Bowl black-out, and more celebrity meltdowns and outbursts than can be reasonably catalogued by a single Top 10 (or 25) list. And it’s a cool storytelling medium for this reason. But is it really a bastion of open inquiry?

To be sure, Twitter is an awesome tool for creativity, sharing, and free speech. Heck, just look at the role it played in the Arab Spring. But let’s keep things in perspective people. After all, yolo.

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The Chronicles of Oz

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DS106 Assignment:

Mashup a children’s book based on another cultural artifact. For example, framing Dr. Who as a children’s book in the aesthetic of a Dr. Suess’s work. See example from College Humor here: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1811404

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/mashedup-childrens-book/

My Response: The Chronicles of Oz

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Sure Letterma……. I believe you…sure

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So I had this other mash up interview I did with David Letterman. Was flipping through channels and saw NBC which sparked me to post this. Will do my detail tomorrow or later.

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Why We Need to Have A Kiki… SongTag Story Style

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I really liked the SongTag assignment that I found but when I started crafting mine, I realized that I was creating a story basically, so I decided to make a new assignment, based off of the StoryTag assignment.

For my SongTag Story, I used some of my favorite guilty pleasure music to craft a story about a man whose boyfriend has cheated on him while being flirtatious at the clubs and how his friends help him deal with getting over his now ex.

When I first saw the assignment I thought about doing a Sondheim songtag but I do not have a ton of Sondheim in my iTunes library and while flipping through my music collection I found I Don’t Wanna Know by Cheyenne Jackson, one of my favorite songs which I wanted to use. I then decided on Lets Have A Kiki by The Scissor Sisters but then needed to figure out a way to link the two. I then picked McArthur Park from the Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Original Broadway Cast Recording, one of my favorite Broadway cast recordings which features some of my favorite actors prortaying Australian drag queens. When I was unable to encorperate it, I chose I Will Survive from the same CD and added it to the end. I then decided to start my track with Don’t Be Jealous Of My Boogie by RuPaul to help set up the story. Wanting to roundout my guilty pleasure mix, I chose Shady by Adam Lambert.

I had all of my songs in my iTunes library so I imported them into Garage Band where I edited them together into one track.

Here are the lyrics for the entire mashup.

It’s Time To Have A Kiki

Jealous of My Boogie- RuPaul

Hey DJ
Love the way
I lose my inhibitions when you spin
And I don’t care if people stare
I’d rather boogie than try to fit in

Turn it up, let ‘em scrutinize (I know you’re watching)
Way up, ’cause the night is mine (i know you’re watching)
Turn it up, lemme scandalize (I know you’re watching)
Yeah, up under flashing lights

(No–don’t–be)Don’t be jealous of my boogie, don’t be jealous of my boogie
You can say that you are not, but I always see you lookin’
Don’t be jealous of my boogie, don’t be jealous of my boogie
You can say that you are not, but I always see you

Shady-Adam Lambert

you.

Sorry I’m kinda drunk
But did you just say your game was brand new?

No I ain’t broken but I, I need a fix
That satisfaction when I, I get my kicks
I’m up all night
I’m out of sight
Don’t turn on the light
Cause I’m feeling so shady lately

Come on and take me underground
Deep under the street
Come on and take me, take me down
The freaks like us can meet
Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, turn it way up
Don’t stop the beat

Come on and turn me, turn me on
Cause I’m feeling so shady lately

Ah! Ah!
Gonna go and get me a shot
Gonna knock it back forget all my blues
Yeah that really hits the spot
I’m feeling pretty fierce in my dancin’ shoes (yeah)

No I ain’t broken but I, I need a fix
That satisfaction when I

I Don’t Wanna Know- Cheyenne Jackson

I know that’s true

No matter what, can’t stop loving you
Careless with me, baby, from the start
Pushing me, breaking my world apart
Deep in my heart there’s a scar now, telling a story of us
I keep coming back to you, planning attack on you, love

I dont wanna know, I don’t wanna know
If you slept in your bed for a week
No, I don’t wanna know, I don’t wanna know
Why the scent on your neck isn’t me
It’s not fair, why should I care
‘Cause I made it clear that you’re not what I need
I don’t wanna know, but I can’t let it go
I give up had enough wasn’t me for you and me

Straight to my guts there you go again

You’re killing me don’t even know it when

Casting a spell with the lick of your lips

You pretend you’re completely oblivious
Deep in my heart there’s a scar now, telling a story of us.

Lets Have A Kiki- Scissor Sisters

I know exactly what we need

Let’s have a kiki, I wanna have a kiki
Lock the doors, tight
Let’s have a kiki, motherfucker
I’m gonna let you have it
Let’s have a kiki
I wanna have a kiki
Dive, turn, work
Let’s have a kiki
We’re gonna serve, and work and turn
And h-h-honey

A kiki is a party, for calming all your nerves
We’re spilling tea, and dishing just desserts one may deserve
And though the sun is rising, few may choose to leave
So shade that lid and we’ll all bid adieu to your ennui

Oh,

I Will Survive- Priscilla Queen of The Desert OBC

Oh no, not I, I will survive
As long as I know how to love
I know I’ll stay alive

I’ve got all my life to live
I’ve got all my love to give
And I’ll survive, I will survive, I will survive

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New Ringtone?

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For my next audio assignment I did Make Your Own Ringtone which was worth two stars. The instructions for this assignment were “trim, join end-to-end (cut/paste), and/or play side-by-side audio files in order to create your very own ringtone. Ringtones should be a maximum or 40 seconds to conserve phone memory (besides, most cell phones don’t ring longer than 30 seconds or so…the extra 10 seconds is just in case). Be creative, you might want to actually use it on your phone.”

I got excited for this one when I saw it. I love the idea of mash-ups so I was excited to do a short one for my ringtone. I played around for a little while with different songs and ended up coming across a video of Taylor Swift doing a mash up of her song Stay Stay Stay and the song Ho Hey by the Lumineers at her concert. I totally loved it and decided to try to do these two songs for my ringtone.

Isn’t that great? Obviously mine wasn’t quite as creative and smooth as hers since I just combined the two recordings of the the songs but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I ended up importing Stay Stay Stay first. I wanted the songs to overlap a little so I ended up cutting the end of the chorus (which is purely instrumental) and repeating it three times at the end. I then imported Ho Hey and lined that up right after the words of Stay Stay Stay ended. I then faded out Stay Stay Stay after Ho Hey began.

Here is what the finished product looked like in audacity.

And here is what the final product sounded like.

Hope you like it! One more star to go!

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Ringtone tonin it

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One of my favorite things to do in my free time is take one of my favorite songs and make it into a ringtone. It’s a simple process through itunes that doesn’t involve much work, or at least it doesn’t anymore since I do it so frequently. So when I saw this assignment, I was excited. It involves taking two songs, and mashing them up into ringtone. Simple enough, except for the creative aspect of having to pick two songs that go together relatively well. After going through a grand array of songs, about 1000 in my itunes library, I choose Stacy’s Mom (and if you don’t know this song, you should probably re-evauluate your life) and I also picked 1985, another good classic for me. I used audacity to mash the two songs, and then the envelope option so the two songs swell together rather than just have a huge clump, I also attempted this fade in/fade out dj spin between the two songs. My audio clip is just below, feel free to download for your own use (although I did not own any rights whatsoever to either song!!). This assignment was two ?’s.

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Haiku Recipe: Guacamole

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3 avocados
Half all 3 avocados
Remove pit within

Dice one tomato
And dice half of an onion
Add all to a bowl

Roll and half lemon
Squeeze lemon juice into bowl
Mash all with a fork

Add some salt to taste
Open favorite bag of chips
Dip in, munch away

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Maxwell’s date with ambiance

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Hey So I am just trying another assignment for the Sardonic Mashups, in the DS106 Sound Bank. So for this one I decided to use the GEICO commercial, where Maxwell the pig is on a date and is waiting in the car after calling for a tow truck using his GEICO app. For me this commercial is funny but I felt I could add a little more to it. So what I did was to get the audio using Video 2 mp3 once again.

So what I did was to open all audio files I would use in Audacity using the, “Import File” under File. Then using the, “Shift Tool” again I was able to line up the original commercial with the area of Elton John’s song that I wanted to go with the commercial. What I wanted do was to take out the silence between the Maxwell and his date’s dialogue and replace it with a record scratch for the effect I wanted. So using the “Selection” tool I simply highlighted the section of audio I wanted out (after zooming in to see the wave properly) then to Edit then Clip Boundaries then use “Split”. What this did was to separate the audio into 3 parts. The before the silence, the silence and after the silence. So I just highlighted and deleted this silence and copy and pasted the record scratch into it’s place, and “Mix and Render” the 3 sections back as one. For the audio before the now added scratch it was a bit fast for my song so I highlighted that section, then under Effect went to “change Speed” where I slowed it down just a bit. After I worked on that part, I just used the “Split” tool on the Elton John song then deleted the excess sound as well. But then I wanted to use a cover to Hound Dog, I prefer the version performed in Grease the movie by Sha Na Na. I placed a selected part of it after the record scratch and plays with the end of the commercial. Most importantly I wanted the music to sound like the radio was playing softly in the background so I also had to lower the volume of those sections so that it didn’t drown out the original commercial. After I was satisfied, a now simple select all and, “Mix and Render”.

Here are the sounds I originally used:

1. Maxwell the GEICO pig goes on a date

2. Elton John – Can You Feel The Love

3. Record Scratch

4. Sha Na Na – Hound Dog

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The name of these songs are…..

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This sound clip was designed for the DS106 Assignment Audio Bank, for the “The Contest Nobody Could Win“, assignment. I did this quite similar to the Li*e Strong Sardonic Mashup I did earlier this week. I just randomly took specific parts of a few sounds to create a clip as the assignment asked. This was done in Audacity as well and each audio clip copied and pasted to next to each other and then simply “Mixed and Rendered”. I would have listed the songs I use but sorry you have to guess, its not that hard.