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Li*e Strong: The Remix

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This sound clip I did was for the Sardonic Mashups, from the Audio Assignments bank which asked to make a mash along the lines of a public apology, a commercial, a pandering politcial speech or anything you’d like to mock for the public good.

So for my mash up I chose the Lance Armstrong interview. This was more specifically a snippet from ABC News on Good Morning America about the full interview he did with Oprah. So what I did was to pull the audio using the online tool Video to mp3, which is great because you don’t have to download any software and can download audio rom anything on YouTube. So I also had to download and install Audacity. Ok so what I did was open the interview audio in into Audacity, then import all the other songs I used. I used this tutorial which was really helpful. What I then had to do was to import the other audio files I wanted, then use the “selection” and “time shift” tools. With the selection tool you can actually grab the part of audio from a file you want to take out and and paste in back on another part of the time line. With the time shift tool you can actually move a selected part of audio along the timeline. So what I did was to copy and paste selections of the interview that I wanted to manipulate. Then with each son I used I was able to select and copy out a selection of the audio I wanted and paste it directly in line where the section of the interview ends so that it flows, then add the continued part of the interview and this is done several times. Audacity puts each file stacked on each other so you have to be scrolling up and down to work on each file and muting and non-muting files allows you to work on different files. When you line up your pieces of audio it shows a yellow highlight so you know when separate files are lined up in synch. After this tedious task of going through the selected parts of each audio file I chose to use I then was able to delete the rest of audio not needed from each sound. Then I listen to see if it flowed and when satisfied I select all and under tracks click “Mix and Render”, which pulls all the files into one.

Here is my list of songs I used for the mash up:

1. Third Eye Blind – Deep Inside Of You

2. D-12 – Purple Pills

3. Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come

4. Timbaland ft. One Republic – Apologize

5. 2 Chainz ft. Drake – No Lie

6. Drake – HYFR

7. Blood Brothers – Tell Me Its Not True

8. Lady Gaga – No Way

9. Michael Jackson – Bad

10. Destiny Child – No No No remix

11. Drake – Headlines

12. Big Comfy Couch Tv clip – Liar Liar

The original interview:

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Three Wheeling After Bambi

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This animated GIF is built using another graphic gift I made from a 1983 Montgomery Ward Catalog of the boy on a three wheeler. Once I cleaned up the PNG, I was trying to think of how I might race this three wheeler. But before I decided to run down Bambi, I first set out how to animate the wheels, as it would look silly if they stayed static. This GIF of a wheel was a good resource as it basically illustrated that some motion blur and a couple of different versions would likely do the trick.

I think the front wheel did alright, but the back wheel looks a little static. The funny thing was once I chose the clip from Bambi, I didn’t need to worry about the wheels anymore. They ended up getting covered by the snow.

I love the old animation techniques where there are clear background, character, and foreground. Typically the background and foregrounds are static paintings and only the character is animated. But in the case of the snow scene there are these beautiful painterly splashes of snow in the foreground animated.

Fortunately these splashes of snow were fairly easy to select with the magic wand. These became new foreground mattes over the three wheeler as it trucked across the frame.

These mashups end up taking a lot longer than I expect, but I’ve really enjoyed pushing myself to get better and better with animation. Hope you dig it.

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A Capella With Yourself! (Audio Assignment ***)

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This is my 17 second cover of the song “Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down. The people singing are, Me and Me, and on the beatbox we have the glorious Me!

I created this in Garageband in about 35min (it took so long because I was trying to sing in tune with myself. Honestly! The other me is always out of tune!) This was made for the Audio Assignment called “A Capella With Yourself” where you had to create at least 3 audio tracks,record with 3 different voices, and mash them up to make it sound like you’re singing with yourself.

My Process:

1. Think of a song to sing
2. Split the song into harmonization and beat by listening to the original song over and over
3. Record the main melody
4. Record the harmonization to the main melody
5. Make sure the 2 vocal tracks sync up the right way
6.Record the beat (consisting of a snare drum and high hat)
7.Mix the 3 tracks together and hope for the best!

The main challenges with this was, as I said, staying in tune with myself, so I dont sound icky, and singling out the harmonization pattern in the song. Once I found out what notes they were (or at least what key the song is in), it became easier to mix the 2 vocals together. Oh! in the image there are 4 tracks instead of 3. This was so the 1st half of the harmonized track could overlap the 2nd half of the track, so that the 2nd half could come in a beat early. So the middle 2 tracks are the same voice, just split apart.

Hay preguntas, alguien?

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This Man is Your Friend

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“This Man is Your Friend,” by aforgrave on Flickr

If you don’t know Alan Levine (and many of you must, if you are reading this via the ds106 stream), then you should. Alan, currently teaching the Spring session of University of Mary Washington‘s for-credit course in Digital Storytelling, is also one of the prime forces in the ds106 community — be it for-credit or #4life.

Alan’s passion for creativity, photography, openness, mash-ups and remixes, learning, friends, and general #4life-edness are becoming legend.

I first met Alan in person during the summer of 2011. I had been invited to Windsor by our mutual Flickr friend Diane Bedard (WindsorDi, on Flickr), who was hosting a get-together for Alan during his 2011 CogDog Odyssey. Between the time I had been invited earlier in the year and the time we got together in August, I had heard Alan interviewing folks on ds106radio about the first Unplug’d event that they had attended as he traversed Canada. I had been at Unplug’d, and found Alan’s interviews to be a marvellous way to hear how friends at the event had been reflecting on things, as I had certainly been, since the get-together. Alan followed suit with another such interview at Diane’s, where I tried to verbalize that Unplug’d “was more than a bunch of Canadian hippies camping out in the woods.” Following the visit and some marvellous photowalks with Diane, the Big Red Dog followed my Jetta to Hamilton, where we met up with some other Unplug’d folks, and a couple weeks later, Alan stopped by in Belleville for dinner and then, unexpectedly, a very important ds106radio broadcast, before he headed south to Baltimore.

Alan has been an important friend ever since. And he is an integral part of ds106 and ds106radio. So he gets his face on this poster. And he will like what it said before substituted the text which now reads GIFFER.

Read theWikimedia entry for this image

When I came across this original propaganda poster (I had searched for Canadian WW2 Propaganada posters), this was one of the first images I saw. At first, I was going to stick the bava‘s face on there, but (sorry, Jim), a flash second later, I decided to honour Alan.

Much to my chagrin (counter-balanced by my decision moments ago to formalize my use of TinEye before starting in on any future found-on-the-internet image re-mix projects) I worked on a small 421×587 image before finding a cleaner and less discoloured 2,164 × 3,000 tiff moments ago. It was a struggle to my developing photoshop skills to get the colour from Alan’s image face (Giulia Forsythe’s photo, DS106 Panel – Alan, D’arcy, GNA) to match, but in the end, I am happy with it.

After experimenting with the What the Font font finder and discovering that it was a useful tool to guide you to $40-a-pop font licences on MyFonts.com, I dug around on Dafont.com and FontSpace.com. I played around with a few, and had settled on Headliner No. 45 — that is until I did a last minute switch to Billy Argel‘s font, Masterplan, which I had already used for the GIFFER text. Headliner No.45 had a couple of little almost serifs that didn’t match the original.

I found a lot of other Canadian Propaganda posters (Canadians and propaganda, who knew?) in a forum post on Canadaatwar.ca, and may just do another, if the time and mood coincide.

Thanks for leading a great charge on the Battle for Creativity, Alan! You rock teh ds106 #4life. Truth.

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Eyes Wide Open!!

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Eyes Wide Open!! by iamtalkytina

I always pay special attention to my closest friends, and like to make sure that they pay special attention to me, too! You have paid attention to me in recent days, haven’t you friend? You have left me a special comment, yes?

Now, Both Eyes are Watching You!

I still can’t believe my publicist okayed that photo way back in 1964 — the one of me with my eyes closed, and — can you believe it — mashed potatoes on my face?!!?

You will never catch me saying that I have been bitter for decades as a result, I’m just glad that I ended that relationship! Unfortunately that photo was one of several that all but ended my career! I’d never say that I was typecast after that, but it certainly has been ever so difficult to present a nice, clean girl image since then.

So, waking up now in this age of “social media,” and image curation, I’ve had a little work done, and am now going to see if this new photo can work to undo a lot of that negative publicity. I hear that my newer, more positive presence on the Internet can, over time, serve to undo any potential negatives. You know, 80% positive can overshadow the 30% negative. This will be one of several re-released images that I will share to help tell my true story, and present a more positive face!

Perhaps you can help me, my new friends, by sharing and helping to promote “the ~~new~~ true me?”

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Who Said That?

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So this assignment was to take 3 pieces–a quote, a picture, and a name–and mix them all together. You can read more about it here.

This was my final product. I couldn’t decide what to do for a while and ended up deciding on a Zoolander quote because it’s my favorite movie and who doesn’t love a good movie quote? Then I narrowed that down to “I’m not an ambi-turner” because it’s one of the most memorable of the movie. Then, for a while, I tried to think of another movie similar to Zoolander. There aren’t any. I thought another Ben Stiller movie would be just fine and then the whole thing ended up being a big Ben Stiller mashup.

As for putting the whole thing together, I used Gimp. I googled White Goodman for the picture. I chose this one because it had lots of space to put words on it. Then I used the text editor and added in the quotes, finally picking Tony Perkis, the counselor from Heavy Weights, as the quoted character. The rest is history.

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Radio Bumper

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I was really nervous for this assignment–just like the last one–but once I got going it was really easy–also like the last one. I just used an O.A.R song I had in my iTunes, loaded it directly into Audacity, cut to the beginning (there were no words. Tried using the vocal remover but it didn’t work very well), and then recorded my voice on a separate track, mashed the two together, and that was pretty much it. I also played around with the fade in/out/amplify features on audacity because the music would’ve stomped all over my voice (I’m not really supposed to talk much right now… Fractured two ribs on Monday). But that was cool. Really like the sound assignments!

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Here thar be monsters and media madness

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Alright, to start things off, welcome to my summary of my second week of DS106, and the final week of DS bootcamp. Can’t say I’m sorry to say goodbye, as we head off into the real deal

I’ve made an email address for this blog, so if you have questions or comments or pictures of cats, send them to [email protected] please.

Check out the other class blogs; I have, and they’re really cool. PS, mine is totally listed there–score, I did something right!

As you can see, I changed the theme of the blog to something that I really like–I’ve used this theme before, on a different blog that I used for a creative writing class. If you go there, you can still read some of the (terrible) stuff I wrote. I’m a huge fan of the theme, because it mixes just the right amount of whimsy, fantasy, and monstrousness, and hey, that’s exactly what a Chimaera is–a mishmash monster. Of media! As you can tell by my username, darlingchaos, I’m a fan of the ecclectic and strange, the creative, crazy, and chaotic. So brace yourself.

Under the new skin, I’ve got a happy new plugin whirring away. A wild Akismet approaches! It is extremely effective against spam! I seriously hate spam, it’s the worst ever and should die in a fire. For some WEIRD reason, apparently I had some random plugin called “Hello Dolly” running on my wordpress, which did nothing but display random song lyrics. So I banished that. Didn’t have any trouble with anything, because I’ve done this before for other classes, and it felt like diving back into familiar waters, even if it’s been a while. I’ll warm back up to it eventually, but for now I’m happy to just paddle around and make sure all my bases are covered and that everything is operating as it ought to. Soon, I’m sure i’ll be overdoing it and spamming you all with my creative thought-vomit. Or something. For right now, I’m happy making sure that my blog reflects my digital identity, and I feel like that I’ve achieved that pretty well. Right now I want the blog to be a place to house my assignments, not just for the sake of the class but so that I can be more experienced with this kind of platform-building and organizing, so I can make and display a portfolio of cool stuff to future grad schools/job interviews/aliens from Mars. I dunno. I’m excited to further customise and utilise the space.

If you didn’t notice, the “home” site to this sub-site is now colourful and no longer has a bus on it. Whee! Customising it was easy–install WordPress and a happy little theme. Nothing to do with it right now, apparently we’re just placeholding, so it feels a little stark and excessive to have the ds106 site as well as the home site–but I know we’ll flesh it out later.

This week we did two daily creates and I sort of feel like I took the lazy approach, doing two writing assignments, but hey it was fun and I had a horrible, busy, feel-bad-y week so it was a bit nice to take it easy. Anyways, writing is something I ENJOY and the prompts were strange and weird and wonderful, things I never would have thought of. I actually went back and read every single daily create prompt since class began, and I’m so happy that they’re all unique and inspiring. I kind of want to submit a few assignments for review, just for fun.

Here are the two things I did–go forth and read! That’s at the actual daily create website. I’ve archived the full text of those daily creates on my own site HERE and HERE.

Anyways, as far as process/equipment… well, I just wrote, didn’t do a video or take any pictures, so all I used was my brain, my hands, and about five minutes on my macbook. Honestly, I just do the first thing that comes to mind, so it’s not even like I have a fun brainstorming process to describe.

HA! I MADE A GIF. For the first time in my life! I’ve been wanting to make gifs for like, MY ENTIRE LIFE (at least as long as I’ve been on the internet) but never bothered to do it, or find out how to do it. Now that I know how easy it is, I’m terrified that my life will become possessed by gifs, because gifs are–I swear to god–how the internet expresses FEEEEEEEEEEEELS. And I have so many feels. ALL the feels. My amount of feels is inversely correlated with my ability to can, of which I have DELIGHTFULLY LITTLE .

The process was pulling up a youtube clip of Tangled, one of the greatest movies Of. All. Time, taking a couple of screen shots with my mac (Command + Shift +4) and then using the online gif-maker at makeagif.com (you can’t make that up. It really is that easy). It was essentially a three step process to take the pictures, upload them, and then click “make it!” and boom. Gif. The end. Prooooooobably some kind of copyright infringement but hey, who cares, we now have a gif of a horse and a princess playing tug of war with Flynn Ryder. And that’s worth the litigation.

Overall week two was pretty easy and fun. I’m really digging it. Bootcamp was terrifying, but I made it through thanks to my profs and support from fellow classmates and other members of the teaching-ranks. I’m looking forward to biting off more than I can chew, and then chewing it. And then waxing poetical about it online.

Oh, I do have one question–why is it that we’re embedding the “assignment” of making a gif in our weekly summary, and not making an individual post for it, and then tagging that post with visualassignment, visual assignment 2—didn’t we make a category for Visual Assignments? Am I just confused? I went ahead and placed this post in both categories, “Weekly Summaries” and “Assignments, Visual” but was just wondering if I should have made a separate post for the gif and included a link to THAT post in THIS post. Bwah, confusement.

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Animate 2600: Miners on the Moon

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I’m having a blast with creating GIFs for the ds106 GIFfest, but I’m also enjoying Stella, the excellent Atari 2600 emulator that Jim Groom turned me onto before Christmas. I spent a few good solid hours playing some of my old favorites, including Miner 2049′er (just as difficult as I remember), Moon Patrol, and Missile Command (still as good as I remember). I wanted to create a bunch of separate GIFs from these games to try and capture the twitchy nature of 8-bit gaming, but I wasn’t quite satisfied with the results.

It was difficult for me to capture a moment in Miner 2049′er that conveyed the strongest memories I have of the game, which would be a still shot of my miner in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the level after falling from a high ledge. I created a GIF of the miner falling to his doom, but I wanted something that worked better as an seamless loop, not just a “restart” and fall. The same goes for the Moon Patrol GIF. I wanted to create a seamless action shot to convey the frenetic “run and gun” that you felt while playing the game. Miner 2049′er and other platformers at least gave you a safe spot to rest or wait until pushing ahead. Moon Patrol was not so nice, as your vehicle pushed forward whether you wanted it to or not, in an endless treadmill of UFOs, pits, and other obstacles.

During the creation process I kept thinking about the episode of Futurama in which Fry, a present day schmo transported to the future after being cryogenically frozen, dreams of visiting the moon. His future friends take him to the Moon Park, which turns out to be a huge disappointment for Fry as the moon has been completely “Disneyfied” and turned into a cheesy theme park. The lunar rover ride is on a rail, cotton candy comes in “moon rock” grey, and the most awful form of revisionist history takes place in a riff on the “It’s a Small World” ride; the “Whalers on the Moon” ride presents Moon tourists with what is believed to be what man’s first trip to the moon looked like, a bunch of drunken sailors with harpoons who have set out to hunt whales on the Sea of Tranquility.

The only way to clear my brain out was to create a new ds106 assignment that I’m calling “Animate 2600 Mashup” and take both my Moon Patrol and Miner 2049′er GIFs and cram them together, thus creating “Miners on the Moon”. Sure, it’s not quite the same thing as the Futurama joke, but it was a fun remix of the idea.

And because you’ve been a good sport about reading this entire non-education related blog post, I thought I’d at least create a “how to” video on creating an animated GIF using Photoshop and just about any video clip you can get your hands on.

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Dexter Jumps the Noiseprofessor: Riff a GIF!

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This is my own riff on the eminent Photoshop RiffMaster, the Noiseprofessor, himself riffing with his own photoshopping of Brian Lamb’s super dog Dexter.

I upped the Fonzie with Zack’s face, and even twiddled his thumb a bit ;-)

Can ds106 be any more fun when people just play like that, rapid fire? On the surface it looks silly, but there’s something more at play. I’d wax on this, but would rather make more GIFs today. But it did get me thinking about a new assignment to be rolled into what will be (look for details tomorrow) a ds106 GIF Festival, this one known as Riff a GIF:

Some of the best parts of ds106 happens when people spontaneously build off of the whacky things others share. Rapid fire style.

Your assignment is to riff on someone eles’s ds106 work and make it new in a GIF form. It can be revising an existing GIF, or taking a graphic and turning it into a GIF.

Riff the GIF, say it three times fast.

For which this post shall be properly tagged to get included.

The same thing happened already, when Martin Weller tweeted about his plans to do some #ds106 radio:

Join me on #ds106radio tomorrow 4-5 pm (uk time 11am est) for a MOOC disco (hopefully). Bring fizzy pop. #moocs

— Martin Weller (@mweller) December 18, 2012

And that got me thinking of maybe putting Martin’s face into a disco themed image, a bit of quick photoshoppery got this:

And within not too long, Martin Hawksy had RIfFed a GIF:

@sheilmcn @mweller @cogdog not that I’m avoiding writing my work (I am), but dl.dropbox.com/u/7860124/ds10… #ds106disco

— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) December 18, 2012

That’s the spirit.

Now even if Martin’s blog is not connected to ds106, he could add his example directly to the assignment

Hey, are there enough UK Martins around here? Now that would be something to riff with…