My first try with the new generator hit gold. Add Dr. Seuss to Fat Cat art. However, I was nervous about messing other ds106 pioneers’ work. So I went with what was safe, and I decided to play with Cogdog’s work as seen here:
It nice and all but it was missing something, like some Dr. Seuss action.
BAM! Cat in the Hat making a come back.
Now, I could have stopped here and said, ta-da, my first mash-up and be done with it. However, the narrative is still the same as what Cogdog created except there are a few additions to the cast.
That’s when I noticed that the cat’s line of sight is directly at the fish bowl (didn’t plan that). So, by adjusting the saturation levels and adding a little paint. I made a NCIS-esque crime scene photo.
Maybe the red, evil eyes thing is a bit cheesy but I think its warranted considering the original dog poker painting is a cultural cliche.
A few days ago I noticed that Alan Levine is mashing up ds106 assignments withThe ds106 Remix Machine. This, briefly, allows you to take an assignment from DS106 and add a filter. Shades of John Davit’s Learning Event Generators.
Remix is using the created media of others – it does not count as a remix if you use your own assignment work. As raw material for your remix, use media from examples created by other ds106 participants for this assignment.
I’ve not ds106ed for a while so, just for fun (is there another reason?), I took one of a series of images from here: ds106: Stop frame photography by Rowan Peter and did this:
This could be a lot better, but it didn’t take long. I am tempted to dust off a copy of flash and make a wack a ds106 mole game.
DS106 has been looking very interesting of late, especially the Kickstarter project which has gathered a pile of money for developing DS106 in lots of interesting ways. (I am in for a t-shirt). This looks like making ds106 increasingly interesting as time goes on.
Next time ds106 runs I am going to give it another shot, set up wordpress blog to make my tagging work a bit better. and have some more fun.
Assignment: For my second DS106 assignment I was required to choose a section that I never done it before?Therefore I choose the “mashup assignment” because I found the perfect assignment to use?It is called Mashup Children’s Book
Instructions:
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:1811404http://www.google.com/imgres?
I decided to do this assignment as in the SOS section is mainly about our society’s future with technology?I did not wanted to change the topic so I decided to do something related with this section?And my target here are children?This is another reason why I choose the mashup of children’s book?I wanted to give the readers the idea of this assignment for me?
I am going to write about the relation between the picture I made mashing up these two pictures and the article called Personal Infrastructure
Story
I tried to depict the future of kids as have the control over technology?By control I mean that people will know what is the technology about?They will make use of it as effectively as possible and will become an expert on it?However to be able to do that oneself need to work on it building its own cyberinfrastructure?The article written by Garden Campbell tell us this?Building a personal cyberinfrastructure is not easy?Campbell claimed that revolution in teaching and learning is happening and will continue to happened?For my understanding?more class online will be a great example for this and this revolution cannot be happened if each person does not build its own cyberinfrastructure?To do something you have to be able to understand it well-deeply and thoughtfully?Campbell requires students to have a technical skills and engage in works that contains social networking?knowledge management and more?What I think is important in this?is that understanding technology and dominate it is far from what I thought it will be?My purpose of using the Internet was to listening music?watch videos?social networking and those kinds of entertainments?However?I realized that I do not even know the half of what is technology all about?To be able to understanding I have to actually?get involve in it and experience it?What can you depict from the future above? It can be many interpretations?As I mentioned it depicts the future of kids nowadays?Also it shows how in the future people will get more into the technology and eventually will try to dominate it?Another interpretation that I have not mention it yet?its that it can depict the future of a professional with technology?To be more clear?no matter what profession you are engage in?technology will be always there?Just like I learned about the DS106 there is more to learn and more things to discover?Most of us have access to this technology but our understanding is limited?
Assignment: This assignment has you use the SuperPAC name generator found here and generate a name then get some mashup of data to promote the random SuperPAC.
Process: I went to generate the name for my pseudo-SuperPAC and it happened to come up with “Bring Back Astronauts” as the name for the SuperPac. I went to go find some relevant visuals from Google; but made sure the visuals I got were widely available, and not explicitly copyrighted. My first image I found via APOD, which is a very old and famous site directly from NASA which has astronomy pictures. Then I wanted a budget visual, and the NASA budget numbers are public information so I had no problems finding a graph with that data. I chose to upload the images directly to wordpress as I usually do, because I like to have copies of free data on servers for redundancy instead of linking directly (which is more efficient to be honest)
Story: Though the name chosen was completely random according to the SuperPAC name generator, I totally agree with the name, and we do need a SuperPAC to advocate for more space exploration. Maybe Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC will take on that challenge in real life, but until then, here is my pseudo space-exploration mashup which shows us a beautiful formation of stars brought to us by the guys at NASA. Along with this beautiful image is a graph showing how screwed NASA is, and how screwed space development is in the U.S., and definitely reflects the sad reality of an uninspired populace.
My final choice for a DS106 assignment is called Fan Fiction Picture. I first saw it on Takuji’s blog, and then again on Eri‘s. I liked both of them, but I also chose this assignment because the “fanfic” section is one that I haven’t yet chosen any assignments from. The assignment reads:
Take the name or title of your favorite band, song, movie, or tv show and display it in the form of photography. You can take as many pictures as you want, but have your photos capture the band, song, movie, or tv show you pick. Be creative and have fun!
Instead of a band, song, movie, or TV show though, I chose DS106:
I did a google search of “DS1906″ and these are some images that come up. I then took physical pictures of my computer screen (I wanted a bit blurrier/more tonal image, rather than just a screen shot), mashed them together, fixed some color/balance problems, added text, then my own deco around the text.I guess this officially makes me a fan of DS106.. Thank you all for this fun DS106-semester experience!
When I went to the movies a while ago to see the Hunger Games (awesome btw) I saw the trailer for Prometheus for the hundredth time. It was during this particular viewing that I noticed a little green thing in the corner of one of the shots and remarked to one of my friends how it looked like flubber. This set off the spark for my movie mashup assignment.
I took most of the trailer for prometheus and inserted clips from Flubber whenever they had shots of aliens or chaos. It was simple conceptually but much harder to do once I got the project into iMovie. I wanted to keep the cuts in sync with the dramatic soundtrack and that was hard since I had edited stuff at the end first. I ended up having to detach the audio fro prometheus and shorten it a little bit just to have everything match up. Thus, the flubber music at the end.
Assignment: For this assignment, select scenes from 3-5 movies. These scenes should represent scenes that changed your life or made some sort of dramatic, traumatic, lasting, or emotional impact on you. When you have selected those scenes, create a video that shows the scenes and includes audio/video of you describing what it is about the scene that made a significant impact on you, what you are fond of about the scenes, what scares you, what you remember thinking when you were a child, etc. Feel free to be liberal in your interpretation of the instructions. Keep in mind, however, that the primary point is to recall 3-5 movie scenes that have made a lasting impact on you (whatever the reason for that impact may be.)
Process: Due to the fact that my (90s) computer does not have audio output, i decided to utilize YouTube to extract three scenes from my all time favorite movies. I then proceeded to write up a brief summary for each clip, describing how it changed my life. It also doesn’t help that i lack the video editing skills to make a mashup video with all the clips together. Please excuse the variation!
Ladies and gentlemen, without further adieu….
3. The Lion King
My favorite childhood movie…The Lion King! As a child, this movie taught me the importance of family. Simba’s relationship with his father made me appreciate my father and everything he has done for me. In the scene provided, Simba’s father dies and he is heart broken. This scene definitely stuck to me throughout my teenage years.
2. The Bucket List
The Bucket List…lord have mercy! I’m not the type to cry when watching movies, but this one really hit me hard with allergies. This movie really taught me the importance of living life to the fullest. It also portrayed the beauty of human companionship. This scene in particular was the nail in the coffin for me. The speech Edward gave at Carter’s funeral made me shed a tear (don’t tell anyone). Just three months ago, they were strangers…
“I hope it doesn’t sound selfish of me but the last months of his life were the best months of mine”
1. Shawshank Redemption
This is a scene from my favorite movie of all time; The Shawshank Redemption. It was the first movie that really opened my eyes in terms of having a positive outlook on life. In this particular scene, Andy persuades one of the guards to buy his entire “crew” beer in exchange for doing some paperwork for the IRS. This scene changed the tone of the entire movie in the best way possible. It shed a glimmer of light in a seemingly hopeless situation. Yes, these men are prisoners behind bars, but at that particular moment in time, they were FREE MEN! The best part is, Andy doesn’t even drink! He apparently “gave up drinking”. He took one for the team, and the team knew it.
Friends, cold beer, and a prison rooftop. Really, does it get much better than that?
*For some reason, I can’t get the video to save onto my computer. As I take care of technical difficulties, here is the accompanying post.*
Alice in Wonderland and The Woman in Black mashup. Basically, the idea began with wanting to use eerie, suspenseful audio from a trailer, and the first movie that popped into my head was The Woman in Black. When I heard the line in the trailer about a tea party, I immediately thought of Alice in Wonderland. I think the two films mashup perfectly with the tone of the audio and cinematography.
Again, I used Windows Movie Maker 2.6 and edited the video and audio. The two happen to fit together pretty well, and I only needed to do minor edits to make sure the fade ins corresponded with the music and the tea party scene matched the line in the poem about the tea party.
“Remix an Album Cover” is a Mashup assignment which you will find an album cover and remix it to represent something else. What you alter can be anything – it can be a play on the title, the image, the aesthetic, genre, etc.
This is my second mashup assignment and it deals with music again following my previous ds106 post. Since we got the chance to listen to an interesting presentation on open source last week by our fellow classmate, I thought I’d do a piece that pays a bit of hommage to him.
Before starting on the assignment, I had to choose between two to work on and they are both cool records. As you can see, I picked Symphony X’s Iconoclast (2011) over the other album Origin of Symmetry by Muse. One of the song from Origin of Symmetry is featured in my post on Alexander’s lecture. The reason for choosing Iconoclast is because the album is themed on what we humanity is concerned with – dehumanization and the power of technology in society.
To me, this piece is simplistic, but a serious mashup. The composition of the work is suppose to be similar to the cover art for the single Symphony of Destruction with the hand scraping on a surface of algorithm. I used Pixler this time to manipulate the images. None of the images are used directly in the piece without any effects. The image of algorithm was originally just a bunch of zeroes and ones, but I think the use of kaleidoscopic effect transformed the uninteresting arrangement to a nice base for the cover.
I personally want people to think deeply about the meaning of the word and the album title Iconoclast. Being a rebel and thinking outside the box seems to always open up a road to the future. I was wondering if iconoclasm can be applied to the present higher education. Will something change in our future by rejecting the ordinary template we are provided?
Woo FINALLY put together my Movie Trailer Mashup. I literally have been thinking all week about which movies I wanted to do; I looked at a couple trailers on youtube but nothing seemed to fit together really well. Then I was working on my Archetype project, which I used a True Grit trailer for (if you’re really curious it’s here) and I was trying to think…hmm, what other movies have a young girl going to an older guy for help avenging her family…? Ah yes, The Professional!
So here are the trailers I used-
I really had a hard time starting the editing of this project. Actually, the whole project is pretty hard to be honest. I spent a lot of time playing over the trailers, trying to decide which would be easier to use audio and which to use video. I decided on using the video from True Grit and the audio from The Professional. I ended up doing a lot of cutting and pasting, and basically rearranged the order of both the audio and the video to make it sync up better. I am a little bit irritated that the separated clips lag a little bit, I am not really sure how to fix that…anybody know how to fix that / even know what I am talking about there?? iMovie, you’ve been good to me so far, why did you have to start messing with me now?
Anyway, here it is, True Professional Grit, starring John Wayne and Natalie Portman. Sounds like a winner to me!
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