Here is my first pass at mashing up Saxon’s Crusader album cover for ds106. Next semester I will have to spend a lot more time getting better at Photoshop/GIMP because it is all too evident I still suck. Anyway, join the ds106 crusade to rid the land of boring ass classes

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So the assignment is to.. “Pick a song that has geographic references (or heck ,make up the references), and create a Google Map that has the locations along with media for each pin in the map. Mash it up with the audio or video of the song into a new video- making it a music mapped video!” -cogdog

The first song that popped into my head was the beach boys “kokomo” song. It lists many locations in the carribbean. When i googl mapped the locations some of them dont have that red pin point button over the location. So i copied the image and pasted it over the locations without the button. I got the image of the button and the maps by taking a photo of the screen. Macs have this option by holding Command, Shift, 3 and it takes a pict of the screen. You can also select the area where you want to photograph instead by holding Command, Shift, 4 …. which is what i did.

This project took unnecessary steps since i didnt have or knew the best software to do this in. I started on a Mac with Adobe Fireworks to make the animated gif. But then I didnt know how to get the song off youtube. So when I got home I used a Windows and used Realplayer to get the song. Then had to use Windows Live Movie Maker to put the clips together. This program didnt take all my slides from my gif only the first image. So i had to resave the gif and export it as each slide to get all the slides as different image documents. Then imported in Windows Live Movie Maker. Added the music, adjusted the stage times and put in some video animations.

Grant Potter, Mikhail Gershovich, GNA Garcia, Jim Groom on their tour through NYC Fall 2011.

Inspired by Grant’s amazing retrospective of his tour of NYC last night on DS106 Radio, I decided the NYC Jam deserved it’s own album cover. This is my second album cover mashup made in response to Jim Groom adding a DS106 “Remix an Album Cover” mashup assignment a couple days ago after seeing the “Chronic Youth” cover discovered by Mikhail.

“It’s nine o’clock, the radio’s the only light!“

Mikhail Gershovich pointed me to this crazy album cover remix of Sonic Youth’s Goo done by Juciy:

And in the event you don’t know the original, here it is:

After seeing it, I immediately thought of a #ds106 design/mashup assignment, and tweeted as much.  And before I could even submit the assignment, Michael Branson Smith beat me to the punch by actually doing this imagined assignment:

So, with all this awesome, I finally had to pull the trigger on at least submitting the assignment, I’m not sure if I feel creative enough to do one just now, I have to get my ass in shape. And I have to blog about Portland!!

This is for digital storytelling.
Assignment name is Mashedup Children’s book.

I picked up Hungry caterpillar for this assignment.

I also picked up Fukuda President’s comments.
”I can see myself objectively, so I am not like you”.
This is really common phrase as Japanese politicians’ stupid comments.

Then what I created is this.

Hungry caterpillar knows what he wants to eat!!
He is NOT like you!!

He is not like Japanese politicians who can not complete their manifest!!
He is not like Japanese politicians who changed their manifest easily!
Hungry caterpillar knows what he wants to do!!

He is not like you!!

This is for digital storytelling.
Assignment name is Mashedup Children’s book.

I picked up Hungry caterpillar for this assignment.

I also picked up Fukuda President’s comments.
”I can see myself objectively, so I am not like you”.
This is really common phrase as Japanese politicians’ stupid comments.

Then what I created is this.

Hungry caterpillar knows what he wants to eat!!
He is NOT like you!!

He is not like Japanese politicians who can not complete their manifest!!
He is not like Japanese politicians who changed their manifest easily!
Hungry caterpillar knows what he wants to do!!

He is not like you!!

ds106 assignment on reinterpreting a logo with the inclusion of what one buys most at the place.

ds106 assignment on reinterpreting a logo with the inclusion of what one buys most at the place.