He lies motionless in his hospital bed, then *GASP!*

“Nurse! Nurse,” he whispers through coughs. There is no one there. He tries to use the call button on the bedside. No response. Nothing.

He rolls over and falls to the floor. Panicking, he gets to his feet and looks around the room. Interestingly, the bouquet of flowers on the table are all dried and dead. He staggers to the door and out into the deserted hallway.

“Hello? Hello! Anybody?! Where is everyone? Did they all go on break at the same time?”

He shuffles down the hall, still looking for someone, anyone.  At the end of the hall, he sees something strange – a set of double doors are held shut with a wooden board.. Why would someone barricade the doors, and who would want to? His first instinct is to open it and see if anyone needs help. He is, after all, a police officer, and it is his sworn duty to serve and protect.  He removes the board and pulls the door open.

What he finds inside is not normal! Everyone he sees is dead! Decayed! Rotting! He shrieks and one of the things lunges toward him.  He struggles to get away from the thing. “What are you doing! Get off! Can’t you understand?!”

“Unngghhhh,” the walking corpse groans.  It was almost as if it wanted to eat him! He was terrified. In what world had he awakened?! How much time had passed; Days Gone Bye?? He struggled to the stairwell, and finally rid himself of the dead, but walking creature.

He was alone, in this strange and twisted reality. What was he to do? Where was he to go? He had to get to the bottom of this. Surely Lori and Carl had to know. He hoped they were safe at home, just waiting for him. Rick had to find answers.

Weeks have passed. Who knows how long it’s been, months, years, it’s hard to say.  All that Rick knows is that he is surviving. He has to.

He’s made it long enough to get out of Atlanta, and somehow make it to New Mexico. I guess there wasn’t much left of Alexandria, and maybe Nebraska wasn’t so nice either.

On this particular day, Rick is out on a run, searching for more supplies.  A storm is brewing in the distance and he knows he needs to find shelter and quick.  The following is what ensues when he finds an old warehouse-looking building with the sign only partially remaining above the door. From what he could tell, part of the sign read “Radio”…

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This assignment was a mashup of three previous assignments and completes the Mash Thyself, Before Ye Trash Thyself assignment, worth 4 stars! For this assignment, we had to use existing content that we had previously created this semester.

This assignment in pretty simple, yet very powerful.  Mash-up your own work!  Take at least 3 things you’ve done this semester, and combine them together to make one cohesive thing.

I started by looking back over all that I had created, including works on my SoundCloud and Flickr accounts.  On SoundCloud, I found two creations that fit together very nicely! And for the third piece, I had to go all the way back to week 1! These three works that I chose all had a theme that all dealt with Rick, from The Walking Dead.  I started by copying the story that I had written from Week 1, and then expanded on it a little, giving for a nice lead in to my other two pieces for this assignment.  The two audio clips were pretty easy to combine using Audacity, and I just uploaded it as a new track on SoundCloud.  I really like the idea of this assignment, because it makes you reflect on what you have already created.  It also lets you build on what you already have, so you don’t have to start from scratch for this assignment.

For 2.5 stars this week, I completed the Mashedup Children’s Book assignment.  When I first started, I didn’t quite know where to start.

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. Seuss’s work.

From the example given, I knew that I wanted to play off of the Dr. Seuss theme. I started out by searching for Dr. Seuss books and thinking about which one would be a nice play-on-words. My original idea was using “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” and maybe mixing it with power rangers, but that would be a mouthful to say, especially for a children’s book… I mean think about it, what adult would want to read “One Power Ranger, Two Power Ranger, Red Power Ranger, Blue Power Ranger” to a kid?? I’d need to stop for a drink of water after every page!

I finally found the book titled “Are You My Mother?” and immediately had a brilliant idea of what to do.. Change it to father instead of mother, and what have you??

I used Photoshop to create this cover, and although it is not in the theme of Dr. Suess, it still is a decent cover! I found the images of the characters in an image search, and then added the text and the gradient.  I chose to have Luke on the darker background and Darth on the lighter to juxtapose their roles in the films.  The text color reflects their actual sides in the films, and Luke’s name matches his light saber color! I couldn’t decide on the angle to have the gradient. The angle I ended up using reflects the divide between the two characters and their placement in this image.  The other option was to have it from corner to corner.  Using the angle I did also makes the cover less symmetrical, which I think adds to the aesthetic. Although I have never seen any of the Star Wars movies, I still think this would make for a comical children’s book..

I chose to remix a mashup assignment that I completed a few weeks ago.  For the original assignment I chose to make a collage of my friend and the monkey emoji side by side.  My friend is covering her mouth just like the monkey is doing so.  For the remix we had to edit different things throughout the photo and let the audience guess to see if they could find what was exactly changed in the picture.  The orginal photo is shown first and the edited photo is shown second.  I will give you a hint there were four changes that took place.

For this assignment I used paint to make changes on the picture.  If you have not been able to tell what is so different I will tell you below:
I changed the border line of the cabinet to a dark gray
I made the diamond on her ring look bigger

I changed her striped shirt to all black

I changed the gold clip on her shoulder to purple

For 4 stars this week, I completed the This Doesn’t Belong Here assignment.  I didn’t quite know where to start, but we had to choose movies.  I originally was thinking of trying to combine The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad.  I started by doing a Google image search for The Walking Dead, and came across the poster of Rick and Carl walking on the train tracks.  I immediately thought of the scene from The Aristocats when the kittens are walking along the train tracks.

For this assignment you need to mash up two different iconic movie scenes. However, you should aim to be as subtle as possible. Perhaps a famous prop that simply doesn’t belong or a character that looks a little out of place.

Once I started looking for scenes from The Aristocats, I thought it would be a great juxtaposition if I did The Aristocats and 101 Dalmatians! After finding both images online, I used Photoshop to add the puppy into the cat picture.  Since the colors of the cats were sort of grey, the white of the dog stuck out like a sore thumb.  I used the same color as Marie to try and darken the whiteness of the dog, so it looked like he blended in more. I probably could have gone for a shade or two darker on the pup, but I didn’t want to risk greying out his spots.