I did this in large part because it will annoy my husband and one of our friends. They play The Game in the car with the station on classic rock: Song title, band, album, year.
It did hurt me a little to make this. I avoided being too sacrilegious with it. I’m chaotic good, not evil.
For the Triple Rocktroll Lyrics (2 stars), I choose a picture of Slash because Guns n’ Roses was my favorite band for a long time. I’ve heard people confuse ACDC and Guns n’ Roses before (I don’t know how) so I choose some lyrics to to You shook me all night long by ACDC, and then I attributed the lyrics to Bon Jovi, because why not? This was fun!
Triple Rocktroll Lyrics:
I’m not going to lie here, I fell victim to clickbait when selecting this task from the assignment bank. The reason I fell victim is due to the use of Nickleback as the assignment icon. I don’t know what it is about Nickleback, but they just have a direct line to my funny bone. Upon further investigation, I actually found the task to be fun and creative. Hence, why I chose to complete it.
Aside from the task itself being fairly easy, it was hard to select the artists I wanted to use. The assignment dictates that you choose a picture of an artist, choose a quote from another artist, choose another random artist, and then put all of those components together to create a false quote. The task suggests choosing an artist from the 70s to begin with. So I sat down and went through my list of favorite artists from the 70s. I decided to use David Bowie because he is one of my icons. The task then suggests you find an artist related to the artist in the picture. I then sat down and thought of modern artists whom resemble David Bowie and his work to make the entire facade look more realistic. I decided that Lady Gaga is equally as influential as David Bowie during his time. Finally, the task suggests we select an artist from a totally different time face to further confusion. I didn’t even have to think of an artist for this part. Johnny Cash immediately popped into my mind because he is so drastically different from both Lady Gaga and David Bowie.
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The first assignment I did was the “A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing” assignment. My task was to take a logo of a company and redesign it representing the company’s rival. Thus, I chose to do the Jayhawk representing K-State. I chose the Jayhawk because I’m evil and like to create controversy. Link to assignment:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/
The colors actually turned out different than how I saw them on Adobe Illustrator. When I made it, the blue you see was the K-State purple. Recoloring the Jayhawk was the difficult of the assignment. The normal Jayhawk uses 3 colors, and I only had two to work with.
Continuing with the theme of being a troll, I went with the assignment that told me to make a very confusing picture. I took a photo of Dave Grohl, lyrics by the Beatles, and Mick Jagger’s name and put all of it on a picture. Confusion ensues. Link to assignment:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/triple-rocktroll-lyrics/
The only challenge here was to find the right place to put the text. I chose a color that I took from the picture for the text. I experimented with making the quote one line above Dave, but ended up going with what you see above.
For my last assigment, I decided to do some work with Photoshop, since it is not my forte. My Photoshop skills are something I need to work on. This assignment had me take a picture of an eye, and make it so there was something reflecting in the eye. Sounded easy, turned out to be difficult for me. Link to assignment:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/can-you-see-what-i-see/
I consider this assignment to be a failure. What I mean is that I hold myself to a higher standard than what you see above. I think I accomplish the main idea of the assignment, but I think the picture lacks realism. It might look like something is really reflecting in the eye if you take a quick glance at it, but anything past a glance reveals that it is just edited in Photoshop. I think my problem is that there a lot of depth to the eyeball, but almost no depth to the picture of the fireworks. Perhaps I could have warped the picture of the fireworks more to match the depth and curvature of the eye.
For this assignment, I was tasked with pairing a rock quote with a picture of another artist, and crediting a third artist with the quote.
Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/triple-rocktroll-lyrics/
Stars: 2
Process: I utilized Photoshop yet again for this assignment, placing the photo and using a text box for the quote and artist accreditation.
Result:
For this assignment the directions were to take a picture of a 70’s rock band, take a quote from a different 70’s rock band, state that the quote was from yet another different 70’s rock band, and then create a picture displaying it. For mine I took a picture of Led Zeppelin, a quote from The Eagles, and then stated that the quote was from Pink Floyd. I found this extremely funny, mostly because sometimes I do enjoy listening to 70’s music. It hurts me to think that young people these days might think that it was all about the same band.
The assignment is here
Steps:
Triple Rocktroll design assignment 2 Stars
What’s the easiest way to troll any metal fan? Well one of the major ways is to credit a song to the wrong band. However, that only trolls the fans of two bands. In this project we hit three different fandoms hearts with this troll photo.
The photo firstly is a picture of a young James Hetfield known for his role as lead vocals and guitar in the rock band Metallica, coupled with the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody by the band Queen and then it is all accredited to Steven Tyler Best known for his lead vocals in the band Aerosmith.
Check out each respective category and notice how they are not the same:
Photo is James Hetfield from Metallica:
Lyrics are Boehemian Rhapsody from Queen:
Lyrics are credited to Steven Tyler:
Tutorial:
Old Fashioned Letter Exchange Design Assignment : 4.5 Stars
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin
For my old fashioned letter exchange project I decided to have a letter from Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States to James Madison, the fourth president of the United States regarding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. In this fictitious letter, Jefferson is concerned with the 2nd Amendment and thinks it might be dangerous. Jefferson is predicting that the ambiguity in the language of the second amendment could cause future problems. It would be interesting to look if any letters like this really exist about the founding fathers having fears about citizens owning guns.
In the Twenty-first Century, our country has been repeatedly subjected to the horror, terror, and misery of repeated mass killings in numbers that could not have been anticipated by the framers of the US Constitution and the authors of the Second Amendment.
This database from Mother Jones Magazine gives detailed accounting of each mass killing and provides detailed data regarding the type of weapon used and the consequences of the violence. As the grotesque quote from Joseph Stalin notes, “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.” This shows how gun violence has become so common that we look at the deaths as nothing more than data.
The Federalist Papers themselves leave the reader bewildered as to the meaning of the phrase “the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.” The human toll from these mass shooting events cannot be easily discovered.
The events of the Spring of 2016 in Orlando will always remind of us the complexity of the human heart and spirit. An angry man of Islamic belief uses a military-grade weapon to kill dozens of people in a LGBT nightclub. His motives are heavily debated and remain shrouded in mystery. Yet the broken hearts that are left behind are too numerous to count. This mourning and heartbreak are brought back to mind by a gut-wrenching NPR Story Corps presentation reflecting on a similar attack in New Orleans decades before. The emotion in the voice and the points of view expressed could become the basis of novels and memorials for centuries to some.
My image of the letter from Madison to Jefferson traces the origins of this challenging and sad story – how an ambiguous sentence written in colonial rural America could rip open the hearts of countless citizens throughout the ages – a literal and figurative breaking of hearts.
Tutorial:
Image of heart from Google Images: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/wounded-bleeding-red-love-broken-heart-13167025.jpg
Triple Rock Troll (2 Stars)
As an homage to the popular Triple Quotes assignment, this one puts a rock music twist on it. Find an image of a well known rock star, add to it a phrase by song lyric by someone related in some way to the star in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related musician. From Know Your Memes:
(1) Get a picture of rock star people idolize. Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison — any beloved rock star from the 1970s will do.
(2) Slap on a phrase from the song lyric from a similar musician from a different band or era. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a song lyric from say, the band Spirit (whom Led Zeppelin was accused of lifting the riff for Stairway to Heaven)
(3) Attribute the lyric to another band or musician from yet a third confusing space (maybe Eric Clapton).
This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once. Inspired by the “Nickelchad” example by Terry Greene
My first instinct was to use Dave Grohl, who I think is not only a wonderful musician but is also a role model for young musicians everywhere. When I thought of lyric Green Day seemed to fall in the closest to Foo Fighters, in my mind for some reason. The hardest thing for me to figure out was what musician to attribute the lyrics too that seemed to make sense, I finally landed on Pearl Jam.
This was a super easy two stars for me to complete near the end of my day because I could throw it together rather quickly on Canva.
I downloaded a picture of Dave Grohl from online.
I then uploaded the photo of Grohl to Canva.
I then inserted text from the text menu over the the image of Grohl and changed the color to green.
I added one more text over Grohl to attribute the lyrics to Pearl Jam and decided I actually preferred the text in Black and changed it back.
I finally downloaded the image from Canva onto my desktop and uploaded it to Flickr. before embedding it in this post.
Would you listen to Green Pearl Fighters?
Here is a painful combination for you!
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