Process: Find a picture of Pikacu and Phoo. Conbine them and color them.
Story: They are extremely influential in both Japan and the US espicially in 90′s… They are both yellow… sort of animals which have a owner… Kawai hun? childhood remake!!
The Assignment
Today, I decided to do an assignment from the Mashup Assignments called Mashedup Children’s Book by Jim Groom!!
The directions read:
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.
The Process
I decided to make this assignment somehow related to our section topic right now, Fear and Loathing Online.
I tried looking picture from Flickr’s Creative Commons but couldn’t really find anything so I just used Google.
I looked for a picture of a locked computer and a computer virus which I could combine. Then I looked for a picture of Curious George.
After I was done searching for the pictures, I used Gimp to put the three pictures into one. I think I’m getting better in using Gimp!!
The Story
The picture didn’t really turn out the way I wanted but I like it. 
It’s a picture of Curious George using his protected computer from computer viruses.
In this section, I learnt the importance of protecting my computer from different malware so I thought this picture would be a good picture for my third ds106 assignment of this section.
Image: Curious George, locked computer, computer virus
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.
Following the College Humor examples, I decided to merge a classic Children’s book with a fantasiesque piece of culture. As you can see, I merged Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree with J.R.R. Tolkien’s series The Lord of the Rings.
Silverstein was author and illustrator of The Giving Tree, and its cover art serves as the base for manipulation here.
Front Cover of The Giving Tree
I used Pixlr to manipulate the image and add characters from The Lord of the Rings that seemed appropriate on the cover of this children’s book. The little boy reminded my of the small, innocent looking hobbit Frodo from The Lord of the Rings. The apple could be humorously replaced with the Ring, and to spice it up a bit, I decided to include a looming Gollum.
I decided to use the LEGO version of Lord of the Rings characters after remembering their existence.
Luckily, I found a LEGO Wikia containing images for all of the figures.
Main character Frodo from The Lord of the Rings in LEGO form.
LEGO version of the ring lusting Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.
When extracting the hobbit Frodo’s form to place of The Giving Tree’s cover, I hit a few snags. The magic wand tool was giving my a bit a difficulty due to the varying hues of the background image, so I did what I could with the tool and used the eraser to isolate the rest of Frodo’s form. After adjusting the LEGO sizes and placing them where I desired, I matched the color from the original background and switched to the original background layer to give a clean looking image.
I did the same when replacing the apple with the Ring.
The Ring of desire from The Lord of the Rings
The last step was to replace the title and the author.
I wanted to think of something clever pertaining to The Lord of the Rings while remaining true to the essence of The Giving Tree. With a bit of brainstorming, I settled on The Power Giving Ring. However, I nearly drove myself mad when trying to find a font style that matched the original for the alternate title.
I couldn’t find a closely matching style, so I settled on juice ITC and used Gabriola to write Tolkien. (Again, couldn’t find the font style I wanted.)
And that, my friends, was how The Power Giving Ring was born.
The Mad Tea Party.
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:181140
Since Scott asked us to have more variety of categories for our DS106, I wanted to do something in another category I still haven’t tried. A past blog post from the previous semester inspired to me to try this assignment. I think this assignment can also be under the design section.
How are people doing with their presentation preparation? Mid-term has started and we’re all having a hectic week. I’m suppose to be busy too, and I somehow spent a hour or two the other day just to search the right picture for this assignment. It’s my bad habit to go headlong at whatever I decided to do. First off, I couldn’t find the desirable CC-licensed image of children’s books. I could immediately think of some well-known books and I had plenty of ideas. “The Snowman” was one I wanted to use, but that plan had to be put away. Instead, I found an gif animation of the famous tea party scene from Lewis Caroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” which I replaced The Mad Hatter’s face with Engelbart’s.
Can you believe it? I’m still writing about a Pioneer after finishing the first section. A light bulb went off in my head when I saw the dormouse. I made a little association with the Pioneer and the mouse (dormouse – mouse – computer mouse…Engelbart?).
The creative process of this assignment became somewhat difficult, because I had taken a gif animation and played around with it. Although you can’t really tell Alice is actually holding a x-ray-ed computer mouse, which the sparkle erased from the image. Check out the twinkly animation version of the Tea Party on Flickr. I wish I had the animation working on here too…I don’t consider this piece as one of my best works.
* I just realized now that I was goofing around checking out some dormouse pictures and videos (they’re too adorable to avoid). No wonder I took more time than I expected to complete this assignment.
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!!
