From the 3-star Recycle the Media assignment: During the Fall 2012 iteration of ds106 taught at UMW, we collected media from students that was unused in their previous work uploaded to http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the password was “photos4life” newly added media might take some time to be moved- we have to feed the squirrels that do this manual labor). The content was migrated to a public download site, which contains at least 150 images, audio and video http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO.

Your task for this assignment is to mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video). The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content. What kind of recycled story can you make out of this cast off media?

For my first part of media I wanted to tell a story with a picture.  Cropping pictures into other pictures to see if that changes the idea of an image.  I just grabbed any images that struck my fancy, and most of them were abstract or nostalgic.  The kind of story I made was about a garbage monster who is seeing this rare event where milk falls from the sky into a hole in the ground.  Rumor has it that this milk flows into a reservoir at the University of Mary Washington where they process the milk and use it for as long as it lasts saving the school much money. (Oscar link,  milk link, scene link)

The second creation I wanted to do was an audio creation (because I love audio) and was going to challenge myself with another five-sound story.  I like the idea of layering sounds, but a lot of the sounds were shorter in length than I anticipated so that brought about a whole new set of challenges that I was happy to try out. (street sounds, sneeze, scrap yeah yeah, ahh, and swish)  This is a mini story of a sped up journey for someone who is moving and they took the train, drove a little by car near the coast, and settled into the city.  The sneezes at the beginning and end mark the start and end of the journey and that even though location changes it doesn’t mean that the person themselves change.  The more and more I listened to it the more and more it seemed haphazard and yet it still made sense.  I think that in order to change this it needed to either be reordered or have things fade into each other a little more effectively.  The sounds currently sound like layers of sounds instead of a story.