Apart of this week’s work was to make use of the recycled media that we submitted in week 9 named Recycle the Media! It seemed pretty cut and dry: take some old media, mash it up..However, if anything was that simple in DS106, then it wouldn’t be that much fun, now would it? Nahh. So we had to start off digging through about 170 pieces of recycled media through minus, which served as a host for all of our yummy leftovers. Man oh man do we create the randomest things in there! I even saw some of my own, which I would be rather impressed if someone managed to weave that into one of their stories! So anyways, I picked five pieces of media (two from different catergories, i.e., audio and visual!) and I put them into iMovie, that part was easy. The brain work that went behind it…Eh, not so much. See the tricky part was getting those pieces of media and constructing one story that actually made sense. But we’ve had plenty of practice learning how to do all sorts of things, so this was nothing! I used five images, and in the last one, I used a piece of media that was in the recycling bin. For the suspense background music in the beginning, I used freesound to my full benefit!

The story:

Paul the pug has always been infamously jealous of everyone around him, and he hates not being the center of attention. One day, to punish Paul for eating all the treats in the house, Lindsey (the owner) decides to go the store to buy only the cat treats. However, the three cats (Mickey, Minnie, and Moe) were in for a surprise because Paul had enough. He decides that if Lindsey wants to get treats for the cats and not him…He’ll make his own!

Yes, my story was a little morbid. No, I have no regrets since it made me laugh for a good five minutes straight!

This is my submission for the “Post-Photographic Portrait” assignment.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Doctorow’s books are a mix of science fiction, fantasy and ethical dilemmas.

Using one of the photos from the fortheremix site ,  some simple text, and a brush for Photoshop I made a clean cover for a book, or even poster.  The original is in the 14X20 600dpi range, but the copy attached here is just a smashed down 3X4in version 72dpi.

I chose to obscure the subject’s face (Doctorow) to play into the ambiguity I wanted the viewer to begin to feel even before they began the book.  A glimpse into the mind f— blow they are about to participate in by reading the story.

Here is a LINK to a DOWNLOADABLE original.

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For this assignment our professor decided that he was tried and needed a vacation to celebrate the end of the semester (how is it already the end of the semester?).  For this assignment we had to use Mozilla Popcorn Maker.  This is a web based video editor that allows you to remix audio, video, and web sources.  If you follow anyone from ds106 on twitter or happen to look at the hash tag this week, you would see a lot of frustrated students when it came to this website.  I was anything but excited to tackle this assignment since I had heard so much backlash about it.

As I started working with Popcorn, I realized that it wasn’t quite as bad as everyone was making it out to be.  The program was a bit annoying and hard to get used to but once I figured it out I didn’t have too much issue.  I did have problems with the video part getting messed up and I had to play around quite a bit with getting those fixed so they would only play the parts that I wanted it to.

But here is my final video.  Hope you like my vacation destination:

This week, I had to remix a video using Mozilla Popcorn Maker.

This is the video I was working with.

This was not my favorite assignment…

I hated the interface for the editor. There are no clear directions on how to use it at all. The drag and place function stinks because it just doesn’t do what you want it to do. You can’t rotate your media which basically makes it impossible to do anything really interactive. I was disappointed, to be honest.

Nevertheless, I got through this.

1. Harlem Shake Video

I added Harlem Shake to the video because I find it funny. No, a student didn’t create it, but it would have been funny if one did.

2. Octopie — “It’s Time”

I just liked the song. Found it on the front of SoundCloud’s rock page.

3. War of the Worlds First Edition

As a bookish nerd, I figured a very valuable item found in a end table would be a first edition book. War of the Worlds seemed funny…

4. Passport

I was deliberately being obvious. I know we’re supposed to do something unexpected but I feel like no one else is going to put a passport in there… and well you need to one to travel.

5. Video from Australia during winter

Since he was bringing sunscreen, bathing suit, etc., I thought it would be funny to send him to Australia during the middle of winter.

Overall, I really disliked the Popcorn Maker. I probably should have just gone to a video editor that I know and work well with, but I did try to challenge myself with the Mozilla editor. And boy, did I.

For this assignment, I made a remix inside of a remix.  We were supposed to make a movie where someone was watching a movie so I had Hitler from Inglorious Basterds watching Django.  But, Django was watching something he wasn’t supposed to be watching.  I did all my work in iMovie.

I think the film explains itself.  I recently purchased Django, so that was on my mind and I wanted to include that.  My next task was to find a movie where people were watching a movie.  Following the same theme, I went with another Quentin Tarantino Movie and found Inglorious Basterds and the cinema scene with Hitler.  Then, to change things further, I placed a clip of a guy running across a baseball field within the Django clip because he was looking at a guy in a field, as they say in the movie.  Here are the three clips unedited.

Inglorious Basterds

Django

Guy in Field

Originally, I was going to make Django watch something weird, like a drag queen running through a field, but I couldn’t find any videos of that so I gave up.  This ended up working out well enough I suppose.  I loaded everything from YouTube using iLivid.  Here’s a clip of my workspace from iMovie.

For this assignment, I made a remix inside of a remix.  We were supposed to make a movie where someone was watching a movie so I had Hitler from Inglorious Basterds watching Django.  But, Django was watching something he wasn’t supposed to be watching.  I did all my work in iMovie.

I think the film explains itself.  I recently purchased Django, so that was on my mind and I wanted to include that.  My next task was to find a movie where people were watching a movie.  Following the same theme, I went with another Quentin Tarantino Movie and found Inglorious Basterds and the cinema scene with Hitler.  Then, to change things further, I placed a clip of a guy running across a baseball field within the Django clip because he was looking at a guy in a field, as they say in the movie.  Here are the three clips unedited.

Inglorious Basterds

Django

Guy in Field

Originally, I was going to make Django watch something weird, like a drag queen running through a field, but I couldn’t find any videos of that so I gave up.  This ended up working out well enough I suppose.  I loaded everything from YouTube using iLivid.  Here’s a clip of my workspace from iMovie.

For this assignment, I made a remix inside of a remix.  We were supposed to make a movie where someone was watching a movie so I had Hitler from Inglorious Basterds watching Django.  But, Django was watching something he wasn’t supposed to be watching.  I did all my work in iMovie.

I think the film explains itself.  I recently purchased Django, so that was on my mind and I wanted to include that.  My next task was to find a movie where people were watching a movie.  Following the same theme, I went with another Quentin Tarantino Movie and found Inglorious Basterds and the cinema scene with Hitler.  Then, to change things further, I placed a clip of a guy running across a baseball field within the Django clip because he was looking at a guy in a field, as they say in the movie.  Here are the three clips unedited.

Inglorious Basterds

Django

Guy in Field

Originally, I was going to make Django watch something weird, like a drag queen running through a field, but I couldn’t find any videos of that so I gave up.  This ended up working out well enough I suppose.  I loaded everything from YouTube using iLivid.  Here’s a clip of my workspace from iMovie.