Okay, none of y’all are dog enough to step up to the digital a story a day in may task, but this dog is going for the full ride. There is so much to choose from in the ds106 assignments submitted by participants, and if that is not enough, there is some place with like 30 or 40 tools you can use.

For today, while sitting on a train from Vermont to the Largish Apple, I sat admiring the wet landscape, and decided to return to one of the most creative assignments (and made by a UMW student)- making a story from the titles of songs in an audio playlist. I had done this before, so I upped it a bit by pulling small bits from each song to go along with the flow.

Being here on the road, and thinking about the longer trip ahead this summer, here is Stay/Go/Road

Stay/Go/Road Playlist Story

I actually liked doing this a lot! I think I might do this a bunch of times since I have over 6000 songs on my itunes to work with. I only looked through A B and C’s for this first one, so I have a ton more to look through. Look out for more of my playlist poetry!

I did this one with itunes. I started looking through my songs and just dragged some into a playlist that had interesting titles and after I had about 5 songs I decided to actually look at the playlist and see what I could make sense of and this is what came out of it. This is my poem. It’s a typical subject, but hey, that’s what I have on my computer. It’s about a girl that gets cheated on and is upset. Finally, she says forget him and decides to start fresh (and she’s happy without him). I think it’s kind of empowering for women.

I took a stab at the “Stories written in Windows Media assignment.”

http://ds106.us/2011/02/03/stories-written-in-windows-media-player/

I don’t have that much music on my computer but as I was scrolling through, I picked up on a theme of pain and injuries so I went with that.  And then of course I had to end it with Lady Gaga.

Here’s my Visual Assignment 46: Stories Written In Windows Media Player submission. My goal was to keep the story as succinct and as coherent as possible. I created a new Playlist, then populated it with tunes from the Music Library. I used a cover version to try and create a sense of rhythm in the story (Is that outside the rules of the assignment?).