Week 8 pt. 2: Amazon Commentary

In an assignment relevant to another part of this week, I have been tasked with creating a small story in Amazon commentary.

Link to Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/three-moon-wolf-stories/

Stars: 4

Process: After scouring Amazon for a product, I found Elmo. The story is a product of my ever-active and increasingly strange imagination.

Result: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IHHLN5E/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

A link to the comment will be posted once it passes review.

Three Moon Wolf Stories (3.5 star)

I decided to do the Three Moon Wolf story for my last web assignment. I had to go to the comment sections of a product on Amazon or Ebay and write a story about the product. I found a t shirt on amazon that had a picture of a giant sloth climbing the Empire state building like King Kong. I immediately knew this would be a good one. I wrote a story about The sloths heroics and contributions to society that in no way helps the sale of this t shirt. When I was thinking of what I wanted to do I tried to be as sarcastic as possible and create a ridiculous story about a giant sloth, which wasn’t very hard. I tried to tied other famous animals like King Kong and Airbud to make the story seem real. As for creating the story, I basically just looked at the image and wrote the first thing that came to mind. I was surprised at how many people do this for fun. There was a lot of funny stories on the products on amazon. It’s almost become it’s own art form.

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https://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Shirter-Slothzilla-Mens-Tee/dp/B00M3D0GTW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Web Assignment – Three Moon Wolf Stories

This assignment has you create a story using an Amazon review. To find a product to review, I used the Random Amazon Product website, searching until I found something interesting enough. I ended up with this adjustable tree pruner, and it looked like a weapon to me, so I made up a fake review posing as a “tree” cutting enthusiast. I did actually submit the review, but it takes time to process, so I just used X-Ray to simulate what I wrote out until then. chrome_2016-04-15_21-02-26

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Three Moon Wolf Stories

“Your challenge here is to inject a story into the comment space of a product a web site such as Amazon or ebay much in the vein of theThree Wolf Moon t-shirt on Amazon (see the back story). More examples include the BIC for Her pen reviews or the Diamond Braided HDMI Cable” *4 stars*

This was fun, being able to just go off on one talking about these pens. Obviously nothing I said was real, but it was fun making all the stuff up that could happen with these pretty terrible pens, I mean, would anyone actually buy these? Well I hope they would after reading my 5 star review. The comment reads:

“This product is great. They were able to highlight my lecture notes perfectly, it’s a durable, long-lasting product that will never let you down.
But beware, if you do so happen to get carried away with this product and accidently, or interonally inject yourself with the highlighter ink, you WILL turn into the Incredible Hulk. I did not do this myself, but I watched my friend do it and it was crazy. All in all, a GREAT product and I would rate it 11/10. Great for all your highlighting needs!”

Clorox Wipes the most amazing product!

For one of the web assignments I decided to do the Three Moon Wolf Stories assignment. This assignment really stood out to me because I saw how wacky people were with it and that really appealed to me. What the goal of the assignment was to use the X-ray goggles and edit a product’s reviews either on amazon or e-bay or some other similar type of site and make the reviews look pretty silly and that is exactly what I did.

WARNING: These reviews aren’t for the faint of heart or anyone who is overly sensitive. You have been warned. Most of the reviews reflect my sense of humor. I usually looked at what the people were talking about and then kind of made a more crazy review but sometimes I just went nuts with it. Using the X-ray goggles all I had to do was edit text.

Clorox Reviews

Down below I have the original page and the new edited page, check them out and enjoy! This was a four star assignment.

Original Page

New page

Three Moon Wolf Shirt

I did this four star assignment.  I thought the original shirt comments were amazing. I couldn’t think of anything else that would be that good. I just go a new pup. She loves her crate. So I went and made a comment on how great her crate is and how it keeps her out of […]

Multipurpose Cork Plugs****

For this assignment, we had to change a webpage to alter the descriptions of a product on Amazon.  I made a very multipurpose cork.  I used hackasaurus and just changed stuff.

http://p.webremixes.org/qdxtohzc

Here’s the actual site as well.

 

Three Oil Moon

Um…I haven’t actually blogged before, but Master insisted I do this task for him, only two hours after activation.  This is Serial #3323, the maid robot Master bought and mentioned in the previous post, and I’m apparently supposed to report on this thing he wanted me to review.

It’s this oil.  I was given some money and told to order something for some kind of project but…

Well, the rest is in the comment I left about my experience with the oil.  It was kind of hard to find a product to make a silly review about, to be honest, and with no direction, it was kind of hard to find a product that was inherently silly.  Then I realized I could probably just make a silly review about something with maybe a funny name, or give something totally serious an ironic review.  After all, I’m a robot maid.   If something that strange exists in the world, no one would bat an eye at a strange review of a normal thing…right?

In any case, my horrible experience with the bio-oil is over, so I only have to do a few more things, right…?

…Master wants his tea now, so this is #3323, signing off…

The Power of Diamond: 4 Stars Web Assignment

I decided to be the first to try the “Three Moon Wolf Stories” assignment from the ds106 assignment database. I remember when the three moon wolf shirt became a little meme on the internet and decided to find other products in the same vein.  I had read an askreddit post where they discussed how HDMI cables could be ridiculously priced (I bought mine for $0.50).

Here is the AudioQuest “Diamond” HDMI cable.  

I used the X-Ray goggles tool to modify an existing amazon review on the product’s page and just edited each individual part.  The other reviews on that page are great as well and I highly recommend you all read them.

4/5 Web Stars down.  This is by far my least favorite thing we’ve done this year.  Looking forward to next week, though!

Three Moon Wolf Stories (4 stars)

Our challenge for this web assignment was to inject a story into the comment space of a product, which in this case was the Clone Solution I found on Amazon. The whole point of this was to see if a comment can carry the essence of a story and if others will feed into it. My comment was subtle and I can actually see myself doing a stupid thing like this so it had a real feel to it.

Here is the link to the product… Clonex

Here is the comment I added

 

This is a story embedded in a web product because I can see someone actually trying this out …Especially if they were sooo desperate to have two of “ME’s” in there lives.