Checklist
archived blog entered into ds106 profile, waiting for final transfer after I cross everything off this list meeting scheduled assignments sorted; best of collection made evidence of participation best daily creates tutorials created assignments: Finding Symmetry, Lyric Typography Poster official final project post/reflection final reflection on course as a whole I think that’s almost everything.
And It’s Almost Over
At the beginning of the semester I went into the class assuming that it would end up like most of the other courses I’ve taken that had class blogs. And those classes all shared things with ds106 — the openness, sharing, and commenting, the way putting something on the internet where everyone can see it [...]
Final Project Official Reflection
My final project is a story called Lucidity. You can read it here. It’s a little rough, a little incomplete, and I hope it makes some small amount of sense. The story is set in a dystopian far future and the narrative occurs both in the reality of that fictional world and in the main [...]
Final Project — Notes on the Process
I haven’t blogged hardly anything at all about this final project… The story I’m working on is called Lucidity. More on the actual story when it comes time to do the official final project reflection — it is set in a dystopian future and it’s a little crazy. For now, I want to share some [...]
Final Project Class Brainstorm
In class I talked with Hannah about final project possibilities. She is working on a video project documenting parts of her work as a barista. She’s thinking about about showcasing various aspects of the job through a series of vintage style educational videos. She mentioned showing the process for how to make various drinks, and [...]
Remixed Klimt — Spot the Differences
My last spin of the remix generator gave me this assignment, which says to make subtle changes to the original work and see how easy it is to spot the differences. I used this adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s Hope II (which you should look at, because it’s a genius remix on its own). I thought [...]
Remixing Fat Cats in the Fog with Red Fish & Blue Fish
This remix assignment poses the challenge of adding Dr. Seuss to art that has already been improved with the addition of a fat cat. Browsing through all the fat cat art, I found Jim Groom’s The Fat Fog Warning, and figured I may as well add a red fish or a blue fish. I opened [...]
Splatter Painting Gotham City
The assignment is to remix a minimalist travel poster based on a movie by introducing the visual elements of a Jackson Pollock painting. Looking through the previous assignments, I thought Saad’s stunning Gotham City Poster would mash up decently with some paint splatters. I ended up using actual paint splatters from Pollock. They are not [...]
Seeing Sound — Remixed Radio Bumpers
This remix assignment uses the media bender card on the create a ds106 radio bumper assignment. I decided to see if I could take sound into visual design. I had to search through a few of the original assignment submissions before I found one of the radio bumpers that was available to download. I ended [...]
Speeding Up Slowness
This footage, which features getting stuck in terrible I-95 traffic, started out as part of the Day in Your Life assignment, which I never quite completed… but I was trying to think what I could use it for, and found the Speed Up Your Work Day assignment. Turns out there are already some commute videos [...]
One Second of Light
The assignment is to make a One Second Video and the challenge is “How much of a story can you tell in one second?” This is probably the simplest assignment to do technically. I imported the video into iMovie, trimmed it down to a second, and gave the audio a slight fade. The example compilation [...]
Reversing the Rain
The assignment — Play It Backward, Jack — is to take a video and reverse it. After the long and painstaking process of doing kinetic typography, I wanted a simple assignment, so I gave this one a shot. I had a short video of rain I shot a while ago while messing around with my [...]