During my travels this summer I have learned very important lessons:
You should always pack a snack, because most plane food sucks.
You should always buy an extra pair of headphones (incase your headphones break and you are suck sitting next to someone who won’t stop talking the whole 17 hours #truestory).
You should always have a camera (because life is full of beautiful moments to capture)
I took this video with my iphone camera, then with one click uploaded the video to my computer via bluetooth (ohh how sweet is life).
I am a geek of tremendous proportions! Also when I’m trying to go to sleep at night, I obsess over all the conversations I had throughout the day. I also like to take awkward videos of people and share them on youtube. The black and white effect enhances the intensity in a photo or a video and gives a moment so much more meaning (in my opinion). This video was initially 20 minutes long (a bunch of hoodlums, I know) but with the help of iMovies on my computer was very easy to edit and reduce the duration of the video. I’ve never used iMovies before, and I am glad that I am learning all the cool things it offers (gosh, I am so lame).
I have always been taught to never begin anything with an apology. However lately I always feel the need to apologize. When I registered for this class I was excited beyond human capacity. I was really looking forward to learn and grow with the Daily assignments as well as explore all the unique projects we got to do. It’s disappointing that I wasn’t able to complete assignments on time, or even complete them with a pure conscious. I feel like I was always rushing to finish assignments. Which sucked the fun out of what was meant to be fun and enjoyable. But to be fair, I did enjoy all the assignments I got to do and learned a lot about digital storytelling. I have always been a very private person and very selective in terms of sharing my thoughts, beliefs, myself. I don’t like the feeling of being exposed. However, DS has helped me find a level of balance. It’s all about communication. we need to communicate to survive. communication is not a one way street. You do not always have to fully explain yourself to everyone but be aware that a dedication to never do so can be perceived as very arrogant and self-centered. If you are unwilling to communicate with others then you will see many friendships crumble. If you don’t feel like you need those friendships in your life that is fine, but just be aware of these consequences, because nobody likes to feel lonely. This post was not meant to be this long. I guess I just wanted to express myself, something I have never been so good at. I am a person who likes to give my heart and soul in everything that I do, and when I feel that I am not performing at my best, I beat myself over and over and over again.
Tell a Tale on a Tapestry: Go to Bildwirkerey von Bayeuxbe at , where you will find the “Historic Tale Constrvction Cit”, a web-based app inspired by the Tapestry of Bayeux. Follow the directions to create your own tapestry, then be sure to share it with us!
I found the “Historic Tale Constrvtion Cit” at Bildwirkerey von Bayeux while doing some Tumblr surfing. It’s funny what you can find on the Internet when you’re not even trying.
The Cit you find at the site is actually a reproduction of a defunct web app created by two German students, Karnebogen and Jungbluth, using Flash. The app was apparently an early source on the Internet for memes.
The Cit was rebuilt in 2011 by Johannes Jander using HTML and Javascript. I dub him an Honorary D106 Internaut for his initiative in preserving a cool and unique piece of Internet history that otherwise might have passed some of us younger users by.
Remixes are everywhere and they are unavoidable. Some remixes are easier to do and others are simple. While watching some of these videos, I got a understanding how HOW TO do some things I never thought of before. It is even more interesting to know just how creative some people are to come up with remix ideas. Several of these remixes take pure creative minds to think of and technological skills to make it happen. I do think that the people who remix an original art should have some copyright to it. Being that they recreated something with their own idea, they should have some share.
The video clips that were listen on Magic McGuffin website were very intriguing. I wanted to blog about all of them, but I chose to do my favorite 3.
The first point that I liked about the remix world is how you can put two different things together and make one. The video I watched was the Buffy vs. Edward. They are two different movies, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Twilight but they have the same concept. Vampires. Now I personally never seen the two movies, but I know of them. It was magnificent to watch how the two movies were mixed into one..
The second thing I liked about the remix world was how you can take a movie, take the dialogue from the movie, and make it into something else. I liked how this particular mix took the Star Wars movie and the song “Call me maybe” by Carly Rae Jepson and basically made a music video. The took clips from Star Wars of the actors/actress saying the words from “Call me maybe” and put it all together into one video. It seems so simple, but I know there had to be some difficulties find the words and chopping them up.
The third thing I liked about the remix world was how you can take current events/news stories and add them into songs to make a remix of the song. I liked how they did “Can’t Tase This” remix of ”Can’t touch this” by M.C Hammer It honestly made me laugh because they took a kind of sad news event and make it into a funny song. This type of remix seemed easy to do and it is actually something that I would like to try myself.
Sadly, I don’t really watch too many movies, but the few movies I watch are mainly animated. Why? I am a big kid at heart and animated movies has a way of keeping me young. Well, that is my story and I’m sticking to it. The assignment that allowed me to mash up movies, was one that I over-looked first. Then as I was going through the other assignments I got an idea of how to do this assignment.
My favorite movie of all time is TAKEN. Which is about a CIA agents who’s daughter gets kidnapped and he has to look for her. My favorite childhood movies were FINDING NEMO, which is about a fish that is separated from his father, and he father has to find him; and DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR, which is about a boy that basically looks for his car the whole movie. My favorite animated movie on from Disney is CARS. Which is about a race car that gets lost and finds himself in a deserted town. The car’s name is Lightning McQueen and all he wants is to get back to the big race.
What I did was take the 4 movies and put them into one poster. Which is below..
I created a whole new movie, called “Taken 2: Finding Lightning McQueen” [Taken 2] is from the movie TAKEN, [Finding] is from FINDING NEMO, and [Lightning McQueen] is from CARS. The poster includes a picture of [Dory] from the movie FINDING NEMO and a quote. The quote [Dude, Where's my Car] is from the movie DUDE WHERE’S MY CAR. In all the 4 movies are combined into a poster for a new movie
Here we go again. I can’t believe it’s week 6 already. This is all happening so fast. These past few days have been really hectic, not because of DS106 but also because final exams for my classes in Tanzania are coming up and I am very nervous. Exams are in kiswahili, a language I did not know a word of 6 weeks ago, but now I am expected to take full exams in it (well isn’t that awkward). Anyway, this week has to be the lowest for me. I am extremely upset and disappointment at myself. I was not able to participate in the radio show because I had no internet access. I have also been studying for my exams and teaching english at the primary school downtown dar es salaam.
Putting excuses aside. This week I recorded my letter home. I added sound effects to show the environment I am in. For my last week in Tanzania, we went on a three day safari through serengeti national park. We observed the wild life and connected with nature. It was amazing.
Let’s just say I had no idea what the heck I was doing with this assignment. Not because it was difficult, but because my mind was all over the place with this one. While I was in Tanzania, I fell in love with swahili music. For this assignment, I decided to use one of my favorite songs in kiswahili called “Joanita.” I played around with the pitch and added swirling echoes. Again, garageband goes a long way.
This week we are doing a lot of remixes. When I got my Remix assignment, I was a little afraid. I didn’t know how exactly to remix a “5 seconds of fame” video. After thinking and thinking a thinking, I finally came up with a remix assignment. This assignment is called “IDENTIFY THIS SOUND” The steps to creating this video are as followed.
1. Take a short video clip (preferably 5 seconds)
2. Take the audio from the video.
3. Play ONLY the audio portion of the video.
5. Ask the viewer, “Can you Identify this sound”
6. Give the viewer at least 3 answer choices of what the sound could be
7. Give the viewer some time to think and then reveal the answer
8. Show the video clip, and see if you viewer guessed it right.
My video people, is a Remix of Jasmine’s 5 Sec of fame
Creating this assignment took a lot of time, but it wasn’t too hard. The steps to creating this were
Camp is now over (see the final story. If you are craving an experience like this, head over to ds106 and see how to participate. For more on the Summer of Magic Macguffin, see.....
