I thought that this was a great Daily Create to end on. It was fun and not difficult at all and we really got to be creative with it! I really liked the whole concept of renaming a group of specific animals. I liked the theme of having the name of the group match the name of the animal. That was the only difficult part of this assignment was thinking of the name. At first, I was thinking of a flock and I was going to do a flock of ferrets because ferrets start with an f. But then the word cluster came to mind and I knew that I wanted to use that word instead. And the first animal name that I could think of that started with a c was cat. And so, I looked up different cat gifs and my favorite one was by far the Taylor Swift one. It is her sitting with a large group of cats. At first, I could find any gifs that had more than two cats in it. That was also a challenge because the whole point of this assignment is to use a group of animals. This gif was the first one that I saw and I thought that it was too funny not to use! I enjoyed this so much and it was a great way to finish off my time of tweeting Daily Creates!
Today’s ds106 assignment is a callback, literally: Make a video compilation of some of your favorite things you’ve made from ds106.
Being an artist, I’ve always tried to incorporate some of my drawings into these assignments and daily creates. Therefore, I’ve uploaded all my drawings and paintings I’ve made in the ds106 assignments.
Here we have my responses to Draw With Scissors, I Feel So Good, What’s in your Toast, Color Walk Timelines (when I misunderstood the assignment), and Beginning and End.
I thought it would be challenging to create a video compilation, but it wasn’t. I simply created a powerpoint slideshow of my works and exported my slideshow into a video. It was a fun little assignment, bringing up memories of when I was making these drawings and paintings.
For this assignment we were asked to remain a cluster of animals. I have always thought Hippos were so cute every zoo that I have been to I make sure I always go and see them. When you’re looking for them in the water they really just look like a big blob because they tend to always blend into the water. Especially when there is a large group of them it is always just a big blob. So because of this I decided to change the group name from the official name of bloat to a blob.
Here is the compilation of my favorite digital story assignments. Some of the work comes from DS106 assignments, others from the Daily Create prompts. I added everything to iMovie and then exported the final product to YouTube. I considered adding music to the video but I couldn’t think of a fitting background that would not distract from the work. I got to experiment a little bit with iMovie and got to look back at all of my assignments throughout the term. These are the projects I am most proud of.
A large amount of humans together in one area is usually called a group, tribe, town or civilization of humans. I have made up a new name for this species. I have called them a huddle of humans. This is because humans are the type of creature that huddles together. Whether you are in a small town or a city, there are always a lot of humans together in that area. There are some humans who like to be alone but most humans like to live in the range of other humans. Humans kind of huddle up in a way, kind of like penguins. You see groups of penguins huddled in the arctic and you see groups of humans huddled everywhere else in the world.
I made a YouTube video of my six favorite DS106 Assignments that I have created this semester. Just to put it into perspective, this semester I have created:
10 Daily Creates
3 MEME assignments
3 Animated GIF assignments
3 IMAGE assignments
3 WEB assignments
In this compilation video, that I made using a video editing software, I used two image assignments, an animated GIF assignment, a meme assignment, and two daily creates that I had the most fun creating this semester. I really liked the image assignments where I got to crop myself into an image or something into an image. Although I am not the best at editing and photoshop, I still had fun creating them. The first image in this video is when I had to recreate the Brady Bunch intro picture, and I did so with various pictures of my dog and named it “The Payten Bunch”. The second image is one of the image assignments where I had to crop myself into a historical photo. I decided to crop myself holding my dog Payten into this famous picture of the moon landing. The third image in the video was another assignment that I used my dog in, but this one was a GIF I had to create. This GIF is one where Payten runs and jumps through the railing on my deck. I was unable to get the GIF into the video, so the image is a stillshot of the funniest part of that video. The fourth image is a daily create that I had to mix up two shows that had something in common. I chose the voice actor Patrick Warburton, who voices Joe from Family Guy and Kronk in The Emperor’s New Groove. I think he has an iconic voice, and it was fun cropping these two into the same scene. The fifth image in this compilation video is from the beginning of the semester when I had to make a meme that was demotivational. I decided to create a meme where a man was sweeping dirt under the rug and I encouraged people to do this with their own feelings. Lastly, the image I create for my last daily create was to rename a group of animals into something that they aren’t actually called. I decided to rename a group of penguins as a parade, because I thought that this was a cute name for a cute group of birds.
I had a lot of fun creating some of these images and assignments for this course. Some were hard, others were easier, but overall I have learned a lot with different kinds of software and websites. I feel as though I have a better grasp on technology than I did before entering this class, and I am really happy that I took it!
For my final Daily Create, I renamed a group of penguins. I googled what they are usually called when they are in a large group, and those names were actually pretty great: a colony, a rookery, and a waddle. I liked going with a grouping that started with the letter ‘p’ because I thought it flowed well, so I chose parade. A parade usually consists of large groups of beings in one location, or forming an assembly line marching somewhere. I picture the little penguins all shuffling along in a little line, getting to their final destination slowly but surely. I think “parade of penguins” fits pretty well! However, I still like that they are collectively called a waddle, I think that makes them even cuter (if that was even at all possible).
Book: Warning, this story has an unhappy ending! I repeat, this is NOT HAPPY
Me: Nah it’s fine
Book: Ends on a sad, tearjerking note
Me:
Okay, I think we were all thinking it, but this is uncannily similar to the Surprised Pikachu meme, which is used as a reaction image paired with captions where a set-up leads to a predictable outcome that nevertheless leaves one surprised.
Seriously, the resemblance is astounding:
We all see it.
I’m convinced this is what they did in ancient times. For instances where a set-up leads to a predictable outcome that nevertheless leaves one surprised, people in the old times carried a stone mask of that person just for that occasion. They had to do this for all reaction memes.
For this DS106 assignment, I really wanted to photoshop myself onto a Beatles picture. I wanted it to be a black and white picture because I thought that that would look cooler and more realistic. Turns out, I was completely wrong. Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems with trying to complete this assignment. The first obstacle that I encountered was trying to find a photoshopping app to download. My apple ID wasn’t working so I had to change the password. And then when I tried downloading a photoshopping app, it didn’t have the option to photoshop images onto already existing images. The next two times I downloaded other photoshopping apps that supposedly had this feature, I found that this was not the truth. It wasn’t until the fourth app that I downloaded that I finally found a feature to let me photoshop on picture onto another. So I took a picture of myself and made it black and white to fit the background of the Beatles picture, but the picture did not end up looking good. This app didn’t give me the option to blend the picture of me into the background to make it look more realistic. It also didn’t allow me to size the image how I wanted so I look extremely disproportionate compared to the Beatles. I eventually got the picture to be photoshopped but it turned out, in my opinion, terrible. If there is one thing I learned from this assignment, it is that I never should be trusted with photoshopping any sort of image in the future.
For this DS106 assignment, we were prompted to edit ourselves into a historical picture. I spent awhile trying to look for a picture to edit myself into. I thought about going with the famous picture of Neil Armstrong on the moon, until I asked my best friend what he thought. He suggested editing myself into a picture with the Queen. I decided to give it a try, and think that the editing turned out pretty good! To edit this picture, I just used an app that was already on my phone called Superimpose. I used it to cut out my face from a picture, and put it into this picture of Queen Victoria. The original image is “Her Majesty The Queen in Her Robes of State“. This was a painting created around 1859. Queen Victoria was the Queen of England and Ireland. She also had the title of “Empress of India”. She became Queen at only 18 years old after her uncle, King William IV had died. I also thought it was pretty interesting that she was the first member of the Royal Family to live in Buckingham Palace. Overall, this DS106 assignment was the hardest so far for me to create. Although, I am pretty happy with the outcome, and also thought it was pretty funny!
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