Month: April 2012
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CUNY Weeks 13 to 15 – Final Stretch
In the last three weeks you will be working on your final project for ds106 which will be posted to your blog and presented to the class on Monday May 21, exam day. Last week you were to focus on a proposal for your final project, and for the next two weeks be sure to…
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CUNY Week 12 – How I Remember I Was There
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Howdy, I’m H. Michael Karshis Do you keep a box of your old ‘stuff’ somewhere? What’s in it? Why did you put it in that box? How often do you look through it and reminisce? I keep quite a bit of stuff tucked under a table…
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Come In, Make Art
This past Friday I had a chance to spend some time with artists Ryan Seslow and Jeffrey Allen Price at their show, Energetic Fusion in the York College Art Gallery. The two have collaborated to create not just a show but an event, which involved them creating new work throughout its run as well as…
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DS106 The Movie – It’s Pink
This remix assignment – ds106 the movie [remixed] pretty in pink wasn’t created by the generator (I wanted to pick my own!), so there isn’t an official remixed assignment link. I really like Linda3dots It’s Alive ds106 movie poster and wanted to express my appreciation for her good work (and the fact that she created…
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We’ve Got Our Top People On The Job
Norm Wright drew a Where’s Waldo? It remix card on the Messing with the MacGuffin assignment. It’s been quite some time since I’ve Messed with the MacGuffin, so I couldn’t resist a quick Messing with the MacGuffin [remixed]: Where’s Waldo? It. The final shot of Raiders of the Lost Ark is famous for illustrating bureaucracy’s ability…
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CUNY Week 11: Who’s Behind That Original Story?
Over the past few weeks you’ve been creating work often built on others’ work. Is that ok? Taking digital pieces of copyrighted work and remixing to make something of your own? Or how about recording a commentary over movie scenes as you did in a your video essay about a film? A number of videos…
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Honeyglazed + Photocopied in Color
One of my favorite books about design Fucked Up + Photocopied Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement showcases the history of punk band flyers from 1977-1985. The art principally created by the bands, then photocopied, and staple-gunned to walls and street posts all over town represented the DIY, mashup sensibility of the punk movement.…
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Guest Lecturing Documentary as DS106
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by SimonQ錫濛譙 Tonight I guest lectured Daniel Phelp’s Documentary Production class at York College. The students came to class with story ideas for their final projects which were to include a link to an article online. My job was to help the students discover which…
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CUNY Weeks 9-10: Video Assignments, They’re Here…
Last week we got off to a good start with an in class video assignment to create a five second video of one archetype from five different films. I went on to turn this into an assignment for ds106 and it’s been cool to see it completed by a number of students outside of CUNY.…