Category: Digital Storytelling
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Silent Era Cool Hand Luke
This Return the Silent Era video remakes the 50 eggs eating contest in the 1967 classic prison camp movie Cool Hand Luke. On a sweltering stormy night, the prisoners are dreading the closing of the windows of the barracks as it will mean a sweaty night of misery. Luke (Paul Newman) takes the bunch off…
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Preparing for Silent Cool Hand Luke
Every since I saw Alan’s post about Artsifiying Youtube Videos and the Return to the Silent Era assignment, I was pretty sure I wanted to do it. And it’s been helpful to see some students have done the assignment, particularly Kill Me Silently Baby! which I find really captures one of the major genres of…
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CUNY Week 8 – So You Want to Make a Movie…
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Michael Branson Smith With the rest of ds106 we are going to be jumping into making videos for the next few weeks and we had a fun start with the #ds106xtranormal blitz in class. I think that there was some really interesting re-envisioning of…
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DS106 XTRANORMAL BLITZ!!!
Take any 30 sec piece of dialogue from a movie or tv show and create an xtranormal parody from that same clip. Be sure that the 30 sec clip exists somewhere online. If it’s part of a longer youtube clip let people know what the cue point is in the video. Transcribe the dialogue to…
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CUNY Weeks 6-7 – Time to Make Some Hideous Sounds
A remix of cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by WordRidden & cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by Martin Lopatka. For the next two weeks our class will be exploring the use of audio to create projects and tell stories. In class yesterday we got off to a good…
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Rear Window Animated Movie Poster
Alan Levine’s post about watching cool flick’s with Jim Groom finally got me to get of the snide and finish this animated movie poster for the amazing Hitchcock classic Rear Window. I have an older post with animated GIFs from Rear Window, but all things GIF need to ratcheted up a notch every few weeks.…
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Bad Guy Business Cards – David Lynch Edition
So what’s really surprised me recently is how my phone could suddenly be such a big part of my design process. I’ve used Photoshop and Illustrator for years, to touch up photos, create logos, set typography, etc. But in the past few weeks I’ve been bouncing images back and forth between my mac and my…
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CUNY Week 5 – RRRRRRRRR Design
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Nick Sherman This week is probably my favorite week of DS106 as we get to spend time making art while thinking about images, type, and layout. We had a great start yesterday in our face-to-face class yesterday despite the ds106 site being down for…
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Karateka – Animated Floppy GIF
If there is one videogame I’m certain that I spent a few hundred hours playing, it’s definitely Karateka on the Commodore 64. Karateka a simple fighter game, which like most games of that time was really hard to complete, as there was no option to ‘save’ and pick up where you left off. The game…
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York College Album Cover Design Blitz
Your going make an album cover using three random pieces of content for your design. This classroom design blitz is based on the album cover ds106 assignment. First you will go to this site of quotations and the last four to five words of the last quote on the page will be the name of…