Recently I was was asked to have a bucket of water thrown on me by a friend, Cullen Lawlor for his Video Editing Class .
Love the music on this.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-wNfYZm5c&feature=player_embedded
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Groomed4life
So we (David Noel, Kelsey Conway, and me) decided to make movie posters. They are all about Jim Groom, of course.
Behold: Groomed4life!
Poster 1:
Poster 2:
Poster 3:
Poster 4: (image credit to Erin O’Neal)
Creation process:
We all sat together and discussed what we wanted the posters to be.
1) Kelsey came up with the idea of pitting Jim Groom with Tim Doom and I added the Rock-n-sock-robots to the mix. Then I photoshopped Jim Groom’s and Colleen’s face on the two boys watching the robots in the original photo.
I was the only one with photoshop so I put all of these together, while the others gave advice and ideas. I think it was Kelsey who came up with the epic movie title: Groomed4life
2) David came up with the idea for using crazy quotes from Jim Groom that Jim Groom had actually said in class. We decided to add these quotes around the radio We then used the awesome edupunk photo in the background to represent the quote about the old creeper.
3) We decided we had to use someone’s photo from Flickr for our last shoot. We all really liked Erin’s flaming photo and so we used that one. Thanks Erin! We ended up photoshopping a picture of Jim Groom over the person’s face so it looked like Jim Groom had finally taken over the world.
4) Erin offered to take a Jim Groom photo and make it look all fiery and cool. Then I added the Groomed4life logo. Thanks again Erin for taking time to do this.
Great work team! (:
Combining 3 assignments into 1!
Since I have such a crazy final exam schedule, I’ve decided to combine 3 assignments in one!
Thus, I give you part of my post card final project, with the cover of the post card inspired by my love for ds106 (fandom, holla) and the back of the postcard containing my letter to future #ds106sers.
Creation process:
I knew as soon as we got the fandom assignment I wanted to make some kind of homage to ds106. Then I decided to make a postcard for it because my postcard final project has been sadly neglected for quite a while.
Originally I was doing a lot of work in photoshop to make the collage of all my photos, but I was having some issues making it turn out exactly like I wanted it.
I made the collage in photoshop, then added the border and #ds106 is for life in picnick. Then it was back to photoshop where I added the barbed wire look, the red Xs and the red heart (all of those additions were created using photoshop brushes I downloaded a long time ago).
The back of the postcard I had to make short and to the point. I could have said a lot more, but you work with what you can do. The back was created using photoshop.
Now to slay my two finals before our #ds106 final tomorrow (or is it today since its almost 1am??)
A week’s worth of Daily Shoot photos
I really like this past weeks daily shoots! I actually remembered to take them the day they were assigned (always a plus!) and they are all so different which is cool.
I think the biggest reason why I like them all is because they perfectly seem to represent each day I took them. Normally that doesn’t happen.
These aren’t picture in the actual order I took them but if we go through the list:
Friday– Computer (had computer issues and thought my computer was tostitos toast!)
Saturday- Fake Mustache one (my friend fell asleep before we were about to go out so I pretended to draw on her to wake her up)
Sunday- Bubble Boy (friends came over for dinner/ studying and then we took a study break to blow some bubbles.)
Monday– action photo (sister came down for a presentation I gave at Kemp Symposium and then she put on a mask I got in this really fab book about vampires)
Tuesday- Bunny photo (went to Passover Seder at my Roomie’s house and then her mom gave us all Easter basket too– They have jewish/catholic household, best celebrations of the 2 religions 🙂
Wednesday— Sad Karen (SO MUCH HOMEWORK TO DO IT IS RIDICULOUS. Hence the all caps and the sad face D: )
Thursday– Blue Shoots (last day of classes ever since I’m a senior and I’m really going to miss all my good friends at UMW– it was nice to spend time with them AND work on a real project 😉
Let’s see what magic I can come up with in terms of taking photos during finals week! Wish me luck girls and boys….
Blue Rainbow Brite Shoot
I just got my blue Rainbow Brite shoot! The daily shoot for Thursday (ds522) was water themed, so I decided to go ahead and take Blue Rainbow Brite Photos!
Now I just need to get the colors: purple and indigo.
In the interest of time I might combine these two colors because they are basically the sameish, right?….
Anyways, my ultimate goal is to do a massive shoot during finals week in which I get all my rainbow brite people together (e.g. Karen, Elena, Colleen and of course Megan and the other color people not yet chosen). We also might have a surprise extra person/color in the photo too 😉
Tonight I was going to use Aliyah as my other Blue person, but we had some communication issues. Instead, Karen (who was Red Dawn) graciously stepped up to the plate. However, I am hoping in the final shoot I can use Aliyah for Blue.
I took 66 photos and here are the 3 best ones:
my favorite photo of the shoot!
When Florrie takes over!
So Colleen did this super awesome mashup called “When Florrie Takes Over” and I can’t stop playing this song!
Seriously one of my favorite songs right now! (Replacing ET perhaps? O.o)
ET Mashups
So lately I’ve been obsessed with Katy Perry’s song ET. I think the lyrics are horrible and very much emphasizes male dominance over women:
“Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction” aka RAPE ME, ALIEN MAN, RAPE ME….
but it’s so damn catchy. (Kind of like the Friday song, but better?…)
Anyways, I decided to make fun of the song by doing a couple mashups. My original idea was to mashup Charlie Sheen Clips with the ET song. But in the interest of time (and so Jim Groom won’t kill me because I’m so late in doing this D:) I also decided to mashup this song with a couple other videos I found randomly. I will try to come back to my original idea, but here’s something for now.
So I found this video on Archive.org website and thought it was really cool and trippy! It seemed to blend in with the song pretty well and I didn’t have to do much editing to put them together:
(Having trouble embedding these videos now, so will figure it out later)
Then for this Boobah/ ET mashup, the original video is really creepy by itself. Yet, once the ET song, it is EVEN MORE CREEPY. Sorry about the video quality, it was the best one I could find on youtube.
NOTE: I really hate Boohbahs. My sister bought me a blue one as an bday one year as a gag gift and ever since I’ve been haunted by their eyes…. Shudder.
UPDATED:
I finished the Charlie Sheen video! It’s a lot shorter than I expected, but I think it turned out pretty amazing! 🙂
Dear DS106
Dear DS106,
Sorry for not showing you any love lately. All my other classes have been bogging me down lately and it’s all I can do to stay afloat! But, since I turned in on Tuesday a paper that is worth 35% of my grade, I will have slightly more of a breather before finals! This means I can comment more on other people’s blogs and try to get some other assignments posted that I’ve been wanting to do but haven’t got around to it yet. :]
On a side note about my final project, I’m kind of sad about this week. I accidentally forgot to take photos for two days because I was so busy working on my paper. D: So that has kind of ruined my taking a photo every day for 365 days project. >.<
BUT, I did take extra photos on the day after the forgotten photo day, so I guess that makes up for it?
Anyways I uploaded a week’s worth of photos today to flickr so check it out:
This is my favorite of the week.
Also, I did this for fun. It makes me laugh. 😀
Oh and exciting news! The Winter Issue of Aubade just came out and I had two of my photos published in it! So pick up a copy on campus somewhere.
And, I had a couple of my photos accepted to Spurt Literary Magazine (another UMW Lit Mag). I’m pretty excited about it (:
Love,
Sarah
Awesome Mashups
So here are just a few of the mashups I’ve come across lately that I really like 🙂
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0i9acHS_zQ&feature=related
I love how the creators mixed Angry Birds and the three little pigs with the events happening in the Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Very funny!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqCyTM1bF6Q&feature=related
Not sure if this next video counts as a mashup at all, but I like how this put this song with people doing cool bike tricks.
Ds106 really is for life
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Sarah who had to do a video essay for her digital storytelling class, ds106.
She decided to do it on her favorite movie ever: Stardust.
She spent hours and hour and hours and hours and hours and hours TIMES infinity on the project because otherwise her professors Jim Groom and his alter ego Tim Doom would disown her #4life.
However, on occasion she got bored and paused to take funny photos with her friends who were also slaving away on this project.
Finally, she finished it and uploaded it (after several attempts) to the magnificent site called Youtube.
She eagerly awaited comments on her videoessay which covered many things in fifteen minutes worth of moive clips, including the important issue who’s hot and who’s not in the movie.
But lo and behold, Sarah soon got a comment she never expected:
What was this?!? Outraged, she checked her youtube account.
But this was a class assignment! She thought. It’s a commentary to try to get people to WATCH the film!! It’s not copyright infringement!
After consulting with several people and going to Youtube’s’s copyright school and researching what the library of congress says about fair use copyright, Sarah decided to protest the video removal.
She was temporarily stopped by this warning:
but decided to continue on anyway because her case was strong; there is no way she would be turned down.
But the people behind youtube (ahem ahem google ahem ahem) were evil and all powerful. At whim, they decided who were copyright infringers and who weren’t without even taking any evidence into account. They denied her claim within seconds of receiving it and delivered a notice to her dorm room the very next hour.
Why Hello there.
Sarah got a legal counsel and amassed a huge crowd of her support for the case.
But the power of youtube was a mighty force, and caused Sarah’s case to lose. Certain that the judges had been tampered with, Sarah’s lawyers called for a mistrial. Eventually her case made it all the way up to the highest court in all the land: The Wizengamot.
Everyone was confident of Sarah’s right to post the videoessay on youtube, but the Supreme Court was deep in the pocket of youtube and they denounced her in front of the entire world:
For her crime, Sarah was banished #4LIFE to a jail in Siberia, never again to use a computer or bathe in running water. Instead, she would be in servitude to google and she would only be allowed to eat stale bread and moldy bananas.
Fearing repercussions for creating this assignment in the first place, Jim Groom and Tim Doom hightailed it to the Australian outback where they continue broadcast #ds106 radio and #ds106 TV from their underground homes of Coober Pedy.
Meanwhile, Sarah remains incarcerated in Siberia. She is biding her time until it is the perfect moment for her to escape and take down the evil youtube/google corporation and all the other people who insist on prosecuting innocents for “copyright infringement.”
