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Posts by jnemeth

Make a conspiracy board

You know those conspiracy boards you see in the movies.  Well now you can make one for yourself!  Come up with a story.  It can be anything, but make sure it involves a conspiracy.  Then take all the people, places, and events in that story and make a picture of …

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Make some spooky dialogue

Start by recording your own voice.  You can say anything, but make it long enough to have interesting shifts throughout the clip.  I recommend using Audacity to do this, because its minimalist interface really streamlines the process of voice recording and editing.  Once you have your clip, select sections of …

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Assignment Ideas

My first assignment idea was an audio assignment where you put together an audio clip of you talking, but change it to make it spooky.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/spooky-dialogue/

My second one is that you design any kind of conspiracy board.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-a-conspiracy-board/

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TDC Ideas

My first Daily Create idea that I submitted was to draw a circle, then expand outward on that circle to draw anything you can think of.

My second Daily Create was to photograph the next animal you see.  It can be anything from a pet to something random you see …

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Post-its

This is for the “post-it notes and grocery lists” visual assignment.  Sardic’s day can get pretty hectic, so he has to leave himself all kinds of post-it notes so he doesn’t forget some small but crucial things.  It was a pretty simple assignment in terms of design overhead went.  It …

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Sardic’s Resume

This is for the “Character Resume” web assignment.  Sardic has a rather specific set of skills and experience, and it shows in his resume.  Needless to say, he’s a bit of an HR nightmare.  His experience makes him look like a thug, his skills could only be used for investigation …

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Trip Adviser – New York

This is for the “storytelling within the web” web assignment.  This was a really cool prompt for a web assignment; it lets you do pretty much anything you want to any site.  Of course I wanted to relate this to Jim Sardic and his version of New York, so I …

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Week 10 – many more videos

This week I may have gone a little overboard on the amount of time I sank into some of my video assignments.  I got way too into it, and I even went to my home town to film one of the assignments with a friend.  For this weeks assignments, I …

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