The challenge for today’s Daily Create was to draw a T Rex. I considered attempting to sketch Marc Bolan, but liked the idea of a hubcap diamond star halo better. I also liked the vieo idea, so I found an image of a hubcap and one of a T Rex album cover and combined them in a PowerPoint animation with diamond and star shapes and exported it as a video. I recorded a snippet of their famous song and put that together with the video in iMovie. That was actually a bit of work to avoid actually drawing. Maybe I need to rethink my strategy.
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Do you see what I hear
We had our first night of collaborative listening on ds106radio tonight with a small but active group. We listened to the tale of Limetown, and heard voices and background music used to great effect. What I find more interesting though are the subtle noises, and just how much they let us visualize the scene, whether it’s day or night, or the size of the room the characters are in, or who’s on the other end of the phone.
We could also ask, What makes this tech noir? There is a mystery, the disappearance of the entire population of a small town, and powerful unknown forces behind it. The main character is an investigative journalist who seems to be getting caught up in a situation beyond her control. Not exactly an innocent bystander, but adjacent to the archetype. Thanks to @PreRandom and @ryee for joining in, and we hope to me more people join Tuesday evening.
Tech Noir Talk
I fed our tech noir cast of characters to the two annoying podcast hosts from Notebook LM so that they could discuss how groups of them might work together.
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/01615d4d-37f2-4789-9bb1-43374db0b787/audio
They spitball several ideas, none exceptionally creative, but maybe it can be used as a starting point. How do people in the class see their characters interacting? Is there an issue or a scenario around which they can connect?
Top of the Tech Noir: week 3
The good:
The votes are in, and here are the top posts of the past week in ds106:Tech Noir as selected by the class. Beyond the works themselves, what is impressive is the distribution of the votes:
- 28 posts received votes
- 2 got three votes
- 3 got two votes
I will let the posts and voters speak for themselves, except to say that when a photoblitz starts with a disco ball, you know you’ve found a party.
The bad:
8 people shirked their civic responsibility and didn’t vote. Where is the love? That’s no way to be #4life.
The lovely:
A Color Analysis of Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride
I really enjoyed with post because I enjoy the coupes bride, the way this person describes it in much detail really helps people who have not seen it imagen the scenes in their head
I enjoyed how thorough this person did their analysis. It was very clear to me how much they love the film and how excited they were to analyze it, it made me excited to read their thoughts. I never thought of a film this way nor have I noticed the color shifts in this film. Overall, I think this person did a great job and its inspired me to do more assignments that make me feel excited about the work im doing rather that seeing it as just an assignment to turn in.
I’ve kept up with this blog because its very well done, This was one of my favorite posts because it almost seems professionally done, the way the people with umbrellas are in a line with the comic book esthetic is perfect.
I like that this person made this comic like photo in the perspective of their character. I have not yet thought of making something in the perspective of my character and I think that is a really creative way of incorporating our characters into the assignment bank assignments!
He used a comic affect on a photo of New York and I thought it looked cool
New Game! – Your story as a game!
I think the animation is very cool and I like the contrast between the left and right.
I loved the way they edited there game screen. It looks really unique and I like the story behind it. I can tell they spent a lot of time on it.
Honestly really liked how cohesive the graphic was and it felt like something the Bills social media team would post as a gameday poster. It also helps that I’m a huge football fan (Go Commanders) and that might have contributed some bias. It’s a great way to tie in digital media to other topics such as sports that aren’t always directly associated to digital media.
Although I am not a Bills fan (go birds) I was hoping the eagles would get to play the Bills in the super bowl and really liked the poster Liv used to show her support for her team. I had also chosen this assignment and liked to see someone else’s perspective of it.
I may do this assignment next week! This post was great!! I loved that Sam included songs from different genres and playlists. Overall, a fun post and I think Sams playlist was awesome! Also – Who doesn’t love Fleetwood Mac, classic!
I love making playlists, and I like seeing other people’s music tastes!
I thought it was funny
who doesn’t love emo Mona Lisa
I absolutely loved the introduction to this character. After reading Cinder’s description I felt like I knew Runa aka The Shadow. All the way down to the look of the character, the story line, and the characteristics/attitudes/specific likes and dislikes. Overall, this was a great post and so far, this is my favorite Technoir character to meet!
Minecraft: Cherry Blossom Vacation Villa
This post is so creative and you can tell that they put a ton of work into this assignment. I haven’t played Minecraft in a while but I remember how long it took me to make a cute house, so I can’t imagine how long this took!
I liked how the author was clear and concise with their thoughts on how the week went. It seemed like they had clear goals and were able to accomplish them.
I chose this post because me and this person have a very similar idea of where our characters would live, also the way they go in depth in this post really helps you vision their character. Side not I also like how the pink background makes the text and pictures pop.
Love is Embarrassing- Compilation Video
I would like to say that I do appreciate a good edit! I have seen the show “The Good Place”, and I also love Olivia Rodrigo’s music, so this edit was definitely fun and entertaining to watch! It was edited very well!
I like that coni is using this opportunity to make something that will live long after this class and something that they can use in professional life after college! I love how well balanced this logo was and i think its a very impressive logo for someone who isn’t well versed in graphic design.
I thought this was a really cool way to edit an original picture and make it unique. I also love the vibrant color choice
I like the scene Liv chose to use for her GIF. It’s visually interesting and the colors are gorgeous so it’s just fun to look at. Also she said that it was her first time but it looks so good that I would have thought she was a regular gif maker.
I thought the photo collage that Rylie did for their course character was so cool! The colors worked so well together and it was a cool way to visualize the character even more!
Me in Collage Form Except I’m not Me
I think the collage was really well made and it helps me visualize their character’s personality.
I like Sam’s use of impactful words to create and image that is also impactful to him. He took this assignment and put his own spin on it and it turned out really cool.
This poster was very detailed and took inspiration from other sources of media and the author made it their own which I really liked. It reminded me a lot of Guardians of the Galaxy which also fits the dystopian theme they were aiming to fit.
He made a cyberpunk themed poster for a city and I loved all the detail he put into it
Loved it, I was a super huge fan of the moon one and the supernatural goat. I thought it was exactly what a photoblitz should look like!
I loved their reflections. They’re much better at reflecting than I am lol. And I LOVED how the photo was next to the text. How did they do that?!
I really thought their trading card was unique and cool. I like that they drew it out I think it added texture and coolness. I also love this persons website!
Contact me – Or don’t I really don’t care
This post was witty and engaging. I instantly wanted to read more after I read the title. Then I got a glimpse of what her character Evelyn is like. If I were to meet Evelyn, I would feel honored if I received one of her business cards!! haha And I would give her the most juiciest gossip ever for her news stories!… well, you see I’m very engaged and interested in Evelyns weekly posts and character. Great work!!
Rebecca took an assignment that interested her and applied to her and was able to use it for a grade. She mentions in her post that she has many pictures of her dog but this one specifically matched the assignment. I liked what she did with the wanted poster and hoe she customized it
I voted for this post because I love the effects she added to each tattoo drawing! The blurring affect on the sword looks so cool so it was my favorite
I love poetry
Even though they stayed in one place while being at work, I really liked the creativity of using what was around them to answer the prompts. It really makes you think outside of the box and use things in a different way than usual, such as the cord they used as a snake to portray a modern jungle.
I suck at Photoshop
We had to to the worst photoshop job ever for today’s Daily Create. It occurred to me that the worst thing I could do would be to ask an AI to give me a bad photoshop job.
But using that would be lame. I had a rather unrealistic photo of myself with a book of shelves from an earlier attempt at humor, so I unceremoniously plopped by AI bad PS job on it. Guess I suck at Photoshop.
Getting creative with the Daily Create
See other TDC responses at https://mastodon.social/tags/tdc4765 and https://social.ds106.us/tags/tdc4765
Wednesday’s Daily Create was an exemplary challenge. As I understood it, it said “I don’t know what to do with this thing. Make something and figure it out.” It would be cool if you could generate an Anti-Tag Cloud from any text you submit, but that doesn’t seem to be an option. What was cool was that people took very different approaches, creating stories, visuals and typographic designs. It doesn’t look like anyone tried to make audio out of it, so…
I told it to make a sea shanty out of the anti-Moby Dick words. I guess sea shanties weren’t part of its training.
Our Cast of Characters
We have quite the Cast of Characters for TechNoir106. The lineup includes:
- anti-hero
- corporate samurai
- femme fatale
- gangster
- hacker
- hard-boiled detective
- innocent bystander
- powerful millionaire or politician
from across time and space. Many people enjoyed the assignment, although there was some frustration with not being able to save the responses locally. I wonder if there is a way to do this with Google Forms. I also wonder if there is a less tedious way to reformat spreadsheet information into a document. I’m sure there must be, but it may not be within the limits of my spreadsheet jockeying skills.
Nevertheless, we have a great group and it will be fascinating to see how they interact.
Always Be Commenting
Jim and I had a discussion on the wonders of blog commenting earlier, and the recording is above. Commenting really is the glue of ds106, what makes a collection of bloggers into a community of creativity. It’s how we inspire each other and learn from each other and how we connect.
For comments to appear, they need to be moderated and approved, so we take a quick look at one way to do that. You can also approve comments, or not, in your WordPress dashboard. Akismet may be a useful plugin to add. It may ask for payment, but for personal use you can pay $0.
There is also some discussion of our friend, Dr. Oblivion, if he can be trusted and if his directives have been altered. This may need to be investigated further.
Gettin’ Medieval
Friend of #ds106 Tom Woodward shared his discovery of an AI-generated rap based on The Canterbury Tales. That inspired me to ask Dr. Oblivion:
and his response:
Dr. O seems to think “We don’t need Skynet records taking over the charts,” but perhaps that has already started.
I was curious though. How would Dr. Oblivion handle archaic English? So I asked:
Please recite this verse so I can hear it in your voice:
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
I had to ask a couple times before he would do it. I dare say his pronunciation is a little better than Suno’s, but what do I know. on a barely related note, I wonder if Suno could give a Middle English ska punk version of The Techno-Optimist Manifesto?
I’m sure to suffer in musical purgatory for that. I was trying to relate this to the Dr. Oblivion Intro assignment, but it went a bit off the rails. These AI generators can be fun in that they easily produce weird stuff, but then the challenge is to make something out of it. Sometimes it’s just a dead end.
Collect the whole set!
I saw Bryan Mathers’ Trading Card Remix on Mastodon:
and I thought, “This could be a cool way to visualize course characters.” Is there a trading card assignment though? If there wasn’t before, thanks to the magic of the Assignment Bank, there is now! It’s an easy and fun way to #MakeArtDammit