You should be confused.

Today was a ds106 daily create monstrosity I can take responsibility for, and is one that busts my usual mantra of “things that you can create in 20 minutes”. Today’s assignment:

Lipdub a video of yourself in another language talking seriously about crickets.

Write the script and record the video. Then use Google Translate (example) to generate an audio track, and edit that into your video.

This is likely one that came in originally as “do a lipdub video” and I felt needed a bit more of a …. twist. And to help people see that Google Translate as a small feature at the bottom right that does text to voice of what ever gets translated.

I started out by scrummaging YouTube for cricket videos. I found an interesting mini documentary by National Geographic, but it was too much humans talking. So I liked the simplicity and shortness of this video of a closeup of a cricket chirping

I downloaded with pwnyoutube as an mp4.

Then, what can the discussion be about crickets? Why not some philosophy? A bit more Google bopping and I found a segment on “Modes of Pleasure and Pain” from John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

I modified a few words, replacing “man” with “cricket” and maybe “carapace” for “body”:

Pleasure and pain, simple ideas for crickets. Amongst the simple ideas which we receive both from sensation and reflection, pain and pleasure are two very considerable ones. For as in the carapace there is sensation barely in itself, or accompanied with pain or pleasure, so the thought or perception of the mind is simply so, or else accompanied also with pleasure or pain, delight or trouble, call it how you please. These, like other simple ideas, cannot be described, nor their names defined; the way of knowing them is, as of the simple ideas of the senses, only by experience. For, to define them by the presence of good or evil, is no otherwise to make them known to us than by making us reflect on what we feel in ourselves, upon the several and various operations of good and evil upon our minds, as they are differently applied to or considered by us.

The uneasiness a cricket finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it, is that we call desire; which is greater or less, as that uneasiness is more or less vehement. Where, by the by, it may perhaps be of some use to remark, that the chief, if not only spur to insect industry and action is uneasiness. For whatsoever good is proposed, if its absence carries no displeasure or pain with it, if a cricket be easy and content without it, there is no desire of it, nor endeavour after it; there is no more but a bare velleity, the term used to signify the lowest degree of desire, and that which is next to none at all, when there is so little uneasiness in the absence of anything, that it carries a cricket no further than some faint wishes for it, without any more effectual or vigorous use of the means to attain it. Desire also is stopped or abated by the opinion of the impossibility or unattainableness of the good proposed, as far as the uneasiness is cured or allayed by that consideration. This might carry our thoughts further, were it seasonable in this place.

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good; and we are then possessed of any good, when we have it so in our power that we can use it when we please. Thus a cricket almost starved has joy at the arrival of relief, even before he has the pleasure of using it: and a father, in whom the very well-being of his offspring causes delight, is always, as long as his progeny are in such a state, in the possession of that good; for he needs but to reflect on it, to have that pleasure.

In Google Translate, I looked at a few options, and landed on Icelandic, which ends up (no idea how accurate this is, of course)

Ánægju og sársauka, einfaldar hugmyndir fyrir krikkets. Meðal einföldum hugmyndum sem við fáum bæði tilfinningu og vangaveltur eru sársauki og ánægja tveir mjög töluvert sjálfur. Því eins og í carapace er tilfinning varla í sjálfu sér, eða fylgja með sársauka eða ánægju, þannig að hugsun eða skynjun á huga er einfaldlega svo, annars fylgja líka með ánægju eða sársauka, gleði og vandræði, kalla það hvernig sem þú vilt. Þetta, eins og aðrar einfaldar hugmyndir, er ekki hægt að lýsa, né nöfn þeirra skilgreind, en leið að vita þá er, eins og af þeirri einföldu hugmyndir skynfærin, bara með reynslu. Til að skilgreina þá með nærveru gott eða illt, er ekki annars að gera þá vitað er að okkur en með því að gera okkur endurspegla á því sem við teljum á okkur sjálf, á nokkrum og ýmis starfsemi góðs og ills á huga okkar, eins og þeir eru öðruvísi beitt eða talið við okkur.

The uneasiness a Krikket finnur í sjálfum sér á fjarveru nokkuð sem núverandi ánægju ber hugmynd um gleði með það, er að við köllum löngun, sem er meira eða minna, eins og þessi uneasiness er meira eða minna vehement. Þegar af því, getur það kannski verið af sumir nota til athugasemd, að höfðingi, ef ekki aðeins stuðla að skordýr iðnaði og aðgerð er uneasiness. Fyrir alls gott er lagt, ef fjarveru hans ber enga displeasure eða verk með því, ef Krikket vera auðvelt og efni án þess að það, það er engin löngun það, né leitast eftir því, það er ekkert meira en ber velleity, hugtakið notað til að tákna lægsta stigi af löngun, og það sem er við hliðina á alls ekkert, þegar það er svo lítið uneasiness í fjarveru neitt, að það ber Krikket ekki lengra en sumir dauft óskir um það, án þess að meira effectual eða öflugum notkun leiðir til að ná því. Löngun er líka hætt eða dregið af mati ómögulega eða unattainableness hins góða fyrirhugaða, að svo miklu leyti sem uneasiness er læknaður eða allayed af þeirri umfjöllun. Þetta gæti bera hugsanir okkar enn frekar, voru það seasonable á þessum stað.

Joy er unun á huga, frá umfjöllun um núverandi eða fullvissaði nálgast eignar góð og við erum svo andsetinn af allir góður, þegar við höfum það svo í okkar valdi stendur að við getum notað það þegar við vinsamlegast. Þannig hefur Krikket næstum starved gleði við komu léttir, jafnvel áður en hann hefur ánægju af því að nota það, og faðir, í honum mjög vel að vera með afkvæmi hans veldur gleði, er alltaf svo lengi sem afkvæmi hans eru í svo ríki, í eigu þess góður, því að hann þarf en að fjalla um það, að hafa þessi ánægju.

In the bottom right corner is the “Listen” button so you can hear the computer voice read it to you:

To get it to an audio file, I used my copy of Audio Hijack Pro; you could also do something like use SoundFlower 2ch as your audio output and then open up Audacity, and use that same virtual sound channel as an input. Anyhow, I got an mp3 audio.

So I opened iMovie, put in the crickets movie, laid the audio track on top (setting the ducking so the cricket noise was reduced, added a title sequence… I was just starting to upload when I re-read the instructions- it was a lip-dub! So I went outside with the iPhone and did a bit of fake talking as a video. In iMpvie (with the advanced features enabled in Preferences), I dropped the me blabbing clip on top of the cricket, and selected the side by side option (I had to fiddle with the cropping of my video to nudge my head over).

A screenshot for my ds106 students (who ahem need to be doing this on their video assignments!)

And there you have it. Lipdub of icelandic lecture on the philosophy of crickets. Only in ds106.

cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

Computers have feelings usually not expressed. They have hurt, anger, depression, and in this case, inordinate feelings of inferiority. Today’s Daily Create was to make a blue screen of death message using type only. My screen just wants to die and not come back.

tdc.ds106.us/tdc386/

I made this in GIMP. I downloaded the fixed system font to give it that true Windows appearance and modeled it after an example I found on the Google. Opening it in another GIMP window, I used the drop tool to grab the blue color, filled my background. I typed in the word “windows” and put a new layer behind it with the gray box, and then flipped the text color to that same blue background color. By clicking the link icons in the layer palette, I could move them around together.

Sometimes when I need text, I find stuff online to model; After some googling on “inferiority compleex example” I found a message board to lift some starter text, and then just re-wrote it in a plain text editor, then pasted in GIMP.

Listen to your machines. They might be telling you something.

Now a few clicks over a year old, the ds106 Daily Create is a core part of our digital storytelling class at UMW. Almost a year ago, we discovered an accidental attribute; on January 25, 2012, TDC 17 was one shared by @noiseprofessor was to do a video:

Show us your keychain and tell us about the keys and things you have on it.

It was just one that was in the rotation. Notice how simple a task it was- ask people to share something that they always carry with them. This was also in the first week or 2 of the ds106 classes Jim and I were teaching at UMW.

And we had an accidental discovery. This assignment, doing a 1-2 minute video, was rather effective in having us get to see each other, where we sat down in our homes, dorm rooms, offices to talk about keys. It was a tiny but person window into all of us.

You get a sense of it just looking at the previews of the videos, rows of faces.

Just by asking people to doa video talking about their keys.

That has long been one of my favorite examples of the Daily Create.

I liked it so much, that I had it repeated in Fall 2012 as a required first week activity for ds106.

For this week, I wanted a similar video, but tried to do a different prompt for TDC 373:

#ds106 #dailycreate: Find nearest over-looked everyday object. Fabricate a story about it being a key part of your… dlvr.it/2ny8tN

— ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) January 15, 2013

Okay, maybe not the greatest prompt. And I can see that a number of my students glossed over the word “fabricate”. I try to tell them this is maybe the one class where they are encouraged to make stuff up. I will nudge them later to continually change reality, to be fictional, to play with the idea of truth.

Bur frankly, I don;t care what story they tell for this Daily Create. We do not grade it on some goofy rubric, there is no “right” way to do these. It’s up to each person to interpret the assignment. So if they tell a true story, fine. If they don’t explicitly follow the prompt, fine. The whole point is to try and do something new, different, stretch.

And actually the point of this one is to get a lot of people doing videos. It helps me as a geographically distant teacher to know students better. And there are also the open participants, and a few individuals I am not even sure who they are, who are in the mix.

Just because this assignment as passed by does not prevent you from doing it (or give you an excuse not to) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc373.

If at a minimum all you do is watch a few, and leave some comments, you are helping out my students a lot. Do not underestimate the impact, especially for people new to blogging and social media, to find out that someone is listening, and maybe can step up and more than click a dumbass “like: button. Write a comment or two, eh?

Or just check out the videos. I was definitely ROTFL last night watching the ones coming in. These are open windows into individuals, by engaging with them, you can make those two way windows out to the world.

You’ve had a week into the new year, have those resolutions to be creative already been crumpled up and tossed in the rubbish bin? We at ds106 give you an opportunity to get back in shape! Starting today we are challenging you to do seven Daily Creates in a row

Like we did this past summer this is an effort to bolster the number of examples in The Daily Create especially as the UMW section of ds106 starts next week.

But there is another really big reason.

Tuesday marks the birthday of this site! Yes, it was a year ago we started TDC Numero Uno.

It’s really not very hard to do this. You do not need to register for anything, you just use your own flickr, Youtube, Soundcloud accounts to create media as instructed. For exampled, the most recent challenge was Make a creative photo of paired opposites:

Just take the photo, uplaod to flickr, and tag it tdc364. I bet you can do these 7 challenges in less than 15 minutes of effort each day.

Take a break from reading email, playing games on your iPhone, tweeting about MOOCS, and MAKE SOME ART, WILLYA?

Starting today, January 7, I dare you to do the Daily Create for the next 7 days in a row.

I double dare ya.

To compete, what you should do is write a blog post at te end of the week that embeds all the media for your 7 days, and then write something that draws a connection or makes a story out of all 7. Or take it to the next level and create a mashup story from seven pieces of media from other people.

What’s the prize? Nothing No awards, badges, or cash. The experience is its own reward.

What is the Daily Create?

Each Daily Create is a prompt for you to post a photography or drawing to flickr, a video to YouTube, an audio recording to Soundcloud, each tagged or grouped in a way that aggregate them to the main site. And we have just rolled out a new category of Writing Challenges (you will see maybe, oh two of them this week)

We announce the new challenge every day at 10:00am EST, you can check the TDC site, sign up for email, or follow @ds106dc on twitter

#ds106 #dailycreate: Make a creative photo of paired opposites. dlvr.it/2lgY5v

— ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) January 6, 2013

Again, doing a Daily Create are all challanges that should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. They are typically media that you just post, not big productions you toil away editing. The magic is in how you interpret the challenge, and how you go about your day looking or listening for the creative inspiration that will satisfy it.

This is perhaps the most low barrier way to participate in ds106, but more than that, if you do this on a regular basis (and seriously, non one but Norm does it every day), I can almost guarantee you will see the world differently and your creative skills over time will improve in any or all forms.

So are you up to 7?

Get creating! NOW.

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Stéfan

I’ve been doing some tinkering over at the ds106 Daily Create site, whose very presence and essence still shines from the approach Tim Owens did when he assembled it in early 2012.

The first major new thing is the addition, under a new “Explore” menu at the top, of archives of past daily creates, organized by type – all past Photography, Drawing, Audio, and Video TDCs.

This normally would be trivial, since they are merely WordPress categories, but took some poking around with a flashlight and probe because of the construct of the Parallelus Salutation theme we use (maily because we had to alter it to display only 1 post at a time). I was able to make a new template-category.php to control the new layout, and there are some things in there to make it not act like a normal category loop. It’s not even worth explaining since it was rather arcane.

The idea here is to make it easier to browse for past assignments, especially as I consider (see below) some new ways to use the TDC archives.

I added this a few clicks back, but if you just want to get a random challenge, we have that built in for you too. There is nothing wrong about doing a previous TDC, it lives on.

Appearance settings have been tweaked to make the text a little bigger and also (something that always bugged me) was that it was impossible to use a mouse to copy the text of a daily create (this has to do with the custom fonts we previously used, I switched it to a built in Trebuchet MS font). And yes, Ben Rimes, I hear you about the “darkness” of the theme; I may try the lighter skin.

There are some updates to instructions on the front page, the FAQ, and the suggestion form as well. And a few photos to spice up the text.

Okay, these are kind of cosmetic (though figuring at the PHP jujitsu for the category pages was a fun challenge). The bigger ideas I hope to take on next are:

Adding a Writing Category. We see value in written daily challenges and I am keen to have this in the mix. The stop was that the site is built around using third party hosting sites (flickr, YoutTube, and SoundCloud) that provide a way for people to post media, and tag them, and also provide widgets we can use to display it on our site. WHat is the equivalent of that for text?

Well there is none. Or we have not found it.

The three ideas to make this happen I am juggling are:

• Have people provide their responses as post comments. This is the easiest, as it would take no work, the functionality is built in. But it does kind of get in the way of commenting if that should ever happen. This is my fail safe.
• Create an editable Google Doc for each challenge (Karen Fasinpour’s idea). This is doable, and allows for a variety of formatted responses. It would require the manual set up of docs, and offers maybe potential issue of work being overwritten.
• Develop a custom post type and web form to submit. This is my preference now as we have the pieces in place, Gravity forms for submissions. It would make all of the content sit inside wordpress in one organized place

Another idea (and actually part of the impetus for setting up category views) is related to a discussion I’ve had with colleagues about whether we should build a “Kids” version of the Daily Create. At this time I am no inclined to make a copy site, that the site has everything we need; the use of the TDC ought to happen with the way we can enable people to build things off of it.

This also is parallel to some ideas I am fermenting (that is how my brain works) on a tool so people can build their own syllabus out of all fo the ds106 artifacts and assignment we have created ove the last few years. I envision a “ds106 builder” site that would be more or less a buffet of this material that could be collated into a savable resource.

So I am thinking in the same way of a “builder” tool for the Daily Create. Let’s say you could get some giant menu, and pick the TDCs you want to use, maybe have an option to customize or paraphrase the instructions, add an intro, and have that published. This way, you could build your own activities around the TDCs.

That one needs to bubble a while. If you have any yeast for my brain, well, you know how to funnel it to me.

And I have more cleanup to do elsewhere (like around this dog house) …

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Ro / wererabbit

Okay, you creative wanna be privates! Many of you got down and followed the drill for a week of doing Daily Create assignments every day. THAT IS AMAZING. I did not think you had it in you. BUT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DONE??

YOU ARE NOT DONE YET! NOW YOU HAVE TO MAKE A STORY.

Hang on second Sarge, let’s do a little recap. Over the last seven days, we saw 174 total Daily Creates done (an average of 25 per day) and an influx of new participants (see my summaries, doing that every day was a drill!). The previous week, we had only 71 (average of 10 per day). I think you can do the math on the analytics (which reminds me of something I am hoping to work on is to do this tracking within our site, its tricky, because the content exists elsewhere, so we need to use API calls to get totalas from flickr, YoutTube, and SoundCloud. But it;s doable)

Here is a breakdown of the Seven Challenges. As usual, the photography/drawing ones typically draw bigger response than audio video, but we had a strong showing for the video of the cable tv clip and the audio of the telemarketing call.

• July 11, 2012 Drawing: Draw a tornado. (40) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc185/
• July 12, 2012 Photography: Make a photo of an outdoor scene free of any human artifacts (37) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc186/
• July 13, 2012 Video: Make a video of what is playing on channel 106 on your cable (or make it up) (29) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc187/
• July 14, 2012 Audio: Make an annoying 30 second pre-recorded telephone call (20) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc188/
• July 15, 2012 Video: Philosophy Series- tell us a technology you cannot live without (19) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc189
• July 16, 2012 Audio: Flip the decibels. Make a loud sound soft or a soft sound loud (14) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc190/
• July 17, 2012 Photography: Illustrate attraction in a photograph (15) http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc191/

So here is the challenge. Are you warmed up? Have you done a few jumping jacks and pushups?

Originally my idea was to ask everyone to weave a digital story out of their own contributions, but had a more interesting idea given that this week at Camp Magic Macguffin (the 2012 location of ds106) our students are doing remix assignments.

The challenge here I’ve already added as a ds106 assignment

In the spirit of pumping up activity for the Daily Create I issued a challenge to see who was strong enough to do one every day for a week. That is the first part of the challenge, and to do this assignment, you should do the same.

Then, and here is where it gets interesting, my friends, is that you are to make a mashup of content that other people created for each of the seven days, and to make an interesting story out of it. How you do it is up to you, but you should use the media (and link back, give ‘em credit) to 7 different pieces of media submitted for the Daily Create on the days you did yours.

Ok, what you need to do is go back to the Daily Create’s for each day, and choose one person’s media (not your own), and somehow weave it together into a mashup, something that tells a story. It need not go in any order (it does not have to start with a tornado) (but that is a good starting place).

How you do this is up to you (ahem, alert the creativity neurons). And be sure to give credit to the original creators of the media (that feels good when you get it, right?)

Now something that will help others is to make it easier for people to use your media (set flickr to creative commons), and especially on SoundCLoud, make sure your options on your tracks are set to “Allow Downloads” (it is not the default).

What you should do then is write up a blog post that includes your story (and some reflection on your process, what is th story behind the story?), kind of like we ask our students to do. If your blog is already syndicated to ds106, just use the tags listed on the assignment page so your shows up. If you are not part of ds106 (oh no), just wait a few days, I am trying to add some code to the site that will allow you to add your example directly. At a minimum, leave a comment here with a link to your story.

But that comes later. Your task is to do this, like our students, before midnight, Sunday, July 22 (2012).

“But I did not start til Sunday?” “What if I did not do 7 (or any)?”

That’s the beauty of this challenge- anyone can do it, not people who submitted 7, or 5, or 1 Daily Create this week.

But its even better than that. You can do this at any time! You don’t need me yelling at you.

Pick a week. Do 7 Daily Creates in a row, all on your own. Then go back, and make the mashups based on the work of others.

Damn, I feel so clever.

But now, I have to start thinking of the story I will tell.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, PRIVATE? DO I HAVE TO COME WIPE YOUR ASS FOR YOU TOO? MAKE A *@#% MASHUP WILL YA?

I like you, You like me. Let’s make a photo. The last Daily Create of the Seven Day Challenge is to make a photo that illustrates the idea of attraction (this is one we borrowed from our inspiration, the Daily Shoot.)

Alas, our crew has dwindled to 15, do you seek more abuse? I will skip. Coming up in a next post will be the challenge wrap up, which is to make some new art out of the pieces we have collected.

Here are some I really enjoyed, just a scroll down past the blog fold…

Lisa Lane makes a clever metaphorical attraction by dance shoes (leading me to have fun imagining the dancers we cannot see)

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogroo

All the way from Melbourne, Australia, Rowan Peter has a sticky situation…

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Rowan Peter

Also from Australia, Malwyn weaves dust and family photos into the theme

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by malynmawby

UMW student Kavon found some cuddly ones

Andrew Forgrave adds some wheels of coins to his iPhone case using magnetic action (and he even turned it into a new ds106 assignment, we love that)

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by aforgrave

In 97 degree hot weather, Norm is attracted to cool stuff from Abbotts (including “c tard”

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by wwnorm

Raealex must be a scientist!

Dr Coop finds a chemical attraction in her kitchen

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by dr.coop

Audrey Watters makes for a simple but effective example (I think they are “in clove” with each other)

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by audreywatters

Okay, that is seven in a row.. now onto the last part of the challenge.

Your week of Daily Create Challenges is almost over. Are you still in it? Today is another audio one, “Flip the decibels- Make a loud sound soft or a soft sound loud” — and very clever because the creativity is both in the choice and thinking about it, and the execution of it.

While 25 people joined the Soundcloud group, as of today I see 12 sounds, which leads me to think people are still working on it (if they do not, the drill sergeant is going to make them run laps all night in the rain).

I really enjoyed the variety here, and these are going to be very interesting media used for the final mashup challenge. A few favorites sit below the blog fold.

Brushing the teet was VEYR LOUD! I hope I do not get spit upon…

Norm lives on a street with an army of loud bugs

Cris records someone who is very very very thirsty

I am worried that Mohamed tossed out an important piece of paper (no, not his ds106 grade)

Andrew again mixes sounds richly, so we have a loud fan and a soft lullaby

Melanie stay with a troll unicorn theme- I guess the trolls are quiet? And the unicorns sound like normal horses!

Great stuff, tomorrow is the LAST day (but no reason to stop creating daily!) STAY FIT, SOLDIERS!

The Daily Create Seven Day Challenge piles up hard this week, with another video one today (I did not even look to see what was lined up when I made the challenge). For today’s we have 18 Challengers still standing, which is respectable. Where’s the others? preparing to have sand kicked into their faces, I bet?

Today was another in a series suggested by @noiseprofessor, a philosophy series, “What technology you cannot live without?”:

What can you expect? Mobile phones? Web sites? Computers? Cars? Check out some favorites below the fold…

Audrey Watters reminds us of the crucialness of vision, get up close to her contacts

This is one I agree with totally, cannot life without the brown magic liquid

A beautiful (and philosophical) response by someone in the southern hemisphere! (is this you Malywn?)

Melanie cannot live without the technology handed to us by Sir Thomas Crapper (makes a decent place to read books too)

I love the live drawing by raefaring on her connective technology (we guess she can pass on the cars and planes)

I knew my gadget freak friend Coop would choose her Android phone!

Andrew Forgrave goes miles beyond the expectations for a TDC (this ought to be an example for an assignment) of his watery tech

Lisa Lane (great to see her in the mix) has FIVE! Let’s hear it for indoor plumbing, penicillin, pencils, lined paper, refrigeration

These are just the samples, see the rest at http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc189/

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Darwin Bell

Things are really going super duper with responses to the Seven Day Daily Create Challenge, where last Wednesday I dared y’all (that means you, all 4 billion people in the internet) to do a ds106 Daily Create seven days in row.

People are stepping up, some of whom have not done TDCs before, and at least 2 UMW students are in the action. I’ve been doing daily summaries, found at my blog tag 7daychallengetdc.

Originally I had said at the end, I would challenge you to make up a digital story from your own work. And you can certainly do that… you make up your own rules (which still makes me wonder when people tweet apologies about not getting it done by midnight or the same day, phooey). After all, its not like anyone is getting graded here!

@michellek107 @malynmawby #YouAreNotBeingGraded just try and do what you can when you can.

— Alan Levine (@cogdog) July 15, 2012

But in conversation with Martha this morning about our week 9 of ds106 summer assignments on Remix/Mashup to change up the final challenge, in fact it is now an Official Assignment– Seven Day Daily Create Challenge (And Mashup Thereof):

In the spirit of pumping up activity for the Daily Create I issued a challenge to see who was strong enough to do one every day for a week. That is the first part of the challenge, and to do this assignment, you should do the same.

Then, and here is where it gets interesting, my friends, is that you are to make a mashup of content that other people created for each fo the seven days, and to make an interesting story out of it. How you do it is up to you, but you should use the media (and link back, give ‘em credit) to 7 different pieces of media submitted for the Daily Create on the days you did yours.

So there it is- now I challenge you to weave together a story from the work other people did the same seven days you did your own TDCs.

Still.

The question remains.

Are you tough enough for this?