T shirt design contest

http://www.threadless.com/loves/thejoyoftext

New Bone Tool in Flash CS4

Mondo and Zellner, this one's for you. Cool new animation tool in Flash CS4: http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1590v1010

SAT Vocab Video Contest

Win iTunes songs, cash for you and for our school..

http://www.brainyflix.com/

Color Changing Card Trick

Did you spot the changes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE

Bike Hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMYWuGUZlM

The Photo Archives of Life Magazine

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

These are, of course, copyrighted, but Time said the photos are available for free for personal and research purposes. So, they would be OK to use in an educational multimedia project if you follow the fair use guidelines and credit the source.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Art in the Eye of a Needle

http://www.maniacworld.com/art-in-the-eye-of-a-needle.html

T-shirts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tlw-oPDBM

Funny example of time lapse, and it also made me think of Chelley's T-shirt contest...

SmartPower Energy Smart Ad Challenge

This will be the classroom competition for those who wish to participate. Students who plan to go to the SkillsUSA competition in Alfred (Chelley, Andy Z, Megan and Rob) MUST participate. This can also count as either your 2Q Proj2, your 3Q Proj1 or your NCCC break project, depending on your individual schedule. In order to count towards the classroom competition, it cannot be handed in any later than the 3Q Proj1 deadline, which is February 5. The actual contest deadline is April 22, for others who may wish to participate later, or revise their entry.

Read the rules and procedures CAREFULLY!

Main Contest Link
Rules
Energy Facts
Entry Form
YouTube Group

Oh yeah, the prize is $10,000! Good Luck!

This One's for You, Rob

Another video contest, perfect for the politically-minded:

http://www.studentcam.org/index.htm

Another mini project grade opportunity for Skills members

Check out the bulletin board for the guidelines for the Skills USA national pin design contest. This could count as a tutorial grade for Skills members. There are also Regional and State pin design contests for skills, but I do not have the specs for those yet. I'll keep you posted.

Mini-Project/Tutorial Grade Opportunity

The Early Childhood Ed class is looking for someone to design a single-color or 2-color t-shirt design for the preschool program. The name of the preschool is Niagara Preschool Learning Center and they are thinking of have a saying like Playing and Learning...It's What We Do or Learning Through Play. They would also be open to anything else that you might come up with.

This would count as one tutorial grade for this quarter. They would like something soon, though, so let me know ASAP if you are interested.

Search Flickr by color

This is really amazing: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/. Click on up to 10 colors to search for Flickr Creative Commons images by color.

Go Rate Chelley's Video!

http://www.schooltube.com/video/12450/Find-It-All

Apple Insomnia Film Festival

Do it. Win it. Now.

http://www.apple.com/education/insomnia

Solve this iPhone game, win $$$$$

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/20/1945232&from=rss

Another Photoshop Brush site

http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes

Thanks to Tricia Orsi, another former student, for sending me this one.

Villa Maria visit night and class visit days

Villa Maria College is holding a Fall visit night next Wednesday, October 22 from 5-7 pm, in case anyone is interested in checking out their school. They do have a new animation program which may be of interest to some of you. Flash/3D/Motion Graphics. Looks like it could be cool.

Also, class visit days are scheduled for Nov. 17 - 20. You can sit in on classes / studios, meet current students and faculty, etc. I would exempt you from BOCES that day if you wish to visit, as long as you make arrangements with me ahead of time.

The Eyeballing Game

Here's a cool game to check and see how accurate you really are when you try to "eyeball" things. My best score so far is a 2.69. Beat it. :-) Another great find courtesy of Ze Frank.

Free Photoshop Brush sets

Steve Garbus from last year's class sent me this link to free Photoshop brush sets. Might be helpful when creating artwork:

http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/1000-free-high-resolution-photoshop-brush-sets.html

Another good site for photos for projects

This site http://www.geograph.org.uk contains over 1 million photos taken of the British Isles. You might think it would be just landscapes, but I did a few searches for various items and turned up some good images. When you have found an image you like, click on the "Interested in reusing this image?" link under the image. This will give you access to a high res version to download, as well as instructions on how to credit the image, if required.

1 in 10 iPod users Could Go Deaf

Turn it down, sonny!

Studica Skills Contest Site

Check out this site for student contests in all of our skill areas: video, animation, web design, graphic design: http://www.studica.com/skills/.

Here is a shortcut to the list of current contests: http://www.studica.com/skills/competition_list.cfm.

These are changing all the time, so check back whenever you are looking for project ideas. This is a great resource for you to practice your skills...

"Beautification" software

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/fashion/09skin.html?_r=3&8dpc=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Parents will soon be able to control "system prefs" for teen drivers

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/09/ford-will-offer-spec.html

12 Year Old McDonald's Hamburger

Since we have discussed the Supersize me burger experiment in reference to the change project, I thought some of you would find this interesting:

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/10/06/mickey-ds-meat-masterfully-mummified-burgers-banish-bacteria-b/

Here is the actual blog post from the woman who supposedly has the burger:
http://bestwellnessconsultant.com/search.aspx?q=mcdonalds&sc=t&dt=3m&al=none

Multimedia Contest (Video, Flash, etc.)

Matt M. found this contest. It would make a great project...

http://globalsolutions.org/multimedia_contest_2008

Duck, Think Outside the Flock

Another great Flash find from one of my all-time favorite bloggers, Ze Frank:

http://www.notdoppler.com/duck-thinkoutsidetheflock.php

ThinkQuest 2009 Web Design Contest

http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/

Even More Video Contest Sites

http://www.onlinevideocontests.com/

http://www.vidopp.com/

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/classifieds/view.php?cat=46

More YouTube Contests

http://www.youtube.com/contests_main

You Tube Free Credit Report video contest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emLAvDVl_kY

Energey Video Contest for Skills USA members

http://www2.schooltube.com/Contests/GetIntoEnergy.aspx

Pigeon Impossible

This is a behind-the-scenes look at how an independent 3D animated short gets made. Make sure to check out the video podcast if you are at all interested in getting into 3D animation - it will give you a realistic idea of what it takes to produce a 3D short. http://pigeonimpossible.com/MainPage.php

Blog Grades 9/19/08

Grades have been emailed. Many people are not completing all the requirements. Like the notebook last year, this is a really easy grade to earn, as long as you keep up with it and meet the specifications. Also like the notebook, if you do not do it, your grade will suffer. Get in the habit of reading the class blogs (especially mine) EVERY day. If you do not understand what you are supposed to be posting, re-read your assignment sheet, or my first blog post, or ask me.

Toner Cartridge Explosion Art

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/18/beautiful-toner-expl.html

Color IQ Test

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

This Flash Game is Totally Addictive...

... so don't play it here! :-) http://fantasticcontraption.com/

p.s. it also teaches you about physics.

Special Post Assignment: What is a blog?

For your next blog grade, you need to complete the normal Weekly Comments post requirement, at least one posts of interest (instead of the usual two), plus the following post requirement:

Define the term "blog" in your own words, and find a blog that you think is cool. Include in your post why you chose that blog, why it's useful, entertaining, whatever. Make sure to include an active link to the URL in your post.

Here's one of my favorite blogs: http://www.boingboing.net/

I like it because you never quite know what you're going to find, but it's usually something worthwhile.

p.s. Blog grades for last week have been sent to your gmail accounts.

Oktapodi Animated Short

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaM9mrnOMJo

Also, the making of: http://www.oktapodi.com/makingof.html

Play With Spider Flash Toy

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Creepy!

posted on Boing Boing 9/8/08

Inflatable Monster Street Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo

Rob! Good news...

.... you can download your favorite filmmaker's new movie for free on Sept. 23:

http://slackeruprising.com

Video PSA Contest - $$$!

http://www.acteonline.org/contest/

Scroll to the bottom of the contest page to see last year's winners...

Stop Motion "Spaghetti"

Great use of interesting materials.

Great Orchestra Ad

All it takes is one good idea to make an awesome ad.

Moby music video contest

From a Moby announcement on Facebook:

Moby launches video competition for forthcoming single 'Ooh Yeah'

Moby announces details of an exclusive global $10,000 video competition going live on mobygratis.com. Directors are invited to submit their films for the track Ooh Yeah and the winner, chosen by Moby, will win the $10,000 prize money and have their video used as the official music video for Ooh Yeah from Moby’s latest album, Last Night.

Entrants should go to http://www.mobygratis.com/competition.html to register for full instructions on how to submit their video. The entries will be available to view and comment on here: http://www.vimeo.com/oohyeah

Another Insane Wall Animation

This is what you call dedication to your work. What a crazy amount of planning and artistic ability it would take to pull this off.

Band Uses Security Camera Footage for Video

Don't have any budget for your band's video? Here's what one band did.

Keyboards Dirtier than a Toilet

Next time, don't forget to wash your hands! (And use hand sanitizer, and clean your keyboards regularly!)

city of shadows

Cool time lapse photography

Chaos in the Print Shop

This is actually an ad for a paper organizer. Pretty clever...

hate machine

Not sure if I posted this before, but, Miquela, this is the film I was telling you about. Editing can make your footage say anything, so never believe what you see on the "news".

keyboard pants

http://www.vouspensez.com/2008/04/22/the-geekiest-pants-ever/

Too Much Time on His Hands? Or Super Dedicated to Mario? You Decide.

Super Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid-filled bottles

Thrift Clothes Remixed

Tricia and John - this is the store I was telling you about.

Tony vs. Paul

A bit long, but a great example of what you can do with stop motion.

Jelly Belly Fun

This doesn't have a whole lot to do with digital media, but I thought some of you could appreciate these (yes, I'm talking to you, Nick):

http://candyaddict.com/blog/2008/04/02/candy-review-jelly-bellys-beanboozled/

http://candyaddict.com/blog/2005/11/26/review-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans-just-the-gross-ones/

Any takers for an end of the year blindfolded jean bean tasting party?

Keyboard key snake sculpture

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/01/snake-made-from-keyb.html

CTE Month Logo Design Contest

Win cash and prizes. Do it.

More video competitions

Win a $5000 scholarship
http://www.safetyscholars.com/

Win $2000
Festival Vidéeau

The world has gone mad

"Anti-terrotist" bed

Video Contest, with cash and prizes...

http://www.myspace.com/filmyourissue

Brain Lamp

http://www.lervik.se/prod/brain.asp

Linerider

Totally addicting - plus it teaches you physics. :-)

Advertising vs. Reality

A German website, Pundo300, took photos of food products and compared them with the depictions on their packages.
Link

Paper Heads

Artist Bert Simons makes realistic papercraft heads. Link

Elephant Cam

From Neatorama:

Film-maker John Downer had a brilliant idea. He attached cameras to elephants and let them loose in an animal reserve to capture wildlife photos as you’ve never seen before:

He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carried a "trunk-cam" - a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground.

Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp. Other log-cams were left on the forest floor. […]

Link

Homer and Mario "Untooned"

Mario

Homer

Visit his blog to check out the image sources he used for Homer...http://pixeloo.blogspot.com/

Skills USA Regionals

Hey All-

Be sure to give Jason and Waylon some props for winning First Place at Skills USA Regionals!!! Way to go, guys - now it's time to bring it to States. :-)

Niagara Fall's Secret Tunnel

http://vanishingpoint.ca/tailrace.html

screen cleaner

http://cache.valleywag.com/assets/resources/screenclean.swf

NIN offers free music

Nine Inch Nails goes Creative Commons remix-friendly with new album

Nine Inch Nails have released the first nine tracks of their new album, Ghosts I-IV, as a free download under a remix-friendly Creative Commons license. The band is selling a selection of collectible, high-margin media with the music on it, and will presumably tour and sell tickets to people who got turned on by the freely copyable music.

Do Try This at Home

Glass Music

Google Maps - Spooky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE

Redesign the White House contest

http://whitehouseredux.org/Home

Gotta Love Improv Everywhere!

http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/31/frozen-grand-central/#more-204

rate the PSAs. NOW!

Hey All-

Jason's and Waylon's PSA entries are now live on schooltube.com. There are some prizes awarded on the highest rated videos, so go show them some love!

Go to http://rtndf.schooltube.com/rtndf.aspx and rate their entries. Probably the easiest way to find them is to follow my link and look under the "Newest" category. Their entries are entitled "The Freedom to Be Me" and "The Ice Cream Amendment". Alternately, you could search for the titles. The contest entry period ends this Monday, Feb 4, so get busy!

Lowe's Scholarship

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=Scholarship/lowesfoundation_120606.html

Internet Archive

Here is a site where you can search for public domain footage, images, etc., to use in projects. You can view it online, or download it from the left hand menu. If you plan to use it in projects, make sure you get the largest file size available. This link is just for the video portion, but you can also search other media from the top menu.

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Win a Trip to Washington (Video Contest)

Make a 3-5 minute video about how Technology helps you learn. If you win, you get to go to Washington with ME! :-D (or without me if you are 18). :-/ haha.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/empowered/

cool web concept

http://producten.hema.nl/

Producten is apparently a Dutch shop that sells all sorts of stuff.

Wait for the entire page to load, then watch for 5-20 seconds and see what happens.

for all you football fans out there

Ze Frank's take on the Superbowl

1st Amendment PSA Info

This is the link for the info on the classroom video competition:

http://www.schooltube.com/rtndf.aspx

freerice.com

Improve your vocabuary and donate rice to the hungry.

Kind of addictive...

How well do you know your world?

How well did you pay attention in Global?

Christmas Carol Maker

A bit late, but a fun Flash example:

http://www.zefrank.com/xmas/

Beats of Boredom

Forget Garageband.... create music from found sounds. Project idea, if anyone wants to try it:

http://www.zefrank.com/zesblog/archives/2007/12/beats_of_boredo.html