Famous Monsters of Filmland Animated Magazine Cover

Famous Monsters of Filmland Animated Magazine Cover

by Reverend

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June 8, 2012

It’s a big file, but big is beautiful in this case. Feast your eyes on this animated magazine cover which is a more literal interpretation of the June 1975 issue of the classic Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine (more of a … Continue reading →
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The Art of Shit Talking

by Reverend

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June 7, 2012

There are far more definitions of shit talking than I ever dreamed of in my philosophy, but the one I am referring to is the act of “saying things to amuse people and playfully mock them.” For me the web … Continue reading →
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Master of the Flying Guillotine Animated Movie Poster

by Reverend

| Syndicated
June 7, 2012

When I saw the Master of the Flying Guillotine movie poster, I knew I had to animate it for this ds106 design assignment. This is a very rough first draft, and I only got this far thanks to Tim Owens’ … Continue reading →
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Master of the Flying Guillotine Animated GIFs

by Reverend

| Syndicated
June 6, 2012

And that puts me at about 24 stars for visual assignments. NOBODY!
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ds106: The Spring 2012 Course Evaluations

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 31, 2012

Last Fall, in preparation for teaching ds106 this Spring, I blogged about a number of trends in my Spring 2011 course evaluations and how I wanted to work on my relatively poor scores when it comes to at least two … Continue reading →
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Dear Jimmy, (missing home)

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 28, 2012

This was the first week at camp, one like you could never have known. You couldn’t have, you were far too young to know what I don’t know now. You were a kid on Long Island’s South Shore. You might … Continue reading →
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Three Wolf Moon

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 26, 2012

Three Wolf Moon, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. For today’s Daily Create which asks us to represent the moon somehow, I immediately thought of the Three Moon Wolf shirt, which is an internet phenomenon that Tom Woodward turned me onto … Continue reading →
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Three Chinese Officials in front of duPont Hall

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 25, 2012

For today’s Daily Create I photoshopped in the Three Chinese Officals meme which actually doubles as a design assignment (3 stars—which is far too many for this!). I love the idea of three hovering Chinese government officials congregating in front of … Continue reading →
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Networks within Networks: Humans, Technologies, and Metaphors

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 24, 2012

I’ve heard Gardner Campbell talk at length about Networks of Networks as a way to describe what’s happening in a course like his own New Media Studies or ds106. You can listen to him wax poetic on the concept in … Continue reading →
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A bava face trace

by Reverend

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May 24, 2012

A bava face trace, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. This Daily Create is my first of many assignments for ds106 this Summer—I’m a camper through and through and it’s never too late to join in on the fun, get started here. It’s … Continue reading →
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Fear of a YouTube Planet

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 24, 2012

Today it occurred to me that I’m probably gonna lose my YouTube account very soon. Like a lot of folks on YouTube, I upload silly videos I’ve made, clips I’ve ripped from DVDs to talk about films I like, random … Continue reading →
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Open Lab/Open Hearts: the Video

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 23, 2012

I’m becoming a really comfortable presenter, some might even suggest too comfortable—which I would agree. But this video of my 20 minute presenttion at the opening of CUNY’s Open Lab site (I blogged it here) actually has one of my … Continue reading →
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Reason number 12,250 why blogging rules

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 7, 2012

I’m a pretty regular blogger, since December 2005 I have blogged on average 285 posts a year, every year for almost seven years. It’s not all good, it’s not all pretty (especially grammar wise ), and it’s not … Continue reading →
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Alien GIFs

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 7, 2012

The following GIFs are all way too big, but I don’t care. I’ve watched Alien a few times this week, and I can’t get enough of it. I want to do a GIF series about computers from films during the … Continue reading →
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ds106 Summer Session: Camp Magic MacGuffin

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 4, 2012

As Alan Levine has already blogged, ds106 is running again this Summer and it should be a blast. It’s a 10 week session being co-taught by Martha Burtis and Alan, and it promises to be insane. There’s a Summer Camp … Continue reading →
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The Educational aPOPcalypse in 25 Animated GIFs

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 3, 2012

It”s been a busy week closing up this semester’s ds106 course, but I figured I should blog about my TEDxNYED presenting experience before it fades into memory for good. I was trying to experiment wildly with this one because I had … Continue reading →
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Sarah Kountz is a ds106 Kung-Fu Master

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 26, 2012

Sarah Kountz may be the most consistently creative student I’ve yet to see in #ds106. The class has been over for her for more than a year, but she keeps on going with regular assignments of awesome. Take a look … Continue reading →
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Proto-MOOCs Rock!

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 26, 2012

Steve Kolowich of Inside Higher Ed wrote piece on #ds106 titled “Proto-Mooc Stays the Course”, and what I enjoyed about this article is he actually took the time and energy to try and get his head around the multi-headed hydra … Continue reading →
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Endings and Possibilities: Life after ds106?

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 26, 2012

Tonight marks the last time I teach ds106 officially at UMW for a while. I’ve taught it six times in two and half years, and it’s become more awesome than my wildest dreams. At the same time, it’s time to … Continue reading →
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Dawn of the Dead and Road Warrior Animated GIFs

by Reverend

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April 26, 2012

I’ve been working on a presentation for TEDxNYED that is all animated GIFs—25 in all. I’ll be publishing an annotated version of the presentation here sometime time for feedback, but before I did I wanted to get the GIFs I … Continue reading →
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This Week in ds106: Mashups, Remixes, Fan Fiction and Archiving

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 24, 2012

This Week in ds106: Mashups, Remixes, Fan Fiction, and Archiving from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. I spent the penultimate class session of this semester’s ds106 talking about remix culture before YouTube, a la Jonathan McIntosh’s article I discovered today. During class we … Continue reading →
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From the 80s Remix Archive: Reagans Promote Crack Cocaine

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 24, 2012

That classic was done by Cliff Roth in 1988, almost twenty years before YouTube, with nothing but a couple of VHS decks—kinda like walking uphill to school in the snow both ways. And this tweet from WFMU links to this … Continue reading →
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Holy Holograms, Tupac

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 24, 2012

Last week Nick Antonini remixed the Tupac hologram, which appeared at Coachella 2012, with the classic Princess Leia hologram from Star Wars. And soon after there was the video remix of Tupac and Star Wars by Sethward productions that takes it … Continue reading →
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The Conversation

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 21, 2012

Here’s an animated GIF that kinda says it all about this 1974 classic.
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Open Labs/Open Hearts

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 20, 2012

Yesterday I had the honor of both attending and speaking at the launch of CUNY City Tech’s community publishing platform Open Lab. Built on a WordPress/BuddyPress combo, Open Lab follows in the rich tradition of similar sites at CUNY like … Continue reading →
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I Wish I Had a Carpenter

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 20, 2012

Walking around NYC this afternoon I saw the IFC Cinemetal t-shirts (scroll down that page—what a terrible website the IFC center has) at their theater off West 4th Street and I really, really wanted the Carpenter t-shirt. These t-shirts are … Continue reading →
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This Week in ds106: Archiving and the Digital

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 18, 2012

Last night I went on roughly an hour and fifteen minute rant during this #ds106 session about archiving and the digital. It was all over the place, covering everything from Wikipedia to Tupac to the Numa Numa Guy to Star … Continue reading →
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A Lemonade Stand for Education

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 17, 2012

Yesterday marked the end of the ds106 Kickstarter, and at the end of two weeks we raised $12,643 and funded the project at 301% the original request of $4200—all of which remains mind boggling to me. In terms of funding … Continue reading →
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ds106 featured of British Tabloid

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 13, 2012

Has ds106 joined the ranks of Princess Di, Brangelina, and Miley Cyrus? I doubt it, but it really warmed my heart when I saw Ben Rimes’ tweet this morning that a number of ds106 Silent Movie assignments had been featured … Continue reading →
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Introducing ds106 in[SPIRE]

by Reverend

| Syndicated
April 13, 2012

Maybe one of the coolest things about ds106 is the framweork is loose enough that students can not only dream up how to make the community better, but can almost immediately implement it in some pretty powerful ways while the … Continue reading →
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