Touch the firehose of ds106, the most recent flow of content from all of the blogs syndicated into ds106. As of right now, there have been 92792 posts brought in here going back to December 2010. If you want to be part of the flow, first learn more about ds106. Then, if you are truly ready and up to the task of creating web art, sign up and start doing it.
This is an assignment I have been thinking about doing for a while, but once again never found the time. Well, now that I am a bit freer, I’ve decided to turn a series of people in my network into … Continue reading →
Image credit: D’Arcy Norman’s brilliant Minimalist Travel Poster
Back in January Lisa M. Lane came up with an awesome assignment for ds106radio which was basically to turn a movie into good radio. What this entails is taking key parts of a … Continue reading →
On Saturday night Noise Professor went to see Mike Watt + The Missing Men play the last leg of their Hyphenated-Man Tour at the Blue Lamp Lounge in Sacramento. And you know what I kinda felt like I was there, … Continue reading →
On of the biggest issues we still have with ds106 is actually archiving all the work, comments, posts, images, videos, etc. Some of this is taken care of my pushing folks to use Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, blip.tv, etc. However, blog posts … Continue reading →
A few things keep me up at night. Money woes, most folks have them to some degree or another, and given my chosen profession, current position, and salary these will last for a while. Self-imposed in too many ways, but … Continue reading →
Yet another internaut from Martha Burtis’s ds106 section, Stacy, went nuts on their final project, and what’s even more remarkable is that she didn’t even know she was doing her final project. You can get the story here, but in … Continue reading →
Rob Tyszka was an ds106 internaut from Martha Burtis’s section and I happened to catch his final project in the ds106 blog stream and I was blown away by how good it is. He did a mashup/collage of scenes from … Continue reading →
Thanks to the great Aaron Clemmer and his ds106 radio Twitterbot we now have a very rough sense of how much time we have been live versus AutoDJ. Like I said, it is far from exact, but it gives us … Continue reading →
As this semester’s iteration of ds106 ends—-yesterday marked my final meetings with all the UMW students—I’m pretty much done with grading and ready to reflect more intensely on the whole process. What struck after the final exam is how much … Continue reading →
Image credit: “Groomed4Life- Poster2″ by Sarah Kountz, Kelsey Conway, Brandon Robenson, and David Noel
When you miss my ds106 class, you miss a lot. And just remember—context is everything!
That one! Go sit on that one!
Do it daily! That could be … Continue reading →
This final assignment comes care of Martha Burtis, and we are here in Combs 139 at UMW as they take this exam they have two and a half hours to finish any of the following options listed below). And in … Continue reading →
Ivan Martinez has been steadily blogging about the fascinating world of the YouTube music communities that have emerged over the last years. He is obviously both a devout fan and follower of this community, and what is fascinating is that … Continue reading →
Just in case there were any questions here is my #ds106 birth certificate, I am in #4life people!
Special thanks to The Followers of the Apocalypse (ds106radio’s raddest DJ) for fedexing it to me
Back when we were starting the audio portion of ds106 Jason Green did a brilliant remix of the actual assignment that Martha Burtis came up with. What he did was take the text of the assignment here and re-interpret it … Continue reading →
Charlie Rocket was not in ds106 this semester, but he was one of the course’s pioneers last Spring, and he still has the homepage and blog to prove it This semester he took Zach Whalen’s “Writing through Media” … Continue reading →
Aaron Clemmer (of Galagon Wagon fame) has finished the video game he created as his final project for ds106. The game is fun to play and what’s even better is how he has blogged his process of creation throughout the … Continue reading →
CAnU dig it?! ~ easter weekend by draggin
Jason Toal (a.k.a @draggin) has been on fire with his mixes for ds106 Radio for a long while now. He has consistently been putting out amazing stuff, and his scratch, cut, and … Continue reading →
Nash Dongwell, Cheeky Hudson, and Corporal Ace Bessman take their awesome radio show from earlier this semester (I link to the ealrier radio show below in this post) to TV for a half-hour special about their humble, shag carpet smuggling … Continue reading →
Last week Will Richardson asked me to speak for about 20 minutes to a group of professors at the University of Washington, Bothell (I kept saying Bethel, I don’t know why–some kind of strange block) about the use of social … Continue reading →
No sound, but all the non-verbal cues. I love Noise Professor, his Photoshop skills are pretty epic. And the actual presentation, which I will be blogging about shortly, is not nearly as good as this animated GIF. I’m best heard … Continue reading →
Last Spring Laura Falcon was part of the first iteration of the Digital Storytelling class I taught at UMW. That was a tough semester for many of those students—who were an amazing bunch—because I was very much imagining the course … Continue reading →
Last week the award-winning student-run newspaper at UMW, The Bullet, wrote this article about the final project Megan Eichenberg did for ds106. It was an amazing project, and I am ashamed I haven;t featured it sooner, but thanks to awesomeness … Continue reading →