TDC1087: An ‘expanded moment’ video

TDC1087: An ‘expanded moment’ video

by amclay09

| Syndicated
January 3, 2015

For TDC1087, the video task required to ‘find a place with the potential for visual movement, place your video camera on or attach it to a stable object. Record at least 2 minutes without moving the camera and no sound’. … Continue reading →
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TDC1089: A digital message in a bottle

by amclay09

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January 2, 2015

My solution to TDC1089? – a remix of the lyrics from The Police’s ‘Message in a Bottle’. TDC1089
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Listening to Stories

by amclay09

| Syndicated
January 2, 2015

I do a lot of listening to music (on Spotify), but not so much to live radio and even less to factual radio. Listening to podcasts is something I generally don’t do and so this part of the course feels … Continue reading →
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About Audio Storytelling

by amclay09

| Syndicated
December 29, 2014

To begin to think about ‘audio storytelling’ we were asked to watch videos by ‘experts’ in this field. Firstly, the four parts of Ira Glass on Storytelling (This American Life) and then a couple of videos featuring Jad Abumrad (great name … Continue reading →
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Unit 3 Summary

by amclay09

| Syndicated
December 24, 2014

Made it to the end of another unit. This one has been spread over a month and as I started to take notes about what I was doing and how long it took, I would say something in the region … Continue reading →
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Telling Stories with Photos 2: Five Card Flickr

by amclay09

| Syndicated
December 23, 2014

Five Card Story: Crack Kills Jesus Saves a Five Card Flickr story created by Andrew Clay flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching Crack the cat will … Continue reading →
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Telling Stories with Photos 1

by amclay09

| Syndicated
December 23, 2014

Tour de France, York, 2014
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Appreciating Past DS106 Stories

by amclay09

| Syndicated
December 23, 2014

Faced with lots of choice, what are you to do? I skirted around the resources and eventually settled on a story that caught my attention because it was building on the very well known story of Alice in Wonderland. Taking … Continue reading →
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TDC1058 Did you create today?

by amclay09

| Syndicated
December 1, 2014

Did you create today? Yes. This one. I used this tutorial to make a fake custom error message and played around with the code until settling for a simple ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ button format. I spent a long time thinking … Continue reading →
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TDC829 Illustrate a Randomly Generated Sentence

by amclay09

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November 30, 2014

Dear Daily Create, it’s been quite a while since we last locked horns. Sorry. Emerging out of a fallow patch, I decided to go for a random pick and fell on a random generated sentence TDC. Neat. The sentences served … Continue reading →
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The Shape of Stories

by amclay09

| Syndicated
November 27, 2014

The Shape of Apocalypse Now When Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is assigned a secret mission, it seems like his life has a new purpose, or least will keep him from self-destruction for a time, so he is on the up, … Continue reading →
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Storytelling

by amclay09

| Syndicated
November 25, 2014

I thought about storytelling over breakfast. The previous line in itself could be a story. It is difficult to think about what is the basic unit of a story – one word or part of a word might be sufficient. … Continue reading →
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Unit 2 Summary

by amclay09

| Syndicated
November 23, 2014

This blog has always felt like a personal and representative site. You can go through the process of making it more personal, but even the most abstract and basic uses of the WordPress themes feels personal because the content is … Continue reading →
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TDC1045 Design your worst DS106 album cover

by amclay09

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November 20, 2014

Another bit of image manipulation, so on comfortable Daily Create territory again, but couldn’t resist the invitation to make an album cover, especially with bad design in mind. I do collect a bit of vintage vinyl, so actually the cheesier … Continue reading →
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Say It Like The Peanut Butter

by amclay09

| Syndicated
November 18, 2014

The GIF is made from a short black and white film called Lowland Village (Daniel Catling, 1943). It was one of the many films made for the British Council in the 1940s to project an image of Britishness abroad. It … Continue reading →
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TDC1041 Don’t get mad, get DS106!

by amclay09

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November 17, 2014

I have to confess to being tardy and irregular in my approach to Daily Creates, and so yesterday I vowed to do whatever the assignment was. It turned out to be ‘Pick a pet and change it’. Another photography challenge, … Continue reading →
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Unit 1 Summary

by amclay09

| Syndicated
October 31, 2014

I’m writing this on a Google Nexus in a hotel room in Istanbul. On the TV there is a Turkish pop video channel where most of the women are beautiful and scantily dressed, the men less so, on both counts. … Continue reading →
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Added to the flow

by amclay09

| Syndicated
October 11, 2014

I think this blog is now added to the flow. Writing this on a Google Nexus. So far, so good?
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Day 1 of ds106 for TECH2002_15

by amclay09

| Syndicated
October 6, 2014

Thinking about the course and making notes and formulating questions.
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