Creeping on Martha’s laptop

Creeping on Martha’s laptop

by Bill Pieper
June 16, 2011

Alright gang, here is the video that some of us put together this morning in our final meeting for ds106 in our short session. I am already looking at editing it so as to include clips from more student videos, … Continue reading →
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The Final Countdown

by Bill Pieper

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June 16, 2011

Using that title has put that stupid song from Europe ‘The Final Countdown’ in my head, which is unfortunate. To be honest, I feel kind of sad that I didn’t take this course during a longer semester, because I think … Continue reading →
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Drudge Report

by Bill Pieper

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June 16, 2011

Yeah, sorry it took me so long to post this, it isn’t as if I didn’t have it ready to go(mostly) in time. Ah well, I forget things sometimes. So I grabbed the Drudge Report to use as my web … Continue reading →
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Spies Like Benny Hill

by Bill Pieper

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June 16, 2011

I’ve got my video assignment here, which was fun/painful working on, but gave me ideas to what I could have done. Kinda hate that thought after finishing one of these projects, oohhh I could have done this! But this being … Continue reading →
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Forcing God into America

by Bill Pieper

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June 14, 2011

This week’s segment of This American Life, ‘Godless America’ is a visit towards the push to force a particular form of religion into the secular state. Although this episode was aired six years ago, the motivations of the players continues … Continue reading →
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Dog Jamming

by Bill Pieper

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June 6, 2011

Hey guys, I’ve set the rotation now that I’ve got the segments we are using. I’ll just get to it: Derek Dana Timmy/Jenna Daniel Aqsa/Zarar Mike Martha Remember that I’m looking for you guys to intro your segment just a … Continue reading →
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Monday’s show

by Bill Pieper
June 5, 2011

Hey class, I wanted to put together my plan for our show Monday and share it with you. Of course I realize that you guys probably would have like to know about this yesterday, or even Thursday, but I didn’t … Continue reading →
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Overheard recordings

by Bill Pieper
June 2, 2011

Our episode listen of TAL for this week, ‘Recordings for Someone,’ definitely seems a little like eavesdropping to me, but really shows the dramatic value of these recordings. Some of these seem to push the limit in intruding on someone’s … Continue reading →
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Party Attack…posting again

by Bill Pieper

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June 1, 2011

Stupid pressing of the wrong button, missed the Publish button the first try. But anyway here is my audio file, wish I had more time to find clips/play with Audacity. Definitely tried to make it different from the idea of … Continue reading →
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Sultry Dog Days…oh and Hot too

by Bill Pieper

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May 31, 2011

All right, since I’m playing the emcee for this overall project, I’m doing to start throwing ideas to the wall hoping that a few of them will work. Let’s look at what we have set up already, how we might … Continue reading →
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Ira Glass: Storytelling

by Bill Pieper

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May 26, 2011

The YouTube videos of Ira Glass talking about storytelling were interesting. I agree that the difficulties lie in the fusion of having a great idea, but having to support that idea with pertinent content. Without both, the attempt at the … Continue reading →
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Somewhat Satirical picture captions

by Bill Pieper

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May 26, 2011

This is the assignment: The Big Caption. I’ve added the first two, frankly the more appropriate ones, the other are fairly tactless. I have a tendency to make off-color jokes, which some of the images put me in the frame … Continue reading →
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New album from Transportation in Lethbridge

by Bill Pieper

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May 26, 2011

This is the image from assignment An Album Cover. The blog will be fleshed out further in a bit. *: I found this assignment to be both the most fun and most frustrating one. The assignment calls for taking the … Continue reading →
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Everyday cables

by Bill Pieper

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May 26, 2011

Here is the image of the Visual Assignment: Common everyday object. The blog response will be fleshed out. *: This assignment was pretty straightforward, simply take an image of ‘Everyday items’ and alter the color/effects so that the items are … Continue reading →
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UMW Poster

by Bill Pieper

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May 25, 2011

Poster for the UMW Campaign. Trying to evoke the combination of Traditional setting with Contemporary education. Used three images; one 1930s aerial view of the campus landscape, one image taken of some of the buildings earlier, and one image of … Continue reading →
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Blink

by Bill Pieper

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May 23, 2011

Here is the 5 card Flickr story: http://5card.cogdogblog.com//show.php?id=25821 I attempted to tell a story from the perspective of a person who found themselves bounced through time and space, with no control. The limited exposition in my mind, allows a reader … Continue reading →
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Really???

by Bill Pieper

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May 19, 2011

Go to http://gonzod.umwblogs.org/ to see the blog post for today. Of course it would start working if I complained about it enough
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