Daily Create 1607 Find a near miss of 106 in that there real world. I thought I’d try a new version of the most awesome game ever… Stop the Stopwatch as Fast as Possible! My record was … not great. The new version of this great game is Get It To Stop at 106! Man the video … Continue reading 104, 105, 107, 108 →

Daily Create 1605 Canadian Ona Corkum, Thunder Bay’s penultimate foot doctor, made an unlikely friend last month off the coast of Puerto Rico. Ona has had a fear of water all of her life and was determined to master this fear by going on an all inclusive cruise through the Caribbean. She had had a couple tee many martoonis when … Continue reading The Chance Encounter of Ona Corkum and Caterina Giannantonio →

As a Canadian, the name John Johnston reminds me immediately of Tom Thompson, one of our best painters. Today, for Daily Create 1592, we write a poem for John! Well, lucky me, another famous group of Canadians wrote a song about Tom Thomspon, so now I have a template to borrow to add some words for John. Hope … Continue reading Well John Johnston Came 106ing Past →

Ha ha ha NO WAY! Not unless you send me some ds106 socks. Daily Create #1591 wants to get me to sing about a place I’ve never been. But holy moly that Vancouver song is something else. It’s timeless really. If anything could inspire me to sing, it’s that. But nope! Didn’t work! I know I’m totally … Continue reading Try to Make Me Sing? →

This has already been shared elsewhere, but I wanted to post it on my blog as well so all of my future readers (hahaha I just mean my future self!) will remember that I had a grand ol’ time Lebowski GIF battling with Alan Levine last week. Thanks Alan, I am still recovering my GIF … Continue reading I Do Enjoy A Good Lebowski GIF Battle →

Alanis Morissette updated her lyrics to ‘Ironic’ so I thought, if she can do it, I can do it too, only worse! So for today’s Daily Create, in which we discover the Hotel 106 has the same ridiculous checkout policy as the Hotel California, we have revised lyrics! Think of the Don Henley serenading you as … Continue reading Hotel 106 is Calling From Far Away →

I don’t even know where I stand on this whole #Sockgate thing. But I am standing somewhere. I think it’s kind of over on the side. I mean, sure, I’d take some socks. Are there socks? AnimatedGIFAssignments, AnimatedGIFAssignments972

I’m excited to say that today the Daily Create was my suggestion! Although I didn’t come up with the idea myself. Back in the early 2000s when all the big clothes retailers were going super crazy with graphic tees (it was like they thought they had just made up the idea) I found a t-shirt … Continue reading Tourism Mashups →

Daily Create 1574. 500 years ago they didn’t have Craigslist or Kijiji so you had to wander down the streets hollering that you had something for sale. One day young Craig was trying to sell or trade his burlap sack to try to get a bite to eat. But local grump Leon wanted the boy … Continue reading Not the Horse →

When I woke up this morning, I had a feeling I would be spending a few minutes today writing a back story for Medieval Death Bot for Daily Create 1571. It’s just so obvious. Here it goes: John de Waltham, struck upon his head with malice in 1322 by John Myng in the lane called “Shitebournelane” — … Continue reading Shitebournelane →

Some meanie named Stryker hole punched a bunch of great depression era photos because he didn’t like them. Today ds106 Daily Creators are trying to help unpunch them and give them new life. My first attempt was a light-hearted jab (light-hearted is something new I’m trying) In which I try to show that Stryker was just trying to hide … Continue reading Hole Un-Punched →

I’m not much of a Shakespeare buff (yet! There’ still time) but I do think he is pretty cool. It’s nice to have the chance to use the word buff, too, even if it’s in the negative. My favorite is MacBeth. That story always cheers me up. All this week Daily Creates have been to … Continue reading Post Lots of Bill: A Week of Shakespeare Creates →

Daily Create 1564 Find a photograph that captures the words of Shakespeare. I found a picture under CCO public domain here and borrowed it. I then found some of Bill’s words in a little known play called MacBeth. It’s a Rom-Com, I believe. Anyway I think I’m subverting Bill’s words. In the play it is Hecate thanking the … Continue reading O Well Done! →

This here tree is not alone per se. It is among friends. But it is living its life its own way, in its own direction. Not straight up like those other unexciting, assembly line sheep-trees. It chose not to grow up, but up and over. When you look at the picture, do you notice the straight … Continue reading This Cedar is not Alone →

I think it’s time I said thanks to DS106 and to list the things it has done for me. Not that I’m stopping. I’m just getting started. And who doesn’t like a good list? #46 will shock you! Actually the list has only 3 things. But they’re biggies! I’ll keep this short and sweet so … Continue reading The Things DS106 Has Done For Me →

TDC1555 Mt Day in Grids and Gestures… I did grids, but my gestures are more like just shapes… I only had 5-10 minutes though and it’s Monday morning so gimme a break!  Here’s a vague legend into what you’re looking at represented: sleep, water, sounds, smiles, mouse clicks, biking, sliding, swinging, eating, viewing, water, a little … Continue reading Grids and Gestures →

DS106 Daily Create #1552 You probably have heard of the number 4, but did you know that it was a very powerful number? More powerful than 3, that’s for sure. Today we celebrate the power of number 4 and all the things you can do with it. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty business of this … Continue reading The Power of 4 →

Daily Create 1548 is to find yourself on a billboard and take a selfie of it. I don’t know how anyone else is finding themselves on billboards in order to take a selfie. I wasn’t sure, but I didn’t think I’d ever been the subject of an ad campaign for anything. I wandered the earth searching … Continue reading Almost a Billboard →

Daily Create #1544 After their first dream building lesson went a little awry, Cobb realized the learning environment should be a little simpler to navigate than the busy streets of Paris. So his choice of setting for lesson 2 was Monument Valley in Arizona. As you can see from the picture, they have a little less … Continue reading Cobb and Ariadne Dream Construction: Lesson 2 →

Daily Create #1543 Design a New ACME Product. Designer Rob Loukotka created a poster of every product Wile E. Coyote ever bought from them. This got back to the honchos at ACME, who haven’t sold a thing since 1994, and inspired them to begin creating new products again. “We hadn’t ever seen all of our products on … Continue reading New Product From ACME’s New Interdisciplinary Line →

Who can resist an opportunity to point out the Deer in The Headlights state many of us are in when it comes to the Trump Presidential Show? This mashup assignment allowed me to do just that: pick one line from two movies (cheated a bit with one being  a TV show) and string them together to … Continue reading Horrifying Plan Paid with Cash →

Daily Create #1541  A couple of weekends ago, a pretty important event in Ed hyphen Tech occurred at Davidson College: The Indie Ed-Tech Summit. It seemed to be the right people at the right time to really get some momentum going towards putting the Indie in Ed-Tech. I wish I could have been there to … Continue reading A Trip to The Indie Ed-Tech Summit →

Daily Create 1537 Create some bike art in advance of Bike to Work Day. A GIF counts as art, no? Every day can be bike to work day.  I filmed my entire bike commute today. Of course the snow has returned. Just a light dusting. My one mitt-less hand got a little cold holding the phone.  What … Continue reading Head to the Right of The Screen to Get to Work →

Daily Create 1536 is to watch some instructional videos, learn to lasso and then video tape yourself doing it… Pshaw! I don’t need to do any of those things! I played Wonder Woman in my younger acting days. I went to the Cartoon Network Archive to get this footage of me about to lasso the truth … Continue reading Lasso of Truth →

They used an Etch-a-Sketch to Map the Ol’ West in the last half of the 19th century. This is a dramatic recreation of the first draft to include Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and the top half of New Mexico.

The lamest Excuse not to Daily Create. Every day I wonder what the word daily means. I should look it up one of these days. Not today! Today I made this dank meme.

The aphorism ‘Never throw tapioca down a mine shaft’ is only weird if you don’t know its origin story. So let’s unweird it right now. Here’s what happened: Gordon Flaherty was down his mine shaft at the Wounded Moose Gold Mine, which is currently for sale, back in August 1896: The Yukon Gold Rush. It was … Continue reading Origin Story: The Tapioca/Mineshaft Connection →

Daily Create #1530: Create a GIF from classic silent film The Great Train Robbery from 1903. Directed by Michael Bay I think. First step for me, I don’t know about you, was to watch it. My overall impression was that people back then were way to loosey goosey in their movements. Like they had longer ligaments … Continue reading No Coffee :( →

So like, I last did my weekly roundup, for week 3, in week 4. Now it is week 75 or something like that. I am a true open participant. I love it. But it is now this time of year and it’s hard to do stuff. Also, the path I am taking through this course has … Continue reading Weekly Round Up, Now in Monthly (or more!) Form →

Daily Create 1528  If you look at this picture sideways, you will notice it is a B. Signifying, subtly, the B wing of our building. This B is on the stairwell in font size 587 900.But if you look at it sideways, you see a spooky mask face! It looks like the phantom of the opera … Continue reading Sideways Spooky Faces →