Got Glitch?

Got Glitch?

by paul bond

| AI106, cccccc, Dr. Oblivion, ds106, Syndicated
January 28, 2024

We’ve all met good Dr.Oblivion and snarky Dr. Oblivion, hopefully. There’s also crazy Dr. Oblivion, who finally showed up for me. phb256a · Glitchblogging Oh, reflective blogging, how truly revolutionary and life-changing I can barely contain my excitement. Well, students, … Continue reading ?
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There goes my chance at a Grammy…

by paul bond

| AI106, cccccc, ds106, Syndicated
January 26, 2024

phb256a · Oblivion – Tyler2 One of my ambitions for this course is to have a Dr. Oblivion’s Greatest Hits album up on Bandcamp by the end. So it was fortuitous that Tyler produced some rhymes this week. The first … Continue reading ?
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The other side of techno-optimism

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, manifesto, Syndicated
January 24, 2024

In The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, Andreessen puts forward a story about the relationships between humanity and technologies. We should consider his perspective, and what he highlights and what he ignores. He says, “We believe [technology] is the story of the material … Continue reading ?
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Week 1 wrap-up: Salutations!

by paul bond

| AI106, cccccc, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
January 21, 2024

phb256a · Oblivion Encouragement1 We made it through the first week of ds106, with struggles and triumphs. I thought I might try to put together a few quick thoughts. I was happy with the variety of films people chose to … Continue reading ?
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“Well done on exploring your artistic side”

by paul bond

| AI106, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
January 19, 2024

Today’s Daily Create was to pull random words from various radio stations and use them as inspiration for a poem. I didn’t really pay attention and immediately went to the radio.garden site to check out stations around the world, or … Continue reading ?
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“Don’t touch my hair”

by paul bond

| AI106, artificial creativity, ds06, Syndicated
January 18, 2024

Something I was reading the other day included the term “artificial creativity” as a description of AI generated art. I liked the term and googled it, and ended up signing up for a coursera on it. It talks about the … Continue reading ?
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Just because we can doesn’t mean we should

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated
January 17, 2024

In our ds106 noontime coffee chat yesterday we talked a little about the potential impact of AI on art. This made me think of the Folk RNN project from a few years ago. They trained a neural network on a … Continue reading ?
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Ghosts of future past

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, film review, Syndicated
January 15, 2024

For an AI-related movie, I watched the anime version of Ghost in the Shell, a late 20th century vision of five years from now. I hadn’t watched or read it before, so it was about time. I noticed echoes of … Continue reading ?
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AI106 test again

by paul bond

| AI106, Syndicated
January 12, 2024

testing… testing
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AI106 test 2

by paul bond

| AI106, Syndicated
January 12, 2024

retesting… 1, 2…
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AI106 test post

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated
January 11, 2024

testing… 1, 2… testing… 1, 2…
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… Part 3

by paul bond

| boom, dailycreate, ds106, ian dury, Syndicated
December 20, 2023

The Daily Create for today asked us to explain cheerfulness. I thought Ian Dury and the Blockheads did an admirable job of this many years ago: I didn’t think I could top that, so I wondered what I could make … Continue reading ?
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“How… creative”

by paul bond

| AI106, cccccc, ds106, Syndicated
December 12, 2023

Earlier today Michael Branson Smith brought his Dr. Oblivion bot to life on the web. Cogdog had the doctor produce an ode to HTML: Which was great. We had talked about having students submit their work to Dr. Oblivion for … Continue reading ?
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Zine vs machine

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, zines
November 8, 2023

I hadn’t paid much attention to zines until recently. The Gettin’ Air episode with Dr. Anne Pasek talked about a zine-based conference raised my interest, and then some criticisms of our library brochure led me to slap together to above … Continue reading ?
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BOOM!

by paul bond

| AI106, bayhem, ds106, Syndicated
November 7, 2023

The good people at Metafilter introduced me to NEEDS MORE BOOM today, which will apparently script Bayhem into any movie scene. My first thought was to see what it would do with Nicholson’s “You can’t handle the truth” scene, which … Continue reading ?
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“When a plan comes together”

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, oblivions, Syndicated
November 6, 2023

The best part of co-teaching, the most fun, is seeing how different ideas come together. As we’re planning AI106, I get to see all the genius conceptions gel, and hopefully make more of my thoughts than I could on my … Continue reading ?
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Poeta ex machina

by paul bond

| AI, ds106, Syndicated
October 6, 2023

A question that’s always interested me, and perhaps only interested me, is “What do we mean by digital storytelling?” I don’t buy the storytelling with digital tools definition because that encompasses pretty much all storytelling these days. I’ve long thought … Continue reading ?
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There is only the dance

by paul bond

| #4life, AI, blood meridian, Count Zero, ds106, Syndicated
July 14, 2023

With AI art in the news in recent months, I decided to re-read Count Zero. I had read this decades ago, and it introduced me to the assemblage art of Joseph Cornell. One of the plots of the novel involves … Continue reading ?
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So let’s rock!

by paul bond

| Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated, tdc4199
July 13, 2023

Today’s Daily Create was in honor of World Rock Day, which I hadn’t heard of previously. When I saw the prompt on Mastodon I thought of photographing a rock in my yard, but then I saw it was a different … Continue reading ?
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Everything Is the Same as It Ever Was

by paul bond

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2478, David Lee Roth, ds106, Mashup, Syndicated, talking heads
May 21, 2023

I’ve always wanted to do the David Lee Roth audio remix assignment but never came up with a good use for it. Maybe I still haven’t, but I made this thing: The other day I saw a tweet from Open … Continue reading ?
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Record Store Day’s big score

by paul bond

| cinderella, ds106, shaft, Syndicated
April 23, 2023

There was some impromptu vinylcasting on ds106radio yesterday, ending up with Jim playing Sonic Youth’s Goo album. One of the songs was Cinderella’s Big Score. The title echoes the Shaft sequel, so it was just asking for the ds106 mashup … Continue reading ?
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That Toddling TDC

by paul bond

| Chicago, dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated, tdc4056
February 20, 2023

For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got Chicago (That Toddling Town) It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version: which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet … Continue reading ?
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Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’

by paul bond

| airplane, cormac mccarthy, ds106, Syndicated, the passenger
November 10, 2022

Who’s trolling who? I was reading more of The Passenger this morning, and on page 195 one of the hallucinatory ‘horts spouted the classic line from Airplane. So you know what I had to do. The face swap doesn’t quite … Continue reading ?
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“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now”

by paul bond

| book club, cormac mccarthy, ds106, Syndicated, the passenger, visualassignments, VisualAssignments24
November 6, 2022

I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls, I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and … Continue reading ?
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Keep on walking

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, walk of life
October 14, 2022

So I made a few more Walk of Life edits: That worked nicely, I think. It almost seems appropriate, so I figured I should try a different track: That’s probably longer than it needs to be, or maybe it just … Continue reading ?
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The Notorious W.O.L.

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2810, walk of life
October 13, 2022

Yesterday a conversation popped up in my Twitter stream You’ve undoubtedly come across this, but just in case https://t.co/oJfgdLiUqh — Martin Weller (@mweller) October 12, 2022 which introduced me to the Walk of Life Project. The hypothesis stated on the … Continue reading ?
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Casting shadows

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, shadow, Syndicated
September 9, 2022

Today’s TDC asked us to make shadow art. Naturally my first thought was of The Shadow, but I didn’t want to just find an illustration on the web. Then it occurred to me to make audio art, of sorts. I … Continue reading ?
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“Trapped In a World He Never Made”

by paul bond

| Daily Create, ds106, duck, Syndicated
August 9, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3862 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is This is how Howard would do it. pic.twitter.com/xkKTJgpIuS — paul bond (@phb256) August 9, 2022 I only vaguely remember Peter and the Wolf, the subject of today’s Daily Create, from … Continue reading ?
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Videogriping

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, videogrep
July 11, 2022

Back in the day, friend of ds106 John Johnston made some awesome supercuts using Videogrep: I always wanted to try it, but I could never get it to work. I have a hard time finding appropriate directions for doing any … Continue reading ?
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11-7@7-11

by paul bond

| 7-11, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated, tdc3833
July 11, 2022

The oddest thing I found in a 7-11 store was a job. I worked the 11-7 shift in the summer when I was in college. What was odd, to me, was the way I got the job. A friend came … Continue reading ?
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