I’ve got a little “zombie fever” with season 2 of The Walking Dead having started up last fall. If you haven’t watched that show you’re really missing out on some excellent quality programming for a channel that’s available to most … Continue reading →
Last year a lot of us in the ds106 group were shocked when we found out the Daily Shoot website would be taken down by the end of the year. Unfortunately the developers of the site were moving on to … Continue reading →
I’m already blown away by the amazing programming chops being show by Cogdog and now John Johnston who created this awesome Flickr Quote Visualization Tool that allows you to grab random images, remove the extra stuff, and visualize a quote … Continue reading →
The wild mating call of the animated gif has lured me once more to the clutches of ds106. For this assignment I went to http://www.impawards.com/ to check out the selection of movie posters. Although I’m not familiar with this flick … Continue reading →
Seems like lately I’m coming across more and more featured artwork that could easily be wrapped into a ds106 assignment. Such is the case with these great 1997 versions of popular websites. Google Plus, Facebook, and YouTube make an appearance … Continue reading →
Alex Prager has a series of video portraits on the New York Times that is absolutely haunting and excellent. I love the idea of using a minute or so of film to capture an idea, a portrait, with stunning visuals. … Continue reading →
Dear DS106, You are cordially invited to attend a midnight showing of a 1987 Christmas Classic, “A Muppet Family Christmas” in honor of the holidays. IMDB gives the storyline as follows: When Fozzie and the Muppet Show gang drop in … Continue reading →
The great @scottlo is back on the radio and doing some great things, one of them being timed #ds106 assignment. ~24 minutes where he plays a few songs and challenges you to finish an assignment. Don’t think, just make. I … Continue reading →
I grew up in a small town called Fairborn that was situated close to Dayton, Ohio. We moved when I was 11 and haven’t been back in a very long time. From what I understand the town is suffering with … Continue reading →
Spending some time this evening in Photoshop with another fun ds106 assignment. Pretty basic, photoshop a guy into odd scenes. I’m focusing on film scenes. Enter our volunteer stage left: Photo courtesy of Rob Let the games begin…. I’ve got … Continue reading →
So often I have lengthy discussions on Twitter and keep telling myself “I need to be blogging this! 140 characters isn’t enough for my rage!” but to grab the bits and pieces of what was said on Twitter and codify … Continue reading →
As chance would have it I was browsing my RSS feeds yesterday and came across a link to a web app called “Bolt” on Zac Chase’s blog and it’s the perfect tool for creating these web stories. It works similar … Continue reading →
I always know I need to blog about something when I’ve reached more than 5 tweets on a subject and still feel passionate about something. 140 characters makes any sort of civil discourse difficult, but the beauty to me is … Continue reading →
With the Summer of Oblivion course technically only being Monday – Thursday there were many of us left wondering what would happen on ds106TV on Fridays. While it appears Dr. Oblivion has gone missing I figured I would jump on … Continue reading →
