Be Our Guest
This scene/song has tons of repetition, probably easier for animators to work with the scenes. I swear I’m going to stop for the day. I can quit anytime, I don’t need help. Really.
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Falkor
Ok, this one started off at 11MB, I pared it down to 3, and then did layer masking to cut it in half again. 1.6MB isn’t exactly small, but it’s worth it for Falkor nodding in approval. -
November, 2019
Finally started playing around with masking in Gimp (did anyone do a tutorial on this? I searched and didn’t find one). Really this scene from the opening of Blade Runner didn’t need much masking but I’m a perfectionist to a fault and wanted it damn near perfect. Also, 492kb! Stoked about that. A few technical ... -
Let the Summer of Oblivion Begin
Readers of my blog are no strangers to the great joy I get from the madness that is ds106. It’s time to fire it up again (did it ever stop?!). The Summer of Oblivion begins June 20th and as an opening salvo I’ve created my animated gif. David Bowie, Tights, that’s right, this shit just ... -
Mutatis mutandis
Today I accepted a position as an Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Mary Washington’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. It’s almost impossible for me to convey the emotion behind that first sentence, because in many ways this is literally a dream, years in the making, coming true for me. I will join ... -
The Big Hip Hop Tutorial
One of my recommendations in the ds106 Toolbox for folks who can’t afford Photoshop (and don’t really need to) is a website called Aviary. Although I refer to it in terms of a photo editor, their suite of tools really does a whole lot more including vector editing and even an audio editor. I’ve decided ... -
The ds106 Toolbox
Looking back on the large amount of work created during the ds106 course and thinking about the reflective advice given by myself and others, it occurred to me that along the way a lot of us have blogged our process as well as the final results. Information like that is invaluable to incoming students and ... -
To Future ds106ers
I’ve thought long and hard about what I could say to convey why this class is important. Why it is simultaneously the greatest and most meaningful course you can complete, and at the same time the most grueling. There’s a lot of great advice out there already for you to read. So I’m just going ... -
Possibilities for DS106TV
After just a few weeks of the TV experiment going live there has been a whole lot of experimentation and it’s generally becoming a fun playground to explore what’s possible with a medium like this. The karaoke night action was fun (and possibly painful for the audience). The joint movie watching via Skype ala Mystery ... -
When a Course becomes a Community
I remember clearly the first online community I was a part of. In late 2003, just a few weeks after it had been built, I joined Monkeyfilter. Monkeyfilter was a spinoff of Metafilter which was closed to new membership at the time. I had been following Metafilter for a few months prior and when I ... -
Karaoke Friday on ds106TV
As is quickly becoming tradition (at least for Jim Groom and I), I decided to broadcast some karaoke tunes to ds106 on Friday. The idea of livestreaming and setting up a TV station for ds106 has been back on my mind a lot recently in light of the video assignments. You’ll recall perhaps that I ... -
When In Rome: A Street View Story
I had been playing around with the idea of using a combination of Google Street View and sound effects from the Freesound.org project for awhile now. Today’s news that Google now has Street View inside of famous landmarks is all the prodding I needed to start playing. My recommendation is to wear headphones and watch ... -
Video Essay
My wife always laughs at me when My Girl comes on TV. Yes, I am a man, and yes I cry at this sappy movie. I can’t help it. To me there is something powerful about the way they frame a story of a girl that can’t understand death until her best friend dies. Anyway, ... -
Broadcasting on ds106 Radio
The combination of a few late nights with the wife and kid out of town and our newly installed high-speed internet connection have meant the ability for me to do more interaction with ds106 by way of broadcasting on the radio waves. I never would have expected such an ancient technology like radio to have ... -
Therapy with Firebug
Martha Burtis posts an excellent assignment involving the use of a Firefox extension called Firebug to edit the contents of a website to create an interesting story. This is just genius, so much easier than photoshopping a site. I wanted to do something meaningful with it, mostly because the temptation is there to do something ... -
My Valentine
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Glengarry Glen Ross
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I Can Read Movies: Harry Potter
I used to love to read, and Penguin books were the best. After I made this cover, I decided I needed to scuff it up a bit and make it look old. This kind of makes me want to print these out and wrap them over some of the actual busy covers of the books ... -
Happy Valentineās Day ds106
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We Are All Artists
On Thursday I spoke with the ds106 face to face course happening simultaneously at the University of Mary Washington. As this is my first time participating in a MOOC it was a great honor and privilege to get to interact a bit with those students and perhaps offer something inspirational and challenging. Below is the ... -
The Social Network
I was going to do the “minimalist” poster assignment but wasn’t satisfied with my first attempt and decided to do another one that’s “semi-minimalist” but with a key frame of the movie integrated in there. I like how... -
The Matrix in 4 icons
A nice tip for folks is that you don’t have to draw icons from scratch (although that’s great too). There are types of fonts called “Dingbat” fonts that you can download (Your computer probably has a few generic ones like Wingdings in your font list already). Check out http://www.dafont.com which is a great resource for ... -
ds106.tv
My participation in ds106 is getting a lot less linear as assignments come and go and I continue to grab hold of that which catches my interest. That's not to say I'm not participating, far from it. I'm 2 days in to the Daily Shoot project and I'm thinking I'll probably recap each week of photos here on the blog instead of a post every day since I'm using Flickr for the photo uploading. However the most recent madness of the past 2 days has been the birth of ds106.tv. -
The Wizard of Oz 2.0
I have a confession to make. I’ve been playing around with a few of the more popular “web 2.0″ (God I hate that term, but I digress) sites in an attempt to recreate a story. And it’s a lot of fun. But I think I can do better, with your help. The Setup Continue the ... -
Bag Of Gold
I’m not going to admit to how long this took to do, other than to say instead of getting it done last week when it would have been more relevant to ds106, I’m finally getting it out today. I wanted to try my hand at “kinetic typography” after seeing Rob Nyland use it for his ... -
ds106 Radio
The world’s craziest MOOC has a radio station, which makes this whole thing about ten more levels underground. For those of you wanting to rock it in your sidebar here are instructions for WordPress: Go to Appearance > Widgets (assuming your theme supports widgets) Drag a new text widget into your sidebar Paste the following ... -
The Transient Web
More thoughts and discussions seem to be rising to the surface daily as a result of Gardner Campbell’s “No More Digital Facelifts” video. Brad Kozlek and D’Arcy Norman take issue with the requirement of ds106 that you self-host your blog and the idea that a “Personal Cyberinfrastructure” requires becoming your own sysadmin. In Gutenbergās day, ... -
Everything is amazing, and no one is happy!
I finally got a chance to sit down and watch Gardner Campbell’s “No Digital Facelifts” and it’s almost too much to digest in one thought or post. I imagine I’ll be pointing back to it often over the next several weeks as ideas come to me. As he talked about the idea of having this ... -
ds106, an introduction.
A storm has been brewing for over a month now, and as of yesterday Jim Groom opened up the skies and it’s raining. Alan Levine is already talking to the voices in his head and Jabiz Raisdana is straight up swimming in it. It is on. Ladies and Gen... -
Love The Way You Lie
This is a song that describes tying someone to a bed and then setting the house on fire. I'd like to think I've made something beautiful out of it.
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