Episode summaries: I couldn’t listen to the commentary broadcasts on ds106 Radio because of scheduling conflicts, but I was able to download and listen to them on Saturday morning instead.  I lined up the video in one window and started the commentary in another and synched them that way so it made for a really […]

  I’ve created this for our radio project “Wired Buyers” where we focus on product placement.  One of the commercials I’m making is for Proposition Joe’s appliance shop.  Even though it’s really called “John’s Radio and Television” in the show, I took the liberty of changing it here. I included the fake URL because the […]

“All Me In The Scene” was a fun audio assignment where you do all the voices.  In this poem by the great nonsense writer Lewis Carroll, I was the narrator as well as the old man congratulating our hero on a job well done.  I attempted to add some drama, however, it’s not really my […]

“Spooky Sounds” – This was the best audio assignment EVER!  Perfect for upcoming Halloween.  I had my 7-year-olds listen as I kept making it spookier and scarier.  They totally loved helping and offering criticisms along the way.  This time I wanted to have background music, based on a suggestion from Jim Groom when I created […]

This is my rendition of the audio assignment “Remix A Song With Some Speech”. I love old westerns, particularly the ones that Elmer Bernstein scored, so I knew I’d use one of my favorites which is the theme he wrote for “The Magnificent Seven”.  It’s a rousing, heroic piece so I needed an inspiring speech […]

Episode Notes Season 2, Episode 12 with Commentary You see workman’s boots sticking out under the tarp as the body is removed on the Stokes from the water, so right away you know it’s probably who you think it is. Didn’t realize so many scenes were cut out.  Still, it’s better in this time format […]

The Wire: Downton Shabby is a British period drama set in fictional Yorkshire, England in the early 21st century on the estate of the eighth Earl of Baltimore, Avon Barksdale. The series depicts the lives of the aristocratic Barksdale family and their servants as they experience great events in history that effect their lives and […]

Clearly, guinea pigs are evolving in an effort towards world domination.  They are masking this attempt by being oddly cute, but beware, any day now their alien overlords will return to check on their evolutionary progress. I began this daily create by importing the striped hyena image and the guinea pig image as layers into […]

a.k.a. Week Six Summary I had a blast doing Design Week!  I wasn’t sure how it would differ from other visual aspects, but now I understand that it’s the application of concepts and intent plays a role. Here’s what I did this week: Episodes 9, 10, 11 summarized here: Done on the Docks: Ziggy’s Goose […]

I made a new design assignment called “Let’s See Some ID”, because I wanted an assignment where I could make a library card for Brother Mouzone from the HBO show “The Wire”.  He is quoted as saying “The most dangerous thing in America is a nigger with a library card” and from that moment on, […]

I had wanted to make Brother Mouzone a library card ever since I heard his quote in “The Wire”, but when I searched on an assignment that would fit, I couldn’t find one so I made one.   Brother Mouzone has come to Baltimore from New York City, so it figures he has a New […]

Season 2: Episodes 9, 10, 11 Episode 9 I must’ve messed up last week and watched/summarized Episode 9 too early, so here is that summary, re-copied for convenience. New content for Episodes 10 and 11 follows. Stringer’s lecture to Bodie about “you gotta show some flex” for the give and take of the situation is […]

Here’s what I imagine a fictional postcard from Brother Mouzone would look like if sent from the great city of Baltimore.  I imported images I found on the internet into Photoshop, erased existing text, roughed them up with dust/scratches filter and proceeded to add Brother Mouzone’s hand writing.  I periodically made new text boxes, distorted […]

After reading The Vignelli Canon, Tim Owen’s “We Are All Artists” statement and links, and listening to the Groom/Owens interview + talk, I felt well-armed to tackle Design Week. Tim Owens’ statement “The Mozarts are over here and the factory workers are over here” really resonated with me. I’ve never considered myself an artist, but […]

Here’s my mash-up daily create to celebrate the power of 1000 as The Daily Create hits 1,000 assignments, using images from the first, tenth and one hundredth TDCs: Our internaut is on the 1,000th moonwalk TDC mission, and he’s looking down at the number 100 left behind in the moondust at his feet, from TDCs […]

I appreciated his insight into re-designing logos and branding for companies. His approach was to do a “light re-touch” or freshening up rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water.  Logos that have been in the public awareness for decades, if they’ve made a positive impression, should continue to connect with their audience […]

This assignment was for a motivational poster, but I couldn’t resist the temptation to make a DE-motivational poster, and Rawls was my first inspiration.  He’s the most demotivating manager in the show, and makes no effort at controlling his anger issues. This was captured from Season 1, Episode 1 where he is giving McNulty a […]

I’ve been re-watching into Season 3, and the Hamsterdam episodes are among my favorites mostly because of the concept of a drug-tolerant zone in an inner city. Fascinating concept. The assignment to create a Venn diagram required a lot more thought and playing around on scratch paper than I had anticipated.  I doodled a lot […]

It had to be done. Design a book cover.  I had to go with parody, because I don’t take fluffy beach froth like this book too seriously.  On a deeper note, there might actually BE fifty different aspects to Wee-Bey’s character.  We see the fish hobbyist, the loyal Barksdale employee, capable street-wise hit man and […]

I had never heard of an empathy map before doing this daily create.  It was more fun when I got into it and played around in Photoshop with the chat and thought bubbles.  I didn’t have a really great one for “hearing” so I used the jagged-edged bubble that’s probably supposed to be used for […]

SiO2, or silicon dioxide is the major component in most glass, in case anyone was curious. So, my vidya (yep, I’m a King of the Hill fan) of water and glass moving around for today’s Daily Create is here:   I took flattened glass pellets, put them into a glass vase and recorded it being […]

It was a good week!  Fun assignments, good community interactions, and the focus on visual aspects was fun. Continuing my original list of prequel questions, I’d like to add another item: What is the background on the relationship between The Greek and Spiros?  They don’t seem like father and son, but there is some mileage […]

The assignment, to be done in 20 minutes or less: Let’s play with movement. Get a shot of something in motion. A fork in the road. Casting a ballot. Buying bread. Choices abound.Take a photo of a choice. No ocean, surely you can find some water around you to take a photo of. Features a […]

I imagine this is the bug’s eye view when The Wafflestomper comes around hiking. I really wanted to get some of the lugged sole in the image, so I played around with sliding it to the edge of an elevated surface.  I could get the camera lens under the boot better that way, which gave […]

This assignment was to create a visual pyramid of the last three things you drank that day.  I started with my commuter thermos in the back, which is the best thermos drink holder I have ever owned.  It’s completely leak proof and keeps coffee warm for hours.  No danger of it leaking onto my laptop […]

McNulty’s famous line “What the fuck did I do?” appears all over “The Wire”. Here we have a scene from Season 1, Episode 1 where he’s in a bar talking with Bunk and saying he feels like a character from “Bridge On The River Kwai” and says “What the fuck did I do?” On the […]

Brother Mouzone Comin': Episodes 7, 8, 9 from Season 2 Episode 7 Bodie in the florist shop asking for “strong colors like red and black” on his housing project flower arrangement was surreal.  The florist had the interesting gun arrangement in the back room suggesting there is enough demand for that sort of thing, for […]

I’m terrible at drawing, and that is exacerbated by using a mouse as a drawing tool.  So, today’s daily create was interesting and won’t win me any art awards, but he said “Make art, dammit” he didn’t say it had to be good.

This man is frequently seen nesting in his office, playing with science fiction action figures and arranging them in questionable poses. When he leaves his lair, he is difficult to track because he does not carry a smartphone. If apprehended and taken into custody, it is recommended to restrain the individual due to his propensity […]

Soooo, I made a new assignment called “WANTED Poster” under the Visual category in the Assignment Bank. It was inspired by the “Y U NO DRAW JIM GROOM” daily create, but because I am horrible at drawing and I wanted to include a writing aspect, I decided to create an opportunity for writing and bounty […]