And here’s another daily create assignment for the DS106 portion of our class. I was a little confused by this one, so who knows!

The Story Behind the Story I chose this particular DS106 audio assignment, “Rhythms With Things,” because it seemed like a unique way to to express myself creatively. I’m primarily used to writing as a way to be creative, and working with music seemed like a unique challenge. Since we were already using audio, I decided […]

This week, I decided to respond to an article on nature writing by Paul Evans from Discover Wildlife, titled simply, How to be a nature writer. As its title implies, this article made some strong, sound-bite quality points about how to “be a nature writer.” Of course, there’s no particular agreement on what exactly that […]

The digital story I decided to critique this week was an article slideshow from National Geographic, “World’s Best Hikes: 20 Dream Trails,” by Doug Schnitzspahn with help from a variety of other writers and hiking experts. My reasoning was that if anyone could make a compelling piece of digital storytelling about hiking, it would be […]

This album cover made itself using the forces of randomosity and guidance from DS106 assignment bank Step 1: Random Wikipedia Page Generator sends me to a pharmaceutical company focusing on Cannabis. Good start! Hortapharm B.V. is formed! Step 2: Album name comes from a few words of the last quote on whatever page this link takes you to. … Continue reading New Album from Proto-Post Industrial Metapunk Stalwarts Hortapharm B.V. →

My attempts at triple trolling always seem to end up a 2 vs. 1 situation. See, for example, how I unfairly pitted Joe Strummer against Justin Bieber and Nickelchad. I’m sorry again, Joe. This time it’s another unfair fight as Caillou and Mark Zuckerberg join annoying forces against BBQ Bill Shankelbean and, by extension, openness. We … Continue reading Caillou, Open Range Bastion →