Submitted for Your Approval: ds106zone Week 1

Submitted for Your Approval: ds106zone Week 1

by Reverend

| Summer 2013 Assignments
May 20, 2013

Introduction/Overview Welcome to the ds106zone! Please read the following email in its entirety. Please note that all the assignments/tasks listed below are due no later than Sunday (5/26) night at midnight, though I can’t tell you enough that if you wait … Continue reading →
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Submitted for Your Approval: ds106zone Week 1

by Reverend

| Station Announcements
May 20, 2013

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ds106zone: You are About to Enter Another Dimension

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 13, 2013

It’s been a long time coming and I hope you can forgive the delay, but as Luther would say in 48 Hours “I’ve been busy!” That’s right ladies and gentlemen, this is the long awaited—at least by Scottlo—post about ds106zone, the … Continue reading →
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The Great Wall of bava

by Reverend

| Syndicated
March 29, 2013

I’ve got about 10 posts to write on uwmdomains faculty initiative, ds106zone, the bava film festival starting this Tuesday, and much, much more. But the family from Long Island has descended on Fredericksburg, and I am losing ground every moment … Continue reading →
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Red Sorghum: the Sedan of Ecstatic Liberation

by Reverend

| Syndicated
March 13, 2013

The celebrated tossing-the-bridal-sedan sequence could superficially be taken as a scene of vulnerable woman at the mercy of lusty men. Yet the womb-like interior of the sedan, the condition of the Freudian ‘oceanic self’ where she floats as … Continue reading →
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College: What’s in it for me? What’s it cost? And will I hate my life?

by Reverend

| Syndicated
March 12, 2013

Today was the first day of registration for Summer classes, and I am planning on teaching ds106 in the first five-week session (May 20th through June 18th). The class filled up the allotted 15 spots before noon, and I started … Continue reading →
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At least it’s an ethos

by Reverend

| Syndicated
March 4, 2013

I had an idea for a new ds106 animated GIF assignment titled “At least its an ethos.” It might be much better in my mind than in reality, but here it goes anyway. Take the line from The Big Lebowski … Continue reading →
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Assault on Precinct 13 Trading Cards: The Ice Cream Truck

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 25, 2013

Here is another addition to the “Movie Trading Cards—now with more animation!” assignment. Sorry for the dark subject matter of this one, but John Carpenter’s vision of urban gangs and thug life in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) was even … Continue reading →
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The Dead Zone Trading Cards: The Hockey Game Vision

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 24, 2013

Just finished up my Animated Movie Trading Cards tutorial, and I figured I’d share my most recent creation that was made alongside documenting the tutorial. It’s inspired by the mad genius of David Cronenberg’s early films. This is one of … Continue reading →
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Animated Movie Trading Card Tutorial

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 24, 2013

As promised, I’ve created a tutorial for the “Movie Trading Cards—Now With More Animation!” assignment I did earlier today. The tutorial was written in the spirit of the Animated GIF tutorial I wrote a while back which seems to have … Continue reading →
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Movie Trading Cards—now with animation!

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 24, 2013

Inspired by the Sno-Cat movie trading card for The Shining, I started messing around with how I could do this in GIMP. While playing I started to think, why can’t we animate the movie scenes? A few hours later I … Continue reading →
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Belated ds106 Valentine

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 23, 2013

I’ve been crushed lately, so my ds106 assignments have fallen to the wayside, but as I begin to emerge from the crazy—which is all good—I find I am just in time for the design assignments (my personal favorite). What’s more, … Continue reading →
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What about the UMW Students?!

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 19, 2013

Lest I forget after paying all sorts of love to the UMW faculty for the emergence of the digital at UMW in my last post that there’s another part to this whole equation: the students! I always find myself in … Continue reading →
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It Takes a Liberal Arts Village to Raise a Digital Campus

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 18, 2013

UMW alum-cum-journalist Lindley Estes wrote an article today in the local Fredericksburg paper, The Free-Lance Star, about the brave new digital world emerging at UMW (forgive them the ads and video commercials, online publishing has confounded more than a few newspapers). It’s pretty cool … Continue reading →
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Rambo Kills

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 14, 2013

The other day in our Domain of One’s Own faculty initaitive cohort we were talking about embedding media in a blog, and one of the faculty pointed us to the site infogr.am, and while looking for an example to embed … Continue reading →
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The Ice Man Killeth or, Dr Oblivion….is that you?

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 14, 2013

The great George Meadows sent the image below of a book about a cold-blooded killer who lived a double life as a suburban New Jersey family man. Crazy story, from what I could glean, having killed over 100 people during … Continue reading →
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF

by Reverend

| Syndicated
February 6, 2013

Before I say anything else, just take a moment to see how brilliant Andrew Forgrave is at GIFFing, his recent commentary on the Animated GIF Variety Show Tom Woodward, Michael Branson Smith, Brian Lamb, Zack Dowell, and I presented last … Continue reading →
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Manatee!

by Reverend

| Syndicated
January 16, 2013

While playing with the movies tag on UMW Blogs’ sitewide tags site this morning I realized that Megan McMillan (who took ds106 in Spring 2011) is continuing to kill the course two years later! To Megan’s great credit (and my relief) she … Continue reading →
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A Serling Vision of Faith

by Reverend

| Syndicated
January 2, 2013

I was catching up on my RSS feeds last night when I came across this gem from Rod Serling via John Kenneth Muir—who is one hell of a b-culture blogger. I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in … Continue reading →
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Great Train Robbery GIF

by Reverend

| Syndicated
January 2, 2013

Here’s an old gold gif, 1903 old, taken from Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery. It is easy to see how this image inspired a similar shot in Gun Crazy, which you can see as a GIF below.
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu GIFs

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 31, 2012

This series of GIFs is in honor of the 1985 classic arcade game Yie Ar Kung-Fu. I’ve already written about my love for this game on the bava, so I’ll save you my usual flood of verbiage. For the record, this … Continue reading →
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Some Classic Arcade GIFs

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 28, 2012

Here are a few cutscenes from some classic arcade games. I could do classic video game GIFs all day. Given that, I imagine there are many more of these to come, in the meantime can you name all five without … Continue reading →
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5 Years Later

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 22, 2012

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Animate 2600: Video Pinball

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 22, 2012

There might be some pinball purists out there who will want to burn me at the stake for this heresy, but give me Atari 2600′s Video Pinball over a “real” pinball machine anytime. That whole face-to-face argument for pinball is … Continue reading →
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Animate 2600: Haunted House

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 21, 2012

I always knew Haunted House was a classic Atari 2600 game, what I didn’t know is that it inspired a whole new genre of survival horror video games! From the Wikipedia article: Haunted House is an Atari 2600 video game, first released in 1982, … Continue reading →
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8-bit Noir

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 21, 2012

My kids and I have been playing a fair bit of Atari 2600 games lately using the Stella emulator, which works for Mac, PC and Linux—what platform doesn’t love Atari 2600? When playing the 1980 classic Night Driver I was struck … Continue reading →
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Dead Zone Crash

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 20, 2012

Here is my first experiment with animated GIF montage. It’s pretty hard to do, and this attempt is from perfect, but I am starting to get a sense of how this works—and want to do a series focusing on David … Continue reading →
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Gun Crazy GIFs

by Reverend

| Syndicated
December 19, 2012

The 1950 film Gun Crazy has been on my mind a bit these days, particularly the first scene wherein the protagonist steals a gun from the local hardware store. The whole film centers around the morbid fascination with guns in the … Continue reading →
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An Internet of Attractions

by Reverend

| Syndicated
November 30, 2012

As of late my two year old son, very soon to be three, has eschewed all forms of narrative video on YouTube. He’s dispensed with the Thomas the Tank Engine scam (that series is all about being a useful worker, akin … Continue reading →
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Give it Up for the GIF

by Reverend

| Syndicated
November 17, 2012

I come to this news late, I know, but I certainly would hate to pass up the chance to engage in some gratuitous GIF love. The word of the year, according to the Oxford University Press, is GIF. That has … Continue reading →
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