Up in the Air, Junior Dogman
Up in the Air Junior Dogman, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr.
Via Flickr TDC23: Make a photo that freezes or isolates the motion of an object (or person )
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Week 3: Web 2.0 Storytelling
Assignment 3:
Part A: Readings- Tim O'Reilly's "What is Web 2.0?"
- Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine’s “Web 2.0 Storytelling: The Emergence of a New Genre”
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This Week in ds106: Week 3 Preview
Alan Levine and I preview what’s to come in week three. Alan is looking forward to some face-to-face love with his students and we are both excited about Bryan Alexander coming to chat with us this Thursday, February 2nd. This … Continue reading → -
Blood Relations
Blood Relations, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. Via Flickr:“Like father like son like hell.” Toay’s Daily Create: Take a photo of two related objects of drastically different sizes. I love the image Antonella took of me and Tommaso, our expressions are both … Continue reading → -
The Daily Create (tdc021): Scottloesque Daily Upate
Today’s Daily Create asks that you record a quick video of yourself doing an update that includes the date, time, weather, and a rating for the day. Scott Lockman has been doing these for what seems like months, and they … Continue reading → -
The Daily Create (tdc19): Tell a Joke
I did a bunch of jokes for Friday’s Daily Create, (as did a lot of other people, many of which aren’t showing on the TDC site) an I have to say The Daily Create (TDC) is a total blast. I … Continue reading → -
Bill Gates Shilling for Subway
Bill Gates during a more modest career moment as sandwich board operator for Subway. Process: Using GIMP, I simply layered this image of Bill Gates on top of this city scape image. Finally, I scaled each layer to fit the scene … Continue reading → -
DTLT controls the Vertical and the Horizontal
Two weeks ago the DTLT group presented at the Educause Midatlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The panel discussion covered ds106—what else is there? Martha Burtis provided an overview of the course, Tim Owens the technical framework, I featured the … Continue reading → -
This Week in ds106: Tune in Tokyo
This afternoon I caught up with Scott Lockman to talk about the awesome work his students over at Temple University, Japan (TUJ) have been doing thus far. Over the past week one of the TUJ students submitted this Patty Pioneers … Continue reading → -
Basket Blur
Basket Blur, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. Via Flickr:The Daily Create for 1/28/12: “Take a photo where movement of the camera creates an interesting blur effect.” Antonella suggested I post this one (of the 80+ I took), but I am still … Continue reading → -
This Week in ds106: Gardner Campbell on Personal Cyberinfrastructures
ds106: Gardner Campbell talks Personal Cyberinfrastructure from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. Once again this semester we were privileged to have Gardner Campbell, the inspiration for the ethos of ds106, join us via Skype to talk about everything from his essay on Personal … Continue reading → -
Patty Pioneers: No Turtle, Chicken!
I just couldn’t resist the Pioneer Patty that the Tokyo ds106ers are rocking out to. How cool to make an assignment that turns a series of innovative computer mavericks into fast food fanatics in order show how much you care. … Continue reading → -
ds106 and blog experimenting
ds106 week 2: Blog Experimenting from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. During this evening’s session of ds106 we went over some wrap up from week 1, the importance of commenting, and let everyone know it is high time they start blogging. To that end … Continue reading → -
This Week in ds106 (2.1)
This Week in ds106 (2.1) from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. Alan Levine and Jim Groom preview what’s to come in Week 2. Everything from messing around with WordPress to Personal Cyberinfrastructures to the great Gardner Campbell. Watch it for a quick overview of what to expect from week 2 of ds106. -
This Week in ds106 (Episode 1)
Hope your first week went well and was not too disorientating in terms of ds106. Â I wanted to send you a quick note to remind you of a few things. Week 1 Assignments: 1) For the first week you have two assignments … Continue reading → -
Week 2: Experimenting with your blog and a personal cyberinfrastructure
a) Experimenting with your blog
Note: If you are not hosting your own domain/blog for this course don't sweat this part of the assignment and just skip down to part b of assignment 2 below. First, I would like each of you to start experimenting with your blog space. Look for information and tutorials online about how to embed videos, include images, audio files, etc. -
Ghost of a Weeble
I am now committed to the Daily Create. I have done about half so far, but now that the semester is upon me as of tomorrow, I want to formally commit to doing each and every assignment for the length … Continue reading → -
Week 1: Domain and Webhosting
Purchasing your Webserver and Domain Important: Please, please, please pay attention to your usernames and passwords for both your webhost and domain registry. They will likely be different, and it is your responsibility to understand they are distinct, and need … -
What doesn’t look better in black and white?
Today’s The Daily Create reinforces for me just how much better looking black and white is than color. My first shot of the boiler room in my basement is pretty ugly. But after a little black and white action,  not too shabby! -
The Daily Create
One of the key elements of ds106 over the last two years has been the DailyShoot assignments. In previous courses we asked students during weeks three and four to follow the assignments on the dailyshoot site, and post their image … Continue reading → -
Thingu
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Just when you thought it was safe to eat yams
OK, with this I finally feel like I did a Yams Meme assignment, and I must say it was fun. Though to be fair, Giulia’s Silence of the Yams totally rules. I was thinking about options, and it occurred to me … Continue reading → -
I Yam what I Yam
I wanted to play with the Yam meme, but unfortunately spent all day playing with animated GIFs (my true love). That said, I still wanted to amke a showing so I went for a quick pun and found an easy … Continue reading → -
Jason and the Argonauts Animated Movie Poster 1.0
I was inspired by Michael Branson Smith’s awesome American Werewolf in London animated poster this morning, so I went around searching for some possibile posters to animate. I came across an awesome Jason And the Argonauts poster that breaks the … Continue reading → -
Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice…
Ted Knight ruled. P.S. There is something wrong with the installation of GIMP on this new Mac I am using for animated GIFs that’s making them crappy quality an much heavier, but I am working on it. -
Potty Humor
Another take on this ds106 assignment. DĂ©paysement: The sensation of being in another country. Image credit: Think2Create’s “Squat Toilet” -
Lampadato
Lampadato is an Italian term meaning a sunlight tan, but the way Alan Levine’s translation machine get’s at it is much better: I love this assignment, and it made me go back to an Italian film I watched recently, Gomorrah (2008) … Continue reading → -
Tag Feeds for a variety of Blogging Platforms
So I have been syndicating in new blogs for ds106 over the last two weeks, and it’s cool to see such a wide variety of platforms syndicating cleanly into the ds106 site. As of now I count seven six different … Continue reading → -
1966 Batman Bricked
Via CartoonBrew This is absolutely beautifully done. Miles, Tess, and I have a shitload buttload boatload of Legos hanging around the house now. I think I have to start getting into brick films with them. Start by recreating simple scenes from … Continue reading → -
Slave Leia meets the Garbage Pail Kids
Via this post on Super Punch Slave Leia gets the Garbage Pail Kids treatment from Luis Diaz. I love the whole idea of mashing up Garbage Pail Kids with some other fan franchise, or even doing your own like the awesome illustrator Luis … Continue reading →
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