I am happy to close out my DS106 work this semester by making something completely analog but that is only made possible by the work that I completed as an open online student in UMW’s DS106 Digital Storytelling class. The project is called “Stop Saying What It Is.” BACKGROUND:  When I was 21, I traveled ...

TDC84: “The Bagafeller Research Council Presents ‘An April Fools Day Warning’” TDC85: “Bagman Explains It All” TDC86: “Love Sketch”   TDC87: “Bagman Understands Bacon” TDC88: “geometric cacti”

TDC66: “The 8 Best Things about DS106″ TDC69: “Bagman and Robyn: Pontificators on Patrol” TDC70: “Two Realities” TDC71: “#mrafdniw #lacos” TDC78: “Dawn Chorus/Sister Lakes”

TDC52: “That’s as high as you can kick? TDC53: “Jolly Roger Cufflinks” TDC56: “Take Me to the River” TDC58: “Playing with My Hair” TDC65: “Createspace”

  Radio Ad: “Making the Sausage”   This one was pretty fun. I just used Audition to record clips from the recent GOP primary debate and an old clip of President Obama attacking Senator John McCain four years ago, then mixed it up with my voice (still playing with pitch and speed). The music I ...

  Sounds from Arkham Asylum–”Oooh, a Gas Mask!” This took more time than I thought it would. First, I downloaded the episode from YouTube, then I ripped the audio using RealPlayer. The idea was to go through the audio and just pull out the Scarecrow’s lines, but thirty minutes is a lot of time to ...

I really like how this came out. I did all the parts (except the star spangled banner, that’s Jimi). For the “In a world” stuff, I went to Effects>Time and Pitch>Stretch and Pitch, and used that to shift the tone down and slow it down (some of it was too slow, and I had to ...

This clip had been playing all over the place, and so I had to do SOMETHING with it. This was a quick assignment (probably don’t deserve the four stars; one feels too generous, actually) but I still like how it turned out. I used Audition (sprang for it last week) and just split Romney’s response ...

  So this one took longer than I thought. First I cut around the shot of Bagman dressed up like the girl from the “Daisy” ad (notice the white blouse, and the clip art flower in front). Then I had to shrink the background from the original shot; I took about a sixth of the ...

You can get the Gimp plugin here; apply it and look for it in FILTER>ARTISTIC>OBAMA HOPE. Voila.

Nuff said.

All pictures taken by me, last one with text added in Gimp. In a rush, narrate later…

  Minimal is the new black. These were all created in Gimp (the font is Gentium Basic), and the silhouettes are all from the public domain clip art site Clker, which totally totally rocks, esp. for silhouettes. The first three are all from the opening (see below), and the last is from Mr. Bates (go ...

  See the blog post below for details on making your own!

  How do make a Minimalist even more minimal? By remaking a brick sculpture out of paper blocks. This is supposed to be a joke, a little. Let’s say it’s 10-15% just a joke. Here is a photo of the original, which I think is in the Tate?–>“Equivalent VIII”–Below are some photos of the final ...

  The photo is from our wedding (c/o the fabulous Red Ribbon Studio). I made this in honor of TDC31, make a photo about the best day of your life. I used Universal Fruitcake which is a perfect comic book font. Here’s the tutorial that got me to the end, from Youtube user Joe1gk:   ...

  The Bagman 2012 campaign is under way! Here’s the first campaign video, a series of clips from four of Bagman’s opponenents. Bagman himself is independent (of course!), and is hoping to land on the Bagmericans Elect ticket. The question is, what are YOU going to do to put Bagman in the white house? Make ...

TDC 24: “Steeple” The First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor at Williams and State, around 11:30 am. This is the steeple? Or the transept? I’m terrible at this church vocab stuff. * TDC 25: __ on the Violin Recorded for a separate project, just a student warming up his violin, but something about it just ...

  TDC 22: Big and small versions of the same thing. You can’t totally tell from the picture, but that IS a smaller bag, on the right. What people use those smaller, cuter brown bags for, well, who knows. But I had one, and I made a sidekick for Bagman. The costumes were made with ...

TDC 19: Bagman Tells a Joke–Take 2   This one hasn’t received as many comments? So maybe it was too obscure, the mash of punchlines? My wife laughed politely, but was sort of confused? So maybe it’s only funny to me? Also, sentences phrased as questions?     TDC 20: Tree Just snapped this one ...

You’re welcome, America.

  I co-founded Fiftytwo Project with the incredibly talented photographer and fellow flyover artist Chrissy Deiger (check out her amazing and most recent series here). We started it more than a year ago, and finished it in December. It ran for one straight year, with fifty-two artists–photographers, painters, musicians, filmmakers, all kinds. The Project was ...

  TDC16: Ugly–>Beautiful I went out into Ann Arbor (walking to campus, for work) not really knowing where I was going to find the ugly to make beautiful. What I started to do, was I started taking pictures of trees. I centered the trees in the picture, tried to get different kinds of trees, different ...

TDC 12: Make a thirty second news break about something that happened to you today.     When I was a kid, my dad and I used to make fake news segments, with both of us anchoring the show and just cracking jokes back and forth. This really reminded me of that, just a bunch ...