In response to a word experiment on the Interwebz, I present my image Futzopublicus Bluephasify.   Standing by…

Talky Tina, here is my animated GIF of Gim Groom. I hope it is in time to allow you to give him up. I don’t know where you have him, but I’ve looked between New York City and Chicago and he keeps appearing somewhere in between.

So, Mariana Funes just posted about merging together an image of cogdog and another color gif to make an interesting animation. Well I don’t know what her original assignment was, but I had a few minutes to spare at lunch, so I thought I would play around. Here is the link to her post, with […]

Just finished a quick read through Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist. Like many books on creativity, it is full of good ideas, some of which I can use. I have started “following” Austin Kleon on flickr, and checking him out online. I’ll learn from him. In the meantime, what art have I been stealing […]

Alan Levine has often encouraged folks to tell their story of what connections are made when one chooses to share openly on the Internet. You can see many of his collected stories at http://stories.cogdogblog.com/. Here is a story of my own, concerning a crossword puzzle, another Internet person I wouldn’t know if it weren’t for […]

MegaBytes, GigaBytes, MegaBinaryBytes, GigaBinaryBytes….it’s all so confusing!   Looks like they are using the definitions of Giga in odd ways. Giga, in normal math usage as a decimal metric prefix, means 109, and Mega means 106. (I bet you knew this.) However, in modern binary-based storage usage (i.e., disk drives and memory), Giga means 230 […]

One of the features of ds106 that has been most beneficial to me is The Daily Create. Every day we are challenged to be creative. Whether we participate in a particular Daily Create is our decision to make. Sometimes, I have completed one every day; often I’ve skipped one or more. But every day I […]

You may have heard of glitch art. You may already know all about it. I have seen some of John Johnston’s experimentation at http://jjgifs.tumblr.com/, and had some awareness overall, but had no idea how to produce my own. And Alan Levine recently posted a tutorial on his blog (http://cogdogblog.com/32217) about using Audacity (the audio editing […]

image cc by nc sa: A Bloke Called Jerm Dear friend, are you living on the edge of an Arabian desert? Are you experiencing a Ballardian fugue-like state? Do you find yourself wanting to be getting away from it all, perhaps holing up with a few books and a radio? Well, golly gee gamma ray! […]

Where has the time gone? Seems like just last week was August 26 and the beginning of the headless ds106 class. Now it’s past Dec 13, class is over, out with a bang. Along the way, where are all the people? There’s a hundred and some odd folks on the G+ account for the class, […]

It’s been a quiet month on this blog, but busy on the discovery front. Between extra classes at work, a family wedding, family visiting from out of state and from out of the country, I was able to experiment a bit with the TDM/7300 Temporal Displacement Modulation tuner. If you recall, with a 1960s transistor […]

Over the last couple of days, I learned how to edit web streams to ds106radio, and how to track down the right URLs for those streams. A little background: for several weeks I have been programming in the daily playlists, a little bit at a time. I know others are doing this also. It is […]

Ruminating about OpenVA Wow! Two days of fun on a university campus. Who knew that could happen? I came to this event, designed and sponsored by and for state university/college folks, as a kind of insider/outsider. The outsider is because I teach at a for-profit university. The insider is because I have known several of […]

One of the fun things I like to do is visit yardsales and thriftshops. Not only is if fun to look at the odd miscellany that other people no longer want, but it fills practical needs. Sometimes, I’ll find clothing to wear. Occasionally, there will be some tool or gadget or supply that we can […]

For today’s daily create, tdc643, we are asked to draw the internet. I’m not sure I can fit in the entire collection of routers, servers, cables, radios, wires, fiber optics, data centers, hosting services, and everything else that make up the internet. So, I’ve focused in on two parts by performing a tracert (trace route) […]

In Daily Create TDC635, Stefanie suggests “Cry, die, then fly … take a picture that expresses emerging from a crisis.” I didn’t take a picture, but I took an old picture, a drawing from The CoEvolution Quarterly of Summer 1974. The theme of emerging from a crisis is expressed as harnessing the inevitable, making the […]

Today’s Daily Create asked for video looking closely at the food I eat. I intended to make a nice one about dinner, starting with the well-plated plate. But I forgot! Halfway through desert it occured to me I could still make a quick video. I grabbed my iPad, and had to figure out changes that […]

The Daily Create 631: List twenty ways you can document your learning. How many have you done this week? I suggested this topic, after a brief twitter conversation with Bryan Jackson and Alan Levine. Bryan had mentioned a list of rules for explorers from the book How to be an Explorer of the World by […]

What week is this? A review. I had a bit of a slowdown this week, but a busy five-week term at school is over. I am looking forward to having more time to work on audio and video and dailycreates. Starting with Sunday: tdc623: Tell the story of an interaction you had today– written in […]

Week four summary: As I write this on Saturday night, my first thought is that I didn’t do much in the way of Daily Creates. But, in looking back, I at least submitted some weak attempts, mostly based on approprating preexisting work. On Monday, TDC617 was to be a thirty second audio clip defining Philosophy. […]

Some ragged thoughts on storytelling When I was a little boy, my mother used to reprimand me for telling stories. What she meant was I shouldn’t make up a narrative to explain my actions or bahavior perceived as wrong. She wanted the truth. Yet, I already knew that there was little truth, if any, in […]

For The Daily Create 614, we were to use images from or related to the Hubble Telescope found at http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/ to create a postcard. Not just any postcard, but “from an alien race.” Now, I don’t know about you, but when I think of aliens, I think of my fellow human beings who happen to […]

The Daily Create for today is “Take a photo that represents the TDC idea of regular exercises of creativity.” Loosely interpreting “photo”, I created a calendar in Microsoft Word, using an undated template. It was trivial to type in the words “Make Art!”, change font and color and highlight, copy and paste into every day, […]

Well, I am skipping a week two summary, since I did very little. I did a headless portrait of myself, but not really headless, just substituted, animated with Jimmy Stewart’s head from Vertigo. Yesterday, I submitted the Jenny(0) metastory. I have actually been thinking of creating a few microstories, flash fiction, or whatever you want […]

Well, the first week of the headless ds106 fall semester is finished. It really began several weeks ago, but my summary will concentrate on my activity since Monday August 26. Coinciding with the same date, I began teaching a new five-week term at my college (ECPI University). I have three courses, totaling 25 classroom hours […]

Nike of Samothrace, the Winged Victory, was my favorite sculpture in my early adulthood, when I thought I could make a living as an artist. While in the Navy, I had the opportunity to visit Paris with a couple of shipmates. We fit in a visit to the Louvre for about half an hour. My […]

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