A few days ago, our ds106 friend Stefanie posted a nice warholized image of Coco the clown. I am impressed with her work, not only for the coloring but for the regressive tiling down into the lower left corner. It has its roots in math, not quite Fibonacci, not quite …
These are not sunflowers.
Another in a never-ending series of not-a-pipe images. This one has sunflowers from gif-favicon.com (free use, from a public domain original) emitting from Magritte’s pipe. Or so it seems.
I wish I had a picture of my first car, a 1964 Chevy Corvair, white with daisy …
Norm Wright (aka wwnorm, aka nostorynorm) was once very active, especially in creating Daily Creates. He may be off on a secret mission. I suspect he is seeking asylum.
Where is Norm?
I made this image using GIMP from images from two sources. Norm’s portrait was his own (http://flic.kr/p/em1gxa…
Rene Magritte, in his painting The Treachery of Images, gives us lessons in what is the meaning of the artwork we create. Just as the painting of a pipe is not the pipe itself, and the canvas and paint aren’t the pipe itself, and the statement about the pipe is …
Though there is never an obligation to complete any particular Daily Create task (or anything else in ds106), the challenge was presented to do as many as possible during the month of July. The challenge that our drill sergeant cogdoghulka made stimulated activity and creativity.
I did notice a few …
Well, Well, Hey, Hey
Even though I suggested this Daily Create, I almost skipped out on doing it (which would be ok). But, good ol’ hippie cogdog made a challenge when he created his, so I went ahead and made mine, for what it’s worth. And don’t fault me for …
So, I was walking around the Riverwalk area in Augusta, Georgia today, with a couple of friends. Along the way, we wandered into an old churchyard of a church established in 1750. While taking pictures of gravestones, I recalled the Daily Create for today, number 553, so I took a …
Betty Boop has the Blues
For Daily Create 551 our assignment is: I’ve Been Down So Long… Take a Photo that represents the essence of Blues music.
So, I took a photo from my files. I had found this nice Betty Boop in the shop window of a liquor store …
Here is something I did tonight while my class took a test:
I was looking at a slideshow from Alan Levine about ds106!
Make some art, hubbub!
The Daily Create 550: Find 3 news stories. Use words from second paragraph of each, make 3 stanzas of 3 lines, <60 characters per line.
El Segundo, the workhorse rocket,
was the fourth Proton anomaly.
Adequately justify such a mission.
Recent close encounters with failure,
when strike comes to the …
Well, the Great Daily Create Challenge of July is in full force. In 9 days, this is my 8th daily create.
In the assignment, I am supposed to be 100 years old, looking back on what crazy thing I did on my 90th birthday.
I am recording it here because …
Sunshine in Charlottesville
See the effect of too much sunshine!
For the effect, I took an original image that was slightly backlit by the noon-time sun, enhanced the brightness and contrast to two different settings, opened all three images as layers in GIMP, then exported as an animated gif. Simple …
The Daily Create 542:
Combine Three Great Past Leaders into One- Who is it and what are their combined characteristics?
Peter Paul and Mary
Peter: the close follower of Jesus, who was always the first to volunteer, first to step out of the boat, first to speak up. But, when …
The Daily Create 536: Write a one paragraph story that uses way too many clichés
I interpreted “one paragraph story” a bit loosely, but here it is (in honor of IamTalkyTina):
talk your ear off
talk turkey
talk through your hat
talk it up
talk in circles
heart-to-heart talk
money …
T-shirt Time for tdc534
1. Wear it.
2. Print your corporate logo on it and sell it, thus get paid for advertising your product.
3. Wear it as a head covering.
4. Dish rag.
5. Wash the car with it.
6. Use it to help grip wet rotating plumbing connections.…
“I Failed Story Listening”
Story listening is as important, I think, as story telling. Here at ds106 I’ve been listening to quite a few stories! They have been fun, educational, enlightening, quirky, serious, and fanciful. The identities the authors and characters take on perhaps did not exist before the stories …
If you are interested in my younger life experience listening to the radio, click on the link to the right for my general byzantiumbooks blog. I’m mentioning it here, because as a creative activity, listening to the radio is definitely ds106 related!
image courtesy http://www.w9wze.net
Keep listening!
Who is really talking?
All of a sudden, life appears to be a gigantic solipsistic conspiracy.
But who is really talking?
Solipsism suggests that it is all in my mind.
But ds106 must exist separately from my mind.
ds106 is a mind that lives on that Twilight Zone flying saucer.…
For Daily Create tdc520, here are the burgers we had for lunch. Fresh from outer space, these ground Kanamits burgers were formed and quick-frozen on their home planet. When grilled in a blast furnace, they taste just like chicken. Available at Food Lions and other Food Beings throughout the colonized …
