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    Tonalá, Mexico

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    Tonalá, Mexico, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.Photos from the arts and crafts factory & markets at Tonala, in Guadalajara, Mexico http://bit.ly/p8945C and slideshow http://bit.ly/pUMKQI
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    Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara, Mexico

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    Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara, Mexico, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.Photos from Tlaquepaque, a historic region of Guadalajara, Mexico http://bit.ly/oQVKa2 and as usual, slides http://bit.ly/qz9RVk
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    Fish Flying Through the Air, Free

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    I've always wanted to tell this story (if you're only interested in ed tech move on). I remember catching my first fish like it was yesterday. It was on the Castor River at the Ninth Line Road, here (there was no McMansion there at the time). It was a ...
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    The Fall of the Tree

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    Tree, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes."It's an ill wind that blows nobody good..." The front of my house gets the yellow warning-tape treatment as today's breeze, which according to the news got up to 70 kph, was enough to knock down two major li...
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    Alliums

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    Alliums, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.Still messing around with the new camera. Did a bunch of work with the autobracketing option and Photomatix, but I like this completely unretouched version still. Anyhow, there are some alliums growing sem...
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    Yes, We Have Four Cats

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    PollyPolly, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.LexiLexi, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.BartBart, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.AlexAlex, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.
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    Andrea

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    Andrea, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.Photo of Andrea in a dark room with my new D5100.
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    Irishtown Nature Park

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    2011 05 23 Ed Radio JezabelsToday's art is a set of photos from the Irishtown Nature Park that I took on a bike ride this afternoon and a YouTube concert by the Jezabels I recorded this evening. Enjoy. And I promise to make art more frequently in the ...
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    Big Snow

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    Big Snow, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.This year's huge snowfall has resulted in some spectacular imagery. This is beside the parking lot where I work on Crowley Farm Road in Moncton. More from the Big Snow set.
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    Arcade Fire Concert

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    Arcade Fire doesn't have a live album, but it does have all these great concert videos scattered all over the internet, so I combined a bunch of the best of them to create my own Arcade Fire concert experience. DJ Downes Arcade FireReady to StartNeighb...
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    Year of the…

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    This has been in my head all day and I have to create it in order to get rid of it. I think I've gone entirely free-form in my submission of assignments to #ds106 ...
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    You Pull For Me

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    An all YouTube set I put together for #ds109.DJDownes 31Jan2011Sources:- Via Rail Canadian- The Mission, Ennio Morricone- Lt Gen Romeo Dallaire- Sorcerer: Betrayal, Tangerine Dream- Canadian Army in Heavy Firefight in Afghanistan- The Life is the Red W...
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    Music Radical

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    So here is the audio I created and posted in Dropbox.com for ds106 - I'm not sure what the actual week 2 assignment was, exactly, but this will do for mine. Also, here is what I wrote as I explored the mechanics behind #ds106 radio. Great stuff.musicra...
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    Wii Hockey

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    Click to playAfter all those serious videos, I thought ds106 participants might want to relax with a hockey game. This is a game I played on the Wii last night. I am playing as a Colorado Avalanche player, Vaclav Pavlikowski, and we are ...
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    Snow Day

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    Video: Click to play Here's the week 1 assignment for #ds106. You'll notice that I managed to keep to the 30 second time limit and still tell a nice story. Unlike some. :p I shot the video in one take on my old FlipCam, opened the ....
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    Halifax 2011

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    Halifax, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.Enjoying a snow-free News Years Day in Halifax. Here's the full set.
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    Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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    Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.On January 1, 2010, we drove to Lunenburg to take pictures. Instead, though, we got caught in a blizzard and didn't really get anything. So, on the last day of 2010, once again from Halifax,...
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    After the Storm

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    After the Storm, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.After the big nor-easter this week we went to the coast at Petit-Cap to see some of the damage. The entire beach has moved about 10 meters inland. That's our car in the photo, in what I think would...
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    Custom Google

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    Somebody in #ds106 suggested custom Google pages. This is what my custom Google page has looked like for some months now. The photo is from my set of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
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    The Long Good-bye

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    Another post for #ds106, Raymond Chandler's The Long Good-bye. Photo of Long Beach, California, by me, graphic from here, and lyrics from Keating Ronan's 'The Long Goodbye' from here.
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    Christmas Lights in Medellin

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    Other people may be preparing for ds106 by creating their own animations from popular movies, but I find real life much more interesting. This sequence is of the lights changing over the river in downtown Medellin, Colombia, in 2007. Made by Picasion.
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    Irving Nature Park

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    Irving Nature Park, originally uploaded by Stephen Downes.Andrea and I walked around the Irving Nature Park on Taylor Island in the Bay of Fundy, just outside Saint John. Here's the rest of the set.

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