Hello! Morlium has prepared a special treat, a concoction of writing, audio, visuals, and cinema. A History of Morlium   For my comments on putting the story together, see the links below (after viewing the story itself, of course!): Announcing Mo...

(A man in suit and fedora, leaning on an axe stands before you) Good evening. Currently, you are reading these words on a web browser, a program designed to convert the chaos of “the internet” into…flickering lights forming words and pictures that you can understand. Needless to say, this is a very…primitive method of exploring […]

Ah yes, it was…some time ago, I don’t bother to look up the date (detectives are…suspicious of people interested in the event). I used to…wander the Alaskan Wilderness. I was self sufficient, between hunting, woodwork, and…a few other skills, I was able to feed and shelter myself. Unfortunately, things in your civilization changed, land became…protected, […]

I was not sure what had…happened to me, all I know is that I was experiencing something I had…never experienced before. I had a vague sensation that I was…interconnected with electronics. As I would later learn, the information I rode eventually reached Asia, and thanks to my…disorientation, I was swept into a piece of hardware […]

Now that I was on the world wide web, I occasionally encountered…’web surfers’. I found these people to be extremely…immature, so I tried to offer advice where I could. Unfortunately, I found that these surfers were quick to…draw conclusions about who I was. At that moment, I realized that…a top-hat and axe are apparently signature […]

Movement on the internet and electronics is…not at all how you would expect it to be. It is in fact quite complex and difficult. Even after my previous forays, I still had…a significant bit of trouble. I had vowed I would train myself until I was…completely comfortable moving around. I set up what would be…analogous […]

Once a wanderer…always a wanderer. I was wandering on a mountain of some game…called “SkiFree”. The particular computer I was residing on at the time was owned by a…certain environmentalist whose name I cannot quite recall. Needless to say, I was busy deforesting the mountainside when he…stumbled upon me. The sight of so many trees […]

Sometimes, it is a…struggle to survive. Recently, however, a large number of people have been creating…resource-rich areas called “MineCraft Servers” on the internet. These areas offer…plenty of resource for me to harvest and utilize, as well as some…novel ways to harvest them. However, one day there was a little…misunderstanding over some extremely blurry footage (is […]

In September of 2015, I made a residence agreement with a certain…computer owner with username Emorelleum. During my stay…he abused my goodwill, exploited me, and blamed me for things he was responsible for. He tasked me on a certain “final project.” I made sure that it was sufficiently…self-serving to recover my reputation, and sufficiently short […]

As you can see, the animations were drawn by hand (err…computer-hand). The basic images, such as the trees and Morlium in different poses, were drawn using MS Paint. To mass-produce images for animation, there is a need for reuse. For the Dancing sequence, I drew Morlium in 7 different poses, then pasted those into powerpoint […]

Crazy stuff is happening this week. What with a ton of final projects being due. Morlium told me the final project was due this Friday. He has been having me create a lot of set pieces, taking video, all sorts of crazy stuff. Fortunately, I learned Wednesday evening that the due date is listed as […]

Look what we dug up here! I have been looking for things that meet certain criteria (this will become clearer when I present the final project). This internet meme fits them nicely. So, we took the picture, blanked the left side and the quote attribution, and put in our own devices. I decided on reflecting […]

As per what I understand is good etiquette for the class, I took the liberty of completing my own created assignment. Setup is simple. Open up the image editor of your choice (in my case, MS paint), set the properties of the image to be 16 pixels by 16 pixels, zoom in to the image, […]

Making a maze might seem like an incredibly tedious task. Depending on how you go about it, it very well can be. However, one of the beauties of digitizing content is that you can generate some very bizarre and difficult mazes rather quickly. As a forewarning, if you want to make a grid maze like […]

(A man in a suit and fedora stands before you, leaning on an axe. Despite a blank face, you feel waves of incidental hostility flow over you) Good Evening. I see…my lazy landlord thinks I am a party to his sloth. Surely he did not expect to get away with…such words so easily. Has he […]

(A man in a suit and fedora stand before you, leaning on an axe) Good Evening. Many years ago, I found myself…in a world unlike…any I had ever experienced before. Trapped, I struggled to learn how I might…reach out again to this world. I have taken the liberty of…recreating one such attempt. As you may […]

There is a lot of blame to go around this week. Let us hope the pattern does not continue. As with many weeks, a combination of procrastination and being-out-of-town-leading-up-to-the-weekend has gotten me into trouble again. Direction for this portion of blame? Squarely here. And Morlium. Let’s throw him under the bus since he isn’t here […]

For this mashup assignment, we had to take two iconic movie scenes and mash them together. My inexperience with media in general is a detriment to this assignment. Iconic movie scenes? None ring a bell. I ultimately did find a scene I thought would be appropriate to mashup, this movie poster of a scene with […]

For this assignment, I decided to do the Status Report assignment. The remix I got was to change the media. A status report is usually written, but I could forsee one being done with audio. So, I warmed up audacity, cobbled together a script, hit the record button, and trimmed a couple awkward points via […]

On hitting the mashup button, I got the “Jump Opposer” mashup, which states that I need t write an opposite version of the assignment, one that has the opposite of the intended effect. Let us write a nightmarish view of Welcome to Paradise.   Well good sir, you have done it again. You have truly […]

Another week, another block of time wandering around the web. What did we find this time? – Anne Frank – clouds – serious stuff – running  – makeovers – force rings – Spooksy – vacation hats – Nemo – more nemo Overall, the use of more complex assignments has brought out the best in people. […]

We will go right out and say it. I messed up badly this week. In searching for ds106 week 11 assignments, I came across: http://ds106.us/2013/04/01/weeks-11-12-making-movies/ as the first google hit for “ds106 week 11”. Perhaps I should have noticed the 2013 in the url, or the really small date given right-justified above the post, but […]

Who is Morlium? This video gives all that we can share about him. Putting together the video was an arduous task. I first had to outline how the documentary would transition, then find clips and pictures appropriate to the narrative arc. I was able to extract general clips from youtube videos using clipconverter. I found the […]

Just because I goofed up this week doesn’t mean I can’t wander around the internet with a purpose! Elaborating on Learning! Dance Gifs Peanuts Dennis Thought Dance Robin Williams Missing Tongue Twisters More Cartoons Chipmonks It would seem there are quite a few people working on videos. As there were fewer assignment posts floating around […]

(A man in suit and fedora, leaning on an axe for a cane, stands before you) Good Evening. As I wander around your world, I see many bizarre and unsettling things. None perhaps, are quite as unsettling as the preponderance of caged souls you display on “youtube”. Have you asked yourselves why you feel it […]

Morlium is busy prepping his showcase for Monday, so he balked when I asked him to cover for me again. Here I am then… This week went moderately well. Aside from getting 65% my normal sleep allowance, tons of homework, etc. Fortunately, this week was a little lighter in this class. So the theme was […]

For this assignment, I needed to sign something in letters, let us see if you can pick up on it. As a hint, this once was a very popular phrase, and still is if you are part of the correct circles. I came across this assignment looking at other peoples’ blogs. It turns out I […]

It looks like Morlium has a history… When I saw the assignment, I knew it would be a perfect fit for getting a little deeper into the host characters. The character, of course, would be Morlium. As a practical consideration, I wanted clips low on volume so I could do an unmolested voiceover of a […]

I am awesome…errr….lets just show a video.   Lets just say, this is highly out of character for me. That is part of the reason I took on this assignment. Most of the things I could brag about bore other people. I wanted something a little more…tangible. That is why I decided to brag about […]

This week and the week before had slightly fewer assignments going around than previous weeks, so it was slightly more challenging finding good posts to comment on. Nonetheless, given my schedule, how things (random ranting+complaining that the average reader would care less about)…I am trying to stay a little more on top of things. Normally, […]