Design Week at the Bovine County FairyTale Festival   NanaLou is working with her granddaughter Rochelle, Cousin Ron, and the famous Headless Inkspots of #ds106 to pull together a Celtic musical performance on “The Porch”. “The Porch” is where the adults gather at sunset after the children have had their story time and are settling in ... Read more

 Audio Week! I have a love hate relationship with audio. I love the creativity, the possibilities, the small details covered. Good audio is a powerful springboard to visuals and video added. I hate the unlimited possibilities, the small details  covered and that I forget that I can use my voice no matter how much I don’t like ... Read more

I am following my path on assignments – which is the #ds106 way isn’t it? I should be working on design and audio this week but keep getting sidetracked – but all with good outcomes. I am still using the assignment bank or creating them as new assignments to add to the bank.  #Burgeron106  Family Story ... Read more

(this gif by John Johnston will be used to identify my Prisoner106 posts. Look for the Puffin Fairy icon – designed by Rochelle Lockridge for Bugeron106 posts) Prisoner106 Committee Report Week 1: During this week I resigned to the village. However I am not a number – I am the Interior Designer/Painter in the Village. ... Read more

Web Assignments – Week 1 Summer 2015 Nanalou has a newsletter…….and she wanted it embedded into the family story blog. She used an email service that gave her a good choice of templates and ease, but still very basic. NanaLou went through a lot of hoops to present her information to the rest of the ... Read more

After a couple of days working on GIFs I have to admit – the ones from video clips come to me as storytelling and drawing out and explaining meaning or understanding from the work of others stories. Creating GIFs from scratch to add to one’s own story is different. They are both great and fun ... Read more

All the new adventures for this summer of 2015, it just seemed right to update the blog and give it a fresh look for the work ahead. It also gave me the opportunity to follow up and do another GIF after creating the Bovine Badge for Artists in Residence to see if I actually am ... Read more

The summer of 2015 brings several groups in #ds106 coming together to make art. Two of the groups are open groups: Prisoner106 and Bugeron106. there is also cross participation between the two groups (Villages). Prisoner106 has set up as a more structured format after the #ds106 format and a calendar. Bugeron106  is a revisit of ... Read more

Daily Create 1271 Do a creative edit in the spirit of Alexey Kondakov. Embed a famous painting in an everyday setting. Have fun! HT @patlockley Van Gogh has always been a favorite of mine. With the season – flowers in a vase on my kitchen table is just days away – so this was a ... Read more

I have resigned to relax in the village for the next 7 weeks. I’m joining the #prisoner106 version of DS106 for the Summer of 2015r. It’s based on “The Prisoner”. I still need to resign myself to watch the series of … Continue reading →

One of the lessons learned with#ds106 is creating art is good for heart, soul and mind! When you don’t know what  else to do, when you feel like you can’t carry out anything, when things are just AHHHHHHH!! Create a … Continue reading →

Ds106 touches individuals differently depending upon where in their life path they may be traveling. It has pulses and energy for all paths and directions and the beauty is that no one way is right. Even for an individual, it will … Continue reading →

DailyCreate 1246 Keep Calm and Make More Lines Doing the DailyCreate while listening to #ds106 Radio – #ds106Spell. Used Paper53 on iPad and saved each layer. Imported as stack into PhotoShop Created Animation from layers Timing Saved for Web  

tdc1245: Bride Throwing Cats http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc1245/ @talkytina submitted this daily challenge and it was a hard one to resist. I went for the extra @talkytina points and clipped the #priosoner106 cat. Reminded me of #noir106 cat. Not too cute or fluffy … Continue reading →

I saw a post in Twitter today about a possible assignment for the #ds106 assignment bank. This sounds like a great assignment for #ds106 https://t.co/vGILjlNyI7 — Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) May 13, 2015 @techsavvyed so did you submit to the assignment … Continue reading →

If the Daily Create was a magazine….. What would a pulp DS106 magazine look like? Design it! Use any application you want but there is an easy online generator called Pulp-o-mizer. Not much of a sci-fi or space aficionado, but … Continue reading →

Daily Create 1211 Car has its own Face! May 3, 2015 Draw or edit a face on a car photo. The car photo can be taken by you or from the Internet. This one was fun – so many cars … Continue reading →

Daily Create 1210 Absence Art Poster May 2, 2015 In the framework of his series, “Arrête ton cinéma”, French artistic director Madani Bendjellal has revisited the posters of iconic films by retouching and deleting the original titles of them. They’re iconic film posters … Continue reading →

Been a little absent in the daily creates….here is tdc1209 What Did @cogdog Catch While Fishing in the Grand Canyon? As President of the #DS106 Athletic Club Angling Squad, @CogDog recently cast his skills on the Colorado River in the … Continue reading →

As the #noir106 has wrapped up, it is time to get back on track and figure out this #4life path I have started upon. One thing I have noticed is that when you are #4life finishing a unit doesn’t mean … Continue reading →

Took the afternoon to do non-digital art today. A group (community) activity which is socialization and fun. Not my usual style or subject matter but it was 3 hours that went by quickly. In #ds106 style: Canvas and paint Work … Continue reading →

I like the animated GIF – but the song kept running through my head! I converted the frame animation to video and added a short rift from the song “Boys are back in Town”, by Thin Lizzy. 2 Versions – … Continue reading →

Going back to some animated GIFfing as some creative pieces for project. It looks like the near future I will be creating different components that will fit together as one. I went back to Photoshop to create the animated GIF. … Continue reading →

Dailycreate 1186 Look for flaws in your landscape, take a beautiful photo! I am one to see the flaws as the beauty to begin with – especially outdoors. The contrast of things that are weathered, neglected, or combined with the … Continue reading →

The journey continues. As part of a culminating project for #ds106 I will be establishing an agency storyline that may have some #noir106 elements. Being able to create from the energy and ideas of the UMW course adds challenges and … Continue reading →

The Boys of 4LC – The Dream Team One of my #ds106 projects is in development and is growing larger than I had anticipated. I have added on staff for help. Their full bios and details will be part of … Continue reading →

Dailycreate tdc1185 Create a minimalist paper poster. The inspiration video for this create was a pleasure to watch. A rare occasion to agree with @TalkyTina as it was better than the real paper creations. I did find myself trying to … Continue reading →

TDC1184  – Pet Montaaju Just in case you were wondering montaaju is Japanese for montage. It turns out that Cat Montage is the latest craze in Japan. We want to be inclusive so our version allows for any pet to … Continue reading →

Dailycreate – 1179 Happy Birthday Maggie Black!