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Animated Pet Today I had a go at making an animated pet. I had 3 photographs of the frog, lying, sitting and standing, I wanted to make it appear like he was on the move. Not sure about … Continue reading →
Catching up with some daily creates. A POV of a building. I think the view was too narrow but better next time. Did you know you can send a video clip from mobile directly to youtube…. A video … Continue reading →
Here’s a few daily creates Catch up with my creates about My favourite weather is a storm at sea. Had to find a pic on free foto as dont live anywhere near the sea. Free Foto has a good range of pics. My … Continue reading →
For this activity we had to record a difficult Macdonalds order. A really good assignment to practise that moment at drive thru when you hear those words ‘ Welcome to drive thru…May I take your order please’… This was … Continue reading →
These daily creates have been heaps of fun and have certainly got me thinking in different ways .I find I am looking for different angles on the activities. So first up was to sing a song with no accompaniment. Then … Continue reading →
This was a challenge. Here’s the steps without the frustrations, agony, and dead ends. I recorded the Interviews the iphone, emailed and downloaded to computer. Some versions of Audacity ( mine) dont like MP4 files so …convert all files to MP3 … Continue reading →
A place I have never been Task : Create a photo collage or illustration of a place you’ve never been to. Search Creative Commons for pictures of that place to find design elements such as iconic architecture, traditional patterns, recurring color … Continue reading →
Task : Like some people use special whistles to attract birds, your task is to create an 30 second or less audio file that might be used to “call” a particular character from a movie, tv, or real life. It … Continue reading →
The Task Take any 2 (or more) creations from any category of assignment that another student has posted and mash them up into something new an original. Hopefully most of what we’re creating here is CC-licensed for remixing but check … Continue reading →
Audio Assignment – 2 stars Over dramatic reading Choose any written material (a song, poem, short book, excerpt from a novel, scene from a television show, news article, etc.) and record a dramatic reading. Read your selection in a way … Continue reading →
Daily Create 34 & 35 Take a photograph of a hand showing details and next one take a photograph of a tattoo. Creese is a builder and tells me that his tatts have won prizes.- he was a ready subject. His tatts include … Continue reading →
Mission : Make a set of ten photos which take something familiar to you–a town, building, object, etc.–and defamiliarize it, make it seem foreign. Use a mix of extreme closeups, weird lighting, foreground/background focusing and odd angles and other effects … Continue reading →
Using the Way Back Time Machine website on Internet Archive, take screen shots of a favorite website overtime. Then, look at how the website has changed for better and worse. Blog about what makes a website effective and how that … Continue reading →
This the quirky gift my son aged 17 gave me for Christmas. It was a particularly beautiful and thoughtful gift and he had spend time finding something that reflected my personality and my love of all things chooky.
I’m aways looking for lost ideas on this bookshelf. So every bookshelf in the house is a place where I am constantly loosing things…. This meerkat family saw me lose my heart and I just had to bring … Continue reading →
I love this one because it’s just fun and emus are interesting flightless birds. I can imagine him saying “‘ WTF are you doing!” The next photograph is of a Japanese god. To improve this next time I would focus … Continue reading →
Everyone might be able to be an artist but we are going to need some to develop new skills, knowledge and understandings about how we can create, share and collaborate. So I set off to create a short movie maker … Continue reading →
Assignment 3 Everyone’s an artist. I remember reading to my young son (now 24) and being very bored with repeating the favourite story- so I skipped a few pages. ‘Oh no’ he cried to his desperate sleep deprived mother, ‘you’ve … Continue reading →
The daily create today was to freeze or isolate the motion of an object. It was raining heavily and I was thinking about what to capture today when I noticed the car windscreen wipers hard at work. Click !
Gardner Campbell – Some Reflections Being unfamiliar with Gardner Campbell’s work prior to DS106 I will admit to starting this reflective exercise with a sense of déjà vu. I’m mid way through Change11 Mooc and have heard from a range … Continue reading →
Just wanted to take something that was an everyday situation. The rather large golden retriever is holding a very small toy dog in her gentle mouth. Am using the Daily Creates to make more spontaneous decisions about projects.
Getting started on the blog experiment meant the need to pose a number of questions before I could launch forth…. 1. What is the purpose of the blog? 2. What is the blog look, or feel that I wanted to create, at least as a starting … Continue reading →
With acknowledgement to Steve Martin I begin my DS106 journey with a personal observation : ‘ despite a lack of natural ability, I do have one element necessary to all early creativity: naivete, that fabulous quality that keeps me from knowing just … Continue reading →
For the daily create I was looking for an everyday objects that was ugly. This basin of water stinks, has mosquito lavea, and is full of brown sludge yet when the birds are juxaposed becomes a thing of beauty. Australia … Continue reading →