A SlideSpeech video of my design safari

@mdvfunes Isn’t it great like that, that we can learn so much from what others look at and write...

Take a movie clip and create foley sounds for it, do it all in one take. Seemed an easy enough...

So says Donald Norman. Good design taps into our happiness pathways and is evaluated mostly...

For Rockylou’s students! I played with a few settings to get this lovely gif a little smoother. 

natgeofound: Aerial of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.Photograph by Paul Zahl, National Geographic

Design week started yesterday and I could not get my 'pointy head' around it. Each week I feel...

Saying like peanut butter this morning. I worked on the part of the assignment that asks to ‘make sure the movement is minimal but essential’. i am getting the hang of deleting non-essential frames. Definitely better to be animated than un-animated! Used both photoshop and Gimp. Gimp to get the rough animation and Photoshop to get the detail and the frame speed right. Film clip from Buñuel again.

If anyone needs some guidance to start giffing - a great post by a new recruit here and you will also read details of DS106’s collaborative animated gif project in his post.

A gif was posted on the DS106 community just for fun. Some of us got interested and made suggestions...

I thought it would be nice to make a nice #ds106radio bumper for all my True Friends to hear when they are listening to #ds106radio and are waiting to hear my voice. When they hear this bumper, they will hear my voice and it will be like a little snack...

A quick gif post-secret assignment for Rochelle and her Salon Participants. The dream is to self-build my next house. The tree house to illustrate my building skill levels. Briefly played with existing gif in Gimp. 

mdvfunes’ favorites on Flickr, click on the link to see them all!

My favourites for this week. It was a great pleasure to view everyone’s photos. I followed this link and everyone who had tagged as per our assignment came up! I left comments on Flickr. Dave Barr did not show up on Flickr but I wanted to add my favourite of his to this post too.

And Sandy’s storms deserve a mention too - I love those photos! Why? they create a mood and I can almost smell the rain. 

Photos by fiedegufei, cogdogblog, Rockylou and karenatsharon

Well, I have no idea who this guy is but I figured that if he was included in our resources he must...

September 25th, 2013. The day that I understood the subtext of Ds106. What we do as assignments...

….But not to be viewed by anyone! I followed this tutorial and it worked beautifully. It is...

I cannot even begin to talk about how I produced this monstrosity ( is that a word?) I has taken...

Awesome! Just discovered RadioLab and this talk is something I will want to go back to. Don’t talk about stuff, be the stuff. Inspiring and humbling all at once.

I am catching up with another Daily Create, let’s say this one fits the one where we were...

I have just had another fabulous afternoon playing with sound for another...

As If we did not have enough assignments, I did the same one twice.  But this did not start as an...

The working rule for this week’s posts: We like to see writing with your media, a story...

How did I miss in the flow? Cathleen Nardi shared it this week and I only just found it reading my Paper.li daily. All I can say is thank you, Cathleen and wow or blimey as we say here in the UK! This will keep me motivated each time my ambitions do no...

My first Audioblog for DS106. Getting ready for Audio week, I do my first assignment for week 3:

"What do you associate with the word storytelling? Before you do anything this week, use this as an opportunity to put down in words what your current concept is! Here it is, random thoughts and reflections on the question."

I forgot to include this on my video - but wanted to add it here as I think it is such a simple and yet beautiful example of what appeals to me about kinetic typography. 

At the 15 minute point I clicked on the wrong screen. Here is the link, I am talking about but not showing at that point. 

And here are the few words I wrote to express what story means to me:

What is digital storytelling?

The dog running after that pheasant

Vivirla para contarla - a life lived to be told

A doll emerging from imagination and becoming our mascot

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn

And yet I do

The feeling when somebody says ‘let me tell you a story’

Snuggling up to hear the story

Afraid to tell them in case the magic breaks

Afraid to be seen, afraid to connect

Using the fear to be present with another

So what is story?

Emotional connection

A gift of imagination

A moment caught and shared 

And when digitally imprinted a moment that could exist forever

But if not co-created in the moment, is it a story?

Without a shared context, is it a story?

May be all it needs are humans willing to show up and take the risk to live life and tell about it…

iamtalkytina:

#GIFFight #ds106 #headless13 #mannequin #headless #roundalmost20 #riff-a-GIF #3

This is so clever. I almost don’t want to know how it was done, so as not to destroy the magic. 

…the bags of gold, that is.  I am suffering from RSI on my left hand after spending far too...