Here at camp I’ve finally worked through my Bootstrap tutorials and created a spec site for a much larger project that I’m hoping to work on this summer. As part of my learning to code binge , I’m planning to learn the basics of Python and OpenCV to try and make an image processing application. The […]

Code summer camp has been off to a nice start. There have been about six students who have taken advantage of the offer to come into York College and use the lab and each other to get some work done. In particular, shout out to Neyser who’s come three out of our first four days. […]

This summer I’m going to be hosting a code summer camp for my students at York College. I’ve been honest with them in that it’s as much for me as it is for them. It’s been an unusual year in which I’ve started teaching web design and development for the first time. Though I’ve built websites […]

So professor is posting comments on my blog, making suggestions, and what not. I feel like he’s looking at me strangely. Do I have to publish those comments? Reply on my blog and publish? The short answer is no. It’s your space and you can moderate comments however you choose. The nice thing about moderation … Continue reading "Not sure what to do with that…"

#ds106 reply to me w/ tag #tdc1775 Create a Retro 80s Message! https://t.co/2lS2FCoJVo pic.twitter.com/r6ZpyMm1Fy — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) November 17, 2016 I saw this morning’s DS106 Daily Create and thought of the Vaporwave Aesthetic and thought I’d share my interest in it. It’s an amalgam of retro culture remix focused on the commercial aesthetics … Continue reading "Vaporwave"

We’re a couple days out from the election and I’m still trying to process what a Trump presidency will mean. But my eight year old daughter who went to bed believing absolutely (oh the bliss of such youngness) Hillary Clinton would win. But so it went and the next morning my wife and I had to … Continue reading "Time for necessary distraction"

So I’ve made a change to the weekly check-in form today. From now on you will not need to pick a week while checking in, I’ve heard it’s often caused confusion as you’re unable to look back at which one’s you’ve submitted. Instead we’re just re-emphasizing the goal of checking in each week with a least … Continue reading "Little Housekeeping"

Here’s a video tutorial inspired by Ryan’s Net Art tutorial which shows the use of to.be as well as a new way to make selections in Photoshop using a color range. I worked with a NYPL archive image of the Unisphere and made a couple of pieces. One thing I couldn’t cover was the process for making … Continue reading "Some additional resources to Ryan’s Net Art Tutorial"

In last night’s third and final 2016 Presidential Debate, in the context of a discussion of policy about Syria Sec. Hillary Clinton inadvertently dissed Queens. She was discussing the issue of terrorism and how the most recent act against our country was not a foreign national, but “was born in Queens, the same place Donald … Continue reading "#ReclaimQueens Take Down the Wall"

There’s going to be more description in this post about how you should report your progress back on the ct101.us site, but for now here are the two tutorial videos: Installing WordPress from the Reclaim Hosting c-Panel Basic Customizations in a WordPress Site Tweet Share on Tumblr

And same goes for the college assistant Fawaz. Today we hosted a quick little experiment which is possible using the Panorama shooting mode of a lot of smartphones. You can hack the feature and work to place a person in more than one location of the photo in realtime. By pausing your pan and having … Continue reading "If I could clone mysefl I could get so much more done…"

It’s time to choose a domain name that can represent your digital self. You can’t (and shouldn’t) pick just anything. It has to be unique and available. It should be relevant – it could be based on your real name, a nickname, just something meaningful to you. You will need to search for its availability using a … Continue reading "I need a domain name!"

Next Tuesday 12-2PM here at York College in 2M05 watch Wilhemina’s War and participate in hosted conversation with director June Cross. The film assesses the struggle for individuals that are HIV positive and living in the rural South to get treatment for the virus that causes AIDS. A recent interview with Ms. Wilhemina Dixon and the … Continue reading "Meet Doc Director June Cross"

This is a tutorial which serves as an introduction to Photoshop which will allow you to complete a couple different assignments from the ds106 repository – Pop Star Out of Place and I’m Ready for My Closeup. With the help of the class we chose the pop star assignment and yes someone encouraged the use … Continue reading "By Request…"

Use the HTML <img> tag to add an image (including animated GIFs) to a comment. Copy and paste the code below into the comment field. Then replace the – URL of an image – text with a URL. Be sure to keep the quotes around the URL. Try it in the comments! [crayon-57d84f39131c9070530760/] Tweet Share … Continue reading "Add GIFs to comments?!"

I’ve been using my iPhone as part of my image-making process for a couple years now. At first it surprised me given that I’m fairly proficient with a lot of image manipulation tools for professionals – lots of the Adobe Creative Suite. I’ve used applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and more for years. You … Continue reading "Push your smart phone to the limit"

In the first class,I spoke a bit about how you will be creating a website and picking your own domain name and even using your own web hosting account. We looked at how students from past classes used their sites to build a variety of things – photo blogs, portfolios, and more. I also alluded … Continue reading "Why a Domain of One’s Own?"

Flaca may be in prison for fraud and endangerment, but she’s got an opinion and she’s going to let you know it: how grades don’t matter, but words do, even your font choices. She’s critical of stereotypes: And how they cause angst.   And Flaca is fearless about taking risks with her big ideas. Not everyone agrees with … Continue reading "Blog Like Flaca Would"

We are back from the summer. The Olympics are over, so that race/competition ended and now we start the semester. In CT 101 Digital Storytelling, we’re going to spend a lot of time in WordPress to write about what’s on our minds, post things we like, and share pieces we’ve made ourselves. I think one … Continue reading "And we’re off!"

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything, never mind following through with a post about GIF culture under the I Grok GIFs series. So why not toss some kittens in the yard and restart this thing. Reverse Animal Rescue is a subreddit that evolved out of r/reversegif and a sick sense of humor which imagines upgrading […]

flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-SA ) license As we come to the end of the semester I like to ask you to consider the kinds of work you’ve been doing and how you think it … Continue reading →

Above is a tutorial for using Premiere to cut your first supercut. I apologize for it being a bit sloppy at times but please fast forward when you need to! A supercut is a quick paced, tightly edited sequence of … Continue reading →

A lot of you are off to a great start with your personal sites. You will likely be reporting your work on the site in the weekly check-in. But I would like you to let me know what your new … Continue reading →

After some discussion in class it appeared people were most interested in learning some of the basics of Photoshop and using it to create an animated GIF. This tutorial runs through a number of processes that were inspired by this … Continue reading →

DS106.us is a digital storytelling community created around a course of the same name by Jim Groom at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). Jim and the class are no longer at UMW, but ds106 continues to exist as an … Continue reading →

On Tuesday night I had the pleasure of visiting Ryan Seslow’s class in New Media Arts to discuss my work with his MFA students. It was a great group and we discussed a lot of the issues around being an … Continue reading →