Boing-Boing posted a video of 70s Spanish disco dance group, Ballet Zoom, doing a boogie with live cats. Yes live cats! The leap to make a bunch of animated GIFs seems like a no brainer. And there’s no better way to get ready for the coming semester of DS106. Oh wait there is but that ...

It’s that thing they tell you to inspire you stay hungry find your place by gnawing on the marrow of others but then they say be crazy, be foolish and then you spit out their bones and laugh ha ha ha.. shit that’s a better idea hungry to bite off a godless joke kill the ...

I have plans to make a Lifeboat animated GIF as part of my Hitchcock animated movie poster series, but it’s going to take a lot of work. So I feel like I need to do an easier one in the short term, and To Catch A Thief is looking fun and relatively easy. Carey Grant, sadly yes ...

Phew! This poster is done! It was harder to make than the previous four Hitchcock posters to date, but the real problem was that other efforts became a distraction over the past few weeks (good stuff honestly). But I was able to lock in over the past couple of days and I spent most of ...

I’m going to finish the Psycho animated poster tonight. Hacking away at my anxieties.  

So a freedom fighter of fair use got smacked in the face a couple of days ago. The Youtube copytright scanners… took him out. Why? Because he dared to look copyright holders in the face with this, this, this, and this? (pingback bonanza!)  Groom had doggedly dodged and weaved against claims of copyright violations. But they simply reminded him of ...

I caught the DS106 Slide Guy! assignment bug early on but only Tweeted them out. Jim Groom gave me some flack for by not feeding the assignment stream with a proper post. So here’s my collection in the order in which I made each Slide Guy. In honor of game six of the Stanley Cup finals, which NJ lost. So ...

As soon as Jim created this assignment and seeded it with his terrific Famous Monsters of Filmland animated magazine cover, I knew I had to do it. This is cover of the first issue of the fan magazine Electronic Games published in the Winter of 1981. Nightrob has a great set of EG cover art in his Flickr ...

Originally posted in my summer teaching with technology course, but it’s a new fat cat so I had to get it in the ds106 stream! Today we are going to play with digital storytelling as a tool for teaching and learning.   In one of Alan Levine’s talks about digital storytelling, he included a slide ...

This summer I’m teaching a York College class  for teacher education students about integrating technology in the classroom. And one of the first assignments asks the students to watch Michael Wesch’s video A Vision of Students Today and then blog about their college experience so far. One student described hers as “not terrible but having a lot of ...

I’m working on my next animated GIF Hitchcock poster, next up is Psycho, and right now I’m thinking of deviating from the original poster dramatically. The featuring of Janet Leigh in her skivvies to advertise the film doesn’t do it justice in my mind. Maybe it got the audiences in the theatre back in the 60s? But ...

This is my fourth effort at animating Alfred Hitchcock film posters, and this one took a lot of time. I’m not sure if I’m going to make it all the way to my desired dozen posters by the end of the summer. This GIF is based on the 1963 theatrical release poster for The Birds and is ...

Yes this post is an excuse to show another Alfred Hitchcock animated poster which I made while at UMW’s Faculty Academy (with Rear Window & North By Northwest this makes three, nine to go). But I’m not going to write about the film Vertigo and the designer of this poster Saul Bass. Ok one thing, ...

It’s been over a year since I first discovered ds106 and it’s amazing to me how much creative energy I’ve discovered since then – I’ve made more work in the past year than I have in the previous ten, seriously. … Continue reading →

It’s been over a year since I first discovered ds106 and it’s amazing to me how much creative energy I’ve discovered since then – I’ve made more work in the past year than I have in the previous ten, seriously. … Continue reading →

In the last three weeks you will be working on your final project for ds106 which will be posted to your blog and presented to the class on Monday May 21, exam day. Last week you were to focus on … Continue reading →

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Howdy, I’m H. Michael Karshis Do you keep a box of your old ‘stuff’ somewhere? What’s in it? Why did you put it in that box? How often do you look … Continue reading →

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Howdy, I’m H. Michael Karshis Do you keep a box of your old ‘stuff’ somewhere? What’s in it? Why did you put it in that box? How often do you look … Continue reading →

This past Friday I had a chance to spend some time with artists Ryan Seslow and Jeffrey Allen Price at their show, Energetic Fusion in the York College Art Gallery. The two have collaborated to create not just a show … Continue reading →

This past Friday I had a chance to spend some time with artists Ryan Seslow and Jeffrey Allen Price at their show, Energetic Fusion in the York College Art Gallery. The two have collaborated to create not just a show … Continue reading →

Norm Wright  drew a Where’s Waldo? It remix card on the Messing with the MacGuffin assignment. It’s been quite some time since I’ve Messed with the MacGuffin, so I couldn’t resist a quick Messing with the MacGuffin [remixed]: Where’s Waldo? It. … Continue reading →

Norm Wright  drew a Where’s Waldo? It remix card on the Messing with the MacGuffin assignment. It’s been quite some time since I’ve Messed with the MacGuffin, so I couldn’t resist a quick Messing with the MacGuffin [remixed]: Where’s Waldo? It. … Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks you’ve been creating work often built on others’ work. Is that ok? Taking digital pieces of copyrighted work and remixing to make something of your own? Or how about recording a commentary over movie scenes … Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks you’ve been creating work often built on others’ work. Is that ok? Taking digital pieces of copyrighted work and remixing to make something of your own? Or how about recording a commentary over movie scenes … Continue reading →

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by SimonQ???? Tonight I guest lectured Daniel Phelp’s Documentary Production class at York College. The students came to class with story ideas for their final projects which were to include … Continue reading →

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by SimonQ???? Tonight I guest lectured Daniel Phelp’s Documentary Production class at York College. The students came to class with story ideas for their final projects which were to include … Continue reading →

Last week we got off to a good start with an in class video assignment to create a five second video of one archetype from five different films. I went on to turn this into an assignment for ds106 and … Continue reading →

Last week we got off to a good start with an in class video assignment to create a five second video of one archetype from five different films. I went on to turn this into an assignment for ds106 and … Continue reading →