How to ds106radio

How to ds106radio

by paul bond

| ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated
August 14, 2024

Some people expressed interest in joining the ds106radio DJ roster, so we can maintain our status as the only station with more DJs than listeners. One common question that comes up is When to broadcast? The only regular broadcast that … Continue reading ?
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“…a story, a tale we missed”

by paul bond

| AI106, book club, ds106, project2025, Syndicated
August 7, 2024

I was intrigued by Bryan Alexander’s book club proposal to read the Project 2025 document. Unfortunately I have too many summer projects competing for time and attention to participate meaningfully. But in the spirit of AI106 I have taken passages … Continue reading ?
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Rustproofing

by paul bond

| AI106, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
May 6, 2024

Yesterday’s Daily Create involved using one of the Photofunia effects to put text in rust. As usual, I did the most obvious thing and made a GIF from a verse of My My, Hey Hey. Maybe that’s only obvious to … Continue reading ?
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… we made them what they are.

by paul bond

| aggressive technologies, AI106, ATconference, ds106, Syndicated
April 29, 2024

Here’s a brief video I put together based on the week 15 prompts. It references the AI rap battle video from a few weeks back, Dr. Oblivion off his meds, and our visit from our friends at Aggressive Technologies. There’s … Continue reading ?
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Scenes from the whale rapture

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated
April 19, 2024

The other week one AI said that the internet was like “diving into a vast digital ocean where you can swim with majestic whales of knowledge or get caught in the undertow of clickbait and cat memes” and I asked … Continue reading ?
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Mysteries abound. “Mwaa haa haa!”

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
April 17, 2024

I thought I’d bring together a few of the class projects. Some interesting things are going on. Mysteries abound. Dr. Oblivion has some competition: https://cat-on-a-moped.com/uncategorized/final-video/ This was unexpected. Is Aggressive Technologies behind this? Is it connected to their lawyer’s threats? … Continue reading ?
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“Happy surfing.”

by paul bond

| AI106, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
April 11, 2024

For today’s Daily Create, we were to build on the classic “On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon. I wondered how Dr. Oblivion would respond to the query: Then, in my infinite laziness curiosity, I asked the same … Continue reading ?
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“Turn around, bright eyes”

by paul bond

| AI106, cccccc, Daily Create, ds106, eclipse, Syndicated
April 9, 2024

For yesterday’s Daily Create we were to make blackout poetry with content from a certain web site. I looked at it briefly and decided to use the Weird Old Book Finder instead, probably because I found the typography uninspiring. I … Continue reading ?
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Bleeping video

by paul bond

| aggressive technologies, AI106, ds106, Syndicated
April 3, 2024

Ooops! Someone forgot to hit the Publish button. Jim and I have periodic conversations about what we’re doing and where we’re going in de106. I had this idea that the chief legal counsel from Aggressive Technologies would drop in and … Continue reading ?
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Aggressive Technologies loves ds106

by paul bond

| aggressive technologies, AI106, cccccc, ds106, Syndicated
April 3, 2024

After reflecting on our visit from Aggressive Technologies legal counsel, I had an inspiration for a new ds106radio commercial: I thought the tone of her spiel would pair well with our friend Bob, so I had him do the intro … Continue reading ?
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Livefutzing is something of a tradition here

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated
April 2, 2024

We had our first night of ds106radio broadcasts last night, with a possible record crowd. At one point the ds106radio page said we had 23 listeners, although some may have been ghosts and doubles. They were treated to Isaiah Beacon’s … Continue reading ?
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AT Drops the BOMB!

by paul bond

| aggressive technologies, AI106, ds106, Syndicated
March 29, 2024

Jim and I were having one of our usual ds106 discussions last week, looking over Aggressive Technologies’ website, when their chief legal counsel dropped in with threats and bluster. She expressed some rather strong opinions. I went through and cleaned … Continue reading ?
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Radio on a roll

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
March 25, 2024

With a few exceptions, it sounds like everyone’s ds106 radio groups are running smoothly, and everyone is on track. I look forward to hearing the finished projects this weekend. Dr. Oblivion’s advice here on sound quality and transitions is very … Continue reading ?
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Here’s the windup, and here’s the pitch

by paul bond

| #4life, AI106, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
March 16, 2024

You can see everyone’s AI pitches here: https://ds106.ai/category/aipitch/. I recommend looking them over because you may find a tool you can use in the upcoming weeks. I noticed some people didn’t link to the tools they promoted, which is surprising … Continue reading ?
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“this mission is too important for me to allow that to jeopardize it.”

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated
March 15, 2024

Making this week’s video was an experience. Being radio week, I had the idea to incorporate the DJ from The Warriors and wanted to use Wav2Lip to see how the syncing would work in a tight close-up. I used a … Continue reading ?
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“I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem”

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
March 14, 2024

I spotted this the other day and noted all the generated imagery, like AI meets CGI or something. It occurred to me that the title is a bit of a sales pitch. We have a variety of AI pitches this … Continue reading ?
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Failed!

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated
March 4, 2024

I ran into this error message when trying to run Wav2Lip last week: I did file an appeal, asking what was suspected of being abusive, without expecting a response. Under their usage limitations they list deepfakes. Anything I’ve made is … Continue reading ?
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Life imitating AI imitating Art

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
March 3, 2024

A few weeks ago we watched the Black Mirror episode, “Be Right Back“, in which a widow has an AI chatbot of her deceased husband. Yesterday I heard that performance artist Laurie Anderson actually has one of these. I guess … Continue reading ?
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NAGging feeling

by paul bond

| AI106, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
February 29, 2024

Today’s Daily Create asked us to play with the Net.Art Generator. Maybe I should have read the home page, but instead I clicked the Create button as soon as I found it. Moments earlier I had been thinking about AI-generated … Continue reading ?
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Bot you see is bot you get

by paul bond

| AI106, Dr. Oblivion, ds106, Syndicated
February 27, 2024

When we were kids playing hockey in the driveway, we used to blast this song out of the window and chop our sticks on the pavement in time with the beat. Of course, we were too young back then to … Continue reading ?
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A frank warning

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, frank, Syndicated
February 26, 2024

I wondered about the ethics of working with Bob, so I looked up a list of public domain movies and saw that Suddenly, the old Frank Sinatra assassination classic, was on the list. I downloaded it and skimmed through looking … Continue reading ?
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I’m kinda glad he doesn’t look at the camera.

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, lip-sync, Syndicated
February 24, 2024

I was glad to see someone successfully took on the Talk to the Bot assignment. A few others tried but couldn’t get it to work. As I watched the voice-over with avatar part of the video, I wondered what would … Continue reading ?
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Week Seven: “Ask not what AI can do for you…”

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, weekly assignments
February 23, 2024

Propaganda. N. From the Latin propagare, meaning “to go viral.” A communication intended to influence or persuade, to further an agenda, usually through an emotional appeal rather than a rational one. What is your character’s position on AI? Aggressive Technologies? … Continue reading ?
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A word on uploading videos

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated
February 23, 2024

It looks like a few people have uploaded videos to their Wrodpress media libraries. It is probably better to upload to Youtube or Vimeo instead, and embed videos in your posts from there. If you go into cPanel and look … Continue reading ?
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AI and Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows …

by paul bond

| AI106, ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
February 21, 2024

This week in ds106 we revisited our goals for the course. Everybody feels they are on track, and a few people added some revisions. I expected more changes and redirection due to the somewhat chaotic nature of how we do … Continue reading ?
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“Ah, the poetic wonders of destruction and turmoil”

by paul bond

| AI106, cccccc, Dr. Oblivion, ds106, Syndicated
February 16, 2024

Botmaster Michael Branson Smith mentioned the AI Rap Battle Generator the other week, and after playing with the Wav2Lip script a bit, I had the thought, “What if Dr. Oblivion battled Bob Ross?” And thus we have the rap battle … Continue reading ?
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This is your brain on the radio

by paul bond

| #radioshowideas, AI106, ds106radio, Syndicated, this week in ds106
February 13, 2024

We had a bunch of interesting radio show ideas this past week, including: talk show news show day in a life work together to take over the city work together to defeat Dr. Oblivion AI pros & cons AI propaganda … Continue reading ?
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ds106 – raptnrent.me 2024-02-12 12:30:55

by paul bond

| #Terminator, AI106, ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
February 12, 2024

I hadn’t done a video analysis in a while, so I thought I should give it a try. I wanted something AI-related to work with. My first thought was Blade Runner, since I had a copy from the library, but … Continue reading ?
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Where you AT?

by paul bond

| aggressive technologies, AI106, ds106, Syndicated
February 10, 2024

I was just thinking about the variety of ways our ds106 Cast of Characters might interact or intersect with Aggressive Technologies. At least two of them work there. That’s a very direct connection. The cast includes several different categories: Mad … Continue reading ?
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Aggressive little technologies

by paul bond

| aggressive technologies, AI106, ds106, Syndicated
February 9, 2024

So I wanted to play with the idea of Aggressive Technologies a little. I came up with a logo, using a font from Da Font and a silhouette of a war hammer. I should have noted which font I used, … Continue reading ?
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