For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got
Chicago (That Toddling Town)
It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version:
which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet music, which has some of the lyrics Brown …
Who’s trolling who? I was reading more of The Passenger this morning, and on page 195 one of the hallucinatory ‘horts spouted the classic line from Airplane. So you know what I had to do.
The face swap doesn’t quite work, I think because the lighting doesn’t match. Maybe …
I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls,
I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and David Krakauer—our president—said that the same idea had occurred to …
So I made a few more Walk of Life edits:
That worked nicely, I think. It almost seems appropriate, so I figured I should try a different track:
That’s probably longer than it needs to be, or maybe it just seems that way. I think it would have been a …
Yesterday a conversation popped up in my Twitter stream
You’ve undoubtedly come across this, but just in case https://t.co/oJfgdLiUqh
— Martin Weller (@mweller) October 12, 2022
which introduced me to the Walk of Life Project. The hypothesis stated on the site is that the Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life” …
Today’s TDC asked us to make shadow art. Naturally my first thought was of The Shadow, but I didn’t want to just find an illustration on the web. Then it occurred to me to make audio art, of sorts. I went to the Internet Archive to find “The …
@ds106dc #tdc3862 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is This is how Howard would do it. pic.twitter.com/xkKTJgpIuS
— paul bond (@phb256) August 9, 2022
I only vaguely remember Peter and the Wolf, the subject of today’s Daily Create, from my childhood. I believe we had the LP, …
Back in the day, friend of ds106 John Johnston made some awesome supercuts using Videogrep:
I always wanted to try it, but I could never get it to work. I have a hard time finding appropriate directions for doing any kind of command-line work. They all seem to assume that …
The oddest thing I found in a 7-11 store was a job. I worked the 11-7 shift in the summer when I was in college. What was odd, to me, was the way I got the job.
A friend came back from a cigarette run and said the manager at …
Today’s Daily Create asks us to make an antipodal tale – a story about side of the world.
Nine-year-old Prince Augustus in 1782, painted by Thomas Gainsborough
William III’s close-stool (the royal potty). Hampton Court collection
The opposite end of the planet from me is more or less Augusta, Western …
The 33 1/3 book on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables referenced a Rebecca Solnit essay, Rattlesnake in Mailbox: Cults, Creeps, California in the 1970s, which declared Invasion of the Body Snatchers to be “1978’s definitive film.” This meant I needed to watch it, which in turn inspired another GIF-fest. …
Last week I saw a call for chapter proposals for a book in the Innovations in Information Literacy series on digital storytelling. I’ve been interested in the outside-the-box connections among information literacy and digital storytelling since I first became involved in ds106, so this seemed right up my alley. …
Our new old radio friend Scott Lo came up with this triple troll in response to a ds106radio discussion of Bono and Bono:
Triple troll quote #ds106 #VisualAssignments24 #ds106radio pic.twitter.com/Q4Ihs1AGxq
— Radio Eugene (@RadioEUG) April 3, 2022
I wondered if I could take it a step further and merge some …
All I wanted to do was a quick analysis of one little scene. And it got blocked. Immediately. Maybe I should experiment a bit to see what adjustments I need to make to get it through. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re extra aggressive with some content. I’ve also …
I thought I would give filming my painting process a try again. I was trying something different, as in working on a much smaller scale than usual. I was also working with absolutely no plan, which probably shows in the results. I heard about the artfully SQUARED exhibition, which …
I saw The Color of Words assignment elsewhere, so I thought I’d take a look at it. I used joy as my keyword, in true Bob fashion, and the above image is what I got. One of the images in the mix featured the word prominently, so you can see …
I spotted this in a show on Tubi TV
It’s one of those interrogation scenes. The thing to notice here is how the actor’s shirt matches the color of the wall. It is a subtle message to the viewer that this guy belongs here. He fits right in. It is …
A few days ago, a new alleged reading promotion poster from the Chicago Public Library came to my attention.
I shared it with some colleagues, and one responded with this graphic.
Weeding is librarian talk for the process of removing outdated and unused books from the collection. But when I …
For our second night of #ds106radio listening, we heard the Radiolab episode From Tree to Shining Tree. Instead of drama, this was more pop science. But it made the topic fascinating and kept the story moving through a creative use of background music and sounds …
Episode One: Three Skeleton Key
For our first live listening session, we listened to Three Skeleton Key, the opening episode from ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene by Jacob Smith. This is a fascinating series that uses an old-time radio show, Escape, to tell a new story about …
I decided to try a random visual assignment and got The Boone Gorges Parent-Child Headswap. I didn’t have a child handy, but I did have The Tick. This was actually given to me by a child. A friend’s daughter, toddler at the time, walked up and handed it to …
The 11th anniversary of ds106radio has me waxing nostalgic, I guess. There was some discussion of playing songs we listened to when we were 11. This idea was abandoned as potentially too embarrassing, but I may still have to go for it. Earlier this week one of my FB people …
The first thing I thought of when I saw today’s prompt was the Wicker Man, because it is meant to be burnt, with appropriate occupants. So then I had to think of buy and steal. I think if I was going to buy artwork I’d go for …
For today’s Daily Create, we had to illustrate the story of a @MagicRealismBot tweet. I scrolled through the list and found this one:
A cobra says to Gertrude Stein: "I love Milwaukee."
— Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot) January 15, 2022
I don’t know much about Stein, other than Picasso …
I think @jaythechou might need to be made an honorary ds106er for dedication to remixing. I thought these two were especially relevant:
I Photoshop Paddington into another movie or TV show until I forget: Day 277 pic.twitter.com/vypRzTnIxI
— Jaythechou (@jaythechou) December 11, 2021
I Photoshop Paddington into another movie or …
The question has come a few times in ds106: What is our theme? We are using The Joy of Painting as theme this semester. What that means as a theme depends on how we decide to interpret it. We may at times take it very superficially and focus on the …
I enjoyed reading people’s reactions to The Joy of Painting. I thought I’d share my thoughts on people’s thoughts here.
“I fell asleep within five minutes.”
I remember reading a newspaper article about Bob’s popularity back in the day when his show was on PBS. It said a …
For today’s Daily Create, I pretty much immediately decided I wanted to make a word cloud of the Joy of Painting. So I went to a random episode and opened up the transcript on Youtube and copied it. The TDC prompt linked to an archived version of the original …
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We’ve had 10 years of Daily Creates. We’ve had 10.6 years of ds106radio
#ds106 #ds106radio I just put together a makeshift Google Doc with brief overview of the 106th Anniversary Radio Marathong and a wide open schedule for folks to claim a time …
