Syndicated Blog Posts by paul bond

Evolutionary evol

by paul bond
February 24, 2021

Friend of ds106 @dogtrax mentioned Ani Difranco’s latest album earlier today:

Ani DiFranco’s new album Revolutionary Love is exquisite listening … rich with compositional texture (music and lyrics and voice) … https://t.co/f8l8B4KFdR pic.twitter.com/KlqjrmO48s

— KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) February 24, 2021

And it got me thinking. Some time ago I stumbled across …
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Revenge of the Ancient Ones

by paul bond
February 23, 2021

For our second evening of live-tweeting with #ds106radio, we listened to some of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward from BBC Radio 4’s The Lovecraft Investigations. The story is framed as a podcast, The Mystery Machine (not that Mystery Machine), which might be a little confusing at the …
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Well don’t you know about the bird?

by paul bond
February 23, 2021

Today’s Daily Create was a competition for the title of Best Bird. Since Big Bird was already in the prompt, I had to think of something else. I thought of Charlie Parker, but I’m not much of a bebop fan. I am however a fan of The Cramps so …
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The sounds of dreams

by paul bond
February 22, 2021

For our Monday night #ds106radio tweet-along, we listened to Episode Nine: I Saw Myself Running of ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene. The series is

a work of experimental audio-based scholarship combining sound studies, radio history, and environmental criticism. This unique project is a fully open access, fully digital …
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The Wright stuff

by paul bond
February 20, 2021

Biography in Sound. 53 episodes of a 1-hour NBC radio show from the '50s https://t.co/L03BMiF6uU pic.twitter.com/YhTG0CsqY7

— Century Past History (@lienhart85) February 9, 2021

This conveniently showed up at the beginning of audio week in ds106. Old-time radio is great for insights into audio storytelling because they were good at …
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Whistler’s painting

by paul bond
February 18, 2021

For today’s Daily Create we had to put ourselves in a famous painting. Part of my story is that I used to try to be an artist/painter, so I wanted to play with a “painting within a painting” idea. I’m not sure if there’s a name for that. There is …
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Funky Broadway Boogie Woogie

by paul bond
February 12, 2021

https://phb256.tumblr.com/post/642947986452873216

For today’s Daily Create we had give a picture a soundtrack. The first thing I thought of was Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie. But I wanted to get GIF-fy with it, naturally, so I downloaded the image from Wikimedia and used the select-color range function in Photoshop to copy …
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Reading Guernica

by paul bond
February 10, 2021

from https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago.html

I wondered how the story analysis assignment might apply to an image, so I thought I’s give it a shot with Picasso’s Guernica. There are a few different stories here: the story the painting depicts, the story of Picasso making the painting, and we could even include …
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Look at the window

by paul bond
February 8, 2021

Down by Law (1986) Jarmusch.

For today’s Daily Create, we had to do an out-the-window shot, but make it creative. I took a photo of the window in the laundry closet, but wasn’t sure what I could do to make it creative. I loaded it into GIMP, and …
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Week one wrap up

by paul bond
February 1, 2021

Week one of ds106 went quite well, with just a few hiccups. A few people had issues with embedding Instagram, so I made a quick screen capture video of the process:

Embedding IG in WP

If a site gives you an embed code, you can copy that code and paste …
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Thoughts on a theme

by paul bond
January 21, 2021

story by shredded77 https://www.flickr.com/photos/shredded77/2292734251/

I thought I should think out loud a little more on the theme of “What’s (y)our story?” The duality in the question represents something that always happens in ds106. On one hand, we all create our own stories, and on the other a group narrative arises …
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test post

by paul bond
January 11, 2021

testing……
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Project: Merch

by paul bond
August 22, 2020

I loved Grant Potter’s Reclaim logo, but I thought if it really was going to be a t-shirt design, we should take it a step further. So I grabbed the first chrome text tutorial I could find, and came up with this modification:

which I thought was good enough …
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Disco Driver test

by paul bond
July 21, 2020

One of my FB peeps suggested the idea of Taxi Driver with a disco soundtrack, as if that would be a bad thing. It’s been decades since I last watched the film so I don’t know for sure, but it seems like an intriguing remix. And potentially possible – it …
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God Save the Screen

by paul bond
April 6, 2020

This showed up this morning:

I, for one, would like to thank the Queen for making her royal address and providing the nation with something it sorely needs right now…

The perfect Photoshop bait… pic.twitter.com/dU0CIATWs1

— Peter Chiykowski respects the Queen, I promise (@rockpapercynic) April 5, 2020

I thought it …
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The music and the damage done

by paul bond
April 4, 2020

Since it’s remix/mashup week, I thought I’d take another shot at putting words to music. I guess I got the idea from the OER20 conference. I listened to some of it with ds106radio playing in the background, and once I got the balance between the talk and the background right, …
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Raiders of the lost loo roll

by paul bond
March 29, 2020

At this point I’m pretty sick of toilet paper jokes. I much prefer Jim Luke’s explanation of the issue, as it makes me feel like I learned something. Today’s Daily Create was a simple challenge, so simple that the real challenge is to make it interesting. I decided to …
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No action

by paul bond
March 27, 2020

@ds106dc #tdc2997 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is: https://t.co/SGTy2i7r1L
Johnnybag the Superglue Jake la Botz
Spider Web, Pt. 1 The Budos Band
Open Up Your Heart Chuck Prophet
Call That Gone North Mississippi Allstars
Trampled Rose Carolina Chocolate Drops

— paul bond (@phb256) March 27, 2020

The Daily …
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“Newest latest”

by paul bond
March 24, 2020

I thought I’d do my own video analysis, using a scene from Spike Lee’s 80s classic, Do the Right Thing.

I guess I’m looking at it more as an artist than a film scholar, but that’s my background. An interesting thing about it is that actor Bill Nunn’s speech …
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Looking ahead

by paul bond
March 22, 2020

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1570190353947-aca1c3450f08

We have a lot of great thoughts looking forward to final projects. I recommend that everyone look over each other’s thoughts. Maybe you’ll find ideas you can use. Maybe you’ll have ideas to share. Several people are on similar wavelengths. Maybe they …
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Booger panic

by paul bond
March 18, 2020

So I left work Friday because I wasn’t feeling well. It ended up just being a common cold, but I played it safe and put myself under quarantine. It’s complicated by allergies, so I still get an occasional sneezing fit. Like now.

In communicating with people at work, I mentioned …
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Show and tell with Nyarlathotep

by paul bond
February 21, 2020

There is a storytelling principle of “show, don’t tell.” So one might say:

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air

instead of “I was driving through the desert at night.” It paints a picture of a …
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How not to choose a design assignment

by paul bond
February 18, 2020

So I told myself: I’ll do a design assignment. I’ll click the random button and do whichever on it gives me. So what do I get? The Spreadsheet Invasion. What the heck should I do with that? And how the heck do I do it? I though of that …
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Sounding off on the radio

by paul bond
February 18, 2020

We came up with many great radio show ideas this past week. You can see them all at the link, at least the ones that were tagged properly. A number of people mentioned fashion as a topic. This poses a challenge in that fashion is very visual, whereas we will …
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Inverted synesthesia

by paul bond
February 16, 2020

For today’s Daily Create, I did a most obvious thing and typed ds106 in the synesthesia generator. Being most oblivious, I failed to notice that @NomadWarMachine did that in the assignment prompt. I didn’t like the color combination though, so I thought about how I could play with it. …
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The Sounds of Science

by paul bond
February 12, 2020

We’ve had three great evenings of live tweeting ds106radio. The point of this was to analyze, together, how sounds can paint pictures and drive stories. My favorite thing about this exercise is that the idea for it came from a class a few years ago. The students suggested it, …
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Red Dawn Reimagined

by paul bond
February 10, 2020

I found Red Dawn on Netflix the other week. I had actually never seen it before, so, given our theme, I thought I’d check it out. The idea of Soviet proxy forces attacking a high school in the middle of nowhere, USA, is about as ludicrous as the thought that …
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“We’ve got fun and games…”

by paul bond
February 3, 2020

Some musings on this past week in ds106:

I’m glad someone did the timeline assignment. There are many more assignments than I can keep track of. If I knew about this one ahead of time, I might have made it recommended or required, if I had thought of taking …
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Your fly is down

by paul bond
January 31, 2020

I thought I’d look at the 1986 version of The Fly and try a story shape analysis. Something that occurred to me when watching Vonnegut talk about the shapes of stories is that he’s talking about one character’s story. Cinderella’s story takes a different shape from that of the prince …
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Looking back at Week Two

by paul bond
January 27, 2020

What I learned this week: Many things are not what they seem. I can be a hero. It is easy to forget about what is ‘invisible’. And like the aliens in They Live, digital images and arts are all around me: I just can’t see them.

I love these insights. …
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