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by paul bond
January 11, 2021
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Project: Merch
by paul bond August 22, 2020I 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, 2020One 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, 2020This 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, 2020Since 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, 2020At 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, 2020I 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, 2020Photo 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, 2020So 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, 2020There 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 airinstead 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, 2020So 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, 2020We 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, 2020For 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, 2020We’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, 2020I 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, 2020Some 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, 2020I 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
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on Black Flags and bar codes
by paul bond January 27, 2020Today’s Daily Create asked us to “Compose a cutup poem from the words that debuted in your birth year.” This was inspired by a tweet from Amy Burvall which I liked so much that I made it a ds106 assignment, which I eventually need to do. But the first …
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Thoughts on thoughts
by paul bond January 20, 2020I enjoyed reading through everyone’s thoughts on the 80s theme. Some people are enthusiastic about it, others don’t know what to make of it but seem up to trying. Most of us only know it vicariously, through parents, re-runs and old movies.
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80s recommendations
by paul bond January 19, 2020Below are the class’ recommendations for examples of good storytelling related to the 80s theme. They’re predominantly video, which is not surprising since that’s probably the dominant form of storytelling for the times, then and now. I’ve included the titles, hyperlinks if provided, and the descriptions:
Philadelphia
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Elmer to the rescue
by paul bond January 19, 2020It’s not necessary to do write-ups for Daily Creates, but I do them sometimes just because. Yesterday’s Daily Create asked us to add a rescue vehicle to a piece of art. I liked the inspiration for the challenge, but I wanted to find a way to do it differently. I …
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The sound of ds
by paul bond January 14, 2020Digital storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their story. Wikipedia
Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories.” University of Houston
If you think about it, typing a story in …
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Pondering project ideas
by paul bond October 29, 2019There will be more details on the final project forthcoming, but basically it is a major project, on par with the radio show, which has to have something to do with our theme, and has to incorporate multiple different media, which interconnect in some way. I am collecting here some …
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“And you may look the other way”
by paul bond October 20, 2019I saw this GIF on Twitter and just had to do it. Sorry. This idea is entirely lifted from @Pandamoanimum. I used Twitter Video Downloader to grab the GIF and the YouTube Video and Audio Downloader in Firefox to get Travolta and the Bee Gees. I imported them both …
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“Can you fly, Bobby?”
by paul bond October 2, 2019I recently watched Paul Verhoeven’s 80s tech noir classic Robocop and thought it might be interesting to do a little design analysis on the Omni Consumer Products logo. The first thing I notice is that OCP is an inversion of cop. While this is not a visual design aspect exactly, …
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Chuck on the Clash
by paul bond September 25, 2019I listened to the Stay Free podcast a few months ago. It’s Chuck D of Public Enemy narrating the story of The Clash. It bleeds off the edges of our ds106 80s theme, as The Clash was late 70s-early 80s and PE was late 80’s into 90s and beyond, but …
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