The only station that takes attendance

The only station that takes attendance

by paul bond

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2616, ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated
September 20, 2021

phb256a · Attendance Bumper In the back end of the ds106radio management system, you can see how many people are listening online, typically zero, and where they are located: One day Nigel was broadcasting from the South Pacific and had … Continue reading ?
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Looking at pictures

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated
September 16, 2021

I just had a few thoughts looking at some of this week’s creations. Some pictures tell a story, some pictures tell poetry Most of my photos tend to be documentary, capturing someplace I was, something I saw, someone I was … Continue reading ?
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What’s hard about this

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2722
September 14, 2021

I’ve never seen Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, but it is on my watchlist. And seeing that it is a spiritual kin to Godzilla, it fits perfectly with our Bob Ross theme. I had the idea to populate a Ross … Continue reading ?
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“Nature points out the folly of man”

by paul bond

| ds106, Godzilla, Syndicated
September 12, 2021

Our friend Thomas noticed the Godzilla trend that seems to be coming up in ds106. It was unexpected, but I wholeheartedly approve. So I had this idea that felt like it might work. I had previously found a transcription of … Continue reading ?
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One more post of GIFfing

by paul bond

| AnimatedGIF, ds106, dylan, GIMP, Syndicated
September 11, 2021

I thought I should get the rest of my Bob GIFs out there before I forget about them. I did two earlier posts as part of this set, all of which are sequels to an even earlier set. This image … Continue reading ?
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Story cubed

by paul bond

| ds106, MakeArtDammit, storyanalysis, Syndicated
September 9, 2021

The other week on Twitter, constant source of ds106 inspiration Amy Burvall shared this video: I had blogged about Guernica before, in an attempt to analyze it as a story. This video brings more depth to the painting, by analyzing … Continue reading ?
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Digital patches

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
September 5, 2021

Today’s Daily Create said to “Make some digital sashiko.” Sashiko is explained as a way to repair clothing and in the process make it more beautiful. If we were to interpret this metaphorically, as something digital, what could it be? … Continue reading ?
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What Would Bob Do?

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Godzilla, Syndicated
September 3, 2021

I have loved the Godzilla Haiku since I first found it way back when, so I was overjoyed when I saw someone had made it a Daily Create. My contribution is completely lame of course, because I always end up … Continue reading ?
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The deadly hands of ds106

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
September 2, 2021

Today’s Daily Create prompt was to wear your flag on your hand. My flag is ds106, so: @ds106dc #tdc3521 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is that my flag is #ds106 pic.twitter.com/PaDkxhIv7H — paul bond (@phb256) September 2, 2021 … Continue reading ?
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Ross the Boss

by paul bond

| bob ross, ds106, Syndicated, troll quote
September 1, 2021

Our friend @billgx shared a quote on Discord: “There is never a penalty for doing more than what was expected.” -Bob Ross with a subtitle: (if he did not say it, he should have.) That made me think there could … Continue reading ?
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“till my ghastly tale is told”

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
August 28, 2021

@ds106dc #tdc3516 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is Once near big as mewith pictures that I could readof life on the sea pic.twitter.com/Y0DNYPKG9i — paul bond (@phb256) August 28, 2021 The Daily Create today asked for a haiku … Continue reading ?
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A Different Bob

by paul bond

| bobdobbs, dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
August 26, 2021

Today’s Daily Create had us make a Mystic Symbolic Creature. I played around with it a little randomized a bit, and then “Bob” showed up. I don’t know much about the Church of the SubGenius, but it sounds like some … Continue reading ?
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“and I’ll show you how to color it.”

by paul bond

| ds106, rossthoughts1, Syndicated
August 26, 2021

So I watched Bob Ross – Golden Rays of Sunshine (Season 28 Episode 4): The first thing that caught my eye was actually in the comment section, right at the top: “I feel more supported and capable in less than … Continue reading ?
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Down in the basement, that’s where it’s at

by paul bond

| behind the scenes, ds106, Syndicated
August 21, 2021

We made a quick video for This Week in ds106 which while quick to make, did take some planning. Jim masterminded everything through OBS, which ds106ers with video ambitions may want to look into, as it’s powerful, cross-platform and free. … Continue reading ?
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test

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 11, 2021

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Art Rock

by paul bond

| audio, ds106, remix, rock/rot, Syndicated
August 5, 2021

Our friends at Radio Eugene shared a happy little ditty from Soundcloud the other day: Previewing some tracks for a someday upcoming radio sorta thing and the associative trails led here. And it’s only just Tuesday morning. https://t.co/ZtJwBXjVz0 — Radio … Continue reading ?
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“The New and Improved Bob Dylan”

by paul bond

| AnimatedGIF, ds106, GIMP, Syndicated
August 5, 2021

Title borrowed from The William Loveday Intention I’m continuing to work on giffing in GIMP, and working on a sequel to my earlier Bob set. I did the above image following the same steps outlined in my previous post. Alan … Continue reading ?
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Waving the false flag

by paul bond

| Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
March 20, 2021

The Daily Create for today was to do a mashup of flags. There was a recommended app, but I went looking for other ones and found Fake Flag. This looked cool because you could take elements from multiple flags and … Continue reading ?
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Simplicity and Ubiquity

by paul bond

| design, ds106, Syndicated
March 3, 2021

A Baddie’s Blog raised a good point about simplicity and minimalism: I remember seeing a Doritos commercial where they were being very vague about naming the chip. However, they kept showing a bright red bag and a dark blue bag. … Continue reading ?
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There is unrest in the forest

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated
February 24, 2021

For our third ds106radio live tweeting session, we listened to a Radiolab episode From Tree to Shining Tree which did a great job of making science topics entertaining and relatable. In doing so, it used sound in subtly effective ways … Continue reading ?
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Evolutionary evol

by paul bond

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1423, ds106, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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Revenge of the Ancient Ones

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated
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), … Continue reading ?
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Well don’t you know about the bird?

by paul bond

| bird is the word, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
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. … Continue reading ?
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The sounds of dreams

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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The Wright stuff

by paul bond

| ds106, frank lloyd wright, internet archive, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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Whistler’s painting

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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Funky Broadway Boogie Woogie

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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Reading Guernica

by paul bond

| ds106, storyanalysis, Syndicated
February 10, 2021

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 … Continue reading ?
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Look at the window

by paul bond

| Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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Week one wrap up

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated
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 … Continue reading ?
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