The video essay projects are another one of my favorite parts of ds106. While we do various analyses throughout the semester – story shapes, design blitz, etc. – people seem to put more into video. That’s probably because it’s a language we’re more familiar with. Most people say they’ve never …
It’s been a long long time since I did a video essay, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Here I talk briefly about symbolism in O Brother Where Art Thou. Some of the clips I found on Youtube. For others, I used Quicktime to make screen recordings …
Some people inevitably won’t be able to make it to the ds106 radio tweet-along broadcasts of the class radio projects. So I’m providing links here to the shows and background on the characters. Ideally, people should listen in and interact. But if you can’t, give a listen to the other …
I picked up a copy of Chip Kidd’s book at my local library.
What the Brain Pickings article says about it, that it “refus[es] to talk down to them or confine their inborn curiosity to narrow adult expectations about what ‘writing for children’ should be like” is spot on. I …
“There’s two kinds of people in this world, my friend: Those who work for a living, and those who own things for a living.” is the way I usually paraphrase Tuco. But today’s Daily Create challenge was to make something, so I had to think differently about it. I’ve …
A few people referenced audiobooks with regards to the Anansi Boys dramatization. Some of us found this interesting since there are very distinct differences between audiobooks and radio plays, or audio dramatizations. An audiobook has a narrator reading the text of a book. In some cases, the reader will …
We’ve had some great turnouts for our #ds106radio tweet-alongs this week, and some great insights as well.
I feel like I’m missing the video… such realistic audio but I keep zoning out or losing track of who’s speaking! I’ve never listened to straight audio so this is hard for me …
As a long time fan of Bob Ross, I was naturally drawn to Kim Beom’s Yellow Scream:
Kim Beom “Yellow Scream” from ??????? ???????? on Vimeo.
I’m very impressed with his ability to keep a straight face. But I wondered what would happen if I set the audio …
It is interesting to read people’s analyses of stories, both for the variety and the insights. It’s also interesting that no one tried to draw the shape of their stories. It wasn’t a requirement or anything, but it is a simple exercise in visual analysis. I thought about this …
A post on one of my go-to sites led me to 10 Brilliant Retellings of Classical Myths by Female Writers. A convenient coincidence. Henstra’s introductory paragraph makes a couple of great points – one about how myths are multilayered, revealing new meaning upon re-reading, and another about their primal …
I want to muse on how A Study in Emerald fits in with our theme. I think of superheroes as a kind of modern mythology, with the tales of adventure and triumph and good vs. evil all mapping to ancient hero myths. While not quite explicitly stated, Gaiman’s story is …
One of my favorite Tumblrs was the Godzilla Haiku, which I haven’t seen in a long time. So when I saw this assignment, I had to try it. I decided to use the Mothman, a West Virginia legend and the namesake of a movie that creeped me …
I was inspired to do this because Emily did one. I had forgotten all about this assignment. The cat lives up the street. I don’t know his name, so I call him Frank, after Sinatra, who was nicknamed “Old Blue Eyes.” He only acts friendly when my wife …
Since we’re looking at the idea of myth and legend this time around in ds106, I watched Walter Hill’s 1984 commercial flop Streets of Fire. The subtitle, “A Rock n Roll Fable,” is what caught my attention. It’s your typical psycho biker kidnaps rock star and her drifter ex …
A lot of great thoughts came through in the first week’s posts. I will muse on some of them here.
“so much weird stuff happens on social media that to me it seems more responsible to stay off of it!”
This is not a bad policy. But we …
I had the idea to base this semester of ds106 around legend, myth and folklore. That’s probably too broad to be called a theme, but whatever. It connects to many previous themes from ds106 – westerns, superheroes, horror, apocalypse. It gives a lot of options as to where we can …
8/27/18-8/31/18
All work is due by midnight on Friday, 8/31/18
Welcome to ds106! This first week is dedicated to getting set up: set up your domain and Web hosting; install your WordPress site; and create other social media accounts such as Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc. Complete introductions via posts, twitter, …
It started with a simple Rogers-esque tweet from Kin
Beautiful day in the hood! pic.twitter.com/oQ1GYrgNr4
— Kin Lane (@kinlane) April 21, 2018
And as I looked through the photos, I noticed some were at the intersection of Amsterdam and a street named in honor of our very own ds106
So …
“It’s Hot Pockets Day on the Daily Create!”
“Didn’t we already talk about this?”
“I’m making Rock Pockets.”
“What – you’re going to put Aerosmith inside a Hot Pocket?”
That wouldn’t be a bad idea, and could be a whole ‘nother meme. But I thought the Hot Pocket …
Yesterday’s Daily Create involved using an online application to stylize an image. I had seen something like this before and thought it was pretty cool, so I gave it a shot.
I used an image from the Church of San Lorenzo which I first saw heading an article on The …
Our Daily Create today was End Sounds. For whatever reason, the first thing I thought of was the voice at the end of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell album, saying “Shazbot! Nanu nanu.” Someone actually made a supercut of the endings of all the AC/DC songs, but if I …
Today’s Daily Create says to “Colorize a Photo with a Silly Color.” Sounds like fun. First I needed a silly color. If I were creatively inclined, I’d probably make one up, but since I’m lazy, I googled “invent a color” and found this list of AI-generated colors. I happened …
I have been seeing information on Twitter that someone is plotting the end of the world, as well as the end of ds106. It occurred to me that this is just the type of thing that requires superhero involvement. Even supervillains should want to stop this from happening, …
by Bob McLeod, from The Incredible Hulk #339
I’ve been pretty consistently blown away by the reflections on the readings in this season of ds106. This week brings us design thoughts, something that’s usually a bit of a struggle. Too often people confuse decoration or templates with design, when …
So I had this idea to use design to turn movie scenes into comic book pages. Not exactly reverse engineering storyboards, but rather using the language of sequential art, panels and layout, as part of the storytelling. This is challenging on a number of levels. The first is a matter …
We will be doing a more-or-less weekly best of ds106, This Week in ds106, this semester. We’ve done something like this in the past, but now I’m trying out some new things. I’m using the PressForward WordPress plugin to manage it. This has a syndication function, so I’m pulling in …
If you were a superhero, what would your powers be?
I posted that to Facebook, just to see what people would say. Some responses were unsurprising: speed, agility, flight. One person said skepticism and another wanted the Lasso of Truth – not quite the same, but both represent a power …
@ds106dc #tdc2061 My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is an emu with emo hair pic.twitter.com/G6S1BKmdNq
— paul bond (@phb256) August 31, 2017
“How would you make an emophoto?” my wife asked.
“Emo Phillips?” I responded, not knowing what we were talking about.
“How about an emu? That …
Week One of ds106 has been posted at http://thisweekin.ds106.us/2017/08/25/week-one-bootcamp/…
I made a logo, so I figured I’d make a trailer of sorts. I had seen the Dr. Bees video (YT) recently. It uses the “It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” tagline from various Superman shows, and since my logo was a parody of Supe’s, it seemed like …
