I was never much of a Donovan fan, but I like Alice Donut’s version of Sunshine Superman and Goodfellas’ version of Atlantis. Now we can add Cogdog’s Season of DS106 to the list. The secret great thing about it is that it reminded me to check the schedule on ds106radio. …
a sow has eaten you
— Medieval Death Bot (@DeathMedieval) August 2, 2017
Yesterday’s Daily Create involved the Medieval Death Bot, a constant source of unfortunate ends. A nice thing about the bot is that if you include @DeathMedieval in a tweet, the bot gets medieval on you. I …
What drink would define me? Ask anyone who knows me well and they would laugh, because I buy a gallon of milk nearly every day. My addiction is to chocolate milk. This has been going on for decades. Here is my glass:
See that groove across the spoon? I’ve been …
While I’ve been taking care of business, the agents have been investigating. The ds106 polls have yielded some interesting information so far.
Agent Bongo has been involved in some top level coverups lately what is likely his next PR campaign? #ds106poll #ds106
— Callie (@libcal3) April 19, 2017
What are …
4/7/17 – 4/14/17
Make a Tutorial
This week’s main focus will be on mashups and remixes, but we also need to make tutorials. You may have noticed these in the Assignment Bank. Some assignments have them, some don’t. Was there an assignment that gave you trouble? Something that you had …
One of our ds106ers is collecting data for a psychology project, “a study about parenting, romantic relationships, and life satisfaction.” I have been told “This study is for academic purposes only and the data that is collected will only be analyzed for academic advancement.” You do not have to do …
In reviewing the agent interviews, I’m noticing some common answers. Everyone who has responded to the animal question has said tiger, and everyone who responded to gorilla question said 7-11. the thread that ties the two together is the color orange. So what does this mean? I looked for the …
We are doing a second week of video. We’re bringing it all together in these last few weeks. This is almost entirely taken from the Open ds106 Unit 10:
Video the ds106 Way
Focus on the storytelling aspect of your video making–do not get caught up in the technical …
3/24 – 3/31
Reading movies
This week we’re moving from audio to video. We’ve been looking at related aspects – photography, sound, design – all along, but now we’re going to look at cinematic camerawork, and how it all comes together.
For starters, read Roger Ebert’s How the Read a …
For our second night of ds106 radio shows, we had another trio of tales, all very different. I don’t have much commentary right now, as the hour grows late and I have to head off to the Active Covert Reconnaissance League conference tomorrow, but I want to get these links …
The radio show project is my favorite part of ds106. There are usually some complaints about the difficulty of working with audio and collaborating online, but almost everyone does great work and is justifiably proud of their creations. We had three shows on our first night, starting with the Miami …
I liked #tdc1880 as a design assignment, so I’m going to treat it as one. I did it as a TDC already, but my effort was pretty lame. I originally wanted to do something with the picture of the mandrill (#7) because the shape and symmetry of the image looked …
I decided to take another shot at the Animated Magazine Cover assignment. Former ds106 master Jim Groom did a GQ Dude cover, and I thought GQ would be tailor-made for Bond. As it turns out, it was, since I found a GQ France cover with Daniel Craig on …
I’m no good at coming up with clever saying for cards. So I asked Hallmark for ideas. They’re the pros. For today’s TDC, I grabbed a bunch of the romance cover paintings that @cali4beach saved to Flickr and went to see which lines would work for which images. …
Being a secret agent is a risky business. For security’s sake it is important that you know who each other are, in case any of you should cross paths. You may find it advantageous to be aware of each others backgrounds, skills and strengths, so you should familiarize yourself with …
I never really liked the Make It 800% Slower assignment. It usually results in a never ending drone, and people give themselves 4 stars for what is little more than a click of a button. However, I thought I might try taking the Monster Magnet song “Hallelujah” (YT…
I have no idea what CeeLo was up to, and I don’t watch the Grammys, but this isn’t the first time he’s channeled a Bond villain. So I had the idea to do a spin on the triple troll quote. The picture comes from US magazine, and …
Includes a portion of Secret Agent Breakdown by Tony Aldrich, licensed under a Creative Commons License.
2/10/17 – 2/17/17
Get Smart shoe phones
All work is due by midnight on 2/17
This week we will dig into audio storytelling. That goes beyond the words and tone of voice to include …
2/3-2/10
All work is due by midnight on Friday, 2/10
Thanks to the Photo group for their input this week.
This week we will be exploring visual elements of storytelling.
Mission: Photography
Think about the Visuals of Storytelling: Review the following materials about photography and using visual elements …
One of our agents reported some foreign interference this week. We have had these issues in the past, as seen in the above video, so we need to be on the alert. We do not know if the ds106 outage this afternoon was related. Our New Zealand office has weighed …
by Epting & Brubaker, from Velvet #13
Sorry, no goofy video this week.
1/27-2/3
All work is due by midnight on Friday, 2/3
Thanks go out to the Writing Group for their input for this week!
Below is a detailed list of what’s to be completed this week.
To get…
I wrote a little about my thinking with Mission106 a while ago. I remember seeing The Avengers and The Prisoner in reruns when I was very young.Those were a couple of my favorite shows. It was sometime later that I found out about James Bond. The TV shows are …
The Daily Create today was to design a philosophTEE. “Make Sartre, Dammit!” was the first thing that came to mind, making a pun off of the longtime ds106 slogan, but I basically don’t know Jacques about Sartre. Then I thought, isn’t MOOC pioneer Stephen Downes a philosopher? His …
Why do all my classes use Twitter? #ds106
— Megan Carey (@megancarey95) January 13, 2017
It’s a fair question. I can’t speak for other classes, but in ds106 it is one of our main group conversation spaces. Since we don’t meet in person, we need a forum where we can …
1/17/17-1/20/17
All work is due by midnight on Friday, 1/20/17
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, Flickr, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc. Complete introductions via posts, …
We have a new edition of ds106 starting up: Mission 106. We’ll be taking our inspiration from the spy fiction genre in all its mutations, and making of it what we will. Make art, dammit! (TM) Everyone is welcome to join in. This will be a fun project because there …
For today’s Daily Create, the challenge was to make a movie quote infographic. My initial thought was “We’re gonna need a bigger boat,” but the output would end up being as inelegant as some of the examples from Flowing Data.
One of the presents I got …
I had never heard of a MoonTubeShot. Props to @NomadWarMachine for making it a Daily Create. It’s a cool effect, and I especially like the low-tech angle. I think a moon needs context though. And what better than the three wolf moon t-shirt?
“What would the name of your band be?” Paul’s rule number 1 for the Daily Create: If you don’t have an idea, ask someone else. Today’s challenge was, “If you were a musician, what would your debut album look like?” My wife suggested The Ionic Bonds. I have a genetic …
