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 …
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 …
