A new thing: This Week in ds106

A new thing: This Week in ds106

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, this week in ds106
September 10, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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What are your powers?

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated
August 31, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Emu/o

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
August 31, 2017

@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 … Continue reading →
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Super106 comes alive

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 26, 2017

Week One of ds106 has been posted at http://thisweekin.ds106.us/2017/08/25/week-one-bootcamp/
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Super ds106 – a trailer

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 15, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Season of ds106

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 14, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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The daily death

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 3, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Milk, Chocolate Milk

by paul bond

| Syndicated
June 3, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Rats! Foiled again.

by paul bond

| Syndicated
April 21, 2017

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? … Continue reading →
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Week 12: Remix & Mashups

by paul bond

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
April 7, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Help out a ds106 classmate

by paul bond

| Syndicated
April 3, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Agent Orange

by paul bond

| Syndicated
March 31, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Week 11: Mission: Moviemaking

by paul bond

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
March 31, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Week 10: Reading movies

by paul bond

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
March 24, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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You Only Broadcast Twice

by paul bond

| Syndicated
March 21, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Goldradio

by paul bond

| Syndicated
March 21, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Player gonna play

by paul bond

| Syndicated
March 4, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Bond goes GQ

by paul bond

| Syndicated
February 22, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Corporate spies

by paul bond

| Syndicated
February 17, 2017

One might ask: How does Limetown fit in to the secret agent genre? But it becomes apparent over the course of the storyline that there is a secret agency involved, mostly in the background, but omnipresent. It’s sort of like … Continue reading →
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A Valentine’s GIF for you

by paul bond

| Syndicated
February 14, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Top Secret: For your eyes only

by paul bond

| Syndicated
February 14, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Let’s not make it 800% slower

by paul bond

| Syndicated
February 13, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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CeeLo goes for the gold

by paul bond

| Syndicated
February 13, 2017

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. … Continue reading →
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Week Five: Mission:Audio

by paul bond

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
February 10, 2017

Includes a portion of Secret Agent Breakdown by Tony Aldrich, licensed under a Creative Commons License. 2/10/17 – 2/17/17 All work is due by midnight on 2/17 This week we will dig into audio storytelling. That goes beyond the words … Continue reading →
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Week Four: Mission:Photography

by paul bond

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
February 3, 2017

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. Think about the Visuals of Storytelling: Review the following … Continue reading →
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Warning 106

by paul bond

| Syndicated
January 29, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Week Three: Writing

by paul bond

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated
January 27, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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Secret agents

by paul bond

| Syndicated
January 24, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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PhilosophTEE

by paul bond

| Syndicated
January 21, 2017

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, … Continue reading →
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The first question of the semester

by paul bond

| Syndicated
January 15, 2017

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 … Continue reading →
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