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Why are we using the Internet as a theme? I started thinking about this idea a few months ago, when I came across the article “The true promise of Interactive Computing: Leveraging our Collective IQ.” I started thinking about how the people who built the Internet and the …
For today’s Daily Create we had to “Remix the Twitter Bird into an unusual location.” The bird led to The Birds, naturally, and no doubt inspired by gifmaster Michael Branson Smith’s Hitchcock effort. When I googled the Twitter logo and found a black PNG of the bird, the …
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The syllabus for the Fall 2016 ds106 course is now online.…
ds106 is right around the corner, so I better start blogging about it again. I had a bunch of ideas about what to do this semester. I thought of using a superhero theme, something I still might run with at some point in the future. They’re a thing in pop …
Some images are just asking to be GIFfed. Tom Woodward’s bionicteaching tumblr sometimes reblogs images from the Internet Archive Book Images’ Photostream, an awesome resource. When I saw this image this morning, I couldn’t resist:
http://bionicteaching.tumblr.com/post/147865024853/image-from-page-250-of-osiris-and-the-egyptian
The image is a detail from the Narmer Palette. I’m not sure …
@ds106dc #tdc1646 My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is “And you may tell yourself …” pic.twitter.com/N0Mm4ORn8C
— paul bond (@phb256) July 11, 2016
I always liked Magritte. It was nice to see him acknowledged in today’s Daily Create. The point of The Treachery of Images, as I …
Today’s Daily Create was to print out a Youtube video:
#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1634 Print Out a YouTube Video https://t.co/d5jmj31xzo pic.twitter.com/WqpY6zlerL
— ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) June 29, 2016
The first thing I thought of was what was perhaps the pinnacle of music video artistry, the video for The Replacements’ Bastards …
I’ve been playing with Adobe After Effects lately. I had a kinetic typography idea that I never finished, so I started looking into animation tools. But then I got sidetracked with the idea of making something sort of 3D out of a 2D image. I was thinking of a …
I saw Jim’s post about his t-shirt daily create and decided to steal his idea, ’cause that’s what I do. Basically I wanted to get more Bava in the bava logo. I like the idea of bringing imagery into lettering, although it’s not so easy to bring it off well. …
Today’s Daily Create challenge was to create the “worst photoshopped photo ever.” But I’m still thinking of the tweet I saw yesterday:
Reminder that Brian Eno was in a cat food ad: pic.twitter.com/XgASiLU350
— d a banks (@DA_Banks) May 23, 2016
I like the retro-ness, the improbable sponsorship, Eno and …
Zach Whalen tweeted some quotes from an ancient documentary on hypertext:
“…pristine and inviolate — but manifold and pluralistic. This web of interrelated texts is called a hypertext.”https://t.co/yxouNxmOVU
— zach whalen (@zachwhalen) May 9, 2016
Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University is one …
As ds106 ends each semester, the class gives advice to future ds106ers. It’s a good reflective exercise, and it lets people have some idea of what they’re getting into. Everybody says it’s a lot of work, and most say it’s fun work. This time around, we actually had one …
Today’s Daily Create builds on a Mashable story about Roy Stryker’s ruthless editing practices. During the Depression, he headed the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration, where he was in charge of documentary photography. If he didn’t like a photo, he punched a hole through the negative. One of …
I’ve been thinking about how we could use Gardner Campbell’s Apgar test in ds106. He uses it as a way of taking the class temperature at the beginning of a session, a quick gauge of their collective readiness. It also serves as a way of communicating expectations:
1. Did you …
So here we are in the last weeks of the semester, about to ride off in the sunset of Western106. It’s been a great ride, and everyone should be proud of all the work they’ve done. I really appreciate the consistent creative …
For this week’s adventure, we’re going to play with web storytelling. This should be fun. I am going to quote extensively from the Open ds106 Course:
In this unit we move to a different kind of storytelling, one that uses the space of existing web sites …
Earlier today, Jim tweeted some pictures of architecture around his ‘hood. One in particular caught my eye:
The crying eyes of Medusa. pic.twitter.com/WMMsHw0ZQ3
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) April 2, 2016
Medusa makes me think Harryhausen, so I had to try to animate it. It wasn’t all that difficult. I …
So this morning’s Metafiltering introduced me to Ostagram, which looked like an interesting tool for visual mashups. The question is, is this a tool normal people can use? There’s a link to Github, there’s a lot of what I think is Cyrillic text – not so helpful to me. …
All work is due by midnight on 4/8/16
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 …
So I though I’d take another shot at randomizing a comic book story. This is part one of “The People Thieves” from Blue Beetle #53, as found on Destination Nightmare. I figured, “How can you go wrong with giant bugs?” And there’s a Hulk-green mad …
I like what people have done with their video essays this week. Many have commented that they are not used to looking at movies analytically, which is normal. We watch them for entertainment, not to think about how they are put together. But when we look at movies the way …
Keep those tapes a-rollin’ Not that we do video on tape anymore, of course. We are doing a second week of video though.
Read through Making Movies the ds106 Way and all the subsections (You are not required to do the …
I think things like this are ds106 at its best. Kristopher took an existing assignment, put a #western106 twist on it and essentially made it a remix of the work the class has been doing this semester: Which DS106 Character Are You? It’s using the web, it’s doing something …
I’ve been indulging my comic book fixation on and of for quite a while now. One of the things that interests me is the single panel, taken out of context. A fragment of a story. It can suggest all sorts of possibilities, or it can take or give new meaning …
Everyone worked through major projects these past weeks, so we’re going to take it a little bit easy this week and reflect on what the class has accomplished. Above, I talk a little about the upcoming week and a little about The Good, the Bad, and the Puppy, in …
from http://bl-id.com/index/#/blood-meridian/
Based on Jim’s recommendations, I thought I should read Blood Meridian. Since my time is limited, I picked up the audiobook version so I could listen on my commute. It’s not the best way to do any book, due to the divided attention, but it’s especially problematic …
For today’s Daily Create we had to make a sign for our ranch, as named by the Farm Name Generator. Mine came up with Roadrunner Vineyard, which was too easy to pass up. I went to the Noun Project to see what they had for vineyard, and picked …
