You know what’s cooler than a million dollars? Me neither.

The Messing with MacGuffin asks you to choose a pivotal point in a movie and alter the plot with a single line. It turns out to be a hell of a lot of fun!

Professor Oliver learns a lesson about the right tools for the job on this journey to the center of the internet

Professor Oliver Lindenbrook prepares us for the journey that is about to begin and speaks with a former TA Jim Groom that worked with a professor by the name of Dr. Oblivion

So often I have lengthy discussions on Twitter and keep telling myself “I need to be blogging this! 140 characters isn’t enough for my rage!” but to grab the bits and pieces of what was said on Twitter and codify … Continue reading →

Dr. Oblivion sits down with Jim Groom for a final interview about what has been happening, Groom’s motives and intentions, and more

Dr. Oblivion, after being checked by the authorities and declared safe, gives a few words of encouragement and receives a surprise reunion

Bianca Oblivion returns from meeting her father in the flesh after 27 years to give a few final words

Sheriff John Bottom of local Camp Oblivion authorities reveals their prime suspect being charged with the deaths of ds107 and the attempted murder of Jim Groom and Dr. Oblivion

Agent Kim Droom takes the feed for a live press conference announcing the findings directly from the crime scene known as “Camp Oblivion&#

Tim Owens leads a discussion with a few people on the merits and pitfalls of Google+ and in particular the idea of social “circles”. And there’s brief nudity by Bryan Jackson, so there’s that

As chance would have it I was browsing my RSS feeds yesterday and came across a link to a web app called “Bolt” on Zac Chase’s blog and it’s the perfect tool for creating these web stories. It works similar … Continue reading →

I always know I need to blog about something when I’ve reached more than 5 tweets on a subject and still feel passionate about something. 140 characters makes any sort of civil discourse difficult, but the beauty to me is … Continue reading →

With the Summer of Oblivion course technically only being Monday – Thursday there were many of us left wondering what would happen on ds106TV on Fridays. While it appears Dr. Oblivion has gone missing I figured I would jump on … Continue reading →

I think I should print this as a sticker and canvas Myrtle Beach with them.

This scene/song has tons of repetition, probably easier for animators to work with the scenes. I swear I’m going to stop for the day. I can quit anytime, I don’t need help. Really.

Ok, this one started off at 11MB, I pared it down to 3, and then did layer masking to cut it in half again. 1.6MB isn’t exactly small, but it’s worth it for Falkor nodding in approval.

Finally started playing around with masking in Gimp (did anyone do a tutorial on this? I searched and didn’t find one). Really this scene from the opening of Blade Runner didn’t need much masking but I’m a perfectionist to a fault and wanted it damn near perfect. Also, 492kb! Stoked about that. A few technical ...

Readers of my blog are no strangers to the great joy I get from the madness that is ds106. It’s time to fire it up again (did it ever stop?!). The Summer of Oblivion begins June 20th and as an opening salvo I’ve created my animated gif. David Bowie, Tights, that’s right, this shit just ...

Today I accepted a position as an Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Mary Washington’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. It’s almost impossible for me to convey the emotion behind that first sentence, because in many ways this is literally a dream, years in the making, coming true for me. I will join ...

One of my recommendations in the ds106 Toolbox for folks who can’t afford Photoshop (and don’t really need to) is a website called Aviary. Although I refer to it in terms of a photo editor, their suite of tools really does a whole lot more including vector editing and even an audio editor. I’ve decided ...

Looking back on the large amount of work created during the ds106 course and thinking about the reflective advice given by myself and others, it occurred to me that along the way a lot of us have blogged our process as well as the final results. Information like that is invaluable to incoming students and ...

I’ve thought long and hard about what I could say to convey why this class is important. Why it is simultaneously the greatest and most meaningful course you can complete, and at the same time the most grueling. There’s a lot of great advice out there already for you to read. So I’m just going ...

After just a few weeks of the TV experiment going live there has been a whole lot of experimentation and it’s generally becoming a fun playground to explore what’s possible with a medium like this. The karaoke night action was fun (and possibly painful for the audience). The joint movie watching via Skype ala Mystery ...

I remember clearly the first online community I was a part of. In late 2003, just a few weeks after it had been built, I joined Monkeyfilter. Monkeyfilter was a spinoff of Metafilter which was closed to new membership at the time. I had been following Metafilter for a few months prior and when I ...

As is quickly becoming tradition (at least for Jim Groom and I), I decided to broadcast some karaoke tunes to ds106 on Friday. The idea of livestreaming and setting up a TV station for ds106 has been back on my mind a lot recently in light of the video assignments. You’ll recall perhaps that I ...

I had been playing around with the idea of using a combination of Google Street View and sound effects from the Freesound.org project for awhile now. Today’s news that Google now has Street View inside of famous landmarks is all the prodding I needed to start playing. My recommendation is to wear headphones and watch ...

My wife always laughs at me when My Girl comes on TV. Yes, I am a man, and yes I cry at this sappy movie. I can’t help it. To me there is something powerful about the way they frame a story of a girl that can’t understand death until her best friend dies. Anyway, ...

The combination of a few late nights with the wife and kid out of town and our newly installed high-speed internet connection have meant the ability for me to do more interaction with ds106 by way of broadcasting on the radio waves. I never would have expected such an ancient technology like radio to have ...

Martha Burtis posts an excellent assignment involving the use of a Firefox extension called Firebug to edit the contents of a website to create an interesting story. This is just genius, so much easier than photoshopping a site. I wanted to do something meaningful with it, mostly because the temptation is there to do something ...