Daily Create: Tiny Book Of Secrets
The prompt for the DS106 Daily Create was to find some object that looks like spycraft. I have this little plastic book object, and used Giphy to spice it up a bit.
Peace (shhhhh),
Kevin
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Show us the Tech Noir
The point of the film review assignment was to get people thinking about the Tech Noir concept, how it has been portrayed in media, and what it means to us. It’s not meant to be a generic or conventional film … Continue reading -
“Ever get the feeling you was being watched?”
The other day friend of ds106 Grant Potter noted that the tech noir adjacent theme of surveillance is a theme on the Criterion Channel this month. One of the films on their list is The Anderson Tapes, which conveniently happens … Continue reading -
Noir Chopper
by Reverend January 16, 2025I am creating a course aggregation site for the current Tech Noir ds106 course, and it’s been a while. Thankfully Alan Levine and Tom Woodward have been kind enough to help me hack the old gold TwentyTwelve WordPress theme to … Continue reading -
DS106, Feed WordPress, Jim Groom, and Alan Levine!
I feel like I’m time traveling back to the good old days of Mother Blogs. Jim posted on Mastodon1 about wanting to be able to display the WP excerpt on posts syndicated via Feed WordPress in a Noir-themed #DS106 course he’s teaching. It broke my heart to hear he was doing it by hand. I ...Read More... from DS106, Feed WordPress, Jim Groom, and Alan Levine!
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The Automated Dark Side of ds106: Tech Noir
I tried to make a ds106 comeback last year with the AI 106 course, but it turns out I wasn’t even up to getting off the couch. It was a long winter, and quite a few of my responsibilities were … Continue reading -
Daily Create: Pixelation
This is from today’s DS106 Daily Create, which I suggested, and uses the Remixer Machine at Visual Thinkery. I took a screencast as I toggled the bar, and then converted that video into a GIF. Peace (and play), Kevin -
Down by GIF
Today’s Daily Create instructions were to visualize The Scream, but since I saw Down by Law way back when, “scream” suggests a different image. If I were smart I would have realized that someone must have made this GIF before, … Continue reading -
Daily Create: Scream in Banana
The task for DS106 Daily Create was to remix The Scream with something in your surroundings. I turned to my fruit bowl. Peace (in a shout), Kevin -
Talking Tech Noir, part deux
We’re working with a them of Tech Noir in ds106 this semester, and as I mentioned before, we can’t really expect the class to know what we’re talking about, so Jim and I recorded a half-hour discussion which hopefully brings … Continue reading -
NGram Viewsic
The other day, a prompt at DS106 Daily Create had us using the NGram data analysis site (which tracks terms across books across time) and I did a music instrument theme, and noticed some changes in when mentions happened. I mused about using the chart to create a piece of music, where the different instruments […] -
Moon Tube Shot
This was for the DS106 Daily Create. It started with a selfie through a paper towel tube, and then I added some filter effects. Peace (through a tube), Kevin -
Pattern Wobble
This is for the DS106 Daily Create, on the theme of Patterns, for its 13 year daily prompts. Peace (a bit wobbly), Kevin -
Some Symmetry
Today’s DS106 Daily Create was about creating symmetry art with a Western theme from an image. I found myself (once again) perusing the Flickr files of Alan Levine, and worked with two of his Colorado images. One became a beautiful bit of sunset lighting and the other, with a variety of filters, became something other-worldy. […] -
Hope
I shared this out for this morning’s DS106 Daily Create — the theme was “hope” — after finding it in my comic archives. Peace (and hope), Kevin -
Tech Noir 106
Jim had talked about doing a Tech Noir themed course many years ago, and now we’re looking to revisit the idea. It feels appropriate to the times. I can’t expect everyone to be an aficionado of the genre though, so … Continue reading -
Conference of the Air at #OEGlobal24 (powered by ds106radio)
by CogDog The Blog November 13, 2024I’ve not made much noise about traveling, but for what its worth I am in Brisbane, Australia where my organization is hosting the OEGlobal24 conference. I have skipped the long flight, the cute koalas, to try and quickly publish something that for weeks has felt like a mad idea. With a bit of virtual duct […] -
href weekly | Nov 3 – Nov 9
Bits “just because it’s new and shiny doesn’t necessarily mean that it is actually better.” https://hackaday.com/2024/11/03/all-you-need-for-artificial-intelligence-is-a-commodore-64/ There is a course worth of cultural critique here that is #ds106 worthy https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-luddite-horror tracks the energy consumption and environmental impacts of using #generative #ai models through APIs https://ecologits.ai/latest/ Sound & Music Love brought joy and life brought painThe […] -
Write Out: Wild Things
We used Wendell Berry’s Peace Of Wild Things poem for some remix this morning for the Write Out prompt at DS106 Daily Create. I first created a song, and then a poem. Peace (gone wild), Kevin -
Write Out: The Tree Of The Impossible
Today’s Write Out prompt via DS106 Daily Create is about using the Tree Fractal site to inspire a poem. Peace (in the possible), Kevin -
Write Out/Daily Create Collaborative Poem
Yesterday’s prompt for the DS106 Daily Create and Write Out poem was an invitation to collaborate on a tree-themed poem. We used Etherpad. Here is the full poem — thanks to all collaborators. A spark beneath the brittle soil, a seed awakes and stretches out towards the sun above Fibers thread their paths burrow in […] -
Write Out Code Poem
This poem comes from the DS106 Daily Create prompt today, in conjunction with Write Out. I used ClaudeAI to generate the code, and then found the evocative flower image via Flickr to overlay on it. Peace (and bloom), Kevin -
Disrupt The Rhythm: A Social Media Found Poem for Write Out
The prompt at the DS106 Daily Create was to use social media to compose a poem about the environment so I created a “found” poem with the climate hashtag on Mastodon. Peace (finding it), Kevin -
Write Out: Some Rivers Meander
This poem comes from the morning prompt at DS106 Daily Create, and the use of time-lapse imagery via Google Earth Engine. Peace (and wandering), Kevin -
Write Out: Poem Burst
I wrote three poems in the last 12 hours, with prompts via Write Out and its theme of “Poetry for the Planet.” The poem above is via the DS106 Daily Create and the two below are from the National Writing Project Studio space, where Abigail is posting daily prompts for Write Out. Peace (and poems), […] -
Write Out: Weather Jumping
Today’s prompt for Write Out via DS106 Daily Create was to randomly choose cities around the world and discover the weather patterns, and then write a poem. Peace (in the sunshine), Kevin -
Write Out: Swim With Possibilities
This morning poem comes from DS106 Daily Create, for Write Out. Peace (in the ocean), Kevin -
Write Out: An Ode For Father Time
Via DS106 Daily Create Peace (ticking forward, forever), Kevin -
Write Out 2024 Kicks Off Today …
This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing […] -
106 Photos… 506 of Them
I always thought it was clever that when talking about my favorite creative act (taking/making photos) that I described photography as an act of deletion. In putting that rectangular frame around an object, landscape, animal, person, you are essentially removing everything outside the frame. With so much fervor of the “power” of generative AI to […]
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