Inspiration IN this TED Talk, JJ Abrams offers the idea of a mystery box as a core component of his storytelling– “The mystery box is a catalyst for imagination… maybe more important than knowledge.” Pay attention, especially for your last stiry project, to what he says about the investment in...

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by greekadman As a final project for headless ds106, you are asked to produce a story around a character that explores at least three of the media forms we’ve investigated this semester: visual/design, audio, video, web, remix/mashup (Please note that...

Inspiration Charles Bukowski on the Ideal Conditions and Myths of Creativity, Illustrated by Zen Pencils Remixing! Mashing Up! For the next two weeks you’ll be exploring the culminating ideas of ds106–remixes and mashups– the recasting of existing media into new forms by creative combination and editing. This will build off...

Inspiration Who can inspire more (someone will tell us) for telling stories in film than the great Hitchcock? The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook is a student project from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover. An animated book containing recipes for Alfred Hitchcock’s classics. Now Make Your Own Recipes!...

Inspiration Ken Burns is much more than an overused editing effect in iMovie- hear him talk about what makes a good story in video, how he looks for 1 + 1 equaling 3. Let’s Read Movies! cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Frans Persoon This...

Inspiration This video was made by Rachel, a 2012 UMW Student. It is one of many works featured in the ds106 inSPIRE site, something she and a co-student also designed as a final project. it is a place to recognize the other work of people in ds106. Maybe you might...

Inspiration Note the form of this retelling of Little Red Riding Hood’s story in a design mode of an 8-bit video game; and there is no narration! Lock in to the Radio cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Welcome to Weeks Seven & Eight of ds106....

We’ve wrapped up our week on visual storytelling and photography, and this week we’re diving into design. It’s not always clear where the line is, but design storytelling involves more creating and modifying in graphics software programs, and focuses on key characteristics of color, form, shape, typography, etc. cc licensed...

Inspiration: Photographer Jason Eskenazi describes Storytelling and Visual Literacy http://vimeo.com/73824631 Hat tip to Barbara Ganley for sharing this video in twitter. Tweet her @bgblogging and invite her to share her visual storytelling prowess to ds106 this week. She needs some ds106 action! Stories in Photos “There are no rules for...

Each project group (comprised of 4-5 people) will write, produce and record a radio show around a theme. These should show the forms and characteristics of the radio shows you listened to in week 4, and demonstrate the ideas of shapes of stories we looked at in Week 3. Groups...

Inspiration: How to Truly Listen Diving into Audio This week in ds106 we’re going to be diving into our first storytelling genre: audio. Working with sound can seem daunting, so we’ll be easing you into it this week by focusing first on our listening. Nearly all previous ds106 students start...

This Week’s Creative Inspiration… A Cartoonists Advice created by Gavin Aung Thang in the style of Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. Storytelling! Storytelling! Storytelling? cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by gogoloopie Storytelling… it’s part of the title this course, and you likely have...

Congratulations! You’ve been through your first week of ds106 bootcamp, under the command of Captain I Crane. This week, we’ll be continuing to work our way through the ds106 obstacle course as you work on customizing your blogs, wrap your heads around the wonderful world of tagging, ponder the concepts...

Attention new ds106 recruits! Welcome to ds106. I am your friend, Sergeant Headless. The first two weeks of this open course experience might be seens basic training for what you will need to survive thrive in the rest of this course. In fact, you will not be able to proceed...