Travel Day
Susan and I have spent a restful morning at Maria’s bed and breakfast making journey daybook pages before we leave Iguacu for the airport.
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Last Day in Brazil
For the past 11 days Susan and I have been storing lots of strong images in our heads, on paper, on our iPhones, on memory chips, and on the flash drives that we carry with us. Brazil is intensely beautiful … Continue reading → -
Urban Sketchers Paraty Brazil
Susan and I have arrived safely at this charming small fishing city after a four hour drive above spectacular vistas of cliffs, secluded beaches, and the deep blue south Atlantic. Are we in paradise? A press release follows : … Continue reading → -
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Journey Daybook Alumni Adventure at the Harn Museum
Last Saturday, 20 July, a large number of us enjoyed a new, very pertinent exhibit of many Japanese block prints around a journey from Tokyo to Kyoto, called the Tokaido Road. Each of us made pages based on our experience at … Continue reading → -
Summer Waters
This summer I have made a commitment to complete an update and redesign of both this blog website and the Journey Daybooks site – an awesome task for those, like me, who are left-brain challenged. Between my computer time, however, I take breaks … Continue reading → -
Inspiration: A German travel journal artist – Jens Hubner
In a recent FB post by the Urban Sketchers group, there was a post by Jens Hubner, a German athelte based in Berlin who draws and paints while traveling the world on his bike. I have a similar practice – … Continue reading → -
Easter Vigil
I decided that this year’s celebration of Easter would be at a big Gainesville parish, Holy Faith, where I know some congregants and where the liturgy is beautiful and, therefore, for me, very meaningful. I sat with Frances and just in front … Continue reading → -
Spring into Summer
I have experienced a slow, steady assortment of activities and visual work this spring, spending more time inside than I would like, hence more musings than images to share. The Journey Daybook continues to keep me busy. I function as … Continue reading → -
This is a collab album between MF DOOM and Madlib
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Journey Daybook Adventure at Haile Village
On February 22nd 9 JDB alums gathered for a monthly adventure. Several people made pages at the Farmers’ Market there while I stayed at the village center drawing a token purchase from a cupcake shop and wandering with my iPhone … Continue reading → -
St Valentine’s Day
Southern red maples sprouting samaras early spring on the Suwannee. -
Training
Maria and I made our first training trip in the Suwannee River yesterday afternoon. It is our intention to reserve one day each week to either paddle or visit a destination for our journey down the river planned for March, … Continue reading → -
A New Project: First Preparations
For fifteen years I have been dreaming of doing a fourth monumental project that would involve water, travel by boat, and, of course, working in my journey daybook. I have already made three such journeys: “A Kayak Journey in Cedar … Continue reading → -
ds106zone Week 5: My Only Friend the End
Well, as you might have guessed from the last week ds106zone comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. The course officially ends this Friday so we’ll be having a somewhat abbreviated week in terms of both … Continue reading → -
ds106zone: Experimenting with Video
Thanks to Michael Branson Smith below are three ideas for experimenting with video. They’re all pretty straight forward, and they give you a specific focus and set of limitations to work through—which can be helpful. If you are looking to … Continue reading → -
ds106zone Week 4: Intro to Video
Today I recorded an hour long ds106.tv broadcast framing and introducing week 4 of the ds106zone. This week is dedicated to reading an episode of Twilight Zone closely and working through 15 stars of video assignments. You can see the … Continue reading → -
ds106zone Week 4: Video Killed the Radio Star
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Frans Persoon Special thanks to Alan Levine for doing all the heavy lifting for this week’s assignments, much of this is based on the work he did last semester. First half … Continue reading → -
ds106zone LoDown 018 (talking smack with Jim Groom)
Given the state of exhaustion Scottlo has found himself suffering under, Rochelle and I have done the heavy lifting these past two days. My show clocked in at a cool 32 minutes (sorry Andrew Thomas Experience) and it may be … Continue reading → -
Week 3: Radio, Radio, Radio Show
Hey all you ds106zonies! It’s time to get serious in the 5th dimension of teaching and learning online. I have already laid the groundwork for week 3 in the pre-assignment post that sets up the radio groups, structure, and a … Continue reading → -
Fire and Ice
Inspired by Claire Patrick’s Art Invitation for “The Midnight Sun” Twilight Zone episode, I decided to take Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice” and place it on top of Norma’s painting from that episode. I love that the poem maps … Continue reading → -
ds106zone: The Fifth Dimension of Teaching and Learning
Audio from the talk This past Thursday I delivered the above presentation to the kind and awesome folks at the University System of New Hampshire’s 3rd Annual Academic Technology Institute (a.k.a #usnhati on Twitter). The event is an intensive, 4-day intensive … Continue reading → -
Week 3 Preparation: The Radio Show
This email precedes the Monday announcement of Week 3′s assignments a bit because it’s will prove such an intensive week. You all will need to get a head start to get your groups working together and to devise a topic … Continue reading → -
A special darkness all my own
One of the things I really love about the classic “The Eye of the Beholder” Twilight Zone episode is the tension built up during the scene wherein the doctors and nurses unwrap the gauze. Everything was working towards this moment, … Continue reading → -
To read well is to master the ages
by GNA#learning, art, digital story telling, ds106, DS106Zone, openness, Syndicated, twilight zone, visualassignments, visualassignments1089May 30, 2013Inspiration for this piece: Jim Groom’s new DS106Zone design assignment, “Create a READ poster.” Tool: I used my favorite web-based, free photo editor Pixlr to create the three layers for the poster. The screen shot in my READ poster is from “The Changing of the Guard,” one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. If you’re […] -
Exile by Travis Anderson
Senior Animation – EXILE – Gleneagle Secondary from Jodey Udell on Vimeo. I’m extremely honoured to report that a student animation I was asked to do some voice-acting / narration for was recently selected as both the Top Animation, as well as Top Film, … Continue reading → -
Don’t wait until the end of the world to…READ!
I created yet another design assignment for ds106 because I’m just that good. This one is based on the Read poster campaign that started in 1985. Here is the description: Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell … Continue reading → -
“TIme Enough at Last” Minimalist Book Cover
I am really happy with how this one came out, and it was a mashup of things, and let me run you through them quick. I started out thinking about using the iconic symbols in this episode of Twilight Zone, … Continue reading → -
Seussified Art and Politicized Sneetches
by GNA May 29, 2013Then they yelled at the darken ones who had badges at the start, “We’re still the best Sneetches and they are the liability. But now, how in the world will we know”, they all frowned, “If which badge is what, or the other way round?” Ever inspired and more than ever distracted, Wednesday finds me […] -
Busy . Busy . Busy
I, along with several of my compatriots, have been making journey daybook pages in preparation for the summer travel season and a workshop that four of us will take in Montreal. I have posted a few of these under Journey … Continue reading →
