I present to you my first design project. I took a photo of Dave Grohl and recreated it with Illustrator. It turned out fairly well. I’m actually proud of this project.

Our task was to mimic one of Picasso’s drawings, but the catch was that we had to do it upside down. This was so we thought of the lines as just lines, not shapes or objects. We were playing a clever trick on our mind. What you see above was the outcome. It was all … Continue reading Picasso pls

Not the best drawing skills, but here you have the negative space of a stool.

Here is a digital storytelling video assignment: Create a short video that shows a scene from your favorite TV show or movie that we didn’t get to see. Maybe because it wound up on the cutting room floor. Here is an example. It is from Star Trek TOS and depicts a red shirted crew member getting ready … Continue reading A scene we missed… →

I was looking for a quick but fun DS106/Digital Storytelling assignment to do and found it in Alan Levine‘s What They Might Have Done in Social Media project. Here is the tweet I came up with for Dr. Brinkley. The original assignment recommended using Twister for creating a fake Twitter tweet, but a quick internet search … Continue reading Dr John R Brinkley Social Media →

Well, it is week two of Digital Storytelling and the theme this week is Welcome To My Nightmare. Speaking of nightmares, last night I had one. I woke up heart a-pounding and yelling out as a zombie was eating my face. I think it used to really bother my wife when this happened, but now she just … Continue reading Welcome to my Nightmare →

Process: I found ten photos on my Facebook page I was willing to share in video form. I used Camtasia for editing. It is my go-to editor for quick and dirty, not-too-fancy video editing. I threw in a music snippet I had handy on my hard drive. Looped 12 seconds over and over for a … Continue reading Essence of Me – Daily Create No. 1328 →

For me, February 25, 1991 was an unforgettable day. It was on that day that I was stationed aboard the USS Missouri doing shore bombardment off the coast of Kuwait. Not only were we in an Iraqi minefield, but we were very close to shore. As we bombed the shore installations, the Kuwaiti oil wells were … Continue reading One Day in the Persian Gulf →

This fall, I am offering for the first time a course in digital storytelling. I have some online students and some face to face students. Since all of the activities are computer-based and shared online, I am working with the two groups together. In fact, we are collaborating with the DS106 group over at UMW. … Continue reading Tales from KSU →

This is a mash-up of six songs, one second each. In the classic sitcom episode WKRP in Cincinnati: The Contest Nobody Could Win, disk jockey Dr Johnny Fever accidentally promotes the entire year’s prize budget as the prize, instead of the $50 it was supposed to be, so they had to come up with a … Continue reading The Contest Nobody Could Win →

This is a visual communications assignment we are working on in my Digital Media 1 class. The idea is to take an ordinary road sign and reinterpret it to show what is going on beyond the sign’s borders. I love playing with negative space, so this is what I came up with on the falling … Continue reading Reimagined Roadsigns →