We had a Daily Create today for Mountain Day. The command for the Create is simply “Celebrate Mountain Day,” with no indication or suggestion as to how. I had seen Ted Gould’s tutorial (YT) on the bass line for Prince’s Mountains not too long ago, so I …
Digital technology has changed and is changing human society and culture, with implications for politics, philosophy, and aesthetics. The increasing ease of use, availability, and sophistication of software used for evaluating and analyzing texts has also changed the way some scholars …
For this module, I wanted to understand how networks and relationships within a text work and the subsequent impact that comes from linking networks. My goal for this module is to create and analyze a network visualization method. So in order to apply what my knowledge of what I know …
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One of our tasks this week is to brainstorm ideas for what could be our final mission. We have a few early thoughts from our ace operatives:
Root out the mole(s). We know the Directorate has tried to woo some of our agents to their side. But apparently …
We’ve had two nights of ds106 radio broadcasts so far this week. Monday’s shows were Rogue Agents, a fun quiz type show, and Girl Power, an interesting discussion of women in the secret agent business. There is more to say about all of these shows, but it’s getting late and …
I love the idea of a Pet Film Poster Mashup, yesterday’s Daily Create. I wasn’t really sure what to do for it though. I don’t have a pet of favorite animal, unless the Guinea worm counts. So I started thinking about movies and movie posters, but quickly realized that …
I’ve been thinking about my own questions – What makes a book cover look like a book cover? etc. – and thought I’d do an analysis of a design here. So here’s a mock book cover design from mock design master Cris Shapan:
Two things jump out at me …
For our third and fourth nights of ds106radio live tweeting, we listened to the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious and a BBC adaptation of Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice. The former was from 1948 and the latter from 1991, so again we had the contrast between …
For our Wednesday evening live tweeting with ds106radio, we listened to the BBC 2018 radio production of Ian Fleming’s Moonraker.
The modern production was a contrast to the previous night’s shows, produced 65 years earlier. The contrast was most apparent in the clarity, detail, and stereo imaging …
For our first night of ds106radio tweet-alongs, we listened to two episodes of Douglas of the World, “The Terrorist”
https://archive.org/details/DouglasOfTheWorld/Douglas_Of_The_World-53-xx-xx_The_Terrorists.mp3
and “The Murder Rap.”
https://archive.org/details/DouglasOfTheWorld/Douglas_Of_The_World-53-xx-xx_The_Murder_Rap.mp3
I had never heard either, and in fact never heard of the show until this past weekend, so it was a bit of a …
by Cris Shapan
This morning a saw a new creation from one of my favorite contemporary artists, Cris Shapan. This is in response to advertising for an upcoming film, Alita: Battle Angel, which dares to venture into an uncanny valley. What I really like about Shapan’s work is the attention …
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The data below was intercepted from ds106 communications:
Further details on these individuals has been located. Familiarize yourselves with the information. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.…
In
this reflection, describe what you learned, how you learned it, and what you
discovered about your module and yourself while working these past couple of
weeks. Evaluate the success/failure of your project or describe those aspects
you were most proud of.
Over these two weeks, I learned the true …
Over these two weeks of discovering what GIFs are and where they originated from I gained a love and hate for them. I love the way one can use them as a communicating mechanism, but at the same time they can be a bit annoying to see them constantly as …
I’ve been playing with James Bond titles in the weekly assignments, so I had the idea to rework a movie poster. I googled for examples and found a site with loads. There’s quite a variety there, so I also did an image search for golden camera to let that …
I recently watched Philip Noyce’s 2010 Angelina Jolie vehicle Salt on Netflix. As I recall, it wasn’t well-received when it came out. Some people had issues with its implausibility, as if implausibility isn’t inherent in action-adventure films. In the movie, we find out that the lead character, Evelyn Salt, is …
Hey everyone I am intrigued by GIFS and how they arose in this era of technology. Learning about GIFS is a resource for people to express their emotions and I wonder how this came to be what it is now.…
Welcome classmates, from DGST101, my name is Mark Madison and I am very excited to be apart of this class spring semester! I attend UMW as a Senior this year and you can find me on campus in affiliation to either sports or working in the UC 2nd floor, as …
A few people have asked about the Daily Create, so I thought I’d write a post.
The Daily Create is an ongoing part of ds106. It comes out every day of the year. The idea is that regular exercise of creativity can make us more creative. If you wait for …
We’ve been using various themes in ds106 for a few years now. It’s served as a good way to focus the class and provide a basis for collaboration. What I look for in a theme is the potential for fun and flexibility – something loose enough so that people can …
This is a test post to see if it’s feeding properly.…
I’m fascinated by Todd Alcott’s mashup/remix work and wanted to try something similar. I didn’t have an idea of what I wanted to do particularly, so I googled pulp paperback covers looking for inspiration. The Sailor’s Weekend cover caught my attention because I had been listening to Tom Waits the …
The video essay projects are another one of my favorite parts of ds106. While we do various analyses throughout the semester – story shapes, design blitz, etc. – people seem to put more into video. That’s probably because it’s a language we’re more familiar with. Most people say they’ve never …
