Well, I was seeing on the Internet that my true friend Tom (@twoodwar, on Twitter) was looking at lots of old-fashioned pictures on the Internet. And so, when I was doing today’s The Daily Create TDC914, I decided that I would put my picture of me (which is new) into a picture like one which I […]

Well, The Daily Create TDC913 for July 9th, 2014, said we had to do a snotty Art Critic review in Pig Latin, so I did one about that Jim Groom (@jimgroom, on Twitter). You can see the video up above, and you can read about it down below. First, when I was in school, I didn’t have any […]

Constructing Modern Knowledge is underway, and this tweet from @DesignMakeTeach (or Josh) pretty much sums up my current emotional state. Tonight on #makered chat we talk about how we all wish we were at #cmk14 — Design Make Teach (@DesignMakeTeach) … Continue reading →

This is a little GIF that I made today for a little project I am working on. I will share the little project when it is done. But in the intervening time, just stare at this for a few minutes (put on a pomodoro timer like my Super True New Old Radio Friend Scott (@scottlo […]

Reposted from a June 24, 2014 3M-DS106 Salon Blog Post.  All proprietary information has been deleted from this public version. Internal 3M Spark Post to R&D Community: Sharing to Learn – Learning to Share Posted by 3M-DS106 Salon Patroness Rochelle Lockridge The @3mds106salon continued our June topic discussion on data visualization.  Having a bit of fun I […]

DS106 on the couch turned 1 today!

Well, who would not be inspired seeing little Merlin’s photos? Using the colour sampler tool in Photoshop still evades my grasp, but did you know that there is such a thing as a Star Wars Font Generator ? That pesky green font was a worthy adversary, but I got it!

Please go to Flickr to check permissions. One of Merlin’s photo appears by special permission from Ingrid. Thank you, Ingrid.

Creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by mdvfunes: http://flickr.com/photos/97994829@N03/14400081830

creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by mdvfunes: http://flickr.com/photos/97994829@N03/14400073848

creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by mdvfunes: http://flickr.com/photos/97994829@N03/14577774764

I was talking with Martha Burtis in the office during the week, and she off-handedly mentioned a Pirahna attack in nearby Lake Anna. My imagination ran with the possibility, so today I did some research and found the orginal posting on the … Continue reading →

Dusting off some ds106 poster riffing. I guess there as some fun banter about remixing james bond posters with some dogs we know, Mariana was off and running with it… But she let me down by not making it an assignment. So I had to step in with The Best Bond Is A Dog: All thanks to a conversation on Twitter. An emergent DS106 assignment ‘Remix (in a dog appropriate manner) a Bond movie title and create a poster’. Hence, Daphne Groom, in the classic “You Only Bark Twice” I decided to give Daphne some more dog pride that she gets in this photo of Miles and Tessie with that poor dog in a tutu! creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by snakepliskens I liked the 1960s motif of the poster from You Only Live Twice, appropriate since it features Jim’s favorite Bond actor ;-) There is […]

The week in doggies! All thanks to a conversation on Twitter. An emergent DS106 assignment ‘Remix (in a dog appropriate manner) a Bond movie title and create a poster’. I learnt more about Photoshop from trying to do a good job of these ‘silly posters’ than I have in a long time. 

Starring: Daphne as Miss Doggy Galore, Gifadog as Colin Bond, Spike as E. Cowfield, Abby as the Digital Diva and Chewy as the werewolf puppy

'Children and Daphne' by Jim Groom ’Bones are forever’ by Viv Rolfe 'Reeborn' and 'Cop Pup' by Ron L the other posters by the DS106 Shrink.

Yes, I know the last 2 do not fit the Bond theme. The translation machine (me!) from Twitter to Google Plus was faulty and the assignment got re-interpreted there but Chewy is too cute not to include here. 

Who knows what else might get remixed. May be we can start #posterfight to complement #giffight ?

What fun to delete my least favourite Bond from the poster!

More Photoshop practice - I can’t stop now! Thanks to @cogdog for the film title and @gifadog for posing so beautifully.

Yes, I will blog my process if anyone wants me to. Just ask. It was long and involved lots of layers as usual.

The joy of DS106 as therapy!

Find a CC0 poster anywhere you can, with CC0 there is no need to keep track of where or when. I found this poster somewhere on the Interwebz with the intention to use it weeks ago but I did not.

Use a lovely tutorial created by a kind DS106 participant like Jack Hylan to learn a little more about Photoshop and remember another lovely DS106 participant, Rochelle, talking about ‘Skew’ in Photoshop. 

Sprinkle an interesting Daily Create and adapt to taste.

I now feel ready to try my next poster 'License to Chew' - a new movie starring Colin Bond, the star of 'Bones are forever'.

Who needs to pay for a shrink when there is DS106 for your mental Health?

For a long time I’ve wanted to get a shot of a police car numbered 106. There’s one in the Fredericksburg Police Department fleet that I see from time to time, but given I have no cellphone/smart phone, I don’t … Continue reading →

Your browser does not support the audio tag. Well! My True Friend Todd (@Todd_Conaway, on Twitter) made a GIF of me from the YouTube movie that he made called The ds106 Bus. In it, you can see me with my friends Martha (@mburtis), Jim (@jimgroom), Doctor Oblivion, and Michael (@mbransons). and so I got the music from the […]

Well, The Daily Create 903 had me digging back into my shoeboxes for this old photo of me and my bus and my hippie friends. And so when I found it, I posted it on my Flickr. But then The Daily Create 905 said to make a new law if there was only one law […]

Original photos by Ivette Harvey  edited in Photoshop by the DS106 Shrink using awesome tutorial by Jack Hylan Both just starting DS106 at University of Mary Washington for a grade and for fun!

This photo set is my way to say thanks to both for joining in with us open participants and making our community that much richer.

I should be getting ready to leave the house, but saw today DS106 daily create and could not resist....

I’ve tinkered with animated GIFs before (most notably, with DS106) and when I saw a fellow traveler in the Making Learning Connected MOOC world sharing an animated GIF meme, I thought: I gotta try that. So, I did. Here’s how I went about it. First, I found a clip on YouTube that I liked (of […]

Another session of The Internet Course has wrapped up. We had to work this one a bit differently. We only had five weeks, a third of the time, and we only had one fourth of the people. So it was … Continue reading →

Early on in the Thought Vectors experience someone whose name I don’t remember wordled Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think. I do remember that I thought it was interesting to muse upon what you could pull out of the word … Continue reading →