Layercake, is a developing technology for the GIFaCHROME camera. Layercake is not quite ready for release but we have a few test images which give some idea of the affordances of the new subsystem. Layercake allows your images to take a jump out of the frame. Currently it is not known if Layercake is a […]

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A review by Colin the Dog  yes, I bought a GAC camera! As a busy dog around the countryside, I...

This is the  first part of my headless final project, but the last part of the song 'All my clothes are Green' and it is a mashup video of a song and a dance video.The translation of the text you are going to hear in the video is th...

The count down is on.  The remaining DS106 Headless ’13 participants are rallying for the final project – A product launch for the GIFaChrome camera to be held on Friday, December 13, 2013 - Wondering what we’re talking about? What the heck is a GIFaChrome Camera? Check out the Storify below to watch the meme unfold. […]

Good Bye #DS106 Headless 13, hello DS106 #4life

Recently discovered in the back of a dusty drawer is compelling evidence of the early adoption of the GIFaChrome format by pioneering female photographers. These women were not discouraged by the predominant male view that the photographic image should be static or that the gif format was not suitable for serious subjects. The rare filmstrip […]

 

I really may try the headless final. Who else? Please join!

My character is going to be ..., no my characters are colors and I will arrange about 4 to 5 images, Videos and audio pieces around a German children's song.
 
This song is still vivid in my memories from kindergarten, where we've sung it, and where I imagined my husband will have the profession and I will have the beautiful dresses.

How deeply must the little girl have been impressed by the idea to identify so strongly with a husband's profession and life, and this did some work on me. I did as I sung for a long time. Sometimes I think I'm  still doing.





Grün sind alle meine Kleider
All My Clothes Are Green


This is a traditional children's song from Pomerania (Pommern). There are many different versions.
Melodie: Traditional
Text: Traditional

DEUTSCH Grün, grün, grün sind alle    meine Kleider, Grün, grün, grün ist alles, was ich hab. Darum lieb ich alles was so grün ist, Weil mein Schatz ein Jäger, Jäger ist. Blau, blau, blau sind alle    meine Kleider, Blau, blau, blau ist alles, was ich hab. Darum lieb ich alles, was so blau ist, Weil mein Schatz ein Seemann/ Färber,    Seemann ist. Weiß, weiß, weiß sind alle    meine Kleider, Weiß, weiß, weiß ist alles was ich hab. Darum lieb ich alles, was so weiß ist, Weil mein Schatz ein Bäcker/ Müller,    Bäcker ist. Schwarz, schwarz, schwarz sind alle    meine Kleider, Schwarz, schwarz, schwarz ist alles,    was ich hab. Darum lieb ich alles, was so    schwarz ist, Weil mein Schatz ein    Schornsteinfeger ist. Bunt, bunt, bunt sind alle    meine Kleider, Bunt, bunt, bunt ist alles, was ich hab. Darum lieb ich alles, was so bunt ist, Weil mein Schatz ein Maler, Maler ist.

ENGLISH Green, green, green are all    my clothes Green, green, green is all that I have So I love anything that's green because my love is a hunter, a hunter. Blue, blue, blue are all    my clothes Blue, blue, blue is all that I have So I love anything that's blue because my love is a sailor/ dyer,    a sailor. White, white, white are all    my clothes White, white, white is all that I have So I love anything that's white because my love is a baker/ miller,    a baker. Black, black, black are all    my clothes Black, black, black is all    that I have So I love anything    that's black because my love is a    chimney sweep. Colorful... are all    my clothes Colorful is all that I have So I love anything that's colorful because my love is a painter, a painter.

Where I use professions different from the copy, I've added them, like miller instead of baker.




Link to where I|ve found this score.

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It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake. ― Pyotr Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings This daily create started out with the memory of the common Anarchy graffiti, with the A is a circle. Anarchy by Jonas B I presume that I must have had the definition in the back […]

Surfer Dudette had her last wipeout on Nov 18, 2013. To ease my grief I wrote a poem (with Humpty Dumpty as my model) and produced the video Ode To Surfer Dudette in memoriam. Her tenure on my mantle and her guest starring roles in DS106 Daily Creates have come to an end. Her first appearance was […]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. We talked about nature vs. nurture with In Cold Blood. Thomas Firestone, in “Mafia Memoirs: What They Tell Us About Organize Crime” talks about the differential … Continue reading →

A new DS106 assignment ds106 Assignments: Illustrating Odd Autocompletes by Tom Woodward. Google Autocomplete is an oracle with strange powers to bring oddities into your life. This assignment asks you to seek out that randomness. Start with a strong phrase (things like “I hate . . .” or “I love . . . ” seem […]

I attended an interesting session with co-facilitated with friends Ian and Greg (whom I met when they were facilitating the Massachusetts New Literacies Initiative). The session dealt with documentary poems (see Ian’s post about the session), and how to guide students to research a historical figure or time period, write a poem, and then use […]

It’s been a quiet month on this blog, but busy on the discovery front. Between extra classes at work, a family wedding, family visiting from out of state and from out of the country, I was able to experiment a bit with the TDM/7300 Temporal Displacement Modulation tuner. If you recall, with a 1960s transistor […]

This started as a daily create, Create a Ghostly Portrait of Someone Who Is Participating in ds106. I added Tina to Seth’s wonderful In Case of Fire Move to the Nearest Exit which was a response to the daily create: Draw something on fire. THe first version, peek a Tina was static, but I quickly […]