These were the instructions for tdc983: And this is what I created So I started with a feeling, thought about it for “a bit,” created an embodiment of the feeling, and shared in the image(s) above. Do you understand it? What do you think I am showing here? If you would like to read my […]

Instructions for Daily Create 972 What book would protect you in a protest? September 6, 2014 In a political or social demonstration, you may need to protect yourself from police, guards, or opposing citizens. Design your book bloc shield that projects a message in the form of a book title and take a photograph. So, […]

Instructions 1000 Mile (or 1609.344 Kilometer) Stare Posted: 30 Aug 2014 10:00 PM PDT Show it in a photo Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc966 https://www.flickr.com/photos/125011774@N03/15142511952/# The question isn’t “Why is this wide-eyed woman oblivious to the significant dangers around her?”; the question is “What could have been so traumatic […]

The assignment was to choose a movie song or story and use Kurt Vonnegut’s  approach to the structure of a story to illustrate its story arch. So I chose a Singing circle song and, using a green screen, had my friend Robyn film me showing the arch of the song on /Vonnegut’s graph. This was a process and a […]

This is my response to the following Daily Create: Show us your keychain and tell us a story about the keys and/or things you have on it. A TDC classic! We are repeating this from January 2011 (TDC 17) and August 2012 (TDC 233), but it was so good we are reviving it again as […]

You asked for my idea of what story telling is before I delve into the class content. I have a picture in my head and I’m not sure how to get it out in it’s full glory. So I will just riff and see what happens. When I think of a photograph telling a story […]

Instructions for Daily Create 7-17-14 Draw Nature. Go outside, find a comfortable place to sit, and spend a few moments drawing something green and growing! Take a break from all your electronic chatter and enjoy the outdoors. The closer you look, the more you will see! Upload your drawing as a photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc921 […]

Gif this….. I don’t really get the appeal of turning a video clip into a gif. Turning still shots into a moving gif, yes, but not the other way around. BUT, it was the first assignment in Unit 2. And I do believe that everything I try and learn to do in this class will be […]

This is my first GIF. it is from the movie Elaina Undone movie trailer. This is not what I wanted, but I got really tired of trying to find a long enough shot of what I wanted. I am not sure it is legal to steal a shot right out of a movie….Is It? Any way […]

Instructions for Daily Create 7-15-14 Create a photo that represents the idea of immortality “This is my mental montage. At the end of yours ask yourself, which of your options seems the most appealing, which ones seem like they’re within the realm of reason?” This blog post that gave me the idea. Can you create a photo […]

7-14-14 UPDATE I made my first Daily Create as a page rather than a post. I am just copying that first attempt, no content changed other than this update note, in as a post so it will show up where my other daily creates show up. I have come so far, yet haven’t moved at […]

Instructions for Daily Create 7-12-14 Explain a Principle of Physics in a Pair of Limericks Two limericks to explain… Newton’s Second Law? Thermodynamics? Momentum? Conservation of Energy? Do you really need to look up the formula for a limerick? I chose Newton’s 1st law of Motion, otherwise known as “The Law of Inertia.” Law of Inertia […]

Instructions for Daily Create 7-11-14 Today is Cheer Up the Lonely Day – Can you do that in one photo? It’s a real holiday for July 11 because we found it on the internet. Now do it. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc915    

Instructions for Daily Create 7-10-14 Modern Vintage Take a photo of something modern and make it look like it is from a very old photo. Get creative, don’t just slap it into black and white or through in a cheesy sepia filter. How can you compose the image to make it look older than it […]

Instructions for this Daily Create: Your life in a sentence, take a photo post to flickr. “Starting from a seed that contained the potential of all I could be, my roots have grown deep and twisted, the unchangeable foundation of the person I am, and like a tree, I continue to change through the seasons, pieces […]

Yes, I am still figuring out how to tag and embed my assignments. Getting used to doing the daily creates. Using Audacity is not new to me so the birthday assignment was no problem. And the latest more than half way tdc was a lesson in cat wrangling that I lost. Until yesterday I did not […]

Instructions for Daily Create 6-29-14 “Self Portrait, Flashing a Peace Sign, Bonus for Hippie Aura…Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc903.” Hopefully that is what I have done!  

Just last week I was at a Holly Near/ Emma’s Revolution concert where I picked up this PEACE t-shirt and a Peace Becomes You hat. Peace Salaam Shalom is one of my favorite songs to sing. So this assignment came at a good time.

There is still time to join the Manchester Digital Storytelling class. Anyone can join. I asked my singing circle to take the class and only got one taker. My idea is that we could have study groups…in the flesh… and help each other with the technical intricacies. We are a group who do not get […]

  Starting this ds106 experience is a bit overwhelming. But I am doing it with 2 friends and am excited about the possibilities as we figure out what we are doing.

There are three of us taking this class and we all have no idea what we are doing. Twitter, Soundcloud, Google plus, is all new.

There are three of us taking this class and we all have no idea what we are doing. Twitter, Soundcloud, Google plus, is all new.

A new summer iteration of ds106 being offered. This is the veritable placeholder to make the class tag work http://ds106.us/tag/uuse14.