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A Brute Force Opening

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Reverend

Today’s Daily Create submitted by Kevin Hodgson is a beauty. And it also is a hot tip to cool little bookmarklet tool that prints out a sheet of stills from a YouTube video. Turns out I watched Jules Dassin’s 1947 … Continue reading →

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Getting the Bava Band Back Together

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Reverend

I took a quick shot at yesterdays Daily Create, which was make your own damn assignment 🙂 I noticed Terry Greene had suggested creating your own band t-shirt, and I was off. T-shirts are my business these days, so I … Continue reading →

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Thema 106

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Reverend

This is my entry for today’s Daily Create: You look for a representation of DS106 in the world, and you find something close, but [not] quite it. Find something like that. Heck today’s tag #tdc1607 is like that. Almost a … Continue reading →

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The Duke’s Song of the Selfie

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Reverend

Today’s Daily Create asks you to “Do a Duke Selfie” referring to the most iconic figure of U.S. Westerns: John Wayne. Love him or hate, he has been part of so many of the greatest films of this genre that it’s … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Watering Hole

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Reverend

I cheated a bit on today’s Daily Create, which asked us to “take a photo of your favorite watering hole.” As soon as I saw the prompt I knew I was going to recycle a short video I took a … Continue reading →

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Daily Patterns

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Reverend

The above photo, “Transformative,” was my entry for the first #ds106 Daily Create four years ago. The assignment was a straightforward photo assignment: “Create a photograph that features a repeating pattern.” Simple, suggestive prompts like this were very much in the … Continue reading →

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Three Faces of Mexico’s Robin Hoods

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Reverend

Today’s Daily Create features Robin Hood, a testament to the dearth of anything resembling a Western culture in Britain. Poor bastards! The West was definitely not won in green tights. Regardless, the whole steal from the rich give to the … Continue reading →

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Bring me the Head of JoaquĂ­n Murieta

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Reverend

Today’s Daily Create is pretty awesome. It provides an old gold map of the Oregon Territory published in 1844  via the David Rumsey Map Collection, and asks you to pick a spot on the map that would provide the setting … Continue reading →

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A Fistful of GIFs

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Reverend

The Western 106 force is strong with me these days. I even watched John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) last night, but more on that in another post. For now I’ll be talking about today’s Daily Create which asks us to make GIFs from … Continue reading →

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Johnny Guitar

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Reverend

After seeing today’s Daily Create priming folks to do some research for the coming Western-themed ds106, I got the urge to write about a particular Western (although not a Spaghetti Western) that rules: Nicholas Ray’s 1954 Western dream vision Johnny Guitar. It has got … Continue reading →

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