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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Author Archives: Reverend
Signs of C.H.U.D.
Yet another animated GIF, this one is for Dr. Garcia given she shares with me an unhealthy attachment to bad 80s films. This one features a clip from the opening of the subterranean classic cult horror film C.H.U.D. (1985).
ds106 come out and play!
It was only a matter of time before I did an animated GIF assignment from the 1979 classic The Warriors, a film that seems to be an integral part of the ds106 fabric. This one was actually pretty easy to … Continue reading
Always wished I was Rubik
Always wished I was Rubik, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. Via Flickr:“Make a phtoograph of something you aspire to be or do one day.” “Make a phtoograph of something you aspire to be or do one day.” Being a … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Alan Levine on Photography (4.1)
In Tuesday’s face-to-face class at UMW I had the good fortune of Alan Levine presenting to my students in the flesh. I have to take a moment here to recognize how much better ds106 has gotten since I started constantly … Continue reading
Three Amigos
Create a photograph that represents the happiest or most memorable moment in your life. This is a photo I took back in May of 2011. I chose it for today’s Daily Create because it represents the fundamental shift my life … Continue reading
The Fat Fog Warning (1885)
As soon as I saw Annie’s visual assignment for ds106 postulating that “Fat Cats make Better Art” I wanted to do it. And when Nick Antonini actually did his own version, I knew I had to do it now. So … Continue reading
Colorized Snakeboy
I revisited an earlier image I had taken of Miles to experiment with Alan Levine’s “Splash the Color” visual assignment. I always wanted to learn how to experiment with color masking in Photoshop (I used PS for this one, not … Continue reading
The shelves in the Man Den
TDC030: The shelves in the Manden, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. Today’s assignment: “Share an image of a place that you lose things in your house.” tdc.ds106.us/tdc030/ I spend a lot of time sorting through the bookshelves in the … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Week 4 Preview
Alan Levine and I preview what’s to come in week three. Alan is bringing in both Kris Krug and D’Arcy Norman to talk to his class on Wednesday at 6 PM EST, and I am excited to drop the hammer … Continue reading
Bagman for President
I’m pretty swallowed up by ds106 right now, I have been pulling in what seems like an endless stream of feeds. My hosting account is about to fall over cause I am pushing it so hard, and ds106 is off … Continue reading