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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
The Twin Suns of Tatooine
Enjoy Eric Power’s brilliant paper-based retelling of the only Star Wars trilogy in two minutes put to the mellifluous sounds of Jeremy Messersmith’s song “Tatooine” —the combination of which may be the greatest thing I’ve yet to see on the … Continue reading
The DS106 Daily Shoot Assignment: The Great 8
OK, so upon finishing up one of the greatest series of assignments I ever gave, as well as did—-though to be fair I didn’t design them—I asked everyone to go through all the photos for each of the eight days … Continue reading
Daily Shoot: Carcasses in brown
This image is an elegy for an old habit I have kicked now for 1 month—the graveyard motif works on several levels, and fits in with the theme for today’s daily shoot: Make a photograph today dominated by browns or … Continue reading
It’s Shark Season in bavaland
Late last week DS106 Internaut Ashley Peterson tweeted me a link to this image: Link to see full-size image and full article here. This striking image from Mogadishu, Somalia—which is described as the “world’s most dangerous city” in the article—is … Continue reading
Flickr Feed Gallery: A Quick Hack for DS106
All images courtesy of various DS106 Internauts. Image credit: spur_dotz’s “Ash and Ichabod” Thursday night’s class started in one direction and ended up in a whole ‘nother one. It was pretty fun, well, at least for me. I was planning … Continue reading
Daily Shoot: More interested by the lines inside
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment: Make a photo of an interesting stack of books or magazines. Consider how you handle repeating lines in your composition. Today’s shot is not too inspired, but I really didn’t have much time to take it, … Continue reading
Daily Shoot: 1212
Symmetry can be calm and soothing. Make a photo today featuring symmetry, either in subject or composition. (@logista) dailyshoot.com/assignments/312 I’m fired up about today’s shot, and not so much because the image is so beautiful—though I like it—but because 12 … Continue reading
Daily Shoot: Green Maelstrom
The daily shoot assignment for today: Communicate chaos, disorganization or messiness in a photograph. Find some beauty in it. (@divadeb88) I don’t know why this one was so hard for me, and frankly I’m not totally crazy with my shot. … Continue reading
Daily shoot: man in the mirror
Today’s assignment for Daily Shoot: Use a mirror as part of a composition in a photograph today. Show yourself in the image if you’d like! What can I say, I love the whole sideview mirror thing.
Daily Shoot: A Softer 12 in Blue
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment: Make a photograph of something that is soft, or at least looks that way. Convince the viewer of the softness. This picture was fun not only because I get to feature my cat twelve’s so very … Continue reading