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The ds106 99: #49 The Disembodied Eye
The ds106 99: #48 Window to the soul
Blade Runner: It is all about the eyes!
The ds106 99: #47 d&ds106 Monster Manual—Cogdog
This is an assignment I have been thinking about doing for a while, but once again never found the time. Well, now that I am a bit freer, I’ve decided to turn a series of people in my network into … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #46 The Thing in 7 minutes
Image credit: D’Arcy Norman’s brilliant Minimalist Travel Poster Back in January Lisa M. Lane came up with an awesome assignment for ds106radio which was basically to turn a movie into good radio. What this entails is taking key parts of … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #45 Mike Watt + The Missing Men Live on #ds106radio
On Saturday night Noise Professor went to see Mike Watt + The Missing Men play the last leg of their Hyphenated-Man Tour at the Blue Lamp Lounge in Sacramento. And you know what I kinda felt like I was there, … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #44 ds106 Etch-a-Sketch
Spent a little bit of time working on this today, another visual assignment in the bag for ds106.
The ds106 99: #43 Archiving ds106
On of the biggest issues we still have with ds106 is actually archiving all the work, comments, posts, images, videos, etc. Some of this is taken care of my pushing folks to use Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, blip.tv, etc. However, blog … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #42 Comfort
A few things keep me up at night. Money woes, most folks have them to some degree or another, and given my chosen profession, current position, and salary these will last for a while. Self-imposed in too many ways, but … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #41 An animated GIF factory
Yet another internaut from Martha Burtis’s ds106 section, Stacy, went nuts on their final project, and what’s even more remarkable is that she didn’t even know she was doing her final project. You can get the story here, but in … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #40 A Kubrickian Mashup
Rob Tyszka was an ds106 internaut from Martha Burtis’s section and I happened to catch his final project in the ds106 blog stream and I was blown away by how good it is. He did a mashup/collage of scenes from … Continue reading