Category Archives: digital storytelling

Scenes from Trento

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Reverend

Yesterday was Fat Tuesday, and Carvnival is a thing here in Italy. Just this weekend we went to the small mountain town of Villaggio in a nearby valley. The folks who dress-up spent the entire day going from town to … 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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Coffee and #ds106 at FredXchange

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Reverend

I am back in Fredericksburg for a few days for some business and house cleaning. I head up to NYC on Tuesday, so it will be a fairly quick turn here, but it’s always exhilarating to spend some quality time … 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 Joaquín 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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Anna Rinko is a Great Mind

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Reverend

At some point soon I might stop writing about UMW, but that won’t be today. Damn you, UMW! You gotta give the devil it’s due, and the students at UMW I have come to know there have ruled. There are many, many  great … Continue reading →

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