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 to the races and taking no prisoners. Let there be no mistake about it, the community makes this class awesome, and every semester crazy beautiful things emerge. One that has caught my attention early and often thus far is Brian Short’s The Bagman Video series. Pure and utter low-tech, comic genius. His recent “Paper Bag Republican Presidential Primary Coverage” is just the latest in a long line of magic.

Then there is the pure joy of listening to him and his sidekick make the Bagman and Robyn video:

The now classic Bagman’s keys:

And how can we forget the old gold Bagman tonguw twister that started the love affair for me:

It is because of unbelievably creative people like this that ds106 continues to amaze, and my only thought everyday waking up is who is gonna blow my mind next?

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69

69 by snakepliskens
69, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr.

The Daily Create: “Make a photo of something upside down that is never seen that way”
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I used the cover of The Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs” album to picture a number that we never see upside down because it is always upside down. The original picture was actually pretty awful, but I adjusted the contrast, temperature, shadow, and tint in iPhoto (which I hate) and got a red that I kinda like.

And here it is upside down 🙂

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Miles Playing Pacman

Laundrymat-Pacman by snakepliskens
Laundrymat-Pacman, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr.

Anto took an image of Miles playing Pacman at a local laundromat. And I can’t begin to tell you how much this image makes me understand the crazy, scary, and beautiful cycle of it all.

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It was a dark, winter night…

Via Flickr: The Daily Create #24″Make a creative photo silhouette by aiming the camera into a bright light.

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ds106 sites hacked, but sense of humor remains intact

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This Week in ds106: Kim Droom vs Enre5807

Almost all the students blogs in ds106 have been hacked by Enre5807, luckily we have detective Kim Droom on the job investigating the case. It is a complex case with a lot of ins and outs—but ds106 lies down for nobody. NOBODY!!!! BRING ON THE HACKERZ.

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Up in the Air, Junior Dogman

Via Flickr TDC23: Make a photo that freezes or isolates the motion of an object (or person 🙂 )

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Week 3: Web 2.0 Storytelling

Assignment 3:

Part A: Readings

* Share (a.k.a. blog) your initial thoughts about the above readings and their relationship to one another (tag: web20readings) and prepare to discuss in class (if applicable) and online in post comments of your classmates—so you best have setup aggregation by this point!

Part B: Playing

After you have read and consider the above essays, distill a few key points and use one of the well over 50+ tools from Alan Levine‘s “50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Digital Story” to try and communicate those ideas in an experimental way using a Web 2.0 tool. Make sure the tool you use lets you embed the project in your blog.

Tag: this part of the assignment web20story

These assignments are due no later than Sunday, February 5th.

P.S. If you are looking for inspiration, check out this now classic video by Michael Wesch and his students put together to explain the impact of Web 2.0.

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This Week in ds106: Week 3 Preview

Alan Levine and I preview what’s to come in week three. Alan is looking forward to some face-to-face love with his students and we are both excited about Bryan Alexander coming to chat with us this Thursday, February 2nd about web-based storytelling. This week’s assignments will be posted soon.

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Blood Relations

Blood Relations by snakepliskens
Blood Relations, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr.

Via Flickr:“Like father like son like hell.”

Toay’s Daily Create: Take a photo of two related objects of drastically different sizes.

I love the image Antonella took of me and Tommaso, our expressions are both natural and serious at once. What’s more, the relations come in places that are unexpected like the look, the hair, and the  sens of a third relation taking the picture. I am getting excite for the photography portion of class, it should be fun.

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