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Tag Archives: audio
Design as cultural intervention
Tonight in ds106 I discussed the implications of visual design as a form of cultural intervention. You can listen to the audio below. Note that the first 22 minutes is housekeeping for ds106, talking about assignments, projects, expectations, etc. From … Continue reading
My network went to Vancouver and all I got was this lousy mp3
Download Where’s the bava? I see this audio file as the greatest of tributes, and want to thank Dave Cormier for pointing me to it. An evening at Casa Lamb/McPhee is one of life’s great social, emotional, and psychic pleasures. … Continue reading
CogDog Your Leash is Too Long
I know CogDog was certain I wouldn’t be quiet for too long, especially after this libel. And who am I to disappoint expectations, so chew on this you old dog. Warning, following audio may not be safe for work 🙂 … Continue reading
Rapid prototyping Audio Digital Stories
This past week we talked about audio in my Digital Storytelling class. I spent Tuesdays class talking about This American Life, in particular the 400th episode wherein they take stories from their family members and try to make them interesting. … Continue reading
EDUPUNK Interview: Educational Commodification, Origins, and the Reification of an Idea
Click to v Some time this month I was interviewed by Jim Saunders, Steve Howard, and Nicole Veerman about EDUPUNK. The were interested in the idea, and they are doing a series of interviews as a part of their graduate … Continue reading
Flannery O’Connor on Southern literature and the grostesque
I started watching John Huston’s adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood (1979) for the first time, and I actually stopped half-way through. And while I am a huge fan of Harry Dean Stanton, and I dug Brad Dourif in this … Continue reading
I’m so mad at my mother
This is probably the first piece of vinyl I came across in my life, or at least the first I remember. We were an 8-track family until about 1977/1978, and while 8-tracks of the Soundtrack for The Sound of Music, … Continue reading
Call Me Ishmael
Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of … Continue reading
Stopover in a Quiet Town
My favorite Twilight Zone episode for the last six or seven years is “Stopover in a Quiet Town.” I think the whole idea of two people waking up after a bender in an abandoned town in which they discover everything … Continue reading
Audio of “The Medium is the Massage” from Ubuweb
I am currently embarking on the journey of reading Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage for the first time. I have set up a distributed reading group here after discussing with Rafael Alvarado and Ed Webb the idea of … Continue reading