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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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Tag Archives: ds106
The Social Downes
I started remaking this poster as bava art, but then I realized that nobody fits this poster better than the great Stephen Downes. Nobody more prolific, nobody more willing to speak his mind, and nobody less afraid to piss other … Continue reading
Animated Magazine Cover Tutorial for Photoshop
Below is a 10 minute screencast outlining how to create an animated magazine cover using Photoshop. Thanks go to Ben Rimes for the inspiration as well as to Melanie for the perceived need. I’ll be doing another one for GIMP … Continue reading
Famous Monsters of Filmland Cyclops Animation
I bring you this so I can share the tutorial for creating an animated magazine (or movie poster) that is to soon follow. This is a brand new ds106 design assignment, and you can find it here. Now back to … Continue reading
Slide Guy Safe at Third
Original image taken from this blog post.
Slide Guy spotted going over Niagara Falls
You owe it to yourself to do the Slide Guy assignment.
Creeping on Alien
I figured I would do one more visual assignment before we move into my favorite part of ds106 bar none, DESIGN!! I chose the “Creep on a movie scene” by the great Jack Mulrey because it is very much inline with my … Continue reading
If we don’t, remember me
I was watching the noir cult classic Kiss Me Deadly for the first time in many years last night. It’s an amazing film, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it. And when you consider both Kiss … Continue reading
Kill all the golphers!
I love Ben Rimes’s ds106 technical difficulties assignment, and his take on it came out beautifully. I knew I couldn’t compete with his inspired art on this one, so I went below the belt. I found this image of the Gopher … Continue reading
Triple Troll Quote: Harrison Ford vs. John Cazale
Just so that people don’t think I am relying entirely on animated GIFs for this week’s visual assignments, here are a couple of Triple Troll Quotes. What’s more, they are themed—both of thee triple troll quotes are centered around an … Continue reading
Famous Monsters of Filmland Animated Magazine Cover
It’s a big file, but big is beautiful in this case. Feast your eyes on this animated magazine cover which is a more literal interpretation of the June 1975 issue of the classic Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine (more of a … Continue reading