Tag Archives: The Shining

All Moocs and No Play

I couldn’t help but post this GIF, it is the single best commentary on MOOCs I have seen yet! Michael Branson Smith is a GIF master!

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The Shining as Seen through Duke Nukem

I first heard about the Duke Nukem 3D mod of Stanely’s Kubrick’s The Shining while watching Rob Ager’s brilliant video essay on spatial anomalies. I saw bits and pieces of the Overlook Hotel map in the video essay, but never actually … Continue reading

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Tumbling through The Shining

There is this…. From which this was born… And then there is this… Which I already turned into a ds106 design assignment here. Have I mentioned how much I love my Tumblr these days? And in no small part because I … Continue reading

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The insanity of space in Kubrick’s The Shining

A few weeks ago Andy Rush shared a link to the following video essay on YouTube which features Rob Ager of Collative Learning discussing spatial awareness in Stanley Kubrick’s horor masterpiece The Shining. The video was so brilliantly done, and … Continue reading

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I corrected him!

Image credit: “IWDRM” Remember who loves you Andy, and don’t you make me correct you with your infatuation with DTLT’s new boy—I am the one. NOBODY!!!

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The Shining Animated GIF

I’m gonna be that guy, I swear I was gonna do this scene before the master over at “If We Don’t, Remember Me” did it first. I know there will be a moment after this animated GIF obsession, but that … Continue reading

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Syndication bus for ds106

Seeing how I can bring the syndication bus into full effect for ds106. I think it can happen, I just pull my Flickr and delicious posts tagged ds106 into ds106.us using FeedWordpress—and then associate them with my admin account on … Continue reading

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Come and play with us, Danny

Man, I think I came across one of the coolest things I have ever seen today. I was in a nondescript Z Pizza joint in Franconia, and the pizza wasn’t too terrible as extra-NYC pizza goes. That said, I will … Continue reading

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Chapter 1

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. … Continue reading

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The Shining in 6 Frames

Riffing off of Tom Woodward’s recent exercise he posted, I experimented with using six film frames to capture the essence of the film’s narrative. It might also be a nice way to think about how the juxtaposition of images make … Continue reading

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