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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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: video
The news of my death has been beautifully mashed up
Nothing like watching your own eulogy, I guess I really should pay Serena the 100 bucks I owe her 🙂
Bava bloody bava
Bava Bloody Bava from Tom Woodward on Vimeo. You know I have to bump this Tom Woodward masterpiece, now will someone give us a comedy act gig already? We’re artists, damn it! Oh yeah, and Jim, I think I might … Continue reading
Sunday Bloody Bono
Some more art from the bava, cause just like Bono, I’m saving the world one song at a time. Update: The following video is a victim of the premature death of my YouTube account at the hands of those annoying … Continue reading
Jim Groom
This may be closest the bava gets to pornography… Camera and conceptual credit go to the great Shannon Hauser (my own private hacker).
I’m just a beard
We played with the Flip video cameras we got at UMW for the Digital Whitman class this past Tuesday, and we all had some fun both reading selections from “Song of Myself” and recording one another from all kinds of … Continue reading
Spider-Man 1967, Episode 17
”The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus”: Spider-Man fails to prevent Dr. Octopus from stealing Dr. Smarter’s nullifier. Afer some investigation, Spider-Man tracks down Dr. Octopus, but the evil villain has a devious trap waiting for the webslinger. ”Magic Malice”: The … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 15
”The Spider and the Fly’‘: A mysterious character called the Human Fly is toying with Spider-Man by leading him away from a site and then stealing jewelry at the site. Spider-Man must outsmart the Human Fly to get to the … Continue reading
The Letter
The brick film by James Maduzia titled The Letter (2003) is a masterpiece. And I while I don’t really know much about what I’m sure is a rich, underground history of Lego-inspired films, I have to believe that this one … Continue reading
I just shaved
Shorn – Jim Groom Bares It All from Tom Woodward on Vimeo. Update: The YouTube video below is a relic from my now terminated YouTUbe account (7/13/12). Tom Woodward and I, we’re making art now.
Spider-man 1967, Episode 14
‘The Golden Rhino”: The Rhino is back and he’s stolen two truckloads of gold to make a shining statue of himself. Now, Spider-Man must find a way to stop the unstoppable Rhino! ”Blueprint For Crime”: When Spider-Man foils a heist … Continue reading