CogBlogged from ‘October, 2011’

Cannot resist the ds106 four icon challenges! This one was easy as the images I found were all black and white. Too easy? What’s the movie?

It felt time to play a Four Icon Challenge assignment in ds106. it’s always hard to know if you make these too challenging or too easy, I am thinking this one is the latter. My approach, as I usually cannot recall movies all that well, is to watch some YouTube clips to remind me of key scenes. I scribble down icon ideas in a text file, and run some image searches for icons/comics, even real photos with clean backgrounds that might work. Not being up to being as meticulous as Michael B Smith, after sizing the images to a similar vertical scale in PhotoShop, applied the Smudge Stick effect to each one for a more graphic design: I am still not quite as sneaky clever as Martha was in the challenge. What say ye?

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 98 Miles Driven: 9661 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 17 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 2 Money spent on gas: $2604 Amount of time required to drive 47 miles from Falls Church VA to Baltimore DC: 2.5 hours (frustration: infinite) Photos posted: 2056 (that is an average of 20.0 per day) cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days missed due to colds: 3 (thanks to my sister for letting me crash at her house in Baltimore) Best home-made chicken soup: Harriet’s! Number of books read: 11 (Most recent: Cloud Atlas) Number of nights in hotels/B&B: 9 Number of nights camping: 16 Number of Nights of Bavastock Craziness: 1 (4 to go!) cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of wears of Jim Groom’s Favorite [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You had to be there. Well, I am glad I was there. GNA Garcia and Jim Groom here are having too much fun doing a improv version of Mikhail Gershovich’s radio conversations with his mom. Or maybe we had too much fun watching. As part of yesterday’s antics here in Fredericksburg, we ran a “telethon” (yes, in “quotes”) in support of ds106 radio. One of the most fun ideas was asking our folks to share audio files of parodies of more or less ourselves, other web radion DJs. We collected over 20 of these, an hours worth of fun if you have been listening at all this year. Hands down, the most popular subject was Scottlo (“I am on The Skype”). I’ve archived a set of these on my site (and will upload to the auto DJ) at http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/ds106radio-djs/. I’m [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe If you dig ds106 radio, then join us tomorrow, October 2, a group of us are running a telethon to support the effort. While it is free form radio, truth be known that Grant Potter has been paying for the technical infrastructure since it launched in January 2011. Tomorrow’s event will ask people to either donate whatever they can, be it money or just some things like doing a special show or making some art (damnnit). The point is just to show our appreciation for the community ds106 has become. The point is to show how much you dig it. Hands down, being part of this group of friends who talk, play, and meet up on the internet radio waves has been the most exciting technology and social thing I have seen in my career. It’s real, folks. [...]