Search Results for 'Abandon IE Now' ↓

ds106 is ramping up, and Michael Branson Smith is going deeper in thought with the idea of the animated GIF: I’m a big lover of the animated GIF having created dozens as bits of reflection on cinematic moments, film posters and comic book covers. These animations are all fabulous homages to stories I love. But I’ve also really enjoyed discovering how the animated GIF became an extension of traditional photography using subtle bits of animation. They’re perfect loops of moments in time, animated still lives. Amazing… Watch her hair and dress flow endlessly, while her eyes hold a perfect stare. Don’t blink. Yes it’s an amazing piece of craftsmanship, definitely a smooth Photoshopper behind this animated loop. I credit their ability, but it doesn’t inspire me. This is what I believe the cinem(gram)graph needs to celebrate – this impishness, raucousness. I love the impossible people are discovering in this medium. [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Here is a super appreciation thanks to Brian Lamb for asking me to do a reprise of Amazing Stories of Openness last presented a year ago at for the CTLT Summer Institute at UBC, part of a panel session called Going Public Into the Great Wide Open. The best part of this day was getting a chance to pick ideas and contacts from the other panel members. I was super excited to find that Tina Loo was there to talk about her experience with the Wiki Educators Program that Brian recently blogged about. Her Northern American Environmental History class did a semester long project to author major articles in Wikipedia. Just before I traveled to Vancouver, I read her reflection on the process, spurned by her fatigue of seeing piles of student authored research papers: For the past two years, [...]

And then there were twelve… I have no quibbles with the people The Chronicle of Higher Education highlight as people who are innovators, but the old school notion of top x lists continues to baffle me in the internet age. I can barely resist a chance to poke fun at The Chronicle. IMHO, their sole purpose, through misleading headlines and spurious claims, is to do the age old newspaper traditional aim of drawing eyeballs. What works for the midway, works for the webway. cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Andrew Huff Back in December 12, 2011, The Chronicle put out a call for nominations for this list. I just spent about 20 minutes scrolling trough this list, and besides one mention of Salman Khan, I don;t see the other 11. What I did see was a ton of blatant ballot box stuffing attempts, and it is [...]

What started out as another set of family pictures for the Dear Photograph (or Return to the Scene of the Crime) ds106 assignment sprawls a bit more as I find connection points– let’s see by the end if they lead anywhere. Perhaps a path. Made of bricks. It has to do with bricks and paths and making the latter our of the former. I start with this photo of my Dad doing what he enjoyed, an outside task with his hands. Here he is laying some brick for a walkway outside the patio of the house in Florida (or how they say it here, outside the “lanai”). Look at that smile. And he is wearing an ASU hat I sent him (which I found this week in the garage). cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Dear Photograph, I see you Dad, carefully making a brick walkway. [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Crossing into the 10,000+ mile range of this trip, I am having a blurry epiphany, whatever the heck that means. I set out on the trip with a goal of “seeing what this country is really about”. While I have traveled far, I in actuality see just the tiinest sliver of a sliver, and most of that is out the car window. But I am feeling a growing restlessness with the amount of “sameness” one sees everywhere. Yes, many of us rant about the plethora of Big Box strips that ring our cities but also our small towns. Just exactly where is this place? cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It is everywhere. It is the Plastification of America, the spreading of sameness because it is comfortable, familiar, safe. I’m feeling there is something corrupting in [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The content inside the StoryBox is growing nicely- as of today I have: audio recordings: 55 documents: 7 drawings: 6 graphics: 4 music: 13 photos: 195 videos: 65 Much if it is mine- I am adding something almost every day, and where-ever possible doing audio recordings of people, both friends and strangers I meet. Just yesterday, I was at Broadway Roastry in Saskatonn, and a guy came up and asked about the Laughing Dog Brewery t-shirt I was wearing- he said he had just started working in local brewery (oops I forgot which one) and he let me record a brief conversation about the craft. I have recently also recorded a drunk guy in a bar telling us a joke, the lady working at the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, ambient street noise in Saskatoon, a bit of an overhead conversation [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My scrambling of the title of this book I just finished means nothing, or maybe it does represent my confidence of understanding. ZatAoMM is certainly among the Books I Ought to Have Read but Didn’t, and served as a perfect early book of reading while on the road. The heady philosophy parts are still muddy to me, and I write this without reading any other expert opinions, but the ideas about what it means to be on the road, the unpacking of form versus function (or looking at form AND function), and what the lead character attempted in his teaching are still ringing powerful echoes. I knew a little bit about the book before hand, but what I got from reading was much more, and have so many highlights. The opening quote now unfolds much more than when my eyes [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by pocketwiley I had not identified it before, but after watching The Road last night on DVD, I realized I have a fascination with post-apocalyptic films, as one reviewers describes as “near future” views of our world. Maybe it was first watch of the Road Warrior I saw as a teen, but on my flight home from Austin Friday I found myself again watching I am Legend (I think Sam is the real star in the movie). Unlike most science fiction, these movies are easy extrapolations from the world we know today, and ones in which we cannot blame meteors, volcanoes, tornados, aliens for taking away our world- humanity does it to itself. And then there is the wondering, would I survive in this new grim world (doubtful) (but there is only one way to know) (and then I would not be here blogging about [...]

What happened to brave men like Jake W. Burns? I found out tonight, watching my newest DVD, Lonely are the Brave (1962) which, IMHO is a completely under-rated classic. The tag line is “Life can never cage a man like this…” I watched it because, like the star Kirk Douglas, had enjoyed Edward Abbey’s The Brave Cowboy, and Douglas, already then a big star, wanted to make Abbey’s story into a movie, but it took a long time to convince the studios. Douglas wanted to call it “The Last Cowboy” but the studios forced this cheesier title. Douglas’ character, Jack Burns, is the idealized version of Abbey’s self image- a man who lives on the land, at home in the desert or mountains, has no address, no social security card, no license, a loner. I didn’t want a house. I didn’t want all those pots and pans… ‘Cause I’m a [...]

91%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Mingle2 – mingle Thanks to Rob (linktribution), I have exact data on the problem. My blogging here has been sporadic due to blogging directed elsewhere… After our week long conference held in Second Life (I hear you snickering out there)… I was blogged out having tried to blog the summaries of events over at the NMC Campus Observer, at least the 9 hours worth of a 12 hour schedule per day I was present. It was another 2 days of catch up, editing recorded audio, syncing a few slideshare sessions, pushing about 500 images to flickr… Yes, whether you nod with Forbes.com that everyone in Second Life is a loser or sweep broadly with brush strokes that it’s “just cyber sex and gambling”, we feel it is important to actually give this environment a good run before dismissing it so candidly. So we ran [...]