powered by Fotopedia Our romance started in March, 2004, although I had been seeing someone else- it was this activity we had in common, then I called it Photoblogging. But then I met… flickr. It was, and in many ways still does, to me reppresent the first and foremost social medua experience, even if everyone else wants to hang out at the mall. And we survived the stormy year where she went off and moved from Vancouver chasing fame and perhaps mis fortune in California . But you know love has a cost (no it is not that kind of relationship), but flickr does have her annual needs. Today I renewed my annual Flickr Pro account. Since then I have had 9 years invested in this relationship (summoning Lorne Green “That’s about 65 for you and me”): Since we started dating, this relationship with flickr has cost me $191.47 or [...]
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Everything is a Repeat
As part of our video section os ds106 we have our students watch part two of Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix so they have an appreciation for the common borrowing of cinematic elements as well as to help them question the notion of “originality” (we ask thema s well to look at Raiders of the Lost Archive) I rarely go to the movie theaters, but I do enjoy the experience of going especially with friends. I like the movie experience, it brings back a lot of fond memories (seeing the premier of Jaws the weekend before out beach vacation, umping out of the chair at the end of the first Friday the 13th…). However I gotta say after my movie experience today, I am not feeling a lot of ferver for the potential of mainstream movies to be storytelling. I decided today to more or less pick a random [...]
(see the full barking...)Lizard Revenge Headed North
During my drive into Florida today I caught the last bit of Michael Branson Smith’s great Horror Cast for ds106 and I really enjoyed hearing the voices of his students. I get the sense they have bit off fully on the ds06 experience. The theme was horror stories from the classroom, bad things teacher and students have done that may cause a shriek in the night breeze. Jim Groom came on and shared his true life story of (?) grade school, where his teacher Mrs Lizardus apparently show her true form and mass attacked the students as the lizard she is. The body count was high, but Jim said he survived by quick thing and busted out a window. While stopped by the roadside, I noticed the grass in the media was moving more than just from the breeze, and managed to catch the brigade of gators heading north to [...]
(see the full barking...)Aloneness / Loneliness?
Aloneness or Lonliness? by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ’08, 4.54am MST PST on flickr Perhaps it is a fine line, but as a very sparsely populated, expansive– and moving into winter– dark place, Iceland can offer you plenty of time, space for reflective alone time… or toss you into an abyss of isolation. My measure seems to fluctuate with the ins and outs of my internet connection. This month in Iceland was an opportunity I could not refuse and am glad I have not done so. It is quite different living in a different culture versus visiting as a tourist or a parachuting presenter. My free time for getting out an exploring fit in around the fact (or my own compulsion) that I have to work as well. Fortunately, the nature of our work at the NMC is that we can work where-ever we are if there is internet. And [...]
(see the full barking...)Grand Canyon (barely) Survivor
Not to clog this blog with too much non educational technology stories (but I am my own editor and publisher…), I am just back to work today after what was supposed to be a tranquil backpack into the Grand Canyon with my stepson that turned out to be a near death experience. I kid you not. Our 3 day excursion on the backcountry Hermit Trail was extensively planned, the route, the food, the terrain…. what was not planned was crazy weather. Here in Arizona, the call for rain in the summer means you can count on a chance of a short intense downpour that moves on in less than 30 minutes. The descent on this trail was not nearly as deadly as the park service information presented in their permits. Sure, it is not to be taken lightly, as Rim to River on the Hermit trail is a descent of [...]
(see the full barking...)Survived
In regards to the yesterday’s bike accomplishment, make that two in a row. Today was uneventful, the only encounters were with a covey of quail along the Arizona Canal. When we bicycle, we are all Lance, careening down the cobblestone roads at 50 mph, accelerating our way up the French Alps, arms raised in yellow jacket victory… all in our minds.
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