My calendar reminders are in cue, reminding me that today, in 1993, I made the gut/heart/soul tearing decision to put my dog down. If you’ve been around here at all, or have looked at 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, you know the Dominoe story. By orders of magnitude, this is my most […]
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one, a low perspective one: Take a photograph from the perspective of an earthworm. I found the worm in a pretty special place. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine My friend Jonah and I were pretty excited. The worm thought he […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s Daily Create was a photography challenge: Make a photo of what friendship mean to you. Simple. We don;t let other weirdos try to define kinds of friendship, friendship is what it is. I was not even thinking of TDC when I took […]
We may regret the visuals, but the dog is out of the bag… I’v just written up a bit of information about the Fall 2013 Headless ds106 — essentially, we will be publishing a regular scheduled series of tasks based on the syllabi on the past 7 ds106 courses taught at UMW. Anyone interested follows […]
Grim news Daily Create challenge, a writing one today: Write Your Own Tw-Obituary (your life in less than 140 characters) Another Hat Tip to the Urban Dictionary: “Your life’s work summed up in 140 characters or less. Just the right size for a gravestone perhaps?” Mine is a bit of play on the Twitter API […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one, based on color. Yellow Like The Summer Sun. Take a photo dominated by the solar color. Pretty hard for me in this stretch not to find a sunflower to work!
More than halfway through Daily Create a Day in July, and here we are at another writing challenge, really an easy peasy one: Write a limerick about someone famous. Like really famous. So who do you look up to more, who could be not more widely known, than your Daily Create Drill Sergeant? And He […]
Rather fitting for the idea of doing a Daily Create bootcamp this month, today’s was a video challenge (which means most people go hide under the bed): Make an Exercise Video for a Common Every Day Activity (e.g washing dishes) The point is to apply the genre of exercise videos, people overly enthusiastic doing something […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Claus Wolf Today’s ds106 Daily Create challenge is a writing one based on the brevity of twitter: Write a story dialogue in 5 half-twits (lines that are 70 characters each) The Urban Dictionary defines a Half-Twit as “A 70-character message, which is half of […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Leeky-Boy It is going to be hard to top this headline… but that is the goal of today’s ds106 Daily Create, a writing challenge: Write a tabloid headline for ds106 and the opening sensational paragraph Tabloids, oh yeah. My all time favorite headline was “Female […]
