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CogDog The Blog

An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca

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Thinking on Photos

With more people getting into doing Daily Photo projects, and the soon to be official launch of a related DailyCreate site for ds106, I am reflecting back on why this matters to me, now pretty much into my 5th year of trying to take/post at least one photo per day I cannot fully explain it, […]

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Unlikely Intersections

Doing daily photography makes me take note of many more details around me than I did before. I read a lot of signs, and thought over the last few months that it is interesting to find at intersections road signs for names or things that you would not expect to be crossing. Witness the Queen […]

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Bleeding/Leading…

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by famousright Do you know the old saying “If it doesn’t bleed, it doesn’t lead…’ Do you? Because I could not find it attributed to anyone beyond “old media hands” or “old saying” or “as te saying goes”. Nevertheless, do not let the story get […]

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War of the Yams

Yam mania defines ds106, and like my first yam yarn, I have space yams on my mind. It’s 11PM and I’m photoshopping yams. — Tim Owens (@timmmmyboy) January 4, 2012 Hah, Timmmmy, I’m photoshopping yams at 12:30 AM, because IT’S A WAR OUT THERE IN YAM SPACE (as well as in the oceans) This is […]

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Animated Movie Poster: Bridge over River Kwai

And the ds106 pre-course assignmnet craze moves into 11th gear. Michael Branson-Smith takes the movie poster into a new dimension with his iteration of American Werewolf in London featuring two different elements of movement life sizing the original page. Next, Jim Groom crams about 5 animated GIFs into one with his version of Jason and The Argonauts, turning the whole poster into an action scene.


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Yam Trek! Star Yam!

Star Yam 13: The Final Leftovers is the next series of adventures for Captain James T. Fork of the Starship Yamterprise, it’s 9 year mission, to sek out new plates and new celebrations, to boldly go where no yam has gone before! It’s a Yam Jam Theme, starting with Lisa Lane sailing the Yam Boat, […]