A bad link click turns up some stuff from that Bag of Gold- the link was in the twitter river, for something I forget, and ot was not found on the site, but the site itself caught my interest– http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/, where the subtitle is “Ever get the feeling you’re living in the wrong time?”. It […]
Since I’ll be on the road alot soon, I’m doubtful I will get to play on the next Dr. Oblivion round of ds106, but while I have time, I wanted to dip my paws again into animated GIF creations. Now having done a few, I am trying to think more ahead of time what might […]
Recently “on The Twitter”, Scott Leslie rightfully chided me because my web page describing the concept for the StoryBox was long — Don’t apologize Scott, I like you because you say it like it is, cause you carry the card. My response was, :”it’s a first draft!” but I had been trying to do something […]
It’s just a Sunday, lazier morning in, longer coffee time at the kitchen table. The phone rang and Mom said, “Happy Father’s Day!” “But Mom, I’m not a father…” “Yes, but you have one.” She says it in present tense, darn she is savvy. If I was thinking of today, I might call it Father-less […]
This psychotic animated GOF was grabbed hastily from the Amazing Story video JIm did for me when he visited Strawberry last month. Not quite yet the perfect style, I am getting a better handle on isolating movement (sometimes- my Ayn Rand one was better). My current technique is: Load video into MPEGStream Clip Use the […]
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by qthomasbower I’m starting a countdown for the start of my Road Odyssey, and today is 7 days out. I doubt anyone cares to read the minutiae navel gazing as I ramp up (or down) to this, but hey, I am writing for ME, ME, and […]
When Bryan Alexander tweeted his dislike of ET, I could not help but play with him… Hence… Who else does he side with? The Orcs? Jame Gumb? Freddy Krueger? jack Torrance? Lex Luthor? Gollum? Just kidding, Ax-man, you know I dig your style.
(the movie, not the country!) I had promised myself to avoid blogging or tweeting all the injustices inflicted upon my by heartless and stupid companies, no #FAIL proclamations. Oh well, time to bust my own promise. But really, the communcination systems I find myself dealing with seem right out of the Ministry of Information. Yesterday, […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by giveawayboy Taking the swirl metaphor of real life/online connections in a different direction, what follows might be patently obvious. But first, here is some secret insight- If you find that 140 characters cramps your communication style (and please avoid the hokey pokey longer tweet […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Jess Gambacurta For the last four? five years? I’ve sported the same old quote on the top right of this blog, under “What the CDB”, a slight rewording of my favorite desert author. Time it was to change out the quote, and I found […]
