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Getting Ready for Getting Ready for Western106
This web site is starting to shape up. Today we got in place all the pages, many of them placeholders, for Western 106.
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A Fistful of Western DS106
That’s the classic Man With No Name minimal utterance “Get three more coffins ready” in the clip from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western masterpiece A Fistful of Dollars (I love how after the gunfight scene that follows he says, as holstering his gun, “My mistake, make it four coffins”). For thinking of a DS106 trailer for […]
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I Love The West
First of all there’s the hats. Then it’s sitting around with a buddy talking about photos. And then heck, we might just go riding off into the sunset. I can’t wait for western106.
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“Nobody” in the Spaghetti
Today’s DS106 / Western Daily Create was to do some “research” on spaghetti westerns: #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1457 Do Some Research on Spaghetti Westerns https://t.co/gBrUaW1JEf pic.twitter.com/aRXEhV6eMI — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) January 4, 2016 This is one of those tasks that could be as simple as tweeting a link like Paul Bond’s refernece to a Mario […]
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2015: Year of the SPLOT
I knew right away this tweet would, could, and should be used against me: Oh shit. Here come the year end summaries — Alan Levine (@cogdog) December 21, 2015 So I am going to be the first pot to call the kettle black. I’m doing a year-end summary. Of course its reasonable on the turning […]
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Another Year, Another 356 Photos
It’s less than an hour away from 2016. It took a bit longer than I hoped to finalize my flickr album of daily photos from this year. This makes the eighth year in a row of a habit of taking photos each day and choosing one to be my “photo of the day” This goes […]
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On Waiting For Polaroid Images
Adam Croom is on a tour de force blogging like it was 2006 blowout, and just the opening paragraphs of his latest post Toward a Polaroid Pedagogy triggered those reverberations that signals to me… this means more than a comment. Adam shares an analogy from a book he is reading on a road trip, by […]
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Taking the Reins of the DS106 Daily Create
The DS106 Daily Create started January 8, 2012 in a site originally created and maintained by Tim Owens. I took it over a few months later when I went to teach/work at the University of Mary Washington, and populated/tended it until late July 2014. Then I had roped Mariana Funes into taking over keeping the […]
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Solo Rider for #Western106
I sure were excited ’bout leadin’ a new herd of ds106 calves from the Kansas State University ranch. Me ‘n Bill even planned stuff over beans and a fire and even ole Hatchet Jack was ready to become unfrozen to be doing a new round of DS106. And when I got word from the KSU […]
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From the EDUPUNK Documentary Cutting Room Floor
Muchas gracias to the people who commented or messaged me about the 15 minute EDUPUNK retrodocumentary I produced for a presentation this week at the University of Guadalajara. As it turns out, we played only the first few minutes (up to the Quincy re-dub) as (a) it was too long and (b) most of the […]