Okay folks, we are setting up a live google hangout for Wednesday, September 25 at 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT (check your local time) to talk about photography and the visual storytelling exercises for Week 5 of the Headless ds106. I will kick things off, and we will have Giulia Forsythe there for the first […]
The first means of communication touched only a small circle of people utilizing their bodies as their tool, these people conveyed their thoughts and emotions through their facial expressions and body movements. But as their thoughts became more complicated they found it difficult to express their feelings just through their bodies. They looked for another mode of communication and they found the word. Through nooks, newspapers and magazines the people now had the ability to share their knowledge with many more. The circle widened.
The people then sought to spread their words with more immediacy. They wanted to reach more people on a shorter amount of time. This brought about the invention of the telegraph and later the telephone.
The people could now touch a friend next door and a friend three thousand miles away in the same amount of time. And the circle widened again.
Today these people use their many tools of communication to create, animate and influence. They use them to educate, inform, and entertain. And the circle keeps widening.
Here at Milford, our circle can be compared to no other. The many tools we use to express ourselves carry us through our stay. Whether it be a morning announcement, a sign of relief at the end of a test or a wink to a passing friend in the halls we can easily relate our ideas and emotions. Through these pages we will examine these tools and capture the moments which make us special and our circle so vast and neverending.
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I spent nearly most of my day working to design a label for a can of beans… UPDATE: Nov 25, 2013: Wowzers! I see about 30 different remixes of this project… This was created/published with Mozilla Thimble, my first full go with this web-based tool for working with web page code where you see your […]
I’m on tap to help lead The Week 4 of Headless ds106, and I can tell you right now I probably wont do much. I have way overestimated the time just to prep the lessons, and probably like many participants, feel awash in all the flow of stuff folks are doing. That’s normal. But that […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Quite a while ago i was contacted by someone from a company that makes fridge magnets asking permission to use the photos– and today I got my free samples in the mail. I think (need to check) that they have attribution in their catalog (there is none […]
On my trip down to southern Arizona this weekend to visit Karen Fasimpaur, I got a photo of a most unusual multi-colored grasshopper (actually, she spotted it, I just did the photo) cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine I saw more grasshoppers of various sizes, shapes, colors, that weekend, […]
Tweet while you keynote… note: if you have updated to the Mavericks version of OSX the app will not work. Thank Apple for restricting the amount of Apple Script capability… see Chris Long’s efforts. Our best recommendation is use Keynote ’09 if you want to auto tweet If you create presentations in Apple’s Keynote, here […]
Maybe my favorite image of my Mom was one I made on her last visit to my home in Arizona. She knew, and obliged in retelling, the stories of her past. I remember asking her about her high school years, because to me, in her photo, she looked so much more mature than high school. […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Clay Junell First my body was physically demoralized by a brutal bike ride and yesterday it was my computer’s turn to beat me down. Without going into banal details no one cares about, I pretty much spent 4 hours Sunday night, and most of the […]
I look a bit too satisfied and confident here crossing the finish line for the Fire on the Rim mountain bike race — this GIF made from two finish line photos they took This ride totally crushed me… Yes, I am glad to have finished, but man I was hurting. I went home, took a […]
