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I Found a Camera in Popcorn

This is my second of makes as a Mozilla Web Maker Fella, my first was the Thimble creating yourself as an ingredients lable. I actually was intending to do another idea in popcorn, and was just checking out an example Brett Gaylor shared to understand how you can embed a set from flickr. I was […]

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Morning Journeys- phonar pre-task

I am not even finding enough time to do some creative work for ds106, so why not try a bit for our partner in anti-MOOCing, the open photography+narrative course at Coventry University — phonar. The pre-task ramp up for the course that starts n October is to document a morning journey- to class, work, whatever. […]

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MADNESS! MADNESS! Travel

Until this past weekend, my previous travel trip was way back in June. It’s been so nice being home for a long stretch… so much I pinned together a five week travel trip starting Sunday. Remind me to ask myself what I was thinking? This is roughly the plan, i started fiddling with Google maps […]

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PhotoBlitz The Home Version

I’ve done the ds106 photoblitz for the visual storytelling week a few times– originally this was a shorter in class exercise Jim and did in Spring 2012 where we used DuPont Hall on campus at UMW. IN the Fall of 2012 I did mine With Giulia Forsythe on the Brock University campus, and did it […]

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Hangout For Week 5

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 […]

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Expanding Circles of Communication

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.

A recent passage from the New York Times? Fast Company? Salon?

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Flickr Fridge Magnets From Russia

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 […]