cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s Daily Create was a photography challenge: Make a photo of what friendship mean to you. Simple. We don;t let other weirdos try to define kinds of friendship, friendship is what it is. I was not even thinking of TDC when I took […]
We may regret the visuals, but the dog is out of the bag… I’v just written up a bit of information about the Fall 2013 Headless ds106 — essentially, we will be publishing a regular scheduled series of tasks based on the syllabi on the past 7 ds106 courses taught at UMW. Anyone interested follows […]
Grim news Daily Create challenge, a writing one today: Write Your Own Tw-Obituary (your life in less than 140 characters) Another Hat Tip to the Urban Dictionary: “Your life’s work summed up in 140 characters or less. Just the right size for a gravestone perhaps?” Mine is a bit of play on the Twitter API […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one, based on color. Yellow Like The Summer Sun. Take a photo dominated by the solar color. Pretty hard for me in this stretch not to find a sunflower to work!
More than halfway through Daily Create a Day in July, and here we are at another writing challenge, really an easy peasy one: Write a limerick about someone famous. Like really famous. So who do you look up to more, who could be not more widely known, than your Daily Create Drill Sergeant? And He […]
Rather fitting for the idea of doing a Daily Create bootcamp this month, today’s was a video challenge (which means most people go hide under the bed): Make an Exercise Video for a Common Every Day Activity (e.g washing dishes) The point is to apply the genre of exercise videos, people overly enthusiastic doing something […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Claus Wolf Today’s ds106 Daily Create challenge is a writing one based on the brevity of twitter: Write a story dialogue in 5 half-twits (lines that are 70 characters each) The Urban Dictionary defines a Half-Twit as “A 70-character message, which is half of […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Leeky-Boy It is going to be hard to top this headline… but that is the goal of today’s ds106 Daily Create, a writing challenge: Write a tabloid headline for ds106 and the opening sensational paragraph Tabloids, oh yeah. My all time favorite headline was “Female […]
Maybe the best photographic advice I came across (forgetting the source) is to “Look for the light”. At first, this might seem the textbook kind of suggestion of always having the light come from behind. But this is different. Look for interesting light. This means looking for both the vivid light of sunrise/sunset, the diffuse […]
I’ve just got one week’s reading and discussion in, but I am enjoying the reading group that Ben Rimes has organized as Book CLub 106 (yes the connection to ds106 may be a thread, but it works for me!). I do not think I have ever been part of any kind of book club… oh […]
