Maybe it’s the impeding headless ds106 course coming next month, or maybe it’s just the phases of the moon, but I felt the rekindled urge to experimenting once again with making animated GIFs from a sequence of still photos. This happens in two ways: (1) I anticipate an action sequence, and deliberately take a series […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Brendan Wilkinson In today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge, we take up the writing pen and the memory box. Describe a recurring dream you had as a kid. Give an update as if the dream comes back. My mind leaped back to one… about trains. […]
My calendar reminders are in cue, reminding me that today, in 1993, I made the gut/heart/soul tearing decision to put my dog down. If you’ve been around here at all, or have looked at 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, you know the Dominoe story. By orders of magnitude, this is my most […]
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one, a low perspective one: Take a photograph from the perspective of an earthworm. I found the worm in a pretty special place. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine My friend Jonah and I were pretty excited. The worm thought he […]
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 […]
