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Krazy Kat Bread!

Get out in front of this meme or get out of the way! Beyond Cat Breading lies the bizarre space of Jim Groom Breading: This started with the almost incomprehensible Cat Breading ds106 assignment: The latest bizarre trend blowing up Facebook mini-feeds everywhere? Cat Breading. (Think LOLcats, but with a trippy twist””each adorable kitten has […]

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Slice 009: 90 Miles from F’burg

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This audio reflection comes close to the end of my cross country sprint from Arizona to Virginia, as I close in on Fredericksburg Virginia, where I am now, and not planning on driving away from for a while. Maybe it will become Hallowed Ground Slices […]

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Slice 008: Leaving Arizona

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Still catching up on the slices of life audio reflection, this one almost two weeks old. ALways Be ‘Poligizing for being behind? This audio recording is from January 26, the morning I left home in Strawberry Arizona, for the 220 mile express trip to Virginia. […]

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Happy Butterflyday

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today would have been my Mom’s 83rd Birthday, and in honor of her memory and love of butterflies, I asked Tim Owens to do a Makerbot print of a butterfly ornament. If you want to a description of her belief about butterflies, listen to this […]

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Comic Me Down Under

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog A quick one for a new #ds106 assignment created by one of my students: Comic Book Effect Take a picture and experiment with the “Halftone Effect” in some photo editing software to create a comic book effect. There are lots of tutorials on Youtube and […]

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We Need More Reality Shows

Actually we don’t. We need more fake reality shows. San Francisco: Flip This Mayor There must be something in the water at Oakland’s City Hall which makes people stupid. San Francisco’s unemployment rate stands at 7.6 percent, below the national average and the third-lowest unemployment rate in California, as city officials say the number of […]

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It’s a Bag of Coal

It's a Bag of Coalby: cogdog I cannot say this has a whole lot of meaning– it more or less came out of just thinking about the rallying call from Gardner Campbell’s No Digital Facelift presentation we use to start ds106. So maybe if people do not see the value of the Bag of Gold, […]

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Splash Some Color

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I made this as an example for a new ds106 Visual Assignment, Splash The Color– this is the effect of accentuating parts of an image by reducing it to black and white, and then re-coloring or restoring the color of parts of the photo. See […]