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Today’s ds106 daily create challenge is writing a Haiku– thats pretty easy, cram something into a 3 line poem, of 7-5-7 format. The prompt is: Write a nonpolitical haiku about your nation’s head of state. So how can you do this? You can play with the idea of who is the head of state, or […]
Today’s ds106 Daily Create was another video one, these are the kind that make the weak run for the hills crying “Mommy! Video is so complicated…” Make a stop motion movie that brings something to life in a unique way. I actually may have never done a stop motion video before, so that’s why I […]
Did you think I fell of the challenge? Well maybe I did, with guests in the last week, but I am not a quitter or a crybaby, and I am on track to pick up the pace of daily creates from the last few days. Today was a video challenge, to make use of unused […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
