Brother Mouzone Comin’: Episodes 7, 8, 9 from Season 2 Episode 7 Bodie in the florist shop asking for “strong colors like red and black” on his housing project flower arrangement was surreal. The florist had the interesting gun arrangement in the back room suggesting there is enough demand for …
I’m terrible at drawing, and that is exacerbated by using a mouse as a drawing tool. So, today’s daily create was interesting and won’t win me any art awards, but he said “Make art, dammit” he didn’t say it had to be good.…
This man is frequently seen nesting in his office, playing with science fiction action figures and arranging them in questionable poses. When he leaves his lair, he is difficult to track because he does not carry a smartphone. If apprehended and taken into custody, it is recommended to restrain the …
Soooo, I made a new assignment called “WANTED Poster” under the Visual category in the Assignment Bank. It was inspired by the “Y U NO DRAW JIM GROOM” daily create, but because I am horrible at drawing and I wanted to include a writing aspect, I decided to create an …
Wow, this was a fun daily create! I could’ve happily spent a lot more time searching around the images of interesting patents, but I settled on some steampunk style goggles. I copied the image into Photoshop, added a warming layer to turn the text into dark brown and then added …
My bead story begins with my first undergraduate degree in Biology, symbolized by the green and blue glass bead at #1. Pretty much beginning around that time, I began rudimentary computer gaming. I say “rudimentary”, because it was pretty primitive stuff back in the late ’80s. The 20-sided die …
I’ve been slowly working on a set of bead/charms for a bracelet and so far I’ve got the beads, but not the actual bracelet. I’ve played with the order of things, and ran across a website called “North America Great Story Beads” where they use beads to create a timeline …
Just finished live-Tweeting while watching an episode of The Wire with the ds106 gang without sound! A very different experience from listening without watching. I had seen the episode before, which helped tremendously in following the story, but without sound I would’ve wandered away from the story. The live tweeting …
Weekly Summary Highlight of the week: While I’m puttering away on a Saturday afternoon, polishing an audio assignment for the week, I get this Tweet: How cool is that? I quickly fumbled to get into ds106 Radio to listen to a charming conversation between two delightful people whose accents tell …
I was bumping up against the Dark Side all week, so here’s my ds106 Radio bumper audio assignment: Another Audacity project, this time adding a track, and using the Effects >> Fade Out to accommodate the second track to be heard. I used the built-in voice modulator in my …
