Java Jive

The morning sounds of a really good java being made: Credits to the following folks whose Freesound files were used in the making of this brew: Beans pouring: juskiddink Beans grinding: madumcc Coffee brewing: jpkweli Coffee pouring: superex1110 Coffee stirring: keweldog Java slurping: fille1000 Technique: Pretty simple cut and paste …

It’s All In the Sound, Yo

Thoughts on the Jen Ralston Interview with Jim Groom and Paul Bond How lucky we were to have instructors able to land such a great interview!  I really like the honesty of Jen Ralston’s comments regarding how sound editing is under-appreciated and she saw a niche forming there when she …

“Omar Back” — “Who’s Omar?”

I think some of the very best quotes of Season 2 come out of Episodes 3, 4, and 5.   Lester’s clothing being characterized as “tweedy impertinence” by Landsman is worthy of a chuckle. Stringer saying “I’m an XL” is the essence of his ego.  My all-time favorites are Beadie Russel …

She Got Sand In Her What ?!?

Self Portrait Told In Library An interesting Daily Create assignment: Go through your personal library and make three stacks of books that sum up your self portrait and make a photo collage.  Easy enough to do, snap photos with cell phone and snag them off of Dropbox, plot them into …

The Wired Child – A Brainstormed Radio Show

I keep seeing what I think of as “young” themes of childlike elements recurring in episodes of “The Wire”. Maybe it’s child-like innocence? Maybe it’s an innocence that’s lost, or wistfully hoped for but never attained in our view into inner city Baltimore. My vision for an audio project is …

Nom Nom Nom

The daily create for today was a fun one!  Depict an embodiment of a feeling you’re experiencing and post it on Flickr. Easily done by grabbing a PacMan logo off the internet, opening it in Photoshop and plopping down some Nom layers of text boxes, rotate them slightly and pick …

Zombies and Cheesewagons

This was a brutal week for work due in other classes, and I discovered that ds106 can be VERY addictive! Dammit, #ds106 #wire106 stop being the tempting ice cream sundae of my coursework. I really need to eat my vegetables too! — Quinntero (@Green_Canoe) September 10, 2014 Article Reflections – …

My Big Fat Greek Triple Troll Epigraph

Here we see Valchek and Sobotka going at each other, but the quote is from Little Big Roy where he’s speaking about the shipping ports and how everything is becoming more automated.  The good old days are gone. The Greek tends to speak with better grammar, so I thought this …