Author: wafflestomper

I, Storyteller

The Facebook site “The Wire” at the time I viewed it appeared little more than a few scraps of advertising and contest entry invitations. The only impression I picked up here was one of stale yesteryears.  Merchants selling mugs and DvDs, no story here for me. Facebook can be an …

OHHHHMMMMMMM

V = IR So simple.  This is Ohm’s Law.   The passing of an electrical current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points. So, voltage equals amperes multiplied by resistance. Today’s Daily Create assignment was to use “found” letters to depict …

Clackety-Clack, Don’t Talk Back

What a fun daily create! Tell the story of what happened before this image was taken: I went with a haiku: A train trip with friends. Clackety track reminder. Forgot your flash drive. That famous Big Bang Theory episode popped into my head when I saw the image of the …

To Bold Go Where Known Has Gone Before a.k.a. ds106 Week 2 Summary

Weekly Assignment: Summarize an episode using animated .GIFs I spent a couple of hours fiddling around with various programs trying to figure out how to make animated .GIFs with the software I already have.  Although I still believe it’s possible, I finally got serious about time and used MPEG Streamclip …

.GIF Stomping

Making animated .GIFs for the first time was a big time sink, so I’m glad I started earlier in the week on the learning process.  At this point in the season, the development of characters is still new and under development, so I focused on their personalities as I summarized …

Dungeons & Dreidls

This was a fun daily create, making a mash-up of two unrelated gaming items to create a new game. The first two game pieces I laid my hands on were an old dreidl someone gave me years ago when I went to school in Westchester, NY, and a Dungeon & …

The Kessel Run

The daily create was to make a map depicting a well-known story, and I went with the Star Wars universe from Episode IV: A New Hope.  This is known as “the first one” for folks that remember 1977, the year it was released. Using PowerPoint, I fooled around with the …

It Said “Logo”, Not “Lego”

Today’s Daily Create assignment was to create your own logo and post it on Flickr.  I jumped onto Google and found an image of a hook to use, since my last name is Hooks.  Then I used it as a layer in Photoshop, added text layers for “Hooks” and “DS106″ …