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Solving the Mysteries of Camp

I finished this just before I had to leave for the airport and can’t find the embed on my phone. Hope you can see it here anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YqBfnHagvQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
It was very rewarding to make!
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Is Everything Good a Remix?

So you want to be creative?
1. Copy
2. Tinker
3. Combine
In part 3 of Everything Is a Remix: Elements of Creativity, Kirby Ferguson states that
“creativity isn’t magic. It evolves by applying ordinary tools of thought to existing material.”

He expands this idea by explaining that no one… Continue reading

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What happens where there is time

Camp Magic Macguffin is the summer version of DS106, a digital storytelling class from the University of Mary Washington.  It’s given me a lot to think about in regards to the way I consume tv, movies, books, and music.  It’s given me a lot to think about in regards to… Continue reading

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Representing flight

I took liberties with today’s Daily Create (tdc192):

No rules, right?  Also, I misread (or didn’t read) the DC directions.
Also, I haven’t sorted out my .gif/Wordpress issues, so you have to click on the image to see it move.  Sorry.  Maybe that’s a project for tomorrow.
Representing the concept… Continue reading

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7-day Daily Create Mash-up

About a week ago, I resolved to do some of the Daily-Creates for ds106. In perfect “make a resolution” style, I promptly failed and didn’t complete the first one on July 9! I was able to do the second and then in my Tweetstream I saw:

Now that I had… Continue reading

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Bad parenting* (or how I got to watch great movies as a kid)

When I think back to my childhood, I think about ice-cream sandwiches, playing Barbies, hours of swimming with my cousins, making clubhouses in a copse of spindly trees, the babysitter asking me if it was ok for her to smoke in the house (turns out it wasn’t), and watching some… Continue reading

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The Day After Album Cover #ds106

While the ds106 video weeks have gone speeding by like some kind of super-luminal neutrinos, I’m still trying to wrap up my account of the audio radio project. Here’s the summary of my project.
The DigiOuijas (Bunk 5 group) decided on a theme of the morning after the apocalypse. Each… Continue reading

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In Praise of External Challenges

I have to say that when I saw today’s Daily Create I wasn’t thrilled.
Make an annoying 30 second pre-recorded telemarketing call.
It didn’t sound like something fun to do so I put it off for most of the day. Without Cogdog’s Seven Day Challenge for the Daily Creates, I… Continue reading

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Using Keynote to Make a Movie

I never intended for this to take as long as it did… those are turning out to be famous last words here in my summer of ds106.
As explained in the video description, The Daily Create #187 said:
Make a video of what is playing on channel 106 on your… Continue reading

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The Hardest 4 Icon Challenge Yet

I’ve been following Jim Groom’s “Name that 80s movie” 4 icon challenge series, and while he promised that they would become more difficult, I think the many summers I spent glued to the TV watching HBO for hours on end gives me an unfair advantage (I totally nailed the Flash… Continue reading

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