Kenny Powers: Greatest Hits
My digital storytelling class is about to embark on the wonderful world of video story telling, and I found a beautiful example from my favorite new HBO series, Eastbound & Down. I don’t know why I...
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The Art of Commenting
Image credit: Not in HD In DS106 one of the things that I have been pushing harder than anything else is commenting on each other’s work. I want it to be honest, plentiful, and sustained. In fact, I...
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ds106: Video Commentary Assignment
Note: I’m cross-posting this here as well as on the ds106 course blog for two reasons. 1) It pulls widely from Andy Rush’s unbelievable Digital Video resource blog/site, and I figured this would be a...
View ArticleThe Shining Commentary
So I just wrapped up my commentary on Kubrick’s The Shining. One of my top 3 films of all time, and it feels good because I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. And luckily I gave my digital...
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Pumpkin carving contest. Also, purple hair.
We entered UMW’s pumpkin contest this year. We based our design on some doodles we drew. Awesometown is my doodle, the flaming bat is Erin’s. The “Titan” was Erin’s idea as well. We did not win. In...
View ArticleHello November.
I have an extra hour. I will make a brief blog post. The grey linen I chose for RC’s pillow is resistant to any type of transfer. Pencil and chalk lines don’t show up on it at all. I suppose next step...
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DS106 Plays Caption This
It all started with this Retweet by Melanie McBride this morning: It just so happens that I caught this in the stream and my interrest was piqued when I saw Google Street View mentioned because right...
View ArticleThere are 2 things I want you to do.
First, watch this. It’s after Advent, so Christmas music is allowed, and it’s Die Toten Hosen, which makes it excellent. Second, add this to your bookmarks bar, and destroy the heck out of the...
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Merry Christmas!
I had one! This is what I got: All 3 Toy Story movies in a 10 disk set, each movie on DVD, Blue Ray and digital copy + a special features disk Pokemon Soul Silver (Cyndaquil for the win!) A flip video...
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