Month: June 2011

  • Primary Colors with 50 Flickr Images

    First off thanks Timmmmyboy for creating this assignment and the tutorial to go with it. It was great to be walked through a tool I had  never used before in Photoshop. And second thanks to ds106 for always finding ways to exercise your creative side! I deviated a little from Tim’s assignment by selecting 30-50…

  • Four Icon Challenge – Deliverance

    John Boorman’s survivalist film Deliverance rendered in four icons.

  • Vectorizing Dr. Oblivion

    Here’s my first tutorial for ds106 that Jim Groom mentioned he might be interested in today’s ds106tv broadcast. It shows how I created my “Have You Seen Dr. Oblivion” posters. It teaches the basics of converting a bitmapped image to vectorized one using Adobe Illustrator’s LiveTrace.   [youtube width=”560″ height=”453″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYgDxTJ4Tz4[/youtube]

  • A Storified Refresher on the Battle for Oblivion

    View “The Battle For Oblivion” on Storify

  • Have You Seen Dr. Oblivion?

    Meeting up with a few DS106ers tonight in NYC. I’m hoping we can poster the town and get some others out there to join the search for Dr. Oblivion. Here’s a PDF of all the posters if you’d like to slap them up anywhere.

  • Have You Seen This Man?

    Post this leaflet and help us find Dr. Oblivion.

  • HELP FIND DR. OBLIVION

    Download a Printable PDF of this poster to put up in your neighborhood. Please help #ds106, please, please!

  • DS106 as RPG, Part 2

      Why do we play Dr. Oblivion’s ds106 “Summer of Oblivion” game? We come to ds106 with different agendas. Some are fulfilling a requirement and looking for a grade (probably a small subset of the registered UMW students). Others chose to observe and contribute to ds106 to learn about digital storytelling and/or what a open online course…

  • DS106 as RPG, part 1

    Today was the start of the summer section of DS106 Digital Storytelling a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) taught out of the University of Mary Washington (UMW) and conducted through their open site ds106.us. If you’re not sure what a MOOC is then watch this video to get a little perspective, but in a nutshell…

  • Made It Ma, Top of the World

    James Cagney’s famous send off in the final seconds of the classic noir film, White Heat (1949).