Month: August 2012

  • Week 1 DS106 Continued – White Heat

    In the second half of the first week of ds106 for York students, I broadcast live earlier today to showcase some of the great progress students were making and to let them know I’m still there for them. My class is a ‘hybrid’ class, so there is to be an online half to the class,…

  • Week 1 DS106 at York College – Dark Shadows

    Last spring while teaching ds106 with my York students, I was introduced to the ‘blitz assignment’ which asked students to make and share something under the time constraints of the short class. I enjoyed both the spontaneity of this type of assignment as well as the opportunity to watch my students work on a project…

  • Peter Pan Would Make Great Animated GIFs

    I’m a big lover of the animated GIF having created dozens as bits of reflection on cinematic moments, film posters and comic book covers. These animations are all fabulous homages to stories I love. But I’ve also really enjoyed discovering how the animated GIF became an extension of traditional photography using subtle bits of animation.…

  • DS106 Shadow Puppets

    Welcome to the Fall 2012 semester of CT 101 Introduction to Video which you should better recognize over the next few days as a course that is participating in the open course from the University of Mary Washington called DS106. The syllabus for our course can be found under ‘Classes I Teach‘ section of my…

  • Ballet Zoom Animated Cat GIFs

    Boing-Boing posted a video of 70s Spanish disco dance group, Ballet Zoom, doing a boogie with live cats. Yes live cats! The leap to make a bunch of animated GIFs seems like a no brainer. And there’s no better way to get ready for the coming semester of DS106. Oh wait there is but that…

  • Busted

    I have plans to make a LifeboatĀ animated GIF as part of my Hitchcock animated movie poster series, but it’s going to take a lot of work. So I feel like I need to do an easier one in the short term, andĀ To Catch A Thief is looking fun and relatively easy. Carey Grant, sadly yes…

  • Psycho Animated Movie Poster

    Phew! This poster is done! It was harder to make than the previous four Hitchcock posters to date, but the real problem was that other efforts became a distraction over the past few weeks (good stuff honestly). But I was able to lock in over the past couple of days and I spent most of…

  • Ready to Recover

    I’m going to finish the Psycho animated poster tonight. Hacking away at my anxieties.