Month: September 2012

  • Cornified DS106

    Pretty goofy simple ds106 assignment leads the discovery of awesome unicorn-rainbow explosion tool. Use it. Abuse it. Enjoy it.

  • It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad MOOC

    I like the idea of tackling Alan Levine’s Horror of the MOOCs with a film that has a zombie kind of pursuit for money, but in the form of a comedy. There is real hysteria about MOOCs, all you have to do is look at the way the University of Virginia spastically responded to the…

  • Recording System Sound with SoundFlower and Quicktime

    Here’s a quick tutorial for hijacking the system sound of your Mac, and recording the audio to Quicktime. Soundflower is an application that works with the computer’s audio, acting as a submixer in a sense you can redirect audio to other applications. 1. After launching Soundflower, select the Built-In output so you can monitor sounds…

  • Truth in Your Digital Mask

    cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Mr Atrocity Oscar Wilde described of his essay, The Truth of Masks – A Note On Illusion, that: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. We’re going to play with this…

  • Molly Ringwald Rocks the Force

    I knew the YouTube bots would quickly take down this mash-up of The Breakfast Club and Star Wars (Fox probably has it’s own bot bat phone when it comes to this property). I’ve made a fair-use claim and I believe it’s still up right now. Let me know in comments if it’s not. But if it is down…

  • Week 3 York DS106 – Your Taste, Your Creativity

    Anything creative you make is an effort to showcase your taste. It may not be a perfect expression of your ideas, but you can keep working at it. I think this is probably one of the most important things to think about while making work this semester and far, far beyond. One of the best…

  • Salivating Over Animated GIFs

    This is probably my favorite way to make animated GIFs. Find that little loop in a moment of video and try to make it seemlessly play infinitely. This bit of animated juiciness comes from the 1941 Woody Woodpecker cartoon Pantry Panic. In this six minute short, there’s a cold front coming so all the birds but…

  • DS106 Explodes Chicken

    I know it’s a rooster, but the original animated GIF was titled ‘chickenexplode.’ I love the old school animated GIFs which packed a lot of action in very, very little data – often just a few Kilobytes. That was necessary back when the web was delivered to you at 56 kbps. I thought it would be…