Jim Groom invited me to present to his DS106 class yesterday. Unfortunately this week has been a challenge to do things in the evenings synchronously so I pre-recorded this video [7min] For those of you who can’t sit through 7 minutes of video, here’s a quick outline of the talk: Introduction to me (In B&W,… Read More: Learning by Design: Sketchnoting in DS106 »
I’d like to tell you a story of bread and spandex. First, there was this tweet… #ds106 docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_9l8… I give you this as a present. — Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) February 8, 2012 Then @noiseprofessor up and @JimGroom-ified that breathtaking toe-tapping, spandex spectacle and transformed it into a piece of beauty. Strangeness ensued with Cat Breading… Read More: Pure Bread is two steps away from In Bread »
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe Just testing out the Awesome Cintiq and what better thing to do than make art better with some fat cats??? This is Nicholas Poussin’s Bacchus & Midas holding Trophy (le grand chat) I’ve been wanting to do this assignment since the brilliant, lovely… Read More: Poussin’s Midas and Bacchus & Le Grand Chat »
My Flickr stream is getting a lot of hits these days. As an online petition grows by the thousands per day, I’m getting a few hundred visits DAILY to my recent visualization of Timothy Gower’s blog post and The Chronicle of Higher Ed article, Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics. cc licensed ( BY… Read More: The Cost of Knowledge »
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe Lady Ada lived from 1815-1852. She is credited as being the first computer programmer for her work with Charles Babbage. Everyone knows that code monkeys need good snacks and having lived most her life in Ockham, Surrey, Ada lived by Occham’s razor principle,… Read More: Ada Lovelace calculates her love of the Juan Pollo burrito »
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe She raced up the steps to the top of the parking garage. She knew the perfect spot to catch the last gasp of the sun as it set upon Seattle from her location at the university campus. As she climbed the stairs she… Read More: The tag is the soul of the Internet »
What can I say? Beatrix rocks. (From Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill) Kudos to Ben for his Lebowski TED Talk, (where you can also download his awesome Photoshop template) and of course, creating this killer Fantasy Ted Talk assignment. Also huge props to John Johnson for taking it next level combining the Animated GIF assignment. I… Read More: Fantasy Ted Talk: Beatrix Kiddo & Five Point Palm Exploding… »
If there was any doubt about Tom Woodward’s assertion that the Snowball effect is a key to DS106 success, I hereby present to you the tale of the Yam-snowball-visual assignment 311: Yam Yam: Add a yam to your favorite movie and make a picture. It started in the comments of Michael Branson Smith’s No Words… Read More: yam yam »
Following the lead from cogdog, Lisa M Lane, Scottlo, Stephen Downes and now Michael Branson Smith I decided to also take jump into the photo word translation Visual Assignment 307: Make The Untranslatable Understood I used the No-English-Translation Random Word Generator Tool and got: Retrouvailles. “The happiness of meeting again after a long time” Inspired… Read More: Make The Untranslatable Understood. Again. »
Inspired by Jim’s Etherized on a Table and Joan’s There is Time, I decided to also give Serena’s Picturing Prufrock assignment a whirl. The symbolism in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is so rich. Every line has imagery I’d love to illustrate. I could happily spend days illustrating these stanzas. I chose one… Read More: Picturing Prufrock »