Reflecting on Camp Magic Macguffin
I am now back from my holiday in Paris and can properly embed my video Solving the Mysteries of Camp Magic Macguffin that was completed before I left and before…
Solving the Mysteries of Camp
I finished this just before I had to leave for the airport and can't find the embed on my phone. Hope you can see it here anyway: ;feature=youtube_gdata_player It was…
Is Everything Good a Remix?
So you want to be creative? 1. Copy 2. Tinker 3. Combine In part 3 of Everything Is a Remix: Elements of Creativity, Kirby Ferguson states that "creativity isn't magic.…
7-day Daily Create Mash-up
About a week ago, I resolved to do some of the Daily-Creates for ds106. In perfect "make a resolution" style, I promptly failed and didn't complete the first one on…
In Praise of External Challenges
I have to say that when I saw today's Daily Create I wasn't thrilled. Make an annoying 30 second pre-recorded telemarketing call. It didn't sound like something fun to do…
Using Keynote to Make a Movie
I never intended for this to take as long as it those are turning out to be famous last words here in my summer of ds106. As explained in the…
It’s a bird… It’s a plane…
You're right, How hard is it to take a photo of a cloud on a beautiful summer day? Today's Daily Create reads: Take a picture of a cloud and tell…
Kill Bill as Silent Movie
One of the current ds106 video assignments challenges us to return to the silent era: The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and…
Analysing the Basterds [sic]
I really didn't want to believe it. Wouldn't films that follow rules just seem formulaic? How could following the "rules" still produce a good film after over 100 years of…
Not Reading a Movie
Good Plan So my intention was to sit down and "read a movie" for this week's ds106 assignment. I read Roger Ebert's article on How to Read a Movie, I…