Category Archives: Photography

happy birthday, tdc

creativity, design, Photography, Video,

I started with tdc6: Create an audio of two sounds not normally heard together. I created Chicken TV.

In honor of the first year, I made the gift I pictured: a short slide show of photos taken as part of the daily create along with one of my other audio projects. The prompt was to make an audio recording of using an everyday object as a musical instrument. I chose chickens and made the chicken drum circle.

Thanks to the people who work hard to make the daily create exist. You helped me be just a little bit more creative…to stop and listen and look at my world and create from the materials around me.

From the Twitterverse

Photography, social networking, ,

I am quickly approaching my 30th day of blogging every day.  I want to continue to incorporate blogging in my daily routine. One strategy I’m considering is having a meme for each day, much like Should Be Reading, one of the book blogs I follow. MizB encourages others to share in the meme on their own blogs or in the comments.

Here’s what I’m thinking about:

  • Monday Musings: A take off on Should Be Reading where she asks and answers a question
  • Tuesday: From the Twitterverse: a post about something I found on Twitter
  • Wednesday: Mid week news roundup from Google alerts
  • Thursday: Thinking Out Loud: a post on some topic generally related to teaching, learning, technology and education
  • Friday: Fun
  • Sat/Sun: Just one post on the weekends and it will be more arts related

So, from the Twitterverse today: an article identifying real and fake Hurricane Sandy photos. I got the link from one of my graduate students.

It’s a reminder of how easy it is to make and widely distribute photographs these days. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady was known to rearrange battle sites but he couldn’t do any post image editing and create a scene from whole cloth. And then have it shared instantaneously on social networks where there seems to be little thought about the veracity of the image.

What did you find in the Twitterverse today?

Warming Up the Creativity Muscle

creativity, ds106, Photography

I joined ds106, the open online digital storytelling course, almost on a whim this week. I was vaguely familiar with it, having seen some of the projects that were created last semester. It just seemed like the jolt I needed to reacquaint myself with the creative potential of my computer, which lately seems more like a productivity tool.

I’ve done two of The Daily Create assignments, both related to audio. When I set about to to do the first one yesterday–combine two sounds that wouldn’t normally be heard together–I knew what I wanted to do, but it had been so long since I had done anything with audio that it took me some time to figure out what tools to use for capturing and editing my audio. I ended up using my flip camera and then importing it into GarageBand for the mix down called Chicken TV.

Today, I did break the rules a bit as I did not capture any new audio. I had so much excess from yesterday and I spent the whole day in a meeting so I pulled some different clips and applied some effects to create my answer to the assignment to make an audio recording using an everyday object as a musical instrument. Probably many people would not consider chickens as everyday objects but I feed and water them everyday so I’m counting them. And somehow, I think breaking the rules is all part of the ds106 experience. Plus, I’m having fun so I don’t really care. I have fulfilled the fundamental mission of The Daily Create: Make Art Dammit!

I’m also participating in the 365 Project, taking and uploading a picture every week. So far, my photos have been fairly pedestrian, documenting my life. But I’m about ready to start experimenting with the Retro Camera app I downloaded some time ago to do some post-photo processing. Here are 12 of them:

Mosaic

1. Barn at Sunset, 2. Chair Decoration, 3. Chandelier, 4. Insulator, 5. Cabbage, 6. Chicken and Bottles, 7. Major the Puppy, 8. Smokehouse, 9. Happy Snowman Globe, 10. Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom, 11. Flocked Wallpaper, 12. Dottie