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The Sarahs
The Sarahs
"The Sarah Lawrence International Audio Fiction Award (also known as "The Sarahs") is a new initiative that will transform the audio landscape and encourage everyone—writers, audio producers, sound artists, musicians—to re-think what is possible in the radio drama format.  "
#ds106#audio
·thesarahawards.com·
The Sarahs
Quantity Queries for CSS · An A List Apart Article
Quantity Queries for CSS · An A List Apart Article
"The @media query is the darling of responsive web design because it allows us to insert “breakpoints” wherever one layout strategy ceases to be viable and another should succeed it. However, it’s not just viewport dimensions, but the quantity of content that can put pressure on space. Just as your end users are liable to operate devices with a multitude of different screen sizes, your content editors are liable to add and remove content. That’s what content management systems are for.  This makes Photoshop mockups of web pages doubly obsolete: they are snapshots of just one viewport, with content in just one state. In this article, I will be outlining a technique to make CSS quantity-aware using specially formed selectors. I will be applying these selectors to one classic problem in particular: how to alter the display of items in a horizontal navigation menu when there are too many to suit the initial layout mode. That is, I will demonstrate how to switch from a display: table-cell to a display: inline-block layout when the number of items in the menu becomes “more than or equal to 6.”"
#CSS#webdesign
·alistapart.com·
Quantity Queries for CSS · An A List Apart Article
Classroom for GitHub
Classroom for GitHub
"Classroom for GitHub automates repository creation and access control, making it easy to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub."
#github#education
·classroom.github.com·
Classroom for GitHub
Don't Turn Your Video Into a Glorified Slideshow: 3 Rules for Animators | Visually Blog
Don't Turn Your Video Into a Glorified Slideshow: 3 Rules for Animators | Visually Blog
"With the trend towards cleaner, simpler, and more streamlined graphics, the importance of motion in a piece becomes much more pronounced. Before, designers could rely on visual fidelity alone to carry it through. Think of Japanese anime. The scenes are beautifully drawn and rendered, but there is hardly any movement. It works because of the artwork (and all the crazy stuff happening in the plot), but when the graphics become more simple, something else has to take over."
#video#animation#ds106
·blog.visual.ly·
Don't Turn Your Video Into a Glorified Slideshow: 3 Rules for Animators | Visually Blog
File:First Web Server.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
File:First Web Server.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
"This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed in 2005 at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN (where Berners-Lee was working in 1991 when he invented the Web). The document resting on the keyboard is a copy of "Information Management: A Proposal," which was Berners-Lee's original proposal for the World Wide Web. The partly peeled off label on the cube itself has the following text: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!" Just below the keyboard (not shown) is a label which reads: "At the end of the 80s, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web using this Next computer as the first Web server." The book is "Enquire Within upon Everything", which TBL describes on page one of his book Weaving the Web as "a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London". (Text that is almost legible in the high resolution picture: 750. Diuretics, 756. Diaphoretics, 761. Expectorants, 765. Ginger)"
#web#server#history
·commons.wikimedia.org·
File:First Web Server.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Opening Shots Tell Us Everything - YouTube
Opening Shots Tell Us Everything - YouTube
"Opening shots are underrated. I can almost guarantee that your favorite film has an opening shot that gives huge insight into the film's themes, character conflicts, or plot points. Let's look at four in-depth examples to see just how revealing opening shots are."
#video#film#ds106
·youtube.com·
Opening Shots Tell Us Everything - YouTube
What does it all Meme? The whys and wherefores of a modern communication phenomenon. | ResourceLink
What does it all Meme? The whys and wherefores of a modern communication phenomenon. | ResourceLink
"It is this rich intertextuality that makes memes both worthwhile, yet challenging. One must know the context of the initial post before the meme truly makes sense, but if the shared understanding is strong enough, the meme becomes a powerful and viral mode of communication. Internet memes, and their viral spread, are an example of participatory culture, as the reproduction, imitation and re-interpretation of these nuggets of society are practices which have become a huge part of contemporary digital culture. In fact, Limor Shifman, in her text Memes in Digital Culture goes so far as to say that we live in an era driven by a hypermemetic logic, where almost every major public event sprouts a stream of memes. He argues that although at first glance they appear to be trivial pieces of pop culture, upon deeper reflection one sees that they play an integral part in some of the defining events of the 21st century."
#meme
·resourcelinkbce.wordpress.com·
What does it all Meme? The whys and wherefores of a modern communication phenomenon. | ResourceLink
Bootlegger
Bootlegger
Bootlegger allows your to organise a film shoot and get people to help you capture footage. It provides an online tool that helps organise the shoot, and a mobile application which helps you decide what to film and when.
#video#mobile
·bootlegger.tv·
Bootlegger
Anna Vital - How To Think Visually Using Visual Analogies Most...
Anna Vital - How To Think Visually Using Visual Analogies Most...
"Most research in cognitive science explores how we see things but little research is done on how we understand what we see. Understanding is the ultimate test of how good your visualization is. So how can you make people understand? Show something familiar and analogize. If you know nothing else about visualization but pick the right analogy you are more than half way there. This is what a professional designer does - and there is no substitute for analogies. How do you choose the right analogy? In this grid I organized analogies from the abstract down to the more detailed. I grouped them by similarity in shape. The goal is to enable you to quickly see the possibilities and “try them on” your information. With time you’ll be able to do all of this in your head. But for now this is a shortcut. "
#ds106#design#visual#metaphor
·anna.vc·
Anna Vital - How To Think Visually Using Visual Analogies Most...
J.J. Cale's Fifty Dollar Guitar - American Standard Time
J.J. Cale's Fifty Dollar Guitar - American Standard Time
"J.J. Cale is in a league of his own. He had a care-free, laid-back style and a warm, sweet guitar tone unlike any other. His early records are like little treasure chests full of gems that never fail to brighten my day. Shortly after I brought home my first J.J. Cale record, a friend and I were contemplating his distinct guitar sound. We mulled over a bit and figured he must be playing a Fender Stratocaster run straight through the mixing board without an amplifier. It wasn’t until years later when I included the album Naturally in a discussion of my favorite records that another friend shed some light on the sounds that I was hearing. While some guys go to great lengths and spend a ton of money trying to come up with a unique guitar sound, it was Cale’s lack of funds that helped develop his. On some of his early records he played a fifty dollar Harmony acoustic guitar that he modified to no end throughout the years."
#music#guitar
·americanstandardtime.com·
J.J. Cale's Fifty Dollar Guitar - American Standard Time
Solving The Vinyl Comeback's Big Problem, One Antique Machine At A Time : The Record : NPR
Solving The Vinyl Comeback's Big Problem, One Antique Machine At A Time : The Record : NPR
"Saturday is Record Store Day, when independent music retailers around the country host parking-lot concerts and sell limited-edition pressings of vinyl records, which have made a small but forceful comeback in an age dominated by digital listening habits. But if there's one problem with the vinyl resurgence, it might be this: The machines that press vinyl records are decades old, and no one's building new ones, so keeping up with increased demand is hard. One vinyl pressing plant in Salina, Kan., will soon be able to meet some of that increased demand. Salina is basically at the dead center of the country, and here, alongside the railroad tracks, in the shadow of grain elevators, next to a gravel lot filled with industrial propane tanks, is the headquarters of Acoustic Sounds, run by Chad Kassem."
#music#audio#ds106#vinyl
·npr.org·
Solving The Vinyl Comeback's Big Problem, One Antique Machine At A Time : The Record : NPR
Banksy Spoofs Disney with 'Dismaland' Theme Park - NBC News
Banksy Spoofs Disney with 'Dismaland' Theme Park - NBC News
"WESTON-SUPER-MARE, England - Britain's newest theme park, "Dismaland," opens on Friday, with a decrepit castle, a merry-go-round horse set to be cooked and model boats on a pool full of refugees, all courtesy of British street artist Banksy. The "Bemusement Park" in Weston-super-Mare, an English seaside town near Banksy's home city of Bristol, is tagged as "The UK's most disappointing new visitor attraction!" and features work by other artists including Damien Hirst."
·nbcnews.com·
Banksy Spoofs Disney with 'Dismaland' Theme Park - NBC News
Color Hunt
Color Hunt
Color Hunt is a curated collection of beautiful colors, updated daily. We collect and bring you the best color schemes you can use for anything. By creating smart and simple compositions of several tones, we provide beautiful palletes of colors that work together.
#webdesign
·colorhunt.co·
Color Hunt
The Inner Light of Creativity: Vivian Gornick on How One Blossoms into Being an Artist | Brain Pickings
The Inner Light of Creativity: Vivian Gornick on How One Blossoms into Being an Artist | Brain Pickings
"“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote in her exquisite letter to Sherwood Anderson, adding: “Making your unknown known is the important thing.” Over the years, I’ve kept coming back to this as the most piercing and perfect definition of what it means to be an artist — an idea E.E. Cummings echoed in asserting that “the Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.” During a recent walk with a cellist friend, I was reminded of this sentiment and the immutable inquiry at its heart — when the banality of exterior metrics falls away, what is that singular interior orientation that sets the artist apart from the rest? That’s what Vivian Gornick explores in a portion of her superb 1987 memoir Fierce Attachments "
#creativity#storytelling
·brainpickings.org·
The Inner Light of Creativity: Vivian Gornick on How One Blossoms into Being an Artist | Brain Pickings
Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things | a Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab Prototype
Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things | a Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab Prototype
"Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things is an ongoing prototype developed and run by the Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab that explores new forms and functions of story. Designed to be an open R&D space that experiments with shifts in authorship and ownership of stories, the massive collaboration also uses a detective narrative to examine the policy and ethical issues surrounding the Internet of Things.   The goal of Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things is to build a massive connected crime scene consisting of smart storytelling objects. This fall teams will create, design, build and test prototypes that will be plugged into a number of crime scene locations around the world."
#storytelling#web2storytelling
·sherlockholmes.io·
Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things | a Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab Prototype
How to Create Your Own Twitter Auto Retweet Bot - TechCovered
How to Create Your Own Twitter Auto Retweet Bot - TechCovered
"In this elaborate tutorial, you will be able to create a twitter auto retweet bot, which will automatically search the whole of twitter for any topic of your interest and will automatically tweet them for you. Also, you can also make this bot retweet your favorite accounts, lists, your favorites, etc."
#twitter#bot
·techcovered.org·
How to Create Your Own Twitter Auto Retweet Bot - TechCovered
Fizz Method | Dr. Lodge McCammon
Fizz Method | Dr. Lodge McCammon
"The Fizz Method of recording video lectures opens the door for more effective use of class time, provides a more personalized approach to learning, and helps build better relationships among students, teachers, and parents."
#teaching#flip#flipclass
·lodgemccammon.com·
Fizz Method | Dr. Lodge McCammon
'A Moment in Time Showcase' - 10 Stunning Photographs of Shadows & Silhouettes
'A Moment in Time Showcase' - 10 Stunning Photographs of Shadows & Silhouettes
"This weeks showcase of mobile photography features a selection of images on the theme of shadows and Silhouettes Featured mobile photographers and artists including work from Jose Luis Barcia, Jennifer Bracewell, Matthew Wylie, Bruno Ribeiro, Jerzy Jachym, shinnya umetsu, Millo Salgado, Grace Brignolle, Jack Mallon and Keisuke Takahashi."
#photography#visual#ds106#thruthelens
·mobiography.net·
'A Moment in Time Showcase' - 10 Stunning Photographs of Shadows & Silhouettes
The Fallacy of “Open” | savasavasava
The Fallacy of “Open” | savasavasava
"My presentation today is part of a larger work-in-progress that is essentially my dissertation, and I want to share some ideas and questions about what we think of as “open” and what we’re meant to think of as “open” and the ramifications of both of these positions. Just to set my presentation in the proper context, my research is on the role of Twitter in academic communities and scholarly work. While reading about, researching, and being part of scholarly communities online, I’ve had the time and opportunity to reflect a lot on the concept of “open”, and how that has evolved for me, and others, over time."
#open#opened#openeducation
·savasavasava.wordpress.com·
The Fallacy of “Open” | savasavasava
Mobile Social Media Learning Technologies | #MOSOMELT cMOOC
Mobile Social Media Learning Technologies | #MOSOMELT cMOOC
The MOSOMELT cMOOC is designed as a lecturer professional development strategy based upon distributed communities of practice sharing their experiences utilizing a cMOOC framework. The framework links global experts into an authentic professional development experience via the integration of a range of mobile social media learning technologies. The framework includes a series of triggering events designed to support the development of participants’ personal eportfolios and pedagogical practice that can optionally be validated by external CMALT accreditation that can be used as both PBRF and Professional Development evidence. To support the Mosomelt cMOOC community we use several mobile social media platforms to create an ‘ecology of resources’,
#mobile#social#media#cmooc
·mosomelt.wordpress.com·
Mobile Social Media Learning Technologies | #MOSOMELT cMOOC
In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera · DPLA Omeka
In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera · DPLA Omeka
"For many Americans today, snapping a photo is as easy as pulling out a smartphone. However, that digital photo is the result of decades of experimentation and development, from first forays into bulky and difficult-to-use professional cameras to instant-photo Polaroids. Since the advent and eventual commercialization of photography throughout the nineteenth century, cameras have continuously redefined the American public’s conception of how images and history can be captured and shared. Looking to the early cameras of the 1800s to today’s cell phones and social networking apps, this exhibition explores how the personal camera has shaped American consciousness and culture over the course of its development." This exhibition was created as part of the DPLA’s Digital Curation Program by the following students as part of Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin's course "Metadata in Theory and Practice" in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University: Ellen Tisdale, Rachel Baron Singer, Amanda Seppala, Michell Geysbeek, and Jay Purrazzo.
#photography#thruthelens
·dp.la·
In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera · DPLA Omeka
The Doorbells of Florence by Andrew Losowsky
The Doorbells of Florence by Andrew Losowsky
"Writer and photographer Andrew Losowsky captured the alluring and varied doorbells of Florence, Italy and then imagined the stories of those who might dwell within. Charming, whimsical, and elegant, each story is a perfect match for its photo, balancing the old-world appeal of Florence and the contemporary, gritty realities of a modern city. The Doorbells of Florence enters hidden worlds of fated love, chance encounters, invented languages, false maps, and a secret beneath the floorboards. Travelers, lovers of Italy, and imaginative wanderers will delight in this collection, which features hand-drawn lettering and a silk-screened cover. Originally a cult online hit, The Doorbells of Florence won the Lulu Blooker Prize for Fiction for books that began life on the internet. "
#storytelling#photography#flickr
·losowsky.com·
The Doorbells of Florence by Andrew Losowsky
Jisc Digital Media | presentation-home
Jisc Digital Media | presentation-home
"This infokit will provide guidance on best approaches in using presentation software such as PowerPoint, Prezi and Slideshare, looking at their advantages and disadvantages, using multimedia to enhance the content as well as sharing with students and learners. It will also explore the possibilities of using new tools that have now emerged to further enhance presentations."
#presentations#tools#ds106
·jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk·
Jisc Digital Media | presentation-home
The Manual
The Manual
The Manual is a design journal for the web. We evaluate why we design for the web the way we do in issues that are published three times a year in multiple formats, including beautiful hardback books, ebooks, audiobooks, and an open, responsive web edition. This work is a starting point for an ongoing conversation with our community about what it means to design for the web, including for whom we design and the principles we must bear in mind as we create our work.
#webdesign
·themanual.org·
The Manual