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Here's Comedy Legend Harold Ramis' Advice to Young Filmmakers | Mother Jones
Here's Comedy Legend Harold Ramis' Advice to Young Filmmakers | Mother Jones
Here's more advice for young filmmakers from Ramis' American Storytellers interview. It's worth taking to heart: You have to live your life with a certain blind confidence that if it's your destiny to succeed at these things, it will happen, if you just continue to follow a straight path, to do you work as conscientiously and as creatively as you can, and to just stay open to all opportunity and experience. There's a performing motto at Second City...to say yes instead of no. It's actually an improvisational rule...It's about supporting the other person. And the corollary to that is if you concentrate on making other people look good, then we all have the potential to look good. If you're just worried about yourself—How am I doing? How am I doing?—which is kind of a refrain in Hollywood, you know, people are desperately trying to make their careers in isolation, independent of everyone around them. And I've always found that my career happened as a result of a tremendous synergy of
#ds106#video#film#inspiration
·motherjones.com·
Here's Comedy Legend Harold Ramis' Advice to Young Filmmakers | Mother Jones
Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling | Brain Pickings
Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling | Brain Pickings
“What we create … we fill in with our own thoughts and feelings.” In 1959, beloved children’s book author and illustrator Leo Lionni created a lovely little book for his grandkids, Pippo and Annie. Little Blue and Little Yellow, a minimalist and brilliant allegorical primer on color theory and graphic design basics, went on to inspire generations of children, and the process of creating it elated and energized Lionni so much that it catapulted him into a lifelong career of award-winning visual storytelling aimed at children, but bearing timeless and ageless resonance for all. Above all, however, Lionni’s magic came from his full immersion in the stories, his complete identification with his characters:
#creativity#inspiration#ds106
·brainpickings.org·
Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling | Brain Pickings
Final Project: Splash | Transduction
Final Project: Splash | Transduction
As I mimicked the documentation process from the  Matilda Approach I chose to divide the clip into 5 second scenes. By dividing the scenes into 5 second clips I can accurately see the point of view shot (POV) shifts and properly place sound to action within the clip. Also, while doing this type of documentation I am taking note of all the scene changes within the clip. knowing the scenes changes while the runners run outside will help me figure out the environment sounds I need as well.
#ds106#video#movie
·transduction.dewlines.org·
Final Project: Splash | Transduction
Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire: Paul Smith: 9780814420300: Amazon.com: Books
Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire: Paul Smith: 9780814420300: Amazon.com: Books
Storytelling has come of age in the business world. Today, many of the most successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool. At Nike, all senior executives are designated "corporate storytellers." 3M banned bullet points years ago and replaced them with a process of writing "strategic narratives." Procter & Gamble hired Hollywood directors to teach its executives storytelling techniques. Some forward-thinking business schools have even added storytelling courses to their management curriculum. The reason for this is simple: stories have the ability to engage an audience the way logic and bullet points alone never could.
#storytelling#ds106#business
·amazon.com·
Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire: Paul Smith: 9780814420300: Amazon.com: Books
How 3M Gave Everyone Days Off and Created an Innovation Dynamo | Co.Design | business design
How 3M Gave Everyone Days Off and Created an Innovation Dynamo | Co.Design | business design
Before Google and Hewlett-Packard, 3M was offering employees time off to explore their own projects -- netting 3M's most famous products to date. In 1974, 3M scientist Art Fry came up with a clever invention. He thought if he could apply an adhesive (dreamed up by colleague Spencer Silver several years earlier) to the back of a piece of paper, he could create the perfect bookmark, one that kept place in his church hymnal. He called it the Post-It Note.
#innovation#creativity
·fastcodesign.com·
How 3M Gave Everyone Days Off and Created an Innovation Dynamo | Co.Design | business design
Use the Creative Commons to nurture photojournalists - Boing Boing
Use the Creative Commons to nurture photojournalists - Boing Boing
In 2009, when my undergrad class started, I just didn’t know. So I opened it out online, for free, and open-sourced the problem. The latest iteration just finished up. Every version has had stuff to take away, about photography or teaching or learning online versus learning onsite. But this time it was something bigger. This time, the most interesting piece of work didn’t come from someone in the room. (Sure, there was awesome work from my paying students, who kick all kinds of ass). Instead, something came in after the classes finished, and it blew me away. It was from a young woman called Priyanka Ghetia, who hoped one day to attend university. She’d been doing the Web versions of Phonar quietly, on her own, either drawing on her schoolteacher for help or teaching herself. She’d used her phone to make sound recordings; her old camera; and even a torch when light was short. What she’d made just stopped me in my tracks.
#education#open#photography#thruthelens#ds106
·boingboing.net·
Use the Creative Commons to nurture photojournalists - Boing Boing
Iconscrabble
Iconscrabble
Iconscrabble is an art project by Tim Isenheim that is inspired by the arrangement of various letter-based icons in the Mac OS X dock. The app generates a composite from icons of various computer-related brands and services according to a user-submitted term. The brands and services behind the icons are explained with tooltips.
#generator#design#icons#typography#icon#ds106
·iconscrabble.com·
Iconscrabble
WordPress › Velvet Blues Update URLs « WordPress Plugins
WordPress › Velvet Blues Update URLs « WordPress Plugins
If you move your WordPress website to a new domain name, you will find that internal links to pages and references to images are not updated. Instead, these links and references will point to your old domain name. This plugin fixes that problem by helping you change old urls and links in your website.
#wordpress#plugin
·wordpress.org·
WordPress › Velvet Blues Update URLs « WordPress Plugins
WordPress Multisite 101
WordPress Multisite 101
If you only knew how many times Andrea and I sat and complained “There should be an (updated) ebook!” you’d wonder why it took us so long. Setting up a new WordPress install is pretty easy. Setting up Multisite requires just a little more savvy, and the information is all over the place. This ebook strives to pull it all together, explain you what skills you need to get started, and move you to the next step: running your own Network. Think of it as a basic tutorial in running your own Multisite.
#wordpress
·store.halfelf.org·
WordPress Multisite 101
Breaking Up Multisite
Breaking Up Multisite
This is by no means the be-all and end-all of how to break up a Multisite. These are, however, methods I’ve used to move Multisites around into brand new places. As always, if you have another method, feel free to explain in the comments, and link back to your own tutorials! You see, Multisite is great at some things, but breaking up is crazy hard to do. If you want to just disable multisite, it’s not too bad, four steps, and the hardest is to delete the right tables. And if you want to move a whole multisite, it’s not terrible either. But. What happens when you want to move only one site on the network?
#wordpress
·halfelf.org·
Breaking Up Multisite
Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation | Brain Pickings
Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation | Brain Pickings
Is genius a mosaic of “magpielike borrowings”? In the altogether fantastic Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (public library) — one of the best biographies and memoirs of 2013 — Terry Teachout reveals that for the beloved composer, who was already a man of curious paradoxes, this creative duality was as palpable as the line between plagiarism and originality was blurred. Ellington, it turns out, made a regular habit of “borrowing” melodic fragments composed by the soloists in his famed orchestra, then transforming them into hit songs — without credit, creative or financial, to the originators.
#creativity#ds106#inspiration#thoughtvectors
·brainpickings.org·
Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation | Brain Pickings
Open content licensing for educators - WikiEducator
Open content licensing for educators - WikiEducator
This OCL4Ed micro Open Online Course (mOOC) will be facilitated by the UNESCO OER Chair network in support of capability development for the UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration (See video from Abel Caine, Programme Specialist for OER at UNESCO.). The OCL4Ed 14.02 course is sponsored by the OER Foundation, the Commonwealth of Learning and College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi.
#oer#education#openeducation
·wikieducator.org·
Open content licensing for educators - WikiEducator
Follow Along With My Students’ Work This Semester | Adam Croom
Follow Along With My Students’ Work This Semester | Adam Croom
This semester I’ve created a web space (http://jmc3433.adamcroom.com) to aggregate all of the student’s blog posts for my PR Publications course (JMC3433 in the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication). The idea is that the students (and really anyone) can follow along as they (for the first time–mind you) begin to understand design technique and execution as it relates to public relations publications highly targeted at specific publics. Students are now required to standup an instance of WordPress on their own server space at the beginning of the semester, and they will use the site to 1.) document their semester progression through blog posts on assigned book reads and completed design assignments and 2.) create a portfolio website that can live on for them well beyond the 16 weeks they’ll spend in my JMC3433 course.
#syndicated#learning
·adamcroom.com·
Follow Along With My Students’ Work This Semester | Adam Croom
PSD Icons - Free and premium icons for your next project
PSD Icons - Free and premium icons for your next project
PSDIcons provides free and premium icons to download and use in your next project. All the icons come in PSD format and they are all Photoshop vector shapes, so you can resize and customize them as you like. The icons come also in transparent PNG format for a quick use. Enjoy!
#free#images#graphics#design#ds106
·psdicons.net·
PSD Icons - Free and premium icons for your next project
Digital Is
Digital Is
In planning for massive open online courses or collaborations (MOOCs), I often think about the dynamics of self-direction in a peer learning context. How do you get learners actively driving their own learning experiences? It's not as easy as it might appear. At the P2PU School of Ed, we’ve played with this quite a bit with varying degrees of success. We’ve tried “hack the syllabus,” design your own activities, and other things. Nothing has worked well consistently. Participants just don't seem to find this natural. In my experience, K-12 teachers in particular have been discouraged from doing this so often that when they are asked to self-direct their professional learning, they are often unable or unwilling to do so.
#mooc#wordpress#teaching
·digitalis.nwp.org·
Digital Is
MEAN KITTY: THE GAME (playable on computer) - YouTube
MEAN KITTY: THE GAME (playable on computer) - YouTube
Click the annotations to find Sparta! Then, leave a comment when you find him and tell us how many videos videos it took you to find him! NOTE: This game only works on computers because annotations are not supported on any other devices yet. HISTORY OF THIS GAME: This was the first interactive video on YouTube which back then used a feature called "video responses" to link these videos together. Later, the video response feature was altered and then removed from YouTube making this series virtually unplayable but now with the help of annotations, it's back! The letters that quickly appear during each video were originally used to create each videos thumbnail because back then, we were able to upload our own.
#game#video#narrative#ds106#inspiration#netnarr
·youtube.com·
MEAN KITTY: THE GAME (playable on computer) - YouTube
Askr — The Saxifrage School — Medium
Askr — The Saxifrage School — Medium
In my work at the Saxifrage School, we are doing everything we can to develop models that refocus on the strengths of in-person, expert-taught learning. As we have worked to lower costs,re-think campus communities, and reconcile disciplines, we have been frustrated by the difficult nature of online content. This essay is a thought experiment on how to meet the needs we see for our work and the needs of the students we have spoken with. It is also a serious proposal.
#mooc#learning#ideas
·medium.com·
Askr — The Saxifrage School — Medium
Ridley Scott Talks About Making Apple’s Landmark “1984″ Commercial, Aired 30 Years Ago on Super Bowl Sunday | Open Culture
Ridley Scott Talks About Making Apple’s Landmark “1984″ Commercial, Aired 30 Years Ago on Super Bowl Sunday | Open Culture
Now that we’ve come upon the 30th anniversary of that dramatic Super Bowl debut, why not get a little insight from the man who directed it? In the clip just above, Scott, who by that time already had the rich and troubling futuristic visions Alien and Blade Runner under his belt, talks about his experience bringing the storyboards — audacious by the television commercial standard of the era, let alone for personal computers — onto the screen. He discusses looking to the past for his “slightly decadent-looking” future, hanging jet engines on the set as an act of “good dramatic bullshit,” putting out a “frightening” casting call for a background full of skinheads, getting the totalitarian text for Big Brother to intone, and finding a young lady who could swing a hammer.
#ds106#film#video
·openculture.com·
Ridley Scott Talks About Making Apple’s Landmark “1984″ Commercial, Aired 30 Years Ago on Super Bowl Sunday | Open Culture
2001: A Space Odyssey | Typeset In The Future
2001: A Space Odyssey | Typeset In The Future
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece – seems an appropriate place to start a blog about typography in sci-fi. Amongst other delights, it offers a zero-gravity toilet, emergency resuscitations, exploding bolts, and product placement aplenty. It’s also the Ur Example of Eurostile Bold Extended’s regular appearance in spacecraft user interfaces. Right from the opening scene, we’re treated to Kubrick’s love of bold, clean, sans-serif typography:
#typography#movies#design#ds106
·typesetinthefuture.com·
2001: A Space Odyssey | Typeset In The Future
Elements of Digital Storytelling | touristbytrade.com
Elements of Digital Storytelling | touristbytrade.com
Some of the biggest problems I seem to have in telling a story is making the listener care, which is basically the heart of the story, and finding an ending which is where I’m usually and strangely left silent. Unfortunately (for me), both of these are very important parts of storytelling. In my opinion, the different elements of stories, both digital and non, should include at least the first and most important aspect – making people care. Storytelling is an art, like painting or sculpting. It requires the author, narrator, images or whatever medium is used to explain something to the viewer. A story is meant to transform the viewer and taking them away mentally to another place.
#storytelling#ds106
·touristbytrade.com·
Elements of Digital Storytelling | touristbytrade.com
Flappy Bird Physics Is Real Life? | Action-Reaction
Flappy Bird Physics Is Real Life? | Action-Reaction
If you don’t already know, Flappy Bird is the hot new mobile game right now. The premise is simple: navigate the bird through the gaps between the green pipes. Tapping the screen gives a slight upward impulse to the bird. Stop tapping and the bird plummets to the ground. Timing and reflexes are the key to Flappy Bird success. This game is HARD. It took me at least 10 minutes before I even made it past the first pair of pipes. And it’s not just me who finds the game difficult. Other folks have taken to Twitter to complain about Flappy Bird. They say the game is so difficult, that the physics must be WRONG.
#mobile#game#physics
·fnoschese.wordpress.com·
Flappy Bird Physics Is Real Life? | Action-Reaction
The Story Behind Dorothea Lange’s Iconic “Migrant Mother” Photograph and How She Almost Didn’t Take It | Brain Pickings
The Story Behind Dorothea Lange’s Iconic “Migrant Mother” Photograph and How She Almost Didn’t Take It | Brain Pickings
How a serendipitous hand-lettered sign changed the history of photojournalism. At the same time that pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott was busy capturing the urban fabric and trailblazing anthropologist Margaret Mead was laying the groundwork for modern anthropology, Dorothea Lange mastered the intersection of the two in her influential Depression-era photojournalism and documentary photography. In Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning), Lange’s goddaughter Elizabeth Partridge, an accomplished and prolific author in her own right, presents a first-of-its-kind career-spanning monograph of the legendary photographer’s work, placing her most famous and enduring photographs in a biographical context that adds new dimension to these iconic images.
#photography#visual#ds106
·brainpickings.org·
The Story Behind Dorothea Lange’s Iconic “Migrant Mother” Photograph and How She Almost Didn’t Take It | Brain Pickings
The .GIFYS
The .GIFYS
The .GIFYS are the first ever awards honoring the animated GIF as a medium, social commentary and art form. GIFs in categories ranging from celebrity cats to news and politics were selected by our expert nominating panelists, and then we invited the internet to vote on the most GIFtastic in each category. Winners are immortalized on our website, finally giving GIFs their rightful glory.
#gif#animatedgif#ds106
·thegifys.com·
The .GIFYS
Getting started with WordPress plugin development | Teleogistic
Getting started with WordPress plugin development | Teleogistic
I got an email with the following question, and figured I may as well answer publicly. The question comes from someone who’s an experienced programmer, but has never worked with WordPress before. [...] I wondered if you had some helpful advice on learning the basics of WP plugin development. I’m mostly hoping there are frameworks/libraries that the community is currently using. I don’t know of a widely-used library of general WP plugin development tools. Partly this is because WP itself partially qualifies as a “library”, insofar as it provides ready-to-use functions for saving data to the database, URL routing, template loading, user management, etc. And partly it’s because the architecture of WP is so wide open that it’d be difficult to build a more generalized library that covered even a majority of the possible modifications you might make to stock WordPress.
#wordpress#plugin
·teleogistic.net·
Getting started with WordPress plugin development | Teleogistic