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Yelping with Cormac
Funny restaurant reviews written in stye of Cormac McCarthy
How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs - Tested
Those ancient animated images are receiving a new lease on life, thanks to a little something called cinemagraphs.
Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org
Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I've had trouble writing about it publicly until now.
idevice stories - A look at digital storytelling with mobile devices
A look at digital storytelling with mobile devices
50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story Returns Down Under (Nov 2011)
(Nov 29, 2011, Melbourne Australia) It was an honor, privilege, and a hoot to be invited to come to Melbourne to do a 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story presentation for the PLP Network project here. The reason this was special is because the very first 50 Ways workshop was done in Australia, back in October 2007 on my 2 week whistle stop tour of every capital city for the Flexible Learning Framework. So I started with the Amazing FLower story that happened there, for no other reason than is pretty amazing.
What Mean Ye Storytelling
online presentation for Alec Couros's ECI 831 class (November 15, 2011), Dean Shareski's ECMP 355 (Jan 28, 2013), ETMOOC (Feb 11, 2013) - covering an introduction to web-based storytelling, 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, Five Card Flickr Stories, pechaflickr, ds106
StoryBox Demo at Brock University (Oct 2011)
An invited demonstration of the StoryBox for Brock University (Oct 22, 2011) I framed my own interests in web storytelling, a bit of 50+ Web 2 Ways to Tall a Story, Five Card Flickr, and my notion of practicing improv via pechaflickr. In framing storytelling, I used an example I’ve tapped into before, of how good cinematic techniques (short cuts, sound effects, revealing the plot slowly could make the presentation of a project more interesting. I love the way this video unfolds, tells a story, without a single narration or bullet point
50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story (May 2011)
50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story (May 5 2011) Two online sessions for teachers in the El Paso School District as part of the Powerful Learning Practice
Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling | Video on TED.com
iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.
Move Your Photography To The Next Level - Be A Storyteller, Not Just A Picture Taker
All I really want you take away from this article is the fact that it's a good thing to think like a storyteller rather than a picture taker. Everything else is secondary. Start thinking in terms of story and you'll immediately see an improvement in your ability to compose photographs that make people pay attention to your work, and your point of view. At the time, I didn't understand the difference between taking a picture and making a picture. So I asked for some concrete help. Ethereal phrases wouldn't get it done for me. I am a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. So Lou shared a vision exercise with me that is, to this day, the basis for all of my composition. It's called SAS. Subject, Attention, Simplify.
An Appreciation of the Animated GIF and Gif Shop | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
“Animated GIFs are the web’s vinyl records,” wrote Jamie Zawinski on Twitter a few months ago. It’s a sly but accurate observation. In the face of Flash and streaming video, the animated GIF, which has been around since the 1990s, has refused to fade away. It remains a ubiquitous part of Web culture and inspires countless memes amongst a new generation of Web users. While the underlying technology of the animated GIF hasn’t changed, artists continue to explore new approaches to the form, such as cinemagraphs and the recent animated GIF comics trend.
11 Points - A Blog of Lists by Sam Greenspan. Funny lists, movie lists, sports lists, top lists. So, basically, lists.
11Points.com is a blog made up entirely of 11-item lists. Because top 10 lists are for cowards.
'Visual Storytelling': New Language for the Age of Data Overload - Maria Popova - Life - The Atlantic
Over the past several years, our quest to extract meaning from information has taken us more and more toward the realm of visual storytelling -- we've used data visualization to reveal hidden patterns about the world, employed animation in engaging kids with important issues, and let infographics distill human emotion. In fact, our very brains are wired for the visual over the textual by way of the pictorial superiority effect. Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language, from the fine folks at Gestalten, gathers the most compelling work by a new generation of designers, illustrators, graphic editors, and data journalists tackling the grand sensemaking challenge of our time by pushing forward the evolving visual vocabulary of storytelling.
WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License
The Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL) is a free software license. There is a long ongoing battle between GPL zealots and BSD fanatics, about which license type is the most free of the two. In fact, both license types have unacceptable obnoxious clauses (such as reproducing a huge disclaimer that is written in all caps) that severely restrain our freedoms. The WTFPL can solve this problem. When analysing whether a license is free or not, you usually check that it allows free usage, modification and redistribution. Then you check that the additional restrictions do not impair fundamental freedoms. The WTFPL renders this task trivial: it allows everything and has no additional restrictions. How could life be easier? You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
creativeLIVE | a live, worldwide creative classroom
creativeLIVE is about providing the best free, live creative education on the web. From our studio in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, we offer free online workshops in photography, video, web and graphic design, app development and a wide array of other creative topics. The live sessions are free!
Video: The five shot rule
Technically you can cover most action in just one shot. But this leaves you with only two choices in the edit - use it or lose it. So you need to get a variety of shots, to give you more visual interest and flexibility. There are different conventions you can follow to cover a scene. This is an example of the 'five shot rule' used in PDP by Nations and Regions.
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in an essay by Brad Fitzpatrick, though I'd be curious to know if it goes back further. The idea of representing relationships between people as networks is old, but this was the first time I had thought about treating the connections between all living people as one big object that you could manipulate with a computer.
Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz | Threat Level | Wired.com
In this in-depth series “Anonymous: Beyond the Mask,” we’re going to do our best to answer that. NYU Professor and Anonymous researcher Biella Coleman compares Anonymous to the trickster god archetype.
Teaching Visual Storytelling: The five-shot method and beyond | Andrew Lih
At Journalism Interactive at the University of Maryland, I’m giving a lightning talk about Teaching Visual Storytelling: The five-shot method and beyond. In addition to the talk about using Michael Rosenblum’s five shot method at USC, I have included checklists journalists can use in the field for shooting better video.
FreedomBox Foundation
We're building software for smart devices whose engineered purpose is to work together to facilitate free communication among people, safely and securely, beyond the ambition of the strongest power to penetrate, they can make freedom of thought and information a permanent, ineradicable feature of the net that holds our souls.
How to Make Cinemagraphs — Still Photos that Move Like Movies! | Photojojo
Inspired by the moving pictures created by photographer and motion designer duo Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, we set out to make the magic happen. Make your pictures move like ours did with a some Photoshop magic!
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@cogdog Definitely a fun song to play - easy chord shape w/ open G tuning: G G D G B E (top to bottom). Check out day 1 http://t.co/x6ZY85xD
FrontlineSMS:Radio
FrontlineSMS:Radio is developing software which will assist community radio stations to interact dynamically with audiences by harnessing the power of SMS text messaging. Radio represents the dominant media source for many and SMS is increasingly being used by radio stations to facilitate two-way communication with listeners. FrontlineSMS:Radio will be built on the core technology of FrontlineSMS, a freely downloadable, open source software which turns a laptop and mobile phone or GSM modem into a communications hub. FrontlineSMS enables users to send and receive text messages with large groups of people without requiring Internet access. FrontlineSMS:Radio.
Letters of Note: Charles Bukowski on Censorship
In 1985, following a complaint from a local reader, staff at the Public Library in Nijmegen decided to remove Charles Bukowski's book, Tales of Ordinary Madness, from their shelves whilst declaring it "very sadistic, occasionally fascist and discriminatory against certain groups (including homosexuals)." In the following weeks, a local journalist by the name of Hans van den Broek wrote to Bukowski and asked for his opinion. It soon arrived. Bukowski's brilliant response can be seen below. It currently hangs in the Open Dicht Bus, a mobile book store based — more often than not — in Eindhoven.
Art Of Foley
reclaiming ephemeral media | D'Arcy Norman dot net
Following Boone’s lead, I’m going to be working to reclaim as much of my online activity as possible. I set up a separate WordPress site to handle ephemeral media that are usually posted to Twitter, so that things like the Twitpic licensing brouhaha don’t apply. Because it’s just a blog, it can handle anything – entire galleries of images, audio, video, or any combination. I can also geotag posts, and add plugins to enable timeline and calendar views.
Project Reclaim | Take back your data
Project Reclaim is about reclaiming your own data from third-party services.
A Guide to Google+ Privacy and Information Control
Google+ is the new social networking kid on the block, and one of the main reasons so many people are interested in the service over Facebook is Google+'s proclaimed focus on protecting users' privacy. Whether you're a new Google+ user or you're already a pro, understanding how to control your information on the site can make you feel much more at ease on the social network. Here's the lowdown on Google+'s privacy controls, including a few of the more buried settings you'll want to know about.
Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations - International Business Times
Two Android phone users are suing Google for $50 million in the wake of revelations that their phones might be tracking their locations.