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July 4, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

The week in doggies! All thanks to a conversation on Twitter. An emergent DS106 assignment ‘Remix (in a dog appropriate manner) a Bond movie title and create a poster’. I learnt more about Photoshop from trying to do a good job of these ‘silly posters’ than I have in a long time.

Starring: Daphne as Miss Doggy Galore, Gifadog as Colin Bond, Spike as E. Cowfield, Abby as the Digital Diva and Chewy as the werewolf puppy

‘Children and Daphne’ by Jim Groom ‘Bones are forever’ by Viv Rolfe ‘Reeborn’ and ‘Cop Pup’ by Ron L the other posters by the DS106 Shrink.

Yes, I know the last 2 do not fit the Bond theme. The translation machine (me!) from Twitter to Google Plus was faulty and the assignment got re-interpreted there but Chewy is too cute not to include here.

Who knows what else might get remixed. May be we can start #posterfight to complement #giffight ?

July 2, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

What fun to delete my least favourite Bond from the poster!

More Photoshop practice – I can’t stop now! Thanks to @cogdog for the film title and @gifadog for posing so beautifully.

Yes, I will blog my process if anyone wants me to. Just ask. It was long and involved lots of layers as usual.

July 2, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

The joy of DS106 as therapy!

Find a CC0 poster anywhere you can, with CC0 there is no need to keep track of where or when. I found this poster somewhere on the Interwebz with the intention to use it weeks ago but I did not.

Use a lovely tutorial created by a kind DS106 participant like Jack Hylan to learn a little more about Photoshop and remember another lovely DS106 participant, Rochelle, talking about ‘Skew’ in Photoshop.

Sprinkle an interesting Daily Create and adapt to taste.

I now feel ready to try my next poster ‘License to Chew’ – a new movie starring Colin Bond, the star of ‘Bones are forever’.

Who needs to pay for a shrink when there is DS106 for your mental Health?

July 1, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

Original photos by Ivette Harvey edited in Photoshop by the DS106 Shrink using awesome tutorial by Jack Hylan Both just starting DS106 at University of Mary Washington for a grade and for fun!

This photo set is my way to say thanks to both for joining in with us open participants and making our community that much richer.

Newspaper Poetry

June 28, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

I should be getting ready to leave the house, but saw today DS106 daily create and could not resist. Also, it was submitted by Anna Cow who is an awesome DS106 open participant – who make moo art!

This one is just for you, Anny!

Why could I not resist? This type of activity harks back to the many surrealist games I use in my laughter therapy workshops. I love them.

So what did I do? Just as instructed with a little extra. I followed the steps in the daily create with the first newspaper that popped out of my basket.

Photo cc0 by George Hodan

Carefully cut, mix up words, take them out one at a time and voila! your poem. The little extra? I put them into recite this and tried to make senseless words make sense without altering the order. Only in DS106. Does you MOOC do that?

I needed something to do today to remind me of the importance of making time for those we care about and for what we are passionate about. Words and people are right up there for me, with a few animated gifs thrown in perhaps. But now those are the work of gifadog.

Here is the daily create for today:

Now over to you, Anny. I what ways does this resemble the DS106 shrink?

June 10, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

How? Why? What? “once upon a time I found a pair of shoes hanging from the telephone wires….” I love this! Go visit his archive please: http://hateplow.tumblr.com/archive

How do I feel when I think?

Public domain footage edited in ScreenFlow music CC by FJGI from Jamendo.com

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

A day at the movies for #Thoughtvectors

June 8, 2014 / DS106 on the couch / 0 Comments

I have started to pull together some videos on YT that have connected for me with the spirit of this course starting on Monday June 9th at VCU:

UNIV 200: Inquiry and the Craft of Argument

In the next few weeks the DS106 Shrink will be Visiting Shrink on this course as I am fascinated by the ideas explored so far, and find these are aligned to my own practice as an educator. And there are lots of really interesting people coming together to send varied thought vectors into concept space. Heck, it already sounds like a Dr Who episode!

I will keep adding to the playlist. If you have any questions about why I picked the videos or comments about them – just leave a comment.

Happy travelling in concept space!