Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
No, Charlie B, I will not shut up. In fact Charlie, if you don’t like it, turn around. It’s an experiment, only I am not going to use you for some vague research agenda. What I have found out over the last year is that asking people to give a damn is asking a … Continue reading Slow Viewing →
Part one of a multimodal, unsanctioned translation of Nick Sousanis’ Unflattening. Bonus points to whoever can place the soundtrack in the right movie.
I had kinda lost touch with etherpad. I occasionally used a version of it like PrimaryPad or TitanPad when I was collaborating with friends,but I hadn’t paid any attention to what the Etherpad Foundation was doing with the code since Google bought the company and released the code in the wild. Well…it now has video. … Continue reading 5/10/15: VideoEtherpad on Multiple of Five Day in May →
Haiku here inspired by Susan Watson’s poem “Quicksand, Ellipsis”. The story behind this is simple. When it gets emerald and alive and warm and foggy with spring life squeezing into every open door and window and orifice of perception…well, that is surfeit of, too much of, much too much of necessary Spring. The poem also arises out … Continue reading SpringHaikuTooMuch →
Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those perfect hothouses for creative work– any age and skill level. … Continue reading A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us →
Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those perfect hothouses for creative work– any age and skill level. … Continue reading A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us →
This post was inspired by a comment on my other blog by Joe Murphy. Tweedy Impertinence If you click in the box above you will see Joe’s post and my annotation of Joe’s post, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”. Not sure, but I think Joe came to my post via #YouShow15 and I really wanted to reciprocate or … Continue reading The 13th Donut or Gift from the Gods →
I have known about PowerPoint Karaoke for years. If the idea is new to you think “improv for presenters”. Terrifying? To some, any kind of presenting is next to losing a family member or having a tarantula crawl on you… and that is why I am exploring this as end-of-class fun for everybody. So big … Continue reading PowerPoint Karaoke, Improv Presentation & the Infinite Game–Playing to Learn →
I was inspired to write this post by the work of Kim Douillard and Kevin Hodgson in a project called “Slices of Life”. I was especially struck by Kevin’s photos here (and I am avidly awaiting Kim’s). In Kevin’s night picture, however, I found myself wondering about what I could not see just as much as by … Continue reading Camera Non-Obscura: Or Why the Brain Sees Better than the Camera →