Tim Owens - Throw Out The Manual (Page 14)

Developing a Conference Website

Part of my role with the Board of Directors for VSTE is working with Laura Briggs on the Membership Committee to help drive publicity and membership. I end up getting to play with a lot of fun things and use social networks to help promote events and things we have

That fleeting piece of paper...

At some point in my life I became a hybrid, someone who could fit a ton of different roles and never own a single one. I graduated with a B.F.A. in Studio Art, joined the I.T. department at my alma mater, and then got sucked into instructional

iOS

60 Apps in 60 Minutes

I've recently been doing this presentation in several different venues from VSTE to Longwood. I got a guy to record it at Longwood recently and he did a fantastic job of editing the video to include a screencast of the apps I gave him separately. I'm really pleased with how

DesignAssignments

My Valentine

Here's my simple but personal valentine to the one I love.

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Alternate Title: "Have you MADE your DECISION for CHRIST?!"

ds106

Happy Valentine's Day ds106

(via Andertoons)

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I Can Read Movies: Harry Potter

I used to love to read, and Penguin books were the best. After I made this cover, I decided I needed to scuff it up a bit and make it look old. This kind of makes me want to print these out and wrap them over some of the actual

design

We Are All Artists

On Thursday I spoke with the ds106 face to face course happening simultaneously at the University of Mary Washington. As this is my first time participating in a MOOC it was a great honor and privilege to get to interact a bit with those students and perhaps offer something inspirational

Linkrot and the Transient Web

I'm straying a bit from business as usual here on the blog because I got to thinking about the transient web again. During my midday flight through Google Reader I came across some news that the BBC would be removing any websites sitting in the home folder of its server.

DesignAssignments

The Social Network

I was going to do the "minimalist" poster assignment but wasn't satisfied with my first attempt and decided to do another one that's "semi-minimalist" but with a key frame of the movie integrated in there. I like how this turned out, and I do love me some monochrome action here.

4icons

The Matrix in 4 icons

[caption id="attachment_120" align="alignnone" width="580" caption="Click image for full size"][/caption] A nice tip for folks is that you don't have to draw icons from scratch (although that's great too). There are types of fonts called "Dingbat" fonts that you can download (Your computer probably has

ds106

ds106.tv

My participation in ds106 is getting a lot less linear as assignments come and go and I continue to grab hold of that which catches my interest. That's not to say I'm not participating, far from it. I'm 2 days in to the Daily Shoot project and I'm thinking I'll

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The Wizard of Oz 2.0

I have a confession to make. I've been playing around with a few of the more popular "web 2.0" (God I hate that term, but I digress) sites in an attempt to recreate a story. And it's a lot of fun. But I think I can do better, with

assignment2

Bag Of Gold

I'm not going to admit to how long this took to do, other than to say instead of getting it done last week when it would have been more relevant to ds106, I'm finally getting it out today. I wanted to try my hand at "kinetic typography" after seeing Rob

ds106

ds106 Radio

The world's craziest MOOC has a radio station, which makes this whole thing about ten more levels underground. For those of you wanting to rock it in your sidebar here are instructions for Wordpress: 1. Go to Appearance > Widgets (assuming your theme supports widgets) 2. Drag a new text widget

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The Transient Web

More thoughts and discussions seem to be rising to the surface daily as a result of Gardner Campbell's "No More Digital Facelifts" video. Brad Kozlek and D'Arcy Norman take issue with the requirement of ds106 that you self-host your blog and the idea that a "Personal Cyberinfrastructure" requires becoming your

ds106

Everything is amazing, and no one is happy!

I finally got a chance to sit down and watch Gardner Campbell's "No Digital Facelifts" and it's almost too much to digest in one thought or post. I imagine I'll be pointing back to it often over the next several weeks as ideas come to me. As he talked about

assignment1

ds106, an introduction.

A storm has been brewing for over a month now, and as of yesterday Jim Groom opened up the skies and it's raining. Alan Levine is already talking to the voices in his head and Jabiz Raisdana is straight up swimming in it. It is on. Ladies and Gentlemen, allow

ds106

Love The Way You Lie

Individual frames were taken from the music video using MPEG Streamclip (1 frame per second). A batch process was created to crop out extra black space, then run a Guassian filter. The whole folder of images was dropped into a slideshow in iPhoto and set to the same song, but

color

Video Color Frames

Each frame of a video is extracted, and then averaged to a single color. Then they are all placed left to right and top to bottom on a large canvas. Here's my first attempt, the music video to Lady Gaga - Telephone. As a sidenote, music videos are great for

design

Averaging Concepts in Flickr

I'm a huge fan of Jason Salavon's work which typically involves deconstructing groups of images into an average. I started working on this with video before the holidays and ran into some roadblocks with the number of images I was dealing with turning my final image into mud. Darcy Norman

design

Rock the Boat

Mashing up the mash up? Now we're getting crazy. Tom tells us to take a silhouette and stick an image from the movie inside it, while also making it monochromatic. Once I do that I can't help but truly confess my undying love for Helvetica by rocking another hip hop

bighiphop

The Big Hip Hop

Project inspired by The Big Caption. Take any photo from The Big Picture and overlay with lyrics from a top 100 song.

2010 in photos

The Big Picture wraps up the year in photos with this 3 part series. Stunning as usual. Part 2 and Part 3.

ds106

Weâ€™re not in Kansas anymore

I kind of like the idea of summarizing a movie with a few animated gifs, similar to the 5 image ds106 assignment. Here's my take on a classic: