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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

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

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

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

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

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