Slicing Bread is for Communists

They believe in equal slices.

 

I found the poster in a Google image search for “propaganda posters”. The hard part is finding a poster that lends itself to replacing the text by way of its layout. When text covers any part of the image, you’re pretty much stuck with that text unless you are a badass.
I used the clone tool and healer tools in Gimp to clean out the original text. Then I took the stencil font for the first words, and this Soviet font for “communists”. I used the dropper tool to select which base color red and then used the burn tool with super high jitter to give the red text a more marbled look. Then a little bit of super low opacity blur tool on the black text and it looked like that. The whole process took about an hour since I had no idea what I was doing initially.

A purely unapologetic piece of DS106 branding

Build for DS106

Cogdog’s DS106 propaganda post was taken to task by Stephen Downes for “over-branding” ds106. Is the DS106 to much hype? Not real enough? Adrift in a cult of personality?

F****THAT #4LIFE. As Martha mentioned in her comment on Cogdog’s post, there’s nothing but love out there in ds106. No hating on someone for not being cool enough, not hanging out and making enough art dammit! Every time you come back it’s, “oh my god, we missed you, so glad to see you again.” Like old friends, no apologies necessary.

And isn’t that what so much of the MOOC attitude is supposed to be about anyway? Build your network of learners, your community with people you care about, share interests with? On your own time and terms because when you truly commit and communicate, that’s when the real learning happens?

And if the ds106 learning celebration looks a little too raucous for your taste, that’s cool it just might not be for you.