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Slicing Bread is for Communists
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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 ...
A purely unapologetic piece of DS106 branding
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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 ...