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With apologies to the original here. #ds1064life

With apologies to New Hampshire’s Route 106

The visual/design assignments for ds106 remain a tremendous amount of fun.

ds106: Buddy photo

Find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that you can carry around with you. Use that ‘buddy’ and take photos to document where you have gone together. ie: going out to lunch, going to the movies, etc.

My Michelin Man

I carried my Michelin Man buddy with me for a month or so in 2008. It was sheer coincidence that I happened to travel to coastal Victoria during that time. I was probably inspired to take ‘buddy photos’ after hearing about the infamous travelling gnome prank. My Michelin Man buddy photos first appeared on my Greetings from… Flickr stream.

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ds106: Stop frame photography

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Visual assignment 108 brief

Take several pictures of one object movie. When the pictures are place together is will show the movement of the object.

My ds106 lawn (de-ds106′d)

It’s now autumn here in Melbourne, Australia. That means, the weather is wet, miserable and not the best for mowing. My ds106 lawn has become unkempt. Time for a trim. Time for visual assignment 108.

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Story a Day May #4: Stay/Go/Road Playlist Story

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Okay, none of y’all are dog enough to step up to the digital a story a day in may task, but this dog is going for the full ride. There is so much to choose from in the ds106 assignments submitted by participants, and if that is not enough, there is some place with like 30 or 40 tools you can use.

For today, while sitting on a train from Vermont to the Largish Apple, I sat admiring the wet landscape, and decided to return to one of the most creative assignments (and made by a UMW student)- making a story from the titles of songs in an audio playlist. I had done this before, so I upped it a bit by pulling small bits from each song to go along with the flow.

Being here on the road, and thinking about the longer trip ahead this summer, here is Stay/Go/Road

Stay/Go/Road Playlist Story

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The ds106 99: #44 ds106 Etch-a-Sketch

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Spent a little bit of time working on this today, another visual assignment in the bag for ds106.

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Visual Assignment

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deadly sins and barbie: gluttony

In completion of this assignment, I first ate a lot of donuts. I chose to do gluttony because barbie is the epitome of unhealthy skinniness.

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Jason the Red Cross Guy

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cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

He was persistent and wore me down for a donation to Red Cross; my concession was asking for a photo, not quite the full Stranger Photo process, but in that direction.

This was my lukewarm attempt at a ds106 Stranger Portrait.

Jason cornered my over on Green Street, near the Presdio, aiming to sign me up for a Red Cross donation. I bobbed and weaved, but he kept coming at me with jabs..

I gave in in exchange for getting s photo of a stranger.

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Flickr Average Composition

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http://ds106.us/2011/01/10/averaging-concepts-using-flickr/

For this visual assignment, you were to take 50 images from a flickr search and average them all together. There were step by step instructions for this but not for the version of photoshop I have. So instead of an easy couple of clicks, it turned into me adjusting the opacity for each individual layer. The bottom layer being at 100% (1/1), the 2nd layer at 50% (1/2), 33% (1/3) and so on. A little tedious but it got the job done. I searched the term “rugby” and here is the average of the 50 images:

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106 Photos

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Like us canines hearing sounds beyond the human spectrum, participants in ds106 seem to see lights and colors others miss…

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

This photo that was from a number light pole in Mesa, AZ, was the genesis for the Illustrate 106 visual assignment. I’ve dodged in and out of remembering to look for occurrences of 106ness in the world, but have collected a few.

Beyond the obvious address signs, I still seek something with a “CVI” in it (Roman numerals), and I am missing more easy items like mile markers and road distance signs (“Fredericksburg 106″ would be cool to see in Virginia).

But I keep looking and tag them both ds106 and my own with just 106 (there seem to be a lot of clutter in the public tag).

I’m just posting this as I aim towards making a future home here at the CogDogHouse for my ds106 related stuff, tagged for now.

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Hero’s Journey Part 7: History Lesson

Ah, this is quite textful. Because it’s ridiculously wall-of-text, I believe I’ll color the dialog for you. Follows on from Tempy’s Part 6. If you haven’t read the story yet, start at Part 1.

Photo by nickehret

The black bird lay on its side, glaring at us from inside the net of flowers. Its gaze was disturbing. I could tell that it was memorizing our faces. When it got free, it would remember us. It would tell its family. They would come after us. They would never forget that we had wronged them.

“Oh shut up.” said my sister. Though the bird hadn’t spoken, its stare must have communicated the bird’s true thoughts to both of us. My sister looked at me. “We’ll have to take it with us, and prevent it from escaping.”

“That’s great. Where are we going again?”

“To the silver well. We must use it to travel to the other side of the world!”

“Right. To get the cure for our mother.”

The silver birds that had escaped the black bird began to gather again in the trees around us. They began to sing their song. Not wanting to waste any more time weeping, I pulled my sister and the black bird out of the clearing.

My sister did not want to leave the clearing. As soon as we left the circle of song, she stamped her foot and said “No, we have to go the other way!”

“Fine.” I responded, and led her by the hand around the clearing rather than back through it. “How do you know this is the right way?”

“The birds told me.”

I looked at the black bird, recalling the way it had communicated with us, and decided it was perfectly possible that the birds had indeed told my sister where to go. The black bird looked back at me, and continued projecting hate-filled words. I could understand its discomfort at being dragged across the ground in a net of flowers. I told it “If we come up with a better way to contain you, we’ll take it.”

This time, the bird actually opened its beak to speak. “Set me free of this net and I will remain with you. I can’t disobey a knight of the Sacred Well.”

“I’m not a knight of the Sacred Well. I’m just wearing his armor.”

“You are as good as a knight, then. The armor empowers them. It contains the essence of the Well itself. It should protect you fromthe wards surrounding the Silver Well, and strengthen you when you fight against their knights.”

“Fighting? Are we going into a battle?” I glanced ahead at my sister. She was skipping, humming the birds’ song, still much younger and more innocent than she’d been when we left our home.

The bird looked at me like I was an idiot. “You wear their armor, and you don’t know a shred of history. This may take a while.

The two Wells connect this world to yours. The Sacred Well is called such because it is out of that well that the first Knights came.

A few men in armor, carrying a message to a neighboring kingdom, were blinded by a great light and found their way to this world through a well. They found this forest filled with light, and music, and animals. They sent a message back up the well using a silver bird, and more knights joined them. Silver birds are the only creatures who can travel back up the well. The knights found

themselves trapped here, and some of them went slightly mad. Some were able to harness the magic of this world, present in the

light, and the sounds, and the creatures. They crafted the armor you are wearing.

The discovery of the Silver Well and a gateway to the other side of the world changed everything. Finally able to reach the other side

of the world, they invaded, and a great war began. The main battleground is beyond the Silver Well, where I presume soldiers are still fighting. A quieter war between two factions wages here, the sides named after the two portals, the Sacred and the Silver. Each has guarded their own Well from the others successfully for years. This world would be a quick shortcut for an

army if either side could capture the other’s Well. This world would also be destroyed.

Approach the Silver Well in the armor of a Sacred Knight, and you will be attacked. Your armor should prevent the worst their magic could do.”

I looked at the armor I was wearing. Now that I realized that it contained magic, I could feel the power in it. I let its history sink in for a few minutes. “I’m going to have to participate in a war to save my mother.”

“I’d be able to help. I’ve some experience with the other side of the world, I could possibly help you avoid it altogether.”

“You said you couldn’t disobey a Sacred Knight. Why would you, a creature of this place, ally yourself with one army over another?”

“Set me free and I’ll show you.”

He said it so sincerely. And he had been so informative. I took a leap and trusted him. I attempted to rip the net of flowers apart, but they were as strong as a thick rope. I took out my knife and cut through them. The large black bird fluttered his wings and stood straight. He used his beak to straighten his feathers out. I waited.