Category: Creative

Some Recent Arting

I needed an unplugged activity to bring some non-technical creative balance to my life. I decided that sketching and watercolors were what I wanted... Read more

Mask Text in Keynote on the iPad

Keynote has image masking built in. Masking allows you to more or less shape a picture in a frame. A simple example would be showing a portion of a... Read more

Drawing Shapes Is Hard

My wife is putting together a simple gift for our niece. Lest I spoil a surprise, I’ll be vague about the specifics. It required some hexagons. We ... Read more

Fixing Invalid frob Error in darktable on OSX

I use darktable to edit my photos. It’s a really robust RAW photo editor with a very active development community. The GitHub repo has 19,000+ comm... Read more

DIY Recipe Cards

My wife had been hinting that she wanted to use recipe cards in the kitchen rather than her phone all the time. So, I took a few hours and made som... Read more

Getting Random Post Suggestions from Custom Google Search Engines

Update 3/31 – After more tinkering, I’ve changed the code to be more stable with any changes Google makes in the future. Code snippets are up to da... Read more

An Argument for Creative Work

This is the final post for my Creativity in Teaching and Learning course, and it’s broken up into three parts. The White Paper The first part is a ... Read more

Down the Rabbit Hole with Alice

I read Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture when I was in college. In it, Randy talks about developing Alice and how it impacted his career and his view... Read more

Where’s My Muse?

This piece of the series is aptly placed after our interviews with creative people. It’s a good reminder that everyone can be creative, not just th... Read more

A Few Feet

Our feet are built to be durable. Bones arranged to bear weight1, thick pads of skin, and fine motor control of each individual toe2 allow us to wa... Read more

Scratch is the Hardest Thing I’ve Done in a While

I’m not going to lie – I found this week’s assignment really, really difficult. More on that later. Nearly all of the coding I’ve done has been in ... Read more

Creative Roots

“My work isn’t always incredibly creative, it’s just different than the way other people think about the same things.” Vicari Vollmar Creative work... Read more

Abstraction

The essence of abstraction consists in singling out one feature, which, in contrast to other properties, is considered to be particularly important... Read more

If You’re Not Going to Use Attribution, I’ll Just Do It For You

It’s important to use attribution online. When you pull a picture, make sure you tell other people where it’s from. Some sites make it easy for you... Read more

Loops, Algorithms, and Headaches

Loops When I got into coding, loops were one of the more difficult tasks for me to get the hang of – especially iterating through conditions. Part ... Read more

Prototypes and Constructing Models

Each year teaching chemistry, I made it a point to my students that everything they learn over the course of the year is based on observation and b... Read more

Sound for the Eyes

I read an article recently on the need for an “Instagram of Sound” – the idea being that I can record a short audio clip and then immediately share... Read more

Animate (SOME) of the GIFs!

Not all GIFs are created equal. Some just need a little help. I haven’t posted more than once in a day in a while, but I’m really excited about my ... Read more

Experimenting with Pictures

I have a permanent item on my to-do list which says, “make pictures better on the blog.” I don’t really know what that means in the long run, and t... Read more

Flip Flops and a GIMP Bump Map

I was working on a graphic to use as a promo for my debate this Saturday with Nate Langel at the NovaNOW conference in Grand Rapids. (sidebar – if ... Read more

Application of Intent – Design Experience #1

Design is the application of intent – the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. The quote I open this post with is from Robert L. ... Read more

In ds106, Shark Jumps YOU

It was one of those days, and I couldn’t pass this one up. The Headless ds106 is in full swing, and this week is Design Week. I love design work be... Read more

Photoblitz

This summer, I survived the ds106zone. There was a creative blitz that I’ve been wanting to carry through the fall. But life (literally) has come i... Read more

Who is that guy?

My computer is getting pretty full of photos. I’ve been taking more, but it is also housing nearly every photo taken since my wedding in 2009. I kn... Read more

Don’t lose your head

Leading up to the headless ds106 planned for this fall, it’s an August GIF-a-thon. I managed to find some time tonight to get one finished and uplo... Read more

Roll it, baby

Two or three weeks ago, I was home alone, tasked with priming the new drywall in my kitchen. I decided to geek it up a little bit and film the enti... Read more

Would the REAL @IAmTalkyTina Please Stand Up?

My schedule has been picking up like crazy, and I’m afraid this may be my last ds106 post for the summer semester. Maybe I can get one or two more ... Read more

The Drive By

Short post this morning, but last night on my way home from work, I did a short drive-by reflection. I was thinking about connections and how those... Read more

Twelve Pounds of Peanut Shells

I was able to squeak out another audio assignment today for the zone. While it isn’t Twilight Zone based, sometimes reading Craigslist can feel lik... Read more

Once You’re In…

…there’s no escape. I wanted to catch up on assignments for the ds106zone, so I hopped in on this week’s audio work. An easy one to get in was crea... Read more

Are There Martians in the House?

I posted earlier that I’d been having a hard time working with the assigned episodes this week. When I got home, I decided to watch a different epi... Read more

The Invaders Return

Man, this has been a long week. Aside from the remodel I began on my house, we had family visiting and a sick wife to boot. So, my ds106 work had c... Read more

A Short Story of Most Unfortunate Circumstances

We all need time to do things we love. But, time is not always on our side. Neither are the people around us. Henry Bemis lived a life in which he ... Read more

Vintage Clipart

Rounding out my assignments for the week, I’ve got a brand-spankin-new piece of vintage clip art for you to use in your next PowerPoint (because PP... Read more

Ben Rimes is a Monster

The first week of ds106 is coming to a close, and I needed to finish my design work for the week. I clicked on “try a random assignment” and got th... Read more

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