An early morning skate in suburbia. Right select (Save Target/Link As…) to download the ds106 Field Recording 014 Suburban Skateboarding (MP3, 1.7MB)
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This could be where my preoccupation with reporting from the field began. A 2008 Voicethread of my 2004 experience of Dae Borum celebration (The first full moon of the lunar new year) held on Kwang An Beach in Busan, South Korea. Voicethread is a great web 2.0 tool that allows you to sequence a series […]
Sorry I’m late. Thanks for watching. The Daily Shoot #ds451 “Make a photograph that features a leading line through it today. Draw the viewers eye through the image.” The Daily Shoot #ds452 “Change your point of view. Make a photograph from an unusual point of view today.” This is the view I saw of my […]
Visual Assignment 13 brief Take a concept, one word, and plug it into Flickr and take the first 50 images and average them using Photoshop or similar program. Step by step instructions available at http://is.gd/ku3UF Averaging the first eight days of my daily shoot When I started Visual Assignment 13 I had only completed eight […]
“We all prepare for things every day. Illustrate preparedness in a photograph today.” The Daily Shoot #ds450 – Illustrate preparedness , originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
Design Assignment 12 brief Take any photo from The Big Picture and overlay it with lyrics from a Top 100 song. Similar to The Big Caption project. ‘I wanna get dusted, I gotta get dusted baby’ For this design assignment I used a photo from The Big Picture’s coverage of the 2011 Dakar Rally and […]
“Use a window or a door as a frame for your subject today in a photograph.” The Daily Shoot #ds449 – Use a window or a door as a frame for your subject, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. A door that opens up a world of frozen food.
Visual Assignment 46 brief Write a sentence (preferably somewhat coherent, yet on the nonsensical side), a poem, or a quick story using the titles of songs you have in your Windows Media Player (iTunes may possibly work as well). Print the screen. Paste it in Microsoft Paint (or some higher-end equivalent). Save it, upload it, […]
“Power plugs are ubiquitous. Can you make a creative photo of such a common thing? Try it today!” The Daily Shoot #ds448 – Creative photo of ubiquitous power point (plug), originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. A power point (plug) love story
“Go abstract today and make a photograph that focuses on form and color rather than detail.” The Daily Shoot #ds447 – Form & colour rather than detail, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. I’m not sure if this photo focuses on form and color rather than detail as perscribed by the daily shoot’s #ds447 requirements.
After a few days of heavy rain, the local frogs have become quite vocal in the grassland (The Badlands) near my house. ds106 Field Recording 012 Frogs after rain
“Create a photo today that gives a sense of depth or dimension.” The Daily Shoot #ds446 – Sense of depth or dimension, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. Suburban supermarket aisle. They’ve lowered the shelves since I was there last. The shelves now seem less monolithic.
“Look upward today. Make a photograph with a low horizon and that emphasizes the sky.” The Daily Shoot #ds445 – A low horizon, emphasise the sky, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
Yesterday, I wandered around inner city and suburban Melbourne. Here are some field recordings from my adventure. Listen to ds106 Field Recording 007 Crown Casino ambience Listen to ds106 Field Recording 008 Southbank Listen to ds106 Field Recording 009 Eureka Tower (Skydeck) Listen to ds106 Field Recording 010 Fitzroy Gardens Listen to ds106 Field Recording […]
“Pretend you’re a stringer for your local newspaper today. Make a photo that captures something newsworthy to you.” The Daily Shoot #ds444 – Newsworthy, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. A domestic interpretation of a Weegee Naked City style photograph.
“Fill the frame of a photograph with a single subject today.” The Daily Shoot #ds443 – Single subject, full frame, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
“Make a photograph that features repetition.” #ds442 – Repetition, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter
My new field recording for ds106 radio. Sounds of Melbourne’s suburban train system. Listen to ds106 Field Recording 006 Metro Glen Waverly Line Location photos of my ds106 field recordings can be found over at my Flickr photostream.
The goal of my ongoing ds106 field recording is to document and share the sound story of the city of Melbourne with ds106 radio listeners. I try to record the environment as succinctly and accurately as possible. I have recorded and shared the sound of my surroundings prior to ds106 radio, but I never provided […]
DS106 now has a streaming radio station! The radio station streams content uploaded by ds106 participants. Pretty cool. Inspired, I decided to make a few station IDs or Bumpers, or whatever you cal them in your jurisdiction. They’re something short and sharp that would hopefully shed a little light on exactly what the listener was […]
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amidoinitrite on mobile devices
Happy to see that amidoinitrite can be browsed on mobile devices like the PSP. Thanks WordPress!
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ds106: Bag of Gold
I want to live, I want to give I’ve been a miner for a bag of gold. It’s these expressions I never give That keep me searching for a bag of gold And I’m getting old. Keeps me searching for a bag of gold And I’m getting old. Use the controls to listen to Bag […]
A diagram that describes the workflow of an activity. The activity requires the learner to identify and evaluate an organisation’s workplace procedures. This diagram optimises the previous simple procedure.
One of the activities for the first week of the Learning and Knowledge Analytics (LAK11) course was to create a Hunch account and play around with it. If you’re not familiar with Hunch, a simple way to explain it would be a ‘survey that makes suggestions based on your answers’. I answered around 50 questions […]
Gardner Campbell’s article A Personal Cyberinfrastructure calls for a complete reshaping of course curriculum. Course curriculum needs more than just an application of technology stapled on like a digital facelift. It needs a new digital face. That face is a personal cyberinfrastructure. Personal cyberinfrastructure provides learners with an online presence. A place where they can […]
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ds106: Week 1 – My introduction
‘Hello ds106. My name is Rowan. Pleased to met you. I happened to have a great day today!’
A diagram that describes the workflow of an activity. The activity requires the learner to identify and evaluate an organisation’s workplace procedures.
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And so it begins….
Kozo Fuyutsuki and Gendo Ikari confirm the start of ds106. Seriously.
Scrawlin’ out the structure and sequence of an learning object is one of my favourite parts of the planning process.
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Warming up for ds106
I’m warming up for the digital storytelling (ds106) online course by conducting some animated gif tests. Image sequence sampled from the animated film Akira. The ds106 online course commences Jan 10. I can’t wait! Here we can see Tetsuo having a bit of a hard time after coming into contact with Takashi (タカシ, codename #26).
