Kilpatrick braes, yesterday, short loop. Low clouds, some drizzle and a few bright spells. Quite warm. Paths like burns after yesterday’s heavy rain. On the first field a buzzard hunting. A couple of ravens appeared & moved it off. After the deer fence, under the trees, I saw them again, or another trio. Again the ravens chased the buzzard off. I could hear them kronk and also making an almost electronic 2 note call I’ve not heard before.
#SilentSunday
Walk to greenside in the autumn rain yesterday. Low cloud & mostly very dull, made the few yellow leaves and other colours pop a bit.
Read: And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Burgh ★★★★ 📚
Working class boy is dazzled by Cambridge & his magician, occultist “friend”. Page turner, dark academia.
Some people say we’re our true selves when we think nobody is watching. But how do we know our own identities without others’ confirming gaze? If, like the tree falling in the proverbial wood, nobody is around to hear us, is our story a story at all? And when were different things to different people, what then?
#TDC1968 see also dancing
see also personal.
I’f I’d the skills this would not be a terrible edit and it would be animates. I do dance to a lot of Alan‘s Tunes.
I’ve had a lot of fun and learning to make Jim Groom Dance. This is a reasonable example of how ds106 can lead you down strange paths of learning, and community. Jim took this in good part.
#tdc1919 Celebrity Heads in a Jar | The DS106 Daily Create
Making fun of DS106 leaders can get quite personal, see also socks and dancing.
There is a DS106 Daily create score board, I was on the top once:
Make America Gif Again #tdc2392 #ds106 @jimgroom still dancing;-) See also, dancing, personal
One of the best parts of DS106 is what some call remixing & I think of as riffing. Many of these are lost in the depths of delted twitter feeds, but one I recall was record riffing. Which ended up with this:
One of the most delightful things that can happen in DS106 is someone can take what you make and change or improve it, one of my favourites, #tdc1713 Get Your Mozart On: Compose an Imaginary Musical Manuscript | The DS106 Daily Create:
This was much improve by Todd (lost on twitter) and made really musical by Viv.
In another post about this sort of thing I wrote
For me ds106 is a bit like non competitive tennis with self replicating balls that can be played on any court you like with any rules you like with the addition of be nice.
from: Boing – 106 drop in
Read Americana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★★★ 📚
Love story that investigates class, race, sexism & history in Africa, USA & Britain
Obinze saw himself through Vincent’s eyes: a university staff child who grew up eating butter and now needed his help.
Or DS106 look back in bewilderment
My path to DS106 is lost in the haze. The First mention this site is animating gifs on a rainy afternoon.
At that point I’d been reading around ds106 for a while.
I suspect my intro came from the flowering of web2.0 in education I was certainly reading Alan in 2006 and remember reading about Jim’s involvement in The Peoples Republic of Non-Programistan.
My first round was most encouraged by this idea: “#tdc2706 #ds106 “Welcome aboard, do what you like and leave the rest.” The Word according to @jimgroom
Once I started I’ve not really stopped, I’ve participated in several rounds of DS106 classes, finishing some, some not. My responses are scattered over service, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, mastodon & my blogs. I don’t respond much now, but I try to use my blog for anything I want to keep. DS106 has taught me about the impermanence of the web and how a domain of my own gives me a little stability.
I do not think there has been an online experience that has been as educational as DS106. It took me in to podcasting, aggregation, WordPress and more. It gave me the most positive experience of online learning &connection.
In reply to https://daily.ds106.us/tdc5043/.
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A quick GarageBand Music Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International reggae dub piano by XHALE303
#SilentSunday
In reply to https://daily.ds106.us/tdc5042/.
Find the TDC that has been least responded to or ‘Least popular’ (the opposite of https://daily.ds106.us/popular/) and add a response to it. Help it feel the #WildDS106 love!
A convoluted one, I downloaded the rss feeds for the tags from the last 100 #dailycreates and counted the items for each there were none for tdc4993 so I made this. I went through look back through the toots by @creating and lo, there were plenty of replies. It was fun working out how to download 100 feeds & count the items.
