Hugh S. Manon and Daniel Temkin (WP6) Notes on Glitch [pdf] Hugh S. Manon and Daniel Temkin What follows is the result of an off-and-on confabulation taking place between the authors for over a year—a collaborative attempt to both define and theorize a set of practices that is known by various names: databending, datamoshing, image hacking, and of course glitch art. These “notes” are not intended to be exhaustive or in any sense final, but instead represent a set of loosely organized postulates that others might revise, debate, critique or extend. 1. 2. 3. 4. “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” – Orson Welles2 5. 6. 7. A more expansive list of proto-glitch artists might include such figures as François Rouan, Andy Warhol, Iannis Xenakis, Ken Jacobs, Gerhard Richter, and Jamie Reid. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. "When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art." – Sol LeWitt4 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. “Contre le règle générale: ne jamais s’en laisser – Roland Barthes9 28. 29. 30. 31.
70+ Web Tools Organized For Bloom's Digital Taxonomy The number of web tools currently available to teachers, administrators, and students is downright absurd. You can’t swing an iPad without hitting a free web tool looking to revolutionize your classroom. Luckily, there are a few brave souls out in the world wide web attempting to organize the chaos a bit. The web tools are all listed (and clickable!) NOTE: You can click on any of the web tools listed in the presentation to go to their respective website. Source of top image: Wikispaces
Not sure who originally made them, but these cartoons are pretty WTF worthy! 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong | LitReactor - StumbleUpon I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery. As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes. Below are 20 common grammar mistakes I see routinely, not only in editorial queries and submissions, but in print: in HR manuals, blogs, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and even best selling novels. Who and Whom This one opens a big can of worms. Which and That Lay and Lie This is the crown jewel of all grammatical errors. Moot Nor
stAllio!'s way: databending and glitch art primer, part 1: the wordpad effect welcome to my databending and glitch art primer! in part 1, we're going to talk about one of my favorite glitch art effects—the wordpad effect. i'm starting off with this effect because it's so easy that any windows user should be able to do it (note: i haven't tried it in vista), but it's complex enough under-the-hood that it allows me to discuss several important principles of glitch art. but first, let's define a few terms. databending is, in essence, the artistic misuse of digital information. the term is inspired by the similar art of circuit bending ; you could say that databending is like circuit bending with no circuits. the term is used most frequently in the context of electronic music (primarily glitch music ). the most common types of databending are: the wordpad effect: the wordpad effect is a simple glitch effect i discovered a couple years back, with the help of my readers . here's how it works: you take a digital photo like this: pretty dramatic results, eh?
Schools That Inspire Learning It was an amazing end to a genuinely amazing school year. Just as classes were finishing and students were daydreaming about lazy summer afternoons, President Obama jetted down to Mooresville, N.C., to visit the rock-stars of Mooresville Middle School and announce the ConnectEd initiative, a commitment to getting high-speed bandwidth into just about every school in the country within the next five years. (Last year, although Mooresville ranked in the bottom 10 of North Carolina's 115 school districts in funding per student, it was the second highest achieving district in the state.) Immediately after the President spoke, the White House invited three other schools to share the highlights of their year via a Google hangout. They were: And--lucky me--they rang up EdSurge and asked me to moderate the conversation. You can watch the whole session right here. When the cameras began to roll, however, the students were poised, articulate, funny and frank. More tool than gimmick Loris Elementary
Galeria: 15 lugares hechos entre la naturaleza y el hombre que no debes perderte Todos los que vivimos en la ciudad estamos tan acostumbrados a ver paisajes urbanos, edificios hechos a base de ingeniería moderna que ahora en su mayoría son inteligentes, estructuras apoteósicas de metal. En el mundo hay una riqueza natural interminable, que en muchos casos se combina con lo que hace la mano del hombre y nos regala algunas postales que son dignas de cualquier historia irreal. Desde una casa en medio del mar, hasta una formación pantanosa alrededor de una cabaña. Esto solamente puede suceder en lugares que en su mayoría están abandonados, y que con el paso del tiempo y del estrago de la naturaleza sobre ellos crea estas hermosas vistas. La bahía de Chesapeake tiene una particularidad, una casa construida por los marinos que fue abandonada y ahora se ve así. Kolmanskop en el Desierto de Namibia la arena ha invadido todo a su paso. En la Bahía de Homebush, su SS Ayrfield un barco, se convirtió en un bosque flotante.
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - StumbleUpon [Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)
Teaching kids to be ‘digital citizens’ (not just ‘digital natives’) - The Answer Sheet This was written by John Merrow, veteran education reporter for PBS, NPR, and dozens of national publications. He is the president of the nonprofit media production company Learning Matters. Merrow’s latest book is “The Influence of Teachers.” By John Merrow I often hear adults describing today’s young people as “digital natives,” usually with a tone of resignation or acceptance: “They are so far ahead of us, but we can turn to them for help,” is the general message I hear. My reaction is “Whoa there, Nellie,” because to me that kind of thinking smacks of abdication of adult responsibility. I accept the general truth of what someone called the “Three C’s 1-9-90” rule of thumb, sad and depressing as it is. If most youth — 90 percent — are texting, playing Angry Birds and Grand Theft Auto, and linking up on Facebook and Google Circles, then we adults should be ashamed. Unless, of course, we are equally guilty. And we are. What about Sal Khan and his burgeoning Khan Academy? 1. 2. 3. 4.