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Digital Story Brainstorm: Mongolia, A Land of Contradictions

Yet today she must sell herself to the west, desperate for third neighbors who care more about her politics than her coal and gold. One of the original lands of Buddhism, the creators of the Dalai Llama, yet increasingly filled with sparkling Mormon churches and ecstatic evangelists.

Posted 20 January 2008 † Yuletide § Multimedia ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Digital Story – 7:07pm (damn broken dates!)

My Digital Story is FINISHED at last! (for now)

I’m posting it over at the Internet Archive, a haven for open-source media of all shapes and sizes. Head on over and have a look-see… be sure to leave your thoughts and reactions here! Alex’s Digital Story

(You can also watch it right here)

I’m going to try out ccPublisher to [...]

Posted 05 March 2006 † Yuletide § ‡ Comments (0) °

Digital Story v4.1

Digital Story v4.1 Sunday 1:32 pm (since the dates on this cursed blog are so messed up) I have my Dad’s hands, hands that love to touch and create and build and rampage.

I lie on the living room floor, legos spread out before me: a sea of plastic possibilites. I hear their call

I feel it in my hands [...]

Posted 05 March 2006 † Yuletide § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Digital Story v4: My destruction

Digital Story v4 I have my Dad’s hands, hands that love to touch and create and build and rampage.

I lay on the living room floor, legos spread out before me: a sea of plastic possibilites. I hear their call

I feel it in my hands which seem to move of their own accord: searching, grasping, fitting.

My elbows burn as [...]

Posted 03 March 2006 † Yuletide § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

A Response to Unit 1: Digital Stories

For me the first unit was about more than learning about digital stories – it was about creating the el170 space. The digital story then gave me a chance to dive in and get my proverbial hands dirty, truly experiencing the multidimensionality of writing. They helped me break through the assumptions I carry about how [...]

Posted 03 March 2006 † Yuletide § Meta § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Digital Story v3: My destruction

Digital Story v3 In my hands I see my Dad. I lay sprawled out, , the the living room floor’s soft carpet burns, rough on my elblows. I see how I have it, his love to build, to press together, to feel the order of meshing gears.

Until the gears slip, the joints crack, and the base [...]

Posted 03 March 2006 † Yuletide § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Digital Story v2

Buzzing with anticipation, I drag my bin of legos into the center of the living room floor. I tip the bin up, unleashing a sea of pieces, little yellow men bobbing with the waves. The empty carpet calling to be covered is barely audible over the plastic rush.

So I build, fashion, fit. Deconstruct, retrofit, reassemble. [...]

Posted 01 March 2006 † Yuletide § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Digital Storyness, Maybe?

Ever since I was little I’ve loved working with my hands — pushing buttons, touching, breaking things, drawing, writing… One of my early memories is of building things with legos. I’d haul out the blue bin full of an endless assortment of pieces: straight, thin, thick, long, clear, curved, 3×6’s, 2×2’s, sheets, wings, jet engines, [...]

Posted 20 February 2006 † Yuletide § ‡ Comments (0) °