Ah, this week was a blast. I had lots of fun. The DDA’s were absolutely addictive. I had this drive to want to do every single one of them but I couldn’t do all because of time and certain things not available to me. I submitted both of my required original DDA’s this week too. I couldn’t help thinking doing DDA’s and submitting them- Will people like this? Do I sound weird? Is this right? I don’t want to […]
The journey to finding my 4 elements was actually pretty simple. I found every thing in my backyard. The only thing that is missing is my representation of air. I took a picture of the sky for that and then accidentally deleted it. It was too cold to go back out there again. It wasn’t what I would have preferred to share anyway. I would have wanted to share the image of breath coming out of a human during cold […]
Laura Gibbs on Here's another quote from the Tabula Smaragdina, which has a great Wikipedia article containing the Latin text plus two English translations... including Isaac Newton's translation!In this passge, the Tabula discusses the res una, the "one thing," and where that res una comes from:Pater eius est Sol. Mater eius est Luna.Isaac Newton: The Sun is its father, the moon its mother.Theatrum Chemicum: The father of it is the sun, the mother the moon.(Wikimedia: Nuremberg Chronicles)I added this to the Latin Alchemy Flickr album too. :-)~ […]
What the heck just hit me?I got a nice nag from Alan Levine like maybe I could show up for the first ever Studio Tour (whazzat?) for the Network Narratives class out of Kean University I’m taking as an Open Participant. Gotta grade, so yeah, anything is better than that.Wander to computer. Turn on, jack in, fall out of chair an hour later with flowers exploding out the top of my curly brown head.This was a Google hangout with students […]
Wonderful work Comrade Rebeg! Our experiment is 011101010 98% is more than anticipated. Advancing to HC765v protocol
lopezla2015 on All this talk of alchemy had me thinking of this song…enjoy! A description of this week’s media task gave me a false sense of confidence. Upon reading, I thought: No prob. Got this. The challenge simmered all week and my camera roll is testament to my (futile) efforts to capture intriguing, unique images of the 4 elements. For example, this beauty went right “down the tubes”: Sticking my hand in this to unclog the drain is, perhaps, the grossing […]
richonda on “I define connection as the energy the exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship” -Brene´ Brown The first day of class was hard to get through; there was an overflow of information that sounded very much like a persistent chainsaw in my right ear. This past week, though, didn’t feel like that at all. I now unsurprisingly find my […]
Alan Levine on Comments. They are some of the magic sauce of a connected blogging community that knits participants together.
Writing comments is not that difficult to do, but in the rush of all the activity, creativity, connectivity, it sometimes gets lost in the rush. Plus, to give a good comment you need …
***Earth, Wind, Fire, & Air by the Hex Girls was playing in my head throughout working on this exercise just so you know*** Because I’ve always been an avid fan of faeries and fantasy in general, the elements and their power has also been of interest to me. In particular, fey seem to embody our ideas of natural power and magic. Also, it is interesting to think of the elements themselves as these kind of “old gods”, embodiments of the […]
@netnarr Did I boot up Minecraft just to take a picture of the sun for #dda31. You bet I did. #netnarr pic.twitter.com/h2EmpyvmEE — Keegan Long-Wheeler (@KeeganSLW) January 31, 2017
@netnarr The size of my new home I've been building is at an interesting scale… :3 #dda30 #netnarr pic.twitter.com/mSGNC2H2kw — Keegan Long-Wheeler (@KeeganSLW) January 31, 2017
Katherine on First off, let me share my photos: Fire: Literal: Symbolic: Air: Literal: Symbolic: Earth: Literal: Symbolic: Water: Literal: Symbolic: Some of these were harder to find than others, and for two I actually had to go back into the archive of pictures I’d previously taken. These were Fire Literal and Earth Literal. Fire Literal is the image of a sunset I took during the Fall near Stockton, New Jersey, and Earth Literal is a cute, little slug friend I found […]
Marissa on Even though we're only about two weeks into this semester, I'm already beginning to see that this class is unlike any other that I've ever been a part of. In the past, I've thought about most of my other classes only a handful of times each week: the day class meets, and whenever I settle down to do homework. I also think about class within in a certain framework-- a selected classroom, and then my laptop and perhaps a textbook, […]
The Four Elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. These elements were the heart of medieval alchemy. They held the idea that all matter was composed of these four elements, and when combined, any substance on earth could be formed. This week, we were challenged to find the four elements around us literally, and figuratively and capture them in a picture... I really enjoyed looking at my peer's work on our blog site. Quaneesha's post was one that I enjoyed reading and […]
We bend with the light
