Learning with the Fang

Did you start this?
Know who did?
I would be grateful for any hints leading to the original creator(s) of this work. I think it makes a fascinating study in photographic mash-ups, copyright, creative commons and remix culture in general.
UPDATE:
Thanks to some great detective work by Graham and Leo we now know that the photo was taken [...]

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This video of Professor Tanya Monro featured on the AdelaideNow website contains re-mixed footage shot by other people! This is a VERY GOOD THING which represents the first fruits of something I have beeen trying to achieve for a very long time.
Over a year ago, I convinced Prof. Monro to  fund the shooting and purchase [...]

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Design->Page Setup->Custom 27.09cm x 15.24 cm

Make your slides (with bugger all text boys and girls)

Save As (Other Formats) jpeg (exports each and every slide to a .jpg image of 1024×576 pixels precisely)

Quicktime player (pro)

file open image sequence, pick first file in numbered series from the folder created by powerpoint save as

allow 10sec per frame

save as quicktime .mov movie (will use apple jpeg codec by default) expect about 4mb per 100 slides.

iDvd new project, 16×9 PAL (Professional Quality)

Drag your .mov to autoplay area in the ‘map’ view

Select that movie and choose options -> loop

Burn to DVD.

All will be good.

converting powerpoint presentation to widescreen DVD format

1024×576 DVD PAL

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<cuss-warning>
Since my earliest tinkerings with the social web, I have thought the digital trails we write to the internet would make ideal data for anthropologists to study. My instincts regularly ‘give me feelings’ that the things I experience through my online networks are profound and perhaps mirror the inner workings of my brain or maybe [...]

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Over the weekend several people alerted me to the fact that someone had ’stolen’ my logo.Turns out that Richard McManus had (rather skillfully in my opinion) used one of my flickr images in a post on the ReadWriteWeb blog.
And that’s fine because I decide to ‘give away’ most of my rights to my digital content [...]

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