Remixing Virginia’s New Motto

Perhaps a bit inspired having just listened to Jim Groom’s edupunk presentation in Hamburg and his retelling of the ds106 ethos, I realize it’s been a while since I blog narrated the making of a digital remix. This seems poignant given what passes for making digital images is not manipulating pixels and layers but typing into a box and doing the lift of clicking a button. I’m also aiming to keep the blog muscles limber after some summer atrophy. Today’s challenge is I am in town for some errands with extra time, so I am seeing if I can blog via the JetPack app on a mobile. I’ll start with the end, same as the featured image on this post (hmm on the mobile can’t seem to find where to enter alt text, so it sits in the caption) (also for complaining, on mobile Mastodon app, an images alt text cannot be copied, so I’m forced to screenshot it and get the text out of the iOS photo editor). Oh here’s the remix. Ooooh Ahhhh. Alt text: Vintage style patch with sewn text Virginia is for Data…