Kyle James (the .eduGuru) suggested that the higher ed web community take a little time away from the busy work week and have some fun (he claims it fosters creativity). So, @ganyardp and I decided to follow his advice and play a little thrashball during the lunch hour. Not familiar with trashball? Here’s a crash course to help get you started.
Maybe it’s more of a fluke than a recipe for success, but I’ve won another CASE Circle of Excellence Award and was able to drop the f-bomb at work in the process. The winning piece was a video/animation parody of the foul-mouthed cartoon South Park that I created for Stuff2Do last fall.
Background (inside jokes for the campus community):
Athletics got a new “Phoenix” logo – non-athletic folks on campus (yeah, I’m overweight) were warned to never use it, penalty of death by locker room towel snapping was issued for all who didn’t comply.
Taco Tuesday, the best food deal on campus, was eliminated. In the place of 2 tacos for 2 dollars, we were given overpriced panini – campus climate entered a downward spiral as outraged faculty/staff/students weaned themselves from chili powder and salsa.
Outcome/Results:
Doing voices for cartoon characters is incredibly humiliating.
Flash is fun, but time consuming.
My scissor skills are decent.
Taco Tuesday was brought back to campus the following Tuesday. The Chancellor even sent me a note thanking me for my efforts and thought Stuff2Do was “largely responsible for bringing Taco Tuesday back.”
