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Google Autocomplete is an oracle with strange powers to bring oddities into your life. This assignment asks you to seek out that randomness. Start with a strong phrase (things like “I hate . . .” or “I love . . . ” seem to work well.) and run through the alphabet looking for really odd autocompletes. When you find a good one, screen capture it and create an illustration that represents the search string.
If your blog is not connected to ds106, you can add your example directly.
“Google … I am not a Number …,” animated GIF by @aforgrave
I like Visual Assignment 1244: Illustrating Odd Autocompletes. I’ve done it a
2 and a half stars. This was a fun assignment. Google autocorrects are so funny, like the fact people actually search for these
So for this visual assignment I had to create an image using the results from a Google search where it automatically suggested some options.
The example for this ds106 visual assignment was of a cat priest hissing while preaching, which immediately caught my eye. I first input “I
For my second visual assignment of the week, I decided to complete the Illustrating Odd Auto-completes challenge. When I Googled “I love…” I didn’t
[I usually do my ds106 stuff on Tumblr, but animated gifs over 1 MB become just gifs there, and I
Tom keeps pumping out his creations of the Illustrating Odd Autocompletes assignment he spun out this gem featuring my pals Gardner Campbell and MC
A new DS106 assignment ds106 Assignments: Illustrating Odd Autocompletes by Tom Woodward.
Google Autocomplete is an oracle with strange powers to bring
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