Take a photograph of a street sign showing the intersection of two names not likely to meet. No photoshopping, it has to be real! Keep noticing what is around you.
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Take a photograph of a street sign showing the intersection of two names not likely to meet. No photoshopping, it has to be real! Keep noticing what is around you.
Select a profile of a Marvel comic character and rewrite the web page to build a super hero character our of someone involved in ds106. The easiest way to do this is to save the source of the web page as an html file, and either use the BASE HREF tag in the header for the root of the URL or to update the image links to be full URLs.
Then rewrite the content to more match the persona you are satirizing.
See the example of Bava Mather based on Cotton Mather
Pick a movie poster and animate it. You can see an awesome example and quick explanation by Michael Branson Smith here.
Webpages gets random quote from
http://iheartquotes.com/api
and set of flickr photos to match words
illustrate/explain the quote in pictures with the least number of pictures required
you can drag to re-order, click pic to swap, x remove pic, – hide pic leave word.
http://johnjohnston.info/tests/quote2.html
Add a yam to your favorite movie and make a picture.
Write the script for a conversation with your long lost friend Toska, who deals with ‘a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning.’. Generate five random words from the Words with No Translation tool and make sure Toska uses one word in each of his lines, making sure his words give some shade to their meaning.
Create or modify an image of the number 106 that is in the genre of a horror movie. Make 106 seem scary and ominous.
Take a famous painting or print and do your best to recreate it in real life. Capture it in a photo and present the two in a blog post.
Use the Random Words with No English Translation tool (http://lab.cogdogblog.com/nowords/) to generate a word that could be better understood with a photo or image. Find a creative commons image or make your own, and include the word somehow in the image (using a desktop photo editor or web tool like Aviary or PicNIk). Then share it with someone and ask if it makes sense.
Learning more at http://cogdogblog.com/8084
Givien the popularity and ubiquity of animated GIfs on the web right now, it is time to get jiggy with them. Animate a comic book cover. Check out Kerry Callen’s examples for inspiration.