Without using photoshop (intend on getting it working sono) I’m not sure of a better way to select certain things out of images other than this sloppy erasing out of normal pics using GIMP. So just some GIMP for cropping/scaling/erasing/rotating and used picnik for the borders. Planning to try Picasa soon too

The NY police have this draw from a suspect man, who bought many military equipment yesterday, using a false credit card.
This police sketch is familiar to anyone?

Note: to make police sketch I used a screenshot from one Dr. Oblivion video and after draw over the image in illustrator

There have been a few milk container experiments for the “Missing Persons” poster assignment, so I decided to try my hand at in order to help get the word out about the Dr. Oblivion’s disappearance.

One thing that blows my mind about the missing persons milk container campaign of the 1980s—which I am assuming everyone who chose this milk container is alluding to—is how morbid it is. How did milk during the 80s become associated with every parents worst nightmare? I mean how did parents of the 1980s deal with this on a daily basis? To wake up every day to the violent reminder that your own kids could be next—talk about a campaign of fear and alienation. How many kids were actually save as a result of that campaign? I’d really like to know.

Anyway, here is a bit on my process for creating this poster. I found an original milk container t-shirt playing on Lost done by GLENNZ here. I grabbed that and brought it into GIMP and started changing it.

I really only needed the shape of the milk carton to save me some work, and if GLENNZ has an issue with me using the base of his design I’m more than happy to take it down. That said, finding the work of others as a starting point for creating posters, postcards, album covers, or any of the other visual/design assignments is often very useful —just be sure to give those you are “borrowing” from credit—imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

After that, like Daryl Cook…

• First I edited the carton image to remove any previous text and images using the Select Tool and Bucket Tool.
• I then grabbed the icons from the Dr. Oblivion of Swaffham post here to reproduce an iconic vision of the real Dr. Oblivion. I cropped the hair and the glasses and pasted them in the now empty missing box.  I had to make the entire missing box white so that it would match the background of the icons. I used the magic wand selection tool to do this because the box was on an angle and this let me airbrush the background of that box white precisely.
• I also grabbed the ds106 logo and pasted that on the front of the Milk container.
• I then used the Text Tool to create the text. Which I had to transform a bit to sit on and angle to match the image.
• An then, finally, I flattened Layers, Scale Image and Saved As … and voila.

If you want to experiment with GIMP, the best way at it is to figure out how layers work first and foremost.  There are a ton of tutorials out there, and remember that the Mac and PC GIMPs are rather different looking and operating. And if you already have Photoshop, well I doubt you’ll be using GIMP. For my next assignment I am gonna use Aviary to see how that works and hopefully provide a more thorough tutorial. God save Oblivion!

I can’t sleep. I can barely eat. It’s all I can do to not be scouring the streets for Dr.Oblivion.

We are on the verge of chaos here! Jim Groom has taught this course before, but I’ve heard his former students say he doesn’t EVEN USE A SYLLABUS or Rubrics! I know I’m not alone in feeling like we must do more!

If we don’t find Dr. Oblivion we could potentially be forced to learn and think for ourselves! I need to be told what to do! I was raised this way and I will probably self-destruct if I do not have a paternalistic figure head directing my every move!

I know there was some assignment about making posters but frankly, I am too distraught to be fiddling around with graphics applications. I’ve seen many posters around town, and I know who to call if I do spot the Dr somewhere.

Even New Yorkers, who should be celebrating their newfound equal rights are instead too busy searching the subways and pasting up posters created by Michael Branson Smith.

Even Davin Cronenberg has taken a break from being extremely weird to help out. I was watching Cronenburg’s surprisingly normal address on the Cathode Ray Tube, when it suddenly went dead and I had to move to the Liquid Crystal Display. I wonder if that has anything to do with Dr.Oblivion’s disappearance, since I have seen clips of him clearly stating he ONLY exists on the Cathode Ray Tube. Does that make Oblivion Obsolete?

I was able to tune back in- just in time to see that the charity, “Vapid Celebrities Across America” are mobilizing a concert to raise awareness and spirits during these days of darkness. As every good marketer and abduction-seeker knows, you need to diversify your media outreach strategy, so the concert will be helpful. As have been the extremely well-produced News on the March news updates by Allan Liddell (who definitely looks good sporting a beard).

Of course I TRIED to get my mind off things but I hear that even milk cartons have been appropriated with the Doctor’s image. Totally by coincidence without realizing as I was reading the morning paper (ahaha, just kidding, who reads THOSE any more, right?)…as I was listening to #ds106radio…snacking on a plato of cookies (which I initially didn’t accept but they are soo tasty) and a glass of milk, I actually inspected my own lactose-free milk carton- and what should I find- but ANOTHER plea for help. This time placing Dr.Oblivion’s last known whereabouts on Friday afternoon IN A CAVE!

Like Joe, I am convinced that this is a deep Platonian reference. Think about it- the doctor has not seen ANYONE for 27 years. His experience has been mediated through a deprecated technology (CRT). Is he real? What is his reality? If you only interacted through wordpress, twitter, flickr, youtube, even fuck yeah, Tumblr what would reality be? How does it differ from your face to face interactions? If you say none, then I ask you- how many times have you LITERALLY said “L”-”O”-”L” instead of just really heartily laughing out loud?