I am totally lost so far but trying to figure out what I have to do.
I kinda made a design and I have no idea if it works for the assignment or not.

Here is my design;

all movies teach us a value’s and lesson’s, guess the movie and learn the lesson. learning how to join the ds106 plz enjoy.

My 4 Icon Challenge submission for ds106.
What movie???

1. Think of 4 images/concepts as per the assignment (in this case a visual “X”, “Man”, a Nazi swastika referencing WWII, and a mushroom cloud to reference the clash between the main characters Professor X and Magneto).
2. Search for suitable images on Google images (keywords “male toilet sign”, “nazi swatika”, “mushroom cloud”; the “X” was made easily enough ). Images provided below.
3. Put images together on Photoshop (but any image editing software will do).
4. On Photoshop, just for style, turn all images into silhouettes. Alternatively people can just add the word “silhouettes” to their Google image search to find more suitable images that do not require editing.
5. Submit.

We’re trying to learn how to use this ds106 thing and its a bit murky. I’ve decided to start with the four icon assignment. I scribbled these out in MS Paint because I don’t make enough money to so much as look at photoshop or buy a Mac. Also, I did this in class quickly to see if I could simply “learn by doing.”

It basically works like dailyshoot, but instead of taking a picture you make a piece of artwork.

Anyway, can you guess what the movie is?

To help the students in Prof. Lockman’s “Cyberspace and Society” class get up to speed with the digital storytelling portion of the course, I’ve chosen to demonstrate one of the more popular assignments from week 3 in this semester’s iteration of ds106 as led by Michael Branson Smith (mbransons). This image above is from the Four Icon Challenge. The challenge to you, dear reader, is to guess what film is represented by the four icons above. You are invited to make your guesses in the comment section below.

As is the case with ds106, it is expected to atribute the the sources of inspiration, information and resources that helped to complete the particular assignment. Following Ben’s lead, I headed over the Noun  Project to grab the freely available public domain images seen above. The Noun Project itself is an amazing and curious resources. A word should be said about how I used the svg files I downloaded.

The svg file extension refers to vector graphic images. Manipulating such files was a new experience to me. Expert practitioners such as mbransons use a program called Adobe Illustrator with great facility as evidenced in this tutorial from the Summer of Oblivion.

Unfortunately Illustrator is not available in your computer lab. Even if it were, I doubt that Prof. Lockman could figure out how to use it well enough to explain it to you. For these reasons, I used a freely available web based vector editor called Aviary Raven. Opening a new document in Raven, I was able to upload the four icons and arrange as seen above. From there it was a simple matter to export them as a png (bitmap) file which was then uploaded to this blog.

It’s so simple in fact, that I think there is no way Prof. Lockman can bumble an in class demonstration this coming Tuesday. Between then and now, please have a look at at the Four Icon Challenge and think about the movie, or event you’d like to represent in four icons.

Also, please realize that you are not restricted to using icons from the Noun Project. You may draw your own or make use any other iconic images you can get your hands on – though we do suggest that they be images that have been made freely available for such purposes. Isaac for example came up with a humorous golf-themed image. The ever-amazing Leezlebub’s submission from last spring remains one of my personal favorites, though I must confess I still haven’t figured it out. And though Tom spoiled the challenge by including the movie title with his image – it still stands out as a bucket full of awesomeness.

The entire point is to learn how to use some new tools, create some art, and to have fun. I’m confident all of you will succeed with distinction.

Here is my contribution to the 4 Icon Challenge assignment. It’s a classic, but do you know which one?

Cannot resist the ds106 four icon challenges!

This one was easy as the images I found were all black and white. Too easy? What’s the movie?

Reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons.

Avatar in Five Icons:

Act One: Jake in a Wheelchair!

Act Two: Na’vi Babe!

Act Three: Down goes the Home Tree!

Act Four: Jake rides Toruk!

Act Five: Tree of Souls! Tree of Souls! Tree of Souls!

Well this assignment was sort of harder than I had planned it to be.

In addition, the story I used was very challenging since I realized that there were so many icons I could use. Hopefully you guys will find my icons helpful in order to decipher what story I used.

P.S. To make this a little more intereting I wont put up the title til tomorrow, incase any one wants to take a try and guess what I was attempting to portray.