Turns out there’s a car called the Peugeot 106. Not available in North America though.
I found a picture of one that said 106 on the license plate, so I tweaked the colors a bunch to accentuate the 106ness of it.
Looks almost like a digital render now, but it was a picture of a red Peugeot at the beginning of this project.
This is a picture of a sign with the number 106 on it and a shamrock, most likely indicating a lucky number.
I chose to put Ds106 radio on a picture of a building because I thought it could represent Ds106 growing. Through taking this class I have realized how extensive this class is. There are people from all over the country who are involved in Ds106. I think that a radio headquarters could be something in the future.
I also chose this picture because it was an amazing angle. Bulidings in the city tend to spread across street corners and I thought this captured how unique this buliding is.
Assignment:
“A Different View to Car 106″ animated GIF by aforgrave (dedicated to @JimGroom)
Yesterday Jim Groom (@jimgroom, on Twitter) was writing about Silicon Valley (End the Domination of Silicon Valley) and the 1985 Bond film, “A View to a Kill,” when he came across Car 106. Having long sought an image of a police car bearing the 106 number, he captured the image and posted it.
Now I see image captures of 106 frequently in @cogdog‘s photostream. He seems to have a sixth sense in operation and he finds them all the time. He has over 106 of them! Me, I look periodically, but really don’t have a lot of success. I likely need to look harder. Such images respond to Visual Assignment 35, “Cogdog’s Illustrate 106.”
But upon inspecting Jim’s image, I noticed that the number appeared to be a bit crudely positioned, and I wondered whether the image had been visited a Doctor (Oblivion). After all, creative juices are always flowing in the DS106 community, and a lot of Art gets made through the magic of image editing programs.
My curiosity piqued, I decided to go to the source, and a few moments later, determined a couple of things.
Not only that, the car perched on the edge of the bridge was ripe for GIFfing.
And so, as a token apology to Jim for doubting him, I dedicate the above GIF of Car 106 to him. And thank him for creating the conditions for a little pause for creativity. (And more profusely thank him for creating the conditions for a much larger community for creativity!)
#ds106 #4life
Car 106 from the Bond film A View to a Kill
For a long time I’ve wanted to get a shot of a police car numbered 106. There’s one in the Fredericksburg Police Department fleet that I see from time to time, but given I have no cellphone/smart phone, I don’t usually have a digital camera handy to catch it in those unexpected moments. But while watching the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill the other night one of the patrol cars pursuing Bond around the streets of San Francisco was 106. I figured that might be worth a quick “Illustrate 106″ assignment.
You can see the 106 clearly in the image above. This image comes from the scene right before this car, which is stuck on a drawbridge raising vertically, crashes back into another police car. The gravitational pull of ds106 was extremely strong twenty five years before the class even started. #4life.
This is my first gif. The wiggle stereoscopy! It took me a couple of tries, I eventually got it. It seemed like forever. I felt bad using something from inside again, but it was 6am and I had nothing else better to do before my chem lab. My love of coffee mixed with with my enjoyment of critical thinking game. I thought it was also fitting given what was on the mug itself. I’m really happy with this one! Photography is my strength so I’m excited to something different with it. I’m normally just a good standard composition kind of guy. I need to open the door to other possibilities with editing. Definitely the most fun visual three star this week.
It’s been almost two years since I first discovered DS106, the open-online course created at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). And a year since I took my first York College students through the experience (a crazy humbling one for myself). In the Fall 2011 semester UMW decided not to formally run a ds106 course, but Jim Groom and Martha Burtis were kind enough to support my running my first section of ds106 at York College. And I tried to do some role-playing as a bumbling professor, taking my students on a Journey to the Center of the Internet.
I learned a tremendous amount about teaching out in the open and continue to be inspired by ds106 to keep my art making and teaching chops up. There are times that I get overwhelmed by the work to support the institution as well as teach and make art. But it’s good to have the above reminder hiding under the pile.
For the final star, here is my DS106 Illustration!
This one was particularly easy. I wanted to do something with spelling out 106, so I looked around my room and found the coins. Easy, time efficient, and… well easy!
10/10 Stars achieved! Bonus round unlocked!
I found a background picture in google and 106 picture too. I edited both of them in art viewer program. I copied and pasted the background on to the 106 picture and then lowered the opacity. So then both pictures are blended together. Then I did some adjustments with the picture I messed with the brightness/contrast and inverted the picture. I wanted the background to look like it was painted and the 106 was brought out more because of the background.
