I putted Nintendo ‘DS’ and 106yen!
This is ‘DS106′ 
I did not use GIMP in this section.
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I putted Nintendo ‘DS’ and 106yen!
This is ‘DS106′
I did not use GIMP in this section.
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Ever since ds106 started, I’ve had this rabid obsession for photos with a 106 represented, starting December 18, 2010 (a month before the first open class launched), when I saw a pole along a canal in Mesa Arizona. This is the Illustrate 106 assignment
It was a sign (well with some help of post production it got psychedelic)
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Since then I have tagged 63 ds106 photos. Recently Jim has remixed a 106 exit sign and Rowan has found an address marker
Now finding them in a sign, an address is easy. It took me several months to find one in a license plate. I have also spelled them out with small objects, written it in dust, played an impossible guitar chord, eyeballed mile post markers, tested it with my glucose meter, and counted out my change… I still wait to find a CVI (roman numerals).
What other ways might one represent 106? Break out your imagination!
It might be dangerous.
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Visual assignment 35 brief
Let’s celebrate our 106ness- create a graphic, find a a photo, manipulate an exiting image to somehow represent the number 106. It could be literal (like a sign that has 106 on it, example below), to say, something using CVI (roman digits), maybe something with 106 items in it….
Inspired by Cogdog’s ds106 image compulsion, I decided to have some fun with a recent gem “You Cant Exit ds106.” I basically used that image as a backdrop for my own sign slighting riffing off his sign. I’m still mucking around in GIMP, but I have to admit sometimes I miss Photoshop. Importing fonts into GIMP to get the right roadside fonts failed for me, so I had to approximate. Actually, scratch that, I found these road these Road Geek fonts as a free download. After copying them into my Mac fonts folder in the Library directory and restarting GIMP I could use them no problem. Much happier with this than I am the first go around—I have to learn to stick with design, it doesn’t come easy and maybe that is why i like it so much.
This assignment falls under the Visual category, more specifically “Illustrate 106.” I never get tired of the significance this number has taken on beyond a course number.
Visual assignment 35 brief
Apartment building 106 in Haeundae, Busan, Sth Korea, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
I am catching up on my visual assignments, and I don’t think I had done Alan Levine’s (we miss you CogDog!) illustrate 106 assignment yet, so here is one that is quick and easy and almost catches me up.
This was made easier given I had bought those reflective address ds106 stickers in the hardware store with the intention of slapping them on my laptop, but I had forgotten and they were languishing in the manshed. But then Alan Liddell did his visual assignment with a quick and easy posterize effect in GIMP and I said “Bam! I can do this for the Illustrate 106 assignment.” And there you have it. No idea is born alone.
With apologies to the original here. #ds1064life
With apologies to New Hampshire’s Route 106
The visual/design assignments for ds106 remain a tremendous amount of fun.
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Spent a little bit of time working on this today, another visual assignment in the bag for ds106.
