_cokwr: This is one for the gamers. Tell an original story/scene by reappropriating screenshots from your favourite game! How? Here's some ideas: Overwrite the text/add elements to the picture/"fake" screenshot art!, _cpzh4: Visual, _chk2m: mome, _ciyn3: 194, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments194, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials194

_cokwr: So here's something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band. Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page. The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album Lastly, go here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put them over top. However you wanna do it. Make it look cool., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://blog.thecrazyleghero.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Stallion.jpg, _chk2m: Crazylegs, _ciyn3: 44, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments44, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials44

_cokwr: Grab your old Barbies, grab your child’s, buy a new one, or go to GoodWill or something. Would prefer it if you didn't steal it. Wouldn't want to be committing one of the sins as you were setting up the photo, would you now. ;) Then, take a picture of a scene with 1 or more Barbies demonstrating one of the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Greed, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Pride, and Envy. Do all seven or just one. Take a photo and upload it to Flickr (label it the sin), post it on your blog, and tag it as requested. Explain your process and how you got to the final scene if you choose to do so., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://nogoodadvice.somethingkindaooooh.com/2011/03/08/seven-deadly-sins-barbie/, _chk2m: callean/Call_lean, _ciyn3: 97, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments97, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials97

_cokwr: Take a picture of one of your closest friends and put it beside their celebrity look-a-like. , _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brobenson/5451916224/, _chk2m: BRobenson, _ciyn3: 66, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments66, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials66

_cokwr: Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh---but I must acknowledge there are other possible emotional responses that may be just as acceptable. Think of it as lolcat, save it's a human (namely you) and there is nothing compelling anyone to abuse the letter z in the speech bubble text. Picnik.com or Aviary.com would make this assignment dead simple., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2011/10/Picture-14.png, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 190, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments190, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials190

_cokwr: A famous guitar player appears in an image using a guitar that is belongs to another famous guitar player (bonus points for embedding audio from a riff by yet another famous guitar player. This is a relatively simple project that will help improve superimposing mixed images in Photoshop (or any other image editor with layers). It is similar to the Troll Quotes assignment in that it involves bringing together disparate elements into one place and asks readers to figure who's who and what's whose. The technique used is similar to that described in this tutorial on changing faces on a movie poster (http://pinkzap.com/tutorial/how-to-replace-faces-on-movie-posters/). The new image will consist of a famous guitar playing or holding the guitar of another famous guitar player. My TA went added an additional feature to the assignment by embedding an mp3 clip of a riff by yet another famous guitar player. , _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://cis0835-fa11.blogspot.com/2011/10/troll-steals-axe-challenge.html, _chk2m: Otto Paertz, _ciyn3: 188, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments188, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials188

_cokwr: Write a sentence (preferably somewhat coherent, yet on the nonsensical side), a poem, or a quick story using the titles of songs you have in your Windows Media Player (iTunes may possibly work as well). Print the screen. Paste it in Microsoft Paint (or some higher-end equivalent). Save it, upload it, and share. If you could even respond to the one I originally created as a challenge (possibly even embed it as a comment on that blog entry), that would be even cooler., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://nogoodadvice.somethingkindaooooh.com/2011/02/04/visual-assignment/, _chk2m: callean, _ciyn3: 46, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments46, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials46

_cokwr: Take a portrait of a total stranger each day for 7 days. Try to capture their image in a way that gives the viewer a deeper understanding of the person. Write a little about how you approached the person and what you learned about them. This assignment is part photography challenge but the harder part, in my opinion, is forcing yourself to interact with strangers in a fairly personal way. , _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://www.dannyst.com/shooting-portraits-of-strangers/, _chk2m: Tom, _ciyn3: 29, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments29, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials29