Design to Shock
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Using Photoshop or Gimp, combine at least two images (you may also use text) to create a shocking message.
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Oh no! Now, what?
Original DS 106 Assignment: Design to Shock (4 stars)
This is after Avery’s audition. She just auditioned with her favorite song She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5. This is the song she would listen as she got ready in the morning for school and whenever she studied or …
Shocking Imagery
by Thomas Pulsifer
For my second task from the assignment bank this week, I’ve chosen Chloe Smolarski’s 4-star prompt to combine at least two images and create a shocking message. All it took was a single glance at the face mask in front of me to know what I wanted …
RED BULL GIVES WHALES WINGS
I’m actually very proud of this. It turned out exactly how I envisioned it. This is for the “Design to shock” visual assignment.…
Design to Shock – 80’s HIV Epidemic
I decided to do the “Design to Shock” visual assignment that task the student to ” combine at least two images (you may also use text) to create a shocking message.” I wanted to tie it to the 80s and thought of the HIV epidemic. I searched for shocking images …
Unsuspecting friends
The final daily creates that I chose was to make a collage of pictures I’ve taken of my friends when they werent paying attention. I liked this assignment because it was easy but also fun and it was funny looking back at memories. It was kind of hard to find …
Colorize It
For my third assignment I chose colorize it which wanted you to take a picture youve already taken and change the colors in it to seem more unrealistic. I used the app “Color Pop” which I downloaded off the apple store on my iPhone. The app was okay, it dd …
Weekly Assignment #2
For this assignment I also wanted to make it 80’s related and at first I was struggling to think of how to incorporate it. The assignment was to make a gif or street are or graffiti or look up a picture of one. Well when I looked up 80’s graffiti …
Design to Shock
Four Star Assignment
For this assignment we needed to create a shocking image. I am all for wildfire awareness and protecting our National forests. So my response for this one was to make this a little aggressive smoking poster. …
WARNING FROM JOE!
For this assignment I needed to add two images together and create a shocking message. I made this about being careful trusting people because they may not be the people you think they are. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to use my secret agent character. I used a …
journey into noir 2015-04-03 21:14:12
Here is a new logo that I made for my and Bev’s new company, Fast Travels, Inc. I’m really excited to get more involved in this venture, and Bev had me focus on creative marketing and design, so I went looking around and decided …
Shocking!
Victoire Absinthe may be a dame, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have political ideals! She’s a red blooded American at heart- her brother was in the military, and she can’t help but agree with the “Better Dead Than Red” propaganda swelling through out the country. She saw this…
Design To Shock George!!
I chose this assignment design to shock (4 Points) because I thought it would be interesting. George will be watching – always watching! He watches his business, wife, his customers, his clients he protects, the streets and everything else he sees going on around him and his family.
During my …
Sacrifice
I tend to get frustrated with myself more often than not. I always feel like I am my own worst enemy. I am the only person standing in my way of happiness. This image is a reflection of the battle within. Sometimes when it’s time to get something done the …
Sacrifice
I tend to get frustrated with myself more often than not. I always feel like I am my own worst enemy. I am the only person standing in my way of happiness. This image is a reflection of the battle within. Sometimes when it’s time to get something done the …
Final Project
Photoshop is probably my favorite tool that we used this semester. I always wanted to learn how to add words to pics and how to merge pics together and I finally did. For my final project I decided to make a PSA which was originally apart of an DS106 visual …
DS-106 Choice Assignment 3: Design to Shock
I did a composite of two images representing life (birth) and death.
Here are the original images:
Skull:
Composite:
Dreams and schemes.
Alright.. this is the first time doing something like this… Believe it or not, i’ve never edited two pictures together. I now know what Ira Glass meant in this video. He said that things wont come out the way you want. At first i thought that was silly, but not …
Week 4 Summary
This week we learned a lot about creative commons (CC) on the internet that allows others to use creative works legally to upload and share, and to also complete two more assignments (either from the visual or design bank) for a total of 10 stars. For both visual and design …
Oh no! Now, what?
Original DS 106 Assignment: Design to Shock (4 stars)
This is after Avery’s audition. She just auditioned with her favorite song She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5. This is the song she would listen as she got ready in the morning for school and whenever she studied or …
Shocking Imagery
by Thomas Pulsifer
For my second task from the assignment bank this week, I’ve chosen Chloe Smolarski’s 4-star prompt to combine at least two images and create a shocking message. All it took was a single glance at the face mask in front of me to know what I wanted …
RED BULL GIVES WHALES WINGS
I’m actually very proud of this. It turned out exactly how I envisioned it. This is for the “Design to shock” visual assignment.…
Design to Shock – 80’s HIV Epidemic
I decided to do the “Design to Shock” visual assignment that task the student to ” combine at least two images (you may also use text) to create a shocking message.” I wanted to tie it to the 80s and thought of the HIV epidemic. I searched for shocking images …
Unsuspecting friends
The final daily creates that I chose was to make a collage of pictures I’ve taken of my friends when they werent paying attention. I liked this assignment because it was easy but also fun and it was funny looking back at memories. It was kind of hard to find …
Colorize It
For my third assignment I chose colorize it which wanted you to take a picture youve already taken and change the colors in it to seem more unrealistic. I used the app “Color Pop” which I downloaded off the apple store on my iPhone. The app was okay, it dd …
Weekly Assignment #2
For this assignment I also wanted to make it 80’s related and at first I was struggling to think of how to incorporate it. The assignment was to make a gif or street are or graffiti or look up a picture of one. Well when I looked up 80’s graffiti …
Design to Shock
Four Star Assignment
For this assignment we needed to create a shocking image. I am all for wildfire awareness and protecting our National forests. So my response for this one was to make this a little aggressive smoking poster. …
WARNING FROM JOE!
For this assignment I needed to add two images together and create a shocking message. I made this about being careful trusting people because they may not be the people you think they are. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to use my secret agent character. I used a …
journey into noir 2015-04-03 21:14:12
Here is a new logo that I made for my and Bev’s new company, Fast Travels, Inc. I’m really excited to get more involved in this venture, and Bev had me focus on creative marketing and design, so I went looking around and decided …
Shocking!
Victoire Absinthe may be a dame, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have political ideals! She’s a red blooded American at heart- her brother was in the military, and she can’t help but agree with the “Better Dead Than Red” propaganda swelling through out the country. She saw this…
Design To Shock George!!
I chose this assignment design to shock (4 Points) because I thought it would be interesting. George will be watching – always watching! He watches his business, wife, his customers, his clients he protects, the streets and everything else he sees going on around him and his family.
During my …
Sacrifice
I tend to get frustrated with myself more often than not. I always feel like I am my own worst enemy. I am the only person standing in my way of happiness. This image is a reflection of the battle within. Sometimes when it’s time to get something done the …
Sacrifice
I tend to get frustrated with myself more often than not. I always feel like I am my own worst enemy. I am the only person standing in my way of happiness. This image is a reflection of the battle within. Sometimes when it’s time to get something done the …
Final Project
Photoshop is probably my favorite tool that we used this semester. I always wanted to learn how to add words to pics and how to merge pics together and I finally did. For my final project I decided to make a PSA which was originally apart of an DS106 visual …
DS-106 Choice Assignment 3: Design to Shock
I did a composite of two images representing life (birth) and death.
Here are the original images:
Skull:
Composite:
Dreams and schemes.
Alright.. this is the first time doing something like this… Believe it or not, i’ve never edited two pictures together. I now know what Ira Glass meant in this video. He said that things wont come out the way you want. At first i thought that was silly, but not …
Week 4 Summary
This week we learned a lot about creative commons (CC) on the internet that allows others to use creative works legally to upload and share, and to also complete two more assignments (either from the visual or design bank) for a total of 10 stars. For both visual and design …
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Tutorials So Far
This assignment asked us to combine two images in order to create a shocking message. For me a shocking message is anything that causes controversy. My message is that breasts are not inherently sexual. I chose an image of a woman who is consensually showing her breasts and then found …
Here is the original assignment.
Step 1 – Acquiring Two Images
To combine two images together, you first must have two images. Find two images that would overlay well together from an online source or from your personal media collection. Below are the two images I acquired.
