Where is he now?? Pablo Schreiber is Everywhere!!

When Pablo Schreiber showed up as Nick Sobotka in the first episode of season 2 of The Wire, I knew I had seen him before. A quick Google of his name confirmed that I was not imagining things.

A Minimalist TV Poster of Sentencing by A Hot Crazy Mess

My poster representing the title of the Season 1 Finale of The Wire

What did Omar do Before The Wire?

This is my example of the “Where are they now?” assignment. Enjoy!

Digital Storytelling with The 4 Icon Challenge!

Looking for a fun digital storytelling idea? This is for you! The basic idea of the 4 Icon Challenge is to take a story, novel, historical event, content topic, etc. and summarize it using only for basic pictures or icons. These four pictures represent the main events that h

Positive Rap Posters

I’ve got to give complete credit to Dan for the idea and the example rap poster. After seeing his great poster of Talib Kweli I had to make some of my own. Both images will link to fairly large jpgs. Dan’s blog is what this one might be if it were better so be sure to pay a

Student Head – Animal Body

These were actually created last year by my graphic design students. I gave them this exact same assignment but only just now found about about #DS106. Here are some of their creations Student Compositing Gallery The DS106 version of this assignment and their submissions can be found at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/paste-someones-head-on-an-animal-or-vice-versa/ You can find my video tutorial on […]

Unicorn #9

Today’s August 2013 GIF Challenge is August 2013 GIF Challenge #9: Empower the Unicorn. My friend Tina is thinking of the ds106 servers which seem to be having a wee bit of bother.

Perhaps you can help the unicorns and the rainbows? Make an animated GIF celebrating the behind the scenes work that keeps the ds106.us server happy.

I imagine that an animated gif is a good representation of the work involved in keeping a server up, it never stops.

Here is a unicorn speeding through the centre of the rainbow:
The_unicorn_in_Motion-anim

And here is one bringing reinforcements:
The_unicorn_in_Motion-tina

Using the public domain File:The Horse in Motion-anim.gif – Wikimedia Commons.

Made with Fireworks.

  1. Open the gif
  2. Through the frames deleting background.
  3. Through again adding a horn (copy paste, rotate & move)
  4. New gradient layer behind horse on first frame.
  5. Copy
  6. Paste onto each frame changing the gradient.

The second the gradient is twice the width of the gif and is pasted and moved on each frame.

The_unicorn_in_Motion-rainbow

The Midnight Sun Movie/Book

Design Assignments/ Movie Book Cover

This Movie Book Cover is for The Midnight Sun episode of The Twilight Zone.

Reading: The Midnight Sun

This picture was taken from the episode “The Midnight Sun” from the Twilight Zone.
Design Assignments: Create a Read poster

Cartoonized Doc

Instead of Cartooning myself, I cartooned the doctor from the episode of the Twilight Zone called “Eye of the Beholder”

Cartoonize You