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Making light of addictive personalities

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I’m a real jerk for poking fun of alcoholism. But here it is all the same.

Troll quote assignment

The woman: Lindsay Lohan. The quote: lyrics from “Plastic Jesus,” an American folk song by (according to Wikipedia) Ed Rush and George Cromarty. The attribution: Reese Witherspoon*. The common thread: alcohol abuse.

“Plastic Jesus” is about one of those dashboard figurines. There are many versus and many versions of this song. It’s especially irreverent, much like this troll quote assignment.

cc licensed Flickr photo by Christy Frink

I didn’t take the hard road when creating this assignment. I found an image of Lindsay Lohan in her heyday. It also happened to have lots of white space for text. I opened the image as a layer in GIMP and then created a text layer. I added in the lyrics, played around with font and size, and there we go.

I’m using this–and probably other similar assignments–as a way to stretch my legs. Kind of like a Daily Create, I guess.

I was thinking about using lyrics from Lydia Loveless’ “Jesus Was a Wino,” but this worked out ok in the end.

* This is a change. I originally attributed the quote to Betty Ford, but that didn’t seem to fit well for one reason or another. Lindsay Lohan and Reese Witherspoon are in more similar leagues.

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Making light of addictive personalities

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I’m a real jerk for poking fun of alcoholism. But here it is all the same.

Troll quote assignment

“Plastic Jesus” is about one of those dashboard figurines. There are many versus and many versions of this song. It’s especially irreverent, much like this troll quote assignment.

cc licensed Flickr photo by Christy Frink

I’m using this–and probably other similar assignments–as a way to stretch my legs. Kind of like a Daily Create, I guess.

I was thinking about using lyrics from Lydia Loveless’ “Jesus Was a Wino,” but this worked out ok in the end.

* This is a change. I originally attributed the quote to Betty Ford, but that didn’t seem to fit well for one reason or another. Lindsay Lohan and Reese Witherspoon are in more similar leagues.

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Triple Troll Link

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When I saw this one, I just knew I had to do it. As a Redditor, it’s something I often see.

The assignment: Find an image of a well-known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure.

I thought long on what to do for this assignment. You just can’t beat Gandalf as Dumbledore quoting Yoda.

Movies and books are too plenty, so I started thinking about video games. Immediately, I thought of The Legend of Zelda.

How many people think that the main character of The Legend of Zelda is named Zelda?

So that’s how I came up with this one:

I tried to do a similar style to the Gandalf one because I think it’s more powerful and “realistic” looking…even with a video game character.

I began with this image. Since I wanted to imitate the Gandalf image, I got the color from the back with the dropper and filled the background of a new image, clean image.

Then I used the Magic Wand to get rid of the background from the Link image. I copied it to the dark background and erased any extra bits of white from him.

Then I used the Fixedsys font that I found from this Daily Create page. I gave Link some drop shadow, 3 distance and black multiply.

But then I realized that I didn’t quite follow the directions of this assignment. I was really supposed to have three different universes of characters.

So I went into Photoshop again and changed it around.

When my roommate dressed up as Peter Pan for Halloween, most people thought she was Robin Hood or Link from Legend of Zelda. So I think this works much better.

I just deleted the text from the other Photoshop file, and then added the new text with Chopin Script for the font. I made this distance 5.

I’m pretty happy with this last one, especially since I think a lot of people can relate to it!

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ds106: Visual Assignment 24 – Troll quotes

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Visual Assignment 24 – Troll quotes brief

Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the official site: How It Works.

Get a picture of someone people idolise. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do.
Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a quote from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica.
Attribute the quotation to a third character, from yet a third universe. This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once.

I call this troll Total Kindergarten Alien Cop.

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Triple Troll Quote: A Fox News Tribute

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Assignment: The “Triple Troll Quote” is a simple assignment that pairs three figures; one of which is pictured, one of which is quoted, and one of which whose name is used as the quote attribute. I chose Barack Obama, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden, respectively. (Troll Quotes @ DS106)

Process: Using GIMP the image was a breeze to create. I went for a black and white image of Obama and simple black background with white text. For the quote I used a nice serif font for a more professional look, but went with a sans-serif font for the name because I felt it looked like a motivational poster you might see at a school.

The image was originally found on this website, but they attributed the photo to Portlandart, though I could not find their actual website.

Story: I drew inspiration from one of the biggest troll organizations of all, Fox News. Some far-right Americans believed that Barack Obama was an undercover Muslim and other weird and crazy things that were equally ridiculous. Going into the assignment, I knew that I wanted to make a political statement about misinformation and would probably use Obama’s picture. From there, I chose Osama Bin Laden to attribute the quote to. My final job was to pick out a quote. I had no quote in mind for the project, so I started by searching for quotes related to Islam by Middle Eastern dictators. Luckily, my first search (“Saddam Hussein quotes“) yielded an excellent quote which fit what I had in mind (it was literally the first quote on the page of the first result).

The three people I chose were intended to highlight the fallacies that Fox News and other conservative news and blog outlets propagate. A suspicious “typo” appeared last year when Fox announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, their news ticker read “Reports: Obama Bin Laden Dead” (view the image here). A 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center asked participants what they thought President Obama’s religion was and 18% believed him to be a Muslim (he’s a Christian). This is depressing for any American who cares about the state of politics in America.

Hopefully my ridiculous picture grabbed the attention of at least a few

- Paul

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ds106: Visual Assignment 24 – Troll quotes

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Visual Assignment 24 – Troll quotes brief

Get a picture of someone people idolize. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do.
Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a quote from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica.
Attribute the quotation to a third character, from yet a third universe. This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once.

A bug hunt life

While not being my all-time favourite Pixar film, A bug’s life was the inspiration for my Visual Assignment 24 – Troll quotes. Actually, it was a combination of A bug’s life and Bill Paxton’s freaked out Pvt. Hudson in Aliens that inspired my attempt to troll fans of Pixar, Toy Story and the Alien(s) film franchise. I’m not quite sure if my troll was successful.