Here’s a “Splash of Color”
I used Pixelmator, a cheaper Photoshop alternative available from the Mac App Store.
I selected everything but the blue part, then used the sponge tool to desaturate the image.
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Here’s a “Splash of Color”
I used Pixelmator, a cheaper Photoshop alternative available from the Mac App Store.
I selected everything but the blue part, then used the sponge tool to desaturate the image.
Here’s a visual representation of a recent dream:
I usually don’t remember my dreams but I occasionally have ‘falling dreams’ I have a sensation of falling, then I wake up just as I hit the bottom, sometimes it feels as though I did in fact fall.
This one baffled me a bit. I feel like maybe I’ll have to take this down before long. Is there something wrong with this assignment page itself?
The assignment here was to make an album cover, finding your band name, album name, and base cover photo by way of random url generators on wikipedia, flickr, and a quotations page – total assignment worth 2 stars.
This was all fine and dandy, till I got to flickr, and every time I loaded the generator, the photos provided were ‘All Rights Reserved.’ Now what?
So I created this by cropping the flickr image and opening it in GIMP, and adding the band name and album name using that. Easy-peasy. But I don’t feel good about it. Does the assignment itself need review? Or is there something I missed? My apologies if I have offended – I’ll change it if necessary. I have no intentions of stealing anyone’s work here, in particular not this guy’s. But for now, here is the assignment, completed as instructed.
Another visual assignment this week was to carry along an action figure or something along those lines and snap pictures of it with you on your everyday outings. I carried this Lego version of Gandalf from LoTR with me for a few days. We shared good times and bad. We laughed, we cried, yada yada yada. When I went to upload all of the glorious pictures of me and Lego Gandalf to Flickr, only one would successfully upload. I am still working on the solution although it may take a day or two. Here is the one that would upload:
This is Gandalf sharing my wine and dessert after eating some sushi with me. I am pretty bummed that probably the lamest of my “buddy” photos is the only one I got to work. C’est la vie.
Confused by the title? Me too. I had to take a common object and manipulate the colors a little bit to make it less common… now do you get it? Yea me neither. I was wandering around and I thought hey! what is more common than a light switch? And then I decided to make it uncommon.
And the original:
I was going to post a tutorial on how to do this but I really just started playing around with the color options in Gimp. Before long I had changed the hues, color perspective, and I even added some color noise. I did more but I can’t remember and never will.
Another visual assignment I did this week was turning an ordinary portrait of someone into an extraordinary portrait. Naturally, I chose my wife. I picked one of my favorite pictures of her (isn’t she just beautiful!) and made her look like a pop-art vampire. I did this by airbrushing the original photo with different pressures in Gimp. Then I cartoonized it with the artistic filter. Here is the final product:
And here is the original:
Hopefully she won’t be too upset!
LIVELive like it’s your last day on earth….hoping that everything will eventually turn out as you want it to be.
LAUGHLaugh like you’re watching the funniest comedy movie called life…..featuring you as the main character.
Love like you’ve never been hurt before….walls down and genuine LOVE.
About this Assignment:
I picked pictures that focused on my older sister, Mahlet and my beautiful niece Angelina. I love their relationship because it’s the relationship every daughter wants with her mother. She loves her so dearly and my 4 year old niece is as smart as an older lady…so wise and smart like her mother. When I had to write a story about these pictures, I chose the Theme Live. Laugh.Love because it illustrates their everyday life. My sisters big dreams that she’s going to accomplish in the future….her relationship with her daughter ….and LOVE…something everyone wants and needs and it can’t get as pure and honest as an innocent child’s love.
How I created this image: I took the picture from previous folders, edited it on Picasa and embedded it to my blog post.
My kids. The trees. Everything. Except for that bench. It’s so much smaller than I remember!
Just three years
Once upon a time, my kids were nowhere close to being able to reach the ground on this bench. When we took this picture, Justin and I had barely been together for a few months (if that). This was our first summer together. Of course, at that time, we felt our kids were huge – weren’t they just babies?? This was one of the times when we were letting the kids get to know each other, and so we went on this tame little hike (mostly;) to spend some time together. The kids had wasted no time bonding – they had instantly loved and cared for each other just as much as their parents had. 
When I saw this little bench, I desperately wanted a picture of them on it. Kayla couldn’t quite get her little self up there, so Elijah helped her climb up. They’re only 8 months apart, but at this age, that still represents quite a difference (and even now, the difference is still significant). Visiting this spot again on Sunday afternoon, Kayla towered over that little bench. And do you see those trees?! They’re not perfectly lined up (that’s harder than you might think!), but you can see the size of the trees then versus now. WOW.
I guess when 3 years is half of your life, you will be double the size of the original shot, huh? Still. The memories. And oh, my heart.
Very mixed feelings about having done this assignment. It’s very emotional, and it gets major bonus points for that. But while I’m in awe over the growth of the trees and the kids, and amused at the difference in the vegetation from the early summer shot versus the early fall shot, it still was a heck of a reminder of how big my kids are getting. At the same time, it’s fun to remember this time, when our new life together (all four of us) was just beginning.
I guess maybe I should remember that 6 years from now, I’ll be feeling the exact same way about their sizes today versus then. Maybe I should focus on how small their little hands are now as compared to what they will be, as opposed to how big they are now compared to what they once were.
This was the Return to the Scene of the Crime Visual Assignment, worth three out of my ten stars this week. I just used my iPhone camera for this one. The work here was in the planning and the positioning (and that was enough, to be sure).
For this Visual Assignment we were asked to take a everyday object and manipulate the colors.
Inspiration: Since there has been so much hype around the Iphone5 I decided to incorpate that in my photo. I feel like all Apple products have become apart of our whole society. So I decided to take a picture of my Iphone4 and alter the colors in that photo.
Process: For this assignment I just took a photo on my HP Webcam. Then I uploaded I used some Photo Editing Software called PhotoPad Image Editor ( you can download it free online). I changed the color of the Photo to Negative, then I reduced the Saturation, and finally I changed the Tint of the photo to a light blue.
This Visual Assignment was incredibly fun and random. I was not going to complete this because I already had completed enough assignments to get credit for the week but I just loved what happened.
Here are the directions for the assignment:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/an-album-cover/
Basically I had to do a mash-up of all these random things to create an album cover. My name turned out to be Nils Rydström, who was actually a Swedish fencer who competed in the Olympics way back. I love the name because it looks pretty rock and roll with the umlaut above the ‘o’.
Here is some information on how heavy-metal groups use umlauts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
Next there was a random quote by JFK that ended with “Powers Along Lines of Excellence.” Again, pretty sweet.
Next I had to get the photo for the cover that just happened to have power lines in it. I thought it fit perfectly with “Powers Along Lines.”
This seemed too good to be true. Here is the final product:
