I came across the One Story/Four Icons and thought it looked really cool and a bit challenging. You come up with 4 distinct elements that describe a story. The challenge for me was to come up with a story I could come up with 4 different elements that would describe it. I went through a few of the recent movie stories, but none of them worked out the way I wanted. So, I went into my memories of the oldies but goodies and got to work using clip art from Microsoft Word.  I’m not giving the answer out so guessing is good!

Guess away!!

Movie posters never tell the truth. They are meant to compel you to come see the movie. When I cam across the assignment to reveal the truth, I knew I had to do it. I’m not sure why, but when I saw this assignment the first movie that came to my mind was Friends with Benefits. In the end, the two “friends” do end up falling in love. But, in the movie poster you aren’t supposed to know that until you watch it. I decided to go ahead and reveal the truth about this movie.

First, I googled the movie and got the original movie poster. I then uploaded it to pixlr and edited out the title. It turned out to be very convenient since the title was on a black background. I then saved the image and uploaded it into powerpoint. I played around with fonts for a bit, but couldn’t get the exact one. I got one that I think is pretty close. I changed the colors to match the original title and then saved it. It was quite a simple process and the results are great!

I don’t want to spoil the show or anything, so don’t continue reading if you plan to listen to our show!!

But if it’s necessary, we were required to make a poster for our radio station this week and this is what I came up with!

So I don’t want to give up many details from our show, but you should get the idea. This poster actually took some effort…and tons of frustration. I almost quit on GIMP today because it wouldn’t do what I wanted it to. Thankfully what I couldn’t do/figure out in GIMP, I was able to do in Paint. I’m proud of the headphones I was able to get on the zombie, and even more proud of stealing the XM symbol and converting it to DS106…DS106 RULES!! LISTEN TO OUR SHOW!

7/15

The art of Menuistry : what is really behind those random drawings on a sidewalk menu. This book has all the answers to those deep questions. Honesty, this was just random inspiration. I took a picture from my photo album that with a unusual angle. I used my photo splash app to highlight a random part of the picture. Then, just made a name that would make anyone say “REALLY!?..Why?”

This past Saturday some of my friends made breakfast at their house. [Props to the Chefs]. Somehow we ended up performing. Gilly on the Ukulele, me and my one note show on the piano, and Q. and Ryan on the guitar.  So when i read the design assignment of making a album cover. This picture was my first thought. We may not be the best, but at least we look cool.

I’ve now used Where The Wild Things Are twice for a blog post. I guess that’s one of my favorite children’s books. Haha. Well I used a different picture then the book cover for this design assignment. I decided to use one of the pages from the book. I thought the expressions of the monsters went with the remix. I changed the title to “Where the Wild things Twitter”. I wanted to make it “Tweet”, but i didn’t think that was exactly what the assignment was asking for. I imagined if the monsters from this book had a twitter, the things they would tweet would cause similar faces to those in the picture.