As I was searching through the Design Assignment Repository,  I cam across one that looked a bit gruesome. It’s not my normal taste, but in honor of the upcoming Halloween celebrations I decided to do it. You take a picture, then zombify yourself. I looked at some of the examples and wasn’t thrilled with it but decided to venture out of my comfort zone. It looked pretty simple. It had a website that you went on and made the whole process pretty simple. I had you trace the outline of your face, then you went through different parts and added them to your face.

The picture I chose was one that was meant to be ironic. I am in Hawaii enjoying a strawberry daquiri. I don’t think that’s something zombies do frequently. I tried many of the extras on the website, but finally came up with this combination that I think fit the setting. The website also had a place where you could play with color and contrast so I decided to change the coloring a bit to give it more of a creepy feel. ‘

^^Alive me

^^Dead me

The design assignment was to Zombify yourself at the website http://creative.avatarlabs.com/zombieland/zombify/ It was not difficult at all. All the options are right there you just drag it onto the picture and adjust the size.

Did a design assignment which was to basically take a normal photo of a friend and make it an imagery of horror. I chose to do a picture of my roommate that i already had on my computer and put a horrific spin on it.

This photo was not hard to make with the help from photofunia.com. All you really have to do is upload the photo and the website takes care of the rest. Here are some more options they had:

This would be the cover of my autobiography, fer sure. The original picture if from this site.

I tried changing the saturation and making it look cool, but it just wasn’t looking good with the color of the corgis and such. I don’t have any corgis yet, but I plan on having a corgi corral in my back yard. It is going to happen.

Anywho, to do this I took the picture and opened it in GIMP. I messed around with the rotation of the picture by going to Image>Transform>Rotate until it ended up like this. Then I came up with my lovely title and made it purple, of course and stuck my name on the bottom, in another lovely shade of purple and called it a two star day.

This is my lovely tapestry for this digital assignment. I’m gunna be frank, the only reason I choose this is because I’m stressed and it seemed “childish” and destressing and easy.

And it was.

In this lovely tapestry, we have Queen Amber (upper left) instructing that all of the children leave and live in a hut (middle) or row her boats (bottom right) and fetch her more corgis (bottom left). Yes, in my mind that lamb/goat is a corgi.

For those of you who don’t already know, I dislike children. They annoy me and they always have sticky fingers and snotty noses.

I’m excited to start off this week with an assignment that is using our radio shows, but is visual. It seems kind of ironic to me. Our group radio show is going to be about a family road trip. For some reason this is pretty much the exact picture that popped into my head when I read the assignment for designing your own t-shirt/poster/bumper. I am very satisfied that I could pull this off with little effort. I haven’t used clip art since middle school, but remembered there were a lot of cartoon-like pictures. I decided to travel to my past days and start looking through them. To my amazement, they have added so many more pictures! I think I did this process in a way that has a few pointless steps that I’m sure I could have skipped, but what is done is done. I first started off in Microsoft power point. I knew I could maneuver the pictures around, it had clip art, and I could add text pretty easily. However, I wanted to change the coloring on the pictures. They just didn’t match. So I decided to take a screen shot of the one slide I had my pictures arranged on and uploaded to Pixlr. It took me a bit to get the colors straightened out but came up with a basic idea. I didn’t want it to be too extreme.

The pictures I chose were quite simple. I wanted a radio tower to symbolize ds106 radio and a car and road to symbolize our road trip radio show.