Having a little too much fun with my new app Color Splash, thanks to the Splash the Color visual assignment. It’s a little guard tube keychain and my guard whistle on my keychain. I used the ColorSplash app for the iPhone and Picasa for the zoomed in effect as well as tweaking the shades and hues and everything. I like this picture because being a lifeguard has been such a large part in my life for the past 4 years, being my first job and everything.  It was a lot of fun creating and playing with the colorsplash app, as is evident by the 20 pictures on my photo that I did with this app today.

Half Man, Half Scare Crow. Though I didn’t do his make up myself I really liked this photo.  It was his makeup for Cornstalkers in Halloween Haunt which I think made him look pretty extraordinary. I used the app ColorSplash on my iPhone to do the black and white with the colored regions in the make up and eyes (really just cause I have the app and wanted to use it more)

For the final star, here is my DS106 Illustration!

This one was particularly easy.  I wanted to do something with spelling out 106, so I looked around my room and found the coins.  Easy, time efficient, and… well easy!

10/10 Stars achieved! Bonus round unlocked!

One of my good friends live on Spring Lake Drive, which is a very interesting road because it crosses over itself. I took this picture for the Unlikely Intersections assignment. It took me forever to figure out, What would be an unlikely intersection and went through road names that I knew off the top of my head and couldn’t for the life of me figure it out. I eventually just pulled up mapquest and looked at the street names around me… mostly just a bunch of roads named after trees (though if I had access to the gated community I would have had some great pirate themed intersections). But then I remembered my friends neighborhood and this crazy intersection, I mean seriously how often do you see an intersection of the same road?

The fifth and last Visual Assingment I did for this week was titled, “Draw it.”

This is another one that I found through the “try random one” button and I really thought it would look awesome. I really liked the picture that was used in the assignment, the lion looks SO fierce. Pictures that look like they’ve been drawn are definitely not as cool as ones that have, but I like the effect anyways. I figured I could easily take a picture of something that I thought looked cool and see how it would look if it was “drawn”. I know that there are many artists in the world, but I know personally I could never draw a lion that looked that good. I guess I feel that there are apps that help with things like that for people JUST LIKE ME.

I have a MacBook (yes I am TEAM apple…) therefore I just used my Photobooth and the “Colored Pencil” effect and took a picture of something in order for it to look “sketched”. I chose the window because I thought it looks likes something that could easily be drawn or sketched. It would be easy to imagine someone drawing a window. It was mainly my thought idea that helped me with this visual assignment because I interpreted it as something that was not too difficult to picture “drawn”. For example there are MANY drawings that occur of lions or other animals… a window isn’t anything different. I have also used this effect on pictures of me and my friends, it actually looks pretty cool. If someone wanted to do this assignment, there are many different apps that can be used. It also isn’t hard to find a picture online that you may just THINK is cool to “draw” or imagine as a picture that someone drew.

Irony always makes me laugh. So, the visual assignment of finding an unlikely intersection was fun for me. My finding needs an explanation in order to be ironic. I am closely acquainted with both a Douglas and a William. In fact, soon both will be a part of my family. William is already a family member, but, Doug will soon be marring my sister.

But wait! The irony deepens. Although Doug and William have only met once or twice, they are very similar. Both are outdoorsy guys. Hunting is probably their favorite pass time, along with fishing. William is much younger than Doug, making him quite possible Doug’s prodigy! haha.

The third Visual Assignment I chose to do for this week was the “Splash the Color“.

I liked doing this assignment because I really like things being in black and white, it’s always been one of my favorite effects. There is a really cool picture that is decorated in many different colors and I figured it would be easy to make one of the colors stick out. When the picture is not in black and white then the colors mean so much more, but having only one of the colors sticking out makes it that much cooler.

The process I used to do this was simply taking a picture of the poster that says “PEACE” hanging in my friends room. I found another iPhone app called “Dash of Color” and I basically just uploaded my picture onto the app and uncolored one of the letters. It wasn’t a very hard or long process, but I knew that the picture would look cool with just one color sticking out. If someone wanted to this assignment it would probably be just as easy. I know there are even some camera’s (like the cannon) that have the ability to just have one color sticking out. There are many different sites that do the same exact thing, I know it wouldn’t be very difficult. It may be difficult to find ONE color that sticks out most, considering many things are VERY VERY colorful.

The second Visual Assignment for this week that I chose to do was, “Find Yourself“.

I chose to this one by clicking on the “try random one” button. I knew that it would be very difficult to find my name anywhere since it is soooooo uncommon. While working on a group project for one of my other classes, my friends suggested making letters with my name and they’d hold it up for me. I have always had issues finding anything that resembles my name and I am usually asked where my name is from and the meaning. Whenever I have wanted to find a bracelet with my name on it …. it has NEVER happened. The meaning of my name “Enisa” (from what I’ve heard and looked up) is “friendly” … So the idea of having my friends hold up my name connects everything pretty well.

I didn’t really need many tools in order to do this one, but if you have an uncommon name like me … and still want to do it… Finding letters everywhere is also a good way of approaching it. I just let my mind wander and thought about how when I was younger I always hated not having my name anywhere or in common with anyone else…. I guess until I accepted the fact that it was Unique and learned to appreciate it.

This Visual Assignment was to get a picture of your dream car and how that car makes you feel. This is a Lamborghini Aventador and this makes me feel happy ha. I dont know cars really dont make me feel anything but if i had this car i bet id feel pretty sweet.