This is the “this doesn’t belong here assignment” worth 2 points
I love movies, and I love comparing movies. Naturally, then, I would love to mash movie images together, no? Well, it was quite a bit of fun, though my particular choice perhaps isn’t as subtle as the assignment calls for. I played around quite a bit with Johnny Depp’s head to try and render it a more similar color to the washed-out palate of that shot from the Matrix.
Here is the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/an-album-cover/
This assignment is worth 3 stars.
<Your dreams out of the window (2 Points)
What do I dream about? Power? Women? Material Gain? What do all of those thing have in common? MONEY BABY! That all I dream about, thats all I care about. Money right is very important. Not only because I am broke, but it my gateway to being somebody. I am tired of being kicked around and getting screwed over. I want tell pepole what to do. I want girls on my shoulders on all times. I want to be happy. And money is the only way I can be happy!
This assignment was about how is on my character Marcus daydreams about. At this point of his life, Marcus believes that money will solve all of his problems. Granted he has not learned how to get money. He believes his life will be content if he is rich and powerful. He has a lot to learn……
4 stars
I decided to do the story map assignment for this week.
The story map included my character dossier Sylvia and Kendall Parker’s character dossier Jewel. I kind of used this as a spin off from our radio show, this is because of how I did the seduction using both Jewel and Sylvia like we did in the MaNOIRpulators.
The story line behind the map is that the two women are trying to find the man who killed one of their good friends. In order to do this they have to travel all the way across the world to try to locate him and do their friendship duty of killing him off. The pictures I used for the map all came off of a google image search!
Hope you enjoy!
I know Janelle’s Sebastian Crane isn’t really looking for a lady right now, so the inspiration for this simple 2-star assignment seems to stem from Seb’s younger years, when he was more of a rambunctious rebel, a worry-free wanderer, a carefree cool cat… I don’t know if I prefer him in his dashing work attire or this fine, FINE flannel. Heart-eyed emojis for DAYYYSS :D.
No matter the decade, ladies always go insane over Crane … and I think I’ve fallen victim. ‘Scuse me while I go add him to my list of cuties to fangirl over ;).
This is the What’s in Your Bag assignment, worth three points.
This is the Classic Album Makeover assignment which calls for a visual rethinking of a famous album cover. It is worth 2 1/2 points.
I’ll admit, I bet everyone thinks of this album cover for this assignment. It’s simple, iconic, and has been interpreted beyond belief for seemingly hundreds of years. 
I made a point of trying to keep this simple. Trying to much with this sort of iconic image, loading it up with all sorts of bells and whistles, seemed the wrong sort of move. My goal was to add something significant-but-subtle to the image to spark a visual reappraisal of just what’s going on here.
It probably goes without saying for this cover: I was always going to flip it, reverse it, mirror it, something. When given a triangle and a few lines on a black background, almost anything is possible, but the obvious potential for easy, geometrical fun was too hard to pass up. I settled on flipping the triangle, keeping the beam of light in the same direction. I then had fun with GIMP’s smudge tool to create a jagged, lighting-like effect as the light passes through the triangle and refracts. My initial plan was to change the background to a night sky instead of the plain black backdrop, but I couldn’t find one that wasn’t cheesy.
So while this is admittedly something of a simple album cover makeover, I think its simplicity is where it shines.
This is the Poetry Art assignment calling for a visual landscape to be applied to the text of a poem to better explain its meaning. It’s a three point assignment.
I’ve been reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature as of late, so I decided to pull a quote from there as my de facto “poem.” This is mainly because I had this image in my head to begin with and I was struggling with creating something worthwhile for another poem. Considering the emphasis here is on visuals, not the poem itself, I hope this is not a problem
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I’m a softy for the American romantics, so naturally Emerson’s flowery perusings are my cup of tea. In Nature, he writes “To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing (25). Immediately after reading this passage and my selected passage, I mentally conjured an image of a child stunned and amazed at sunlight while an old man barely notices. I played around with the image a bit and came up with this admittedly somewhat creepy-looking collage.
I absolutely love how the light shines straight through the forehead of the child, but I fought GIMP left and right trying to crop everything around him while keeping the light effects. It was a pain, and it’s still very noticeable. Alas, playing around with color thresholds, blendings, and gradients still left me with some interesting visuals. I particularly love the tired, old eyes representing Emerson’s notion that adults fail to see the true beauty of nature as children do. It really fits beautifully.
I picked the dimensions for the image as I did in the hopes that I could make this a wallpaper for my phone, but initial test-runs have not been flattering. Most people are creeped out by the boy’s face. Oh well! I like it.
This is the Back to the Basics assignment that calls for a “stenciling” effect to be applied to an image. It is a two star assignment.
Well this was interesting. I’ve always been a fan of this style of art, however one chooses to label it. That likely has something to do with my 12 year old infatuation with Sin City all those years ago (yeah I’m warped, I know). I’m not sure I like “stencil” as the description of the style however, at least as far as the example images for the assignment as concerned. I certainly get it and have no other better term for it, but when I think of stencil, I think of something like…
That’s a bit different than the example images, though it is absolutely in the same vein. Most of the examples are more of a stylized, comic book-like black and white color scheme. Sure enough, when I was playing around with GIMP, their “stencil” visual option hardly affected the image, leaving a rather clean-looking greyscaled image, but nothing in the way of a stenciled look. After playing around with color thresholds and inversions however, I finally found a look that I liked.
My original image was simply the tapestry, but once I realized the effect I was getting with my filters, I quickly realized the street sign would look awesome. Basically everything light surrounded by dark gives the effect here, and balance is extremely important in creating a coherent image. As is visible here, the lamp behind the tapestry, clearly visible in the original image, is merely an indistinguishable mess of white in the middle of the image. There’s just enough going on around it that I don’t think it ruins anything, but the comparison is greatly noticeable.
It started out great. Perfect house, perfect husband, perfect family. Then a polo accident that killed her husband, a gambling habit that left the family in shambles. Andrea and her family lost everything. Now they live in poverty, and Andrea doesn’t have much of a chance….TBC…
Visual Assignment Link (3 Stars—Dedicated to Character)
