Sticking with my fishing theme from my cartoon collage. I decided to make a motivational/demotivate poster showing what happens most of the time when you are fishing. For some, the waiting is the worst part and for others its why they go fishing! I used the websiteĀ http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/demotivational-posters#.TpqQL96F9tĀ to create the poster by uploading a photo and editing theĀ dimensionsĀ and text.
All done!
The Common Everyday object! It took me a while to figure what I wanted to manipulate for this particular assignment. At first, I wanted to take a picture of scissors, but you know I hardly ever use them. So I looked across my desk and choose my very cool UMW tervisĀ water-bottleĀ this tends to follow me everywhere, gotta stay hydrated. I manipulated the saturation and temperature of this picture using the pic monkey website again!
2 more stars to go!
This visual assignment was quite fun! I have recently becomeĀ acquaintedĀ with disc golfing over the past year. I regularly take friends who have never gone before , this picture was from a trip in which, the star of the shot was still learning. The action picture did not turn out great but with a blue cross fade effect and witty quote, I could not stop laughing and thinking about how much fun was had.
Pic Monkey was used to edit the picture
4 Stars to Go!
So, I have anĀ unyieldingĀ passion for fishing. And one of theĀ speciesĀ that alludes me is the TUNA!! So i made this collage using the everĀ famousĀ Charlie Tuna from Starkist and a poster of one of the illusive giants. The idea came to me when I was browsing through my options for this week’s visual assignments. I used the website Pic Monkey and went about arranging my collage.
4 stars done!
This assignment was called Splash the color. It is visual assignment 340.
“Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object”
I chose a picture of my cousin playing in the leaves last fall. It is one of my favorite pictures of him and I really like the idea of using it for this assignment. However, after I started, I regretted it. It was very difficult to edit around the leaves, but I did my best and I think it turned out pretty well. (It is rough in a few places)Ā Next time I will definitely chose something easier to edit around!
I used GIMP to edit this photo. And I used Eric Jeschke’s tutorial on “Selective Colorization.” This tutorial helped a ton!Ā The hardest thing was trying to edit around all the leaves!
For an assignment that I didn’t enjoy nearly as much as I thought I would, I certainly went a bit overboard with it. There’s another newsprint blackout poem under the cut, as well as my own spin on the art form.
Weirdly, I think the reason I found this assignment less awesome than I initially anticipated was that I am a poet. It’s one of the titles I use to define myself, these days–poetry is part of me, just as much as breathing or seeing, speech or touch. It sounds a little ridiculous but it’s absolutely true. Trying to create poetry from a fixed collection of words was uncomfortably limiting. When I write poems, I agonize over ever single syllable, each line break, which words are placed where. It’s an intense process, and this kind of poetic creation was a bit frustrating.
Even so, I love the look of these poems. The meaning and word order can’t be as precise as I’d like since I’m not choosing the words, but I’d be hard pressed to find a form that’s more visually arresting:
While I was thinking about the form of these poems, I thought about what might happen if I reversed their format. Essentially, instead of blacking out large sections of newsprint and leaving only a few visible words, I highlighted a couple of words and left the main article visible:
Nifty, isn’t it? It’s fascinating, this play of language–the way it changes the original article,the way the original article alters and informs the newly created poem… gah. I could go on! I’ll be curious to see if anybody else came up with a similar idea, or wants to try my variation on this theme.
This was fun, my cats do lots of goofy things and are very GIF-able. I may make more of these in the future! This is my cats Wyn and Midnight being annoyed by a remote control helicopter. I like just … Continue reading
As I was looking for my last star, I came across an older assignment that was actually submitted by one of my good friends! I didn’t even know she took this class. Since I knew the creator, I decided that it was meant to be. I also thought the idea of over-editing yourself was funny! So I first had to find a photo and came across one I took when I dyed my hair for the first time. Pixlr seemed to be the next step for editing the picture. I messed around with it for a while with different effects but I didn’t like any of them. They didn’t really seem to be what I would call “over-editing”. I finally came to the realization that I was going to have to free-hand this one. So using a paint brush (bring down the opacity to around 22) I gave myself ridiculous makeup, bright white teeth, and a pink streak. Overall it turned out pretty interesting, although I hope I never look like that!
^^ The Original
^^The Ridiculous
Oh man. I love the Random Album Art activity. I’ve done it at least three times and it never gets old.
I actually started this assignment over because the first Wikipedia article I got was about a real album, so I figured I should try another random article. I’m delighted that I did–the next article I got was about a psychoactive substance used in religious rituals with a name that literally translates to “generating the divine within.” Too. Perfect. The quote and image that popped up were also excellent, but the image was listed under an “All Rights Reserved” license, so I reloaded the page. Same deal. Did it again. Still copyrighted. I was delighted to see so many gorgeous photos and completely understood why the photographers wouldn’t want their stuff messed with, but c’mooooon, cut a creator a little slack, huh?
After reloading the Explore/Interestingness/Last 7 Days section of Flickr about twelve times, I decided to see if there wasn’t a better way to find a photo I could use. I checked out the Most Recent Uploads and decided to look at the last picture on the page for my album cover artwork. Same. Freaking. Thing. Well and truly frustrated, I figured I’d try and find a way to filter out all the photos that ARE licensed as remix-friendly under the Creative Commons. Turns out that Flickr, as far as I could tell, doesn’t make that distinction, but the Yahoo Image Search does have a Creative Commons filter. Score! To make sure the image I got was totally random, I found a random letter generator and typed that one letter (I got “U”) into Yahoo image search. Ineffective–all I got was variations of the letter U (duh).
Screw it, I thought. Back to Flickr. And then finally, finally I found a photo I could use!! Tatters:), you are my favorite person on Flickr right now.
So, here is my first visual assignment for the week! I liked this one because it looked funny. The costume is a halloween kids costume, the squirrel is just the baby squirrel picture I found looking through Google (from what … Continue reading
