In addition to the other visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week, we also had to pick six more stars of visual assignments to do. For my first of the extra stars I did a three star assignment called room tour. For this I took four separate pictures of different angles of my room and then put them together in one collage by using the iPhone app called Pic Stitch. This app is beyond easy to use, you simply just drag the pictures into what square you want them. The instructions for the post tell you to talk about what is in your room, what you would change and why did you design it this way. I have a medal hanger for all my full and half marathon, pictures of my family/friends, trophies from my competitive soccer years, my high school homecoming queen sash, pictures of surfing/beach, several Boston Red Sox items, and there is also a green yoga mat on the floor that isn’t in the picture. I listed the items above because they tell a lot about me. Soccer was my life, then I switched to swimming (which are the ribbons in the bottom left picture) and then finally to running. I also have surfed before and thought the pictures fit well with the coral colored walls. My favorite team in the whole world is the Boston Red Sox so I have a lot of stuff in my room! I am actually going to opening series this year in Boston with some friends! I picked the coral color because it was actually a suggestion by one of my best friends named Catie. She picked the color out for me at Home Depot and I loved it! I picked white and black accessories to accompany it because I thought it matched well. I put my bed in the corner up against a wall because I like to sleep up against the wall. My room doesn’t normally look this clean though. What I would change is maybe a coupe of paintings on the wall that I have done myself because I love to paint. Painting is actually one of my hobbies that I don’t get to do too often, but when I do I can spend over a month on a project. I also have a back of chair from the Boston Red Sox stadium that was given to me as a gift that I want to hang up, but I am unsure where to put it. Overall, I am happy with how the pictures came out for this assignment and how the collage came together.

One of the visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week was to recreate a famous movie scene. Of course the first movie that came to mind to recreate in a picture was the Titanic, but I decided to go with something a little different. This assignment instructs you to simply recreate the picture and I picked to do… The Lion King!!! We own it on VHS and we have a cat so I thought why not?! I put the movie in our ancient VHS player in my basement and fast forwarded it to the correct scene and then paused it. After this, I went and found my cat Snowball who is 14 years old (he is also 24 pounds, but it’s hard to tell in the picture). I had my younger sister take the picture for me on my iPhone as I held Snowball up to recreate the picture. The instructions for this assignment told you to post the original picture next to the one you made, but since the original is in my picture I did not do that. Hope you enjoy! Snowball did not!

I really like how the picture came out. The quality isn’t the best because we had the lights dimmed so you can see the TV, but overall I think I did a good job!

For this assignment, creep on a move scene, I originally thought it would be a good idea to put myself in a horror movie, maybe even cover myself in blood or something. Although this was admittedly easier, it is, to me, somewhat more entertaining. After I decided against a horror film, I thought a Tarantino movie would be a good idea. I was going to make myself into the cop in the trunk in Reservoir Dogs, but none of the images contain both the characters and the officer. So, I went with this iconic image instead. Imagine, if you will, that Samuel L. Jackson just came along with a gun and an armed compatriot and started eating your Big Kahuna burger. I tried for a look of apprehension in the photo, which I had to take specifically for this image because of the angle, but I think the angle obscures the wonderful face acting that I had done.

Process wise, it was all rather simple. I found the image, took note of the angle of the character in the picture, and had someone snap a photo from the appropriate angle. I added the scared look for a nice touch. There was one take of the photo where I looked more scared, but the angle was bad so I discarded it. It was harder to recreate that look than I imagined. After that, I added the face image to gimp, added a transparent background, cropped it around my face and saved it as a layer. Then, I added the face layer to the scene image, resized it, flattened it, and voila!
I am entertained enough with the results that I think I will make this my facebook profile pic for a while…

First ever GIF here for Western106 assignment and I went ultra complex using two whole images making the results worth two thousand words. Although lots of those words are the same so if you cross reference, eliminate remainders and carry the zero, it’s worth about 1150.

I fear I did not quite capture the essence of this scene, but this visual from Trainspotting always stuck with me. From Holy S%^t to S%^t-eating grin in 100 milliseconds. GIF is a hell of a drug.