Well, honestly, not much. She tries to keep as organized as possible and in order to stay organized she tries to only carry with her what she absolutely finds necessary. The pen, pencil, and white out is especially important to her. She alway’s is taking notes and jotting down ideas and is a bit of a perfectionist so if she makes a mistake she needs to be able to correct it. More recently however she’s fallen sick. She’s had an upset stomach and a runny nose so she’s taken to carrying around famotidine and tissues. Her runny nose leaves her face chapped so she’s also been carrying around Chapstick to minimize the pain that comes with a chapped face. She carries an apple in hopes that it will remind her to eat, yet night after night she comes home without so much as glancing at the apple. The dime? It’s merely change from an earlier purchase. She’ll put it away as soon as she gets home.

Here’s the required What’s in My Bag Visual Assignment for three stars. This I felt like was one of my weaker photographs but I think the storytelling came through more so than any of my other visual assignments. I wanted to emphasize my character’s minimalist tendencies while also telling the story of how she fell ill. The dime was more of a quirk because we all sometimes end up with something strange in our bag. I began the assignment by relating to the cough I’ve had for the past week and used that to tell a story. I then thought of what would normally be in Isabelle Franklin’s bag. Finally, I was really just trying to complete the square and found a dime which could have it’s own little side story.

OKAY THIS WAS REALLY HARD TO DO AND IM NOT GOOD AT THINGS

I wanted to do this assignment for two stars for Delia, showing what she would daydream about. I didn’t anticipate it being hard. I was wrong.

I took a photo of a window in VA hall. I downloaded and installed GIMP. I found a picture I liked online. I thought I could just add a transparent layer in GIMP, erase the windowy parts, add my image underneath it. Boom, done.

I started erasing the window. I zoomed in and erased the little crevasses and unpleasant things. However, erasing doesn’t make things transparent, and that sucks. I had to go in and use the GIMP website for help, which actually was very helpful. I selected all white areas, cleared them, and there was my image! …. way too small. I realized I was zoomed out about 800% and my window image was ridiculously huge. I resized both layers, eyeballing until it was close enough.

By this point, I was so fed up that I wasn’t about to learn how to crop. I took a screenshot and cropped from that. It was much easier. And here’s Delia daydreaming about going on sexy noir adventures with hardboiled eggheads.

At the beginning of the year, my room mates and I entered the My room, My UMW photo contest. Sadly, we missed the submission deadline by two minutes despite the fact that no one else from Eagle Landing entered. I chose to make some use of the pictures and use them for the Focus on One Color Visual Assignment for two stars. So get ready for this never before seen footage of our clean room.

I chose to focus on the color red taking a cue from our photography readings. The red colors grabbed my attention the most despite not being the most common color seen throughout the room. Additionally, by choosing red I think it highlights parts of the room that the eye might not jump to, such as the picture in the back. It also focuses on Captain America’s background as opposed to Captain America himself. I edited the photo on picmonkey which gave me the opportunity to learn more about the editing tools. In reflecting on my choices, I realized how much I like the red contrasting with the black and white. Red is sometimes viewed as a power color and thus starkly contrasts it’s surroundings.

10 Step Photo Challenge- 3 pts

Challenge: Take 10 steps and a picture at each step, use different angles and directions. Create a collage out of the pictures.

This photos were taken around Arrington, while my roommate and I went out for a walk. I thought it would be the perfect time to get this assignment done. Here is the result of the photo-shoot.

Panel 1: Mail! Oh boy, I bet it’s from one of my friends- look at that cute envelope!

Panel 2: Glitter… What did I ever do to them? The cute envelope was full of lies and falsehoods

In this three-star assignment, I was to show a change of emotion in two panels. I wanted to use some pop culture and incorporate the “Send Glitter to Your Enemies” guy. Imagine getting what you thought was a nice letter from an old friend, only to learn that you are their enemy! On top of all of that, you now have to clean up all this damn glitter. It sucks to be you.

I used my phone’s forward-facing camera and the headphones as a cable. My neighbors let me borrow their glitter (art kids amirite), and I used my roommate’s envelope. My side table caught the glitter, and only 5% fell into the air, never to leave.

This assignment was to take any photo of find any object and take a picture of it and create augmented versions of photos with my imagination. I was about to practice clarinet, so I just took a picture of clarinet and thought about what this can be. Most of my thoughts were came from the shape of the clarinet. The first thing came up in my mind was a space rocket. As you know the shape of two objects look similar so I pasted clarinet on the space as background and put the fire underneath so it looks like it’s about to take off from the ground.

Next picture is that clarinet functioning as the knife that is used to play fencing. I was impressed with the fencing games those were held during Olympics. So I immediately could thought of the clarinet as the fencing equipment.

It kind of seems like a person who is holding a clarinet is trying to make a competitor to play instead of attacking him..

Third imagination was clarinet roles as a funnel. The shape of bottom part of the clarinet is same as a funnel. It has big opening and smaller opening at the opposite side. So when you pour liquid into any bottle, it would make you not to spill all over the place.

This assignment took long time to came up with three ideas and make three pictures. But I had really fun time to think differently. When you think little odd way, your imagination can be fun and something really funny stuffs can be came up from you!

ds 106 Assignments: Apophenia (3 and 1/2 points)

How uncultured.

Let’s begin with my beauty items-

• Powder Compact

I sing under hot lights all night, I can’t look oily! I’m the backbone of the whole place, imagine if Frank Sinatra came in one night and saw me looking anything less than perfect? I would be ruined.

• Perfume

Darlin’ if you’ve ever been backstage, you would know why I need perfume. All kinds of grease and greasy people.

• Nail File

Long nails rip up long gloves somethin’ awful, and the lounge takes it off of my check! Slimy business, I tell you.

• Lipstick

Defined lips are a must, unless you want to look washed-out. You wouldn’t want me to be washed-out, would you?

• Eye Pencil and mascara

Eyebrows and eyelashes are almost as important as lips. They frame your whole face!

• Bobbi Pins

A lady’s unprepared if she goes out with anything less than 30 Bobbi pins. Who knows when a dashing stranger will need to pick a lock?

• Nylons

It’s always good to have a spare, in case the ones you’re wearing get a run or you spend the night away from home…

• Gloves

Do you know how cold it gets at night? Forty degrees in the winter! They also protect me by hiding my fingerprints should I ever get swept up in shenanigans.

•  Cigarette

That’s definitely a real smoke. Not bubblegum wrapped in paper. Nope.

• Pen

I take notes, sometimes, of people who come to the bar. There’s one ol’ man who could be working for the Cubans. Or, maybe he just lost a few teeth. But it could be the Cubans.

• Money Clip

I keep a whole $5 with me when I go out, in case I have to bug out and pay for a cab or a room.

• Gum

I want to be ready for my big head moment- You know, where the music gets real loud and the stars come together and the camera zooms in and all you see are their giant heads kissing? Movies don’t show the bad breath, though.

• Sewing Kit

Just in case. In case a button falls off, or a seam pops, or I have to stitch someone up.

You know, after looking through my bag without my permission, it would be even ruder to ask how I fit it all in my purse.

For a mandatory three-star assignment, this was pretty fun. I had to think of what Delia would carry with her, why she would keep everything. I tried to be as period-realistic as possible and use my vintage makeup cases. Unfortunately, vintage gum isn’t readily available. I also practiced writing in Delia’s voice, trying to in down her accent. New Orleans and Louisiana are very interesting because of the huge differences in dialects even within the city. There’s uptown/French Quarter, which is a lot like standard english but drops the ending “r” and “g” consonants, and the “Yat” accent which is a lot like a Brooklyn/NJ sound. I see Delia as having a moderate Cajun accent, slow-speaking. Some of it would have been trained out into standard English during vocal instruction.

Here, I just laid out everything on a side table I had and laid it out nicely. I didn’t have any cigarettes, candy or otherwise, and my smoking neighbors all use e-cigs, so I made one with an index card and painter’s tape. I took the photo with my phone.