This assignment is the “We’ve Found Your Match”

I initially started with my friend Tristrian. When I first met him a couple years ago, he had braids and we always used to say he looked like this one R&B singer named, Trey Songz. Ironically, when Trey Songz ended up cutting his braids off…Tristrian happened to have cut his off around the same time (trust me, that was not on purpose). They ended up looking even more alike! check it out for yourself, the braids picture is the one attached.

I actually found this project to be fun because, if someone has a celebrity look-a-like it always comes up in conversation. But that will be as far as it goes; a conversation and a couple jokes here and there. However, this assignment let me actually take the two people and post their pictures adjacent to one another and compare the two. I contacted both of my friends in this photo and asked them if I had there permission to put up the photo. Even though this blog is probably only being viewed by 10 or so people and for the sake of this class; it is still a pre-caution I think is necessary to take.

I also added another photo of my friend Tiara from high school. She looks ALOT like Tisha Campbell-Martin, who is a famous Hollywood. She’s had leading roles in comedy sitcoms such as Martin and My Wife and Kids.

Here is my attempt at a “Troll Quote.” The purpose is to mess up the image, quote, and name of three related figures. I brainstormed for a bit, before coming up with my choices. I wanted to make sure I picked things that everyone would understand. Hopefully this is the case.

I was originally planning to do Say it Like the Peanut butter. Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble with that and so I decided to try a different visual assignment. My choice was “Common everyday object.” I saw that some other students had done this one so I figured it would be a good idea.

As I still haven’t gotten my hands on a camera I used the built webcam on my laptop. The quality isn’t great but it was my only option. The state of the quality did render me a certain avenue of color adjustment. I got the result by playing around with the hue, which got funky from the pixelization.

Here is the original:

And here is the edited version:

This is the image from assignment An Album Cover. The blog will be fleshed out further in a bit.

*: I found this assignment to be both the most fun and most frustrating one. The assignment calls for taking the title of a random Wikipedia article, the last four words of a random quote, and one of the pictures of the top images on Flickr for the past seven days. The first part was easy and I felt satisfied with the name that I got the first time, though I did check out a few other random article titles but felt the first was the best. The second section was a bit difficult, in that the link in the assignment didn’t actually take me to a page that would change the quotes available, it was rather static. I stuck with the last four words because I figured that I could make them work. It was the acquisition of the image from Flickr that posed the most difficulty, as the vast majority of them had all rights reserved to them, so I couldn’t just grab one at random. But I did like what I did with the image: making the bear a center point for color, with the rest of the image tuned black and white, as well as the font that I chose for the band and album’s name, and how I placed them in logical positions on the image.
 

Here is the image of the Visual Assignment: Common everyday object. The blog response will be fleshed out.

*: This assignment was pretty straightforward, simply take an image of ‘Everyday items’ and alter the color/effects so that the items are slightly off. I decided to go with an image of ubiquitous items like accessory cords for a computer, just a little tangled like they so often are. Afterwards I simply turned the image to a sepia tone and focus a blurring circle on the center of the image. I feel that these effects mostly describe how tangled cords can be viewed, in that when woven together they create a barrier to their use.