The prompt

The photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/194821334@N06/shares/n989r8 (It refuses to embed, I don’t know why, but let me know if you can’t see it.)

The prompt was to take a photo of something that makes it seem larger than it is. I was drawn to the chairs in the parlor downstairs in my dorm because to me, they’ve always looked like Steve’s chair from Blue’s Clues, just small. Not as big as his looked in the TV show. I shot the photo from the floor, angling it upward. I tried to keep the carpet out of frame so that it couldn’t be used as a reference for how big the chair was and make it seem bigger. As a happy accident, (hey, Bob Ross!) my finger under the phone put it at a Dutch angle, which is traditionally used in cinematography to show that something (i.e. a situation, character, etc.) is weird or wrong. So the accidental Dutch angle in my photo adds to the fact that something is weird, the chair is huge! The lens flare, another happy accident, makes it seem majestic and grand, adding to the largeness, I think. In real life it’s a normal sized chair, maybe on the small side.

Hey everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful week. This assignment was fun; I got to use a new online-based tool, and I like using those because they are a bit more approachable for beginners.
The idea of this assignment was to find pictures online and upload them to this site that converts them with a typographic effect!

It was pretty straightforward. I used this site here, and it allowed me to change the font and vary the effect level to my liking. Warning if you use adblockers (which you should), this site does not work. Another theme I have for this blog is making people aware of the tools they can use to protect their privacy, so when going to this site, I recommend using a second browser and setting the history and site settings to clear when closing.

Once you upload the pictures, you can easily download them, but for me, right-clicking and saving the image did not work if you are looking for a good site for stock photos, I recommend this one!

I hope everyone is having a great week, and thanks for stopping by!

Turns out there’s a car called the Peugeot 106. Not available in North America though.

I found a picture of one that said 106 on the license plate, so I tweaked the colors a bunch to accentuate the 106ness of it.

Looks almost like a digital render now, but it was a picture of a red Peugeot at the beginning of this project.

I replicated the soup can picture from Andy Warhol, or one of the many. I never saw the appeal in this stuff……

I also didn’t have a soup can, so I used this can of beans that I’ve had in my pantry forever. I took a picture of the can, ran it through one of the those sketch things, and did some excellent coloring on the top of the can.

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in the 1500s. Happiness is the representation of this famous piece, in the words of Da Vinci himself.

So I decided to desecrate and vandalize the Mona Lisa to change its meaning. I’ve added some facial hair, angry eyebrows, glasses and a mustache.

Now, the Mona Lisa no longer represents happiness, as was one intended. She is now angry. What at, we will never know. Her beard and mustache remove the beauty from her face, and her glasses are less than flattering to say the least. It’s also a common myth that her eyes follow you around the room, but her striking new features dispel that myth as well.

I randomly zoomed out on Google Maps and dropped the pin with my eyes closed. I ended up at 19 Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa in Kapinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Which is in Russia.

19 Pochtamskaya resembles a Soviet Gulag of some sort. I can’t read Cyrillic, which is what all of the signs are in. There is a barbed-wire fence and a couple of smokestacks in the building, but they come out of the underground, not the building itself. Perhaps a secret government manufacturing center? Probably not, because the exterior of the building looks absolutely terrible. In actuality, likely a brake factory or something. If it was an apartment building in DC, the rent would easily be $2,000 a month because of the “urban design.” I wonder how many Google Street View drivers have been abducted by townspeople?