Malkav never gave up on his desire to live in the fridge, even after the time when he was a kitten that we didn’t see him in there, and he got shut in. Or when he really got too big to fit in there.
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Malkav never gave up on his desire to live in the fridge, even after the time when he was a kitten that we didn’t see him in there, and he got shut in. Or when he really got too big to fit in there.
This is a cat saying a Shakespearean quote
I created this shakespearean cat using GIMP.
I was inspired to do this because Emily did one. I had forgotten all about this assignment. The cat lives up the street. I don’t know his name, so I call him Frank, after Sinatra, who was nicknamed “Old Blue Eyes.” He only acts friendly when my wife is with me, so I think he has trust issues. I googled for Shakespeare quotes about eyes, and found this one fitting. I put the type in Garamond, an old style typeface, and used Photoshop’s eyedropper tool to pick up the color from the cat’s fur. I probably should have done some cropping to make the photo look more composed and less like a snapshot. Maybe next time…
Original Picture found here
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
Shakespearean LOLcat – Combine a cat pic with an appropriate Shakespearean quotation.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/shakespearean-lolcat/
I honestly just wanted to do this one because the example Shakespearean cat made me laugh so hard I wanted to try it! I think this is more digitally related than storytelling relates, seeing as memes are all the rage right now. So I guess by making this, I am one step closer to making a funny meme. Media point one, me zero. Cats are also heavily used because let’s be real: cats are hilarious. I knew I wanted a love quote by Shakespeare, considering they are usually either deep or ironic. I also know that cats tend to fight or do weird things so finding a picture would be easy. The quality isn’t the best so I have learned which Photoshop apps to use and which ones to avoid. This is also the picture that has made me discover many different apps and their usages.
Worth 2.5 stars, for one of my visual assignments I decided to do Shakespearean LOL Cat. Basically what you had to do was take a picture of a cat and put a quote from Shakespeare that had to do with what was going on in the picture. This one was fun. I really love any assignment where I can feature my main man Pierre. (Back story/side track: He is going to be 15 in February. We found him back in 2000 in a rainstorm behind our outdoor gas tanks. He was covered in fleas and ticks and my parents didn’t think he would make it through the night…but here we are 15 years later. It’s okay to count a pet as a sibling if you’re an only child right?) Anyway. What I did was use a photo editor on my phone called InstaSize. I uploaded the picture I had of Pierre from Christmas, used a black and white filter, and then added the Shakespearean quote: “To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub” from Hamlet. Here is the final product!
This assignment wasn’t too challenging, minus finding a quote that matched the picture. 2.5 stars down, 7.5 to go! (Pierre is also a half noir cat….that makes him more special right?)
2.5 Stars
So I totally decided to do the Shakespearean LOLcats visual assignment because WHO DOESN’T LOVE LOLcats?! And it goes hand in hand with my love for animals! Here is it!
I chose this picture because when I think of cats I always think of what they get themselves into, then I saw the quote from Macbeth by Shakespeare and it was like fate, I had to do it.
The first visual assignment that I chose for this week is the Shakespearean LOLcat. It’s worth 2.5 stars and I chose it because it looked like fun to do! It was hard finding a picture that was cute and accurate for a quote at the same time so I googled Shakespearean quotes, found a couple that I liked, then tried to find a picture that fit them. This picture was the cutest one that I found and kittens could definitely be considered bad sometimes so here is the final product!
Working on my visual assignments for #noir106 and this is the result of one of them! pic.twitter.com/n2H8UKFMWS
— Tiffany Yowell (@tyowell29) January 27, 2015
I’ve been admiring assignments like the Shakespearean LOLcat for a while now, and this time I decided to stop analyzing and start paralyzing with my awesome art! I knew the quote I wanted to do right away. It’s a line I’ve repeated regularly since reading Antony & Cleopatra in undergrad because I love the way it sounds—and it allows me to condescend my egregiously green judgement in the past. I’m just glad we didn’t have Facebook then, but I digress. It’s from the very end of Act 1, Scene 5 and spoken by Cleopatra when she is bemoaning her youthful fling with Ceasar:
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I’ll unpeople Egypt.
Given the focus on salad days for this quote, I then searched for a LOLcat and salad on Google and found this bit of magic, in animated GIF form no less.
So, I downloaded the GIF and brought it into GIMP with the idea that I would add the quote to every layer. But it turns out this animated GIF was done as a mask (you can see how to do GIF masks in GIMP here) which means much of the background is untouched— and the GIF is smaller and cleaner. After realizing this, I simply aligned the text on areas that do not animate, and merge them down to the background layer. This made the text appear consistently. The only other hack around was airbrushing a black background for the second part of the quote because the green was getting lost in the log. I tried adding a drop shadow to the edges, but for some reason couldn’t do it in this GIF—anyone have any ideas why not?
Anyway, that was fun, and 2.5 stars to boot 
