Not really my “favourite” film but funny for me, nonetheless
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Not really my “favourite” film but funny for me, nonetheless
After I posted “I Ain’t No Spud, Bub!” this morning, my Super True New Old Radio Friend @scottlo suggested that the picture would work for the Yam assignment. And I will confess, I did think about this today as I was working with the Potato Head kit.
Scott’s recommendation was just too good to pass up, and so after chasing down the authentic Yam from Joan Shaffer (@echoln), it was a simple application of the magic wand, the eraser, the rotate, the scale, the eraser, adjust the layering, and boom!
“I Yam Talky Tina” by @iamTalkyTina, featuring Joan Shaffer’s Yam
I especially like the way my hair ribbons (that I had previously colourized to go with the colours in my #ds106radio shirt) match the skin tone of my yambody. I look wonderful as a Yam!
With ds106, you just CAN’T have too much fun!! #4life
The assignment was to add a yam to your favorite movie and make a picture. I replaced the shark jaws with a yam. jaws was the first “scary movie” I got to see as a kid and the yam fits perfectly.
This is Godzilla, a hero of mine, vanquishing his foe, the diabolical Yam. Why does a Yam have arms you ask? Foolishness! How else would a Yam climb to the top of a municipal building?
As far as the creative process here, I can’t claim to have done much to this picture, other than the addition of the yam of course.
On the issue of full disclosure, I am actually quite fond of yams, roasted yams in particular. Good on you Godzilla, roasting that yam for thanksgiving consumption. Pass the marshmallows.
2/5 stars
Only because @echoln tweeted her extra large yam comes this un-necessary Yam Yarn assignment for ds106
Yeah, yeah, yam sharks might be a little scary, but nothing is more terrifying than the Great Orange Tuber, the classic story of all times.
This was a quick PhotoShop cut and layer job, based on a movie poster borrowed from MovieGoods, and using Joan’s tweeted yam photo. I stared at the photo a bit looking for a shape, and it cried WHALE.
I did some cheap substitutes for the fonts on words changed from the poster. My usual approach is to magic brush in background stuff, and then do typography over the top. “Tuber at the top is Arial Black, which is close but not exact. The “YAm” on the bottom was Gil Sans Ultra Bold, again, close enough but not exact. I rendered the type to be bitmapped so O could magic brush in the wave textture over the letters.
The assignment is:
Add a yam to your favorite movie and make a picture.
and the tags are VisualAssignments and VisualAssignments311
Yam mania defines ds106, and like my first yam yarn, I have space yams on my mind.
It’s 11PM and I’m photoshopping yams.
— Tim Owens (@timmmmyboy) January 4, 2012
Hah, Timmmmy, I’m photoshopping yams at 12:30 AM, because IT’S A WAR OUT THERE IN YAM SPACE (as well as in the oceans)
This is the classic version, not the Spud Cruise one.
We were hopelessly hemmed in by the Tuber Smoke all that day and the morning of the next. There were signs of people in the next house on Sunday evening–a face at a window and moving lights, and later the slamming of a door. But I do not know who these people were, nor what became of them. We saw nothing of them next day. The Tuber Smoke drifted slowly riverward all through Monday morning, creeping nearer and nearer to us, driving at last along the roadway outside the house that hid us.
A Yammian came across the fields about midday, laying the stuff with a jet of ovenheated steam that hissed against the walls, splattered all the windows it touched, and scalded the curate’s hand as he fled out of the front room. When at last we crept across the sodden rooms and looked out again, the country northward was as though an orange spudstorm had passed over it. Looking towards the river, we were astonished to see an unaccountable maple flavored orangeness mingling with the black of the scorched meadows.
That section was lifted and yammified slightly from the web version of War of the Worlds. In choosing a random passage to parody, I was struck by the references to Black Smoke in Wells’s text, and saw the eyeballs of JJ Abrams on the page.
Maybe we will do a ds106 radio version of the Yamvasion?
Not really, but like that. Inspired by @timmmmyboy’s Citizen Yam, and @twoodwar’s take on @jimgroom’s Yams.
I’m not going to pretend to understand the Yam Yarn but if it’s yams the people want, it’s yams I’ll give them.
OK, with this I finally feel like I did a Yams Meme assignment, and I must say it was fun. Though to be fair, Giulia’s Silence of the Yams totally rules. I was thinking about options, and it occurred to me that the Great White in the Jaws poster looks a lot like a half a big Yam. So I figured if I could color the shark from blue to yam orange and keep the teeth and eyes I’d be golden. I started by keeping the background color Yam orange and using the wand to cut out pieces of the blue to reveal the orange, this gave it some texture, and makes it look like the yam is actually moving through the water—or so I would hope. Then I turned on the airbrush tool and filled some spots in and generally rounded off the yam shark.
The real score was locating the free Amity Jack font which matches the Jaws movie poster font. I added it to my GIMP font by simply dropping it in my Macintosh HD –>Library–>Fonts folder and BAM! there it is! YAMS about to get some revenge and eat you for once!
I wanted to play with the Yam meme, but unfortunately spent all day playing with animated GIFs (my true love). That said, I still wanted to amke a showing so I went for a quick pun and found an easy way to play with color layers in GIMP. I found this image of popeye and uploaded to GIMP, and then grabbed this minimalist illustration of a yam and uploaded it to GIMP so I could grab the deep orange coloring. I grabbed the color from the yam illustration with the color picker and made it my background color. I then used the magic wand tool to select within Popeye’s face, chest, and arm and simply cut it out. What resulted was a deep orange, yammy skintone that makes the classic animated egoist truly a Yam—even if rough around the edges 
