What do I dream about? Power? Women? Material Gain? What do all of those thing have in common? MONEY BABY! That all I dream about, thats all I care about. Money right is very important. Not only because I am broke, but it my gateway to being somebody. I am tired of being kicked around and getting screwed over. I want tell pepole what to do. I want girls on my shoulders on all times. I want to be happy. And money is the only way I can be happy!
This assignment was about how is on my character Marcus daydreams about. At this point of his life, Marcus believes that money will solve all of his problems. Granted he has not learned how to get money. He believes his life will be content if he is rich and powerful. He has a lot to learn……
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.
Inspired by this small assignment, I decided to see what if it would look like if I had a house on Mars. I used this image of the Martian surface taken by the Curiosity rover, and an image of a window pane found on google, and GIMP as the editing tool. I set the window image as a layer over the Mars photo. I also used the “float image” tool to adjust the Mars background to the part of the picture I felt was the prettiest. I then merged the two layers together, and cropped out everything outside the window pane selection. And I’m left with, what I think, is a beautiful view of a Martian backyard.
Note: It’s probably bets not to open your window like this.
This Picture is for the assignment Your Dream Out the Window. Pretty much you had to but something that you like or wished you had outside a window. I picked this picture of Mario because I love this game. Every since i was younger this was one of my favorite games. Probably another reason that I might be dreaming of this is because I have had so much work this semester that I miss having time to play video games. I felt like my Xbox was calling me from the other room every time I tried to study haha.
So once again I used Pixlr . I erased the inside of the windows and added the mario picture as a layer. When I first added the mario picture it was above the window so when this happens you just have to go to the layer window and switch them. Once you do that go to edit and click free transform. This lets you move the picture around and change the size. After that just save it and your done.
I have been keeping myself busy at the Macguffin Camp - reading about photography, doing my Daily Create assignments (did each and every one so far this week) and thinking about my visual assignments. I have completed two and the third is under way, but nobody knows about them. The reason why nobody knows about how diligent I have been is that I haven’t updated this blog of mine.
I am going to be brief here, since I desperately want to go back to thinking about my visual assignments. I swear, they are addictive. These days I can’t wait to get home so that I can update my Daily Create and play with my photo editors. I have even started carrying my camera with me and today, when my students left the classroom, I took some more photos (of the classroom and out the window). I did this, I reasoned, so that I could catch the light. Most of my Daily Create photos so far have been Nightly Creates, as I usually do them when I get home from work.
Anyway, what’s this story of my ship coming in?
Visual Assignment 379 asks us to photograph our best daydreaming window and alter it to show what we are dreaming of. I am dreaming of the holiday and of the time I am going to spend at the sea-side with my family. It is as simple as that. Though, while I am at the sea-side, I will have to abstain from the Daily Creates and other Camp activities. You can’t have it all.
And here’s how I did this task:
I used PhotoFiltre. It is not in our packing list, but it is free to download and use. I wrote about PhotoFiltre here.
I copy-pasted the ship onto the window as shown in this video:
After that I painted the area around the ship using the brush tool and some dark red paint matching the window.
I did the Your Dreams Out the Window assignment. I wanted to do something fantastical with pyramids in a jungle on the coast. It came out looking more like a 16bit video game landscape. You got polygons, jaggies and animation sprites. You can almost hear the Mario World music. I’d like to vacation here.
I drew the image in Gimp. I used to lasso tool to make the pyramids. I painted the waterfall river and used airbrush to make the mist. The horizon and the mountain are repeating rectangles. The hardest part was removing the original view from the window frame. I used Pixlr to do that because my Gimp opens in Japanese and I couldn’t figure it out.
Assignment: For the assignment “Your Dreams Out the Windows” we were tasked with making some sort of “dream” or daydream visible through a window.
Process: Popped open GIMP and edited the photo I took of a computer in our lab. Went on to edit a picture I found of a praying mantis (CC) into the computer screen. Probably the most difficult part of this process was getting the picture to fill up the whole screen. Eventually I had to copy a portion of the right side and add it on to cover the whole screen width. If I were to do it over, I would’ve measured the computer screen in pixels so that I could past the picture in and change it’s dimensions to match the width. Finished it off with adding a softglow effect to the mantis to make it more “dream-like”.
Story: I actually had a dream last night that I was trying to do a DS106 assignment involving a praying mantis. In my dream I was holding one and maybe trying to take a picture of it? Anyways, I felt this assignment was a great fit and was an interesting play on what I had dreamed up the night before. Took some liberties with the ‘window’ requirement and made it ‘Windows OS’ giving a view inside my daydreaming.
The Assignment: I changed the assignment a bit, but the original assignment is here, and says:
Photograph your best day dreaming window and alter it to show what you’re dreaming of. Maybe it’s a dream of a different season, a vacation destination, a moment in the past, or a fantasy land; it’s all up to your imagination! Have fun merging a familiar spot with a whole new view!
The Process/Story: This idea first started floating around in my head back when I translated and subtitled this 30 second live action commercial based on Doraemon:
This was before I came to Japan. Once I got here, I was all excited to see all the amazing places and scenic spots in Japan, but because I’m always stuck in my dorm room doing piles of homework, I rarely ever get to go anywhere or see anything. Then when I saw the window assignment on the DS106 site, my mind went back to that commercial and thought how it would be nice to have an Anywhere Door where I can just walk through it anytime I want, leave my boring dorm room and instantly be in all the places I want to see and visit.
So I started working on this image to represent what it would be like. I found this picture on Google Images, which was taken at the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki.
I opened it in Photoshop, then used the selection tools to select the area around the door, and then inverted the selection. After that, I set that selection as a layer mask by clicking the layer mask button in the bottom right corner of the program.
Next, I took a picture of my room, my desk in particular, since that is where I always am doing homework. This was actually the hardest part, since I had to get a shot that got the whole room in so that the perspective would be right once I added the door in. It took me 7 tries of taking a shot, popping the SD card into my computer and loading the image in Photoshop to see if it worked before I finally got a good shot by standing on top of my bed and holding the camera above my head.
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I then loaded the image of my room as a second layer, put it underneath the Anywhere Door, and adjusted the sizes of each with the Free Transform tool. Lastly, I found a picture of Mt. Fuji by searching for it on Google Images. I had to make sure to find one that would have some ground for me to walk on once I go throught the door though, and this was surprisingly hard since most of the pictures of Mt. Fuji were taken with water around it. I put the picture of Mt. Fuji underneath the door, but on top of my room, then selected the area of the picture that would be where the opening of the door was, inverted it, and set the rest as an layer mask.
As a final touch, I added some shadow cast from the door to the wall to make it more realistic by following the same tutorial from my other post. The whole project took me about 45 minutes.
