Visual Assignments

Street View Story

_cokwr: Dig through Google Maps Street View to find an interesting setting for your story. Let your imagination go wild and tell the story of what occurred in that space. Bonus points for using Google Earth to create a virtual tour with multiple settings for your story and narrating it yourself., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2hyi1pApL1qzun8oo1_500.jpg, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 18, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Averaging Concepts using Flickr

_cokwr: Take a concept, one word, and plug it into Flickr and take the first 50 images and average them using Photoshop or similar program. Step by step instructions available at http://is.gd/ku3UF, _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://www.timmmmyboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/love-580x580.jpg, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 13, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

One Shot

_cokwr: Take a single photograph. Chop it up comic book style to create tension and narrative. Checkout this image for an example*. *It may, or may not, be one image- the concept is still sound., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://ffffound.com/image/41773f67656c44cfc1064821e59acec5de7aeb29, _chk2m: Tom, _ciyn3: 42, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Imag[in]ing the Streets with Google Street View

_cokwr: Read artist Jon Rafman's essay about Google Street view image captures and view his collection of images found on Street View blogs and from his own searching. "The detached gaze of the automated camera can lead to a sense that we are observed simultaneously by everyone and by no one." Find a street view image, post it and the location your blog. Describe why this moment is interesting/important to you., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view/, _chk2m: Michael Branson Smith, _ciyn3: 177, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3: