Make an acrostic poem collage. Use each letter from your name and go onto flickr and search for a picture that represents you. Then you any photoediting to make it a collage.
Edit it to make it fun and creative. See if people can figure out what your name is!
This is an idea I came up with when I checked out a website about photography and compositing (http://gizmodo.com/5965219/these-awesome-photoshops-are-perfect-because-they-were-well-planned/)
Took two or more photographs of yourself on one location. You must not change the position of the camera and take care that the light does not change either. Use a photo editing software to arrange yourself two or more times on the same location. You may use masks and layers or simply the selection tool and the paste command. It may be helpful if you have already experience with photo editing.
I was in Urban Outfitters the other day and stumbled across a postcard pack labeled “Unbridled Passion” by Franco Accornero. It’s a collection of 30 different postcards from an artist who has painted more than 5,000 romance novel covers (as well as westerns, thrillers and sci-fi books). The postcards are really ridiculous on their own, but I thought for this Valentine’s day I would make them even funnier but adding my own captions.
That’s where the 2012 Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge for #ds106 comes into play: I challenge you to make your own captions for these postcards! You can use any photo editor or the Aviary one built right into flickr to add the caption.
Download one blank card from my flick set and add a caption that raises the love spirit to a new level. In addition to writing it up on your blog, when you post yours to flickr include the tag ds106valentine so we can assemble them all into giant virtual card set.
The past is strange. Remake this classic Marilyn Monroe “expressions sheet” with self-portraits or with the aid of a friend. Bonus points for the involvement of a stranger.
Hogsmeade, Gondor, Cair Paravel, The Emerald City, Never-Never Land… all fantastical places that started as text and have now been interpreted into visual landscapes. Now it’s your turn!
Take a place–a city, a significant geographical formation, ship, maybe even a dimension–and render it visually. You can compile stock images using GIMP or Photoshop (make sure to give credit where it’s due!), draw, paint, or even create a collage. This assignment isn’t limited to places that don’t have a well-known visual representation yet, either; if you want to show us YOUR version of Bag End, go for it!
For your writeup, explain why you chose your imaginary place, the technique you used to create your image, and what effect the transition into a visual medium has on the original description.
Black and white photos are beautiful in their own way, but sometimes I wonder how color would change the feel of a photo. Recolor a black and white photo using Gimp or another photo editing software to show how you imagine the photo looked during the time it was taken or how you think it should look in color.
Inspired by reddit’s “Where did the Soda Go?” board at http://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago, create a gif of a hilarious infomercial moment that illustrates how ridiculous some infomercials can be.
Ben Rimes regularly takes a day (February 2012 and December 2012) to capture key moments each as an animated GIF – as you go through a day look around and identify places, moments, things that are well represented in the infinite looping form. Assemble at least 5 of them to capture the essences of your day, start to end and publish as a single blog post, with narrative.
What does it mean to see your day in just this form?
Create a simple “Go, Vote” poster reminding people of their civic duty. Feel free to use the Library of Congress website if you’re a U.S. citizen, the Library & Archives of Canada if you’re from “up north” or any other governmental archive of historical imagery.
Edit a childhood photo of yourself to include a more recent photo of you in a pose that makes it look like you were part of the original scene. Pay attention to matching pose, detail, shadows, and color values to match the original. You can go back to your past, at least in your own edited photo!
Based an example of Before and After Pictures with a Twist spotted in Buzzfeed. See also more exquisite examples in Woman Photoshops Present-Day Self into Childhood Photos.
