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Say It Like The Peanut Butter
So far, 216 people have completed this assignment and it has 9348 views.
Make an animated gif from your favorite/least favorite movie capturing the essence of a key scene. Make sure the movement is minimal but essential. Note this is a classic and historic DS106 assignment, the second one ever created. It has been resurrected from the tomb of lost assignments.
Say It Like the Peanut Butter
So far, 216 people have completed this assignment and it has 11457 views.
Make an animated gif from your favorite/least favorite movie capturing the essence of a key scene. Make sure the movement is minimal but essential.
Splash The Color
So far, 147 people have completed this assignment and it has 11592 views.
Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler's List. You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google
Your very own Spubble
So far, 123 people have completed this assignment and it has 3275 views.
Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh---but I must acknowledge there are other possible emotional responses that may be just as acceptable. Think of it as lolcat, save it's a human (namely you) and there is nothing compelling anyone to abuse the letter z in the speech bubble text. Picnik.com or Aviary.com would make this assignment dead simple.
What’s in your bag?
So far, 111 people have completed this assignment and it has 7624 views.
Your purse, bag, packpack, murse, whatever, is your constant companion throughout your adult life. What are the essentials in your bag that get you through the day? Take a picture of the items and detail each of them with a description.
An Album Cover
So far, 87 people have completed this assignment and it has 9880 views.
So here's something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band. Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page. The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album Lastly, go here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put ...
Love at First Shot
So far, 73 people have completed this assignment and it has 3897 views.
Take/Find a picture of a couple who are obviously in love. Use the picture to tell a story. Give the story some background and maybe even create a dialogue between the two or tell the story from each point of view. Just give it some detail and create a background to your photo! It can be a true story or a completely made up one, just have fun with it!
Common everyday object
So far, 63 people have completed this assignment and it has 4278 views.
Take a picture of a common ever day object and manipulate the colors.
Troll Quotes
So far, 52 people have completed this assignment and it has 9431 views.
Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the Know Your Memes: 1) Get a picture of someone people idolize. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do. 2) Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next ...
That’s Not What I Expected
So far, 51 people have completed this assignment and it has 3957 views.
Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!