Visual Assignments

Unlikely Intersections

Take a photograph of a street sign showing the intersection of two names not likely to meet. No photoshopping, it has to be real! Keep noticing what is around you.

Visualize That Quote

Webpages gets random quote from
http://iheartquotes.com/api
and set of flickr photos to match words

illustrate/explain the quote in pictures with the least number of pictures required

you can drag to re-order, click pic to swap, x remove pic, – hide pic leave word.

http://johnjohnston.info/tests/quote2.html

Yam Yarn

Add a yam to your favorite movie and make a picture.

106 Horror!

Create or modify an image of the number 106 that is in the genre of a horror movie. Make 106 seem scary and ominous.

Art comes to Life

Take a famous painting or print and do your best to recreate it in real life. Capture it in a photo and present the two in a blog post.

Make The Untranslatable Understood

Use the Random Words with No English Translation tool (http://lab.cogdogblog.com/nowords/) to generate a word that could be better understood with a photo or image. Find a creative commons image or make your own, and include the word somehow in the image (using a desktop photo editor or web tool like Aviary or PicNIk). Then share it with someone and ask if it makes sense.

Learning more at http://cogdogblog.com/8084

ReCaptcha Illustrated

Include a screenshot of a word pair from a reCapctha (http://www.google.com/recaptcha or heck right at the bottom of this assignment submission form http://assignments.ds106.us/submit-an-assignment/) in an illustration or visual mashup that shows what the words might mean. Use your imagination to create something meaningful out of the random words.

When you write it up, provide some narrative that puts the image in context.

Picturing Prufrock

Choose an image from T.S. Eliot’s beautiful poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” and illustrate it through art, audio, video, or any other creative medium.

Paint a picture, put the words to music, make a mashup, photograph a scene, write a short story, bake a Prufrock cake… anything!

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something In Helvetica

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colorize your world

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