TDC 12: Make a thirty second news break about something that happened to you today.

When I was a kid, my dad and I used to make fake news segments, with both of us anchoring the show and just cracking jokes back and forth. This really reminded me of that, just a bunch of silly fun.

Like a lot of my videos, I made an entire video–I think it’s made out of five short segments put together with Windows Live MovieMaker, as always–which didn’t work that well, that I didn’t like. So I made a second one, and partly out of satisfaction and partly because of time constraints, I settled on that and moved on.

Also, the B-man got namechecked in the first week review video for DS106! We’re going to take this show on the road, try it in Albany and Pittsburgh and then open on BROADWAY!

TDC 13: Take a photo of something with one of its ingredients.

I’ll be honest; I don’t love this photo. There are things I like–the staged quality of the sunglasses and tea candle, and the quilt to, hovering in the back–but overall, it just sort of emphasizes, to me, how much I would like to improve my photography skills. There are so many amazing, wall-quality photos in the TDC mix it make me hungry to be a better photog.

TDC 14: Take a photo of a shadow that makes the original object difficult to detect.

Another Bagman appearance!

Despite the subtlety of the shadow–”subtlety” being a euphemism for “difficult to see”–this photo was actually kind of difficult to make happen. I took the lamp out of my bedroom, re-plugged it into my kitchen. Then I taped Bagman to the end of a Cheerios box–improvised prop!–and held the lamp and the cheerios box (w/ Bagman) in the same hand, and held the camera in the other hand.

I made the characters with a clementine, a lemon, and an onion, and I tried to make the eyes big so they would look scared. I was going for an old timey horror movie poster kind of feel. I still think it’s a fun picture, even if I wish the shadow was a little more dramatic.