The directions for this assignment are as follows:  Based on the regular Wired magazine feature “What’s Inside” found in the paper version of the periodical. (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-07/st_redbull) Create a what’s inside poster all about you. Make it humorous, make it serious, extra points if you can turn it into a formidable replacement for your CV! This …

The official description of the assignment can be found here, but I’ll give you a summary:  take images of people (friends, family, celebrities, etc.) and put them into editing software with layer capability, and create a new person with an interesting body (i.e. “exquisite corpse”). Here is my first run of this assignment. These are …

How do people in cyberspace picture one another? More specifically, how do individuals engaged in text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), with its paucity of visual and auditory cues, form impressions of those with whom they interact? And how do expectations formed online compare with offline experiences? Researchers have begun to answer these questions, drawing primarily on …

Monday (Febuary 6, 2011) –  Make a photo of something upside down that is never seen that way. Tuesday (Febuary 7, 2011) –  Share an image of a place that you lose things in your house. It’s a mess. Wednesday (Febuary 8, 2011) –  Create a photograph that represents the happiest or most memorable moment …

  “Take a friend and turn him/her from a normal looking person to an extraordinary looking. Put the shots side by side for comparison.” I would say that extraordinary is subjective.  I used a picture of my dad for this photo.  In the left he is sitting in the airport eating a pretzel.  In the right, …

The assignment:  ”Using this site: http://fatcatart.ru/category/klassy-ka/ as a platform for ideas, and using Photoshop (or something like it) as your tool, place a fat cat into a photo of a classic art piece. The goal is to make it convincing: make the art become on with the cat. Most of all, enjoy! :0) And remember, fat cats …

The assignment: “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.” So, I chose a picture of my friend, Emily, because her …

I loved this assignment. The reason I liked this assignment is because it really made me think in a different way than I usually would (sort of bottom-up processing vs top-down).  It also made me notice interesting words in the newspaper.  I don’t really read the newspaper very often, as it doesn’t come to our …

Babies and Puppies! – The assignment was to create a visual representation of a dream that I had. I had a deram that my housemate and I went to the store and we decided that we should adopt babies and puppies, so we did.  It was surprisingly easy.  It was an awesome dream (so much …

Visual Assignment: “Photo It Like Peanut Butter” “Rather than making animated GIFs from movie scenes, for this assignment, generate one a real world object/place by using your own series of photographs as the source material. Bonus points for minmal amounts of movement, the subtle stuff. See a bunch of examples at http://cogdogblog.com/2012/02/10/photo-gif-peanut-butter/“ I liked this assignment. …

A reaction to articles : 1. “What is Web 2.0?”The collapse of the dot-coms brings about a change in the internet – we get Web 2.0.  I actually didn’t know what any of this meant.  What is Web 2.0?  I’m sure this is a question a lot of people had, as it is the topic …

The daily create for today was to take a picture of your feet that shows what kind of day you’re having.  My picture can also be seen on Flickr here. I have gnarly feet.

This assignment was to take a photo that freezes or isolates the motion of an object.  This was completed January 31, 2012.  You can also see it here on Flickr.

Take a photo of two related objects of drastically different sizes.  Completed January 30, 2012.  You can also see it here on Flickr.

Photograph something ugly and make it breathtakingly beautiful is today’s assignment.  See it on the DS106 site here or on Flickr here, for my take on this. Gross, I know.

So, in setting up my WordPress blog I experienced a lot of feelings, all of which were on a continuum that looked like this: WOW, easy as pie <—————————————————————————–> %#@! Some of the easier things included the really basic stuff like adjusting background color location of things like sidebars and widgets.  A little less easy …

This is the 3rd daily create I completed for this week.  The assignent was to compose a photograph that includes a “finished product” and at least one of its “raw materials.” You can find it on Flickr here, or on the DS 106 website here. Dad + Mom = Baby.  I think you get the …

This is my first Daily Create!  It was completed Jan 19, 2012, and can be seen on youtube here, or on the DS website here. The instructions: Below is the tongue twister you will recite. Record a video of you reciting it in one take (honor system of course) and upload it to YouTube with the tag tdc011. Remember:BE …

  I have finished my 1st assignment in DS106, and have  officially created my first webpage and blog!  If you are reading this, you are seeing my blog.  If you do not have a ton of experience doing stuff like this, like myself, you should read how I did it.  I followed the instructions that …