1. Alex Spangler

    Week 6 Summary

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    Closing out the Design Week, I’d like to say that this class just keeps getting better and better.  I find myself wanting to do more and more each week and I love every second of it. Design Safari – Loved doing this.  I actually bought a new point and shoot camera so I could make ...
  2. Alex Spangler

    Radio Show Individual Contribution

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    Okay, so our group met on Monday and had a pretty great discussion about where we were all headed and what we all thought the layout of our Radio Show should be.  I won’t go into detail and describe what each person is doing since they are supposed to be doing that in their own ...
  3. Alex Spangler

    Design Safari

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    Here are my photos for my Design Safari.  I decided to include two photos for four different elements. For my different elements, I went with Color, Rhythm, Balance, and Typography. Color – Since it’s October, I decided that orange would be the best color to use for this example.  I think that it’s obvious when ...
  4. Abigail Andrews

    Pintresting Me

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    That’s Pinteresting : Create something that might look like the screenshot of someone’s Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) account. It could be that of a fictional character (Harry Potter might pin “how to get rid of scars” or maybe Princess Leia is pinning “Easy Bun Hairdos”) or just things you personally like. This assignment may make more sense to ...
  5. Abigail Andrews

    What People Think I Do

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    What People Think I Do Create a “What People Think I Do” meme. This can be done for a very broad range of subjects so be creative! Be sure to use creative commons images our cite your post correctly. Feel free to use a What People Think I Do meme creator. This one I used ...
  6. Abigail Andrews

    Greetings From Hogwarts!

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    Postcards From Magical Places Design the front and back of a postcard that might be sent from the location of a movie or a work of fiction. Both sides of the cards must be created as graphics. The front should use graphic design elements that provide a sense of place or use the classic motifs of ...
  7. Abigail Andrews

    The Hunger Games-Alternative Book Cover

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    Alternative Book Cover Take a title of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something entirely different. For example, the book cover for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (an apocalyptic novel about a father and son facing the end of the world) is reframed as a feel-good book about effective parenting (see image). Original idea ...
  8. Abigail Andrews

    Marley & Me-the Real Truth to the Movie

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    If Movie Posters Told the Truth Improve movie posters to make them more accurately reflect the content of the film. Inspired entirely by theshiznit.co.uk This is a 3 star assignment For this assignment I used the movie Marley & Me.  This movie came out during Christmas 2008 and is based on the book by John ...
  9. Alex Spangler

    Week 6 Daily Creates

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    4 Daily Creates this week.  Let’s begin. Week 6 Daily Create #1 Since it’s Vegetarian Day, what better way than to take a picture of something green in the refrigerator!  My sister is a vegetarian so I’m going to show her this.  Hopefully she doesn’t know about it and I can surprise her when I ...
  10. crystalrose0784

    Birthday Blitz!!

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    Oops. I didn’t realize I’d saved this as a draft and never published it. *facepalm* I am so awesome. But here we go, in its full glory – MY PHOTOBLITZ!!! *obnoxious cheering noises* 20 minutes, 10 photos, 5 ladies, 1 beautiful winery – CAN we do it?! Oh heck yes. When I read the ds106 ...
  11. beauty_b_

    Draw It!

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    For this Visual Assignment I we were asked to use a previous photo that we have taken and make a sketch of that photo. Inspiration: I choose to use a photo that I took in France of a statue that I thought was really cool. I statue is of Trident (the famous ruler of the ...
  12. beauty_b_

    The good, the bad, and the in between of Visual Storytelling

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    Here are all my DailyCreates for this Week: DailyCreates Here all of my Visual Assignments: Common Everyday Object Splash That Color Find Yourself Draw It Here is my Photoblizting: Pimp up Your Flickr: Flickr Set This week was all about using images to tell different stories and practing on improving our photography skill. The only ...
  13. l-mccoon

    Weekly Summary, again!

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    Overall I don’t really try much when it comes to photos, I usually just point and shoot. I only have one camera available at the moment. One thing that seems like it might help is simply practice. Photoblitz: http://l-mccoon.org/wordpress/photoblitz/ Flickr: I created a permanent url for my account, and set up for sharing. http://l-mccoon.org/wordpress/best-of-the-best/ Daily ...
  14. l-mccoon

    Signs

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    Reimagined Road Signs I started off with two different signs: http://www.trafficsign.us/reccult200/RL-040.gif http://www.trafficsign.us/650/warn/w54sca.gif I rearranged them slightly and merged them together. Now why is a guy trying to shoot three kid...
  15. l-mccoon

    Album

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    An Album Cover The name of the band that I got from a random wikipedia article is Valea Vidri?ca River. Then I got the random quote, (from Twilight “etched in my mind” as the album name Then I got the random image from the link provided. I put them together and messed with the fonts ...
  16. l-mccoon

    Stapler

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    Common Everyday Object: I admit that I just used a filter for this one, specifically “False Color” and chose dark red as the primary color, and light blue as the secondary color.
  17. l-mccoon

    Splash

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    Here’s a “Splash of Color” I used Pixelmator, a cheaper Photoshop alternative available from the Mac App Store. I selected everything but the blue part, then used the sponge tool to desaturate the image.
  18. l-mccoon

    Dream

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    Here’s a visual representation of a recent dream: I usually don’t remember my dreams but I occasionally have ‘falling dreams’ I have a sensation of falling, then I wake up just as I hit the bottom, sometimes it feels as though ...

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