FUN TIMES WITH MY BOB!!! For this 2 star assignment, I had to find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that I can carry around with me. Then I had to use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. It’s football season so OFCOURSE i’m going to be enjoying ...

Well I finally got around to doing the Photoblitz. The follow photos are the cream of the crop (and the time codes as well). I finished with time to spare, because…you know…I’m so creative: ordinary object acting supernatural: interesting angle: … Continue reading →

Come on.  Tell me you’ve never wished you had your very own unicorn.  Just try. You’d be lying, right?  And if yo’ mama raised you right, you can’t tell a lie, right? Right. In case you’re just tuning in here, Saturday of this week was my Sissy’s birthday.  Around these parts, that’s *kinda* a big ...

This tutorial will only benefit those that have Photoshop, or something similar to this program. I actually searched on Youtube for a video that could demonstrate for me how to apply color onto a black and white photo, to make … Continue reading →

Andy Warhol was an iconic pop art mastermind….This week I tried to be one too! I took a photograph of myself and created a piece of pop art. This assignment was worth 2 stars.    I chose to do two different type of pictures because of what andy warhol said …”In the future everyone will ...

Normal To Extraordinary   For my first visual assignment I chose to do a 3 Star assignment. I chose my sisters as my person and changed her normal pictures into  something extraordinary (Hopefully). I love the movie Funny Face by the fabulous Audrey Hepburn. It’s the story of how a simple store girl became this ...

For my first Visual Assignment I decided to do Splash that Color! Basically you take any photo, turn it into a black and white photo, and then use some type of photo software and insert back some of the original color of the photo in one spot. Process: To make this as simple as possible ...

Visual Assignment Star-Count: 10 This one was simple but fun. I simply took the picture, threw it into GIMP and messed around with the color filters for a while. I tried to use the web-based photo editor Pixlr but the … Continue reading →

So this week we had to do 3 daily creates! The daily create for my picture below was to draw a picture of our favorite abstract animal!  As you guys many know from reading my blog, I kinda sorta LOVE … Continue reading →

My favorite Olympian is Michael Phelps so I picked him for this visual assignment. I found a picture of him and a quote to match the picture off google. The picture is of him in a bathtub and the quote … Continue reading →

Photoblitz Review This week, we got down and dirty with some visual assignments, beginning with the photoblitz. This assignment was hard for me to get very much done in, because I am kind of a perfectionist when it comes to taking pictures. In the twenty minute time frame I really only got five pictures taken, ...

Here’s a tweet from me announcing a somewhat team name: is it too cliche to have our team name be #teamawesome #ds106 — Kelsey Matthews (@kelseybmatthe7) September 26, 2012 Kendall, Shawn and I have decided on the road trip theme, … Continue Reading →

Monday Somebody around me is making music??  Well, of course they are!  If we were to create a family crest, music notes, and perhaps some sort of instrument, would be MUSTS.  Music is a HUGE part of who we are as a family.  Unfortunately, this was posted on a day when I would be gone ...

An Audi R8 is my DREAM car!! I want it in white and red interior. I would love the thrill from going so fast on the highway. It would be a fun car to have and I love the lights … Continue reading →

So, we’ll start with the daily create post. It’s very exciting and required reading for this blog. Next, I really want a new camera. Like a nice digital slr, a nikon d3100 or something. All these photo assignments made me … Continue Reading →

Dodge Viper This car makes me feel fast, and classy because of the black and white. If I had this car I think I would be invisible, going from lane to lane, cutting others off and not making a single … Continue reading →

Here are all of the Daily Creates for Week 5! The first one is a abstract drawing of my favorite animal the whale. The second is another drawing so that you can never have enough yellow! (Inspired by my sweater) The third is a photo of a ad that was painted on a building. (In ...

I want to start with something exciting: MY DAILY CREATES Wednesday: I had trouble because I don’t really hang around bald people and would have had been so embarrassed to ask someone who was bald if I could take a picture. I … Continue Reading →

So for this week I chose to do 3 Daily Creates that, as always, turn out to be a lot of fun. The first was to take a picture of your favorite baldy. The only problem was that I didn’t Continue reading →

In this photo I put together some things I think are common everyday things. I think a phone charger is essential because now a days everyone is using their cell phones as a means of communication. I put my car … Continue reading →

One of the random visual assignments I chose to do was Buddy.  For this visual assignment we had to take our buddy some place with us and take a picture of it. For this assignment I chose to take Gigi out … Continue reading →

My favorite assignment so far.. Picasso Yourself!  For this assignment I used my super silly boyfriend and the ever-so-amazing Macbook Photobooth. With this assignment came a lot of laughter! There are sooo many effects that you can make using photobooth … Continue reading →

For this last visual assignment, I did the Troll Quotes, worth 2 stars. Here’s the image I came up with: In the directions, it said to pick people from related universes. I chose Democrat women/politicians. My three people were Eleanor … Continue Reading →

Through a random search of the visual assignments I came across Splash that Color.  This assignment was very challenging.  I downloaded many different free trial programs on my computer to be able to do this color affect but it all … Continue reading →

For my third assignment, I did the Newspaper Blackout Poetry, worth 3 stars. Here’s the image: The poem reads: “sacred representations” murders attempted murder confused, angry and fearful feel sacred figures ubiquity of sacred images t-shirts and bumper stickers deadly … Continue Reading →

Aw, geez, you mean you want me to say that I like something that I made?? Alright, I’ll try to at least decide what’s the best of my stuff, compared to the rest of my own stuff.  I guess I can do that. Being a little bit on the OCD side of life, I love ...