Art Exhibition Review
This Soft-Spoken Artist Shouts Through Her Art
There has been substantial controversy in recent decades over the popular view that mental illness and creativity go hand in hand. Research shows that the two are not linked in inevitable lock-step. Nevertheless, Gloria Swain (pictured left), who speaks openly …
The most recent daily create (#632) suggested drawing “a map that shows alternate paths from here to there.” The ‘here’ and the ‘there’ presumably are of one’s own choosing, so I set out to plot just a few of the various ways for anyone to become …
Although the ds106 assignment for week 6 suggested taking photographs of a number of design styles, in typical ds106 fashion I decide to change the assignment. Instead, I used a vector drawing program (DrawPlus X6 from Serif) to create my own designs exemplifying seven of the suggested …
Today’s daily create asked for a photo of a dozen anything. I contemplated making a picture of a dozen empty holes in an egg carton. That would be a dozen nothings, but eventually it proved unnecessary to sink that far.
On an afternoon walk, my wife and …
Today’s daily create (#629) is: “Create a photo that compares the details in the palm of your hand with someone else’s – bonus points if you can ask someone that you do not know to be in your photo.”
I think I win the bonus points for …
The photoblitz assignment was quite a new experience. The most challenging aspect for me personally was photographing continuously for 15 minutes in a public place. My habit in public areas has been to snap and wander on, as I have found that anyone who …
Visual Assignment #107: “Take a picture of a common ever day object and manipulate the colors.”
The photo was taken on an iPhone and post-processed using Filterstorm (tone mapping) and PhotoStudio (Hollywood FX, Predator Vision filter).
Visual Assignment #44: “So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band. Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the …
Visual Assignment #340: “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.…
Assignment #804: “Write on a “post-it” (haha, get it. “Post” secret.) your biggest dream in life. What are you going to school to accomplish? Who would you like to meet? What is your dream job? Whatever it is, it shouldn’t be a “secret”! Tell the whole internet …
Here’s daily create #622:
This was done with Sketchbook Pro and Pinnacle Studio on an iPad.
This iPhone photo shared a problem with many others, too great a dynamic range, with some areas well exposed, some underexposed and some overexposed. My goto app for solving this problem is Filterstorm – I use its tone mapping feature to brighten the dark …
entitled ‘The Banana Peel.’
Here’s the link to the story on SoundCloud:
I had worked with sound files before, mostly when dealing with the soundtrack on videos. So I had been doing a bit of editing – things like splitting a track, cutting out bits and …
I have never really been able to get my head around the province of academic philosophers… a seemingly huge realm of ideas, theories, arguments.
So here’s my own personal definition, short and sweet, 30 seconds or less:
This daily create was supposed to be audio only. But …
This daily create was to write a birth announcement for a new Panda cub. Here’s mine:
New Arrival in The Bamboo Grove
Black and white and cute all over!
Mom eats shoots and leaves.
Actually, the second line was an afterthought. Wish I’d thought of it the …
The create challenge for the day was to take a photograph expressing clarity. Mine was taken in a restaurant with an iPhone, then cropped and brightened up with PhotoStudio.
This spherical top for a coffee flask was snapped in Starbucks with an iPhone. PhotoStudio was subsequently used to crop the image and apply a high-contrast, black&white filter.
For DS106, daily create tdc611 – an everyday object that may frequently be overlooked.
This was a daily create challenge for last week (Sept 6) – create a movie trailer for your blog (tdc607). It sounded like a lot of fun and I started thinking about ways and means right away.
Unfortunately, as is often the case, other things …
Here’s a perspective on perspective…
For daily create #606 we were asked to draw our perspective on perspective. Mine was done using SketchBook Mobile on the iPad.
The title refers to my process. I started with a simple drawing with single-point perspective. I then added a second copy, rotated, to …
When the world gets crazy, it’s time to get serene between the ears. Go headless! Replace your head with a sky full of blue, soft hazy clouds and birds soaring on the wind.
A twofer’… tdc604 and tdc605 combined.
This one was done with Sketchbook Mobile …