At the End of Design Week

At the End of Design Week

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

Design week was fun. 15 stars worth of assignments: Visit England Radio Show Poster Music Album Place I’ve Never Been Exquisite Corpse You My. . . And my Daily Creates for the week. I’ve taken various forms of design classes in the … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates Week 6

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

Draw a photo that celebrates world vegetarian day: I figure who could love the holiday more than the animals who are (theoretically) spared because of it? Imagine your own personal font and draw the letters in your name: They say … Continue reading →
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Visit England!

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

Minimalist Travel Poster inspired by the film Pride and Prejudice. I love the scenery in the movie. The lighting, the colors, the various shots. Its all so beautiful. So, I tried to replicate it the best I could while keeping … Continue reading →
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Smiling Peanut Anyone?: ds106 radio show

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

Listen to ds106 radio!! This is my poster advertising our radio show. I wanted something kind of quirky and a little disturbing, and I think I got that. I see our radio show as being a little eclectic, kind of … Continue reading →
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The Only Way I’d Ever Have a Music Album

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

Because I can’t sing. Your Big Break assignment was to create an album cover where I could use any genre and theme that I chose. I wanted kind of an indie, folksy kind of feel because that’s the kind of … Continue reading →
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You, my. . .

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

Name that Single! For this assignment I had to represent the name of a song using an image. Can you guess what it is? I used gimp to isolate my eye color and then de saturate the rest of the … Continue reading →
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A Place I’ve Never Been: Ireland

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

For the design assignment A Place I’ve Never Been I chose to depict Ireland. I’ve never been there but from what I have heard and seen of it I’d love to go. I found multiple images licensed under Creative Commons and … Continue reading →
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Exquisite Corpse Attempt

by ksimonpi

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October 7, 2012

This is my first attempt at the exquisite corpse assignment. The assignment is supposed to taking photos of particular body parts and mushing them together to form a person-like object. Messing around I came up with this. I really like … Continue reading →
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Photo exhaustion: Week 5 Summary

by ksimonpi

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September 30, 2012

And so ends the week of photos: 11 stars worth of visual assignments: Creepin Color Splash Warholed Myself Big Happy Family Wednesday Inspiration I love my creations. They were a lot of fun to create and love how they turned … Continue reading →
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Too Much Awesome? Team Awesome Radio Show

by ksimonpi

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September 30, 2012

So far this week Team Awesome has come up with a kind of tentative plan. We aren’t quite sure which format we want to go with yet. We are torn between the Soundscape and Radio Drama formats. We have been … Continue reading →
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Week 5 Daily Creates

by ksimonpi

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September 30, 2012

Friday: Abstract drawing of your favorite animal. I love seahorses. I’ve always had a fascination with them. I did a project on them in the 5th grade and have loved them ever since. I have a set of pastels laying … Continue reading →
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Photo Blitzin’

by ksimonpi

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September 30, 2012

This week one of our assignments was to in 20 minutes: Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural. Take a photo that makes use of converging lines. Take a photo dominated by a single color Take a photo … Continue reading →
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Some Inspiration on a Wednesday

by ksimonpi

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September 26, 2012

This assignment was Pick a Bad Photo and Apply a Vintage Effect. This was one of the easier of the assignments, especially after all the other experience I have had with Gimp this week. I chose kind of a boring photo that … Continue reading →
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Just Creepin’, NBD

by ksimonpi

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September 25, 2012

This assignment was Creep on a Movie Scene. I used to have a poster of this scene in my dorm room and thought it’d be funny to edit myself in to it because of the nature of it and its … Continue reading →
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All the Cousins Together Again

by ksimonpi

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September 25, 2012

I guess I’m on a Gimp kick. For this assignment I did the Complete Family assignment. My cousins and I have not been all together in YEARS so I decided to make us one big happy family again. I cut everyone … Continue reading →
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Orange is Beautiful

by ksimonpi

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September 25, 2012

Since I am already up I decided to do one more assignment before I finally went to bed. After I Warhol-ed myself I was ready to play around with Gimp some more. The Splash of Color assignment came up on … Continue reading →
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So I Warhol-ed Myself

by ksimonpi

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September 25, 2012

What do I do at 1:00 in the morning on a Monday? Well, I guess Tuesday now. I warhol myself. ds106 dedication right here. In an attempt to keep up on my work I went to the ds106 visual assignments … Continue reading →
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Another Week Down: Week 4 Summary

by ksimonpi

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September 23, 2012

I’ll start off with my daily creates for the week: Tuesday’s create was to take a photo that either represented the number three or featured it. I spent a lot of time in the library this week on the computers … Continue reading →
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Bumper Time

by ksimonpi

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September 23, 2012

I managed to finish my first ds106 bumper woo woo. I didn’t really understand what a bumper was so Iooked it up here. My thought behind my bumper was to try and create something that was smooth but also kept … Continue reading →
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Sound Story – A day in a life

by ksimonpi

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September 23, 2012

So my sound story is supposed to convey the changing from evening to night, from the activity of the day to the quiet, sometimes tranquility of the night. I was inspired by what I hear on beautiful days with my windows open … Continue reading →
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A Long Week Spattered with Bright Spots: Week 3 summary

by ksimonpi

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September 16, 2012

So this week was a pretty long one for me. And its still not quite over. But the daily creates for this week were fun and helped me to keep myself going throughout the week. Monday’s daily create was to … Continue reading →
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Oldie but Goodie: Appreciating past ds106 projects

by ksimonpi

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September 16, 2012

So when visiting the Inspire page featuring past ds106 assignments I was immediately drawn towards this one. I love TVland and the old sitcoms and found this assignment to be pretty funny. I appreciated the thought behind it and found … Continue reading →
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Vonnegut’s theory applied to The Philadelphia Story

by ksimonpi

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September 16, 2012

After watching Kurt Vonnegut’s entertaining video on the shape of stories it took me a little while to figure out which movie I wanted to chart. After some thought I decided on one of my favorites, the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story with … Continue reading →
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Trust- Story in 5 photos

by ksimonpi

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September 14, 2012

This week’s assignment was to tell a story using 5 photos. This whole week I’ve been trying to think of a way that I would go about completing in a way that would reflect my style and not some generic, cheesy way. … Continue reading →
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Storytelling to me is…

by ksimonpi

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September 13, 2012

the act of telling a story. I didn’t realize how hard it would be for me to explain what a story is. A story is a story. Its what your parents tell you to get you to go to sleep or … Continue reading →
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Ending Week 2

by ksimonpi

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September 9, 2012

This week went pretty well. It started off a little iffy with the whole gif thing but I figured it out and ended up really loving it. In fact, I loved making gifs so much I made three more! But here … Continue reading →
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So, Creative Commons

by ksimonpi

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September 9, 2012

After reading up on Creative Commons at creativecommons.org I switched my licensing info on Flickr to Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND, the most restrictive one there is. I wanted people to be able to share my photos but not alter them or use them commercially. … Continue reading →
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More gifs!

by ksimonpi

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September 6, 2012

This one is from my favorite movie Drop Dead Gorgeous. Since I wasn’t originally able to use it because I couldn’t figure it out I decided to try it again. This is one of my favorite scenes just because … Continue reading →
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Lydia got an A, so I made a Gif

by ksimonpi

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September 4, 2012

So, I made a Gif. I didn’t even know what a Gif was really. But after many hours of frustration and trial and error I made a gif and know what one is. But that seems to be what ds106 … Continue reading →
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Flickr Gallery

by ksimonpi

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September 3, 2012

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