This is a further experiment on the Ugly to Beautiful theme. This is my favorite topic. Doesn’t tell as much of a story as the previous one, but I like it better. Again, there is no editing on these photos. They’re exactly as they are from the camera, except I …
I decided that I wanted to take the photo topic and do something without any people. Part of this is it’s hard to coordinate with people, and part of is that I wanted a challenge. I wanted to actually make something that held up to the idea of the …
Our assignment was to portray the same conflict in three totally different ways. I’m mostly keeping to my goal of not manipulating images aside from resize. The only non-resize manipulation on this set was perking up the color on the yellow image.
Like Diane Arbus‘ work, many memes rely on odd-looking individuals to create attention-grabbing content. After watching a documentary about her, I think she had a better understanding of what she was doing and how it worked than many internet users do of the memes they make.
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Taken in the Michigan League at the University of Michigan for a Digital Storytelling class.
Rice dried to a spoon resting on a towel. Taken for the “take something ugly and make it beautiful” assignment in a digital storytelling class at the U of M.
An example of George Alexopoulos‘ work, Cait Sith from Final Fantasy 7 as a paper cutout
I found an image that caught my interest this week. After finding his gallery, I did some more googling and found out that these things are known as “paper children” or “paper child” …
I found collection of stunning light painting photos and decided to try my hand at it for my experimental assignment. What is light painting? The short version is “drawing with a light source while a photo is being taken very slowly.” There’s a tutorial on youtube if you’d like some …
It was previously heavily back-lit. I put a black and white adjustment layer over the base image. I pushed the blue and cyan sliders up to boost the reflectivity and brightness of the foreground surface (your interface might be different from the one I was using since I’m using CS6).…
This is an assignment for my Digital Storytelling class at the University of Michigan. I tried to crop the image down to place the lower 1/3 grid points on the knees and the middle of the torso. The upper grid points fall on the edges of the clouds at …
The tower in the photo is St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan (Map of Location)
I’m not sure how I feel about this story. It’s hard to follow, but that’s intentional as far as I can gather given the theme of distraction from genuine human communication. The theme of genuine human interaction makes it read like Vonnegut updating A Brave New World for modern times. …
My assignment was to make an album cover without sound. This is what I made:
I made it from this image. You can download the final PSD and the base image together as a single zip file. The PSD and the exported album cover image are free for …
I did not do anything classy for this assignment. Instead, I decided to do a take on an old meme that refuses to die.
Eminem at his TED Talk, available for use under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License
“Eminem knew he had one shot to make …
One of the past assignment options we had was to create a comicbook effect. There’s a video tutorial for GIMP (via Brian Short’s blog). However, I didn’t use GIMP for this assignment because it’s lacking some useful features that will let me get things done faster for …
I hate GIMP. Every single version of GIMP I have used in the past was frustrating. Tasks I found easy in photoshop seemed to have no equivalent in GIMP. However, I was willing to give the program a second chance. I used the latest version to complete an assignment for …
I just read the introduction and first chapter of of How Images Think. I’m impressed for a variety of reasons. Because of how much it got right. Because of how much it got wrong. First off, this it’s a book from 2004. The internet was still somewhat of a secret …
This is not a good week. Like the Starks, I’m navigating a treacherous landscape. Exams. Two other big projects. A show at the end of the week. And I made a big, big mistake: I trusted my equipment not fail. So naturally, it did. Between the rush and the deadlines, …
I have extremely mixed feelings about Living with Cancer. From a technical perspective, it was pretty good. It handled cancer tastefully. It told touching stories. It used music to set mood and transition between segments. And the use of comedy in the last act was very good as a …
As of 2013/03/03, this is exactly how I feel working with Audio. (image via knowyourmeme)
Well. This was interesting. I’ve learned that Audio isn’t exactly something I’m comfortable working with. To be more precise, I really don’t know what I’md doing with it. So far I’ve learned that Audacity’s …
