Close-up food looks really big… Daily create #633 is to “Create a video that takes a close look at the food you eat.” Maybe my selection is a bit biased. Show all the healthy stuff and hide the guilty pleasures? Well it’s my daily create, isn’t it? The several little clips in this video were […]

Today’s Daily Create asked for video looking closely at the food I eat. I intended to make a nice one about dinner, starting with the well-plated plate. But I forgot! Halfway through desert it occured to me I could still make a quick video. I grabbed my iPad, and had to figure out changes that […]

Here is the story of a gif collaboration which found life on the DS106 Google + Community Sept. 26 after an initial ‘fun’ posting on the “I gif Therefore I Am” category by Ary Aranquiz inspired by Luis Bunuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou”.  The Google + Conversation (edited for brevity)  giffi.us. Janet: I like this one! […]

It was one of those days, and I couldn’t pass this one up. The Headless ds106 is in full swing, and this week is Design Week. I love design work because it makes me think hard about how to communicate ideas both subtly and artfully. You can see some of my design work from the […]

Originally posted 10/2/13 on an internal 3M blog by “JS” a 3M-DS106 Salon member  I decided to go with the less creative title “Gifs, Gimp and Me” instead of what I originally thought of, which was “I ain’t no Gimp!” Which struck me as funny and worked on several levels but was a little unprofessional. […]

A map with alternatives… 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 an image creator. In addition, […]

So we have a game show with a highway robber, and a president with a mistress(?). A number of people seem quite excited about the video project, and they’re having fun with it, so I think we’ll end up with … Continue reading →

When I read the Daily Create assignment (#632) for today, one of my initial thoughts was that I wanted to resist the temptation for using digital media. I was instead moved to create something physical/tangible (and perhaps photograph or scan … Continue reading →

One of this week’s assignments at DS106 this week is to summarize a movie, using only four visual icons. Since I went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 with my son, the movie was on my mind. Finding four symbols to summarize a movie is difficult. You leave a lot out, and ...

DS106, The Movie.




Compare to the original movie poster.



This week is about design, and often about font, but when I chose the poster of the 9 movie to make a poster for a ds106 movie I was left to editing possibilities without using any font.

I copied the original and rotated the layer by 180 °. This way I got a 6. Then I selected the 6, cut it and put it on a new layer.

In the original I used the copy tool to 'paint' some of the background over the 9 . The same I did with the little nine at the bottom right.
I combined the six with the background via one of the blending modes. I tried them out until it looked good.

Finally I used the text tool to write DS10 near to the 6. I flattened the image and made the DS10 edges softer and floating with the mixing brush tool.

I thought about if I had any associations for the reason why I've chosen this particular poster. I definitely did not allude to the 9 movie. I think I liked the idea of a slight irony already implicit in the original poster. Naturally ds106 is important to many people including me, but we may not expect ds106 has to save us.
A further reason is that I find the poster a good design and I've enjoyed exploring it deeper by changing its design.

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Since I've joined ds106 I was fascinated from the skull symbol, which is often used within ds106. This made me thought, for it is not necessarily a nice metaphor. Finally I knew what my link was here: Creativity!According to my understanding of the sku...

Find design approaches… 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 approaches. You can see them […]

(Yes, I actually decided that was a decent blog post title). This evening I’ve been having a bit of a readathon - looking at the week 6 design assignments, some examples of […]

For Rockylou’s students! I played with a few settings to get this lovely gif a little smoother. 

Originally posted 9/30/13 on an internal 3M blog by “HC” a 3M-DS106 Salon member Sorry that I haven’t taken the time to write a blog post recently, it isn’t from the lack of interest but the lack of time due to various project related pressures all coming together at the same time. As we have given […]

natgeofound: Aerial of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.Photograph by Paul Zahl, National Geographic

Design week started yesterday and I could not get my 'pointy head' around it. Each week I feel...

The Daily Create 631: List twenty ways you can document your learning. How many have you done this week? I suggested this topic, after a brief twitter conversation with Bryan Jackson and Alan Levine. Bryan had mentioned a list of rules for explorers from the book How to be an Explorer of the World by […]

I am “dropping in” once again to the DS106 community and getting settled…in a running-to-catch-up sort of way. I know that within this open, creative community there is no judgment about “being behind” or “needing to catch up” but there … Continue reading →