I just want to start off by saying this has been my favorite assignment overall for this class!! I love taking photos and I love a good challenge so I look forward to doing more random photoblitz sessions in the near future!! I decided to photoblitz at my home(: So the assignment said to only post your 5 best photos.. well I couldn’t decide!! I loved all the photos I took because I was enjoying myself too much.. so please excuse me from overposting.. AND ENJOY!! I decided to first post all in a slideshow format then posted the 8 best ones below (plus the times) (: Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. First a photo of the … Continue reading →

Bald is beautiful, photograph of the egghead in your life: I don’t hang out with too many babies these days, but my neighbor had this photo up on their facebook, I really like looking back at old photos and the changed styles and even places. This is taken in my backyard at home, which looks completely different now. An abstract drawing of your favorite animal: I love elephants, they just look so majestic, like they are from a different world.   and you can never have  too much yellow: the prompt said you can never have too much yellow. I disagree, yellow isn’t the most flattering color, but I managed to ...

  This assignment was to take a series of pictures of: 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 of something at an unusual angle Take a photo of two things that do not belong together. Take a photo that represents the idea of “openness” Take a photo that expresses a human emotion Make a photo that is abstract, that would make someone ask, “Is that a photograph?” Take a photo of an interesting shadow. Take a photo of someone else’s hand (or paw) …in 20 minutes. I choose ...

Week 5, Visual Storytelling, was a fun week for me. I enjoy taking pictures of random things and then sharing them and explaining how I view what I see. I think that is the greatest thing about pictures, and art in general; You can interpret it ANY way you wish, and you will never be wrong. I learned from a freshman art history class, your opinion is strongly valued and can bring ideas to others. As for camera use this week, I wanted to take some higher-quality pictures, and unfortunately my iPhone 4 didn’t make the cut. Instead I borrowed my girlfriend’s Canon Powershot(or something like that) and went downtown … Continue reading →

PHOTOBLITZ! I had so much fun on my photoblitz journey! It almost felt like a scavenger hunt, trying to find photos that fit into the proper categories. I decided to take a journey around campus to see what I could capture. My favorite place to take pictures was the amphitheater. Check out my full post! ...

For the Real Life to Cartoon Collage assignment, my brain immediately brought up the words “wire bird.” A couple of quick image searches brought me to the two pictures I wanted, and then it was just a matter of slapping them together in GIMP with a slightly opaque eraser tool. Voila! Collage, iconic  images, 4 ...

For our ds106 radio show we decided on a radio drama about a family road trip. The family will play road games and have singalongs, the whole nine yards! They will have so much fun, and it will be a bonding experience. The fun will end when the family breaks down in the middle of ...

My final assignment from the bank this week was Newspaper Blackout Poetry: “Grab a marker and today’s morning edition and start blacking out sections to create a new story. It could be a poem, a picture, or a novella, all drawn from the words of the latest news.” Fredericksburg chickens unanimously passed two ordinances that allow beehives to petition in support of bees in residential neighborhoods. This is just a little nonsensical story. The original text stuck out to me because the title was about chickens, a front page story about chickens? Did I move to the midwest over night? At first this story was about Fredericksburg residents voting that ...

I found an assignment in the visual assignment bank called Stories Written In Windows Media Player: “Write a sentence (preferably somewhat coherent, yet on the nonsensical side), a poem, or a quick story using the titles of songs you have in your Windows Media Player (iTunes may possibly work as well).” I used Itunes… My story is about a couple breaking up, because of the gender usage in the songs it’s hard to tell the dynamic, but I’ll leave that to the imagination. The Dumper says “Alright, I’m moving on. I gotta feeling as if she likes me for me, so sorry it’s over even if it breaks your heart ...

I decided to try the Optical Illusion visual assignment this week: “Take a photo that manipulates distance to create an optical illusion.” My photo is a picture of me and the leaning tower of Pisa! I choose this assignment because I already had the perfect picture from my trip to Italy last spring. It could tell a story about me saving a precious world monument, but really I think there is no saving this one. I read those big white signs you can see in the background next to the tower, and most of the leaning tower of pisa has already been replaced or reinforced to try to keep it ...

The first assignment I did was Animated Pet. “Take a picture of your pet, and make an animated GIF from the photo.”   make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif I choose this assignment because it seemed like a good warm up for the week, Teddy is my most willing photo subject and I already knew how to make a GIF from a few weeks ago when I made an Uptown Girls GIF. The story is just about my sleepy cat, who apparently can be comfortable in any position. He can fall asleep in a weird pose and then 30 seconds later, he will be jumping off the walls, playing ...

This was a picture that I took back during the snowstorm that happened my freshman year (January 2010?).  It was taken right outside of Seacobeck dining hall.  I had never actually realized how much has changed in the 2-ish years … Continue reading →

Here are the daily creates for week 5: TDC266: Yellowfied world! This is an old shirt I had from last year.  I actually took it from the Underground at school (sorry!).  But it’s just about the only yellow thing I … Continue reading →

I watched the most incredible TED talk last night. It was led by this super-intelligent Japanese high school student named Ami Mizuno. She was talking about the superheroine group the Sailor Senshi and how they reflect a more feminist, egalitarian and shame-free view of femininity, especially in the ways that femininity relates to literal power ...

(From Is That A…Ghost? assignment: Take a photo in which there is a ghost like subject by either using a long exposure or 2 different pictures in a photo editing software. 3-stars/10 current: 8) This was taken at 33mm f/32, ISO-1600, 20 seconds with Sheila during a trying moment of the night where we all ...

(The A-Z Photo Collage from the assignment: Make an alphabetically themed collage. Compile images to represent each letter of the alphabet within a chosen subject area or theme. Create a collage.  3-stars/10, current total: 5) Some of these are a stretch, but: Ear [of corn], Nikon, artist, zinnia, boots, map, hay, racing, vip status for ...

Another exciting visual assignment for week five, “A-Z Photo Collage“. The objective is to create an alphabetical collage with a theme. My theme is ME! You could probably learn a WHOLE lot about me, who I am, and what I like by viewing my collage… This one was actually the most time-consuming of the assignments I did this week, I guess that’s why it deserved 3 stars! It took time getting the photos, resizing them, and then making the file fit here on the page. I also enjoyed brainstorming what to use before I started the project…got stuck on a few, but the girlfriend helped me out! Do you know … Continue reading →

(“AJ William’s Buddy Photo.”  An assignment where you Find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that you can carry around with you. Use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. ie: going out to lunch, going to the movies, etc. 2-stars/10) We started off in Centralia (I have a ...

The first Daily create that I par took in was of gathering the noise that surrounded me.   At the time both my sister and I were studying so I pulled up soundcloud.com and pressed upload which allowed me to … Continue reading →

This was visual assignment 340, Splash the Color.  I used the mac app Color Splash Smart to complete it.  My friends and I were in Cincinnati at a Reds game when this (should be) award winning piece of photography was … Continue reading →

This picture was taken at my friends wedding over the summer.  Sense I didn’t have a date  for the wedding at the time, I naturally chose to bring my best friend/ catcher.  Like most best friends we don’t dance naturally … Continue reading →

This picture shows the new keyboard cover I got for my laptop.  It is soo colorful and I really enjoy having it.  It can be sometimes distracting but I am glad I got it. There isn’t much to write about … Continue reading →

I merged these two images together to represent camp.  The past three summers I have worked at a summer camp where I have been able to see some of my campers grow through the years.  I love the bonds that … Continue reading →

To turn this picture into a drawing I asked google to show me a website that would convert a picture to a drawing. I used a website called dumpr.net and sent the image to my iphoto application after it was … Continue reading →