Really Reality TV by Alan Levine is an assignment that involves creating your own reality TV show to air on DS106 TV. The steps of the assignment go as follows: 1) Use the Reality TV Show name generator (http://www.zeigen.com/reality/) to get the name of your show, 2) Google search the title of your show, take …

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How to create the minimalist travel poster for Beauty and the Beast: 1. First Google an image of the castle you want to you and save it to your computer. I choose this one… 2. Open up Photoshop 3. Open … Continue reading →

How to create the minimalist travel poster for Beauty and the Beast: 1. First Google an image of the castle you want to you and save it to your computer. I choose this one… 2. Open up Photoshop 3. Open … Continue reading →

This assignment is called “Spreadsheet Invasion” by Tom Woodward. The purpose of the assignment is to make an animation using only the capabilities of Microsoft Excel. I personally like working in Excel and I’ll most likely be using it a lot in my job after I graduate. However most of my knowledge and experience in …

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Clint Eastwood kind of irks me.  I like his old stuff, but Gran Torino was just too much. I found the original movie poster using a Google image search.  I chose one that had plenty of space after Clint’s name … Read More →

This assignment, “If Movie Posters Told The Truth” by NoiseProfessor, involves editing a movie poster to display a caption that better represents what the movie is about. I chose to edit the poster of one of my favorite movie, Man On Fire. The movie is about a personal security guard (Denzel Washington) who protects a …

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TDC42: Take a photo that represents your current job, or a job you once had. TDC41: Take a photo of your most prized possession. TDC40: Take a photo of someone of someone else’s artwork in an interesting way to make it yours. TDC39: Take a photo ...

No hints, no explanations, nothing that could give it away.

“Take a photo that represents your current job, or a job that you once had.” POOR. “Take a photo of your most prized possession.”

Farm vs. Marriage “Planting the seed of a bad idea” The heroine, Flora Poste, always referred to as “Robert Poste’s child”, stays at Aunt Ada Doom’s isolated farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. As is typical in … Read More →

I really wish I could do something with a little more detail and color for these design assignments but Gimp is giving me a run for my money.  Here’s my design for the Warning assignment.  Unicorns are always portrayed as … Continue reading →

Finishing of the week with my last design assignment I chose to relive my childhood with some pokemon cards: The first card comes from my adventures of Katsucon which I attended this weekend, making the card was very simple I just used the following site: http://tradingcardmaker.net/#generic-lv-x-pokemon-card-maker. The second card is my own creation using my ...

Evil Business Cards, a photo by mkattax52 on Flickr. haha I love this assignment, I picked Scar because my top two favorite movies go from Shawshank Redemption and the Lion King, he is also basically the Godfather. I wanted to … Continue reading →

I decided to do the 1930s movie “Dracula” which happened to be adapted from the book by Bram Stoker.     This was a fun experiment–starting completely from scratch to create a book cover based on a movie. I used photoshop for this one–surprise, surprise. I started with a blank black layer. I wanted to ...

I decided to do the 1930s movie “Dracula” which happened to be adapted from the book by Bram Stoker.     This was a fun experiment–starting completely from scratch to create a book cover based on a movie. I used photoshop for this one–surprise, surprise. I started with a blank black layer. I wanted to ...

I decided to do the 1930s movie “Dracula” which happened to be adapted from the book by Bram Stoker.     This was a fun experiment–starting completely from scratch to create a book cover based on a movie. I used photoshop for this one–surprise, surprise. I started with a blank black layer. I wanted to ...

So apparently this guy had just dunked his head in some water to rinse hair dye. With his hair all wet and water running down his face it reminded me of Adele’s “Rollin’ in the Deep”. What do you think … Continue reading →

I chose this assignment because it really has to do with creativity and I looked for good amount of time to find a good propaganda poster I can edit to make it into a DS106 poster. I found this poster on google image and I thought of twitter when I saw the bird so I

  February 13, 2012: Take a photo of a food being served or eaten in an unconventional way. Yogurt in a tube?   February 14, 2012: Take a photograph of a toy in action My brother yo-yoing.   February 15, … Continue reading →

I chose this movie because it’s pretty popular and I wanted people to be able to guess it. I hope it’s not TOO easy though!

Big Caption, a photo by mkattax52 on Flickr. This was the big caption assignment, and it was very simple but very fun. I like this picture because it leaves a lot up to your imagination. I used picnik because I … Continue reading →

So this assignment is worth 4 stars and sure enough, it took me about 4 hours to complete it. I’m pretty satisfied of my end result seeing it as took me so long to finish it. At first I didn’t think I would be patient enough to slowly walk ...

Ponyo, fish/girl/fishgirl, is the cutest thing ever. She loves ham a lot and yells about it a lot in the film so naturally it should be in the title! You will see the truth in the poster if you see … Continue reading →

I started this assignment by browsing through http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ for something interesting. When I saw this image the first thing I thought of was Kim Droom’s wig, I mean amazing hair. Finally I gave it a fitting title. Enjoy!