This design assignment to make a movie poster for your website appealed to me on many levels (not least of which is the many years I spent working in movie theatres and collecting movie posters). Having titled my site a DS106 Odyssey, I started looking for sailing ships, thinking of the original tale by Homer. ...

This is another Visual Assignment.  I couldn’t resist the opportunity to join in on the fun of placing the image of DTLT’s own Tim Owens in an unlikely spot. I immediately thought of the pyramids, though I’m not sure why.  But then I found this great image from Flickr User wilhemja of the pyramids and ...

Catching up from a long DS106 absence…. TDC 153 — Take a picture of an old building and make it look older with filters. This is Parson Weems’s house (of Washington and cherry tree fame). We visited this house, originally built in the 1740s, in March when it was up for auction. [More about the ...

I found the assignment to create a CC poster more difficult than I imagined, especially after struggling a bit with the Postcard assignment. The assignment here was: Use creative commons licensed images to design a poster about how groovy Creative Commons is! Use a tool like Compfight to find creative commons licensed images in flickr (be sure ...

So, after nearly three weeks away for a conference (and panel comment), a new talk for a Civil War Round Table, and a family trip to California, I’ve finally returned to DS106 work.  These means that I’m woefully behind as the rest of the class has moved into audio assignments.  I’ll catch up as I ...

My second attempt at one of the Visual Assignments from the DS106 repository is Time of Day, which appealed to me because of the image appearance and because I wanted to try some more work with layers and combining photographs. Take a picture of the same spot outside several times in a day, then merge ...

An Album Cover — DS106 Assignment here So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe title of the article is now the name of your band. Swiss Emigration to Russia is my band name   Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to ...

Daily Create 139 Take a photo of (or something that represents) the moon. The Moon…Is Cheese     Daily Create 140 Take a picture that represents quickness or motion. Time Flying [Wishing I had a tripod for this one.... Used HDR-ish effect in Picasa helped clean it up and contrast the clock from the pendulum.]

So, for this Daily Create I just used a photo that I took in 2009 of the building I work in, Monroe Hall, and did a little cropping/touch up in Picasa.  I like the framing and the lighting and the slightly unusual angle.  I also like this photo because is shows just how bad the ...