70 Posts Tagged "VisualAssignments"

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From an Iconic Movie

It felt time to play a Four Icon Challenge assignment in ds106. it’s always hard to know if you make these too challenging or too easy, I am thinking this one is the latter. My approach, as I usually cannot recall movies all that well, is to watch some YouTube clips to remind me of […]

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I Coulda Been a Contenda

I’m keeping up with Scottlo’s Productivity ds106 radio segments, where he plays music for 25 minutes and we try to get a task done. Here I am taking on the assignment bank from ds106. What is there to say about Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something In Helvetica — pretty […]

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Anti Tennis Radicalism

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Tennis is such a civilized activity. So proper, there is proper dress, clean white painted lines, rules to the game, it is all very genteel. It is the mark of an upstanding person, eh? Alas my overhead serve slamming friends, I must warn you that […]

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Jason the Red Cross Guy

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog He was persistent and wore me down for a donation to Red Cross; my concession was asking for a photo, not quite the full Stranger Photo process, but in that direction. This was my lukewarm attempt at a ds106 Stranger Portrait. Jason cornered my over on Green Street, […]

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106 Photos

Like us canines hearing sounds beyond the human spectrum, participants in ds106 seem to see lights and colors others miss… cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This photo that was from a number light pole in Mesa, AZ, was the genesis for the Illustrate 106 visual assignment. I’ve dodged in and […]

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ds106 ds106

I found the official ds106 restaurant in Austin- another one for the Illustrate 106 assignment cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog And am thinking we need a version of this for the theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ ds106 ds106, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said ds106 ds106, oh baby Me gotta […]

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Four Icon Challenge

For ds106 Visual Assignment Four Icon Challenge Reduce a movie, story, or event into it’s basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons. I am a horrible free drawer, so I set up a set of frames in PhotoShop, imported some images found (somewhere on the internet), and did some […]

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Are You Laughing at Me?

Trying out One Shot from the set of the Visual Assignments in ds106. Take a single photograph. Chop it up comic book style to create tension and narrative This original is from my 2008 visit to Iceland, with the horse Nonni in the background laughing (or yawning at me). cc licensed flickr photo shared by […]