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Visual Assignment – ReCaptcha « j-rabbit.info

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:12 GMT

I love the idea behind this assignment. I have stared at countless Captchas wondering ” what in the world is that?”, I would even go and Google a word out of curiosity(usually with no luck). However, I digress. For this assignment, the ds106 gods gave me the captcha “Homeip Elected”. Upon seeing this, immediately thought of a family at home, watching elections and election campaigns. However, the president was replaced with a new profession – the PI, other wise known as Private Investigators.

Together Together

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:38 GMT

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2012/366/39 Happy Butterflyday

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23 GMT

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Today would have been my Mom's 83rd Birthday, and in honor of her memory and love of butterflies, I asked Tim Owens to do a Makerbot print of a butterfly ornament.

If you want to hear her describe her belief about butterflies, listen to this recording I made last year when I visited her:

cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/mom-butterflies.mp3

Dominoe Looking Across Texas

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:26 GMT

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Reaching a bit into the past for today's Daily Create "a photo that represents that happiest or most memorable moment in your life."

As an absolute for "happiest" I find that impossible, so let's reach into the hat.

Having driven across Texas twice in the last 3 months, I went back to first first Trans-Texas tour, in August 1987, when Dominoe and I drove to Arizona from Baltimore in my 1973 Ford Maverick.

This trip alone was epic for me, a grand aventure, and I had a perfect, non-complaining travel buddy, though she did not do her share of the driving. This is somewhere on US 387 between Dallas and Amarillo.

Dominoe was my first dog I owned on my own, and her story has gone very far with me. Picking happiest is tricky, but this was definitely memorable and rolled around in my mind this year as I went farther on my road odyssey

This was an old print photo (35mm FILM baby) I had scanned into my computer sometime last year, and as far as I recall, has not appeared in my other photos. To give it a memory look, a fiddled with the Paint Daubs filter in Photoshop to make it look more painterly.

Splash the Color – It’s all downhill from here

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:55 GMT

I began the task with the help of Annie Belle’s excellent video tutorial. Although she provided two different techniques to create her color splash, I soon learned that the tools that she described in her “Photoshop CS4″ corresponded in no way to the limited number of tools I had in “Photoshop Elements 6″. However, learning is all about discovery… so I forged on. First I selected a color photo that I had taken on a new bicycle path in Bird’s Hill Park. I thought that the yellow colored signs would be easy to crop and work around.

Spying on People « j-rabbit.info

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:49 GMT

I was on campus today and had a 3 hour break between two classes. For once, I had no work to finish up. Well, at least work that I had with me at the time. I decided to take the opportunity to walk around campus and take pictures of random things that I thought were interesting. My adventure took me past the Judicial building, where the landscape was surprisingly dull. One my way out, I saw a series of red bushes which stood out a great deal so I decided to take a picture of them. After snapping the picture, I realized that seeing a guy walking around in a trench coat with a camera (a pink one, nonetheless) lurking in bushes catches students attention. Then I remembered the visual assignments for this class and figured I might be able to knock some out with my new pictures. For my first official Visual Assignment, I decided to take care of the Color Splash option and came up with this.

Digital Storytelling | We jam econo

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:02 GMT

Color Splash | Paris, Tokyo

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:56 GMT

This was one of the saved photos on my computer. I thought it looked better when I changed it to black and white, but I still liked the color of the shoes, so color splash was the perfect tool. I wear Converse shoes almost on a regular basis, so it was easy to think of something simple to do a visual assignment on.

We’ve Found Your Match! | the-weekly-update.com

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:53 GMT

I just finished my first visual assignment! I’m two stars towards making it to ten. This assignment asked me to take a picture of one of your closest friends and put it beside their celebrity look-a-like. Well, I took this candid picture a long time ago and always joked about how she looked like Hammy from Over the Hedge in it. I guess Hammy isn’t really a celebrity but they’re still look-a-likes! I had fun making this and definitely got some laughs out of it. Enjoy!

Fat Cats Make Art Better | tipet.us

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:49 GMT

Here is my first Visual Assignment, Fat Cats Make Art Better. I decided to go a different route and use a photograph as the setting for my fat cat. Here is the original cat in his natural setting: http://vir4l.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fat_cat.jpg Using this famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as the setting I first cut out the cat from its original background in FotoFlexer. Then I added the background picture behind the cat and blurred the edges so he appeared to be lounging on Yoko’s lap. Once I saw the assignment and this photograph it wasn’t hard to “Imagine” including a fat cat.

the 488th day of summer

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48 GMT

The scene featured in the animation above is from (500) Days of Summer, which is one of my favorite movies. It tells a realistic story in a hopeful way. So many movies about love either have a cliche romcom ending or a depressingly sad ending. (500) Days of Summer is “not a love story,” it is a “story about love.” It’s truthful and heartbreaking and comforting all at the same time. I chose this scene because it’s the anchoring point of the movie. As stated in the script (pictured above), the movie opened with this scene on day 488, then went all the way back at day 1. Throughout the movie, different days are shown, highlighting snippets of Summer and Tom’s relationship, and finally day 488 rolls around again.

Reading Together

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:55 GMT

cogdogblog posted a photo:

Jim is reading the new "Go Dog Go" iBook