Lisa's ds106 experiment » VisualAssignments

Shakespearean LOLcat

llane — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:49:25 +0000

I saw some of these from Laura Gibbs (she also posts great Latin LOLcats) and just had to make one. The idea is to take a Shakespeare quotation combined with a cat pic. I’m adding it as a Visual Assignment.

A subtle ad

llane — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:14:00 +0000

Just a little ad for ds106.

Audrey in Paris

llane — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:34:00 +0000

I’m not sure what this is, exactly, but I was inspired by the Cinemagraphs that had some things that moved and others that didn’t. So I wanted Audrey Hepburn to stay still while the traffic went by behind her.

Got the footage from YouTube and exported into 8 frames using Quicktime, then used GIMP to add a layer with Ms Hepburn, and GIFNinja (my usual MakeaGif and Picasion weren’t working) to make it “animated”.

It came out a little more frenetic than I intended, but it didn’t look right at lower speeds.

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Updated version with slower traffic and eyes blinking as suggested by Alan in the comments.

ALT-Little Mermaid

llane — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:59:00 +0000

How it should have ended.

Done with GIMP, having fun with layers.

Or, we could take care of the problem even earlier in the story.

I have given up trying to figure out which Visual Assignments these are, and I don’t have the heart to add more to the long list!

What I packed

llane — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:52:00 +0000

You can see here what I packed (except for my unmentionables which are in the Vuitton).

Also folded so you can’t see it is this, my menu from Balthazar in Soho. I know it says they don’t deliver, but they do to me. Just in case.

My cabin at Camp McGuffin

llane — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:28:00 +0000

My idea of camping is a hotel without room service. Camps have dirt, and insects, and wild animals who make strange noises at night.

Here is my cabin:

Come on over if you want a shower and something real to eat. But wipe your feet first.

Animated GIF: Final Countdown

llane — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:17:00 +0000

It’s been awhile since I’ve done one, so I followed my own instructions from December 2010 to make this one. It’s my favorite scene fromThe Final Countdown (1980), where the aircraft carrier is about to get sucked into the time vortex and goes back to 1941 as Pearl Harbor is being bombed.

Thanks to Scott Lockman, who suggested on ds106 radio that this would make a good gif.

Juxtaposition: video and art images

llane — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:46:00 +0000

Just an idea for an assignment that came to me while watching Fosse (2002). The number Big Spender from Sweet Charity reminded me of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) in their predatory sexuality.

So the assignment is to take a still art image and juxtapose it with a movie clip or animated GIF.

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

Fantasy TED Talk: H.G. Wells

llane — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:23:00 +0000

I’d love to see it: H.G. Wells doing a TED talk. (Obviously, he’s not fictional — my leanings are more toward the historical.)

I used GIMP (still working at learning it — this was great because of the many layers of images: the Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, the Time Machine, and his own film Things to Come).

With Wells himself, ready to give us the talk through the mic, taken from a photo of him broadcasting on the BBC in 1929.

Subtle splash of color: Audrey Hepburn

llane — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:17:00 +0000

Following Alan Levine’s lead for a Splash the Color, I used GIMP to create two images, one color and one grayscale, then added the grayscale as the top layer. As I began to erase that layer’s gemstone jewelry and lips to reveal the color, I was shocked by how bright the lipstick was, so I toned it down.