I just finished two of my assignments about an hour ago. Here is what I did this week.
I spent most of my #prisoner106 time on my “I can read movies” book cover for “The Chimes of Big Ben.” I have really enjoyed seeing what else everyone is creating with these, and am going to take some time tomorrow to catch up on commenting on them.
I spent some time on a couple of different days doing a design blitz, which I really enjoy. And I learned that there are a lot of Cannabis dispensaries in the neighbourhood I was walking around in.
While I was out walking one evening I found a sign for Pennyfarthing Drive, and decided I needed to do something with it. So I did a colour splash assignment.
I have one more design assignment I want to be sure to do (the four icons one, because it has to do with an episode from this week that I am very puzzled by), but it will have to wait until tomorrow…
This week in #prisoner106 we are to make a campaign video for running for office (the position of Number 2 seems to be unoccupied right now). In preparation for campaigning I created a special badge for the Village Philosopher–that’s me! I need a special way to identify myself so you know whom to vote for. …
Capture/Screenshot a scene from an episode of a TV show or a movie and try to make a poster for that episode or movie. Try to make it cool! Be creative! Making it suspense can be a good one! from: ds106 Assignments: Scene Poster Methods: Export frames from episode with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i ‘Hammer […]
This has been visual week. Most of us have visual capabilities; that is, we see with our eyes, we are not blind, we have vision. There are those who lack this capability, so we must not forget that visual is just one aspect of digital storytelling. I am glad we learned and continue to experiment […]
DS106: Capture/Screenshot a scene from an episode of a TV show or a movie and try to make a poster for that episode or movie. Try to make it cool! Be creative! Here is my gif from the opening and … Continue reading →
Design Week in The Village kept me busy. I took on the Postcards from a Magical Place (#363) assignment. If I followed directions, I would’ve designed both the front AND back of a postcard. I only designed the front. Why … Continue reading →
Another poster with wisdom from @everyadage and for my typography collection. I did not play with font and kept it Village Plain so we can use it around the village.
Source of image: A targeted Sociogram by Mary Northway of a first grade class, drawn by hand by Grant, one of her students, in 1952. I am writing a post about what I feel this expresses about open online learning and social networks elsewhere but here I want to talk about getting this into a shape I could use.
I originally found this:
As you can see not much could be done with it. Yet, I knew I wanted the contrast of Twitter bot wisdom with a human social network not an impersonal set of nodes. I had the idea that this could be ‘then and now’ not just in terms of evolution of visualisation of networks, but also ‘then and now’ as in childhood playground network and the online networks of today.
I searched and searched. I found a better image but not a great one and decided I would learn about how to restore and image in photoshop. There must be something the mighty photoshop could do beyond just image size, which was all I could think of doing. I searched some more. I found a tutorial about giving old pictures new life. I followed it. It was awesome. I even managed to highlight one little girl at the edge who had only two unidirectional arrows, I wanted her to be the focus for the ‘those who break’ part of the adage. You cannot read them, but can see that each ‘node’ has a name as well as a face. How human and touching was that way of analysing interactions?
The poster speaks to the shadow side of online connecting – not all belong and some break and leave. Often early on.
I think this is worth many work units and should keep electricity on in my tree house ( I know the transporter uses up a lot of it getting back and forth to Bovine). I am so pleased with the result even though it is so subtle and in some sense changes nothing of the original image. To me, it is like it has come back to life!
