Transformation: Kurt Russell

He’s come a long way, from little boy to man, starting out as Mr. Walt Disney’s newly discovered child actor to present-day partner of Goldie Hawn.  He was in a ton of Disney movies when I was growing up, and I loved him as an adult in “Tango and Cash” …

Lessons Learned

Today’s Daily Create was to summarize a movie in two panels.  Since we’re focusing on HBO’s The Wire this semester, I chose to summarize Season 1 episode 8 “Lessons” in two panels. The epigraph of this episode is “Come at the king, you best not miss.” which is Omar’s quote …

Breaking Bad on The Wire

This assignment was to combine two movie posters of movies that have been compared to each other.  Since we’re focusing on HBO’s “The Wire” this semester, I chose to combine it with another show it has often been compared to – “Breaking Bad”.  Here we have our two fellas watching …

Leavin’ On A Jet Plane

I did the design assignment “Let’s See Some ID” to create this image that I’m going to use as a component in my final project. This is a rendering of a fictitious airplane ticket from Baltimore Washington Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport.  I downloaded an image for an old plane …

Mixin’ & Mashin’ – Weeks 13-14 Summary

What a fun fortnight, re-imagining things as we re-mixed and made mash-ups!  Here’s what I did these last two weeks: I watched Season 4 episodes 5-10 and summarized them here: Prezbo’s Game – Season 4 Episodes 5,6,7 Dark Days – Season 4 Episodes 8, 9, 10 I don’t know about …

Moving On

The Visual Assignment “Before and After” is about combining the past and present into a single image.  I chose to do that with an image in a rear view mirror (that I placed there with the help of Photoshop).  Here we have someone looking forward to what is down the …

Green Eggs & Spam

This assignment was a to take the original assignment “Computer Books for Kids” and remix it as a mood swap.  It’s from the original Dr. Seuss story “Green Eggs and Ham” which is a journey of learning that prejudices and closed minds limit your ability to learn and experience new …

My Suggested Daily Create Part the First

Make Your Own Coat of Arms Either by hand drawing or using an online app such as this one, create your own personal coat of arms. Here’s one I made as an example for ds106: “art faciunt” is Latin for “make art” and the symbols I chose are the sextant …

Size ds106, Please

This Daily Create assignment was to caption an Unsplash photo.  There were several really good ones, but I chose this one, and added my ds106-oriented caption: Who knows? This might start a trendy ds106 clothing line.  “Tell your story in apparel”.  Ya never know……