Tag Archives: VisualAssignments

“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now”

Posted on November 6, 2022 by phb256

I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls, I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and … Continue reading →

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Out of their heads

Posted on January 31, 2022 by phb256

I decided to try a random visual assignment and got The Boone Gorges Parent-Child Headswap. I didn’t have a child handy, but I did have The Tick. This was actually given to me by a child. A friend’s daughter, toddler … Continue reading →

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What’s hard about this

Posted on September 14, 2021 by phb256

I’ve never seen Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, but it is on my watchlist. And seeing that it is a spiritual kin to Godzilla, it fits perfectly with our Bob Ross theme. I had the idea to populate a Ross … Continue reading →

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Scheming on a theme

Posted on August 24, 2019 by phb256

Jim Groom, a guru of both ds106 and the 80s, took some time to talk about the course with me. I have an edited version above, and the full discussion is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ53L-lecUU I’m hoping it gives some ideas on … Continue reading →

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Creepy anime eye

Posted on February 4, 2019 by phb256

This morning a saw a new creation from one of my favorite contemporary artists, Cris Shapan. This is in response to advertising for an upcoming film, Alita: Battle Angel, which dares to venture into an uncanny valley. What I really … Continue reading →

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Bagged and tagged

Posted on February 2, 2019 by phb256

Commencing inspection of Training Officer (TO) BOND’s backpack This is based on the What’s in your bag? assignment, which has been a required character-visualization assignment in the past. I applied it to the backpack I use, filtered through the secret … Continue reading →

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Old Blue Eyes

Posted on September 5, 2018 by phb256

I was inspired to do this because Emily did one. I had forgotten all about this assignment. The cat lives up the street. I don’t know his name, so I call him Frank, after Sinatra, who was nicknamed “Old Blue … Continue reading →

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Guardian of the galaxy

Posted on February 27, 2015 by phb256

Groom wrote about his favorite Groom art, which included Sharla’s revisioning of I Am Legend. But since I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend, I had to interpret it differently. At first I was going to use the … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Kidnapper

Posted on February 10, 2015 by phb256

Someone’s gotta get this guy. Someone who knows the true value of a dutch oven. I grabbed his picture from the video with MPEG Streamclip and trimmed out the background in Photoshop. I googled for the border and the background … Continue reading →

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The Easter egg sky

Posted on January 29, 2015 by phb256

This is the city – dark, gray, shadows and light – and the sky, like a sci-fi nuclear explosion of easter egg colors. It was the colors of the sunrise that caught my attention. My iPhone didn’t do them justice, … Continue reading →

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