When approaching this assignment, I decided to combine two images that are unexpected together based on the location. The giant panda is native to south central China, and the mountain range represented is the Huangshan which is located in southeast China. While both the panda and the mountain range are found in China, the climate […]
Music Mix
Due: 9/25 This week, I want you to think about using audio for particular rhetorical situations by creating a mix playlist with a group of songs. Rules (all of which are breakable, if you have a good justification for why): I usually think of a m ...
Triptych: Beginning, Middle, End
“A Softer World” is a photographic webcomic that ran weekly for about twelve years, starting in Feb 2003. Emily and Joey published 1248 comics in that time, each consisting of three panels with photographs and words superimposed on them – often it seems t ...
A Human Document: Visual Poem
Due: 11/20. Tag: sk12 The British artist Tom Phillips is probably best known for a project that he began in 1966 and which he has continued ever since–he set himself the challenge to buy the first book he could find at a secondhand bookstore for threepe ...
Cinemegraph
Due: 10/30 Tag: sk9 For this assignment, I’d like you to create your very own cinemagraph — it can be a landscape, or a portrait, or a movie scene, or whatever else you’d like to try. Scroll down for lots of examples of cinemag ...
Recreate a Movie Scene
Due: 11/13. Tag: sk11 Choose a single moment from a movie or television episode and recreate that scene as closely as you can in a single photograph. Think about how you can creatively use wardrobe items or prop ...
Movie Montage
Due: 10/16 Converting DVD to MP4 In order to create the movie montage, you need to have a feature length film in a format that you can watch in VLC. If you have a DVD player in your laptop or desktop, you can skip this step and just open t ...
Combophotos
Due: 9/4 Stephen Mcmennamy is an Atlanta artist and Creative Director at BBDO. He first came to my attention when I saw his series of “combophotos” that splice together two different images to form a surreal new creation. Take a few ...
Podcast Graphic Elements
Due: 9/11 Once we've settled on a title and basic structure for the podcast series, we'll need to design, at minimum, a square cover image (1400 x 1400 pixels) in order for iTunes to syndicate the podcast. Media Nouveau We settled on the title Media No ...