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I started playing with Annie Belle‘s “Switch Up the Mood” assignment on this image of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello I took this past Summer which, unfortunately, is rather predictable and unremarkable unlike the house.

So I wanted to play with some settings to change the mood, I adjusted the hue, saturation, contrast, etc. in GIMP, but it all seemed rather lckluster to me. The sky was too consistently blue, making the effect hard to pull off. I then started messing with some filters and came across the Predator filter (under Filters > Artistic > Predator) and I got this pretty awesome view of what Monticello would look like to a Predator. I love movie geeks who program.

So, while I copped out a little on truly playing with the mood through hue, saturation, contrast, etc., I did discover a way to actually make this photo remotely intriguing.

It is starting to happen, ds106 is taking hold and folks are letting go and having fun an creating wildly. I’ve seen a ton of awesome work this week, an Alan and I are collecting as much of it as we can as a record here. More than that, during our Week in Review show on Friday, that I will be posting shortly, Noise Professor was talking about how ds106 is at its best when people are not simply doing assignments, but riffing off the work others are doing and modifying or playing with it in some way. This can only happen if your work is open an if you are not afraid to piss off your professor an have some fun. Luckily, Thomas Ella is ready to do both, and his “Hey Girl” Ryan Gosling meme post featuring yours truly here provides a wonderful opportunity for me to riff and respond. This is kind of like the Spubble assignment, but only seen through the lens of an American Apparel t-shirt. Hey girl, I hope you enjoy it.

Image credit: Maura Monohan’s “Confusion, maybe?”, and if Maura would have made it Creative Commons and re-mixable I wouldn’t be breaking her copyright currently.

All the Cat Breading and Dog Swapping shenanigans that has been going on around ds106 as of late reminded me of that crazy scene in the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers when the dog man comes running up to Donald Sutherland, Veronica Cartwright, and Brooke Adams. It was pretty much a total freak out for me as a 10 or 11 year old young kid.

So, there was just one thing left to do….

Section 1 of ds106 at UMW #4life. Everything else is for the mandogs.

And while my photoshop of the above image sucks, I will make it up to you with this brilliant recut video of the Dog Man from Invasion of the Body Snatchers re-visione as a lovable pet in a Cesar’s Dog food commercial. Brilliant! There is an assignment here somewhere.