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Tag Archives: ds106zone
Don’t wait until the end of the world to…READ!
I created yet another design assignment for ds106 because I’m just that good. This one is based on the Read poster campaign that started in 1985. Here is the description: Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to … Continue reading
“TIme Enough at Last” Minimalist Book Cover
I am really happy with how this one came out. It was a mashup of things, so let me run you through them quick. I started out thinking about using the iconic symbols in this episode of Twilight Zone, namely … Continue reading
The Invaders in 4 Icons
In today’s “Introduction to Design” session Tim Owens and I demonstrated how to approach a few design assignments. One in particular was how you could use The Noun Project and GIMP to do a 4 Icon Challenge. A number of folks already … Continue reading
Giffing Anti-Intellectualism in “Time Enough at Last”
The following three GIFs capture one of Rod Serling’s recurrent themes in the Twilight Zone: anti-intellectualism. While “Time Enough at Last” is about many things, I can’t help but read Mrs. Bemis’s sadistic defiling of her husband’s books as anything … Continue reading
ds106zone: Introduction to Design
After some introductory admonishments from yours truly to start the episode, Tim Owens and I sat down to introduce the design portion of ds106 in some detail. We started off the discussion around the idea of what makes an artist, … Continue reading
ds106zone week 2: Design, Audio, and Twilight Zone, oh my!
This Week’s Twilight Zone Episodes This week you will be required to watch and create around three Twilight Zone episodes: “The Eye of the Beholder,” “The Midnight Sun,” and “Time Enough at Last.” You can find “Eye of the Beholder” in … Continue reading
The Invaders now available for Atari 2600
I have a new assignment I’ll post to the repository sometime later, but for now I’m going to give it a preliminary star count of 4 and a half because that’s how many I need right now 🙂 I’ll also … Continue reading
Creeping on The Invaders
To round out my Visual Assignments for the week, here is a younger me creeping on “The Invaders” inspired by the Creep on the Movie Scene assignment by Jack Mulrey, an old gold #ds106er . I always liked the idea of … Continue reading
Make it Stop in Stereo
One of my favorite scenes in the Twilight Zone episode “The Invaders” is when Agnes Moorehead freaks out at the high pitched noise from the flying saucer. I played on this scene a bit in my with my comic effect assignment … Continue reading
Trolling TV SciFi: the truth is out there?
Above is an instance of one of my all-time favorite ds106 assignments, triple troll quotes. I grabbed this image of Serling with the trippy Twilight Zone background and then added the quote and the author text in GIMP. The one thing … Continue reading