Montage Project

Montage Project

Okay, I’ll admit it: I despise collages. Montages, on the other hand, can be pretty sweet. Photographer and author Lee Frost says that “photographs can often gain power in numbers” and that “images linked by subject, theme or location can be much more capable of...
Montage Project

Digital Composites

You didn’t know that after school each day I work for Starfleet? My current gig kind of difficult because I have to work with this guy who has no sense of humor… says he’s half human and half Vulcan. Spock something or other. You may have heard of him. Not buying...
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Holiday Silliness

So, you want to be in movies? Well, here’s a chance to do just that! Okay, not anything Hollywood style, but a short silly holiday flick will have to do at this stage in your career. All you have to do is this: Extract your face from one of your photos using...
Irony in Context

Irony in Context

Creating Contexts for Irony Previously, we talked about reading for context in “Smart” by Shel Silverstein. Today you will be writing contexts to make situations ironic. The Task (in class) Create contexts to make the situations in Alanis Morissette’s song actually...
Narrative Essay Assignment Reflection

Narrative Essay Assignment Reflection

UPDATE: 11/19/13 As we discussed in class today, you may choose to accept the score you earned, convert it into a grade (using the scale below), write the short reflection (see the instructions below) and be done with this assignment. However, you may also choose to...
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Panographies Project

Sometimes when I’m just walking on campus or at the mall or in downtown Edmonds or maybe in Seattle, I find that I take 35mm photos in my head and then stitch them together to form a collective view. My final mental photo is seamless and free of distortion – at least...
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READ Poster Project

You’ve seen the posters around school and at nearly every library – the famous celebrity READ posters. Well, even though they’re aimed at encouraging everyone to read more, they’ve kind of become a symbolic icon of nerdy hipness because they’re so artistic and well...