Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the official site: How It Works.
Get a picture of someone people idolise. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do.
Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a quote from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica.
Attribute the quotation to a third character, from yet a third universe. This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once.
Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the official site: How It Works.
Get a picture of someone people idolise. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do.
Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a quote from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica.
Attribute the quotation to a third character, from yet a third universe. This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once.
Phone club
Appliance manufacturer LG are currently promoting their new PRADA mobile phone by saturating tram stops in the local area with advertising posters. The posters feature actor Edward Norton and model Daria Werbowy. I think it’s Edward and Daria’s alluring pose with the new PRADA mobile phone and their promise of a more fashionable lifestyle is what made me immediately think of two things. The film Fight Club and a Troll Quote. For this Troll Quote I used the image of Norton combined with the infamous Tyler Durden dialogue “I want you to hit me as hard as you can” and then attributed it to a competing mobile phone handset manufacturer. I called this troll quote Phone Club.
“What we plan for the use of something is not necessarily how people will use it and we don’t necessarily dictate how they use it. We open it up and we hope for the best and a lot of the times we are surprised.”
What surprised me the most was that someone wanted to use to my photograph at all, let alone for a for a completely different purpose. It’s likely the friendly request to use my photograph by the co-author of the book would not have occurred if I had not been sharing my work out in the open. Sharing this way allowed my photograph to be easily discovered by others and helped to create what Alan Levine calls a potential energy for happy accidents to happen.
The Daily Create (TDC) 62 – Take a picture from the inside of something looking out
Looking through a glass.
The Daily Create (TDC) 64 – Make a creative photo of some sort of boundary
I was trying to emulate a bleach-bypass effect for this photograph (without resorting to Googling a tutorial). Not sure if I’ve hit the spot. Maybe, needs moar grain!
The Daily Create (TDC) 66 – Tell the world in 5 minutes or less why DS106 is the best
I try to keep things short.
The Daily Create (TDC) 68 – Tell a story of beauty in 3 seconds
Juxtaposition.
The Daily Create (TDC) 69 – If you had 3 moar hours to live, what would you do, where would you go and why?
I’d go on a DS106 Family World Tour of course!
The Daily Create (TDC) 70 – Windows, gates and doors represent the liminal state between two realities. Photograph that idea.
An old door that leads to a new reality.
The Daily Create (TDC) 71 – Reverse. Shoot video of some dynamic action, reverse it and then post it.
The Daily Create (TDC) 29 – Something upside down that is never seen that way – Coffee cup
I have a clean desk.
The Daily Create (TDC) 30 – The place where you lose things in your house – Under the shelves
I always lose things under there!
The Daily Create (TDC) 47 – A photo that features your favourite colour – Red
I like red.
The Daily Create (TDC) 54 – Record the sound of an ordinary thing and make it hard to guess (TDC54)
Can you guess the sound?
The Daily Create (TDC) 55 – A picture of an instrument that measures something – Retractable tape measure
We use the metric system.
The Daily Create (TDC) 60 – Draw or digitally design a circle. Fill in the circle with the colour or colours that reflect the way your body feels today – Black
It’s a black hole.
The Daily Create (TDC) 61 – Make a video of you writing a line from a movie – Fight Club
I took the ‘I want you to hit me as hard you can’ line from Fight Club.
The Daily Create (TDC) 18 – Record a short video of an object in motion
A falling umbrella.
The Daily Create (TDC) 19 – Record a video of yourself telling a joke
This is a one-liner borrowed from Steven Wright.
The Daily Create (TDC) 20 – A photo where the movement of the camera creates an interesting blur effect
The in-camera radial blur style technique I used for Coloured balls on grass was inspired by the back-cover photo/artwork of Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger. I just rotated the camera while I took the photo.
Emre5807’s Twitter update said it all. He had captured Jim Groom. Surely it can’t be true? I felt that there was only one thing for me to do. I had to track down Emre5807 and rescue Jim. I could always look for Kim Droom later. I had seen Giulia Forsythe’s excellent recommendation of the industry standard hacker tool Hacker Typer. This is exactly what I needed to find Emre5807.
This video documents the final moments before discovering the whereabouts of Emre5807 and Jim Groom. After that, everything went a little hazy.
I guess everyone has heard by now about the DS106 website being hacked earlier in the week. If you haven’t, go and read Jim Groom’s blog post. It’s serious stuff.
Apparently the DS106 website was hacked by someone who goes by the name of Emre5807. I’m not sure WHO that is, but I reckon they should start running because Jim and Kim Droom are on a mission to find them. Jim recently recorded a video from the airport while waiting for his private jet to be fueled and that was the last time we’ve heard from him.
I don’t mean to push the panic-button or anything, but after watching Jim’s video I became a little worried. I mean, we haven’t heard from him or Kim at all since his departure. We don’t even know if he’s arrived at his destination!
I hope Jim doesn’t mind, but I called back home to see if he had arrived safely at his destination and that search for Emre5807 is going well. Hope to hear from you soon and good luck with tracking down Emre5807.
The Daily Create (TDC) 08 – A photo that visually represents a sound
The power lines looked like stringed instruments.
The Daily Create (TDC) 09 – An extreme close-up of an easily recognisable, common object
It’s my phone at work.
The Daily Create (TDC) 10 – Merge two photos of contrasting places together
I stood in the middle of pedestrian crossing that crossed the train tracks, faced West took a photo, did a 180 about-face to face East, and then took another photo. Compiled in Photoshop with 45% opacity on the top layer.
The Daily Create (TDC) 11 – One take tongue twister
I tried to bring a bit of Frank Sinatra class to the One take tongue twister TDC. There’s no class in my performance.
The Daily Create (TDC) 12 – A 30 second ‘breaking news’ update about something that happened to you today
I’m not sure if it’s newsworthy, but that’s where I was at the time.
The Daily Create (TDC) 13 – A photo that includes a ‘finished product’ and at least one of it’s ‘raw materials’
A bowl of uncooked and cooked rice.
The Daily Create (TDC) 14 – A photo of somethings shadow that makes it difficult to identify
I don’t like his photo. The wall and shadow are not particularly interesting.
The Daily Create (TDC) 01 – A photograph that features a repeating pattern
I took this photo very quickly. I remember having a very definite idea how the star pattern on the cushion and blanket could be used for this TDC.
I took this photo as my morning train arrived at the platform. I like how the repeating pattern of the tactile tiles on the edge of platform sharply contrasts the blur of the train. This time, I think the inherently poor quality of the camera in my mobile doesn’t necessarily detract from the photograph.
The Daily Create (TDC) 02 – A photograph that looks better in black and white than it did in colour
Another photograph taken with my mobile phone while waiting for my train. Does this photo look better in colour? I’m not so sure.
The Daily Create (TDC) 03 – A photograph that emphasises the sky by placing the horizon very low or very high
I took this photo very quickly as I arrived early for work. I don’t really like this photo at all. I don’t like the colour, composition or image quality.
The Daily Create (TDC) 04 – A photograph of someone holding an old photograph of themselves
Taken with my webcam for the TDC beta test. It’s my 1993 student concession identification card for Melbourne’s public transport system. I tried to match my 1993 facial expression.
Taken with my webcam. Me and baby me. I think I’m about 1 year old in this photo.
Taken with my webcam. My son Alex and his ultrasound scan at around 5-6 weeks.
The Daily Create (TDC) 05 – A sound that represents the sound of the meal you ate or made today
I ate a banana, some milk and a croissant, but not in that order. I made the sound of a monkey, a cow being milked and strange impression of Edith Piaf.
The Daily Create (TDC) 06 – An audio recording of two sounds not normally heard together
A phone call call and a flush. I guess they’re not normally heard together.
The Daily Create (TDC) 07 – An audio recording of an everyday object used as an musical instrument
Metal chopsticks and a cheese grater. Percussive and maybe a little bit Zydeco.
The Softain Biopsy is a medical procedure performed by specialist surgeon Dr Sigmeund Softain involving sampling of diseased human cells or tissues for examination, repair, duplication and then re-insertion back into the patient.
Include a screenshot of a word pair from a reCapctha (or heck right at the bottom of this assignment submission form) in an illustration or visual mashup that shows what the words might mean. Use your imagination to create something meaningful out of the random words. When you write it up, provide some narrative that puts the image in context.
Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the official site: How It Works
Get a picture of someone people idolize. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do.
Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, you’ll probably want to grab a quote from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica.
Attribute the quotation to a third character, from yet a third universe. This way, nothing about your image is correct, and you’re trolling fans of all three characters at once.
A bug hunt life
While not being my all-time favourite Pixar film, A bug’s life was the inspiration for my Visual Assignment 24 – Troll quotes. Actually, it was a combination of A bug’s life and Bill Paxton’s freaked out Pvt. Hudson in Aliens that inspired my attempt to troll fans of Pixar, Toy Story and the Alien(s) film franchise. I’m not quite sure if my troll was successful.
