Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Make Your Own CD cover

For our first photoshop project with Digital Design, we were asked to do the Facebook make your own cd cover game. The rules are simple, go to a random wikipedia page, the title is your band name, go to randomquotations.com and the last 4 or 5 words of the last quote is your record title, then hit up flickr and click "explore the last seven days." The third photo is your cover art. put it together with photoshop and don't cheat!

This is what I came up with...





Tee Fury . com

So, I was procrastinating, and went to one of my usual procrastination sites called TeeFury.com. It's a site where artists can submit their work and teefury picks work and puts them on shirts. Whats cool about it is that teefury sells one shirt a day and then its gone. Today's digital artist looks like she just draws in paint, but as you'll see below, while the quality isn't incredible, the cartoons are pretty funny.

Flickr Fotos

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.


well, I've connected flickr and my Blog. So I thought i'd share some cool graffiti that I found in Tour's France over J-term. Unfortunately, Flickr only lets you upload 102.9 MB per month and i've already gone over with 27 photos. LAME. oh well, thats how they get ya.

Blip....Blip.....Blip

First there was twitter and then everyone else tailored their 2.0 interface to be just like twitter. Here's an example of a music twitter- Blip.fm. Blip.fm is almost identical to twitter but you're a "DJ" and the whole idea is that you can share your music and get connected with other people- i mean DJs - with similar musical interests. You can also just search for songs and listen to them too. The idea behind Blip is that you let other people create an entirely unique playlist just for you. And you help do the same thing for them by "tweeting" songs and leaving a little message why that songs on your mind. Oh, and it connects to all of your other social networks....so when you blip, it can show up on your twitter, blog, ping.fm, facespace, and more!

Below, you'll find a free tour of the site.


5 Second Films. A hit.

The Site 5 Second films is a really great site. It was created by a guy named Brian Firenzi in 2005. Brian was tired of all of the "5,400 second" films he had been watching, so he decided to put together 5 second films. They cut right to the chase.

Here's one that pokes fun of the city Chico. This film happens to be 5 different 5 second films. They use a film reel filter to make the picture look older and more film-like. It's fitting for this subject matter.


Wednesday, February 17, 2010