Thursday, September 19, 2019

Limestone College's Branding

Limestone describe its brand voice as one that mixes its rich tradition and historic campus with it taking steps into the future. In its branding section it details the logo and secondary logo, the colors and fonts that make up those logos.

https://www.limestone.edu/about/for-the-media/branding/overview

Monday, September 9, 2019

Freegal Images

Quarterback
Posted by Skeeze
Free for commercial use

Tokyo City Lights
Photographer Unknown
Free for commercial use through CC0 license

Unknown Name
Posted by Tobias
Free for commercial use

He sees me, I sees him
Photo credit: 
Free for non-commercial use, Attribution required


Skylab Launches -- May 14, 1973
Posted by NASA on the Commons
No known copyright
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/47848033031/

From Gallery "In-game photos: Panthers Vs. Rams"
Owned by the Carolina Panthers
This is a photo of Linebacker Luke Kuechly making a tackle in a football game. I'm using this single image as an example of fair-use rights in copyright. I do not believe this post will have any impact on the Carolina Panthers organiziation.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Cover of the Rolling Stone

Shel Silverstein wrote the song "Cover of the Rolling Stone" as a satirical interpretation of all a music group needed to represent success. He list groupies, drugs, embroidered clothing as well as other things describing the stereotypical rock band of the early 1970's. Ultimately, the desire for the success is building blocks to land themselves on the cover of the popular magazine, "Rolling Stone." The song was such a hit that it landed the recording artists, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show on the cover of the Rolling Stone in 1973.
Well, we're big rock singers
We got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten-thousand dollars a show (right)
We take all kinds of pills that give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll gitcha when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
want to see my picture on the cover
(Stone)Wanna buy five copies for my mother (yes)
(Stone)Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone (that's a very very good idea)
I got a freaky ole lady name a cocaine Katy
Who embroideries on my jeans
I got my poor ole grey haired daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed to blow our minds
But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll gitcha when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
want to see our pictures on the cover
(Stone) want to buy five copies for our mothers (yeah)
(Stone) want to see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
(talking) Hey, I know how
Rock and roll
Ah, that's beautiful
We got a lot of little teenage blue eyed groupies
Who do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian Guru
Who's teaching us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep getting richer but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
Gonna see my picture on the cover
(Stone) Gonna buy five copies for my mother (wa wa)
(Stone) Gonna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
On the cover of the Rollin' 
Stone) Gonna see my picture on the cover
(talking) I don't know why we ain't on the cover, baby
(Stone) Gonna buy five copies for my mother
(talking) We're beautiful subjects
(Stone) Want to see my smilin' face
(talking) I ain't kiddin', we would make a beautiful cover
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
(talking) Fresh shot, right up front, man
I can see it now, we'll be up in the front
Smilin, man
Ah, beautiful.

An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube Reaction

Michael Wesch's video is a presentation of the introduction of the popular internet site, YouTube at the Library of Congress in 2008. At the time, YouTube was still a relatively new platform, and is being introduced for its culture shift and how it could be beneficial for our future. Wesch would explain how the video-streaming site gained its popularity as well as how essentially its viral culture contributed to its rise. He does this by including numerous viral videos from the time and explaining YouTube's spoofing culture that allowed such videos to gain popularity. Later in the video he focuses less on the community aspect of the website to the weird sense of anonymity that it also presents due the "large audience, private setting." I liked how he explained the culture that I already perceived the website to have based on the content, even eleven years later. It was kind of odd watching the explanation of the website with all the changes that's happened since then.

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Antoine Dodson "Bed Intruder"

Antoine Dodson rose to internet fame after a home invasion and attempted rape of his sister brought a local news crew to interview the family about the encounter. Initially his flamboyant personality brought the video millions of views on youtube.


Following the incident, a group of brothers remixed the video with mixing and an instrumental and it gained so much popularity that it appeared in the Billboard charts.

hue/saturation adjustment in photoshop


In these images, I adjusted the color of the sky with hue and saturation.

Before and after color correction


This is a color correction I made in Photoshop.

Before and after images in photoshop


Work in photoshop creating black and white imagery from color photo.

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