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46 of 365 is a man on fire #GIMP

 

Man on fire by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Man on fire by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Here we have a man on fire. A poetic, metaphoric, and timely self-portrait.

In the GIMP, I imported the silhouetted image of the man, along with the flame image. In order to combine them, I put the man as the top layer, and set the layer style to “screen”, which keeps the white of the upper layer, but let the flames come through wherever the black occurred. It’s a simple, but very powerful technique when you want to quickly combine the contents of two layers.

tags: fire, man, silhouette, GNU, GPL, GIMP, open source, creative commons, CC-SA, share, 365. lemasney, postaday2011

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45 of 365 is a valentine #Inkscape

 

A valentine
A valentine

 

I hope you all had a wonderful valentine’s day.

tags: valentine, 365, lemasney, sharing, daily, open source, creative commons, GNU, GPL, CC-SA, postaday2011

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A review of the Verizon FIOS remote by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #fail

A review of the Verizon FIOS remote by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #fail
A review of the Verizon FIOS remote by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #fail

It is likely that I am just upset that it’s not a TiVo remote, but I really think this remote has some incredible design flaws.

tags: Verizon, fail, lemasney, 365, daily, postaday2011, GNU, GPL, GIMP, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, cc-sa

 

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41 of 365 is an emblem for classroom sustainability #Inkscape

 

Sustainable classroom certification
Sustainable classroom certification

 

Laura Hyatt, who is basically synonymous in my mind with sustainable practice at Rider University, recently approached me about a cool project. She is looking to emulate successful classroom sustainability efforts in other universities, and asked me if I could help with certification branding. I looked at some of her examples, and made these. By demonstrating that in your classroom you do things like use refillable reusable beverage containers, turn off lights, do little or no printing, provide materials electronically, practice sustainability with texts and assignments, and use the outdoors and locality in your curriculum, you gain points on a standard scale. The more points you get, the higher the certification you can meet. I’m hoping to have my Digital Media Communication class be the first Emerald certified class at Rider University. Thanks for the project, Laura!

tags: Rider University, sustainability, emblems, logos, branding, certification, classroom, lemasney, 365, sharing, postaday2011, GNU, GPL, open source, Inkscape, creative commons, cc-sa

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40 of 365 is a photo manipulated mouth

Don't just sit there with your teeth in your mouth
Don’t just sit there with your teeth in your mouth

This is another in the series of predetermined captions. Nancy McMillin was kind enough to suggest the phrase “Don’t just sit there with your teeth in your mouth” and this is almost exactly what I pictured when I read the line.

In the GIMP, I brought in a picture of myself, and a picture of some gnarly teeth. I selected my jaw from the photo, then cut and pasted it as a new layer. I placed the teeth behind the hole where my jaw had been, by placing that layer behind my photo. I rotated the jaw layer and moved it below the teeth in the image, as the top most layer. I worked to recreated the goatee in a the image by cloning.

If I did it again, I’m sure I could make it more believable, but one sketch a day makes time a luxury. I’m sure I’ll use the technique in future sketches. Thanks, Nancy, and everybody please keep the captions coming!

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39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape

 

A life, swallowed.
A life, swallowed.

I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. This isn’t my idea. The best example of this I can think of is explodingdog who has done this for about 10 years. If you’ve never seen his quirky, sometimes jolting illustrations for caption submissions, please google him. This sketch is in response to Kelly Lake’s poetic, very interesting submission “I swallowed my life, and it has consumed me.” Thanks Kelly! You’re the best, and I haven’t told you in a while.

tags: explodingdog, captions, illustrations, GNU, GPL, Inkscape, Open Source, creative commons, CC-SA, lemasney, sharing, 365, postaday2011