During class today we began discussing the remix generator and remix cards as part of this week’s assignments. I created the example, “What Is Culture For You?? [Remixed]: Dr Suess It,” and under the original assignment I found Mis-tery’s trip to Ethiopia. I would have loved to read more about the trip, as it looks like it was quite an experience, and the photos she shared in a collage were beautiful.
Applying the Dr Suess It card to the culture assignment seems a natural one as you are able to apply all the trappings of the Suess genre to someone’s cultural expression. The travel experience becomes Suess-ified not unlike a trip to the Magic Kingdom. The different places in Mis-tery’s trip became Suess attractions – pose as the Cat-in-th-Hat, visit a real Truffala tree forest, follow the path of ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go,’ and see original Suess art work in the museum.
All fun stuff that I hope Mis-tery enjoys. Thanks for letting me remix your work!
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3 responses to “Suessing Ethiopia”
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
What a fabulous remix example. Can’t wait to see what your students mix up.
This is so cool! I wish you could have told us the tools that you used to create the effect on these photos.
Bianca thanks for the reminder. Always be explaining your process! The main tool used is the Photoshop pen tool, which allows you to carefully draw Bézier curves around objects (like the cat in the hat hat and bow tie) and turn them into selections. These selections can be used to copy and paste objects or delete backgrounds like the one needed for the truffula tree forest.
The second major tool would be the changing of the layer blending mode of the layers that created the rainbow texture over the buildings and the Suess characters in posters on the wall. These layers are adjusted from ‘Normal’ to ‘Multiply.’ The effect is to knock out the whites in the image and the colors (including blacks) blend over the background.