Alan Levine

Typography is a central component of design. It gives us an understanding of the heritage behind our craft. It’s one of the primary ways we, as a society, pass on information to others. Imagine a website, a magazine or even TV without text. Typography is a subject that raises passions and it can become a consuming obsession. If this subject is relatively new to you, or perhaps something you want to know more about, then this guide can start you on that journey. - Alan Levine

Vision and color are at the heart of painting. Here is the most comprehensive discussion for artists of color perception, color psychology, "color theory" and color mixing available online, and one of the most comprehensive available anywhere in any format. - Alan Levine

The film opens with Mercer, dealing with the recent death of his mother, stealing a car to find his long-lost brother. He finds a cell phone in the car that he stole, and he starts talking to the owner of the car while he’s on his roadtrip. - Alan Levine

The Media Burn Archive is a collection of over 6,000 independent, non-corporate tapes that reflect cultural, political and social reality as seen by independent producers, from 1969 to the present. - Alan Levine

For this visual assignment we had to make an animated GIF from a real world object or scene. I decided to make something that I experience every day. As a barista, latte art is the ultimate achievement. It takes perfect foamy milk, perfect espresso and a very steady pouring hand. It took years for me to perfect the “Rosetta” – a leaf like image made by shaking your hand back and forth in perfect motion. I’m nine stars in to ten now! One star to go. - Alan Levine

I was intrigued and impressed with so many of the Splash the Color assignment submissions this week that I decided to take a stab at this for my first few stars.  I used j-rabbit’s tutorial, where he outlines how easy it is to do this in Picnik.  I had a bunch of photos cluttering up my desktop from earlier daily creates and such,  so I picked one of them and got started. - Alan Levine

What's going on in the Giant parking lot? - Alan Levine

This represents the happiest three years of my life. I used this controller so much that when I would play Halo 2, I couldn't run forward as fast compared to using a new controller because I had worn the stick out. So what did I do? I took it apart and filed down the faceplate around the left stick so I could full tilt back. Probably 3000 hours on this controller. - Alan Levine

Daily Create: Make a photo which represents something you aspire to do or be someday. Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to hike the Appalachian trail. Where I grew up I could reach a portion of it in a matter of minutes by cutting through a few neighbors' back yards. As a kid it never quite clicked as to what an enormous task this is, but I'd still love to do at least a couple states. - Alan Levine

MOV/MP4 files exported from programs such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and QuickTime Pro have certain elements that are not handled well by YouTube transcoding. In order to ensure optimal upload quality--and specifically that the Audio and Video of the file remain in sync--use the encoding settings outlined below. - Alan Levine

Today's Daily Create: Make a photo of something upside down that is never seen that way. - Alan Levine

Assignment: Make a photo of something upside down that is never seen that way. This is a photo of a 'One Way' side on a sidewalk next to a building. - Alan Levine

For ds106 daily create - make a photo of something upside down that is never seen that way - Alan Levine

I love how the light grids on the ceiling layer and create a sci-fi feel at this angle. - Alan Levine

Here’s something I did for one of my visual assignments. It was to take a bad photo and apply a vintage effect and write something in helvetica font. So i took this picture of a guinea pig in my pocket (don’t worry, no animals were harmed during this photo – it was rather happy in there) and named it wocket in my pocket.. you know.. from Dr.Suess. I did a bit of hue and color correction using photoshop and added a bit of grain and gradient to give it that vintage/washed out effect and finally added the text. - Alan Levine