Making a Plan:

Who knows if I will keep this idea, but I have a plan of sorts.

I am going to take this picture:

 . . . and throw in multiple elements.

I will include the Golden Gate Bridge:

(Maybe not from this angle.)

I will include some aurora borealis:

Maybe place a city in the water:

Maybe a dock:

But anyway, to make this final piece, I guess it will take a lot of clipping and maybe some shading to fix shadows.  And if this wont work, or if it ends up looking terrible, I can always find another plan.

Lab 6 Response:

Today we worked on more color alteration, color separation and the converting of all the pixels in an image into one of three colors. Some of the functions, or tools, including making an image darker, lighter, blending between images, and adjusting pixels. Today's class also consisted of a discussion involving the Carr article. We expressed a number of issues and did our best to try to understand them. If for some reason you did not think I talked enough in class today, you can always check out my (brief) written response to the article in the previous post. I also posted a link to a PBS video that displays the danger of an . . . incompetent school board. And without further rambling, I give you . . . pictures! These photographs were edited using the three color limitation alteration. Nothing great, but decent enough. (And I added blue to the code.)

Nicholas Carr Response:

It is easy to blow this article off as an example of paranoid exaggeration straight from Orwell's 1984. But after doing some research and watching this video about the school board in Texas changing their textbooks,

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/are-conservatives-in-texas-rewriting-history/736/ 

  

I have realized that this is certainly an issue that should be discussed and taken into consideration. I am in no way stating that what the author warned will happen in the near future, I am more concerned about the implications in regard to schools and advertisements in the next 20 or so years. Leaders of countries have always been able to practically do whatever they want, that is not a concern of mine. As the author states, I feel like we should take serious note of how advertisements will weave themselves into the future of books. The wary internet user should already be realizing how much advertising has crept into our lives and personal information. In all, despite my initial skepticism, I do agree a great deal with what the author warns. The transition to digital books may not occur in the next ten or even thirty years, but I do feel like with its arrival will come a new age of advertising (and who knows what else).