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Slide Guy Visits the Sphinx

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

This is another Visual Assignment. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to join in on the fun of placing the image of DTLT’s own Tim Owens in an unlikely spot.

I immediately thought of the pyramids, though I’m not sure why. But then I found this great image from Flickr User wilhemja of the pyramids and the Sphinx, and I made a slight change in plans. I used Photoshop to flip the image using the Image Rotation–>Flip Canvas command and then rotated Tim so that he could slide down the Sphinx’s face (that daredevil).

Two final comments:

1) This image is not to scale. If Tim were this tall, he wouldn’t be able to fit into DTLT’s offices…or any other building on campus.

2) Umm Tim, where’s the nose?

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Slide Guy at Camp Magic MacGuffin

Monday, June 18th, 2012

So the Slide Guy took a bit of a visit to the MineCraft incarnation of Camp Magic MacGuffin this week, looking for appropriate places to practice his sliding skills.

He was captured trying out the stairs at the Bunk Five Archery Range …

“SlideGuy at CMM Archery Stairs” by aforgrave, on Flickr

… checking out the Bava lava at the camp centre, …

“SlideGuy at CMM Bava Lava” by aforgrave, on Flickr

and giving a good ol’ head-first go at the Fall Out The World Fun Ride.

“SlideGuy at CMM Fall Out The World Fun Ride by aforgrave, on Flickr

As it would turn out, however, he seemed to spend the most time at the Waterslide over at CampX. Here is Slide Guy enjoying the waterside. Over and over!

SlideGuy at CMM Camp X Waterslide

UPDATE: I took a close look at all of the Slide Guy images to see if anyone had done the waterslide — and somehow missed Martha’s. When I saw the work of Noise Professor Maybe Next Time D’Arcy and Tim Wins, I decided to go with an animated GIF. So clearly Slide Guy was on that waterside during the day, AND still at sunset. Or maybe at sunset, and STILL the next day. At any rate, he must love sliding.

Slide on, Slide Guy. Slide on!

ds106 Visual Assignments 595

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The Slippery Slider Gourmet – Tas T. Buds

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

The Slippery Slider Gourmet -Tas T. Buds (without Tas T. Buds, life would have less flavor and enjoyment) was last seen cleansing his palate in his favorite fashion (refer to the photo above). Tas T. Buds is someone who is a connoisseur of good food and drink. He can usually be found at gourmet restaurants (one’s that are considered to serve the highest quality food) such as the local beer halls, pizza joints, pubs and fast food courts. In between culinary debacles he can be found writing his magazine column “The Slippery Slider Gourmet” also referred to as “The Slide Guy Loves Food”. Currently he is “in the pink” journalistically speaking (which is better than being “in the red”).

This Slide Guy loves to slide down things!

Visual Assignment 595 for ds106.

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Surreal Moments

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

So I’m sitting here at Toronto International Pearson Airport en route to Vancouver for Northern Voice, grabbing a bite to eat. On the television, Germany beats the Netherlands in football. Passersby stop to watch momentarily.

I’m not watching the soccer game, however, I am tuned into http://nmc12.umwblogs.org/ and the surreal moment of my twitter and professional networks colliding and watching @timmmmyboy @grantpotter @rushaw present at the #nmc12 conference while @heloukee and @allyson1969 shake hands.

Then.

I look down to my beer and what. the. >???????

um. excuse me, waiter, what is Slide Guy doing in my beer?

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe

The backstroke?

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Slide Guy’s New and Improved Mean Machine

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Thanks to encouragement and suggestions from Melanie and Cogdog, I was able to rescale Slide Guy to precisely the size that seemed right for the Mean Machine.

Of course, then the machine was missing a thumb on its right/left hand so I attempted to draw it in. Shape is okay but now I’ve got to learn about shading, blurring, and highlighting. While I was at it, I also filled in a missing chunk of Slide Guy’s right shoe.

Here are the two versions. I’ll add a third at the end of the semester to assess my GIMP progress.

Thanks again, Friends!

Before . . .

After . . .

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Tim Wins

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Again.

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Fantastic Slide Guy

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Just one more Slide Guy. Because who would not want to slide on a voyage with Raquel Welch.

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Slide Guy’s Mean Machine

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

So I was on campus today and spotted what at a distance looked like a cool, big sculpture in happy colors. So I spun around the traffic circle again and headed that way.

The closer I got, the weirder this sculpture looked. It was really some kind of huge machine, a cross between a catapult and an earth-moving machine. And it was armed with a serious-looking ray gun.

Needless to say, I was getting a little worried until I saw that Slide Guy was on the machine, checking things out.

I’ll sleep better tonight knowing Slide Guy 106 is on the case.

GIMP is not yet my friend but we’re getting along better. Could not figure out how to scale Slide Guy to fit, but I was happy that I took several shots from all angles to be sure I had one that would work.

Visual Assignment 595: Slide Guy loves to slide down things! Find a photo of something to slide down and make your own Slide Guy!

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Slide Guy Joins the Four Horsemen

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Who knew the slide-guy assignment would turn in to this summer’s never-ending meme?

Perhaps now that he’s become a professional wrestler and been seconded by The Four Horsemen, people might think twice about posting goofy images of him on the the web and stuff.

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Slide Guy! Examines the Melancholy of the Industrialized World

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Slide Guy! Examines the Melancholy of the Industrialized World

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