Category: ww2

DS106 IMAGES 3: The Forest Gump Project

This DS106 assignment was fun to me. When I read the prompt, I had a rough time deciding which historical photo I wanted to use for this. Eventually I looked through photos I had of myself to see if any of them might fit into a photo off the top of my head. This photo … [Read more…]

WW2 V-J Day celebratory kiss from TIME Magazine 1945 cover. Everyone has their own mode of celebration.

This DS106 assignment was fun to me. When I read the prompt, I had a rough time deciding which historical photo I wanted to use for this. Eventually I looked through photos I had of myself to see if any of them might fit into a photo off the top of my head. This photo of me was taken by my friend years ago when I was in a hyper mood. It kind of reminded me of this famous photo of a sailor and nurse kissing after WW2. In my photography class last semester, we learned about this iconic photo in terms of it’s actual story. The sailor in the photo later said in 2005, “It wasn’t much of a kiss. It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn’t a romantic event” (TIME). So I used an app on my iPhone called, “Cut and Past Photos.” On this app you can first select the photo you want to cut yourself out of. Then you just trace around yourself with the free hand option and then cut it. I even got to edit that piece by turning it black and white to match the background. Next I added the background in to be the WW2 photo and moved myself around to where I felt was the best place. Now we are all celebrating the end of a horrible war.

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DS106 GIF 1

For this assignment, it took me awhile to figure out how to make my own gif. I searched around for what other people used on this DS106 prompt, but none of them were really working for me. Then I looked on Google for free gif makers. That’s when Giphy came up. I’ve heard of this … [Read more…]

For this assignment, it took me awhile to figure out how to make my own gif. I searched around for what other people used on this DS106 prompt, but none of them were really working for me. Then I looked on Google for free gif makers. That’s when Giphy came up. I’ve heard of this website before (it’s even on some mobile apps as a gif search keyboard) but I never knew you could make your own gifs on it. Making this was much easier than I thought it would be. All you have to do on Giphy is insert the link to a YouTube video, trim it down to the section you’d like and bam you have a gif. You can even add text and animations to the gif. I definitely recommend using this app for gifs because I will be using it more often.

For the content of the gif, I decided to use this scene of the film, Dunkirk. This is a very simple scene where a bunch of soldiers are relieved to be off a beach they’ve been stranded on. They feel safe inside this ship finally getting some much needed food and water. However, this certain part really shows the realization on this one soldier’s face when another tells him they are stuck in that room and won’t be able to get out if the ship goes down. It’s a small moment in the movie, but it definitely shows the recurring pattern of temporary relief they get that’s soon replaced by near death. 

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