Kristin Becker's DTC Classes at WSU

The materials I brought in for the first day were a sun hat, a Taco Bell gift card and a pair of swimming goggles. I chose these items because I liked the way that they looked and they had somewhat importance to me. I would wear the sun hat for hiking and stuff, while the goggles I would wear whenever I needed to go swimming. And the Taco Bell gift card just looks interesting.

Now that I know about resolution and scanning I think I am going to bring in more interesting texture and color materials and also look at specific features of an item. The sun hat that I have has some buttons with textures and lettering on it that I find interesting so I want to explore what I can do with that. I am going to do this because I want to go more in depth and look at the features of an object closer and get a sense of what makes the item feel the way it does.For example, the Taco Bell gift card has two different ways of viewing it in the physical world based off of how you look at it. When it is tilted in one direction the lights brighten and the bell has a shine, while when you look at it in a different way you see the lights are turned off. This actually shows up in the scan when you flip the card. One side it is lit up and one side it is not. I thought that was really cool.

Scan of taco bell gift card upside down (rotated afterwards) by Peter Dowell 2019

scan of taco bell git card by Peter Dowell 2019

I think that focusing on the texture and physical features as well as colors for my comics collage. I like the physical aspects shown in virtual forms because it gives a sort of depth to the image and makes the person viewing it a sort of perspective or guess of what the object would feel like.

Homer’s The Iliad was written by Homer for the purpose of telling ancient Greco-Roman histories. I picked it up at the CUB.

The first day we visited the CDSC I brought with me a Crimzone Pass, Homer’s the Iliad, and one of my baseball hats. I really thought the crimzone pass would be a very interesting addition to my collage because it was so colorful. It also seemed like a collage in itself. It was also very small so I thought it would work a lot better than other larger things. Homer’s Iliad just had a really cool looking cover photo. Which featured an all matte black background with a single greco roman helmet in the middle. I also bought the book used so it had a ton of texture that looked like it would be very interesting. I was interested to see if the scanner would actually pick up all the markings on the cover photo. Finally the baseball hat I brought with me is an all grey Washington State University hat. I really like the stitching of the baseball hat and I thought it would fit in with my other items. I think as I scan more things the bigger picture will begin to develop more, but as for now I think this is a really good start. I ended up using my crimzone pass and Homer’s the Iliad because when I scanned all three of my items these two looked the best. Which i’m guessing is because they laid perfectly flat inside the scanner.  That being said the resolution and lighting just looked far superior in regards to the baseball hat. I’m really happy with how these photos turned out though. I plan on taking out all of the font inside the two photos. I like the background of the Crimzone pass because it is faded and is a splash of color. Homer’s Iliad features a really cool Greco-Roman helmet which I think is really as well.

Crimzone Pass which was made and disbursed to students who wanted to have some of the best seats in Martin Stadium.I received this at the ticket booth.

For my blog this week, I chose to just pick things out of my pocket that I had. I used my keys which have many other uses other than just to drive and I just had matches on me. I thought the matches would be cool to see if the camera could pick up the individual matches and it worked fairly well. After the presentation, I am going to look for some fabrics to bring in and also some oddly shaped materials. I think oddly shaped materials would make the collage look very cool. Also, I feel like bringing in different papers for backgrounds and adding shadows if possible would look really cool.

This is the set of keys that I bring everyday. I wanted the picture to see more of the depth of the keys, but it kind of looks three-dimensional. The picture came out fairly clear and there was also a lot of positions for the keys I could work with. The keys themselves were not as reflective as how I would have imagined, but I think that that is for the better.

In the next use of these scanners, I will be bringing different materials which have different textures and different sizes. The matches were a good call because of how many different textures are on one object. It was interesting to see if the camera was going to make it come out clearly or not.

This digitalization showed me that even the simplest reflective material will reflect after flash. The image looks rough and raw with no added filters or editing which I do like. I prefer no added editing because then the image looks like how it would in everyday life. 

I hope to actually improve these photos when working on my collage though. And bring in Raw photos into the digitalized world. I think it will be an awesome opportunity to mix the two worlds: Both Physical and Virtual.

My first day of going to the CDSC I brought a patterned scrunchie, jewelry and, a receipt. I brought the scrunchie because it was polka dotted and red which I thought would be interesting to look at in Photoshop. After going to learn about the scanner I didn’t think I would like the shape and other characteristics that the scrunchie would translate to. I brought a necklace because I thought it would be good to layout a interesting shape, I chose not to go through with this because it would probably only show up as a squiggly line. I brought the receipt because it was text on paper that would be digital. I wasn’t against the idea of scanning text, I just thought I should find something more interesting than a receipt. Now, that I know more about the resolution and what will read well on a scanner I wanted to bring in something with more dimension and vibrant. After seeing the items other students brought I was inspired to bring something that would be more interesting characteristics that show off the material I am digitizing. I had a hard time looking for things at home to scan that would be interesting to look at, and I am still looking at more to add to make it more of a collage.  I decided to bring a embroidered jean jacket because of the different textures and colors that will be better to digitize. I thought that these elements were going to work well for this project because it is a textured image, so you would see it and know it was stitches but now it is digital. I like that the background of the embroidered images being the denim from the jacket. So to add to this I think I either want to bring something that matches the theme of wild life to bring together what it would look like if it were real. Or bring in more clothing to show more of the texture and details.

Scanned bag tag, Fall 2019.

I brought a golf bag tag with my name on it from Tacoma Golf & Country Club and a car wash stamp card to the CDSC. I brought these items because they were small and flat and could easily be scanned but they also provide a little information about myself. The bag tag will be in my comic collage because golf is one of my favorite sports to play and I enjoy playing in tournaments in the summer. My favorite tournament this summer that I played in was the PNGA mens amateur at Tacoma G&CC where I got the bag tag.

The car wash stamp card that I brought will also be in my collage because I frequently get my car washed and I think that’s a little piece of information about me that I want expressed in the collage. The stamp card will also have people guessing what kind of car I drive since my car will not be featured in the collage at all.

Scanned car wash stamp card, Fall 2019.

Some other items I am considering scanning are clothing items such as my favorite shirt or hoodie, one of my favorite golf polos, a WSU basketball jersey that I found at Goodwill in Port Orchard, my favorite pair of socks, and receipts from different restaurants that I enjoy going to. I’ve decided to scan these items because they are all different colors which I think would make my collage very interesting. These items also are very different from each other in terms of texture. For the clothing items especially I will be focusing on the different textures each clothing item has. It will be interesting to see how I organize the items in a sequential order. Although I have a good idea of what items I want to scan I have no idea how to place them in my collage just yet.