My Pic That Lies

I chose to do a picture representing Bear Grylls as a liar because he actually sleeps in hotels on his shows but he claims to sleep in the wild. I Made my picture that lies from a random picture I found of a hotel in a tropical area and then another picture of Bear Grylls in Ecuador. I used the hotel as my background and then cropped Bear out of his original picture and resized him to fit in the picture like he is walking away from the hotel. I also did a little bit of erasing and re-coloring to make the pictures flow together like it was real. I did this manipulation to try and prove the point that Bear Grylls is a phony. The manipulation was definitely harmful because it was intended to and does take away from Bear's credibility and it could potentially hurt his TV ratings. While I did purposely make this picture to harm Bear's image, I actually really like his show, I just thought it would be good for this project.

Favorite Blogs

I thought that everyone that presented yesterday did an excellent job so it was difficult to choose my favorite two, but since we have to I would say that my favorite two presentations were Trevor's and Ellee's. Both of their presentations shared several elements that stuck out to me. First of all, and most importantly for me, I could really relate to the information that they were presenting because I am interested in the same types of things. Along with their information that I liked, I really enjoyed the pictures that they used for their visuals. Trevor did a nice job of explaining subduction with different diagrams that would drop down and I really enjoyed that. Ellee had awesome background pictures that made you want to save the bees that she was talking about. Finally, both presenters obviously knew a lot about their fields of research and they were enthusiastic about presenting which is a key to a good presentation in my book.