We will use Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams as a starting point. These exercises illustrate various techniques used in image manipulation.

Images you can use for the exercises may be found at http://it.rit.edu/~ero/psWorkshop.

Tokyo Plastic: opera, dolls and eyeballs. (Thanks to Klipps for the link).
Yellow Shed
Benjamin Goldman
Don Hertzfeldt: Simple line animation. This rather...well, sick, story is about a boy and his balloon.
True Majority: Social consiousness and liberal political rabblerousing. Do note an explanation of U.S. weapons expenditures via an Oreo cookie metaphor.
Ill Will Press: Neurotically yours, home of Foamy the squirrel.
La REvolution de crabes: a lovely flash animation.
Angry Alien Productions: The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library ~
... in which a troupe of bunnies parodies a collection of movies
by re-enacting them in 30 seconds, more or less.

For the color timid or those in need of some ideas, the following are different sites with color picking widgets.

Kuhler is great for color and also just a lovely interface
Color Wheel Version 2.1
Color Picker
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/
Color in Motion
Hex hub color codes
HTML color code combination chooser

Applications:

Flickr: Post and share photos, organize contacts, ordain "friends" and "family" and be able to limit photo views to just them, or make them available to the general public. Comment on images, pick and remember your favorites.

Last F.M. (formerly Audioscrobbler): will log the MP3s you've played, track your interests, suggest others who have similar musical tastes (so you can maybe find other artists you don't already know), find out what your friends have been listening to, and generally do that social hook up thang.

the facebook: your basic friend of a friend network, but geared toward college students.

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