Week Eleven - Play Activity

Do the monster mash(up)...

In class we looked at the concept of mashups. Mashups, as described in our course notes, are made when data from multiple sources is put together to create new services (Wikipedia), images or videos. For the play activity this week I chose to mashup my own images and images made available to Library Hack participants (here) - in particular those from the State Library of Queensland's Picture Queensland database - to create new images. I used the free image editing software GIMP to put the images together. Although I've used this software in the past, it took a while to work out my technique and strategies to put the selected images together. Through this process I made several mashups and chose to showcase the four I thought turned out most successfully. A description accompanies each picture outlining the origins of the images put together.

Sky and footballer images are my own. House image found through SLQ's Picture Queensland collection and is titled "Rear view of Mostyndale homestead Springsure ca. 1917".

Sky and footballer images are my own. House image found through SLQ's Picture Queensland collection and is titled "Rear view of Mostyndale homestead Springsure ca. 1917".

Sky image is my own. "Panorama of Townsville Queensland" found through SLQ's Picture Queensland expired copyright collection.








Footballer image is my own. "Jim Owens Chevrolet truck off the road in the Nambour district ca.1925" image found through SLQ's Picture Queensland expired copyright collection.

These images can also be found on my Flickr account here. Eventually I want to attempt other variations of the mashup concept and see what new services or videos I can create.