David R. Stong

Experiment's with the medium: At a time that I found Lessig's remix message to be controversial, I did a very short children's fable as an artistic statement. Each word is taken from Lessig's book Remix, so it's a remix of Remix with the original context and page number of each word appearing on mouseover. I tried to make Lessig's original context add meaning to my use of the word. Satisfying for me, but sadly, the entire thing fell flat.

Experiment's with the medium: There's a popular power phrase that goes something like, "Do it and apologize later." I take issue with it: it makes your apologies meaningless, and says you don't stand up for what you believe. Do it. Explain why; and let others do the same. I thought a fun send up of a popular Dr. Seuss story would be a harmless, enjoyable way to discuss the idea. My poem revisits The Butter Battle Book in a parody of Seuss's poetic verse and illustration style.

Experiment's with the medium: Colleagues had a "blog post every day for a month" challenge. Without joining the writers, I tried a warm-up sketch on the Modbook every morning in June. Good or bad, the stuff easily went up for review. There was no discussion, but posting provided a satisfying cap on each sketch.

Experiment's with the medium: Our reading group wrote reaction papers to each reading. The last reading was a chapter from Scott McCloud's classic, Understanding Comics and it was in comic format. My response, obviously, needed to be in the same comic format, so I stepped directly into Scott's work to have a private word with him.

This image is a stitch of multiple parts, retouching and painting. It was created to be used for a special effect in a video (seen here): the lion disappears. All of the sections are on individual layers so that they can be animated independently.

We photographed the room, then decided to use it in a video empty. I painted out furniture using VanishingPoint, changed whiteboards to blackboards, then generated a test video.

I had taken this quick reference photo and decided to use it as an illustration within an Arabic language module. Original background detail was completely eliminated. Parts of the computer needed to be painted in, and light added to enhance the "believability."

This is a standard repair job; the original image was damaged and a replacement was requested. Not all of the distress was eliminated- some of the background texture- parallel lines- seemed unusual and possibly significant. Some of the "dust" was left, too, to add to the authentic feel.

Another standard repair; though this is a more contemporary image. The larger image here is the actual image size- only the small jpeg was available.

I adjusted a collection of faculty snapshots and animated them in this Flash piece so students could experience online the interactive nature of a flapbook from Penn State Library Rare Books Collection.

Done in a pinch to help our instructional designers, the challenge for me was simply rendering realistic vector dice and showing a convincing "roll".

A small piece from a financial calculator tutorial. It plays automatically in this snip, but only with student interaction in the entire module.

This is a small, quirky animation from a much larger, much broader multimedia piece for Child Psychology 213. The instructor-writer and voice talent Jeff Parker-proposed the quirky museum have a Monty Python feel.

One of several short animations done to accompany text in the BiSci002 course.

Four samples of the landscape architecture modules. In all, 37 were created by a team of developers. These were my contribution.

A demonstration of heating water to a super-critical state.

I'm not sure where this would fit: it's my portfolio "Gallery" build in the Second Life virtual world (Penn State Isle_2, 229, 15, 27 ).

A different approach to a diversity poster, focusing on the silliness of the problem without a patronizing or misleading image of a "solution".

Completely for fun; a coffeeshop conversation fulfilled. I tried to make something believable, justifiable and well designed, staying whimsical yet complex while satisfying the group imposed requirements.

Loose sketch style, but done completely in Photoshop for an iStudy cartoon series. This rainy episode is viewable in my blog. I've compiled the entire series in one spot, too.

A poster show example for the New Media Center conference; generated as the illustration of an instructional designer's layout.

The condensing of DNA into a chromosome.

Poster for a university conference. The original poster uses a photo of assorted glass eyes owned by the faculty member.

This was an early digital creation for UPub. I was getting the hang of a wacom tablet and using the "natural media" app "Painter" to get a hand drawn look.

Small one column illustration for an article on the affect on an entire office of one staff member's bad attitude.

From 2000- less is more in advertising. From here we regressed to "More is Better."

This is presented as a series of sidebar ads, but the images were actually conceived as 24" X 36" posters. They are not linked to larger versions, but instead go to their respective service pages.

This is presented as a series of sidebar ads, but the images were actually conceived as 24" X 36" posters. They are not linked to larger versions, but instead go to their respective service pages.

A poster for friends in the Lit Department. This was printed to sit on a stand outside of the lecture hall.

Two of thirteen charicatures rendered in Flash for a class module. These images are of psychology theorists B.F.Skinner and Conrad Lorenz.

Completely rendered in Flash for the BiSci project. Thumbnails are raster, but they're linked to vector files.

Actually, this is a very old digital rendering. It has a place here simply because I needed something here that wasn't blue...

I wanted this to have an "in your face" attitude... sort of. They're educators first, ya know. If the University thinks they're students and not professional educators, the University shouldn't charge full price for an education utilizing them, and should annotate degrees that are "cut-rate".