Generators? No, not those gas powered back-up things. These generators allow you to easily manipulate images and graphics to create quirky (subversive, funny, weird, beautiful) images like these:

For this discovery exercise, just have fun. Find a few interesting image or text generators to play around with and write a post in your blog about one of your favorites and display the result. Often adding the image you mocked up to your blog is as simple as copying and pasting code that the page provides.

If you’re having difficulty getting your image added to a post in your blog, ask a co-worker for help.

Discovery Resources:

*fd’s Flickr toys
*The Generator Blog
*Polyvore
*Sign Generator
*Photofunia
*Dumpr

You might also want to check out Photojojo, a photo newsletter/blog.

Also try searching for online generators, text generators or image generators!

Discovery Exercise:

1. Play around with some image generators and find one that you like.
2. Post the result of your discovery process in your blog.

Note: Be sure to include a link to the image generator itself, so other participants can discover it too.

So take some time and have fun with this exercise.