Visual Balance

I believe I deserve a 4 because I took the time to make sure that all the elements were balanced on the page and edited the image.

Positive - Negative space

http://www.layersmagazine.com/negative-space.html

After reading this article, I learned quite a lot of things.

Using the space you're given is an important part in creating an image. For example, using a normal 8.5" by 11" page with the intention of just writing 1 word on it would be a waste, as well as being visually.. unattractive. The blank space will just overpower the word too much.

Also, the NEGATIVE space is important as well, since if there's too much on the screen, some people would feel too overwhelmed from the amount of information on it.

So in general, the most important point I learned from this article was the to effectively balance the negative and positive space.

Don't just focus on the main subject, focus on what isn't being focused on.

Restoration

Old Portraits #15 (Online Image) Available http://www.flickr.com/photos/57362692@N00/397105059/in/set-72157603525105341/, February 18, 2010

I believe I deserve I 4 because I have spent a lot of time on this. However, I still can't get the skin colour right...I added blur effects to get that photo effect, and I added the borders.

Colour Combos

(In reverse order)
1. Monochromatic
2. Complementary
3. Split-Complementary
4. Double-Complementary
5. Anagolous
6. Triad

I believe I deserve a 4 because I worked really hard on it. Because of this, I finished quite early.

REFLECTION

1. What did I do in class today?
Changing the hue and saturation values of this pokeball image.

2. What did I learn?
How to use Fireworks even more, it's not as easy and fast as photoshop, but it gets the job done.

3. What did I find interesting?
How many of the tools I used in Photoshop appear in Fireworks, namely the Magic Wand.

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?
I wonder why adobe can't just get rid of fireworks and just make Photoshop and the other Adobe effects the standard for macromedia programs... they own them anyways...

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?
Fireworks is a bit more complex to use compared to Photoshop.

Logo Banner and Colour Theory.

I recently uploaded my new banner, consisting of 4 different images, and some nice looking font.

I believe I deserve a 4, because I incorporated quite a lot of elements on my banner.

First, I created the overall background by creating rectangles that were grey, black, white, and inbetween. Then I added some blur effects to make it seem like it's zooming in and spinning.

Then I grabbed 3 images, from left to right:

A picture of L Lawliet, from the popular Death Note Manga series,

L Lawliet Fan art (Online Image) Available http://cataclysm-x.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-L-83145184, April 17, 2008

A picture of the Triforce, most commonly associated with the Legend of Zelda series,

Triforce (Online Image) Available http://5995260108.deviantart.com/art/Triforce-81074049, March 26, 2008

and a picture of my Electric Guitar, taken by Lou Khawaja. I used the source image from my USB drive.

Each layer was about 20% Transparency, so that my original background could still be seen.

Then afterwards, I decided to put my full name onto it. I wanted it to look flashy and stand out, so I added some more zoom effects, and arranged it diagonally across my banner.

To end it off, I knew it was going to put the title of my blog in the image, so I decided to put a 20% transparency Rectangular white box so that the clarity of the Blog title will be crisp, while maintaining clarity of the images behind it.

I also chose the monotone colour scheme to match my blog.

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Alright, after going through the website, here are the answers to the questions.

What is the difference between shade and tint?
Shade is the Colour produced when added with Black
Tint is the colour produced when added with White

What is the colour system used for printing?
The CMYK colour system. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black)

How can you ensure proper colour rendering in print?
Work within the CMYK colour spectrum, or selecting the proper colours in a CMYK pallette.

What are complementary colours? Give an example
Colours that are opposite to each other on the colour wheel. For example, Orange and Purple

What are tertiary colours? Give an example
Colours that are a mixture of both Primary and Secondary colours.

What is meant by a visually advancing colour?
A colour that is usually warm or saturated that has less visual weight on the passive colours.

What could cause vibrating boundaries to occur?
When you "stack" opposite colours on to each other.

How can you find a complementary colour without a colour wheel?
Eyes. You can stare at the colour for a long time, then look at a white surface. The After image is the complementary colour. Or you can easily invert (CTRL + I) the colours in Photoshop.

What is an after image?
It's when the rods and cones in our eyes starts to fatigue due to looking at a coloured object for a long period of time. This causes an after image.

What is a monochromatic colour relationship?
colours in the shade or tint of the same hue.

What is an analogous colour relationship?
Colours located next to each other on the colour wheel

What is contrast?
The difference between 2 or more colours.

What could cause simultaneous contrast to occur?
When opposing or clashing colours or placed next to each other.

Name and describe three of Itten’s Colour Contrasts
Contrast of Extension: Assigning colours of different weighting approriate areas.

Contrast of Hue: The placing of different hues of a colour next to each other. The bigger the gap the higher the contrast.

Contrast of Complements: Using colour wheel opposites next to each other.

How do you determine the dominant colour?
The colour with the largest area.

How can you create an accent with colour?
small area, contrasting hues.

What is the difference between contrast dominant and value dominant?
Contrast dominance is the Dominance between contrasts of colours

Value dominant is the overall saturation of the colours.

What is one method of identifying possible options for colour schemes?
Using the colour wheel to find out colours that go well together.

My colour scheme

Reflection

1. What did I do in class today?
Trying to watch the olympics on the computer. However, I need Microsoft Silverlight 4 in order to view CTV's stream.

2. What did I learn?
I learned that these computers need that new Silverlight.

3. What did I find interesting?
I hate how Microsoft has this application. Seriously, it's the same as Flash or Javascript anyways...

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?
Well, I was actually interested in the Editing of Wikpedia... I didn't know it was actually that easy...

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?
There are quite a lot of web 2.0 websites I've never heard about...

Aftermath

Alright, so after presenting, I felt a great relief afterwards.

I was also blown away by Claire's presentation because I've never seen visuals done like that before on Powerpoint.

However, I wish I could've condensed some of my information on my presentation, I feel that there was too much info and that I could have summarized it a bit more.

UH OH.

Still not finished my project... and do to my Hard Drive at home being fried, I think I need to come after school or stay in at lunch to complete this...


1. What did I do in class today?
Still continuing to work on my project. I have just a couple more things to do, then citations!

2. What did I learn?
A couple more features of Last.FM I didn't use or know about.

3. What did I find interesting?
I just noticed how Last.FM Profiles closely resembled the structure of Facebook Profiles

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?
I can't wait to take advantage of this new features when I can hopefully fix my computer...

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?
I'm starting to notice that many Web 2.0 websites are structured similarly.-

Final Countdown!

1. What did I do in class today?
Continued working on my Last.FM project.

2. What did I learn?
An older version of Microsoft Office is hard to get accustomed to.

3. What did I find interesting?
How difficult it was to do simple image editing on Powerpoint 2003.

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?
I'm just hoping I don't have too much, or too little info on my slides.

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?
I'm trying to get the same style of presentation as Steve Jobs, hopefully I can nail it.

Power to the Points!

1. What did I do in class today?
Worked on the powerpoint presentation.

2. What did I learn?
I learned the different ineffective powerpoint presentation methods. And that Mr. Powell likes Mac

3. What did I find interesting?
Steve Jobs gives one heck of a presentation.

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?
I wonder when we're getting Office 2007, I barely remember any of the features in 2003.

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?
Nothing at this moment really, I just want to finish this presentation and do a good job on it.

Last.fm

Alright, so in class today, we watched this video created by Dutch "think tanks" on what they think Web 3.0 will be and how it will affect our lives... I'm excited for it.

Afterwards, we continued on researching on our Web 2.0 website. I'm eager to start working on the powerpoit tomorrow, for I didn't get much sleep so I'll just do it tomorrow.

1. What did I do in class today?
Researched on our Web 2.0 site.


2. What did I learn?
The functionality of what Web 3.0 could be for us in the future. I'd be interested in a Pet collar thing that tweets wherever it goes, at a 30 minute interval or something.


3. What did I find interesting?
Again, Web 3.0 I'm excited for it and how machines will be able to "learn" from us and what we're looking for.



4. What questions do I have about what I learned?
I wonder what current Web 2.0 sites will be able to upgrade to Web 3.0 without changing it's original functionality.


5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?
Facebook with Web 3.0? So.. Facebook will show us less posts of Farmville on our news feed? SWEET.

Day 3 - Starting on the Web 2.0 project, ->reflection

alright, so today in class we learned about Web 2.0 and how it is different from Web 1.0

Well, aside from the differences of the names of the versions, We learned that a Web 2.0 site has a two way relationship with both the audience and the creator.

In Web 1.0, the reader was able to get information, with the author creating that information.

However, in Web 2.0, we learned that both the Author and the Audience both have a share in creating content for the site.

So for my project, I chose last.fm, since I use it on a constant basis.

here's my profile if anyone want to see: CLICKY!

So yea, I'm ready to rock this presentation!

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Reflection:

1. What did I do in class today?

We learned about Web 2.0 and how it affects our daily lives.

2. What did I learn?

I learned the differences between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0

3. What did I find interesting?

Mr. Powell mentioned about a Web 3.0

I did some research and I heard that Web 3.0 sites could come out during this decade.

Even though I am still unclear about some of the differences between Web 2.0 and 3.0, I'm still curious to what it could bring to us in the near future.

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?

I'm still a bit confused about Web 3.0 and it's expectations... but I'll research about it later on.

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?

I kinda find it ironic that I at first didn't know what the definition of a Web 2.0 website was, even though I've been on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc, a lot!

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DAY 2 - Citation Test and REFLECTION.

Alright, citation practice!

following the instructions from here: http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/~powell_n/ICT2/?OpenItemURL=S0853B699

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First off, 2 articles... I'll choose an article from Kotaku, and one from Lifehacker
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Kotaku, original link

Plunket, Luke. "Yup, Final Fantasy XIII is coming on THREE Discs". [Online] Available http://kotaku.com/5462115/yup-final-fantasy-xiii-is-coming-on-three-discs, February 2, 2010

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Lifehacker, original link

Pash, Adam. "Chrome OS tablet demo offers a peek at what a chrome tablet might look like". [Online] Available http://lifehacker.com/5462336/chrome-os-tablet-demo-offers-a-peek-at-what-a-chrome-tablet-might-look-like, February 2, 2010

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Alright, now 2 images:

first, a picture of a very famous celebrity.

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CLICKY!

Rick Astley (live in singapore) (Online Image) Available http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Rick_Astley-cropped.jpg/483px-Rick_Astley-cropped.jpg, August 3, 2008
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CLICKY!

Organizing for america blog header (Online Image) Available http://www.barackobama.com/images/org_home_hdr_blog.jpg, February 2, 2010

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SOUND!

Alright, I know this is technically still a video, since it shows an image while there's audio playing... but.. it's known more for it's audio.

I stumbled upon it in the past, and I thought it was really neat, so I'd like to share and cite it.

Virtual Barbershop. (Online Sound) Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA, May 5, 2007

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VIDEO!

One of my favourite endings from one of my favourite movies. If you HAVEN'T seen Fight Club yet, you're missing out, and DON'T click the link, it may spoil it for you.

Fight Club (ending). (Online Video Clip) Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUaV9GZDuk, October 9, 2008

alright!

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Reflection - (Questions from Mr. Powell's website)

1. What did I do in class today?

Today in class I learned how to cite sources. From citing images, sound, and even video, I now know how to cite sources properly for educational purposes.

2. What did I learn?

The proper format on how to properly cite sources.

3. What did I find interesting?

I found it interesting that no matter what media you are citing, you HAVE to present a date that it was created or accessed.

4. What questions do I have about what I learned?

How do you cite other forms of media? such as Javascript, Flash, etc?

5. What connections did I make to previous ideas or questions?

This new found knowledge will help me cite sources if I do plan on making a blog in the near future.

The actual first post

I expect to learn about the basics of programming.

I plan on taking the techOne program at SFU, so I need to know a bit of programming to ease the stress load of what I learn in the course.

However, I have had some experience with Javascript and Visual basic, but since it was 2 years ago, I don't really remember much.

I am also looking forward to 3D modelling.

2 years ago, I went to this Media Arts week at VanArts where they showed us how to make 3D Models and composite using Maya and Shake, respectively.

The week went by so fast, yet I learned quite a lot of what goes on during animation and visual effects creation.

FIRST.

Hello World