Wk 4 Homework, part of it.

So I haven’t completed all of the requirements for this weeks and lasts, and it’s completely my fault.

Take a look at my wimpy logo in motion.

Week 2 Assignment 2 Homework

Concepts in Motion Design Week 2

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho’s opening title is amazing. I love how the horizontal and vertical lines run across the screen building the text. Along with the music, it adds suspense to the theme. I like how when it says “Starring: Anthony Perkins” the Starring is very tiny and Anthony Perkins is very big. I also like that the text is all in caps. There’s really nothing I don’t like about this intro.

Irreversible. Wow. I was shocked to see this movie on the list… only because I used to own it. I bought it because I saw a clip where a guy got his face smashed in repeatedly by a fire extinguisher. It was SO well done! I have since sold it because I could NOT watch the whole thing again… other parts of that movie are far too realistic. It’s pretty traumatizing.  The credits run in reverse, as do the events in the movie. It is in French.  I like how the credits are put closer together and how they added the >’s. I would probably like the colors red, black, and cream/white together anytime, in any situation. I like the darker schemes, though. Certain letters are also reversed, to add to the effect. The way the text begins to tilt gives me that sick feeling I had throughout most of the movie. A fantastic choice. I love the flashing text effect when the actor’s names appear, the drum beat makes it intense.

Week 2 Assignment 1 Homework

Concepts in Motion Design Week 2

I designed 3 logos for my movie poster website in Adobe Flash CS4 [saved as CS3, I hope it works!]. It went pretty smoothly. The drawing techniques in Flash are similar but very different than Adobe Illustrator. I liked this logo and this logo.

This logo, however, looked way better drawn in pencil. Without tracing the shape, I found it difficult to get the lines exactly how I wanted. At least I have the other two which are wayyyyy better.

research shmesearch

I think the first search tool I used was an AOL search for Hanson chat rooms. That’s right. Of course I used google after that. For a while I preferred a search engine called “AllTheWeb” because they showed more in the picture search than google at the time. I use dictionary.com to make sure I’m using a word right and spelling it right. I don’t want to look like a TOTAL jackass, you know.

Two of my ex girlfriends found me by searching myspace. They are both now two of my best friends and I forget about how we met until something like this brings it up. It’s weird because when I searched myspace for lesbians I found a bunch of reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetards.

I found a group called nonuglylesbians on LiveJournal by searching the communities. The love of my life Rudi found me through that community.

Thank you, Mr./Mrs. Internet, for completing my life.

…and for porn.

Communities of Practice

Etienne Wenger says:

“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”

On livejournal, I’m in a community called “birls” where girls who look like boys or “androgynous” come together and post photos of themselves or of evens in their area. I think a goal we all strive for is equality. I know it’s not quite what the websites on CoP say, but it’s the closest thing I can relate it to in my mind right now, besides the class blog we have going on here.

I made a blog on our school website called Alternative Buzz. Hopefully I can get some good feedback from a lot of different kinds of people once I get it looking like someone who knows coding did it. Because right now I don’t, I just guess. Oh, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to not make my Adsense look all biffed up. Oh well. I have to be patient. EDIT// It only looks right using the Firefox browser.

Two blogs I learn from.

I have been reading the Your Daily Lesbian Moment blog for quite some time.. it was the first blog I started checking on often. I heard about it from my friend Darnell who said a very compromising YouTube video of her and I had surfaced as one of the daily moments. Since then I pretty much keep checking for the good music and the funny. “*50,000 unique visitors per month…and growing*” She’s funny and keeps it real and that’s why many a lesbian enjoy her stuff. She also has another blog called Stuff Straight People Like which is absolutely hilarious.

My friend Karmen has a blog and well… when you write about sexual encounters with Kate Moss and Angelina Jolie… you’re bound to get some attention.

What I learned: Make it look pretty. Also, make it either very funny or very sexy.

Collective Intelligence

The dog is us. The water is the intelligence.

I tend to live on the side of USELESS Collective Intelligence, like what is maintained in many LiveJournal communities. After researching a bit I have found out that I should probably obtain a life of some sort.

Here’s a graph from this site that i found useful and informative:

Personal Learning Environment.

I’m looking at Wayne B’s link in his blog.

http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2008/04/top-100-tools-f.html

I use del.icio.us, google and wikipedia. I’m not good at writing about this obviously because my personal learning environment SUCKS.

RSS

RSS is a text-based format. It’s a type of XML. RSS’s are often labeled as XML. It also ma be labeled as RDF. RSS files simply contain a list of items. Usually, each item contains a title, summary, and a link to a URL. The most common use for RSS files is for news and other reverse-chronologically ordered websites like blogs.

When a website has an RSS feed, it is said to be “syndicated.”

Atom is a format quite similar to RSS. It was created by people who felt that RSS could be improved upon, and some that disagreed with some of the politics regarding RSS.

About RSS

I copied and pasted from the link. I really like how this guy writes… he makes it all as simple as it could be and it is easy to read.