Monday, September 17, 2007
Second Life vol 2
I spent most of last semester avoiding this game due to technical difficulties which bred a general lack of interest. Several classmates this semester seemed interested, though, so I went back over my blog entries on SL again and the myspace people who so kindly answered my questions. At least I figured out how to download pics to my blog this time, though! I'm getting better already! But I don't remember where I got those butterfly wings...and I'm still looking for one of those camps where you can earn money. I figured out how to teleport and was really fascinated by the likeness of Clemson's campus in SL. I think I remember something about John Kerry having SL campaign headquarters somewhere? Obviously there are a great many people out there who enjoy this phenomena. Although I must admit to really enjoying World of Warcraft, primarily for the social aspects, I much prefer the graphics in WoW to SL, and even on top of that, I prefer hanging out with friends here in the real world to either. While a useful tool for advertising my new business and a fun way to keep in touch with far away friends, even myspace sometimes becomes tedious for me. I used to think blogging would be fun: I keep a journal, but seriously, what good is a journal just for me that no one else reads? Blogging would allow my friends and family keep up when I can't keep in touch, and allow me to keep up with their lives when I'm bogged down with schoolwork and can't keep in touch. But really it's just a way to keep distances more tangible, and I find I wouldn't have to keep in contact with people who actually do live close by if all I have to do is check out their blogs. Sometimes, technology becomes too integrated into my lifestyle and I have to take a break for a while.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Second Life instructions
Oh I can hardly wait. I thought surely I'd never have to go back here...
Popular because people make real money here. Last year, the first millionaire was made from SL. She bought a lot of virtual land, developed it, and sold it for cold hard cash. Linden exchange works like a stock market: changes every day. Buy with $L, convert to cash at the main site.
Log in: I have an account; honest. I just don't remember the pw.
Phedre Wilder is my name. I'm a bunny. Ok; I'm in. And she's heading to Clemson!
And it's just as much fun as I remember it being last time I was here. I figured out how to teleport with the map, although it's taking a while to load the page.
And...I'm back where I started. It dropped me off back wherever it is I was when I last logged on, but I have really pretty butterfly wings still. That's a plus I guess.
I keep clicking both mouse buttons to make her move like in WoW but it doesn't work like that.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Class 9-11
First we watched a brief 9-11 film; always a somber moment, more so today because it's the 6th anniversary.
Color, form, depth and movement are components of vision and our ability to perceive.
Color--What purpose does it serve? Helps distinguish things from one another; reflects mood and preferences; it works as a way of setting the mood for a picture or a room; contrast; accent (a b&w photo with a red rose) to really draw the attention to a detail; enhancing mood;
Depth/movement--focus on something other than the center of the picture and allow your eyes to move through it, creating the illusion of movement and travel;
4 theories of visual comm:
Summerize the four different theories
I'm doing Gestalt theory.
sitl hvae a pbolerm wtih my pmeasnihp mbyae if I ipmrove it you wluod
aegre with my pnoint lkie you siad n the pniac atcatk tahred. i am tynirg
rleay hrad to mkae u usderatnd wtih my irmpvoed slpilneg and pcuotniautn.
Taoknhyu for yuor udsretdnanig wtih my sipllneg pblorme mlreliosd215
Gestalt theory is the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Each word is spelled correctly but the letters are mixed up; the theory is that the eye sees the whole word as long as the first and last letters are in order.
Color, form, depth and movement are components of vision and our ability to perceive.
Color--What purpose does it serve? Helps distinguish things from one another; reflects mood and preferences; it works as a way of setting the mood for a picture or a room; contrast; accent (a b&w photo with a red rose) to really draw the attention to a detail; enhancing mood;
Depth/movement--focus on something other than the center of the picture and allow your eyes to move through it, creating the illusion of movement and travel;
4 theories of visual comm:
Summerize the four different theories
I'm doing Gestalt theory.
sitl hvae a pbolerm wtih my pmeasnihp mbyae if I ipmrove it you wluod
aegre with my pnoint lkie you siad n the pniac atcatk tahred. i am tynirg
rleay hrad to mkae u usderatnd wtih my irmpvoed slpilneg and pcuotniautn.
Taoknhyu for yuor udsretdnanig wtih my sipllneg pblorme mlreliosd215
Gestalt theory is the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Each word is spelled correctly but the letters are mixed up; the theory is that the eye sees the whole word as long as the first and last letters are in order.
Monday, September 10, 2007
more Maxspace
I figured out how to make the page private, so you can't see it unless you're a friend. Max LOVED the ninja turtles and the pictures of himself. He reads fairly well, so he also enjoyed reading his biography. He squealed with delight to see his own page (he's always rather loud when excited). I think you have to be at least a teenager, like 13 or so, in order to use myspace so I haven't decided if I should delete the account or not. I haven't yet because it's all in good fun for me, but there are so many predators out there; it's a little scary once I thought it all the way out.
My project will cover the basic start-up of a small business and all the visuals associated with beginning a small business. Over the summer, I put my brain-child into effect with a friend and we're starting a personal chef/delivery service. We had our first event this weekend when we catered a wedding for 75 people. Our main focus, however, will not be catering but we booked another wedding for October! The question my project will (hopefully) answer is how do we attract customers? Where do we look for our clients? We hope our visual aids will work for us to that effect. We are designing a logo with our company name, Coriander & Cloves, for business cards, a giant magnet for our cars, our website and printed flyers. We also took lots of pictures of the reception this weekend for our myspace page and blog. We had lots of fun making all the food and serving it, too, because we weren't working for anybody but ourselves: we got all the credit for the food! It was a great feeling. I'm looking forward to our next big thing with a little less trepidation since we pulled this one off with such success (we did enlist the help of neighbors and friends towards the end; now we know how much we can do alone in 24 hours so next time we will be better equipped to plan our time accordingly).
Ok, I've tried to upload some of the pics but it keeps saying void so I'll have to try again from a faster connection.
My project will cover the basic start-up of a small business and all the visuals associated with beginning a small business. Over the summer, I put my brain-child into effect with a friend and we're starting a personal chef/delivery service. We had our first event this weekend when we catered a wedding for 75 people. Our main focus, however, will not be catering but we booked another wedding for October! The question my project will (hopefully) answer is how do we attract customers? Where do we look for our clients? We hope our visual aids will work for us to that effect. We are designing a logo with our company name, Coriander & Cloves, for business cards, a giant magnet for our cars, our website and printed flyers. We also took lots of pictures of the reception this weekend for our myspace page and blog. We had lots of fun making all the food and serving it, too, because we weren't working for anybody but ourselves: we got all the credit for the food! It was a great feeling. I'm looking forward to our next big thing with a little less trepidation since we pulled this one off with such success (we did enlist the help of neighbors and friends towards the end; now we know how much we can do alone in 24 hours so next time we will be better equipped to plan our time accordingly).
Ok, I've tried to upload some of the pics but it keeps saying void so I'll have to try again from a faster connection.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
MaxSpace
I made a page for my son! I think I know him well enough to represent him to the world. I uploaded a few pics of him and planned to make a slide show but I couldn't get to it before class. (The pictures took too long to upload all of them.) He's really into super heroes so I chose a TMNT background for the main page. I began the page with a Transformer layout in mind but it wasn't really kid-friendly, so after going through Spiderman and Superman and World of Warcraft layouts, with the same non kid friendly effect, but the ninja turtles were perfect. Max didn't get a chance to go over it with me this morning, but we'll tweak it together over the weekend. I added a song by Laurie Berkner that he loves to sing, on a whim, but his musical taste is so diverse it's hard to pin him down. I can't wait till he sees it! And we can polish it off with some of his other sayings and cute quotes.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Class Tu 9-4
Visual comm relies on eyes that work and a brain that integrates the info received. Using images effectively is what this class is about. If you can examine pics critically you can make better pictures.
Light brings visual messages to life. Visual analysis is vital for understanding today's world.
If you are observant, you will see, learn and remember more. Advertisements strive to produce the images that make you want to buy their stuff.
Clear seeing is a life long process and one that does not require vision.
Blind people are handicapped to this, but they assimilate and integrate perceptions through other means.
Three kinds of visual messages:
Mental images Dreams, daydreams, etc.
Non-mediated images What we see through our eyes everyday
Mediated images Images transmitted through a medium: film, photos, tv, computers, ads, books, etc.
What does the Clemson Tiger Paw make me think of?
-Pride in school
-(I wonder what caused the scar in the real tiger's foot that made the hook on the bottom usually)
-football
the Nike swoop
-sports
-tennis shoes
-Just Do It
M (the golden Arches of mickey D's)
-french fries
-makes me hungry
-mmm...ice cream with fudge sauce...
Where were you when...
Images of 9/11
-Aunt Barbara, walking home from work while her co-workers on higher floors jumped to their deaths
-cousins who were thankfully not in the office that day
-CNN
-the subways that no longer stop at certain places, subway routes that no longer even exist
-angry and violated
-it's easy to forget here, so far away from Ground Zero, but it happened; it was real; and it was horrible
What makes an image memorable? The plane flying into the sky scrapers? How is that a different kind of "memorable" image than the Golden Arches of McDonalds? What makes certain images powerful? That's the key to visual communication; that enables you to transmit your message effectively.
What makes an effective logo?
Light brings visual messages to life. Visual analysis is vital for understanding today's world.
If you are observant, you will see, learn and remember more. Advertisements strive to produce the images that make you want to buy their stuff.
Clear seeing is a life long process and one that does not require vision.
Blind people are handicapped to this, but they assimilate and integrate perceptions through other means.
Three kinds of visual messages:
Mental images Dreams, daydreams, etc.
Non-mediated images What we see through our eyes everyday
Mediated images Images transmitted through a medium: film, photos, tv, computers, ads, books, etc.
What does the Clemson Tiger Paw make me think of?
-Pride in school
-(I wonder what caused the scar in the real tiger's foot that made the hook on the bottom usually)
-football
the Nike swoop
-sports
-tennis shoes
-Just Do It
M (the golden Arches of mickey D's)
-french fries
-makes me hungry
-mmm...ice cream with fudge sauce...
Where were you when...
Images of 9/11
-Aunt Barbara, walking home from work while her co-workers on higher floors jumped to their deaths
-cousins who were thankfully not in the office that day
-CNN
-the subways that no longer stop at certain places, subway routes that no longer even exist
-angry and violated
-it's easy to forget here, so far away from Ground Zero, but it happened; it was real; and it was horrible
What makes an image memorable? The plane flying into the sky scrapers? How is that a different kind of "memorable" image than the Golden Arches of McDonalds? What makes certain images powerful? That's the key to visual communication; that enables you to transmit your message effectively.
What makes an effective logo?
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