Research project

I chose to tie my research project with my final. I new I was gonna do something with photography for my final so for my research I chose to play around with different things on the camera. Mostly I played around with different lighting conditions. I also did a little depth of field and time lapse. I looked up different techniques on the internet and practiced them and got some pretty good results. I will post my pics on my final project blog or may just bring them to class.

New Media Scavenger Hunt

New Media is best defined as the use of newer (digital) technology used for communication as opposed to older technology such as print and T'V. We are in a generation that is computer and technology driven. Digital Media is used for everything by this younger generation and even the older generations are getting hip to what's going on. There are five excellent uses of New Media that I can think. They are as follows:
1. The use of online portfolios and resumes as opposed to printed material
2. Websites for companies is a necessity even to the point where I wouldn't take a company seriously if they don't have a website!
3. The use of online social networking sites such as myspace, facebook, and now twitter.
4. The use of online music sites that promote artists such as myspace, vh1 and rhapsody.
5. The use of social online networks to promote the presidential election!

The biggest one of all five has to be the use of social networks to promote this year's presidential election. Barack Obama is shown to be one smart ass man to recognize what is relevent in today's generation. He took advantage of the social networks that have become the blood line for today's youth. He used myspace as well as face book to promote his campaign and even had the creator of face book come on board with him to manage his promotion through face book. Wow! Barack was able to gain huge support from his young generation as well as older generation through the use of these medias. I am able to use what I've learned by recognizing that if I want my final to be relevent to the people of today's generation it better use these newer medias!

Response to class on April 13

I was unable to make class on this date because I had some appointments to take my daughter to. I don't know what went on in class but as always I'm sure it was interesting.

What the Bleep response

I thought the movie was very interesting. It made you think about things in a different way. The idea of Quantum Theory made me ponder things in a different light. I may not have fully agreed with everything that was said or maybe I didn't fully understand what was said enough to believe it. Some of the ideas about what matter was didn't seem to far fetched. While watching that part of the movie I couldn't help but to think about all the things in this world which at some point someone said was impossible. All the inventions that make you wonder how the hell was someone able to bring to life. Maybe all matter is something that was thought of by someone or thing and brought into existence. I am one who truly feels that there is nothing and I mean nothing that the human mind can think of that can't be brought to life in some manner.

Client Exercise

As much as I would have loved to use Mary Ellen as my client it was impossible for me to complete in time for her birthday. The assignment was too sudden and I was very busy that Monday. So I decided to use my daughter as the client. I took pictures of her first day at church so I could show her them when she gets older. I know it pretty lame but hey I didn't have anything else to work with. I chose the ones I liked the most and framed them. These were the images I selected.

Randomness Exercise Final Step

My instructions were to take something that celebrates water and incorporate it some how with my chosen idea. Well I came up with the idea to have the background of the web site pages have a sort of water-like feel. I can have my foreground images and text laid on an image of water or something. Maybe even animate the water to show some type of ripple effect when you click on any of the inside links. Well that's my idea.

Response to class after Spring break

Class yesterday was interesting. We got to see what some of the results for the randomness assignment were. It was cool to see what everyone came up with. Can't wait to see the rest.