Below are the lab assignments that I hadn't uploaded already to my blog:
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
The Kardos Manifesto-Extra Credit Blog
After reading and evaluating some of his work, I think it is safe to say the Karim Rashid is one of the most creative and inspirational people that I have ever looked into. Whether it is his designs for up coming credit cards or his wise words on life, Rashid definitely has himself together. After looking at some of his work and reading the first 10 points of life out of the 50 that he has come up with, I have come to the conclusion that if everyone lived by even just 10 of his tips, everyone's lives might a little less stressful. Although all of these points have me thinking a lot about the way I currently live my life, there was one point in particular that caught my eye. #10: Here and now is all we got. As soon as I read that, I started to panic. For as long as I can remember I have always made sure I had a plan, whether it was making a checklist of things I need to get done throughout the day or how I picture my career going, I've always have created a plan far in advance, but Rashid makes a great point. "Here and now is all we got". I need to stop myself from constantly living by the rule book and planning my life out the way I see it going, because the fact of the matter is, while I'm stressing out over how many credits I need to take and who I need to network with to land the perfect internship, my life is passing me by. This past year would be a great example. Coming from an extremely small town (2 street lights to be exact!) besides running and hanging out with my friends, school was extremely important to me, thus I had created the mind set that that was the only thing I wanted to get out of college. I wanted to go to class, see my friends, and study hard 24/7. Almost all of fall quarter I would stay in my room or at the library on the weekends studying for a test that wasn't for another three weeks or typing a paper that wasn't due til the end of the quarter, and suddenly I realized I was missing out on the real college experience. Here and now is all we got.
Although I think that both is manifesto and his art work are extremely brilliant and well done, I don't particularly see any tie between them. Nothing stood out to me in his manifesto or his art work that screamed that there was a direct correlation between the two. I suppose one could argue that his manifesto and art can be closely related because of the mere fact that Rashid speaks from the heart and does what he wants, however at that I still wouldn't consider that a direct correlation.
So to conclude my Media 203 blog (with the exception of Blog 9B which I have yet to post), I'd like to end this journey with my own manifesto to incoming freshman at OU:
1. Don't wear your lanyard around your neck, it screams freshman.
2. Saying "this tastes like nail polish remover" while pregaming for a party is an indication that you are a party virgin (trust me).
3. Looking both ways to cross Court Street is pointless.
4. Enjoy taking only 16 credit hours while you can.
5. Don't settle on your major, be optimistic and take classes in everything to broaden your horizons.
6. Get involved as much as you can on campus.
7. Don't carry a map with you on your first day, direct indication of a freshman.
8. Try to take advantage of all of the free activities we are given on campus.
9. Get used to staying up past 3 AM.
10. College is what you make of it and we're lucky enough to go to such a great school, thus take advantage of it.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Blog 10A
Link: http://changethis.com/
David Rendall, author of Freak Factor, provides his readers with a good read on how to overcome weakness is a corky and witty way with only nine different suggestions.
To start what's your problem? In this section Rendall really wants his readers to dig deep and find out what those flaws are about yourself. Within this suggestion he provides three steps to figure out what your problem is including fixing your weakness, build on your strengths, and most importantly do both!
His second suggestion, what my problem allows your family and friends to critique your flaws so you have an outsiders perspective. Even though what they may say to may seem a bit overzealous and harsh, it will ultimately allow you to turn your weaknesses into strengths because you are bale to see what they are and build on them.
Next we have Flawless: there is nothing wrong with you. In this suggestion readers learn to consider these weaknesses as being more as something unique about your character. All strengths and weaknesses come in pairs and it is sometimes hard to realize that you posses both of those qualities however, if you are able to see these weaknesses as more of a positive and unique characteristic about yourself you will be just fine. I think this could be a good suggestion to a certain extent, just because you wouldn't want the person to become too full of themselves.
Forget it: don't try to fix your weaknesses. In this suggestion readers learn to completely forget about their weakness. Being human beings, we have this natural instinct to take whatever negative qualities we find in ourselves or to others find within ourselves and make ourselves completely obsessed with the idea, almost to the extent that that is all we ever think about. So, just to make it easier on yourself, FORGET ABOUT IT! I think this suggestion is a really good idea because I think all too often people get wrapped up in their lives and can't help but not forget about something. Thus, if we were just able to let some things go life may be a little bit easier.
Foundation: foundation build on your strengths. As Rendall simply states, these strengths are what you love to do. They are what you are most naturally good at, so keep up the good work. I think this is a great and probably the most important suggestion made because it is so important to take part in the thigns we love to do and that make us happy.
Focus: you can't do both. Once again, we meet this same concept as being a normal human being and getting all caught up in our multitasking lives. Take a breather and a step back, and only focus on one thing at a time.
Fit: find the right spot. Don't freak out about not fitting in, you need to choose those natural situations that fit who YOU are.
Freak: the power of uniqueness. Don't feel unwanted or different when flaunting your uniqueness, because it is what makes you, YOU.
And finally we have the Freak fact: putting your corks to work. As I mentioned before everybody has something about themselves that makes them an individual and extremely unique. So instead of hiding that, don't be afraid to apply it and get some good use out of it.
After taking this class I have most certainly realized what my strengths and weaknesses are. My strengths would be that I am not afraid to take charge. In just about all of my group labs, I have always been the one to introduce myself first and jump the gun to get started on the project. However good my strength may be, this leads into my weakness which is being to anal. I am very persistent on getting all of my school work done in a good advancement of time (i.e: THIS BLOG). I need to learn to take a step back and just take it one day at a time instead of a weak in advance because it is stressing me out more than what I need to be/
David Rendall, author of Freak Factor, provides his readers with a good read on how to overcome weakness is a corky and witty way with only nine different suggestions.
To start what's your problem? In this section Rendall really wants his readers to dig deep and find out what those flaws are about yourself. Within this suggestion he provides three steps to figure out what your problem is including fixing your weakness, build on your strengths, and most importantly do both!
His second suggestion, what my problem allows your family and friends to critique your flaws so you have an outsiders perspective. Even though what they may say to may seem a bit overzealous and harsh, it will ultimately allow you to turn your weaknesses into strengths because you are bale to see what they are and build on them.
Next we have Flawless: there is nothing wrong with you. In this suggestion readers learn to consider these weaknesses as being more as something unique about your character. All strengths and weaknesses come in pairs and it is sometimes hard to realize that you posses both of those qualities however, if you are able to see these weaknesses as more of a positive and unique characteristic about yourself you will be just fine. I think this could be a good suggestion to a certain extent, just because you wouldn't want the person to become too full of themselves.
Forget it: don't try to fix your weaknesses. In this suggestion readers learn to completely forget about their weakness. Being human beings, we have this natural instinct to take whatever negative qualities we find in ourselves or to others find within ourselves and make ourselves completely obsessed with the idea, almost to the extent that that is all we ever think about. So, just to make it easier on yourself, FORGET ABOUT IT! I think this suggestion is a really good idea because I think all too often people get wrapped up in their lives and can't help but not forget about something. Thus, if we were just able to let some things go life may be a little bit easier.
Foundation: foundation build on your strengths. As Rendall simply states, these strengths are what you love to do. They are what you are most naturally good at, so keep up the good work. I think this is a great and probably the most important suggestion made because it is so important to take part in the thigns we love to do and that make us happy.
Focus: you can't do both. Once again, we meet this same concept as being a normal human being and getting all caught up in our multitasking lives. Take a breather and a step back, and only focus on one thing at a time.
Fit: find the right spot. Don't freak out about not fitting in, you need to choose those natural situations that fit who YOU are.
Freak: the power of uniqueness. Don't feel unwanted or different when flaunting your uniqueness, because it is what makes you, YOU.
And finally we have the Freak fact: putting your corks to work. As I mentioned before everybody has something about themselves that makes them an individual and extremely unique. So instead of hiding that, don't be afraid to apply it and get some good use out of it.
After taking this class I have most certainly realized what my strengths and weaknesses are. My strengths would be that I am not afraid to take charge. In just about all of my group labs, I have always been the one to introduce myself first and jump the gun to get started on the project. However good my strength may be, this leads into my weakness which is being to anal. I am very persistent on getting all of my school work done in a good advancement of time (i.e: THIS BLOG). I need to learn to take a step back and just take it one day at a time instead of a weak in advance because it is stressing me out more than what I need to be/
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Balloon Buster Blog 9A
I have to admit, that I am thoroughly impressed and proud of my groups creation and idea for a game. Although the concept is extremely simple and not the least bit complex, I feel like sometimes that can go further rather than an idea that has a lot. However, as the blog stated no presentation can be completely flawless without some minor faults, but with every fault there is a strength as well so lets start with that.
One point that never really came across and was touched on lightly I think were the visual elements, we briefly described them as anything brightly colored and animated to allow the player to use their imagination, but I think that could've been done in a better war because we didn't really focus on it a whole lot.
Strength: Personally, I feel like my groups biggest strength was explaining the rules of our game. As soon as Angela came up with this brilliant idea, the rules instantly came to mind. We knew that our procedure would be that the player would have to give an answer to matter what, whether its wrong or right. From there, if the player was incorrect we would give them 3 choices or chances to be given the right answer-50/50 multiple choice answers, step-by-step procedure of the problem, or skip the question and be given a new one. However, if answered incorrectly, one of your balloons will pop. The delimiters included the player not being able to advance until all questions are answered correctly and until the requested amount of balloons per level have been met. Players can only advance if they give the right answer. Our rules were very basic and straight forward so it didn't require a lot of thinking on the players part in order for them to understand. Thus, this was the easiest concept area to discuss with others because we had elaborated on it so much.
Weakness: Our groups biggest weakness was the mechanics. I felt like we didn't describe them well enough, almost like they were too basic. We described them as using the arrows to allow the player to jump, using the letters on the keyboard for any word problem, and using the numbers on the keyboard for any math problem. I don't think we explained this well enough because it seems to me like there aren't enough mechanics. If we had more time to actually construct this game, we could have gone into more detail about more of the movements and actions the player would encounter which would ultimately lead to explaining the mechanics better.
One point that never really came across and was touched on lightly I think were the visual elements, we briefly described them as anything brightly colored and animated to allow the player to use their imagination, but I think that could've been done in a better war because we didn't really focus on it a whole lot.
Strength: Personally, I feel like my groups biggest strength was explaining the rules of our game. As soon as Angela came up with this brilliant idea, the rules instantly came to mind. We knew that our procedure would be that the player would have to give an answer to matter what, whether its wrong or right. From there, if the player was incorrect we would give them 3 choices or chances to be given the right answer-50/50 multiple choice answers, step-by-step procedure of the problem, or skip the question and be given a new one. However, if answered incorrectly, one of your balloons will pop. The delimiters included the player not being able to advance until all questions are answered correctly and until the requested amount of balloons per level have been met. Players can only advance if they give the right answer. Our rules were very basic and straight forward so it didn't require a lot of thinking on the players part in order for them to understand. Thus, this was the easiest concept area to discuss with others because we had elaborated on it so much.
Weakness: Our groups biggest weakness was the mechanics. I felt like we didn't describe them well enough, almost like they were too basic. We described them as using the arrows to allow the player to jump, using the letters on the keyboard for any word problem, and using the numbers on the keyboard for any math problem. I don't think we explained this well enough because it seems to me like there aren't enough mechanics. If we had more time to actually construct this game, we could have gone into more detail about more of the movements and actions the player would encounter which would ultimately lead to explaining the mechanics better.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Blog 8B
I don't know about the rest of you. but I beyond relieved that this animation project is completely done. I don't think I have ever put so much of my own time into something for this class (pathetic I know) and the time I put into it, with resulting in the way my finished product looked like, the two just didn't go together and towards the end I just got flustered and tired of it. If you didn't notice Joshs' character didn't even hit the ground, it floated the whole time in my animation..pathetic. But it's over with now and we are FINALLY onto our last lab project. Moving onto my usual babbling and onto the actual instructions of what this blog is supposed to be on.
My first critique is for Kamerynn and Andrew. Kamerynn and Andrew did an exceptionally good job at at their animation. Kamerynn created the hero, which consisted of him breaking threw a wall and throwing a car, whereas Andrew created the villain who few around and had a force field protecting himself from lightning and dark clouds. Between both animations, one similarity that I caught onto was the use weight. In both animations the background was extremely simple, containing next to nothing other than the few props needed to establish what it was that their character could do. This made the weight of their animation seem light as oppose to using a city scape like my animation did which created weight to be heavier because there was more going on in the background. This animation also had the very stereotypical symbolism that typical her and villains would have. Kamerynns character had brighter colors to make him seem like more of a hero, where as Andrews character was surrounded by darker colors which made him seem like more like an evil character. One could also say that this animation used contrast and affinity by showing these characters being in the same general theme, but be different as in their actions, movement, and intentions.
My second critique is for Mary. Although I didn't see Mary's actual animation, I am able to critique the look of her characters. To begin with, her hero, Finnigan Strongjaw, has the physique of your stereotypical super hero. His stature is probably one of the most important qualities, he is extremely boxy with broad shoulders and a square shaped head. The reason as to why I believe his stature is an important quality is because it symbolizes his strength. One is to assume that because of his boxy stature and square shape that his movement is very much the same. However, going from the Strongjaw we move to the villain Sinastra Pikespear, who has a triangle shaped head which reinforces the uncomforting feeling of not being able to trust her, even without knowing that she is the villain. Her attire incorporates a lot of analogous color schemes incorporating the blues, greens, and purples. Between these two charcters, we are left to assume that they contrast one another by the shape of their bodies, with the hero being more square and the villain more triangular.
My third critique is for Michael.
My first critique is for Kamerynn and Andrew. Kamerynn and Andrew did an exceptionally good job at at their animation. Kamerynn created the hero, which consisted of him breaking threw a wall and throwing a car, whereas Andrew created the villain who few around and had a force field protecting himself from lightning and dark clouds. Between both animations, one similarity that I caught onto was the use weight. In both animations the background was extremely simple, containing next to nothing other than the few props needed to establish what it was that their character could do. This made the weight of their animation seem light as oppose to using a city scape like my animation did which created weight to be heavier because there was more going on in the background. This animation also had the very stereotypical symbolism that typical her and villains would have. Kamerynns character had brighter colors to make him seem like more of a hero, where as Andrews character was surrounded by darker colors which made him seem like more like an evil character. One could also say that this animation used contrast and affinity by showing these characters being in the same general theme, but be different as in their actions, movement, and intentions.
My second critique is for Mary. Although I didn't see Mary's actual animation, I am able to critique the look of her characters. To begin with, her hero, Finnigan Strongjaw, has the physique of your stereotypical super hero. His stature is probably one of the most important qualities, he is extremely boxy with broad shoulders and a square shaped head. The reason as to why I believe his stature is an important quality is because it symbolizes his strength. One is to assume that because of his boxy stature and square shape that his movement is very much the same. However, going from the Strongjaw we move to the villain Sinastra Pikespear, who has a triangle shaped head which reinforces the uncomforting feeling of not being able to trust her, even without knowing that she is the villain. Her attire incorporates a lot of analogous color schemes incorporating the blues, greens, and purples. Between these two charcters, we are left to assume that they contrast one another by the shape of their bodies, with the hero being more square and the villain more triangular.
My third critique is for Michael.
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