Monday, December 7, 2009

Art Institute of Houston -- Guest Speaker

4 Ideas That I Learned About the Art Institute:
1) They offer a culinary arts program.
2) You can do a combination of different programs in just one program.
3) They have many different locations.
4) You dont really have to know that much about the program you want to study.

How the Banana Split Was Born



























The background where the mutant lives is in a flooded forest, I didnt really edit it that much except for darkening it a little bit. The base image is my face, I cut out the entire background, and edited the picture a little bit. I cut out Stitch's ears by using the lasso tool and then i moved it over to the base image, and reshaped it inorder to fit. For the leopard skin, I cropped part of the leopard so I would have its skin. Then I moved it over to the base image and reshaped it so it would fit. For the white tiger, I cropped out the entire background, and lasso-ed the entire body except for the head. And for the clouded leopard, I cropped out it's nose, and then moved it over to the base image. Then I reshaped it in order for it to fit on my face.



Monday, November 23, 2009

Banana Split

Ever since the Great Flood of 2012 wiped out countless number of people, there has been one creature that came into existence. No one really knows why it came to our planet, and most thought that we would be better off without it, but in reality the Banana Split is the best thing that happened to us.

The Banana Split lives in a secluded part of the Killikillik Forest, which is completely covered in water. She has no family, and only befriends ligers. Every day the Banana Split watches The Hangover while eating sour patch and jalapeno chips. She can’t eat red meat or vegetables, so the only thing that satisfies her hunger is candy and junk food.

She has one obsession…Robert Pattinson. While rummaging through empty homes in the nearby area, she found a life-size cardboard cutout of him and immediately fell in love. Even though he is dead, she still daydreams about him marrying her. And she is in the process of finding a way ro being him back to life by befriending witches.

Her cute, fluffy ears make her able to hear from far and wide. And her leopard and white tiger skin is from her great great grandmother who was half-leopard and half-tiger. She has the cutest clouded leopard nose, in all of the Banana Splits, which helps her smell sour candy from miles away.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Mutant Project

The object of the mutant project is to create a creature that doesn't exist in reality. I start off by having a picture of me, which is called the base image. And then I alter it, by adding different features like alien antennas or cat eyes, to make myself unreal. And by the end of the project, I can add this project to my portfolio.

Emerging Technologies

In a relatively short period of time, our world has changed dramatically because of the creation in 1969 of a small computer network known as ARPANET.

Web sites have evolved over time. First generation sites were static—no interactivity. They included basic structures. Second generation sites included intuitive, user-friendly navigation systems, focused on the content, and animation—blinking text, moving banners, animated images, etc. Since businesses were now online, there was much more interaction than with first generation sites. Third generation sites addressed their audiences based on their objectives, which drove the design and structure. Splash pages were popular, as was the use of cascading style sheets, portals, and forms. These sites focused on content and were easily navigated. Fourth generation sites are participatory and highly interactive. They provide richer experiences for their users. Site designers take full advantage of the new tools of Web 2.0. They frequently include wikis, blogs, podcasts, webcasts, and Web services. Standards are being developed for mobile users of the Web to make their online experience productive and efficient.

E-commerce has exploded because of the popularity of the World Wide Web and the new technologies that have been developed. An example of a new technology the we are using in our classroom is using a BLOG to form journal entries.