What Did I Do Over The Break?

I could be like William and say my break was very much uneventful, but I am not going to. My break comprised mostly of staying up late and barely doing any homework. I did however spent many hours playing games many with my brother but if he ever lost he would be such a sore loser about defeat and all I could say was that he needed to drink some H2O cause he was so salty. I also "celebrated" Chinese New Year, and by "celebrate" I mean getting money and staying home that day. Some foods that I enjoyed over the break included instant ramen, turkey ham sandwiches with pickles, and oh so juicy, moist, delicious, steak.

Looking at Art in NYC (Scandulous Style)

"Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow"
by Geordia O'Keeffe

a) This artwork piece by Geordia O'Keeffe I found at the Metropolitan Museum in its Modern Section. This piece hanged on a column facinf inward in a single room surrounded by other Modern arts, not necessarily all abstract or realistic art, but art done within the past century or so.

b) The interesting thing about this piece  that drew my attention was how "stuck in the gutter" my head was when I found this piece. My suspicions about this piece were confirmed when I went to read the info card beside the art describing it. It reminds me of something I can't actually put on this rated PG-13 blog, but if you look at this piece long enough you might understand why. The simplicity and symmetrical nature of the peiece also mesmerized and stole away my attention.

c) Well aside from what I have stateed in my first two points, I know that this piece was made in 1923. It was made out of oil and created on a canvas. The artist Geordia, was an American who was born in 1887 and died in 1986. She is also known for making abstact artworks based on nature.

Finding Type

You must identify which category the type is under.

Where and what was the type used for?

Do you find the typeface to be appropriate for its purpose?

 1) Modern

2) It was used in a park as a sign to indicate to people that shoes need to be worn while in the park.

3) I find it appropriate because it seems very serious.

 1) It doesn't seem to fit any other than Decorative

2) It was used to "catch" buyers (pun intended) with the sleek design

3) I find it very appropriate because the snack is suppose to be friendly and expresses playfulness with its font

 1) Modern, Sans Serif

2) It was used to make people feel at ease around the neighborhood

3) It seemed appropriate because the multiple types of fonts help keep a welcoming presence

 1) Sans Seriff

2) It was used to envoke assurance and radical feelings

3) I don't think it was approprriate because it comes off trying to be too hip

 1) Definitely Sans Serif, trust me

2) It was used to assert seriousness and order to tell people to not do something

3) I think it's okay but the sign doesn't seem very convincign

1) Modern

2) It was used to show that the orange juice was truthful in its design

3) I don't think this typefont is appropriate because it seems unappealing and bland

Club Logo Club Interview - Ultimate Frisbee

So before I start working on creating a logo for the ultimate frisbee club, I had to get an idea for how it should be. To begin, I asked one of the members of the team about the club. Although I am a member of the team, I only joined recently within the last three months and having a perspective from a person who has been in the club longer would definitely provide a better understanding of the club. I asked one of the team captain, Nicole.

According to her, the main purpose of the club was teach more people about the world of ultimate frisbee. This is because ultimate is not as popular of a sport as baseball or football and those who cannot or do not want to play the more popular sports could try frisbee as an alternative and learn how competitive and fun it is to other sports. Although it is a sport, the club has a friendly environment from both Millennium High School and Millennium Brooklyn High School. Members collaborate and bond with others as a team. Getting to the practices is probably the most tedious obstacle because Millennium High School and Millennium Brooklyn are located in two different boroughs making a meetup at Prospect Park somewhat unreliable if the weather is extreme. Nicole says that five words that best describe the club would be life, new, stress relieving, talent, and especially fun. Five images that she says best symbolize the team are layouts, frisbees, teamwork, strategizing, and frisbee tricks.

The club originally started out as a small team of people composed of ultimate players and expanded throughout the years as more people wanted to learn and play frisbee. The key principles the club practices are communication and hard work. These key ideas allowed the team to grow and become better managing to win 2nd place last year in the b-league (open division). And whther or not the team wins or loses it is more important that we did it as a team. We will overcome defeat and achieve our goal as one. We are also developing our team this year by trying to go to state tournaments.

Good Logos

Create a blog post about your favorite logo(s).  Name one brand/logo that you own and enjoy and explain why you think the logo is well designed. Then chose one logo that you are not familiar with from the best logo design links I have below (the first two).  Chose one that you think is well designed and explain why. 

One brand that I own and enjoy is the Pepsi Cola brand because it is both simplistic and identifiable. The logo on the soda is a circle with red white and blue inside of it. The red portion is on top while a white curved line goes through the middle separating the red from the blue portion on the bottom of the circle. When I drink Pepsi I feel a refreshing sensation, but when I look at the logo I feel even more rejuvenated. The colors might seem patriotic but I don't get that feeling. Simpleness and the few colors used help make the logo stand out making it a good logo.

One logo I am not familiar with but is very popular that I have found is the Sop Wise logo. I think that this is a very good logo because it stands out and is very intriguing. I cannot recall a logo I have seen before that had a  bag-faced disembodied head with an outstanding mustache such as this one. The opaque glasses also emphasize the concept of choosing a good choice in shopping at Shop Wise.

Background Image

Starting - Before

Final - After 

For my portrait transformation project I initially started out with a different picture of a person with a hat in a souvenir shop transforming the background into a fashion show, but I later changed my idea because the image I had before was more complex to transform and too pixelated. Changing my concept I think it worked out better because the ideas fit well together. This time I wanted to communicate the idea of fantasy and imagination. The costume design in the picture was for a scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 3 for the 2nd Witch of the Weird Sisters. It was very successful to me because Photoshop allowed me to easily change the hue, brightness, contrast, saturation, and filter the picture. In the process of transforming the picture selecting the certain parts I wanted to delete was tedious but manageable. If the lasso tool and magic wand tool weren't so strict in what could be selected this would have been a breeze to do.

Shape to Symbol GIF

Gif.Apple

Reflection:
                 So, finally here is my completed gif. I will not tell you what it is because that is also apart of the project, so instead figure it out for yourself. This was made in Photoshop specifically using CS6. It is a professional tool with this project being my first project created on this program. I really enjoyed using it a lot, much better than MS Paint. It wasn't without its hardships though.
One of the most frustrating aspects of the program (aside from working with a slow mouse w/o admin powers) was constantly having to switch between the different tools manually. Granted I could have looked it up but hindsight is a thing. None of the tools seem to complicated for me to use. In having prior knowledge of working with MS Paint I knew some of the basics with Photoshop. The mini-lessons in class definitely aided me in learning all the different tools. The selection tools were the most useful set of tools for me because the tools allowed me to microscopically edit my design and fix my unintended marks.
                 Now completing the project the tool that I feel the most confident in using is undo tool. No, its actually the selection tool because I understand what it does and how to apply it. It allows me to work in desired areas without affecting other portions of my design.
The tool that I have gotten better at using is the eyedropper tool because it only does one thing and does that one thing well. This does not include its subsection of eyedropper tools but the main one that selects a color when pointing at a pixel of one color. Simple, effective, incredibly useful. No more having to save paints over night so that you don't have to mix paints just to produce the same colors amiright?
                 The next thing that I would want to create using Photoshop is a short video almost vine-like video of me and my friends doing things. I guess just vines in general but substituting Photoshop for my other programs to edit videos. I would incorporate the most obscure details in my videos and see if people could understand my allusions.