Screencast Reflection on Photoshop Project (2/21/14)

Food for Thought...

If you were a business person and owns a company and found out that you can replace your work force with robots which saves you a net $100,000 a year; will you do it? Consider the following, there are no downsides with robots (like breaking down or taking over the world or functioning on their own). However, replacing your work force will require you to fire most of your employees and knowing that these employees will go bankrupt and homeless if you decide to fire them. Now the answer is obvious isn't it? But wait, that extra $100,000 that you'll be earning is going towards your new legs. You've been crippled your entire life and always wished that you could walk, play basketball, run, not get stared at like you're an outcast, being normal... It's your dream to walk for the very first time and be normal. What is your decision?

No Network Media 2/14/14

No network media... piece of cake! No phone? no problem, i don't get calls or texts anyway. No networking? no problem, i barely have any friends. No internet? hmm that's a tough one but challenge accepted. So here it goes; the day without internet or social networking...

I woke up this morning thinking to myself, no computer or phone basically no technology past the 1900s. I thought it was a piece of cake but the first hour went by and it was the longest hour I have ever experienced. I sat there on my bed just thinking, all sorts of idea and imagination coming into my mind, flooding my brain endlessly as i cannot shake these images off. One idea led to another like staring out my window and I saw this bird. Next question in my head, which direction is it flying to? Where is it going? how long will it fly? will it land someone? When will it eat... one question lead to another and the topic suddenly changed to why is the grass so green? Then further analysis went along saying the a photosynthetic pigment called chlorophyll is the reason why the grass is green. Then i started thinking about the process in which plants take light energy and convert it to oxygen and glucose. Then it just keeps going on for the next hour or two until i decided I should just go out and exercise. So i went to the gym, done some crazy amount of workout but then only another hour has past by. Now that i depleted all my energy i should eat and probably do some unfinished projects or homework. After doing my homework, I just sat there again bored out of my mind. This day made me realize how much I miss my computer and my games and online social interactions. But with every challenge that always come to me, i will always try and beat it. Thats the kind of person I am. So now i decided i will do something that i have never done before when i was bored. It was .... read a book.. for fun... That's something that I've never ever considered doing. Sure i read articles for fun but books are entirely different. After reading a few pages of the book, i got really bored and realized this is why i don't read books. So i just sat there again just staring out my window just thinking what to do next. Then I got tired of thinking and took a nap.

After I woke from my nap, i went and just played basketball for a while. After that, its time to go to work. Never have i been excited to go to work before! It made me appreciate human to human contact so much more when i went to work since i get very little of it. Most of my conversations are usually just online chatting but this human to human contact... my my what an interesting trait. Anyway after work it was already 10pm, its time to go to bed so that i can sleep away this painful misery of not having my games and computer.

At first i thought this was an easy assignment.. but nooooo i couldn't be so wrong. This assignment really shows how people or how I relied on social media and computers in order to past the time. Back in the days when we were kids, there wasn't such thing as a high speed internet or a very good computer.. Nope.. no one actually owned a computer when I was a kid. But that didn't stop us kids from having fun... we would adventure, play tag, handball, basketball, etc all sorts of games that we don't even do now. My my, how technology has made us so fragile that we cannot even come up with stuff that is fun anymore because we have computers giving us simple options to do.

Photoshop Project Thoughts (2/7/14)

Wooooooooooo, another week another blog... 5 more weeks to go! yay! alrighty lets get down to business. Photoshop is a great tool. I used it before a long time ago and learning to use it again was a lot easier than learning it the first time. However, I think the drawback in using photoshop is that its a complicated program to use. Like if you wanted to reflect or invert an image and do more stuff to it, photoshop has a much more complicated way in incorporating that into its program OR maybe its just me... But i think simple programs like Paint allow me to do things much quicker if i just wanted to add a quick change here or there and just save and bam done while in photoshop i have to click more stuff and edit more things in order to accomplish the same goal as i would do in paint. Of course photoshop is great for bigger projects like the one i currently finished with my name using the environment of ucsb and such. The photo is located down below:

Look at that master piece... my my it took my hours to do but i got it! First my process in thinking about how to go about doing this project was first the GOAL. What was my goal when i was asked to find a letter outside of class and make it resemble something. Then I was like psh that's easy why not choose more letters.. OH I GOT IT MY NAME! Thats a challenege muahahah as i thought in my head. Then I successfully found all the pieces of my name and i was like HMM this is very good but how am i going to go about putting these things together without making it messy. So I tried piecing them together without cropping or setting a background and i was like this is very messy. I need to polish it so i found a background of UCSB storke tower and I was like hmmm THIS IS MY THEME! Timothy at UCSB! Who is Timothy? What does he do? How'd he get his name?? Interesting story on how i got my name but I will discuss it in my final piece =D so too bad you gotta wait!. So anyway after thinking about putting these things together and cropping things in and out, then I wondered wait... there's water in this photo! I SHOULD DO A REFLECTION OF THOSE LETTERS! YAY! EXCITING! Then a few more hours of my time went on trying to figure out how to transparent these letters at the same time rotate them like they were reflecting. It was hard to try to get the right angle and stuff and even so its not perfect but at least i tried AM I RIGHT? Can't go through life if you arent going to give it your best shot RIGHT? So as i came to look at my final piece i asked myself this question... Can my audience recognize these letters as something i found around my environment? I always worry if people cannot recognize these objects because that would defeat the purpose of the assignment. BUT hopefully you can recognize some of the letters; but of course if i showed you guys the raw images of these letters you'll be like ooooo that's crafty! bahaha just kidding. Anyway, that's my way of thinking about this assignment! See you guys in the next blog!