GRIZZLY(´・ω・｀)がおー: 10月 2011

2011年10月23日日曜日

Weekly Blog#3

Timmmmyboy assignment.

So, Tim Owen's talks about his background and idea of being artist.
He thinks any kind of people are artists, no matter what is their major.
Your life is full of art and creative things, and ds106 is a good chance to improve your creativity.
I like his phrase "People are more creative when they are hungry", that's funny.

However, I want to be just an audience rather than artist.
I used to learn art seriously, yet one day I realized that I like art, but I don't want to be an artist or designer.
I just love to see artworks at a museum. That's me.
Still sometimes I enjoy drawing, yet I don't want to think myself an artist.
I like cooking and making dishes pretty, I love wearing make up which probably Mr.Owen thinks art.
Yet these don't make me feel like I'm an artist.
I'd rather think myself as an audience.

Timmmmyboy

2011年10月19日水曜日

Phake Tweets

This assignment is fake tweeting; imagine, what would you tweet if you were a famous historical person?

As Cleopatra, I tweet "

So, which one should I do before I attract Caesar...breast implant or making my nose taller?"

I assume she would be cosmetic surgery freak if she was in modern world.

YES!!!! I've successfully attracted Caesar and now he's my husband! the world belongs to me!!!

would you buy a diamond ring for me at Tiffany, Darling? @Caesar

I cannot imagine how big diamond she would ask him to buy.

Here, I tweet as Caesar.

Sure, honey. What else do you want? @ Cleopatra

and Cleopatra again,

THIS WORLD!!!!!! @ Caesar

She wants engage ring and world for their marriage.

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2011年10月18日火曜日

Video Essay

So, this essay should be about movies or audio commentary, but since I have personal reason to love this video, I want to talk about it.

This video is about Kimi Raikkonen who used to be an F1 driver.
He was a great driver, especially in Suzuka circuit 2005.
In the race, he started in the end of the line and won the race!
I was watching the race there around chicane corner with my father.
I cannot forget the excitement!

He couldn't go ahead from his rival until the final lap, but he was calm all the time.
He never got upset. He quietly made the distance between him and his rival shorter.
When he finally went ahed from his rival in the final lap, every audience stood up.
The moment was so great that I cannot explain in words!!!!!

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Google　Map　Story

This place is my favorite Ramen Store Hongo-Tei. Probably the most famous ramen store in Nagoya.
It is located behind Nagoya station.
The inside doesn't really look like ramen store because a lot of Hawaiian things are displayed (I don't know why).

2 years ago I went there with my boyfriend and a lot of guys in suites and college boys were there without their girl friends.
Their eyes were NOT warm at all when we came in the store lol

The A mark on the map is the place of Hongo-Tei.

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Haiku it up -一句詠みました-

Okay, since I am Japanese, I want to make a Japanese Haiku for it.
紅葉に　衣替えをと　教えられ
That means the leaves turn to yellow and red colors and I realize that it's time to change summer clothes to winter ones.

It's inspired by nbrach' flickr picture.

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2011年10月13日木曜日

Mid-term Exam

I choose "design" for This topic.
So, I show you something relates to adobe Illustrator here.
I am an adobe Illustrator lover ( or I was because I had not touched it almost one year).
Almost all the time I use Illustrator when I design something.

YouTube video: uploaded by pfltuts/ Adobe Illustrator Logo Design

He seems to explain how to make logo with adobe Illustrator ( since it's exam, I could not listen to what he's saying so not 100% sure).
The author has own website for tutoring design which is called PixelForLife.com
I used to learn how to use adobe Illustrator and now forgot how it works...I only remember the basic things.
For some of the storytelling assignments, I used adobe Illustrator and I realize how much I lost the skills. I think I should watch and read his video and articles to get the skills back!!!

CC licensed picture of Adobe Illustrator:uploaded by Gambarrott/ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR SPLASHES

This picture is basically about the design of each version of adobe Illustrator. I don't know how many versions of Illustrator has adobe sold...but a lot. This picture is interesting to see for me because I have used some of them in the past. Now I am using adobe CS4 which is the previous version. Adobe Illustrator is a cool software except the price. It is very expensive even student version so that I cannot afford to buy CS5, the latest one.

Blog Links:
Real World Illustrator (tutoring for skills of adobe Illustrator)
Inside Adobe Illustrator (Adobe's blog about their products)
Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator (as the name of the blog explains, making map with adobe illustrator)

They all are about adobe Illustrator and design things.
I believe sharing those skills is great and I love reading and watching these things though it's sometimes hard to get the skill for me. It should be good for people who are learning design, especially graphic design things.
A lot of adobe Illustrator users have own way to use it, and sometimes it's good to know how other users make design. You can learn new ways and new things that even Adobe does not know.

2011年10月12日水曜日

Movie Fortunes

「１たす１が、１より小さいとは、ボク思わない！」

"I don't think 1+1 would be less than 1!!!!!!" by Nobita Nobi
An anime movie "ドラえもん　のび太の太陽王伝説”, Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King.

When a King is trying to duel with two guys, the main character, Nobita offers to help him but he rejects Nobita. So Nobita shouts at him that phrase and then the king changes his decision and accepts Nobita's offer.

This phrase is very touchy and beautiful.
It's just from an anime movie, but I still love it.
I think the movie tells children about importance of friendship with that phrase which is good.

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Typography-my name

So, for this assignment I used a chinese character 熊(bear) that is part of my name.
I know the description asks to use "letters" but I want to make something funny for my assignment, so...sorry for that :P
Does the shape look like a face of bear? I hope so.

I used adobe illustrator CS4.

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2011年10月11日火曜日

Car Lust

I got this image from a blog 我が日ス輪は永久に不滅です！written by　み・そ・じ

This car is Impreza STI of SUBARU( WRX STI specC typeRA-R).

There are some versions of Impreza, and this version's Japanese nickname is 涙目(tear eyes).

I just love the blue color of SUBARU and the tear eyes.

I also love the butt♥so cute!

I got this picture from BLUE　ZERO～山形から発信～　　Don’t forget to try in mind written by zero-1128.

This version's design is so girly for me, so STI is a GIRL! ( for me, lancer evolution and GTR are guys).

It's a kind of small, very round and cute design. And the blue is so attractive and the gold wheels are just perfect color for it.

It's not a super expensive or powerful car like Ferrari or Lamborghini, yet I just love the design.

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ds 106 ClouDoraemonchu

The blue boy's name is Doraemon, the main character of an anime.

Needless to say, "Pica-chu" is the voice of the Pikachu, the popular Pokemon.

If you don't know about Cloud Strife, click here to jump wikipedia.

I used adobe Photoshop CS4 to this assignment.

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ds106...?

I am totally lost so far but trying to figure out what I have to do.
I kinda made a design and I have no idea if it works for the assignment or not.

Here is my design;

It shows playing Mario; game controller represents video game obviously, the mushroom in the game, the Piranha Plant (パックンフラワー in Japanese), and the crown shows the princess, Peach that he saves in the story.

I used adobe illustrator CS4 to this assignment.

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