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[sonia-d]

WEEKS 4-5 pottery learning session yesterday @terrapotterstudios 3 (potential) boxes in the making, a matcha bowl, another bowl, a wonky vase and soja sauce or oolong tea cup maybe… let’s see how trimming goes next Sunday! (To be continued…) #pottery #potteryclass #learningpottery #learninglogs #ceramics #learningceramics #apprentice (at South Melbourne, Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClfSzOopKvu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mavsnificientonfilm10]

Learning Log 1- The Expectation

There are certain things I anticipate happening in Class Film 10, and I believe it will be both enjoyable and hard since you will be learning more about the technical aspect of filmmaking, which I am not very skilled at at the moment. Expect to get a broad understanding of cinema theory, have the opportunity to learn how to tell a narrative via the medium, and learn about opportunities in the business that could truly entice me to continue doing what I'm doing now in the future. I believe that this course will be extremely difficult, and that I will have to go through it more than once before the parts start to fall into place and the muscle memory begins to kick in. I am looking forward to it.

[bpflug]

Say hello

For my first assignment in Illustration 1, I was to create a greeting card that told my tutor about myself, my interests and inspirations, the materials I feel happy working with and maybe what I would like to get from the course.

I began by brainstorming a few ideas about the topics I was supposed to touch on:

From there, I grew a bit frustrated:

Mainly because, typical Brandon, I couldn’t decide on the style and materials I wanted to use.

It took a day or so of thinking, but I ultimately came up with the idea based on an artist meme that goes around at least once a year on Instagram called “Meet the Artist” where the artist draws a picture of themself and the tools they carry with them / mostly use.

Thus began the long road of sketching what I felt I looked like as a cartoon. (Side note: I hate drawing myself and any characters that are supposed to resemble anyone in particular.)

I ultimately came up with the character design pictured above colored in blue + red.

After I designed myself and the backpack I always carry full of pens and sketchbooks, I began sketching out my most used supplies:

It was then I began piecing everything together on one, final page. I started tracing my images onto a 5″ x 7″ illustration paper:

After tracing my images with clear lines using a grade H pencil, I began coloring the sketch in with watercolor. I then scanned the image in and began re-positioning the items where I thought the would look good. My first attempt:

Ultimately, I ended up with this composition:

The image, sadly, began warping a bit after all the adjustments in photoshop. And partly due to my impatience with going back and attempting to draw the figure again how I wanted it to be.

It was at this stage that I took my composition into InDesign and made a card layout. Here is my inside message to my tutor:

And finally, here is the entire image as a mock-up:

All-in-all, I feel pretty happy with the results here, and I feel like I would definitely like to explore the character of me I created, as well as painting more with watercolors.

[siyingeportfolio]

Learning Log 3 (Monitor)

This is my Learning Log for the Monitor phase. In the consult for this phase, I discussed about the responses in my survey and SVA’s, as well as ways to improve on my e-Portfolio, as it was yet to be improved at the time of consult.

[karisanoca2]

Independent Learning log 08

I have seen this video on a lop. I do not like Picasso as a person (It is painful how forgiving people is) but I do like him as an artist. In this video of 5m you can see Picasso painting but more than that, you can see a flow of ideas (I think he might have explored them more if he has more time to finish)

The stream of consciousness as my husband calls it, it is quite interesting, he does not stop to he moves forward. I think he knows when something is pleasing or interesting visually. He followed an instant. He was not afraid to paint on top and change it when he did not like it.

Note: I have been thinking on create a collection of stimulating things. When I started Illustration I did not know anything, I did not have any illustrators that I like and over the years I have been learning more and more so I think the next logical step will create a blog just for the artist that I like and pieces like this one. I want to add a kimono video for the V&A museum soon.

[iamalecxander]

The SEC Files : Learning log 1

It’s been a while since I posted something like this. I was busy in work and at the same time, I took the e-commerce class last month. T’was fun, and full of information, most especially about the emerging technologies and creating an e-commerce presence.

With all those items, yep - there is one thing that concerns me: security. Given that my presence requires confidential information (as my site enables virtual payments), then how will I ensure that my site is secured in a sense?

Then my professor said something as he was discussing security service and mechanisms:

You cannot protect everything from everyone. - Sir Justin Pineda

The quote above started it all.

This itself is a scary one. Though it is an inconvenient truth.

There are not enough resources and money in the world to totally mitigate all the risks. - Sir Justin Pineda

Of course- I will be stressed, and as well as the others, if I switch my concern on everything that cannot be controlled at the same time, especially when we talk about Information Security. Though I must keep in mind that at least I must consider protecting the most important data first, then it will follow.

It’s a good thing because first and foremost: Awareness is the key. Having said that, I asked myself: where to start? At least I should have known the overview or introduction of information security and its concepts, such as:

Existing architectures;

Services and mechanisms,

Authentications and authorizations, and the like.

I must also consider tackling legal issues (Data Privacies), that’s one of the issues in the world that I don’t want to interfere of because it is scare. Have you guys seen those identity-theft movies such as The Net (and The Net 2.0)? They are insane but is possible to happen because of the capabilities of technology that we have today.

To wrap my infobox, I must align my concerns to these items at the end of the day:

Implement Confidentiality; wherein I must protect my customers’ data from unauthorized disclosure;

Ensure Integrity; wherein I must protect any modification from the data that has been provided in my system; and

Promis Availability - wherein I must ensure that my site is always accessible and is protected from any denial of service attacks.

Ha, information is overflooowing! It will be a long journey for me but still, I think it is worth it.

[theaimani]

Assignment 4

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Magazine article

Assignment:

Magazine 

Research on type foundries

Summary

Introduction

Typography is central to the practice of graphic design. The western alphabet we recognize today has developed over a millennial, drawing from ancient Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan & Roman Letterforms & writing traditions as well as Arabic numerals.

Typography = Mechanical reproduction of words through printing. 

Lettering = Hand rendered type, writing & calligraphy. 

It is easy to assume that the most invaded many developments in technologies. However ancient china and Korea developed paper, movable type & printing presses centuries before Europe.

Movable type

Johann Gutenberg developed the first European movable type, printing a copy of the bible in 1455 while William Caxton printed the first English books in 1475.

It was through the act of printing that the English language started to become unified.

As printing spread across Europe to Italy typeface began to develop that reflected the ideals of Renaissance. Letterpress has given us much of the technical language 

of typography, uppercase & lowercase letters, fonts, typeface.

Type: individuals metal letters, used in letterpress printing.

Fonts: Characters in a given typeface, Fx uppercase & lowercase, punctuation & symbols.

Typefaces: Fonts that are of a related design Times New Roman italic & bold, uppercase, lowercase, numerals & different sizes of fonts.

Typography: Design of typeface and their day to day use.

[dualsecond]

This was also a nice combination between the illustration and the music. It creates a nice atmosphere and rhythm to the animation. unfortunately, I do not like the aesthetics of this work particularly.  I am not sure If I can find a way to do something that is animated but also crafted. I also think that the colour and the theme was wrong, way too bright for the topic.

[assignmentnetworkcenter-blog]

Learning logs give you time to reflect on your learning. Make that sure you have one. Personalize it with drawings; pictures & flow charts. Learning logs can also be used as evidence that your learning has occurred. Some schools might request your learning logs when you're appealing a grade that you received. #muscatschools #schoolsoman #learninglogs #muscatuniversity #soharuniversity #nizwauniversity #squ #studyusa #studynewzealand #studycanada #studyaustralia #studyuk #studyoman https://www.instagram.com/p/BoVyGcdnB3D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hqi89zkjh017

[danibonifaceoca-blog]

My favourite season is just around the corner 🍁. Bought 2 new chunky red and yellow jumpers to celebrate, which sketchbook me is sporting with her head in the clouds and real life me is snuggling in! . . . #blusteryday #blusterymind #headintheclouds #autumnfeels #sketchbook #doodles #learninglog #weareoca

[sgtscholar]

Rock solid description of #logic & #math terms. What, you dont like my #puns? Well that's just how eye roll. Carpe Datum and Semper Sci! [Sgt Scholar Actual] #logic #math #puns #badpuns #punsarelife #badsciencejokes #science #STEM #nerdhumor #geekhumor #criticalthinking #data #dataanalysis #education #knowledge #funny #humor #logicjokes #mathjokes #funnybuttrue #learning #learningmath #learninglogic #therock https://www.instagram.com/p/CDURF4KjnlW/?igshid=11r25zd3ax6z6

[maggie-the-blogger-blog]

week 4. LPC

I continued on Sleep Matters and GInGin, I am still waiting for other briefs to show up. I made some sketches and formulated the concepts, as well I created the moodboard. I will post my research and progress in the following posts. I didn’t realise that we should do this here as well. However I am keeping up with my time plan and I think that I already chose the final brief I will work on.

[learningjournals]

What Are the Stages of the Creative Process? (jurnal article)

Process art, creative process and art process.

What Are the Stages of the Creative Process?

This article explains in detail the theoretical differences in the art process and how different psychologists have theorise this process. The table below show a summary of the most important theories and the process they use to explain creative process, some very accessible, with three or two process other more complex.

(Marion, Franck and Todd, 2018)

The article is interesting, but I did not feel any of the theories explain the process of creativity successfully. If you applied the Occam's razor, the theories with less element does not explain all type of creative behavior or all the stages people in creative professions tent to go through.

The more complex theories are, well too complex that does not really help to study creative process.

I think the problem is the everyday use of the word and the professional term is the same and carried the same definition (Which is also very ambiguous) this led to a confusing field of study.

It is my opinion that creativity applied to art and creativity to solve problems are two different process. They might use the same avenue or process, but they are not one and the same. Also, there is a tendency to include all craft in the creative process which sometime is not.

Marion, B., Franck, Z. and Todd, L. (2018). What Are the Stages of the Creative Process? What Visual Art Students Are Saying. Frontiers in Psychology, [online] 9(1664-1078), pp.22–66. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02266 [Accessed 29 Jan. 2021].

[bpflug]

Finished my cover for "The Time Machine". Not as thrilled with these as my other two. I think I need to darken the text.

[karisanoca2]

Exercise 3.4: Flick books and animated gif (Part II)

Technical part

This is specific to the animation frame by frame.

I did a gif last year and it was a mess. I did the frame randomly and it was too chopped so I want to do it properly so I looked into more technical issues to approach this exercise. 

Animation is an illusion of movement by organizing the still images in a way that create the idea of movement when they change fast.

Frame rate

This is how often the image change 24FPS is what with see in movies. 25 -30 is on television and gifs made by hand is between 5 to 15 FPS

Animation lineal or in a loop

Animation in a loop is what made a gif work and the lineal animation is the introduction for the 007 films.

Note: 

I used the idea of under the water to create a loop but the moment I added a man it makes it difficult to it so I will do it a linear one.

I think 5FPS is too chop so perhaps is better a 15 FPS.

[iamalecxander]

This is just the beginning.

Hey there- apologies for taking some time, I’m unable to post some learnings due to time constraints. Anyway, here I am again for a new set of entry that I called, the beginning.

Why did I name it that way?

be·gin·ning - ajd, New; or Inexperienced; noun: the point of time or space at which something starts.

Perfect. One of the words that I can use to describe what I saw as I took the advantage to explore more about a certain topic, or agenda, or a subject. 

I’ve been an avid fan of tweaking devices - specifically laptops and/or personal computers. With the help of my father, as a child (well, semi, I was in grade three then), he showed me various way on fixing them from malfunctioning hard drives to removing trojans and malwares.

As I continued my career as a computer scientist (nucks, computer science daw kasi), we’ve been taught concepts about operating systems on one of our subjects in college - up to hands on about removing and installing hardware and software components. I’ve been grateful, but for me, it’s still not enough.

The question still relies on my head - why install this operating system? Why can’t I install this operating system?

What is an operating system? How does it work?

So many questions, so many questions.

As I worked in the industry, my exploration about operating systems have been stalled due to a shift of priorities. My primary focus is on programming - what I have remains the same after five, or six years, regarding operating systems.

As we deploy solutions to our clients on my early years - Me and my team were experiencing compatibility issues upon rollout. Honestly speaking - preparations with regards to operating system compatibility is on the minimum as we assumed that they are all the same regardless of the CPU architecture and the like. I remember that one afernoon that I’m firing a demo for a client - but has been postponed due to architecture incompatibilities: I need to create a new installer that is capable of running on different architectures. Still - I don’t understand the difference between the two, aside from the capability to support larger memory values for x64 systems.

I wonder, I wonder. My question continues.

That’s why - it is of a blessing in disguise that despite that I took the advantage and learn more about operating systems. Of all the aspects I got - specifically on threads, which I use on programming to execute asynchronous tasks; process deadlocks: which explains why my computer hangs frequently because of long waiting times; virtual memory (which I really applied on my local unit - I have two (2) 8gb flash drives assisting my system unit right now using Windows ReadyBoost) - there’s many to mention but then again - 

This is just the beginning.

I would like to personally thank Prof. Mike for all the advice that he shared as we conduct classes - the clarity and guidelines, and the like.

That’s it for now, and I’ll see you guys on my next learning log post. Ciao!

- Justin