Digital File Prep

My Digital File Prep class is a writing to learn class, so I'm going to be using this blog to do writing assignments and show off  the projects we create in this class. Stay tuned!

Design II Hat Project

In my Design II class, we had to make autobiographical hats, or hats that described things about us. Everything we had to use for our hats had to be metaphorical and not typically used to make hats. With my hat, my teacher wanted me to focus on the fact that I’m shy and that I blush all the time. With that in mind, I picked out a pink table cover to have the color represent my blushing. I made the structure out of pipe cleaners and folded different sizes of fans to cover the whole hat. I picked fans because you use them to cover your face. I hope you all know what fans I’m talking about! The ones a lot of you probably made in elementary school where you fold them back and forth and staple the bottom together. Anyway, here is my hat! I’m pretty happy with it. It took me forever to come up with this idea. Everyone in class said my hat was the only hat out of everyone’s that could actually be sold. I don’t know about that! Someone may buy it to go to a British wedding.

Flash Video Assignment

In Web Based Software we were assigned to make a simple video in Flash Professional CS5, post it to YouTube and then post it on our blogs. Here's mine! It's pretty goofy.

New Photos

A couple pictures I took yesterday out of boredom:

-Big Sigh of Relief!-

The past two and a half weeks I've been working on a project for Design II and I finally finished it last night! I feel so relieved. We all had to bring a small object in to class and the object I brought was a little glass owl I own. We then had to recreated our objects and make them out of balsa wood. We brought our projects in today and critiqued them in our groups and mine got voted best in the group! This project was so stressful- I had to hardest time getting glue to hold and making sure things didn't break as I was putting the project together. I'm proud of what I've done but I'm so glad it's over! I'll make sure to post pictures when our projects get returned to us later.

New Photos

Last Wednesday I was in the mood to go out and take some pictures, so I took my friends Kodi and Trevor out to Lakeside Park and the alleyways of downtown Pittsburg to try and catch some neat shots. Here are a few photos I got out of that day. If you click on my Flickr photostream towards the top of this blog you can see the rest. Hope you like them!

Sunset Website

Here's one of the latest sites we were assigned. We could make it about anything we wanted, as long as it contained three pages and they all linked to each other. I have taken a ton of pictures of sunsets, so I decided to use them for this site. I also included information about how sunsets occur using Wikipedia. I had a lot of fun with this project, because I liked the freedom of creating whatever I wanted in Dreamweaver and I liked deciding how everything would look on my own. It's a simple site but I still like it!