My Third Assignment

I have continued to steadily update my blog, with over 30 posts posted, most with pictures. My Blog has links to interesting websites, 2 polls, that do work, two RSS feeds, a video from you tube, the blogs I’m following, and quotes from harry potter. I’ve changed the design, e.g. fonts, to create a colour on black theme. And added some entertaining fish. I like the fish. Also colour on black. The only theme is stuff related to me. My likes. Interesting events. And I have nearly 500 page views, so I must be doing something right.

My Flickr has over 30 photos and over 110 views. It mainly consists of pictures of my favourite shows, mostly manga, with a bit of doctor who thrown in, as well as a few class based pictures.

My Delicious has nearly 40 links, and I find it quite useful to navigate my most used sites. I’ve organised all sites into tag bundles for easy navigation. I have even set it as my homepage on my laptop for quick access. Links range from recreational, to educational, to media based.

And not to say they don’t exist, but I wasn’t able to find control’s to customize my flickr and delicious. So they look boring. I did try though.

My website continued the theme of colour on black, and it also focussed on me. My website is a good example of how information can be conveyed by a number of different mediums in multimedia. I have simple text, pictures, an RSS feed, video’s, music, an embedded page, a blog that generates an RSS feed, even a game.

Not only have I learnt more about the mediums of communication, I’ve learnt how fast and easy it is to spread information. The blogger, delicious and flickr account are all linked, so not only do they use the same account for ease, but they are interoperable, e.g., using Google reader to select blog posts and make an RSS feed. And when their all linked, adding information to one account will update the rest. E.g., liking more things in my Google reader will update the RSS feed in my website. When everything is interlinked, it makes it easier to attract audiences to other pages, and extend the period of communication.

My Uncertain Career Path

I love Uni. I love the social life, and the relaxed feel.

I love sound, and loved making my sound scape.
I love MPI, and I get really good marks in it.
I even like Vis Com, Neil's funny lectures and Mac Staples random tangents.

And I lover animation. I love the screenings, the atmosphere, the closeness, the after midnight rule. I love how we study movies, and everyone likes the things I like, and were all on the same wavelength. Their the only people I fit in with.
 In fact the only thing I dislike about uni is the animating itself. I can sit through the lectures, and the screenings, but I hate the animating side. The drawing is the worst. Flash isn't too bad, but not knowing how to use it makes it a pain in the behind. I haven't even started my animation, and I'm already over it.

So is there any point in doing the class if I hate the animating side of it?

MPI104 - Week 11 - RSS Feeds

Learnt how to get RSS feeds from different sites, and I learnt different ways to post them on the blog. I would rather just use the feed gadget in blogger then the google reader RSS feed adder, as the blogger way sticks too the theme more.

I also learn;t that Safari makes it hard by changing the URL on me, so i'll use firefox next.

2 Week Rush

Only 2 weeks to go.

3 assessments due. The MPI bloggs, the soundscape for VPA, and my animation for VFX.

MPI needs everything printed off and a blurb written I think.

I have all of my sound effects recorded, and while some of them arn't the best, they'll do. Hopefully I can get it done by the end of the week at the latest.

That way I can spend more time on VFX, cause I only have a few rough backgrounds done, and I cant start the animation before i WORK OUT HOW TO USE FLASH. Hand drawn isn't an option anymore, not enough time.

I wouldn't even be doing this if it wasn't assessable.

Not panicing just yet, but nearly there.

My iWEB site.

To keep it simple, I based my website on myself, so I could focus more on the technical side. The pages are styled consistently, and I have customised the backgrounds, fonts and font colours, as well as reflected all pictures to create an individual look. The counter was specially picked to suit the colour scheme. The RSS feed shows posts from my favourite blog, and the news page shows important upcoming events. The pictures match the theme of bright colours on black. My “me at a glance” page contains the links to my separate MPI pages, as well as my personal information. The third page uses an embedded video from youtube to create a humorous effect. The “I Like page” contains the most content. Blurbs on things I like are accompanied by various pictures, embedded videos, and one of my favourite songs from youtube, so it isn’t copyrighted. I did have a video uploaded, but chose to embed it instead to save on upload and download times. A working window of Google and a game are also embedded. The last page contains my blog, with a main page, multiple entries and an archive. An RSS feed can be generated from this page.

The AIAF

I’m glad it's over really, it took up a lot of time and I barely got anything done over the weekend. But I did enjoy it and will look forward to next years. It is good to know when people say we can animate anything, they mean anything. The late night bizarre reassured me that while I may have weird thoughts sometimes, that’s ok, cause they merely look interesting next to last night’s late night bizarre.

If you get a chance, look for Suzie, cuddle sticks, fantasies in bubble wrap, The Bastard and falling art on you tube. They will... open your eyes. WARNING: One of the above video’s caused a woman some years back to storm out of the cinema screaming “Your all going to hell”.

Big thanks to everyone who helped, but especially Mat Barron, as he's the one who's marking this assignment, and he was one of the main technical dudes over the festival.

M104, Catching Up For Week 6

No class week 6, just a master blog post. Telling us about how to make a HTML page.
e.g. open bracket, close bracket, ect.
LOL. I started a page, and added tables, pictures, video's.