Meanings and Thoughts

Our class just Finished a movie called "Helvetica" and it was about what helvetica (the font type) does and how much of a impact it has on our world. Our post this week is what we think (at least 2) quotes mean.

Wim Crouwel
“You’re always a child of your time … you can’t escape it"

I think this means threw everyones life time theres always a generation you have grown up with. I think he means the people of this generation all have similar ideas based on what the know and learn from eachother. For example after WW2 alot of people of that generation were sick of the caotic, crazy and messy font so everyone wanted somthing readable, calm and most important, nutral. Thats why most people of that age (and even now) made and used helvetica beacuse of its nutral perfection.


Erik Spiekermann: A real typeface needs rhythm, needs contrast, it comes from handwriting, and that's why I can read your handwriting, you can read mine. And I'm sure our handwriting is miles away from Helvetica or anything that would be considered legible, but we can read it, because there's a rhythm to it, there's a contrast to it. Helvetica hasn't got *any* of that.

I think he has a huge point and great taste! I think what he means is helvetica is not human. Its "perfect". In our world no two people look exactly the same. He's saying helvetica is like a robot and everything in the font is straight and has no feeling to it. I think he wants difrences, being able to walk down the street and seeing a bunch of diffrent fonts instead of a entire street with almost every stores writing in helvetica. making loopy, ziggy, curvy and diffrent lines is what gives us our colours. We use diffrent clothing and colours to express our feelings, to show eachother our personalities, what makes us human.

Flying high with......birds

This Made me laugh, a combined picture of our last sketching assignment and our upcoming one!

Ok so our new unit in visual arts is........BIRDS!!!! Yes birds. They fly, they sing and their being printed on paper with our new unit. This unit involves Lino art(printmaking). This was a popular method of art for Picasso. I think this will be a difficult one to do because it confusing to me and im not great at drawing birds let alone carving them. I enjoy learning these new methods as long as i get a bit of help along the way. I was going to choose a bird with long legs or a type of head dress. The colours i'm going to choose are green and red on blue or yellow paper. I have only done print making once before in eighth grade. We needed to creat a winter scene. This method was easy because we only used one type of ink instead of two. I am up to the chalange and hope i will understand it better in the upcomming days.

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

Tips and Tricks

This my first weekly blog post. Since we are currently creating flash in our class i decided to show a tutorial about how to make a bouncing ball. This is supposed to be the easy part of flash, its my first time doing it so i find it very difficult. I was so suprized seeing most of my other classmate already knew how to do it. Only about three or four kids including me diden't know about it. Well at first i was excited to do flash now, im just upset at how complicated it is. I was really looking forward to making somthing amazing. It won't get too far with only about a week to do it. I would buy the program but if i did i wouldent have any help at home so it woulden't work. I try my best and always ask for help but i try not to notice that almost every minute i need it.....hehe. So heres a a small video on how to do a tween! Hopfully, if you start or already do flash this can help. enjoy.

A Warm Welcome

Ah yes, this time of the year has come again! The time of the year when i finally get to do visual and Cyber arts! this year will be more challenging than the previous year, i'm looking forward to all the things i've heard about it. For starters in visual arts we are going to learn about traditional Chinese painting and with me tech art we are learning flash animation. I've always wanted to learn flash! So i'm back in action and looking forward to this New Year, Lily Lulu signing on!

Lil Lulu Signing Off

Well it's been a great year but sadly, my time with the CyberArts program has ended for this year. I had A wonderful experience. I learned so many new techniques and met new awesome people! I will miss everyone from my class and cherish the time I had with them, thanks for your help guys! I won't be posting anything else till September 2010! Till then, LIL LULU SIGNING OFF!!

This was my last assignment in CyberArts for the year. I made this animation using clay and a fork along with some water colour materials. Please do not steal my work please, thanks and enjoy!

Garbage Cream

DIGITAL SURREALISM/ICE CREAM TRASH

What did you do? : Well, once the whole concept of “ Surrealism” came up in discussion I realized I had to act quickly and think of an idea. Surprisingly an idea popped in my and I wrote it down as soon as possible. My idea for this project was simple a “Ice cream” Garbage can, what an idea! I just knew this idea would work; I was so sure I couldn’t wait to get started.

Why I used the elements I did was to create a really creative effect for garbage can. How would I do that? Simple…Photoshop of course. I used the simple yet most effective way I knew how. The meaning behind this was someone’s trash is another mans treasure. I thought it would be fun if I got images off the computer to connect everything together, I also added a raccoon for a more “Garbage” type feel, And other thing that would compliment the picture.

I did what I did by thinking it through all the way getting help by taking the pictures I needed. It’s almost like the concept just came to me. The steps I took to create this picture was small yet slow steps to make sure that this picture was exactly what I wanted and what people would of liked to see. The only original photograph was the garbage including the can and the bag, and all the rest were found on Google. I blend them together by dragging and dropping the picture on the original frame and I did that a few times and that’s how it turned out.

The tools I used to make this picture possible were extracting(cut images out), color: to make the garbage can blend with the animals. I learned that it’s easy to complete a picture when you have a good thought out idea in your head. I did indeed use lighting effects and blending options also filters.

When I was finished I couldn’t believe what I had made! I was actually surprised and it felt as if I accomplished something great, I was satisfied with my work. I think if I were to change anything I would pick another subject and expand what I know to learn more. The most difficult thing was proper proportion’s and getting the lighting right. The easiest part was taking a picture of the garbage can. Overall I am happy with my results.