Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an amazing and inspirational talk from TED by entrepreneur, Mick Ebeling. In this talk, Mick shares the story of graffiti artist TEMPT who paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blin and how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist — and gives others in his circumstance — the means to make art again. This is digital art like you’ve never seen before.
View the video here
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
This Old Chinese Man Repairs Damaged Photos with Photoshop for Free
Baojun Yuan, the man pictured above, learned Photoshop at 60 years old. He's now 76 and for the past decade or so has repaired over 2000 damaged photos and done it all for free. Yuan bought a computer and scanner himself and doesn't charge people because he jokingly says, "My teacher just taught me how to repair the photos, but he forgot to tell me how to charge". What a guy
source: http://gizmodo.com/#!5795099/this-old-chinese-man-repairs-damaged-photos-with-photoshop-for-free/gallery/1
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Music Video For My Premiere Pro Class
This was a quick in house performance video recording with a close friend of mine, he writes and creates all of his music, his name's Lenny P and the name of the song is "White Lies", my first official music video which I'm excited about, plenty more to come
everything was edited via premiere pro
Friday, April 15, 2011
How To Work With Family & Friends
I found this cool article on vectortuts (a nice tutorial site on everything from photoshop to illustrator) on how to deal with friends & family when they're your clients
At some point in your life, someone close to you will seek out your illustration or design skills. Trust me, if they haven’t asked you yet, they will. So what happens when friends and family become your client? We’ve put together some tips to help you out.
Bad clients are a nightmare. But imagine if they could follow you home or track you down on the weekend for an impromptu consultation. Not a nice thought is it? This is what it’s like to have a family member or friend — turned client — who cannot respect your professional relationship. The following list is a few ways to avoid any conflict and help keep everyone involved happy, including yourself.
Family, Friend or Partner?
Think about who your client is and how well you get along with them. If it looks like the project could fall apart due to personal differences, don’t be afraid to refer the work to someone else. There’s no point in taking a project to avoid a fight if there’s a high chance of having one later on.
Is the Request Realistic?
Family and friends may have a high opinion of how skilled you are. This is great, because it means that they believe in your skills. But a best friend who thinks you’re a superstar can expect more work from you than you can hope to achieve. Before you start a project, you need to sit down with the "client" and discuss exactly what it is that they want you to work on. If the response is along the lines of
"I really like Amazon.com, can you make a site like that for my small business?"
kindly inform them of how much work goes into the project, and exactly where your skills begin and end. Don’t try to meet unrealistic expectations, there’s a high chance that you will let someone down later.
Ask for a Written Brief
Another place where people can go wrong is informal project briefs. These often take the shape of a quickly written facebook message, or even worse, a few comments from a conversation that took place without you. An example of this would be a friend who needs a logo for their business, and the only direction you receive is,
"Make whatever you like, I’m sure it will be great!"
No matter who the client is, you should always ask for a written project brief. It doesn’t have to be overly complex but it should outline the basics such as, ideas, audience, purpose and timeline. Work together for as long as it takes until you both have a clear idea of what is required. This will save you a lengthy revision process later on.
"Communication" by Bucket’o'Thought
Set Deadlines
Just because they’re close to you doesn’t mean the project should be infinite. Setting deadlines will give you some leverage when it comes to chasing up payments or assets. This is especially true for multifaceted projects such as websites. Many people want a website but often don’t think of content creation as their responsibility. A deadline will help you break the project into small milestones and assign outside tasks to the appropriate people.
Negotiate a Fee
Negotiating a fee isn’t always about money. If you’re committing yourself to someone else’s project then you should ask for something in return. Can this person help out around your house? Do they have a skill, such as accounting, that you would find useful? A little bit of give and take will help grease the wheels of co-operation and won’t lead to any ill feelings if the project requires some extra time and effort on your part.
source: http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/do-family-and-friends-make-good-clients/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+vectortuts+%28Vectortuts%2B%29
At some point in your life, someone close to you will seek out your illustration or design skills. Trust me, if they haven’t asked you yet, they will. So what happens when friends and family become your client? We’ve put together some tips to help you out.
Bad clients are a nightmare. But imagine if they could follow you home or track you down on the weekend for an impromptu consultation. Not a nice thought is it? This is what it’s like to have a family member or friend — turned client — who cannot respect your professional relationship. The following list is a few ways to avoid any conflict and help keep everyone involved happy, including yourself.
Family, Friend or Partner?
Think about who your client is and how well you get along with them. If it looks like the project could fall apart due to personal differences, don’t be afraid to refer the work to someone else. There’s no point in taking a project to avoid a fight if there’s a high chance of having one later on.
Is the Request Realistic?
Family and friends may have a high opinion of how skilled you are. This is great, because it means that they believe in your skills. But a best friend who thinks you’re a superstar can expect more work from you than you can hope to achieve. Before you start a project, you need to sit down with the "client" and discuss exactly what it is that they want you to work on. If the response is along the lines of
"I really like Amazon.com, can you make a site like that for my small business?"
kindly inform them of how much work goes into the project, and exactly where your skills begin and end. Don’t try to meet unrealistic expectations, there’s a high chance that you will let someone down later.
Ask for a Written Brief
Another place where people can go wrong is informal project briefs. These often take the shape of a quickly written facebook message, or even worse, a few comments from a conversation that took place without you. An example of this would be a friend who needs a logo for their business, and the only direction you receive is,
"Make whatever you like, I’m sure it will be great!"
No matter who the client is, you should always ask for a written project brief. It doesn’t have to be overly complex but it should outline the basics such as, ideas, audience, purpose and timeline. Work together for as long as it takes until you both have a clear idea of what is required. This will save you a lengthy revision process later on.
"Communication" by Bucket’o'Thought
Set Deadlines
Just because they’re close to you doesn’t mean the project should be infinite. Setting deadlines will give you some leverage when it comes to chasing up payments or assets. This is especially true for multifaceted projects such as websites. Many people want a website but often don’t think of content creation as their responsibility. A deadline will help you break the project into small milestones and assign outside tasks to the appropriate people.
Negotiate a Fee
Negotiating a fee isn’t always about money. If you’re committing yourself to someone else’s project then you should ask for something in return. Can this person help out around your house? Do they have a skill, such as accounting, that you would find useful? A little bit of give and take will help grease the wheels of co-operation and won’t lead to any ill feelings if the project requires some extra time and effort on your part.
source: http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/do-family-and-friends-make-good-clients/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+vectortuts+%28Vectortuts%2B%29
Sunday, April 10, 2011
30 Second Commercial PSA For Class
Editing was done with Adobe Premiere Pro, the theme was texting & driving
Cartoon Version
Regular Version
Black & White Version
I made 3 different versions cause I liked all 3 versions, and couldn't decide on a favorite
I'll be uploading a 4th one later this week, even though it'll be to late to turn it in by then, I finally learned how to create black & white videos while color in some parts using the "leave color" effect, my final version of this video would be in black and white and then at the end, have the blood turn red.
Cartoon Version
Regular Version
Black & White Version
I made 3 different versions cause I liked all 3 versions, and couldn't decide on a favorite
I'll be uploading a 4th one later this week, even though it'll be to late to turn it in by then, I finally learned how to create black & white videos while color in some parts using the "leave color" effect, my final version of this video would be in black and white and then at the end, have the blood turn red.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Should be an interesting summer...
...I later felt better after a Hummer driver pulled into the gas station
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
How to create a 3D text in Adobe Illustrator
http://www.screencast.com/users/jRdee/playlists/Creating%20a%203D%20text%20in%20Illustrator
Monday, March 21, 2011
What's your favorite childhood game?
Pacman?
Asteroids?
Simon Says?
Tic Tac Toe?
Go ahead and vote
& for a trip down memory lane, scroll all the way down to bottom of this page.
Asteroids?
Simon Says?
Tic Tac Toe?
Go ahead and vote
& for a trip down memory lane, scroll all the way down to bottom of this page.
Vote for your favorite super bowl 2011 commercial
Volkswagen: The Force
Doritos: Pug
Bud Ligt: Dog Sitter
Doritos: House Sitting
Chrysler: Imported from Detroit
Doritos: Pug
Bud Ligt: Dog Sitter
Doritos: House Sitting
Chrysler: Imported from Detroit
5 tips for using Blogger on your Android phone
1. Attach photos as you compose
Take photos using your phone’s camera and instantly add them to your post while you draft. You can also insert photos from your phone’s gallery, all within the Blogger app.
2. Include your current location
With your phone’s GPS, you can let your readers know where you’re blogging from by selecting your current location, no additional typing needed.
3. Share to Blogger
Share videos, products, photos, links and other interesting things you would like to include in your blog via the share button that’s available in many apps, including Google Maps for mobile, YouTube, and your web browser. After you share an item to your Blogger, it will be inserted into new post that’s automatically created for you so that start can composing right away.
4. Switch across multiple Blogger accounts
If you’re an author of more than one blog, you can easily switch between your different accounts by tapping on the orange arrow next to the title of your blog. That way, you can publish articles for each of your blogs to keep your all of your readers up to date.
5. Keep track of published posts and saved drafts
See what you’ve composed in an easy to read list by tapping the list icon located on the top right-hand corner.
source: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/02/5-tips-for-using-blogger-on-your.html
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Super Moon?
the night of the super moon, I went outside to take some flicks, looked like a regular moon to me
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Some More Beats (cont.'d)
incomplete beat2:
completed beat2:
&
incomplete beat3:
completed beat3:
& this beat (dont ask me how or why) was inspired while at the hospital atleast the melody was, I started humming a melody that was stuck in my head while in the waiting room and didn't want to forget it so I had my sis record me humming the melody on her phone (which I won't post the actual mp3 of me humming because I sounded stupid lol), and the day after I got home I made this
completed beat2:
&
incomplete beat3:
completed beat3:
& this beat (dont ask me how or why) was inspired while at the hospital atleast the melody was, I started humming a melody that was stuck in my head while in the waiting room and didn't want to forget it so I had my sis record me humming the melody on her phone (which I won't post the actual mp3 of me humming because I sounded stupid lol), and the day after I got home I made this
Some more beats
My bad for being late with more new beats, been sick but now I'm feeling better..
To make it up I'm going to post a few beats (not just one) and explain a little process behind how and why I started making beats, I just started using garage band seriously maybe in January, and I've taught myself how to use garage band one day because I own a imac and macbook pro and couldn't understand really why they were so expensive except for maybe the bloat softwares that came preinstalled, so one day I went through the apps that came installed with apple, and garage band was one of the programs I fell in love with (probably because I love music).
For the record I do not know how to play instruments, I just tap keys on my computers keyboard and put sounds together that sounds good in my ear or opinion
so for example, I'd first create a melody or something like this
and after that, I just add a bunch of other sounds to it to make it come out like this..
To make it up I'm going to post a few beats (not just one) and explain a little process behind how and why I started making beats, I just started using garage band seriously maybe in January, and I've taught myself how to use garage band one day because I own a imac and macbook pro and couldn't understand really why they were so expensive except for maybe the bloat softwares that came preinstalled, so one day I went through the apps that came installed with apple, and garage band was one of the programs I fell in love with (probably because I love music).
For the record I do not know how to play instruments, I just tap keys on my computers keyboard and put sounds together that sounds good in my ear or opinion
so for example, I'd first create a melody or something like this
and after that, I just add a bunch of other sounds to it to make it come out like this..
Lenny P - White Lies
I directed and edited this video via Adobe Premiere Pro
I was chilling with some friends, and Lenny (who sings/raps) pulled out his guitar and wanted to play a new song for me, and I didn't want to miss the chance of capturing it on film..
So here's "Little White Lies" by Lenny P
I was chilling with some friends, and Lenny (who sings/raps) pulled out his guitar and wanted to play a new song for me, and I didn't want to miss the chance of capturing it on film..
So here's "Little White Lies" by Lenny P
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
iPhone 4 Announcement [podcast]
Please leave comments or a podcast rating from 1 to 5, 1 being the worst and 5 being great.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Unfinished Beat made in Garage Band in class [updated]
added drums & few other instruments into it..
Monday, February 7, 2011
Unfinished Beat made in Garage Band in class
I made this beat using the piano in garage band during multimedia authoring class and saved it/uploaded it via podbean
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Fox on South Campus
Saw a fox on campus the other day, I'm originally from New york so the only time we ever saw foxes were on TV or books, the fox wasn't aggressive or anything, a lot of students were feeding it food, I got real close to it for some pics it seemed scared and would even run away repeatedly if anybody walked close to it.. in my mind I was hoping it's parents wouldn't hop out on us.
Pros/Cons of NFC technology
My cell phone and the new iphone5/ipad2 has NFC capabilities installed, there's many pros and cons with this technology, included in the video above shows a major con. What NFC allows you to do basically is use your cell phone as a credit card, there's even new credit cards with NFC capabilities, for faster payments at gas pumps, restaurants, etc etc. Of course you have the option of turning this feature off, just be wary if a random person approaches and gets to close to you & definitely be careful when in large crowds. The credit cards that were being read in the video had NFC technology.
source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/10/nfc_security/
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Blogger App(s) for Android and Apple OS phones
Iphone/Ipads:
Search for "pen my blog" or "BlogPress Lite" in the apple store, they're free apps that allows you to credit/edit and delete your posts on the go.
Android/Google phones:
Search for "Blogger-droid" & download the free version this is my personal favorite app because it allows me to not only edit/create posts, but it also allows me to upload pictures and videos. But if you search "blogger" in the Android Market, you should find plenty of free & paid versions of different apps.
If you have an alternative phone and would love to post on blogger without logging onto their site directly, you can email blogger following these simple instructions here http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41452 or just search "blogger" in the market place or app store of your specific phone.
Monday, January 24, 2011
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