Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Speilberg Got Nothing On Me


I would like to thank http://www.theoi.com/ and http://www.flickr.com/ for their amazing pictures. This video would not be anything without them. Also, I would like to thank http://www.historyforkids.org/ for their easy to understand summarization of the classic story "Perseus and Medusa." I personally chose this story because I think this story means that whatever the problem or enemy, you can always prevail with the help of your friends and family.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Only Then....


In this video (www.animoto.com) I used images from www.flickr.com which I could use under the creative commons licenses. This states that the pictures I used can be used under certain circumstances like not changing, changing, or only using the picture with permission. Copyright works you can not use because you could be the victim of legal acts, like being sued. Anyway, the Fair Use Concept also came into play saying that I can use most photos for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, and using photos for those purposes is not an infringement of copyright. So using these laws and just being creative a created a multimedia work expressing a very thoughtful quote.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Da Summa Coob


Copyright free photos I used in my cube came from www.pics4learning.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Thingies I Love

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The Weird Sides of Me


This certain "picture" is not very symmetric, but I like to think that it is because I put a lot of time into it. First, I deleted half of my face (all of this using "Kid Pix") which is probably the only symmetric thing about this picture. Then I used the color of some of my sun touched skin to make the other side of my face using the eye-dropper tool. Then I used the eye-dropper again to get the darker part of my hair and try to mimic the left part of my portrait. I then used the eye-dropper to get a shade of color from my shirt and color where my shirt on the right side would be. I used the shaded part of my shirt for the collar. After, I used the eye-dropper to get the lighter part of my shirt, which I proceeded to shade the lighter side of my shirt. As for the details, well all I can say is that I tried my best. I used the curved line for most of the details like the mouth, eyebrows, nose, ears, and eyes. Then, using the faithful eye-dropper tool, I shaded my eyes and mouth to their appropriate shades. So, after all my work, voila! I have a portrait which I helped to create.