Is there a board meeting tomorrow?

Goal: Hermosa Beach Triathlon 2010

I sit here in my chair a hefty 207lbs. I have back problems and I think I have sleep apnea, all which I believe are weight related. I need a goal to help me reach my weight loss dreams. A coworker of mine, always talks about his triathlons and wanting to qualify for the Kona Iron Man. Because of him I've bought myself a bike, which has parked itself in my hallway, barely used. I've very briefly swam before so I have goggles that I can use, but that won't be for some time.

As of Monday next week I'll be transitioning to a new task, whatever that may be, which seems like a good time to start working on my weight. I've decided that the Hermosa Beach triathlon will be my goal. But I'm not stupid and I'll start this leg of my journey with a sprint triathlon(.5 mi swim, 13 mi bike, 3.2 mi run). The triathlon will be held sometime in October so I figure I'll have plenty of time to get into shape. Since I have copious amounts of time now I've already gone to goggle calendar and laid out a training schedule which starts Monday next week. I've never been much of a morning person and since starting my job I've woken up around 9am and gotten to work at 10. But from now on I'll be a morning person because all my training events will be from 7-8am. I really gotta stop going to bed after midnight. I will need to go to bed by 10PM.

This blog will now be dedicated documenting my physical progress, my personal thoughts, and as an outlet for my foreseeable frustrations. So far I feel determined.

I'll begin my journey by investing in a sports watch and maybe a better ipod holder. This weekend I think I'll but some decent running shoes. Stay tuned.

Art 141 June 10

First day back after missing 3 classes(no matter what Jocelyn thought)

Finals due today.  Here is mine.

We looked at everyone's final projects and helped Jocelyn critique them.

I found out late that it was unnecessary to print out the final project.  I coulda saved some dough but oh well.

Art 141 May 27

Today we saw PBS specials on Layla Ali, Margaret Kilagllen and Barry Mcgee.

We then went over our designs for our finals.

Web site design 

create a home page 

create a linked page

1040 px (w) X 800 px (h)

four links with 3 sub links each

She suggested going to www.comarts.com/webpicks to find great examples of web sites.

Art 141 May 20

Today our LA Weekly ads were due and we all got together and critiqued them.  Here were my final versions.

Jocelyn also went over how to design for web.  Some things to remember, web designs are only viewed on a small screen.  Taking this into account you need to make decisions as to what elements you will include in a design.

Creativehotlist.com - portfolios of web designers

We went over the 14px X 14px favicons

We went to http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ 

and www.favicon.cc

She also briefly showed us Dreamweaver and how to put the favicon we made into a web page.

Then she went over what things are necessary to host a web page:domain name, web host

www.networksolutions.com is a good place to find a domain name.  Also godaddy.com

Next class is design architecture.

Homework is who is the client for the web site.

Art 141 99designs.com asst

I forgot to post my designs for 99designs.com.

Art 141 May 13

Jocelyn went over an extra credit assignment.  

18"x36" time motion piece

printed

something depicting motion

300 dpi

This will add 5 points to one of the previous assignment.

If you found 18 blackboards in the printer room please let Jocelyn know cuz we think someone swiped them.

Pretty much a work day today as we fixed up our 3 comps for our client.

My client was not here today.  But here were my comps.

Art 141 May 11

More work day today...

Jocelyn went over the following today:

Illustrator

3d vector graphics in Illustrator

effect -> 3d

Art 141 May 6

Mostly a work day today.

Jocelyn went over the following:

Illustrator

grids

draw a rectangle

select the grid -> Object -> path -> split into grid

guides

View -> show rulers

click on ruler and drag onto canvas

alignment

Window -> Align

 linked text boxes

If the text within a text box exceeds the bounds of the text box a red plus symbol appear near the bottom left of the text box

To continue the text in a duplicate text box...

click on red plus sign -> click on any place on the canvas

To continue the text in an existing text box

click on red plus sign -> move cursor to existing text box -> wait for the cursor to changes shape to a link symbol -> click

clipping mask

place an image on the canvas

create a new path

make sure path is above the image

select both image and path

click Object -> clipping mask -> make

Art 141 May 4 pt 2

We got another assignment...

Pair up with another classmate and design 2 ads. Each ad to the client's specs + 2 alternates

Next week we gotta have all 3 large comps.

Large ad:

12 1/4" X 4 7/8"

Small ad:

2 7/8" X 4 7/8"

Here is my client's original ad:

art 141 May 4

I was supposed to do this a while ago but...Here are my playing cards.

Here are also my logos for 99designs...

Art 141 April 20

Critique time as we needed to go to other classmates blogs and comment on their Ed Fella posters.

Art 141 April 8

No Jocelyn today.

The ed fella poster was due today.  This was my poster.

Carlos showed us how to add a clipped mask: make a p

ath, place an image, select both and then go to object-> clipping mask -> make(open apple + 7)

He then showed us that objects can have multiple fills and multiple strokes.  Make an object then open the appearance panel, click on the triangle in the appearance panel and add a new fill or add a new stroke.  From there you can select the new fill/stroke and go to Effect -> Path -> offset path to offset any fill/stroke in relation to each other.

Art 141 April 6

No jocelyn in today.  Carlos taught us some stuff on illustrator: patterns, pathfinder, and gradients.  Our in class assigment was to make 4 6x6 inch patterns and merge them into one 12x12 inch image.  This we then needed to put on our blogs.  Here is mine.

Art 141 April 1 - Illustrator to Photoshop

Today we learned to use the pen tool to create curves.  I finally know how to make a frickin curved shape.  We also learned how to import illustrator vector shapes into photoshop.  We then went over making an animated gif using the vector shapes

Art 141 March 30 - Illustrator

We got to play with Illustrator, adding shapes and text.  We then changed the text into outlines.  Here is my initial document.

  If you can't tell the shapes try to spell out my name.  Funky.

Art 141 March 23

We went over making texture with text.  We went over using the character and paragraph windows, using the text tool to make text in a text box, and changing the leading/tracking of the text and alignment to create a texture.

I was starting to get sick so I left early.

Project 2

Here are the fruits of my labor. Another Sunday full of fun. Again I am amazed at how unartistic I really am. Oh well.




Of course this is the web version and does not do me any justice. The full image is very detailed. The photoshop file was over 1GB.

Art 141 March 18

Today the 3d project was due.

I did a model of my TV remote.

We all gathered together and showed everyone our pr

ojects.  I felt better that I was not the only one to spend a day working on my project.  We then went over examining the projects and discussed how we made our project.

Afterwards we went over how to make animated gifs.  Here is my example I made during class.

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Art 141 March 11

Quiz day

This time it was a practical quiz.  We had to replicate an image Jocelyn made earlier using the techniques that we learned thus far.  She provided four images to base the final on.  Here was my finished image.  Notice the glow from the tv screen.

We also had time in class to work on our projects(3d and mandala).