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Hi again. Ok so our assignment in Typography was two fold. First we had to do a sketch of our face. I’ve put up that sketch for you to have a good laugh at!!! I can’t draw to save my life!! Then we had to represent our face using typography. I took a shot of my face then went into Photoshop & turned it into a black & white image with highlights & placed some random words over it. The words are just me typing anything onto the screen. I’ve also put up the original photo & the result after i photoshoped it. I hope you like them. Again i really enjoyed doing this assignment although i do dread the idea of drawing!! But i gave it my best shot & actually, if anything, it’s funny!! So i hope you enjoy looking at them as much as i enjoyed doing them. now comes the sad part………………… This marks the end of Visual Language!! I have to say i’m really going to miss this module. It has been such an enjoyable subject with the best two lecturers EVER. I was a bit nervous about it at the start, when we did our 60 images, but we all got so much encouragement form both Niamh & Margret & that really really helped. My favorite assignment was the Semiotics one, although, they were all great assignments. So a HUGE thank you first of all to all the other guys & gals in digital media year one for all there help, advice, & general deadlyness!!! Thanks for everything guys. Also a MASSIVE, HUGE , THANK YOU to Niamh & Margret for…………….well EVERYTHING!! Ye are both LEGENDS!! So as James Douglas Morrison once sang “This is the end beautiful friend”. But i will be back (i hope haha) next symester and i’m sure this blog will be used for another module. i’m going to keep it going anyways! So thanks for putting up with my “stuff” for the last 13 weeks. I have enjoyed it so much so i hope you did too. Take care.

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Hey all! So we had an assignment to do in Visual Language. It involved getting one photo of any celebrity & portraying them in three different ways. I chose George Bush & the three ways i tried to portray him are: “evil”, “popular” & “wealthy”. Here’s the first image of good old George “evil”:

My thinking here was to make him look like a sort of vampire. I made his ears bigger,altered his eyebrows,gave him fangs & had blood drip down from them. I also deadened the color around his eyes&made his eyes “glow” to give that evil vampire look. I then placed him in front of a fire image to represent “the fires of hell!!” I really like this image & enjoyed creating it. I used photoshop in the creation of this & all my images. Next is “popular”:

This time i wanted to portray him as a different kind of popular so he’s “popular for being a wanted man!” I created the wild west wanted poster (along with scratches) in photoshop which took some time. I then placed my stock photo of George in & messed around with the colours until i felt that he blended in with the old look of the poster. I then got a stock picture of a wall & placed the wanted poster on it. Again i really enjoyed creating this image. Last but not least is my personal favorite “wealthy”:

This time i created the “Time” magazine from scratch in photoshop. I then added in good old George. I then added the text myself. I purposely miss-spelled “cents” & “november” as i feel this is in going with the stupid mistakes that good old George has been known to do throughout his time as American President. Then i got a stock photo of a $100 dollor bill & copied it twice & had them float around him. This is my favorite image as it’s a bit of fun & tongue in cheek. All work was done in photoshop & all images were downloaded from google images. So there you go. That was my semiotics assignment. I really enjoyed this assignment & hope you enjoy looking at the images. Also i’d just like to add that all the first year Creative Digital Media students work for this assignment is superb. I highly recommend you view them too. You can access them from the tags here on my page. Thanks for taking the time to read & view this blog. I’ll be back on Friday with my weekly update. Take care.

Hi all. Well it was a bit of a strange week in ITB.  We had last week off for our mid-term then when we came back nearly all our labs&lecturs were canceled some due to illness but our Visual Language was canceled due to the fact that there is a graduation in ITB today & Niamh & Margret are involved with this. So again i haven’t much to report. I’m getting on a bit better on my crutches though i’m finding them very tiring but i’m getting there!! I did a couple more photoshop pic’s so i’ve put them up. Hope you like them. Again the young lad is my beautiful Son Shane. So that’s about it really. We will be back on track next week so drop by to see what we have been getting up to. Take care.

Hey everyone. Hope all’s good with ya’s?? AGAIN another great but busy week at ITB&AGAIN a cool lecture from Niamh&a unusual but great lab from Margret. I’ll get to that in a bit. So in Niamh’s lecture we had a quick re-cap over last weeks lecture, which i think is a great way to start a lecture as Niamh point’s out the main part’s that we should be focusing on,then we started this weeks lecture which dealt with “Digital Imaging”. First up were “BITMAPS”. Bitmaps (or RASTERS as they are sometime known) are like a big grid made up of a lot of tiny squares&if you put a colour into each square you can build an image square by square. The advantages of using bitmaps are that they can display really complex images&they are also universal. The disadvantages are that they can’t be scaled up without loosing out on quailty&they tend to have big file sizes. Niamh also spoke about pixels(little squares)& resolution(amount of dots across by dots tall). Niamh then told us about the different bitmap image formats gif’s,jpeg’s,&,png’s. Gif’s are better for logo’s or banners but not for picture’s,jpeg’s are better for picture’s&png’s are simmiler to both gif’s(png-8)&jpeg’s(png-24). We also talked about “Vectors” which instead of being made up of pixels,they contain points&lines which when combined can form complex images which can then be filled with colour. Niamh then touched on “Photoshop” which is an amazing bit of kit for photo manipulation&she also gave us links to some great photoshop tutorials. It was a great lecture very interesting. Niamh also creates a very relaxed atmosphere were while she is great at getting the point’s of the lecture across she also adds some humor. Myself&group A then headed off to our lab with Margret&we all thought we would be doing our first photoshop lab but Margret then arrived with a big bag filled with…………..PUPPET’S!! To say we were shocked is an understatment hahaha!! But it was a great lab the idea being that we express ourself’s using the puppet’s as our props!! Me,martin&shauna&becky teamed up but we didn’t apply ourself’s as much but we still raised a giggle from the class. I had a grandad puppet&martin had a grandma puppet. Martin was very funny. We went first&afterwards Margret (as always) was great giving us her view on what she saw us do. The other guys in the class were brilliant i have to say so well done guys!! It was a fun lab&again it was another avenue we went down expressing ourselfs. So another very enjoyable Visual Language lecture&lab&another great week in ITB. In visual language next we’re heading to the museum of modren art so tune in next week for what should be a great blog (although all my blog’s are pretty great hahahaha). We didn’t get to use photoshop but i’ve done a few bits with it&i’ve put up some pic’s. The beautiful little boy is my son Shane! He’s a legend!! Thanks again for reading this. Talk to you next week. Take care.