Experi_Florence Site Design
So here you are, coming to Florence. Or maybe you are already here. Either way, awesome choice, considering Florence is one of the best cities in the world. But now that you are here, how do you find out info? I mean let’s be honest here, how many of you are completely fluent in Italian? Or fluent enough to read the paper to find out info? Yeah, us neither. That’s why we created an extra special website for YOU. Yes, you! This website is made for people ages 1 day to 83903928 years old. Do you fall in that range at all? Maybe? On the website we have stories about personal experiences, travel info, cool spots to hang out in the day or night hours, safety info, and much much more. You’ll love it so much that you’ll want to bookmark it so you can easily find it later! That’s how awesome it is. Check it out…
Click the screen capture to go directly to the site…
Experi_Florence Website
HOT KEYS!
Hot keys are little tricks you can use on Mac OS X that make it faster to do what you want… instead of clicking a bunch of different drop down menus, you can simple push a few buttons at once and voila!
Let’s get down to basics…
⌘ or – Sometimes called “Apple key” or Command Key
^ (Control key)
⌥ (Option key) – “Alt” may also appear on this key
the SHIFT KEY looks like an arrow pointing up
the CAPS LOCK key looks like an arrow point up with a line under it – Toggles Caps Lock on or off
fn (Function key) – Located in the lower left corner of built-in keyboards on portable Macs
Now that you know the basic symbols… Click read more to learn the hot keys… Read more…
Are you seeing what is not?
MC Escher “Humanity”
Graphics are very interesting. They can become even more interesting if we incorporate a type of optical illusion into them. Optical illusions are characterized by visually perceived images that are different from objective reality.
They can be divided into three main types:
1. Literal optical illusions create images that are different from the objects that make them.
2. Physiological illusions are effects on the eye & brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type(brightness, tilt, color, movement).
3. In cognitive illusions the eye and brain make unconscious inferences. This one is a bit more interesting for us.
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Advanced Project Development
In class excitement
The submissions were handed in for November 30th 2009 for Le Citta del Vino competition.
My own pieces and fellow student Lauren Cohen participated from LdM.
Works by moi:
-Allison Bennetts-
Click to see more on my blog about Le Citta del Vino
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Books worth A Thousand Words
New Universal - 2007
Books take on a new meaning for Brian Dettmer. They are his works of art or better known as his “Book Autopsies”. Each page reveals a hidden image and Dettmer uncovers this with an array of colours and shades.
Pencilmation
We have the technology to build cities we dream of, characters that are out of this world and almost anything that pops into our mind. 3-D technology has taken over in animation. You see pixlar, disney and all the major advertising firms using it in their animation.
Some artists have there for gone back to the beginning. Using stop motion animation to express themselves. But they haven’t stopped there they went to the structure of stop motion all the way to the pencil drawings on white paper. What is known today as pencilmation.
Quite a few artist have made a name for themselves using this form of animation. The two most known and fathers of “new” stop motion are probably Don Hertzfeldt and Blu.
Don Hertzfeldt creates his films with traditional pen and paper animation without the aid of computers. He then uses a camera do document the animation and puts them together. One animation has thousands of photographs. He once said: “I don’t know why these things are always framed as a big dumb cage match: Hand-drawn versus computers, film versus digital…”
Don Hertzfeldt: Rejected:
Blu on the other hand does his work using walls as his blank paper and grafiti as his pencil. His work is quite different but with the same technology and visual effects.
Blu: Muto:
Another well worth to take notice of is:
Evelien Lohbeck, Noteboek:
I tried to make my own and reliased that this takes extreme patience as my simple animation took 550 pictures. Putting them together and working on it made me appreciate the technology we have today. That day I really loved flash!
