Being able to create myself in an avatar maker was a nice experience! Anything that involves customizing a character is something that I’m more than willing to do and most likely will enjoy, and this involves creating myself in character creation as well. I ended up creating two versions of myself, one as realistically as…
Author: Jay
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
When I first read this book as a required reading for my multimedia web class, I skimmed through it, and I thought to myself, “this is literally just a book. We are reading a story as an assigned textbook.” I even almost skipped out on buying it because I wasn’t too sure that was the…
Animation Inspiration
I grew up watching a lot of animation, and to this day, I still watch animation (though I don’t really watch many shows anymore…only if something really catches my eyes, and if I decide in the moment to start it and commit to it). I’ve been able to collect a couple of pieces of media…
Moving Pictures
The world of storytelling is vast with many different genres of stories, as well as the different mediums that they come in. Film, specifically animation, can create impact in the same way that watching a movie with live actors could; or in the same way as reading words on paper, or on a screen, could….
Apple Logo and Copyright
Apple Logo Since the creation of the Apple company, its logo—simplistic and easy to understand (and easy enough to even replicate)—is very recognizable. With a logo as simple as its company name and used as things such as a religious symbol in stories and media, it is bound to have some people wonder what exactly…
Photoshop, Beauty Standards, and Art
Photoshop and Beauty Standards Rather than using a photo to talk about the affects of what Photoshop can do to people, I decided to use a video that showcases four women who volunteered to have their bodies photoshopped to fit the beauty standard of the culture that they’re a part of (the video itself was…
Moore’s Law and the Babel Fish
Amongst all the things that were written in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and have proven to be a scarily accurate prediction of our technological world, the Babel Fish was one that didn’t take me by surprise but was one that I hadn’t thought related to our present world straight away. Now, upon re-reading…
User Interface and User Experience
Often when we see color, we associate it with a certain attitude or emotion, or even status (for example: red is associated with anger, and purple and gold is associated with royalty, or an aura of luxury). Some color choices are intentionally used to tell a story, or emote an emotion to someone, or to…
Bauhaus
This was my first time actually learning about the Bauhaus. I found the history of this institution, and its transformation throughout the years that it was open, very fascinating. The ideas and techniques that were taught at this school are still used for today in advertisement (the idea of integrating typography into corporate identity and…
Hyperland & H2G2
The comedy sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the 1990s documentary “Hyperland”, both stemming from the imagination of late Douglas Adams, predict of creations that have been made, and events that are happening, and have happened, in our world—more than 20 years early, and portrayed accurately. Of course, with the technology that…