Final Post

This is my last blog post. Since I've run out of ideas of things to blog about, I'm going to follow the trend and talk about blogging throughout this semester. I didn't really enjoy having to write new posts each week. I didn't mind when I had something to say. It was after the first few that I began to have trouble because I ran out of things to write about, as well as remember to post. The first two blog tallies I was pretty consistent with my blogging, but as time went on I forgot to and ended up waiting till the last minute to post all of my blogs at once. I did enjoy reading what other people posted though, there were a lot of interesting things that people talked about that I wouldn't have known about or remembered otherwise.

Overall I'm glad that we did these blogs because it helped me to learn how to write in a more casual way than I've been used to in school. Also I got to learn about blogging and how it works, which I hadn't really known about at all before. While I doubt that I'll ever form another blog for fun, it could be a useful tool for a future project or something like that. I really enjoyed this class, it was different from my other ones and let me think with a broader perspective about the topics we covered.

The Final Week

I don't know about you guys but this is a pretty accurate statement about how I've been feeling with finals for classes. Between papers and exams, I feel like I have to constantly fight the urge to zone out and do nothing. So far I haven't been nearly as successful as I had hoped I'd be, and I don't think that that's going to improve much.
The thing that's keeping me going is how it's only one more week and then this semester is over, as surreal as that feels right now.
Only two more to go!

Presents!

Oh, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Yes I’m quoting the song, but in many ways, at least for me, it is. The one thing that I don’t enjoy so much is shopping for gifts part. Don’t get me wrong, I love to actually be able to go out and buy the gifts and then give them to the people that you care about. The thing that I don’t like is actually figuring out what to give to them.

The problem is that everyone I know has everything that they actually need, at least the things that I could afford to buy them, and most of the time I’m not nearly creative enough to figure out what they’d actually enjoy. Eventually I find something that’s ok, but it takes awhile before I actually get to that point. I suppose it just makes the act of actually giving the present and seeing their (hopefully a good) reaction to the gift.
I haven’t even started my shopping for presents yet, in theory I’ll be able to get it all done during one of the days that I don’t have finals. I really hope that it won’t take me too long to find everything! Good luck to anyone else with the same dilemmas!

Final Project

So here's my final project. I finished it last Thursday on time and everything, but as can be seen here for anyone who's still reading the blogs, I haven't finished all of my posts yet. I'm just keeping up with my tradition of procrastination. Anyways, I didn't mind making the final project. I ended up taking a short story and remkaing it into a digital type format. After looking for awhile I picked the The Street that Got Mislaid and used a blogger account to post the story.
To make it more "digital" I used different formats, sizes, and colors in the text in addition to changing around the structure of the story and picking a certain backround/template for it. Overall I was hoping that with the way that I altered the story it would help the more key aspects of the story to be emphasized for the reader.

Here's the link for the project: http://www.thestreetthatgotmislaid.blogspot.com/

Also, here's a short summary of the story, just in case no one feels like reading the whole thing:
The Street that Got Mislaid follows the character Marc Girondin, who files for the city of Montreal to keep a record of the streets of the city. Basically Marc momentarily loses his faith in the system and his life’s work when he finds a file of Green Bottle Street in a drawer and realizes that it’s not on the map. When he goes to investigate he discovers, much to his relief, that the street does exist and that it just wasn’t listed for years. He also realizes how the street is like a haven, and after some discussion with a woman living there decides to live there himself and not tell anyone that the street had been misplaced. The meaning that I got from the story was that by finding Green Bottle Street Marc was able to find something that was missing in his life, perhaps some more meaning to it. From finding it he was able to possibly make new friends and find a place where he could have some peace besides where he worked (in the story it mentions how he prefers to be at his office rather than his current home).

Other Level 5 Logos

I really am not the biggest fan of the Level 5 logos that I came up with but I was only given a day to come up with it so this is what I made.

Beat Jacking

This is a video of the New Jersey rapper F.A.M.E. beat jacking of someone's Myspace. What he does is he finds a producer on myspace who has a hot track and freestyles over it on the spot. No practice.No second takes. No writtens. It's pretty cool
Myspace beat Jacking Episode 2

Jed Anderson

Jed Anderson is without the best rail snowboarder in the world. He is only 17 years old and was able to film an entire video part in a matter of 4 days ( it takes the average rider the entire season to film a video part). He was sponsor less until this last month when his sponsor me tape hit the web and now he is an amature for Salomon Snowboards. This is his tape, he has the best style I have ever seen


Jed Anderson Full Part 0809 from javier fernandez on Vimeo.