See Yukio Miyamoto’s works and a consolidated list here. Also Kevin Hulsey’s works, which I was told, uses both Photoshop and Illustrator.
A friend showed me this site, www.lifeinvector.com, take a look! Very good vector art! There is also a tutorial showing how to work using mesh tool at the download section.
Roll over your mouse on the pic and hold on a while, a black wire mesh/frame image will show up. There is one very realistic woman singing pic, see if you can figure out the mesh works.
One nice tool to use in Firefox is Pearl Crescent Page Saver Tool. Please download and install the Basic version (free). Do a screen cap for every page of your blog and email me. This will be part of the marking for last term blog assignment.
People coined our present state of internet as Web 2.0. The ease of posting our writings/ images/ videos etc online is made possible because of the latest technology. This video shows the concept pretty well, watch it here!
Anyway, I’m not seriously hunting for information like that… 
was browsing Mr. Brown website, looking for something to laugh over this festive holidays, some of this jokes however, are more for locals to grasp the meaning.
Some of you have concerns on people using images of your artworks without permission. I think this is really a rightful worry. Just as much as others who don’t like us to infringe their copyrights, as an artist/designer ourselves, we don’t want others to use our materials without getting permission explicitly from us.
You can consider the followings when uploading images:
- Avoid putting up huge and best quality images in the first place. Size the image to just fit into the blog and keeping dpi as 72.
- Add watermark of your name or identity/logo using Photoshop. Set this layer with transparency (say 20%) and appear consistently always in the corner (or even in the middle!).
- Use digital watermark in Photoshop by going thr’ ‘Filter/Digimarc/Embed Watermark’. This will create an invisible watermark that can be used to prove ownership if dispute happen.
- Add a copyright statement somewhere, probably on your ‘About Me’ page.
Of course, if you doesn’t mind people to use your stuff, say it clearly in the statement. You can save up people’s (for those who care) time of emailing you for permission.
I’m concerned for those who are using blog templates (or skins some call it) that are too ‘artistic’. While it’s always good to explore visually, it’s not advisable to use templates that break the order of information (too much), especially for an online portfolio site.
I urge that you get the information up first before experimenting on templates/skins.
The following are some sites that worth visiting. Take a look at how information can be organised and the colors used.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/index.php
http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/
http://mikesdesignillustration.blogspot.com/index.html
http://typeforyou.blogspot.com/
http://www.linearchitecture.com/blog/
I reiterated two important features which you do when posting:
1. LABEL
To create and tag LABELs to each of the post. Make sure the good work shall have ‘portfolio’ tag. On the other hand, avoid creating too many labels.
2. EXTERNAL LINK
Make sure links to external site shall launch new window/tab. Insert target=”_blank” in the href link by clicking on ‘Edit Html’ tab (next to ‘Compose’). Like this:
before: <a href=”http://whatever.com/”>LINK</a>
after: <a href=”http://whatever.com/” target=”_blank”>LINK</a>
VIDEO
Also, we had gone through the process of putting video in your post.
1. Register an account in YouTube
2. Re-export video using iMovie. Either:
2.1 Use Preset of ‘Web Streaming’ OR
2.2 Use Expert Setting with following considerations:
- Video Setting -> Mpeg 4 Video
- Video Size -> 320 x 240 pixel
- Sound -> Mono
- YouTube can accept quicktime .mov
I’m sure even if you don’t know who Kurt Wenner is, you should have seen his incredible works forwarded in emails before. He is the famous artist who does anamorphic perspective painting on the street! He was here last month (Dec 2006) and did a painting at the re-opened National museum. This mobile video was taken right behind him.
To upload video, you need to setup an account in YouTube, for example. We need to re-render the video as they are all too huge for uploading. Though quite a number of video formats work for YouTube, there is a preferred spec. The closer we can meet their requirement, the less they meddle with the video, the better the quality seen on YouTube. I tried this video using the default video format from Sony Ericsson mobile in .3GP and it still works.
Do the normal uploading process, follow by copying the codes from YouTube to your blog.
I wanted to keep post in this blog to stay within the scope of our class. But I watched something that was really meaningful and at the same time made me laughed off my chair… well, maybe not to you guys, anyway, here it goes…
I was watching this program on Discovery, the program talks about two guys who survived in a jungle of 17 days for one and 20 days for another. There was also another forest survivor expert who gave tips here and there about things to do and not to do.
He was recounting another survivor story of a man who survived in a desert for like 20 days or so. When rescued that man was asked about what he did to keep alive. The expert thought he was making all the wrong moves, such as moved in the day, drank his own urine and so on, and continue to say that when asked what was his motivation to really persist, that man said that he was filing a divorce and he didn’t want to die at that moment so that his wife would get all his asset! Period. I just found this extremely funny and kept laughing, while in my mind I began to get the point. Nothing else count. Motivation, or goal, is what keep us on course.
Probably too common and mundane to repeat this kind of stuff, but nonetheless the basic lesson, an important one indeed.
