Yi's Nest

Project 2-Summarize.

2008-10-29T06:05:00.000-07:00

For this project, I choose to do topic 2, which is:
Create and structure a photographic tour by combining geotagged photographs onFlickr with Google Earth/Maps. Consider narrative in the context of physical location7and the delivery medium. Ensure that all content used is licensed appropriately andattributed accordingly.

Here is my final work→His Story. Her Story←
Hope everybody will like it.

The reason I choose this topic is really simple, because I always love to work with pictures and as I mentioned in the blog post before, I use to love write stories, especially the story about myself. But I have no chance to do that.

Before I start doing this project, I had look at the website that shows us some really good stories.
It's "We Tell Stories" my basic idea was come from one of the way that they use to tll the story <The 21 Steps> they use google map as the tool of showing the process of the story. For me, it is much more easy to go on with step my step.
So I just try to use Google map to do that.
At the beginning of the project, I try to do what they have done with <The 21 Steps> but it's really hard for me to do things as good as they did, such as when you read the story, from one place to another, It will have a line go through the map and take you to the next place. I try to do that but could not even know how to make the line moving.
But later on, after I found out that I can't do that by simply use the tools that google map provide to us to use. I give up that part, just simply use the link and other easy way of showing my story.

During the processing of the project, I feel good, I really enjoy doing all these things, for example, choose the photos that I need to use. PS the cover picture of the story. and so on.
I was a reader when I did that, as well as author. I kind of enjoy recollected all the pieces from last year.
Really a good way to review and to make myself remember those things.

I am quite happy with the final piece of my work.
Hopefully other people who looked at this will like it as well.

Free Talk about the story.

2008-10-28T19:12:00.000-07:00

This is a story I got inspiration from my own life experience.

Maybe my aim is not only telling people the love story I had with my boyfriend, but also to introduce my lovely hometown to more people. It is the place that grow me up, also let me met my lover.

Just as I said in the story, for me, there's nothing such as "end", "end" means the "new start".
So, even the story is ending, "His story and Her story" in the true life is continuing. Nothing can stop us from enjoy our life, and everything will be fine after the hard time.

All the photos I showed in the story was taken by myself, except the movie poster.
See all of the photos and brief descriptions are in HERE my flickr photostream.
The cover picture is me and my boyfriend.
Hope you enjoy our small love trip in the most beautiful city in China.

project 2

2008-10-27T18:09:00.000-07:00

I should of write this post few weeks ago when I decided what to do with this project, but I'm just been to busy with playing around and enjoy doing the project, so this post has been late for such a long time.

I use to love write stories, but my pool talent of writing told me that I'm not good at this, so I just gave up.
I fall in love with photos and editing photos. Especially the landscape of all the place I went, and people around me, and little stuff that I bought.
I always looked at those hundreds of photos in my computer, and thinking that one day I might tell people some story about those photos, it's may unnecessary to be real story, but it will be good to tell people my story in my eyes, in my mind, through my camera. That's my view of the world.

When I saw 3 of the topics of the project, I kind of confused once, but finally I decided to use the photos that I took in my hometown with my boyfriend when we first time met each other, and tell the story about them.
This story is base on my own true story with my boyfriend, but I changed it a little bit, to make it more like a "story".
I'm really enjoying doing this, it really gives me a good chance to make my dream come true.

It is nearly in the end of processing, hopefully, it will be good in the final piece=)
Please looking forward to see it.

Another kind of image world

2008-10-21T15:01:00.000-07:00

Due to the working with Flash, I got a lot of chance to touch with another type of image, it is called Vector graphics.

"Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based upon mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.
Vector graphics formats are complementary to raster graphics, which is the representation of images as an array of pixels, as it is typically used for the representation of photographic images.[1] There are instances when working with vector tools and formats is best practice, and instances when working with raster tools and formats is best practice. There are times when both formats come together. An understanding of the advantages and limitations of each technology and the relationship between them is most likely to result in efficient and effective use of tools."

Quote from wikipedia-Vector graphics.

The normal picture in the computer such as photo, they are made of pixels, they are like all little dots, to display the whole picture. Vector graphics is a kind of picture that safed a lot of quality, but used different geometry shape to make the picture work.

It is the kind of picture that used a lot in the animation work, and iconograph.

Animation

2008-10-14T02:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
I really don't know how to put it into this blog with the screen that you can just click and watch it stright way-_- SO I just put the link here, if you like you can go and have a look...

First one is a 3D animation work. It's about a little animal who can not fly, but try its best to make itself fly.
I was really moving when I saw it cried when its "flying". Thi storyboard of the animation is usually the most important part of a animation product. Well, we can not simply ignore the software skill, but, a good story will effect people a lot, when they watching the animation.
It is the same as you read a novel. Some times people do not want very beautiful depaint of the people or the cricumstances, they only want to see a good story, clear character personality and beautiful process of the story.
I like this work because it gives us reallly clear idea of how is the story going on, what is the main character doing, although it's really short, in the end of the story, we discovered why is the character doing those things for. Very simple but beautiful work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8
This one is an example of the Flash work.
Due to the project of the Visual Narrative, we are doing some of the Flash working. I kind of interested in Flash animation product. It is an esay way of making animation products, but it is not as beautiful as other tools can do. It is much more easier to make also less cost when you make it.
This one is called Animator vs Animations. There are 2 and 3 as well, but personaily I feel 1 is the best one.
It's about the character that animator made fighting with the animator. These kind of fighting flash was popullar on the internet for quite a long time.
There is no storyline of this animation work, but the Flash skill is really good, the action of the character is very cool.

Beacuse of the development of the computer and internet, we can now watch a lot of excellent work online without cost any money.
A lot of people who can make beautiful animation work may not working in the animation company, internet and computer gives them the best stage to performing, to show themselves.
Really really love animation, hope one day I can be one of them who can make my own animation work^^...

Online Game

2008-10-06T15:15:00.000-07:00

Due to the development of the internet, people's life are much more involved with the internet. Especially young people.

Internet is not only a media, wich people can get informantion from, but much more like a tool, that people can participate, and communicate to others.

Online game is a kind of game that a lot of people from everywhere in the world can play together, there are few different kind of Online games popular on the internet nowadays.

Some of them people will have their role in the game they can control their own role (usually is a person or an animal or whatever), either play with others or fight with others. These game we call them role play game. These games always need people to be online and spend time to do something inorder to level up the role.

Some of the games mainly for people to entertainment. Such as some of the music game, or some of the card game which you can play with other people on a dummy table, just like you play them with your friend on the table. Those games, do not ask people to spend long time to be online, you can play them whenever you like.

Online game is one of the important ennertainment for young people. Especially in China. Because of the one child policy, a lot of kids are really lonly at home, internet is a good way for them to get new friend from, they can choose their favorite game to play and get new friends who had the same interest as themselves.

World of Warcraft- This is a very famous Online game all around the world. Role play, very beautiful 3D menu. Most of the boys will know that I guess.

Perfect World international- Also a role play game, most of the player are Asian.

Audition online- A kind of music game start from Korea. Very famouse in most of the Asian countires. Korea use to have friendship online competion with China.

My First English Diary

2008-09-11T04:15:00.000-07:00

This is my first English Diray from one of my Chinese blog...
I hardly written English in my diary, but that time when I watched the moive I found I felt it in English a lot...So I just tried.
And,finaly I did it...
Not too bad nor good...
Just some shallow opinion of the moive.

http://user.qzone.qq.com/20517495/blog/1214314717

"Sex And The City"

I very much enjoyed this movie I would love to say this...

This movie is not really only about the sex or the big city such as New York,it is more likely talking about the new generation that in most of the western societies nowadays...

Life between friends,families,partners,and so on...Both simple and complex relationship that people(especially women)have in the upper ten in America.People seem to have more interests on women,no matter single or married or divorced,whether young or midaged or old,it seems to me that there're too many stories to talk about women.'Sex And The City' is about four different types of women, who're all over 30 years old.They are best friends for a long time.They pretty much love to spend time with each other during their life,even some of them have been screwed up with some one,and have different life as they use to have.They knew each other so much that nothing can apart them from each other,even some thing bad happend(well I'm not gona tell u what was happend in the moive,cause I know you will going to watch it and find out whats going on in the moive o(∩_∩)o you will have fun I'm sure.)

All sorts of things happend in the moive.Not only happy,but also sad;not only joy time,but also argue time.Not only romantic things,but also realities.Four of them have all gone through some kind of difficulty situations,they all have different way of dealing with these 'massive stuff',but they respect each other so much,they appreciated others choices and ideas so much.It is some kind of life I wander I can have with my friends.(In fact I've already have some one in my life that rescue me all the time from my life cliff.So lucky me!o(∩_∩)o)
I can even feel the same thing happend in my life,with my Princess Purple and Shalin~haha~Well,I guess that's enough for today...It already take me too long time to write this- -!...

Production Project A

2008-09-03T19:48:00.000-07:00

I choose the topic 2 which is the online exhibition.
Here's my exhibition site. 'Little Mao's stories'.

"A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story." - Wikipedia-Comic strip.

These pictures that I showed is my best friend's comic strip work.

I am really interesting in Comic things especially Japanese Comic and some of the famous Chinese Comic strip painter, such as 朱德庸 (Zhu Deyong), 敖幼祥 (Ao Youxiang) comic strip used to be a kind of old fashion entertainment life people use to have. Nowadays, a lot of them change to TV cartoon or TV drama Flash and so on. Not many people interested in these boring pictures any more. But some still do. I am the one still love all these pictures. People can explore much more with pictures rather than all the moving pictures and sound.

Because of the development of the internet these days, more and more people who are interested in produce arts productions are able to post all their own work on the website, and more and more people can see all these wonderful work.
In most of the comic strip works there is at least one theme, people use different way to show their ideas of the events, reality, people around them or themselves.
Comic strip is using the exaggerate way to tell the stories, to make people laugh, but after people laughing at these works, they will come back and think about it, what does that means in the stories? What does the author want to tell us with the funny stories?
Similar to the western countries' comic strip work, a lot of people only use the simple line either in black and white or some simple color to draw the pictures and show people the story in few pictures.

The work I choose is my best friend's work, she's try to use her own life experiences to show how does Chinese kids lived with their life, how does the Chinese society changed nowadays, how young people like as responded to all these changes.
For sure, the western cultures had a lot influences in China these days. All the young generation will know about that. It is easy to see the changes in China compare to 10 or more years ago. In Shalin's some other comic strips also talks about this idea as well.

There are heaps of online photo album website on the internet. But I choose the Flickr. I saw other people use Flick r as the tools to show their photos, it seems good to me because I can put a lot of descriptions under the pictures that you want to show, and also you can put notes on the pictures without editing the original pictures.
When I put them into the 0photo album, they are not in order,when I going in to my photostream site. But after I use organizer to set them into different sets. They seems working well ordered there.
So I just separate them into 3 different sets.
Growing up Part 1
Growing up Part 2
Events part1-Pork and Love

I think it is a good way to show the pictures that I want to show everyone, and also the description is quiet clear. I hope every one will enjoy that as I do.

What do you think?

2008-09-02T21:42:00.000-07:00

Too much flower? Or just alright?
I found a lot of people use the same template as mine, and it looks a bit boring sometimes. So I just search for some pictures, and want to do something differently. I saw this background picture and I thought, yeah, maybe I can just photo shop it, and make it a new template, which has the same form but different looks.
I feel like in beautiful spring now. Ha ha, perfect match to the weather isn't it?!

When I editing pictures in Photo shop, I really enjoy it, it is a kind of weird feeling that I can make things different from the original ones. They really can make people have different ideas from the original things.

Best friend's 3D work.

2008-08-29T18:26:00.000-07:00

I really relly like this piece of 3D work that my best friend did this year.

She is studying media and visual design in China at the moment.

This piece of work is one of her project in her 3rd year study.

I like this piece of work, basicly because the structure of the story and the MAYA skill she had.

Although this is only 1 min of the work, I found really interesting in it, and really want to know whats going on in the story.

Design websites

2008-08-13T17:32:00.000-07:00

From last week's workshop.I have been searching for some design websites. Which really interests me is that a lot of the design websites tend to use very very complicated computer skills to show their products. Such as very complicated flash website, all the buttons and links are connected to each other with flash. e.g.(Bridge design)this one is not as complicated as some others but it is still very much different from the normal website that we daily visit. It is a way of showing the fashion thoughts of designs, showing the differences of design and normal life(may be). But some time it will became a real problem if people over do it.
I talked about the Dinosaur designs website last week in class, actually I personally really like this website, it is simple and easy to follow(dinosaur designs ) except some of the link they haven't organized well enough.
People may think differently about the idea of Fashion, but in my opinion, doesn't matter how fashion you want to show people you are and your productions are, you have to let people 1. interested in it; 2. keep eye on it; 3. get use to it quickly. I found really hard to get use to these complicated website, although they looks really cool at the first place, but when you do it over and over again, you will feel really tired with all the flash and the waiting of the loading time.
Also, different area of designers focus on different things and peoples.
Here are some examples (2design) this is a kind of design website will focus on most of the young people, who loves cool things a lot. Another one is a Hong Kong design company's website, called (Alan Chan design) this one is completely different from 2design one, even though they use kind of similar technical web skills, this design will much more focus on their products not the way they built their site.
Well, I will stop here now. If I can find more interesting website I will post it here for sure. If you like them, just keep eye on them, if you not, just ignore me^_^V

Some photos

2008-08-13T01:41:00.000-07:00

I have got my digital camera for only about 2 years.

During this 2 years, I have taken a lot of photos, doesn't matter what, I just love doing it.

Also, in China, people love to PS(photo shop) photos, I learned all the basic knowledge about how to use PS in my high school when I was in China. After I finish my high school, I start touch with the internet and inprove my PS skill a lot. As well as PS, I learned a lot of software skills from my friends and from the daily use of computer. Such as dreamweaver, cool edit pro, and so on.

I love editing pictures, not only my own photos, but also a lot of photos with other things and peoples.

Here are some of the photos I took in winter holidays. I love these photos a lot.

I edit them in PS, so it looks not really like winter, but I like this feeling

PS: I am a kind of person, who love to show my own life a lot. So I use to take all the photos of the things I bought. I have got my own logo, I love to put my logo on my pictures to tell everyone this is mine.haha~I will show my logo next time~

First Diary

2008-08-05T00:14:00.000-07:00

First I need to say, this should be done last week, but, I've been lazy since I was born.
For me, Blog, is not a new thing. I have been using Blog since about 3 or 4 years ago. But English Blos, it is really the first time.
The reason that I choose blogger, is because I found it really simple compare to others, for me, I'm a kind of person who's really lazy, and not really enjoy the thing that was totally new for me. I tried other blog, but they seems to me a little bit strange, I'm not familiar with all the features or widgets from other blog.
I've got a Chinese blog(﹏の窝), which I use quite frequently from this year. Blogger seems similar to that one, however, blogger is bit easier than my Chinese blog(﹏の窝),. Which makes me really easy job to get use to it 0(∩_∩)0.

Also, I just want to talk a little bit about myself as well.
Maybe it can helps people who visit my blog and read my posts can know me a bit.
I'm a Chinese girl, study in Canberra now, and have been here for more than 3 years.
I'm really interesting in Japanese cartoon and computer games, also interesting in all the Japanese audial dramas. So I'm using software('Cool Edit Pro' and 'Adobe Audition') making audial darama sometimes.
Because of my interests I very much enjoyed study Media in UC at the moment.
Hopefully I can have more fun in my future study.

PS:The picture on the top is the photo that I took last month, it is the bus stop near my home and the girl in the picture is my good friend! I use photoshop edit it and use it as my blog header~

New nest!

2008-07-30T18:08:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone.

This is Yi's new nest.