SPRING BREAK IS FINALLY HERE

I've been counting down the days since January for this week to finally arrive! Though it's a time to relax and lay back and enjoy some down time I highly doubt that's going to happen. I'm have so much to do within this one week. I'll be applying for possible jobs and internships for this summer, working on my blog assignment, reading Coal, and researching boats for the boat race for my 3D design class. Whew!!!! I'll surely be busy. Hopefully I stay focused and finish everything early in the week so I'll be able to relax a bit before coming back. So stay safe everyone and bring me back something good!!!!

MORE FLASH ANIMATION

So Saturday I checked my Facebook and clicked on a link to the Caveman's Crib. You know the caveman in all those Geico commercials-hilarious!!!! I check it out and it's an interactive site for the viewer, but when I was looking around I was recognizing things like moving from frame to frame (if you know anything about Flash). I had fun and I believe you will too so check it out!

http://cavemancrib.com

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

Wow! I had no idea making a digital portfolio was going to be so rough. I just finished a sample one for my Computer Art II class. I'm happy with what I have so far but I know I'm going to have to tweek it in the near future. But the good thing is I have a head start in creating one for my Electronic Resources class!!!!!

PACKAGING

Today I had a critique in my advanced page layout class on packaging. I decided to design a shopping bag. Making the layout for any package is harder than what I thought it to be, so I just went with a simple design that still works. Our teacher took photos of our pieces and here is my finished product. Hope you like!

BOAT RACE

This semester I'm taking 3-D Design and one of the requirements is that the class participates in a boat race. This means each team has to construct the boat, get in it, and race it across and back a lake. This year's theme is SUPER HEROES! Now I think I can do the super hero part with no problem. My problem is I don't wish to be one of the members in the boat. Why do you ask? Well #1. I don't feel safe getting into a boat I helped to make #2. I'm not the best swimmer #3. I don't do lakes and #4. Did I mention I'm not the best swimmer?!?!? I want to help my teammates out, but I just cannot get inside of this boat. I think I'll just do really really well on the super hero section and help out with the advertising for our team. But as far as super heroes to base our boat on, any suggestions?????

ANIMATION

Thanks to my buddy Wes from the Flash Animation class I took over J-Term, I can now show everyone my animation of Chiquita. When listening make sure to press pause on my media player at the bottom of my blog page. I hope you guys enjoy it because I had fun making it. It's my first animation, so please be nice!

http://msclaudia.zoomshare.com/files/Chiquita.swf

STREET ART

Since I was a youngster I've always admired graffiti. Although I must say that some I've seen is not good at all. I used to draw in my sketchbook graffiti sketches and thought maybe one day I'll actually put my work on the side of a building or train car or something. Well come to find out it's illegal so that shot my dream right then and there lol! So I went to the next step and had my mama buy me some sidewalk chalk. I didn't have the best luck with it though, but the point is I TRIED. There was one website I came across and boy was it cool. The man created these sidewalk drawing that looked real. Check it out to see for yourself. But if you find other works of graffiti let me know.

http://www.redjellyfish.com/fun/street-art.html

IT WORKED!

For some weeks now I've been trying and trying to load examples of my work to my blog, but when I did either the picture would not load or it would not show correctly. This is my clown fish who everyone calls Nemo I made in Corel Painter. My teacher made our class record the actual painting of our subject but the catch was we could not mess up when recording. The entire thing had to play through without any mistakes. So here's the finished piece and I was happy with it. I used oil pastels I believe for everything. Now that I got an image to load correctly, I'll post other examples later.

THE UGLY AMERICAN

So on Tuesday in my American Literature II class my teacher introduced us, well me anyhow, to what an Ugly American is. I had no clue of what she was talking about. In my head I thought it was some person who just was not very appealing to the eye, but of course I was wrong. She explained to the class that at times when Americans go to foreign countries they boast about how the United States is the best country of all, everything in the US is better than across seas, and rude attitudes. I exclude myself considering I've never been out the states. I have many friends from foreign countries who agreed with what the teacher had to say and I was somewhat shocked. Going to another country I'd compare it to being a guest in someones house. Since I'm the guest I govern myself accordingly and display the most respect toward my hosts. So to hear that my people go and "act a fool" is something I had to think on. It's because of my upbringing of how I act and treat others, saying "yes sir" and "no sir", "yes ma'am" and "no ma'am". If you treat others with disrespect expect to be treated the same and if you treat others with respect, respect will be returned.

I JUST WANT TO KNOW

I understand well that men and woman are very different creatures especially when it comes to dealing with emotions, problems, and almost everything. I've been trying to understand the how the male works here lately so I guess this post is for the fellas. Why is it that guys only tell their "female friends" selective things? Or why is she always the last to find out about something that's going on? And how come when guys deal with emotions they want to keep it all bottled up inside? I admit I bottle up a lot of my feelings but every now and again I'll talk to someone about what I'm going through. Communication is very helpful in life so use it! I just get really frustrated when I have to do brain surgery on a guy just to get some information out of him. So if you're a guy reading this please get back with me because I just want to know.