Slatty Pets

Did the slats and called it Slatty Pets, maybe should have called it slotted pets- not sure. I really wanted to do something like a flower, but things did not work out. So I got really pissed off and did cat, mouse and bunny.... I put the English version of the German Gummy bear song, but not the repeating catchy part, so no one will be thinking about the chorus all the time, due the catchy ways of it. Here is the link, but the computer is acting up and a pic may not show, due to that reason. I really wanted to do some camera angles in After Effects, but time was running out and I sometimes take to defeat on achieving more than I can and leave it at that to keep a fair balance on all assignments. Some then shine more than others in alternating patterns, week by week. My eyes are burning by now, and need a break like a 12 hour nap. Soon, after Wednesday, it will be nap time. During school, sleep is not a necessity at times, when work needs to get done. It is though later on, like a post- sugar-candy crash at a daycare.... Who is the kid now, not sure. I say, it takes a childhood to become an adult and a lifetime, to try to be a kid agai... Meow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyiv8XPMUvQ

Blog about the Newsletter

So the thing is THE LINK IS HERE:

http://ddsgn220.volu​me11.com/yazzy_newsl​etter/..

Somehow, why is it troubled, I guess...

The Spud Goodman Radio Show Is an intimate hour with Spud Goodman, his co-host Chick Hunter and an army of extended family members. The show originates from NWCZ in the Seattle/Tacoma market and is currently broadcast Thursday nights at 7:00 pm. Our show does present celebrity guests and live musical performances as do most radio entertainment programs but we do so from a clearly different angle. Our host Spud Goodman has an innate ability to broach topics with guests that quite often take them into territory they had not visited previously on the air. The show was described by one reviewer as “A not so rural, contemporary homage to A Prairie Home Companion. Currently the show is also carried on 2 stations in Texas and 1 in Florida as we are now concentrating our efforts at expanding our exposure around the country. Our guests are all national personalities and a review of the demo reel link included below will verify that we are able to attract the top talent in the entertainment industry today. We are able to do so in large part due to relationships built in our previous incarnation, a nationally syndicated comedy talk show carried on the FOX NET cable television division. The show’s celebrity guests were reflective of its reach and status as some of those who have appeared on Spud’s show include Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Trump, Michael Moore, Drew Carey, BB King, Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly, Tracy Ullman and the list goes on. The musical guests were as eclectic and varied as They Might Be Giants, Richard Thompson, Rosanne Cash, Jeff Tweedy, Graham Parker and a long list of others. Recent guests on the radio show have included Kevin Nealon, Lisa Lampenelli, George Lopez, Colin Quinn, David Koechner, Jim Jefferies, Adam Corolla, Steve-O, Reggie Watts, Caroline Rhea, the late Dave Brockie (aka Oderous Urungus) from GWAR, US Congressman Jim McDermott, Richard Lewis and many others. The Spud Goodman Audio Demo Reel Please direct all inquiries to Lori Madson Executive Producer (206) 240-7235 lorimadson@spudgoodman.com www.spudgoodman.com This was the original goal, but then again, time is short with a lot of work to do with four classes and you do the best you can with what you have rather than to have nothing. Took an ashload of screenshots, and it is not working. So in compensation of the missing one, this is the best that there is for now or forever. This was my first version, before I worked on the other version. Well, it will work out somehow, I guess and I know the thing was acting up, when I put six ffffff;s for white font and it turned out black but the thing was messed up that day with many in the class, yep. Well, Martin fixed it, the grading, yay !

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Barely swimming without water

Dreamweaver, still weaving my nightmares... 

I will get the hang of it, meanwhile it is hanging me though on multiple silk strings. I am swimming and drowning without water in Dreamweaver. I will get into this class and hopefully learn it and like it then, it is to me quite genius to understand the mystery behind all the coded languages, but meanwhile, it drives me nuts, losing all the lugs on the sides of my rims on my mental tire. I will try to get that other assignment in tomorrow, if I can get some help, I sat there for five hours, and it was like I get it, and then it just went downhill.

Anyway, did the wordpress thingy, assy 13, to the best way it dawned on my off and on computer literacy. I gotta say, I went from a sad world of power point though, to a OOOOH Shiny world of a bunch of Adobe stuff and once you go that way, who wants to go back ????

I added photos, changed the background, layout and  added text. Two hours and some change later, it looks like it is done-ish. ISh means, that I could like it better, but it is to evolve from here. I am glad, I did not call the wordpress site I have holydragonfart, that was my first plan.

 Ok, that is all for the simplified technical part plus the link is below.... :

https://yazzydesigns.wordpress.com/

UPDATE for photo/ screenshot of my site. I still like my site. It is plain and has less color. Just the shade of black. Otherwise, color goes everywhere else !

Two in One but kinda left behind the tiny dots...

Well, meow there !

Went to freaking ice cold D.C. and visited three states in one day back and forth to get stuff done. After all, felt like beasting it out like the Medusa.... And being exhausted, just kept on going until my mind could not carry my body for any longer and had to nap. It was cram time. Thank goodness, that the boss saved the time to get things lined up....

So did the two slam magazine  thingies.... Unfortunately, the pics I took, went all sour. But one stood out, with no potential of a clear cut photo- just really blurry. What to do ? How can one salvage garbage ? Sometimes there is treasure in trash !

So did the second version of the slam magazine, and it is the boy with the long hair, Chris- at the Student Life. He has such georgeous hair, he will make any woman jealous ( or man )....

I decided to use Lightwave for text, not happy about the bottom part- but after about eight hours of dedication, the dedication wore off for the night and ended up just leaving it, too tired to go on after being in the same room from 7:40 ish a.m. til 9:30 ish p.m... The marathon is over for the day!

Anyway, after rendering the pics from Lightwave in different textures and putting it into a png format- Photoshop covered the rest. I made several copies of the same edge glow photo, and dragged,rotated,warped, stretched it, etc and then added a few flame brushes to it. The folio for this one is the two brush swoosheeezzz....

I was too tired to focus harder on the folio and would redo it later, if so... I wanted to do something better, but just the time it took to do all of this was spent with all energy on the beefy part, not the side dish....

The first version is a " Tree Woman" something I had in mind since 1994. I had an old painting I winged half of a lifetime ago, and I decided to stick with my first thought. That thought was, that some day I would redo this picture. I did not know then, what Photoshop was, and did not know, that I would redo it in Photoshop.... So I used it as a base for my main idea, added pieces of photos from landscapes that I had taken in the past and then used some special brushed for rock texture etc. But all I do, I create all of my stuff myself, almost all of it.  I do not like using stuff from the internet, and make it mine, unless there is time constraint, or lack of local resources. It is nice to use your own work... And when all fails, then the internet of course is the best option. But to have things, that are original and created like the food at the dinner table and not a drive through style art job- it just feels more rewarding and genuine in character, well at least to me. The thing is of course, that all of this is really much more harder to do,because of a huge investment in time.Anyway, the first version is mixed media, between painting, photography and digital painting.

So going back to the last one version- I did use the images for some of the past SLAM magazines to create a clipping mask for the word itself SLAM. Kinda to honor the past SLAMMER's .... 

Using the eraser brush helped to blend it along with the Clone Stamp tool- to merge partial images together...

Well that is all for now...

Here is the first and the second version.

 

The one color shape thingy...

Ok, when I saw this lesson, all I could see was colors and shapes. I ended up using at least 16 shapes to create the version of Kaleidoscope, plus the bloat thingy, the wiggle thingy and something else, I don't recall right now. I used something like color dodge/different colors to change it and size it up and down, spin the shapes clockwise, counterclockwise etc. I was already thinking of creating a Kaleidoscope type, I had fun and just kept on playing.  If it is not weird or crazy, then something is wrong... But what is weird, is it really something that can be comprehended  unless it is a group that is alike ...
This one was fun to do. I kinda like chaos and most of my stuff will be organized chaos... Here is the link:

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Nightmare Dreamweaver

Who called it Dreamweaver ? It is not weaving dreams for me, a novice, but more spinning a web of OMG, I need to get this language down. Getting down a little, like raindrops.  But well, again, with tutor support, all it is predicted as a good fortune in the stars- " literally".  On the other hand, I made the risky choice to assume four classes and took a harder class. Talk about a self-challenge. Meh, meow... Anyway .... So I decided to make my webpage one of those " I want all of your money, and I will tell how screwed  up your future is later"....

Just kidding. I created a sphere in Photoshop, found a royalty-free background and added the rest of the graphics in there- using Opacity and a humorous type of font to make it look really like one of those "Miss Cleo" Fortune Teller Astrology Front Web Pages. I also ended up posterizing the celestial horizon. The best thing to do is, when there is always an unpredictable future- to make things ahead for time, just in case something will not work out, there will be extra time to work on assignments, especially when life and glitches happen.  That way fortune telling will be a fairy tale....
Finally, I got to upload the pic- it would not work on the school computer, grrrr....

Fire Tari

 Took a photo of a young girl as a base for a portrait inspiration, who works at the Computer Library. She modeled for a picture.

I wanted to paint Nefertari ( Queen Nefretiti), but I changed my mind and made it look a little cosmic. So adding some flames and used the same color scheme throughout the entire picture. Subtle opacity, different subtle shades of color completed the Digital Picture. Four hours later, I am still getting used to learning the digital pen- this was the answer. I added more volume to the lips and naturally things are not meant to be a 100% even.

http://sugarmunsta.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Tari-512206403