I liked the effects that I used. The effects that I used were the aged film effect with some shakes and scratches and a suspenseful sounding tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWWfnKVbYY

This is a stop motion animation Super Mario video done with legos. It's cool because I like Mario games and it had the sound effects and everything.

Photoshop assignment

For the Photoshop assignment I gave a photo of myself that I took with isight, look like it was from a page in a comic book. At first it was hard because I had no clue how to use photoshop but now after doing this assignment, I have(even if a little)some experience with photoshop. It was kinda user friendly,I think that it was more for people know there way around photoshop but after skipping a few steps and putting my own spin on it,I can proundly say that I finished it.

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/09/13/give-your-photos-a-retro-comic-book-effect/

try it for yourself :)

Surrealism Assignment

Surrealism is a movement that started at the end World War 1 where countries were in disarray. It is an unrealistic art form that can challenge ones perception of reality.

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This piece of surrealism art is by Vladimir Kush


http://www.kidzworld.com/multimedia/surrealism.jpg


This famous piece of is the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali


http://academics.adelphi.edu/honcol/modconart/img/Magritte-falsemirror1.jpg

This pieces of surrealist artwork is called the False Mirror.


This modern surrealist photograph is by Margot Knight

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I think that it was done by taking the photograph,with the worm I'm thinking that they had a snake-like object to fill the space where the snake would be.Then they might have got a picture of a snake and put it over the snake-like object, using it as a sort of guideline.

1) I did like this video because it went into black and white issues and misconceptions. It was two guys talking about racism through a game of chess.

2) The video gets it's point across in a kinda creative way. From the discussion you'd think that they're talking about racism but they're really talking about the chess pieces.

3) Though the video did not have any voice-overs or anything it did have a look at shots of the chess board, and of the guys talking. When the black guy's face(his name was never mentioned)showed annoyance at being the black pieces because he thought that being the white pieces would give him an edge in the game.The video its self is more if a dialogue than a narrative.The shots showed emotion such as annoyance,and confusion. The PSA didn't have a dark of serious tone at all, but I fell it got the point across nicely.

Phenakistoscope


I went to the site http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/opticaltoys.htm. It is an optical device website. Our assignment was to give a report on one of the optical toy on the site.

A Belgium physicist named Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the Phenakistoscope to the world.
The mechanics of the device were adapted from Newton and a Greek mathematician named Elucid.
There are two discs, both with successive action. When spun it look like the couple is dancing.