Typology of Dog

Original Snapshot of my dog Pebbles

After roughly removing the background in Photoshop

Finger-painted rendering with black and white acrylics

Cyber-Pooch!

Assignment #3 Graphic Primitives

Composing with the Camera

Jan 21

When I was in Vancouver last year, I discovered this alley that was kind-of sketchy but had some amazing graffiti.

It has been quite a busy second week back at school, mainly due to the fact that I had to work quite a bit and I have not had an early morning schedule in a while and it takes some getting used to. I am actually enjoying this semester quite a bit, there are no classes that I hate or get extremely bored in and the prof situation is looking good, so far, aswell. I really like learning Photoshop in NMED 1000. I downloaded the trial version onto my laptop and have been playing around with it except there are certain tools that do not work and for some reason, I can only work with grayscale. I do not know if this is because it is a trial version and therefore does not let you play with every function until you buy the software or if there are settings that I can change but have not figured out how to do so yet. I rented AI as partial research for our project and because I have never seen it before. It was pretty entertaining and gave me some ideas. I have yet to finish my camera composing project for NMED 2005 but will trek over to the labs tonight and finish it. I am also taking tome music classes and a psych class so I have a good balance this semester. As far as my personal life goes, my boyfriend moved to Calgary today so I am a little bummed, especially since I dont have a car to go visit him ever but I guess now I will have extra time to focus on other things I have been meaning to do. I went to Snoop Dogg last night and that was interesting. I do not have much else to report this week, hopefully my blog will get more interesting as the semester wears on!

Rectangle/ Golden Mean Assignment for New Media 2005

Data.Body

BIO

My name is Tiffany and I am from Lethbridge. I am 21 years old and outside of school I work (I've been a service industry slave for six years now) and play. The latter involves lazing around and renting TV series, hanging out with my friends and boyfriend, going to pubs, sewing, knitting, designing clothes, hiking, climbing, swimming, dancing, painting, and singing karaoke.

ASPIRATIONS

I chose the University of Lethbridge because it is close and convenient. I can live cheaply with my parents and get discounted tuition as a benefit of my dad being a prof. I chose New Media because I have already changed my major a couple of times (from Kinesiology to English to Fine Arts Multidisciplinary) and I enjoyed the fine arts electives that I took the most and therefore have decided that New Media sounds like a fun and practical fine art to major in. I feel I am fairly competent with computers although I have minimal experience with the software used for New Media. I recieved my diploma in Fashion Design last year from the Pacific Design Academy in Victoria, BC. I really enjoy designing and creating and I think that New Media will satisfy my desire to learn more about design and that my resulting degree will greatly complelement my diploma and open me up to several career options so that I do not have to work as a cashier/waitress/sales associate for the rest of my life. In these courses (New Media 1000 and 2005), I hope that I will learn a lot of practical applications as well as thought-provoking concepts and that I will enjoy New Media so much that I do not end up changing my major yet again.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

I do not have any experience with Photoshop, Dreamweaver or Premiere. I have been taught how to create detailed clothing flats with Adobe Illustrator but my software knowledge ends there.

I have a digital still camera.

FAVORITE SONGS/MP3's

Let Me Be - Xavier Rudd
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
Wildcat - Ratatat
Paper Bag - Fiona Apple
Rough Gem - Islands
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Karma Payment Plan - Modest Mouse
Radiohead - Idioteque
Emotion Sickness - Silverchair
Sublime - Badfish

MOST FREQUENTLY VISITED WEBSITES

www.uleth.ca
www.hotmail.com
www.royalbank.com
www.myspace.com
www.ebay.ca

FAVORITE FILMS

Aladdin
Memento
Zoolander
The Riverwild

FAVORITE BOOKS

Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Invitation to the Game - Monica Hughes
Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks

FAVORITE MAGAZINES

Nylon
Vogue
National Geographic