Assignment 3

don't ask me why these three look grayscaled; after exporting my AI files to JPEG, it seems to have messed with the fine lines of the original...


There shouldn't actually be gray, those are interlaced black and white lines. i swear.

this took me a couple hours of solid work, coming up with a-symmetrical compositions is harder than you'd think. the symmetry categories were a little more entertaining to come up with.



the contrast's weren't

four obscure sort of shapes. I have the strangest feeling that you might be able to identify one of them...

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Ooops, forgot to post my frequented websites:

gfxartist.com - digital art communit, users post there artworks using various digital mediums

pandora - internet radio site; you basically input a song title or artist and it plays a list of music that is similar to that genre or sound

torrentspy.com - I'm a pirate every once in a while, but who isn't today?

typographi.com - an entire site dedicated to new fonts and typefacing

iso50 - design site by Scott Hansen; built on flash and graphic art, very cool.

cheers

In-class Exercise: The golden mean

each box is .618 the height and width of 50% the height and width of the overall box, the spaces between each box stay true to the mean.

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I am asked to provide, and so you shall recieve.

My name is Joshua Cameron Paul. I'm aware I have three first names and completely comfortable with it. I was born in Calgary in 1985, making me 21 years old.

After school, I go home and I sleep, usually. If I'm not asleep, I design tattoos for friends and acquaintances, play my guitar, play the various gaming platforms that are strewn about the floor or listen to a collection of my music through some very cheap speakers still rockin' from the 70's.

Back in school, I sit in my New Media classes and attempt to find some interest in what you all are saying. I chose new media because I've always been drawn to eclectic lifestyle of design. There are so many different facets to the profession that no one specializes in any one thing. I guess at the base of it all, I have a really hard time invisioning myself behind a small cubicle-style desk working for a huge mechanized boss type so I can save up enough time for two weeks vacation every year. That ain't me.

Grabbing a job that will allow me to fund my life instead of the other way around; that's me. That's the answer to what my goals are, what aspirations I have for my life, where I'd like to be in X number of years. Not a lot of time on this planet, make the most of it in the one shot you get.


Really, whats the point in working 40 years for some company that makes an ungodly amount of money a year and still manages to pay you 60,000 a year? My goal is to LIVE my life, not just survive it.

As far as my career goes, you can pretty much read everything above and make your own opinions of what sort of career I'm looking for...

"Technicalities"

photoshop: out of 10; 7-8

dreamweaver: out of 10; 7

premiere: out of 10; 4

As a new media student, we all have access to a digital still camera. I don't actually own one, though.

First post, first blog, first submission to the digital world.

I don't blog. I don't like bloggers. I don't like the trendy receipt attached to each and every web log post. Of course, there are exceptions to my distaste; a certain new media requirement, for example. This requirement states: Josh Paul will blog, and blog often. Just don't expect to get too much out of it; I tend to leave my personal opinions about school and life in general to my person in a real journal.

I guess I just don't like how connected everyone has become to everyone else. I mean, sure there have been advances in technology and communication because of the internet and everyone's addiction to it on one hand, but we've all become dilluted and dillusional on the other. No one is special or significant or original or unique in the world we've created for ourselves. The digital revolution has brought about a large pasture for all of us to graze in. We've affected our media and people's perception of it, our music and people's appreciation of it, our personalities and people's lack thereof...

Ironic that you'd find me in a digital new media program.

I also love art. The purest form of human creativity exists in art, I think. Pulling something directly out of your subconscious and transferring it (albeit sometimes slightly different than you imagine) is the only really true example of who we are inside; the purest way to read someone's mind. Everything else has become dependent on the code of a computer program that someone else created for you. This blog, for instance.


For you, teach, I will blog as often as I can. Most likely when I feel a touch of boredom or come across an interesting link or video in my internet odyssey. I won't be revealing to you too many personal details of myself, and, if I do, they will be shrouded most decidedly in some opinionated observation that I've made once more of who we are and what we've become.

Perhaps I'll end up revealing a lot about me in the end. Keep your wit sharp.