Poster.

Daily Post: 2/3/2012

So I presented my website and I actually really enjoy it. Even though I'm completely worn out with the whole "Capstone" thing. My website is starting to look really nice. The layout is really cool, and even though wix isn't really what people want, I think that it should be used because it just looks overall better and more professional. Especially if you buy your own domain (which would be cool, but I just don't have the money for it). I really like my capstone project because it falls into my passion for everything I believe in.

4 Effective Poster Tips:

The first tip is to really think about who this poster is for. The audience and setting of the poster is incredibly important. And the purpose of the poster. Are you selling something, promoting something, or educating people.

The second tip is to reduce clutter on your poster page. If there is too much randomly assorted "stuff" than it won't have a clear focal point that is stressing the main opinion of the poster. If you are going to input many different images, than they need to be surrounding a bigger, main idea.

The third tip is to not rely on text objects to grab people's attention. Text should be used sparingly because graphics and images are supposed to describe the point of the poster to hold an audience member's full attention.Using text every once in a while is not a negative aspect in your poster all the time.

The final tip for creating an effective poster is to try and use bigger images rather than blowing up images. Your resolution should be high and so should the size of the poster.

11/17 or 18/24

200 dpi min.

Daily Post 1/23/2012

So I presented my video and gave my explanation for why I had such an interesting video and everything seemed okay. Obviously my video was kind of juvenile and fun, but it was a test and now I know how to construct a stop-motion film. I'm kind of stoked for my video. I'm going to take pictures of Minh smoking, and with each picture add more make-up to his face to age him. It should turn out kind of cool if I do it right.

On another note, I just found out that B.B. King will be in Oklahoma on the 23rd of February and I'd love to go.

Video rough draft.

Daily Post: 1/13/2012

So today I expanded on my previous website. My template I got from Wix.com is really appealing to me and I hope it turns out well. the only issue is that I have to use Dreamweaver eventually to make an identical webpage so I can get the grade. Which I think is dumb, since Wix is an optional alternative, but that's alright. I am a productive person, and I try to do as much work as I can in this dreadful 2 1/2 hours, but this is just too long to sit on one topic and never drift from it. That's why I'm writing this blog post; I refuse to talk about drugs for 3 hours straight without having a really fine guideline of what to do.

Daily Post. 1/12/2012

So I was thinking about how I feel towards drugs and drug-users. Addiction is a disease. Anyone who hasn't been addicted to anything seriously have no right to judge addicts based on their using of drugs. I want to offer people my help and to cut off the drug trade to all of these sick people. I don't see addicts as "bad people" and I certainly don't judge them. When I say drug-users, I don't mean that you smoke the occasional joint, drink the occasional bit of alcohol, or take pills for real physical pain. With that being said I can honestly say that those 3 things can lead to a life of addiction though. Not everyone can force themselves to quit doing something. More than half of our United States population is addicted to sodas and the caffeine in sodas. Think about the time you tried to quit sodas and you got that killer headache that didn't even go away when you slept. Drug withdrawals are 100 times worse than that headache. To be an addict is to be sick but so is to quit your drug.

Nobody does a drug once with the intention of becoming addicted to it. The United States really needs to give up this "war on drugs" bullshit and stop treating drug-use as a crime and start treating it as a medical condition. People should not go to prison because they have an addiction, they should go to government funded treatment centers. Now, a drug dealer or transporter should be locked behind bars, because all he is doing is adding fuel to the fire. If we legalized drugs and regulated them, we would have control of the drug world instead of homeless drug users dying in the streets every day. Using drugs shouldn't be scary because of going to jail and getting in trouble, it should be feared as a possessive device that can spiral your life and the lives of people around you straight down.