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Looking on the Amazon.co.uk website for a legal copy of the CS3 Master Collection (looks brilliant and extra software could come in useful) found to cost £2,029.98. A lot? Definitely, Worth it? So far...
Having read a couple of reviews it appears it would be better to buy this from the Amazon.com store as it is $2,342.49.
Thats just over half the price in converting to English Pounds Sterling but Amazon.co.uk sell it for just under the same value but in £££. So A lot? YES, Worth it? No from there...
Just a warning for anyone intending to buy the legal version.
Colours play a significant part in our lives. There are two colours that stand out for me and these are "Blue" & "Green". There are many colours but only some that go together in harmony and none better than "Nature's Finest".
These colours can be seen everywhere in nature green grass and blue skies. Green trees still blue water.
I can't think of single more successful or more seen colour scheme and works well anywhere. Blue for example is the colour of trust and honesty and green is the colour of rest and relaxation. So together your viewers can have a calm and relaxing experience and can be safe in the knowledge that they are viewing a safe and trustworthy website.
On a final note one Marvel-ous example of this colour scheme would be the powerhouse that is the Hulk, often seen wearing blue shorts on top of his green skin. So this is my favourite colour scheme and quite possibly the best one to use.
(Image from Windows XP)
As per Steve's request in the previous post comments I have a some what special song choice to add to my CD.This is due to the fact that in reading week I woke up a bit late on the Wednesday (9:30am) and was told as a punishment I had to add a song because I was in Trouble.As you have probably guessed I am required to add Trouble by Shampoo to my CD! This cost me 78p from iTunes (sourced as requested by Steve).Apologies in advance.
For the Culture Vulture assignment we have been given the sub task to create a CD. As a listen while you design exercise we are to create an hour long CD to listen to while we do the creative work. This blog is to pick out the 3 main songs and My first choice is the Bartender and the Thief by the Stereophonics. This is probably the first song I heard from them and got me into them. Taken from their second album Performance and Cocktails this song has always stayed with me and is the song I wanted to hear most when I went to see them live two years ago in October. Signal Fire - Snow Patrol. This is an obvious choice as it is the first song from the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack and possibly only one of the two songs I actually like on the CD. Everytime I hear this song I immediately think of the film. It was also used as the music for the credits.The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage. Im not really into screaming shouting music and this is what I heard this band to be. It now is one of the most listened to songs on my iPod and is the credits music for the amazing (but could have been better from the game point of view) film Resident Evil Apocalypse. I think this is the perfect song to end this film with.
This first semester back has, like all the rest, flown by. So far I don't feel any difference between this year and last except in the team assignment where we have more control over what we do for when. The two assignments given so far have been A9 Box Clever and A11 On the Job.
Box Clever
I enjoyed doing the CSS Box Clever assignment but still got all the "Will I pass nerves?". I enjoyed creating the CSS Beauty page as it really showed me what CSS is capable of. I managed to turn a very dull looking print page into an interesting CSS Styled page. I found it quite interesting looking into the impacts of CSS and what its benefits are. Starting this assignment I had some degree of knowledge of CSS, (I thought more) but learning how to code CSS cleanly was an interesting experience and using the proper code was useful.
On The Job
I am enjoying this assignment as I get to create an online multimedia project for a client in a team. As the developer I am now coding the website and am finding it relatively easy using CSS. This assignment was a little slow in starting as the client was a bit hard to get hold of but now we are really beginning to get moving. I liked the idea if having to pitch for the client with a presentation as this is a procedure that will more than likely be soemthing that happens in the design world.
I have found it a bit hard though especially with trying to give the client what he wants and trying to figure out the solution so it is also easy to implement. I think the hardest battle so far was with the CMS which I couldn't get to work.
Out of the 3 available team roles I am happy being the developer and am looking forward to doing the user testing as I would like to see what people think of what we as a team have created.
iMe
I think having a blog topic every week helps is focus on writing the online learning journal. I have enjoyed writing the entries except the one that we had to keep below 100 words. That was hard because I wanted to add extra words here and there but it wasn't allowed. So far I really enjoyed the Job orientated questions as they made you think on your feet. I was interesting reading the answers as well especially the post starting with the "Describe yourself in 3 words?" I completeley see the point of these questions as I see it as character building for the interviewer. I also like some of the more random questions like who is your hero?. I did originally find this hard as I was trying to think of someone from the design industry, and although loosely, mine sort of is connected. Which I didn't see at the time as I just put my hero down as a personal hero.
Looking forward I am looking forward to the Culture Vulture and am currently researching into my Design Icon, the Nintendo Gameboy. It is interesting seeing how much difference the name Nintendo made to the success of the Gameboy as many have tried similar techniques before the Gamboy and failed.
I thought this was an interesting sculpture as the sides repeatedly say haha. What you cannot see from this particular angle is that it curves inwards at the middle of the bridge giving it an almost hourglass shape.
I think this personally reminds me of Retro Futurism. It is the overall design and the straight edges and cylindrical elements that, to me, make it look as if it belongs in an old space film.
I am aware that this is a lamp/light but I till think it has an "Arty" quality to it. once again it reminds me of what the future was always conceived to look like by now. I like the curvy design and personally it looks like a huge light bulb.
Up close these are very impressive and really tall. These were a set of three and by the looks of it made out of individual blocks of stone. It was quite scary stood underneath as you never quite know how safe things are, although I guess they'd have to be or it wouldn't have been displayed. I think I spent more time photographing the surroundings instead of the sculptures but thoroughly enjoyed pointing and clicking with a different device. Even if some do not get used for this assignment I have a starter library of stock photos.
