1. Who gave the talk and what does the person do?
Nathalie Miebach, she explains about the art of storms.
2. Write a brief summary of the talk?
She changes storms into a diagram that show different elements to the storm; high tide, moon phases, air temperature, and water temperature are all elements that are put into the diagram. She can also change the storm into music notes, which then can be turned into music.
3. Did the talk change the way you see the world?
Yes, I never pictured a storm could be turned into musical notes.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Money or Life
I would choose the unlimited money because if I was able to live forever I would get tired of living, but if I had money, I could live an enjoyable life and pass on my money to my family.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Money
Today I get paid and my check should be about $160 and that will mean I'll have around $1,200 in my bank so I'm pretty excited. I'm buying a car in december so I'll hopefully have close to $2,000 by december because on top of my job money I'll have birthday money too. My birthday is December 3rd.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
This Friday
This Friday I have a dentist appointment in the morning. I don't know what I'm going to be doing though. I think it's just a cleaning so hopefully I don't have anything wrong with my team.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Half day
This Friday is a half day which means I may be able to take my driver's test. The chance of this happening is kind of slim but it may happen. I'm going to talk with my mom about it tonight and hopefully she says yes because my permit is going to expire in less than a month.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Bloggin day numero uno
Yesterday I worked from 8:45 am to 5:15 pm and it was a long day. I have 29 hours this week so I'm excited to get my pay check in two weeks. This Friday I'm going to get a pretty big pay check also because I got about 24 hours last week.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Today
Today I have a lot of homework in a lot of my classes. I have to go home and do about 3 math assignments, do 2 things for language arts, do my world history homework, retype my evnironmental science lab report because I got a 0/100 on it forget to put something on it, and read my book, The Hunger Games. I'm on page like 100 out of about 300 and I need to finish it before monday.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
This week
I dont have work today or tomorrow so I can finally catch up on homework. I usually dont get two days in a row off from work so I'm pretty excited. I'm going to go home and get some work done!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Sucess
To me in my opinion success is being able to to support the people who depend on you. It's having a job and doing everything you can to keep up with bills and getting nessesary items you need for life.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Graphic Design Principles
1. Balance around the optical center:
The optical center is the place where the viewer's eye spends the most time which is achieved through equal "weights" in all directions from the optical center.
2. Balance the Weight of Graphic Elements:
The "weight" of a graphic element is determined to it's size and density. Basically darker colors add more weight like-wise lighter colors make it look less heavy.
3. Balance Positive and Negative Space:
Positive space refers to places where visual information is, and negative space refers to where it isn't. A design that contains more negative space than positive space is sometimes desired by people because it balances their work better.
4. Balance Color:
Schemes are based on color wheels which you can use for balancing colors in your graphic design.
5. Beware of Individual Color Idiosyncrasies:
Colors of high value "bleed" into into surround regions, which can make your design blurry. The color red is very sensitive and you should be careful with it.
6. Use Color to Create Memorable Moods:
If you want to create a pleasant mood in your design the best colors to use are warm colors such as yellow, orange, or red. If you want a quieter mood you should use colors such as green, blue, or purple.
7. Save Bright or Saturated Colors for Special Uses:
Bright colors such as red tend to draw the viewers attention immediately. They are especially useful for an error message, annotations, or urgent commands.
8. Blue is for Backgrounds:
It is very difficult to distinguish details (such as typed words) that are outlined in shades of pure blue. For this reason, blue text, thin blue lines, and small blue things generally should be avoided.
9. Red & Green for Central Elements:
When you want people to focus on the optical center of your piece then reds and greens provide additional perceptual cues.
10. Consider Perceptual Disabilities:
Among the colors and color distinctions that individuals may find difficult or impossible to perceive are: red, green, and blue (total color blindness). Males are ten times more likely to be color blind than females.
11. Use Italics Sparingly:
Using italics often make something you're typing harder to read which have tiring effects and and just may look bad in general.
12. Use Typefaces Consistently:
Typefaces requires the eye to focus differently, requiring the brain to use different processing capabilities. This could be tiring and reduce reader energy.
13. Shape of Type Affects Cognition:
The way you shape words affects the cognition as much as what you choose as your typeface. For example IF YOU USE ALL CAPITAL IT PROVIDES FEWER VISUAL CUES.
14. Density of Type Affects Reader Attention:
If you're typing in densly-packed, small letters it usually tells the viewer than it's serious business. If it's more spread out it will tell the reader it's a more friendly set of words.
15. Create a Rhythm:
Repetitions of similar graphic elements can create a visual rhythm that a reader will understand as a sense of organization and unity in your work.
16. Maintain Visual Consistency:
While creating rhythms and variations from page to page, you must also remember to maintain an overall aesthetic integrity. The purpose of graphic design is to communicate, not to dazzle.
17. Use Graphics To Supplement Non-Visual Information:
New material is processed and understood most effectively when it is given a number of different representations. Graphics can be used to add mental dimensions.
18. Don't Let Graphics Distract:
Graphics are unnecessary if the text itself prompts the formation of mental images.
19. Use Icons for Recognizable Concepts:
In general, recognizing is takes less brain power than remembering. Use icons that can quickly stimulate necessary recollections of familiar material.
20. Consider the Gestalt of Perceptual Organization:
Understanding gestaltic organized principles can be of considerable aid when designing the layout of visual information.
The optical center is the place where the viewer's eye spends the most time which is achieved through equal "weights" in all directions from the optical center.
2. Balance the Weight of Graphic Elements:
The "weight" of a graphic element is determined to it's size and density. Basically darker colors add more weight like-wise lighter colors make it look less heavy.
3. Balance Positive and Negative Space:
Positive space refers to places where visual information is, and negative space refers to where it isn't. A design that contains more negative space than positive space is sometimes desired by people because it balances their work better.
4. Balance Color:
Schemes are based on color wheels which you can use for balancing colors in your graphic design.
5. Beware of Individual Color Idiosyncrasies:
Colors of high value "bleed" into into surround regions, which can make your design blurry. The color red is very sensitive and you should be careful with it.
6. Use Color to Create Memorable Moods:
If you want to create a pleasant mood in your design the best colors to use are warm colors such as yellow, orange, or red. If you want a quieter mood you should use colors such as green, blue, or purple.
7. Save Bright or Saturated Colors for Special Uses:
Bright colors such as red tend to draw the viewers attention immediately. They are especially useful for an error message, annotations, or urgent commands.
8. Blue is for Backgrounds:
It is very difficult to distinguish details (such as typed words) that are outlined in shades of pure blue. For this reason, blue text, thin blue lines, and small blue things generally should be avoided.
9. Red & Green for Central Elements:
When you want people to focus on the optical center of your piece then reds and greens provide additional perceptual cues.
10. Consider Perceptual Disabilities:
Among the colors and color distinctions that individuals may find difficult or impossible to perceive are: red, green, and blue (total color blindness). Males are ten times more likely to be color blind than females.
11. Use Italics Sparingly:
Using italics often make something you're typing harder to read which have tiring effects and and just may look bad in general.
12. Use Typefaces Consistently:
Typefaces requires the eye to focus differently, requiring the brain to use different processing capabilities. This could be tiring and reduce reader energy.
13. Shape of Type Affects Cognition:
The way you shape words affects the cognition as much as what you choose as your typeface. For example IF YOU USE ALL CAPITAL IT PROVIDES FEWER VISUAL CUES.
14. Density of Type Affects Reader Attention:
If you're typing in densly-packed, small letters it usually tells the viewer than it's serious business. If it's more spread out it will tell the reader it's a more friendly set of words.
15. Create a Rhythm:
Repetitions of similar graphic elements can create a visual rhythm that a reader will understand as a sense of organization and unity in your work.
16. Maintain Visual Consistency:
While creating rhythms and variations from page to page, you must also remember to maintain an overall aesthetic integrity. The purpose of graphic design is to communicate, not to dazzle.
17. Use Graphics To Supplement Non-Visual Information:
New material is processed and understood most effectively when it is given a number of different representations. Graphics can be used to add mental dimensions.
18. Don't Let Graphics Distract:
Graphics are unnecessary if the text itself prompts the formation of mental images.
19. Use Icons for Recognizable Concepts:
In general, recognizing is takes less brain power than remembering. Use icons that can quickly stimulate necessary recollections of familiar material.
20. Consider the Gestalt of Perceptual Organization:
Understanding gestaltic organized principles can be of considerable aid when designing the layout of visual information.
Favorite school subject
My favorite school subject is math. I think it's math because it's really easy to me and everyone in my math class is awesome. My teacher is really cool this year which makes the class enjoyable.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Yesterday #Take 2
Well my previous blog post just got deleted for some reason when I tried to upload it. So I'm going to have to re-write it again. Yesterday, I worked at BJ's Auto Spa for the last time. I worked from 3 to 6 and then quit.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Occupy Wall Street
I think it's cool that we're finally deciding to do something about our corrupt government. What's happening right now is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The space inbetween the rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger. This event is happening all over the world in many cities.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Yesterday
Yesterday I had to work at Safeway and I was really busy. Zac Kwaad was told to only to stock/organize the shelfs and wasn't aloud to help with carts and sweeps. I had to do carts, sweeps, bagging, dusting, helping customers, taking out all the trash in the whole store, and do go-backs. So it was pretty busy yesterday.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
If I died tomorrow
People would remember me as being a hard working kid who tried his best to get things on his own, maintain good grades and be indepentent.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Today
Today after school I got work at 5. I work from 5 to 10 so I'm closing which means i have a lot to do. I have to lock the east doors in safeway and announce it over the intercom. I also have to collect all the trash in the store and take it to the dumpster. Around 9 I have to start doing go backs which means putting items back that customers didn't want. Once I'm done with that if it isn't 10 yet I help my manager stock shelfs.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Ted Talk 3 Extra Credit
Who: Sunni Brown
What about: How doodling can help improve our comprehension and our creative thinking.
What did you learn: The actual definition of "to doodle" is to make spontaneous marks to help yourself think.
What about: How doodling can help improve our comprehension and our creative thinking.
What did you learn: The actual definition of "to doodle" is to make spontaneous marks to help yourself think.
Ted Talk 3
Who: Carolyn Porco
What about: Saturn
What did you learn: We sent a man-made machine to the plant Saturn and it arrived in 2004. This was the furthest distance from the sun anyone has sent a man-made machine. When we got to Titan, a moon near Saturn we discovered it was covered by haze and methane and other chemicals so dense that sunlight couldn't get to the surface of it. We couldn't get pictures of the surface because it was so thick so we couldn't get a clear picture of it. We finally got super cameras that could see through the smog and haze and to our amazment we found that it only had a few crators which means it was fairly new.
What about: Saturn
What did you learn: We sent a man-made machine to the plant Saturn and it arrived in 2004. This was the furthest distance from the sun anyone has sent a man-made machine. When we got to Titan, a moon near Saturn we discovered it was covered by haze and methane and other chemicals so dense that sunlight couldn't get to the surface of it. We couldn't get pictures of the surface because it was so thick so we couldn't get a clear picture of it. We finally got super cameras that could see through the smog and haze and to our amazment we found that it only had a few crators which means it was fairly new.
Today
When I get home I'm going to read my book called The Hunger Games. It's a really cool book and doesn't lose my attention at all. It has a lot of great details and ideas. It's about a girl named Katniss and her little sister gets picked at random to fight in "The Hunger Games" along with other kids from the ages 12-18. Katniss couldnt stand the thought and takes her little sister's place. I havn't gotten that far into the book yet so I'm not sure what's going to happen.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Holidays!!!
My favorite holiday is Christmas because I love the temperature. When I lived in Oregon it snowed and I really enjoyed the holiday feeling. Christmas is a day you get to open gifts and hang out with family which is really cool. Christmas is also in the same month of my birthday. I prefer cold weather over warm but in Arizona its usually really hot. During December it feels really good outside though.
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