Reading Reflection 2

The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users, Guy Kawasaki

1. The general theme was to enable a business person to excel on social media and to gain attention through it.

2. Though a lot of the tips and concepts were pretty stright forward for how to act and what to do on social media, there were some parts that had me stop because it felt like Chris Pryor's classroom of tips. Make a plan, determine your audience, how you're going to profit, how you're going to execute the plan. There was a good bit that felt like class material, just mixed in with social media.

3. I feel, after reading this book, one could take an attempt at creating an entire web page. But overall, that would be a bit much to do for a single exercise in this class. The book goes really in depth about how to do certain things. The explain how to complete your profile page and how large your image should be whether for the header or for your personal/company logo.

4. The book takes it a step further than just social media. Yeah, the point is on social media, but the point for a business is to capture an audience and then take it further to gain customers. Guy Kawasaki introduces you to how to spread attention on events you're hosting or attending. It discuses the importance of hashtags and the network band to allow people to access their social media sites to talk about your event while attending.
The book discusses about many typical things that people in business should already know, but there are always people out there.

Chang Army Logo

This is my text logo that is used as the background to my youtube channel. I used a multitude of different brushes called "paint splatter" or "brush strokes" in red, laid over the top of one another to make the amazing background for the text. To get the parts of the paint in yellow i made a new layer and then put an overlay gradient with spots of yellow on it. The lines behind the texts are brush strokes made using the pen tool, and the text just a thick lettered font colored white with multiple "paint splatter" brushes in it and some shadowing and highlighting using the blending options tool.

This is the picture i used for my profile picture. It was also used in the superhero assignment.

This is the T-shirt with all of the components put in to one item that fits all sizes! It is a picture of a long sleeve T-Shirt that i put everything onto. The text logo in the center of the project, the sponsors are "Counter Strike." A first person shooter who's logo is placed on the top right hand sleeve. The "League of legends" logo is featured at the bottom left hand corner of the shirt, as to still be a focus but not pull too much attention away from the main art. The Chang Army logo is placed on the bottom of the right hand sleeve and may or may not be taken off or revised for the channel at a later date.

This is the logo i created using the mouse cord to make the "c" for chang and the highlighted buttons in the keyboard to shape the "a" for army.

Link to YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbtTGr6zHaaEeuotslVTng

Super Hero

This is my super hero project.  It contains a picture of myself, one in the background and one in the foreground.  The superhero's name is The CropDuster and his powers include ripening fruit, vegetables etc. and shooting balls of energy that look like small earths.  The background photo of me is a close up that utilized the hue and saturation tool, paintbrush tool, and seperating the shades of light on my face.  The foreground photo is simply a picture of me in the famous "kame-hame-ha" stance from Dragon Ball Z's Goku.  In this project i learned how to create a paint brush preset, which is how i printed the words on my face and in the white area behind it.

The CropDuster Origin Story

The CropDuster as a child around fifth grade was "one of the cool kids" in school, and a bit of a bully.  One day on a field trip him and a bunch of his friends decided it would be fun to mess with one of the nerds.  Him and the other fifth grade kids decided to put the nerd into the tomato truck. It ruined the nerds life and forced him to evil.  The nerd vowed to destroy all crops in the northern Idaho area, and feeling responsible for his actions, the young cropduster vowed to protect all crops, beans and potatoes alike, in the Northern Idaho area.

One of the three types of origins are extreme trauma.

the others are chance, being pure luck. and the third is destiny.

Doodle For Google

Well, my doodle is called Google food +, it is about a gun, made by google, that increases
the size of food by 200 times. this was intended to be used to end world hunger. So, i made
the word google out of food, the G is a pretzel, the first o is a donut, the next one is a bagel, the g is a piece of pasta, the l is an ice popsicle, and the e is a burger. The reason the plus is there is because you must log in to your google plus account to use the gun.

Super Selections

This is my super selections project.  Everything turned out exceptionally eel except for the bottom middle and middle right quadrants.  When selected and masked, no matter how selected whether via cool range or quick selection the mask would appear opaque instead of clear so i decided not to mask them at all because me, you and many of my class mates could not understand nor fix the problem.  But aside from those two areas the project turned out perfectly.

D4G Tuesday HW (absent)

if I could invent one thing to make the world a better place it would be the guns of increasing the size of food by 200 times 10 world hunger.

For my oddly shaped fruit, i chose the kiwi.  I choose the kiwi because it is my favorite fruit.  The kiwi is in the shape of a thin cube.

Tim The Emu (Pentool)

Tim The Emu

This is  pen tool project.  For this project, i made a green emu named time who only apears under rainbows. My inspiration for the emu came from Anthony Russo's "Jerry the Jellyfish."  Tim consists of over sixty shapes.  The entire picture is 123 shapes.  Tim is green because i thought he looked to boring when he was brown and dull.


Real Emu

Background Photo

This is my bauhaus poster for Wisconsin The yellow circle is a cheese wheel because it is the cheese capitol of the U.S. The black lines make up a glass of milk because it is the state drink. The state flag is in the top left, the state animal the badger is in the glass of milk, and the state tree's leaf is in the top right, the maple leaf.

Custom Vehicle

This is my custom car.  I used a blue car for the frame.  I got new wheels, a spoiler, new exhaust, a hood ornament, and one of those thingies on the hood that nobody knows the name of

This is Old Man Jenkins house.  Legend has it that old man Jenkins killed his wife and kids when he went crazy.  People say that the soul haunt the house and punish anybody that goes inside.  It has been attempted to prove that the house is haunted by many people.  Ghost hunters, and teens alike all have perished within the walls of Old Man Jenkins house.  Nobody knows what happened to the bodies of his family or him.  Some say that he killed them then buried them, jumped in the hole and buried himself alive.  The theory was shut down by forensics experts until the discovery of "an accomplice" 4 years after the killings.  Many believe it to be a ghost that previously haunted the house because the police could not prove there was an actual person there aside from footprints, that were burned into the ground.

Magazine Cover

This is my original magazine.  A 2D copy of it before it was edited into the 3D model below.  My inital idea for the magazine was to "promote" myself to people about how awesome I am.  I would say it was a success and got the point across very well. 

3D Model

WRITTEN ANSWERS

1. Identify 3 questions you may want to consider while defining a focus group.

A)What is the target group?

B)What is the main gender?

C)How old are they?

2. Explain when you must obtain permission to  before using copyrighted materials.

You must obtain permission to you all copyrighted materials unless you follow proper use laws.

3. Identify three phases that might appear in a project plan.

Planning and analysis

Scheduling

Building

4. Identify five items you might include on an outline when planning your design project.

Planning and analysis

Scheduling

Building

Review and evaluation

Implementing/Publishing

5. What is the purpose of a mock up or a comp?

The purpose is to get an idea of what your final product or outcome will look like.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Intellectual property does not include

D. Instruction

2. Under which of of the following conditions can you use copyrighted work?

C. You follow fair use laws

3. From which dialog box can you add copyrighted material to a Photoshop doc.

B. File Info

4. Which of the following is not a style guideline for citing sources?

D. Times

5. Which of the following is not an option you can select in the File Info box?

A. JPEG Setting

This is my logo.  I used the exaxct blue and pink as the team required.  The "m" is blue and the "v" is pink.  

These are the sketches i drew before i started the actual logo. (seen above)

I decided on the one on the bottom left hand side.

This is my movie poster.  It has Thor on the left, then Loki, The Heimdall, Then the antagonist from the movie all the way on the right.

This is my comic strip called batguy and rubin. It is a spoof of batman and robin. That was also my inspiration. It is not fully colored but still good.

This is my collage.

AIMT

AIMT_Nico Chang

This is my initials rearranged into a snail.  I decided to make a snail because thats the only thing that my initials would turn into.  The "n" is the shell, the "E" is the body, and the "c" is the eyes.