bad design Strikes again

Is this a poster for an elementary school play?

I'm afraid that this display of "creativity" is for a

a Play at a University.

a caption in black reads "Come and get a clue"

who ever made this needs more than just "a clue"

What is the point of the gun and the knife why are they paper cutouts and the candle looks more like the bishop in a chess piece or something else thats more explicit

Not to mention the awful use of Hierarchy SOME WORK went into it but not enough.

I felt like gouging my eyes out when I first saw this atrocity.

god help the people living in that building.

bad design Stricks a

bad design Stricks a

YouTube and copyrighted material

This is not old new we all know that youtube has been and still is trying to maintain good standing with main stream media. This is not a bad thing since youtube is trying to avoid copyright claims by recored companies, TV and movie studios. However, many youtubers use these types of media to create artistic or more engaging videos. The fair use act was placed so that youtubers can use these medias "within Limits". However, the problem rises when the youtuber doesn't stay within these limits this mainly due to the fact that those limits are not made clear to the public. In addition there many music videos on youtube that were made by yuotubers are even the original music videos recorded from a tv channel and uploaded to youtube this makes it hard for many youtubers to know what the fair use act's limits are.

Artists want to be paid. the main thing is payment if the video is not a parody then there should not be any problem because there's need to get approval for making a parody. However, if for example the music used belongs to an artist then permission is needed for it to be used and getting permission is costly because it entails paying said artist. So, when the fair use act came to be it meant that it is possible to use this content without permission if the person using it stays the within limits.

What youtube is doing currently is e-mailing youtubers when they see that a video has copyrighted content. Not to mention if the content is a song they add a link to the original artist's youtube page/channel if they have one. They also write down the name of the song/musical content with links to buy them on amazone and iTunes. This is a good step since it helps the artists to sell their music to more people. Unfortunately this doesn't stop said artist from taking action against the youtuber that included that music in his/her video.

Artist might remove the audio from the clip everything even the parts that don't include their music or even have they video taken down.

My thoughts are how do we as youtubers come to term with artists since we are fans and consumers of their music. We use their music because there's a connection we feel to their music and at time we want people to know about their new song and albums. and sometime their music fits in pretty well with the video content that we create and at times it even emphasizes the massage that our videos have. We certainly don't mean any harm to our favorite artists.

Venturing out

I have created three T-Shirt designs for one of my classes. Every since I made them I have been thinking of producing them for real. I was always hesitant thinking that no one is going to be interested in buying them. I guess I just needed a push in the right direction and thanks to a good friend of mine who keeps supporting my and cheering me on I have finally got the courage actually produce these shirts well two of them at least. In addition, I an working on two new designs these are going completely different from the other two designs since they are for a different audience.

Right now I have received a quote from the business that's going to produce these shirts for me and I am going to be contacting different businesses in order to have make a good decision. It's really funny I never thought I'd be doing things like this but I know that I really need to do this.

this is my time to show the world what I'm made off and prove to myself that these obstacles that I'm going to face are only as difficult as I make them to be I need to stay positive and just give it all I got sink or swim it's all experience. What's important is learn from these experiences. Besides we humans learn more from failure than we do from success.

iSore

This was a flyer at my school as usual it was promoting an event at school. I find the illustration of the cat charming while the use of the "aged paper" background is somewhat excessive brining down the opacity may have been a a good solution.

However, that's not what made this flyer an eyesore rather it's the use of six fonts (typefaces) seven if you include the one for the show title. This excessive use of fonts is amateurish at best. Second, the leading (the space between the lines) is way off. It seems the person who how made this couldn't make up their mind about using a sansarif font or a sarif font.

In addition to that the lines of text seem to be aligned at random and have no real rhyme or reason.

This Bloomberg Businessweek was something I just happen to notice in the school library. it made it into my iSore(eyesore) article> I understand the premiss of the design which is that plug in cars are messy. You have a wire running covering the whole page which is an extremely distractive element. This wire could have been drawn and or illustrated in different ways that would be eye-catching and not be such an eyesore. It seems sloppy and uninspired and the lack of a sense of good esthetics is just simply nonexistent in this magazine cover.

Beauty & the beast

I have finally finished my video project titled Beauty and the beast.

A reflection on how women suffer from the false standard of beauty that industry has forced on them and on the public.

SUNDAY WORK FLOW

It was a busy day today I was working in the wood shop making a base for a trophy for my sculpture class. After finding a piece of wood I cut it, sanded it and finally I glued the trophy pieces to the base. I neglected to mention that a part of the trophy broke. Because of that I had to improvise. When that was done and over with I rushed to the art department's computer lab. I made it there 3 hours before closing. So, I was editing my video for tomorrow's video class. After an hour had passed the person working there comes over to tell me that they will be closing in 10 minutes because the other person is sick and will not be coming in. I was baffled the only thing I was able to say was "BUT THE LAB IS SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN TILL 7". I guess i was caught off guard. I manneged to get the video to a good pre-finalized stage but I need to work on it just a bit more. I think in the end there are things that are out of our control but we should always do what's in our power to achieve our goals.

What makes a good friend

Many of us define a good friend as someone you get along & have fun with. However, we don't realize that a good friend listens to our problems, get into disagreements with, tells you when you're being an A** hole but in the end you still get a long. A good friend helps grow into a better person and isn't afraid of hurting your feelings when you need a reality check.

Thank god for good friends

A one man experimental film

a few friends of mine have been doing youtube videos this a recent post called

Pain an experimental film is a short scene paying homage to the horror movie genre

1-Breath in. 2-Breath out. 3-"Let it go"

I've been sulking for the past few months cause I have been going through so many emotions.

I have just begun to move past my mourning period. It took me a while but I've got there. I was about to break and stop playing the game. I played by the rules in the book thinking those were the only rules that applied. Now I know that there were unwritten rules that were unknown to many of us but know that "the CAT is out of the bag" I now know how to play its game. Let's see what happens to that CAT when it has to face off with a TIGER.

so. . . 1-Breath in.

2-Breath out.

3-"let go".

4-know ALL the rules of the game.

I back and better than before. You can try and keep this TIGER down but know this you will never break its spirit.

It's been a while

continued

It's no surprise that I felt betrayed by what happened. I keep remembering that day over and over again thinking if I should have done something different. I keep looking back to analyze the signs and I keep getting the same results. That I was played, manipulated but most importantly that there was nothing that I could do. They made their decision already about how will and who won't pass.

For a while I thought that I was just being bitter about the whole thing. It's funny when I tell myself I'm wrong GOD steps in by sending someone to make sure that I keep believing in myself and to let me know that I wasn't wrong or bitter. GOD acted through one of my friends when she called to tell me what she had over heard while she was handing a project in. She over heard the people in charge saying that they had picked the people they wanted before hand. That there were people that were left out that were more talented. That the ones they let in weren't "improving" like they thought they would ,that they gave these people the place of the more talented students that they left out.

Knowing this I feel angry and relieved at the same time. Anger because they deliberately hung me out to dry but relieved to know that I do have talent and that they dug themselves a deep hole and that there prejudices got the best of them. I hope that when the term ends the school will take the right action with these people cause they lied, broke so many school laws and regulations that it's isn't in the school's or the students' best interest to let them get away with what they did.

October 26th at safeway

On a trip to safeway last night accompanied by a group of friends. We went the to get some food for dinner at my place. So far all is alright we were chatting having a good time. We were standing around while we were talking to guys stop and were looking at us with a strange look in their eyes. One of them was continuously stroking his dog (he was carrying a small dog) opened his mouth and said "SafeWay closes in ten minutes. This is not wall mart". He was pointing out that me and my friends -all of us belonging to different minorities- should not be in there. Then this person implied a sexual innuendo YUCK. This was so extreme that one of my friends fell on her back laughing because of this persons audacity. This prompted the manager to ask us if every thing's OK. We told her to keep her eye on that guy with the dog but she kept "checking up on us"(making sure we don't steal anything) she even had us followed by a "secret shopper". I have never been so offended in my life. first of all, I have been a loyal customer for three years. I have had to return products to them because they were rotten or opened and one of there previous cashiers had the galls to ask if my name was FAKE and now this. Just because a person is "of color" doesn't mean they are trouble makers plus this safeway is pretty close to a university campus you'd think they've seen enough people of color to know that but no we get treated badly while -and I have seen this- the caucasian customers open packages, drink from pop bottles and hide them else where in the store. They think that there is no racism well guess what it's still there you just need to learn how to spot it.

Silence or Noise

Many of us see what is happening in front of us but many of us stay silent and we don't speak out we are afraid o making noise. Even if what happened had happened to us we are afraid to raise our voices but maybe we don't need to be loud maybe there's a way to speak without shouting maybe we need to learn how to talk. Problem is though when we talk no one listens and we remain static for a while because we know that we were heard but no one listened we wait and wait for a response but still nothing is done. We need to learn how to listen cause if we just hear we don't really comprehend what we heard in fortunately many of us listen only when others shout and make lots of noise. Why is it that when we try to be humble quite and polite that we are seen as weak, unsure of ourselves, stupid or even naive. when in truth that is not even close to incredible people we are. Could it be that the way pop-culture celebrates the outrageous, stupid,loud and obnoxious has diluted our sense of refrain to refrain ourselves from overdoing things like overeating, over consuming alcohol and not believing that being rude to people around us as well as loud and self obsessed is the way we should be. the truth is societies before us that have done that have seized to exist they have fell into a spiral that of self damaging behavior that they weren't able to pull themselves out of. Truth is we need to look at ourselves in the mirror every one of us and try to shed the layers of superficiality that we have accumulated and learned. We need to look out for each other every one of us we are the species that has not only dominated this planet but we have shaped it as well but we did that by working together because in the end we are stronger when we stand together and when that happens we won't need to shout and make lots of noise for others to listen we would stand together benefiting each other and we will be moving forward.

it's been a while

I have a vision. Am I a revolutionary. I don't think I am. I understand
two different cultures. Which i have experienced first hand. I even
understand the visual style of both.

Here is where my vision comes in.
I want to bring these visual systems together. The world is a smaller
place these days and both cultures can benefit from this new style the problem
is my professors don't understand or aren't trying to understand. I am being taught to emulate what has been done. I don't want to copy another person's style. I also understand that there will be situations where that is the right thing to do. However that hinders my creativity and sells me short.

What I do might not be there cup of tea I admit. Was I a fool to think that their job was to help me understand the system while being true to my style or While I develop one. Do I have to conform to their ways to pass.

Sadly when I am creative and original it's not what they want. Though they can't take there eyes off of it and are impressed they still shoot me down. It is sad that the students who are creative and original are looked at as if they where insane.

My first Design job

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This is my first design job that I'm doing out side of class. It's for Portland state's Saudi Students group it started as a contest which I won and now I'm going back and forth with that student club's leaders to finish the design.

some great websitse to find great works of art

I keep walking by a store called artful goods which sells wacky, cool, cute, clever and sometimes strangely designed
things like collectable figurines birthday cards, posters and uniquely designed every day objects like salt and pepper shakers as well as wallets oil and vinegar bottles.

here's their web site

www.artfulgoods.com

any way I couldn't help but by few posters which were screen printed and I was really breath taken by the three that i bought.
So i looked up one of the artist who designed one of the three and found his website and if i may say this artist has nice pieces that i think every one should see.
so, in order to do that I'm posting a link to this artist's website. This way you can see the work for yourselves.

www.danstiles.com

i also found the websites of the other two artist which art pretty cool two

Josh Kenyon
Colby Nichols

I'm thinking of buying this book

I've been waiting for it to be shipped to stores for a while.

however it seems it's still not out but i can still pre-order it.

www.amazon.com/Obsessive-Consumption-What-Did-Today/dp/1568988907/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268905124&sr=1-1-spell

Art 210 tutorial

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pen set test 3rd attempt
type of ink :1- red and orange higgin's drawing ink
2-turquoise acrylic ink
tip Have some water around to dilute the acrylic ink