my name in design

I unintensionally chose "my name" sort of project again,
although this time I designed a picture.

My theme for this art is a

"Love Letter"

(perhaps from myself? to myself?)

I personally like my repetitive name in the background,
I made the opacity level about 50% reduced half from 100%.

Using photoshop was fun because I have not used it
since my computer class in high school! yikes...

Although I am not a computer graphic person and I prefer
drawing and painting on an actual canvas,
I find these computer designing programs to be very flexible
in tools and choosing colors. (Since you don't have to go through the process
of making paints with colors...)

Now on to my next project...!

What should it be...

my name

As my first digital story project

I've chosen"Find Yourself"
which was to collect letters (colors have to be my taste) and create my full name!

I thought it is visually interesting and fun.

How does it look?

I've collected different styles of letters
and then put them together as one with a program.

My secret theme for these letters was to keep it "Girly"...

As you can tell I love being a girl :) <3

Good fun start of my digital story project!

Midterm (Visual Digital Storytelling)

Our new type of assignment which is called the "Digital Storytelling", is a new way for students to submit creative work online. It allows anybody to look at posts that other students worldwide post, for each different assignment. For each assignment, people can vote and rate how well and interesting the assignment is, out of 5 stars.

There are different categories of Digital storytelling assignments, and the one that I find most interesting to work on was "Visual", therefore I am going to explain about the visual part of this assignment.

Visual assignments asks people to complete the assignments mainly focusing on images and something fun for people to look at, examples of assignments :

1. "Find Yourself" - This assignment asks to find your name around your environment and post images that include you name in it. It can be either your first name and or your last name. Here is an example of a student blog who completed it.
Find Yourself

2. "Cropped Signs"- This assignment asks to find signs that are taken by cameras and are cropped through cameras. Then blog about how the cropped signs differ its meaning from the original signs. An example of a student blog who completed it.
Cropped signs

3. "Common everday object" - This assignment asks to take pictures of common everyday object that you see around you, and then to manipulate the colors of the photos. An example of a student blog who completed it.
Common everyday object

As you can see, anybody can view and look at other students' blog posts and look at different interpretions and ideas for each assignment. I personally think that it is interesting to 'look at images' rather than reading long writings about random topics.

Finding funny logos such as these are interesting also and can be fun to find.



This visual assignment allows people to pay more attention to the environment and take pictures of them and also precisely talk about them. It also builds up your knowledge about images, cameras, angles and colors.

Gossip! Gossip! Gossip!

People are able to find gossips about hollywood stars easily through internet.
The development of technology has made it very easy for anybody to check the latest gossip online from their computers and even on their mobile phones.


Gossips mainly about actors and actresses are found instantly if you type the words into the
google search engine. Here are some examples of blogs about the gossips about actors and actresses.
One of the most famous gossip sites -> Perez Hilton


(Perez Hilton became famous for his blog site on celebrity gossips)

and more gossips sites mainly focused on Hollywood actors and actresses.

Hollywood Gossip 1

Hollywood Gossip 2

If you look at the blog posts for each of the sites, most of them include
a part where you can 'comment' or 'Like' on your facebook.


People are able to look at other people's reaction and comments about
each of the blog post, which is probably the one of the fun parts about
reading celebrity gossips. Also, not only people can view other people's comments,
they can comment on each other's comments.

Famous gossip magazines like "US" also has their own website
that updates gossip news about hollywood celebrities.



The famous gossip sites were not just the Hollywood gossips, there was a
gossip site just for Bollywood actors and actresses.

Bollywood Gossip




This shows that gossip sites are not just limited in the United States,
they are available for many countries' actors and actresses.


Most of these gossip blogs has a link where it allows people comment,
let people share the blog on their twitter/facebook/google chrome.


At the end of each blog, you can usually find buttons which look like these :






By people sharing the blog on their social network, you can now see
how the gossip spreads from one person to another very quickly.


Further research on these gossip sites, most of these websites of blogs had
links connecting to


-Mobile (iphone applications etc)


-Facebook Fan Pages


-Twitter accounts




There are twitter accounts that people can follow and instantly and easily 
view the latest gossip on their twitter.


For example this gossip twitter: 

http://twitter.com/#!/TheSuperficial

The site automatically tweets everytime a new gossip is posted on their website.


This is an example of how a twitter page looks like,
 linked from a Hollywood Gossip blog.