Assessment 3

Over  the course of MPI104 I maintained my blog by posting whenever I got sick of the study I was doing at the time. This is the reason that the general subject of my posts is study and how I find it aggravating that to learn you must study, absorbing it through osmosis would be much easier or simply downloading it. This however is not the way it works and thus we must study to gain higher education.

I spent some time for the first assessment playing with design. Somewhere along the way I decided that the background image made it hard to keep focused on the text you where reading. To solve this problem I have made the background simple and put solid colour boxes around my posts and menus.

I have included RSS feeds from Zero punctuation and the escapist websites (game reviews and the such) as well as a feed from Aidan’s blog. The fish are still there as well as a slideshow from flickr. At the bottom of the page is the hit counter, amazingly already at over 200... and an excerpt from a heated discussion I had with a vet student about the definition of an assessment.

My delicious account has 18 links in 4 stacks.

MPI104 stack with links to;

Master blog

My blog

My flickr

My webpage

Official Go Pro website

W3 Schools

Websites designed to distract you form study;

Cracked

This is why I’m broke

Think Geek

Facebook

Zero Punctuation

Weekend of not Study;

MFSRBF Facebook page

MFSRBF website

Wild Fillies

Border Mail

VFX and related pages;

Animation forum

IMDB

And my Flickr page has seen use for uploading my animation Work In Progress, so has mostly pictures and videos of vfx related content. Also I have posted pictures of “places I’d rather be” and “things I’d rather be doing” to link to from my blog.

Along the way I have learnt a great deal more HTML than I ever thought I would bother with. My webpage shows some use of this knowledge. I think with a little practise I could manage a more detailed webpage with more design elements ect. I have also learnt about the online community and maintaining a positive identity in this community using Blogger and flickr as well as delicious and other online resource (animation forum.) 

Animation fun

Toon Boom seems like a good program to use to animate with... then why every time I use it do I find myself failing to achieve anything??? All I manage is a few movemnets here and there and not much more. Guess that's just things the way  work. God I love study.

Mental Breakdown time

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... ok you get the point. freaking out about animation...

the latest

Still at it

As far as interesting goes this blog probably isn't all that interesting there isn't a lot else happening in my life other than study at the moment so here is more babble about study.

As an animator the main thing on my mind is the looming due date. As far as not panicking that has been long forgotten. So much to do so little time, though in reality we have had quite some time to do this animation.
My latest update on the animation front is a dodgy animatic that may or may not load onto my flickr.

Sadly the file is to big, will post some stills at latter date.

Assessment 2

My webpage goodness.
Here it all is. After some issues my webpage did finally update and now works as it should, (except one wayward link)
I finished my webpage about 12 hours ago however could not get it to update on the server. The above link only navigated to a very basic version of my website that I whipped up in class while running through the how to. This was highly aggravating as I had had no issues until then with the server.
 My webpage give a run down on things that I played around with in html and css. I have learnt a great deal about each and I am pretty happy with the final webpage (even created with sleep deprivation.) I did not see myself creating something with html before but now and I am confident that with a little more practice and experience I could become proficient in html and css.
My page has a large image behind the main heading to show use of images in css. I included images linking to my blog, delicious and flickr as well as the rss feed from my blog. Pages 2 and 3 show some html and css that I wanted to put into the main webpage but could not fit them to the design I had in mind. Page 4 shows the use of divisions and tables, as a sort of credits page. The hit counter I use was sourced of the internet (I hope this is what was meant by counter, and I didn't miss some html markup for it.) Things didn't always work out how I wanted but solutions where always available and the final result was pleasing.

MPI Study

So most of my posts are about study; how much it smells like poo, how I'd rather be elsewhere doing other things and how my eyes hurt from using my laptop in the sun... However it has come to my attention that amid all this complaining I was actually studying. Time to change that me thinks. Right now that's off my chest, DVD and boose time.

Physical vs. Mental

I would rather be lugging a chainsaw up the side of a mountain than sitting behind this desk right now. Rather be back here.

Studying and such

In the wee hours of the morning I started my webpage for assessment 2, it is, at the moment, just the html mumbo jumbo I did in class, but it is a working webpage.

Back at it

sitting at my desk again, and again i find myself staring at my desktop wondering is there anyway to avoid doing any actual study. This desktop is needs something??? It isn't at all interesting, it need... hmmm alcohol? yep that ort to fix it. i'm off to find some boose.

Back Again

Back again after the break and two weeks of being lazy and not posting.
Laziness, procrastination, TV, Facebook, emails, cooking and even cleaning seam to be forever getting in the way of study.  A normal day goes something like this:
Wake up at around 0700, snooze till 0730, and a little more till 0800.
Get up and scrounge some food, make coffee, drink coffee.
 By the time that's all done it's getting to be 0930, check emails and Facebook.
OK what time is it, oh $#@*!;
1030 have to leave for class, no study this morning.
class finishes at 1300, mosey on home.
Grab some lunch, about 1400-1430
House-mate arrives home, food shopping for dinner.
Get side tracked and before you know it, it's 1700
Back to house, check Facebook and emails again.
Finally get a chance for some study and the phone rings, its the folks so chat with them for a good hour
now 1900 and the stomach is rumbling, better cook dinner.
Cook and eat, while watching TV, 2030.
Big Bang Theory is on, 2130.
OK finally going to get some study done, check interact and VFX forum.
Read VIS101 subject outline for essay and now it's 2230.
Question arises, stay up and study or get some sleep because there is no good Been tired for class tomorrow.
shower and sleep.
ZZZ
repeat...

see there is no time for study. however...

Assessment 1

Here we go, assesment time;
Blogger;
On my (Aaron Murdoch 11450319) blog i have posted 11 posts (not including this post)
Interestin posts include Pro procrastination and OK now for some study.
For aesthetics i have changed the font on the Blog title, the post title and the post body. I also played with the colours of the titles, links and hover colour, attempting to tie the bog together. Including tying in with the back ground, the yellow titles stand out on the blue/grey backdrop while remaining natural. The hover colour of white also stands out while keeping the cool misty theme alive.
Comments on classmates blogs;
Aidans Blog
Hopes Blog
Throughout my blog i have use the MPI104_2012 tag and well as two other tags, places i'd rather be and study? these tags tie posts to the general theme of my blog, that there is things i'd prefer to be doing, but most of the time doesn't happen because there is always more study to do. Also tags for Flickr and Delicious.
Other things i have added are "fish" and a flickr slideshow of pictures somehow related to escape... some have questionable links. A links menu and a labels menu and the blog description, also shown in footer ( in full.)
And here it is: aaronmurdoch-mpi104.blogspot.com.au

Flickr;
On my Flickr i have uploaded 5 images. Three of the best include;
- Wipe Out a photo of me and my cousin backfliping away from each other.
- Mt Beerwah a photo of one of the glass house mountains that me and another cousin conquered one hot day last year.
- On Camp a photo from the camp draft.
And to view all five go to www.flickr.com/photos/aaronmurdoch-mpi104
Link to my comment on John Bortolazzo's flickr.

Delicious;
On my delicious i have 8 links 4 personal and 4 related to MPI. The best of these i think is Aidan's class Blog closely folowed by wild fillies photography who covered the Man From Snowy River Bush Festival and Challenge and this photo of Kirby, the local girl who claimed the title of the first lady to ever make the top ten of a contest of horsemanship that is said to be the hardest the world over. On ya Kirb! ( photo's of Kirby also seen on wild fillies website.)
See all here; www.delicious.com/amurdoch_mpi104

And that is the end of that.

Studying Hard?

VFX101 assessment 1 out of the way only mpi to do... so guess that means study, however i doubt i will spend long here in front of my computer. I think i'll celebrate getting VFX done instead and take the evening off, yep that sounds good to me.

Arm band from the weekend.

OK now for some study...

Weekend of the Man From Snowy River Bush Festival over for another year, now back to the real world where things have to be done, like study and such... yeah and such anyway think i'll go cook dinner and watch some rubbish T.V for the such and worry about study some other day.

Me on a rock

Tonight instead of studying i found myself thinking about fishin off a rock in the sunny north of the country... damn been easily sidetracked!

Delicious

This is the required post with a link to delicious.

Can't see for the glare

My vision is starting to go all blurry from looking at tracing paper for hours... but i still got more to do. I think i should take a short break and dream up some random place... ok thats not helping my eyes at all its like looking in to the sun reflecting off a lake, kinda like an escape to here.

Places i'd rather be

Ever been waiting for a scanner and started dreaming about somewhere you'd rather be.... damn slow scanner. Right now i think the glass house mountains would be a nicer place to be. Maybe Mt Beerwah...

Week 4 Flickr

And now there is another version of me on the internet, on flickr.

MPI104 Asses #1

Tasks for MPI assessment #1: (subject outline interact)

- You will need to set up a google identity = done

- You will need to set up and maintain a blog = done

- You will need to set up and maintain a del.ecio.us account = not done

- You will need to set up a flickr account and upload images both your own and interesting and useful images you find on the internet = not done

- You will also work on creating your own web page = not done

- You will also need to hand in a google docs file, or a .rtf file with you blog enteries, your delicious links, your flickr images and your web page on a CD rom = WTF?

Pro procrastination

Sitting at my desk with books from two subjects and sites from another two open and all i can manage is to think how true this statement is!

My first Post

Hey peoples,
It the first post
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