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...